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CloakNNNdagger said:
Terrible tragedy...........prayers for the young man (26 years old)...........as he has died before this article misreported his condition.

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Former Bucs, Bills receiver Mike Williams is on life support after construction accident
Published September 6, 2023 04:31 PM
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He's 36, and I'm seeing that it was misreported that he'd passed and that he's still being kept on life support while his family works through the situation.
 
Mollywhopper said:
He's 36, and I'm seeing that it was misreported that he'd passed and that he's still being kept on life support while his family works through the situation.
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Williams sustained a “massive head injury” when a beam fell on his head, causing swelling in his brain and spine with near-complete paralysis, the father wrote. He “passed out” on Sept. 1 while encountering breathing problems and “never recovered consciousness.”
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From my experience with trauma patients with no real brain activity ("brain dead"), they lose their ability to think but do retain non-cognitive function. These people can appear fine, but will not be able to speak or respond to commands. Spontaneous movements may occur, and the eyes may open in response to external stimuli (light, sound, touch). They may even occasionally grimace, laugh or cry.

When the eyes are partially open and have been for days, there is a drying out of the eyes and the body is trying very hard to produce moisture. Without blinking (and the eyes are not blinking) moisture accumulates and rolls down the cheek producing a small amount of tearing.

As my career progressed, the definition of brain death has become increasingly a legal one rather than strictly a medical one. Therefore, decisions by the family regarding "death" have been increasingly more difficult for them to accept.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Continued idiocy. Travis has a bone bruise per MRI. He should be resting and rehabbing, not working out his knee.

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Travis Kelce to test knee in Thursday morning workout
By Josh Alper
Published September 7, 2023 06:41 AM
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Kelce's bone bruise knee injury was non-contact.

The bone bruises from contact hurt more when they happen but are more a pain tolerance issue and non-structural with no long-term risk.

The non-contact bruises are potentially more worrisome, as a bruise to the bone near the articular surface can get worse and lead to collapse or lack of support for the all-important overlying articular cartilage. (Picture the grass on the football field with the the underlying bone being the dirt)
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Caleb Williams wrestles with the “completely backwards” nature of the draft
Published September 6, 2023 10:08 AM

USC quarterback Caleb Williams will likely be the first pick in the 2024 draft. If he submits to the 2024 draft. He might decide to stay in school for another year, make NIL money, and see what happens in 2025.

Regardless, as the leap to the NFL approaches, Williams and his father are beginning to realize there’s something counterintuitive about the NFL draft.

“I’ve always been able to choose the team that I’ve played on, and then everything’s been scheduled for me,” Williams told Sam Schube of GQ. “But now, going into this next part of my career, it’s weird [because] it’s so uncertain. You don’t know anything. You can’t control anything but you and how you act. That’s honestly the weirdest part for me, is the uncertainty.”
But he does have some control, beyond how he acts. His father, Carl, knows what it is. Caleb can skip the 2024 draft, if he doesn’t want to play for the team with the first pick.

“The funky thing about the NFL draft process is, he’d almost be better off not being drafted than being drafted first,” Carl Williams told Schube. “The system is completely backwards. . . . The way the system is constructed, you go to the worst possible situation. The worst possible team, the worst organization in the league — because of their desire for parity — gets the first pick. So it’s the gift and the curse.”

With the caveat, as Carl Williams said, that Caleb gets “two shots at the apple. . . . So if there’s not a good situation, the truth is, he can come back to school.”

But the situation in 2025 might not be any better, since once again the worst team will earn the top spot in the draft. So instead of running from it, why not take charge of it?

Caleb Williams has more control than he currently realizes. He can tell the team holding the first overall pick, “Don’t bother.” And he can back it up with action, refusing to sign a contract if the team holding the first pick takes him.

Many think that, five years after the Cardinals bottomed out for Kyler Murray, they’re hoping to do it again for Williams. Williams can tell them he won’t play for them. He can set terms as to what could get him to change his mind.

Far too rarely do great prospects take control of the draft process. John Elway did it 40 years ago. Eli Manning did it 20 years ago. Maybe it’s time for someone to do it again. Maybe it’s time for it to happen more frequently.

It needs to. That first stop for a player’s career, especially at quarterback, is critical. Would Patrick Mahomes have become Patrick Mahomes if he’d been drafted by the Browns in 2017? He benefited from slipping far enough for a great organization to spring up to get him.

Maybe someone will spring up to get Williams. Regardless, Williams needs to realize that should not just submit to the process. He has power. He has leverage. He has control, beyond the possibility of returning to USC for another season.
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Respectfully, shouldn't this Caleb Williams article be in college football draft forum?

I'm surprised a mod hasn't re-directed.
 
badboy said:
Respectfully, shouldn't this Caleb Williams article be in college football draft forum?

I'm surprised a mod hasn't re-directed.
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I debated where to put it. But ultimately decide to put it here since it presents the questionable procedure of the NFL Draft order .
 
I can understand why he left out the Texans. But even the Browns and his buddy Watson didn't want him.........if Watson had wanted him, Watson would have been able to get him.

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DeAndre Hopkins says a lot of teams didn’t want him, he’s using that as motivation
By Michael David Smith

Published September 8, 2023 08:28 AM

DeAndre Hopkins was cut by the Cardinals in May and signed by the Titans in July. During his two months as a free agent, Hopkins was disappointed to learn that a lot of teams didn’t want him.
Hopkins says that several teams he had interest in didn’t return his interest before the Titans finally brought him in at the start of training camp.
“Detroit Lions, they didn’t want me,” Hopkins told GQ. “Dallas Cowboys didn’t want me. Giants didn’t want me. ****. Who else ain’t want me? San Fran ain’t want me.”

Hopkins says that will motivate him this season.

“I’m very grateful for where I am, I think I made the best decision,” he says. “But when you’re a player and some people feel like they’re great without you, and then you see what they have on paper, or you see what they do, you mark those games down, as a competitor. I can’t wait to play’ em and, honestly, try my best to crush they ass.”

Hopkins is 31 and his production has declined, so it’s not a big surprise that many teams didn’t want him. But the Titans believe he’s going to prove he still has something left. And he has a lot of teams he wants to prove wrong.
 
Officials looked the other way on many Jawaan Taylor fouls
Published September 7, 2023 11:58 PM

Football is back. Which means bad calls and non-calls during football are back.

It got ridiculous on Thursday night, when the officials repeatedly looked the other way on Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor, who was constantly lined up too far into the backfield, moving his right leg when it should have been still — and starting into his pass-block set before the snap.

It wasn’t just a situation of uncalled pre-snap fouls. At one point, Taylor held Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson multiple times on the same play.

It became comical, frankly. But it’s not new. Throughout last season, many tackles (Lane Johnson mastered it) moved early. And there were many instances of uncalled holding by offensive linemen.

At one point, Chris Simms made a great point on PFT Live. As he sees it (and he’s right), defensive linemen have gotten better and better. Offensive linemen are overmatched. Officials are likely not calling false starts and/or holding helps to even things out.

It also helps to keep passing games moving and, most importantly, to keep quarterbacks from getting hit and, in turn, getting hurt.
Still, there must be limits. Tonight, the failure to penalize Taylor was on the wrong side of the line, by far.

The NFL is lucky the Lions won the game. If the Chiefs had won the game and/or covered the spread, the decision to allow Taylor to chronically move before the snap would have become a major issue on Friday.
It should still be a big issue; otherwise, it will continue.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Hopkins is 31 and his production has declined, so it’s not a big surprise that many teams didn’t want him.
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Hopkins has had injuries (and a suspension). But when he has been on the field, he has produced. Over 9 games in 2022, Hopkins averaged 79.7 yards/game. Similar to his 78.2 yards /game as a Texan. And he did so mostly without Kylar Murray. Hopkins was a much better investment than the Ravens made with Odell Beckham.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
It got ridiculous on Thursday night, when the officials repeatedly looked the other way on Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor, who was constantly lined up too far into the backfield, moving his right leg when it should have been still — and starting into his pass-block set before the snap.
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That was crazy. This needs to be addressed publicly by the league. I realize he's always pushed the limit on his setup, but he kept his left foot left with the guard next to him. That didn't happen last night. And the pre-snap movement was just ridiculous. League has to put their foot down.
 
Lucky said:
That was crazy. This needs to be addressed publicly by the league. I realize he's always pushed the limit on his setup, but he kept his left foot left with the guard next to him. That didn't happen last night. And the pre-snap movement was just ridiculous. League has to put their foot down.
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I don't think I've ever seen it that consistently bad in one game by the same player.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Officials looked the other way on many Jawaan Taylor fouls
Published September 7, 2023 11:58 PM

Football is back. Which means bad calls and non-calls during football are back.

It got ridiculous on Thursday night, when the officials repeatedly looked the other way on Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor, who was constantly lined up too far into the backfield, moving his right leg when it should have been still — and starting into his pass-block set before the snap.

It wasn’t just a situation of uncalled pre-snap fouls. At one point, Taylor held Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson multiple times on the same play.

It became comical, frankly. But it’s not new. Throughout last season, many tackles (Lane Johnson mastered it) moved early. And there were many instances of uncalled holding by offensive linemen.

At one point, Chris Simms made a great point on PFT Live. As he sees it (and he’s right), defensive linemen have gotten better and better. Offensive linemen are overmatched. Officials are likely not calling false starts and/or holding helps to even things out.

It also helps to keep passing games moving and, most importantly, to keep quarterbacks from getting hit and, in turn, getting hurt.
Still, there must be limits. Tonight, the failure to penalize Taylor was on the wrong side of the line, by far.

The NFL is lucky the Lions won the game. If the Chiefs had won the game and/or covered the spread, the decision to allow Taylor to chronically move before the snap would have become a major issue on Friday.
It should still be a big issue; otherwise, it will continue.
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A new part of the WWE urrr I mean the NFL.
 
Dak Prescott has Jerry Jones in contract checkmate — and Jerry knows it
Published September 8, 2023 01:01 PM

There’s a beautiful irony to the situation in which Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones finds himself, when it comes to quarterback Dak Prescott’s contract.

Prescott currently has PRECISELY the kind of leverage that Jerry would relish and maximize if he were in Dak’s shoes.

The problem traces to the Cowboys failing and refusing to reward the 2016 fourth-round draft pick after he became eligible for a second contract, following his third season. They retained him in 2019 at a bargain-basement price, before using the franchise tag in 2020.

By 2021, they realized they were over a barrel. If Dak was willing to spend one more year under the tag, he would have become a free agent in 2022 — unless the Cowboys had given him a 44-percent raise over his second tag, which was 20 percent higher than his first one.
Prescott parlayed the predicament into a four-year, $160 million deal with low cap numbers early, and an enormous cap number late. Next year, Dak’s salary-cap number mushrooms from $26.8 million to $59.455 million.

The team’s desperation to shrink that number gives Prescott incredible leverage. He can simply say to the team, “I’ll honor my contract,” allowing cap-number nature to take its course. And if Jones wants Dak to reduce that figure for 2024, Dak can say, for example, “Make me the highest-paid player in the NFL.”

A new deal that pays Dak, for example, $55.1 million per year in new money, would be structured to have low cap numbers now, big cap numbers later. And it’s obvious that, whatever Dak is proposing in order to alleviate next year’s cap mess, Jones doesn’t want to do it.

Appearing Friday on 105.3 The Fan (via Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram), Jones complained that, if he were to extend Dak’s contract in 2023, the Cowboys would have to “cut four players” — and that “I want to use those players this year to win now.”

It’s impossible to know whether there’s any truth to that. Jones could muster cap space if he needed to do so. And if he doesn’t do so now, he’ll need to do so next year, when he has to put a team on the field with a quarterback who counts for nearly $60 million.

Regardless of Jones’s desire to “win now,” past efforts to “win now” have contributed to the present mess. At some point, the salary-cap pill needs to be swallowed. And Dak has exactly the same obligation to help Jerry as Jerry had in the many situations during his life in which he had someone else by the balls.

When faced with such occasions, Jerry always had one move. Squeeze as hard as possible.
 
steelbtexan said:
Said on the telecast last night that they worked him out in a pool.

How long does it generally take for a bone bruise take to heal?
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It depends on its severity. Most bone bruises slowly heal over 1-2 months. A larger bone bruise may take longer to heal. Return to play after specifically a knee bone bruise should not occur for a smaller bone bruise in less than 3-4 weeks to minimize extending the damage. Larger knee bone bruises may not allow safe return for months.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I can understand why he left out the Texans. But even the Browns and his buddy Watson didn't want him.........if Watson had wanted him, Watson would have been able to get him.

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DeAndre Hopkins says a lot of teams didn’t want him, he’s using that as motivation
By Michael David Smith

Published September 8, 2023 08:28 AM

DeAndre Hopkins was cut by the Cardinals in May and signed by the Titans in July. During his two months as a free agent, Hopkins was disappointed to learn that a lot of teams didn’t want him.
Hopkins says that several teams he had interest in didn’t return his interest before the Titans finally brought him in at the start of training camp.
“Detroit Lions, they didn’t want me,” Hopkins told GQ. “Dallas Cowboys didn’t want me. Giants didn’t want me. ****. Who else ain’t want me? San Fran ain’t want me.”

Hopkins says that will motivate him this season.

“I’m very grateful for where I am, I think I made the best decision,” he says. “But when you’re a player and some people feel like they’re great without you, and then you see what they have on paper, or you see what they do, you mark those games down, as a competitor. I can’t wait to play’ em and, honestly, try my best to crush they ass.”

Hopkins is 31 and his production has declined, so it’s not a big surprise that many teams didn’t want him. But the Titans believe he’s going to prove he still has something left. And he has a lot of teams he wants to prove wrong.
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Maybe it was due to his linguistic acumen that teams “ain’t” want him.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Officials looked the other way on many Jawaan Taylor fouls
Published September 7, 2023 11:58 PM

Football is back. Which means bad calls and non-calls during football are back.

It got ridiculous on Thursday night, when the officials repeatedly looked the other way on Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor, who was constantly lined up too far into the backfield, moving his right leg when it should have been still — and starting into his pass-block set before the snap.

It wasn’t just a situation of uncalled pre-snap fouls. At one point, Taylor held Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson multiple times on the same play.

It became comical, frankly. But it’s not new. Throughout last season, many tackles (Lane Johnson mastered it) moved early. And there were many instances of uncalled holding by offensive linemen.

At one point, Chris Simms made a great point on PFT Live. As he sees it (and he’s right), defensive linemen have gotten better and better. Offensive linemen are overmatched. Officials are likely not calling false starts and/or holding helps to even things out.

It also helps to keep passing games moving and, most importantly, to keep quarterbacks from getting hit and, in turn, getting hurt.
Still, there must be limits. Tonight, the failure to penalize Taylor was on the wrong side of the line, by far.

The NFL is lucky the Lions won the game. If the Chiefs had won the game and/or covered the spread, the decision to allow Taylor to chronically move before the snap would have become a major issue on Friday.
It should still be a big issue; otherwise, it will continue.
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Our own Laremy Tunsil moved early a few times last season.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
It depends on its severity. Most bone bruises slowly heal over 1-2 months. A larger bone bruise may take longer to heal. Return to play after specifically a knee bone bruise should not occur for a smaller bone bruise in less than 3-4 weeks to minimize extending the damage. Larger knee bone bruises may not allow safe return for months.
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Any chance at all that that hyperextension broke the tibia? hairline, anything? I hyperextended my knee at work so bad one time it split my tibial platau (sp?) Maybe they missed something??
 
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This is a must-read for everyone!! Just like Al Capone's mafia.........get into anything and everything that can make money!.................the less ethical, the better..........

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Roger Goodell tiptoes around the potential problems arising from the NFL’s gambling money grab
Published September 8, 2023 06:22 PM

The NFL has a complicated relationship with gambling. For years, the NFL opposed the expansion of legalized sports wagering. Then, the moment the floodgates of gambling money opened, the NFL started grabbing for every dollar it could see.

It has created claims of inconsistency and hypocrisy, given the NFL’s very strict rules regarding any form of sports betting by non-players and goofy, nonsensical rules regarding sports betting by players.

During a Thursday night interview before the Lions-Chiefs kickoff game, Mike Tirico of NBC Sports asked Commissioner Roger Goodell about the NFL and gambling.

“Are you comfortable with how the league is reconciling gambling as a business entity for some of the league right now, and players —10 of whom were suspended this year for gambling?” Tirico said. “Are you comfortable with where it sits right now in trying to protect the integrity of the game?

“Well, Mike, it’s one of the reasons we oppose legalized sports betting, because of the risk to the integrity of the game,” Goodell said. “And so that’s always going to be our number one priority. When the Supreme Court overruled that, we have to be in that space. And it’s actually helped us with trying to educate our fans, educate our personnel. This isn’t just about players. It affects every league employee, every club employee. And so it’s pretty simple. If you bet on the NFL and you’re a part of the NFL, you’ve got a problem.”

It’s the NFL that has the problem, if it thinks the strategy for dealing with sports betting is simply to tell non-players to bet on no sports at all (violators have been fired) and players to not bet on NFL events and to only bet on non-NFL events when not at work. The potential pitfalls sweep far more broadly than the lowest of the low-hanging fruit.

The game oozes with inside information. How is it being protected? Is anyone even trying to do so?

And what about the periodic suspicions that players or officials are deliberately trying to blow games? Consider this 2012 quote from Goodell: “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”

Indeed they will. Social media was buzzing last night with tinfoil-hat suggestions that Chiefs receiver Kadarius Toney, who dropped four passes and gift-wrapped a pick-six for the Lions, had money on Detroit. Goodell at one point during his tenure as Commissioner specifically opposed the legalization of sports betting by pointing out that this is EXACTLY what will happen.

“Normal incidents of the game such as . . . dropped passes . . inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”

There’s also a flaw in Goodell’s logic regarding the justification for the NFL’s position on sports betting. “When the Supreme Court overruled that, we have to be in that space,” Goodell said.
But they don’t have to be in that space. They don’t have to have umpteen exclusive sports-betting partners. They don’t have to have sports books in stadiums. They don’t have to view legalized gambling as a way to grab more and more cash.

It would be MUCH easier for the NFL to send a clear and understandable message to all employees, players and non-players alike, if the NFL decided to continue to avoid all things gambling — like it did when sports betting was legal only in Nevada.

Now, there’s a team in Las Vegas. The next Super Bowl will be in Las Vegas. The league decided that, if the sports books are going to make money from sports betting, the league might as well wet its beak, too (or, as the case may be, jam its entire head into the bowl). Still, the NFL’s full embrace of sports betting increases the very risks Goodell used to cite in opposing it.

As I recently explained to A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com, Goodell’s past opposition to sports betting was so strong that I thought he’d have to resign when: (1) sports betting was legalized; and (2) the NFL decided to treat it as a revenue stream. He hasn’t, and he surely won’t.

Now, with the final years of his tenure beginning to unfold, the simple truth is that any and all potential problems arising from this new dynamic will be the problem of Goodell’s successor.
 
There’s also a flaw in Goodell’s logic regarding the justification for the NFL’s position on sports betting. “When the Supreme Court overruled that, we have to be in that space,” Goodell said.
But they don’t have to be in that space. They don’t have to have umpteen exclusive sports-betting partners. They don’t have to have sports books in stadiums. They don’t have to view legalized gambling as a way to grab more and more cash.
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None of that matters regarding players betting on NFL games. Let's say the NFL does not enter agreements with sports books. Do the sports books go away? Nope. Is there still a possibility that players bet on the NFL? Yes. So, how does being involved in legal sports betting change the dynamic of players following the rules? In fact, these gambling sites look for player betting and give feedback to the league. Would they do that if the NFL were not a partner?

And remember, the overwhelming percentage of players do not break the rules and bet NFL games. All NFL players benefit from the extra revenue from these licensing agreements as they make the overall NFL money pie larger. I like the fact that legalized betting is in prominent rather than the illegal betting that was so pervasive in the past. Does anyone think that NFL players just thought about betting on games? Now, everything is out in the open.

Unfortunately, some players (and owners) believe rules are meant to be broken. Substance abuse, performance enhancing drug use, sexual violence, assault, DUI...the list goes on. Gambling is just another rule to be broken for them. Whether or not the NFL partners with legalized gambling won't change that.
 
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Dak Prescott knows “People are gonna think it’s crazy” he was sedated 11 hours for a tattoo
By Michael David Smith
Published September 9, 2023 04:38 AM

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott spent 11 hours under sedation this offseason so that he could get an enormous tattoo covering his leg, and he acknowledges that’s not normal.

“People are gonna think it’s crazy and it is crazy,” Prescott told Clarence Hill of the Star-Telegram. “I get that. But I’m crazy. That’s my point is I am. I know I am. I’m not afraid of nothing.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was shocked to learn of the procedure.

“I certainly didn’t know he was under for 10 hours,” Jones said. “Just so you’re clear, I had no idea about tattoos. I better get up to date on it. I had no idea that required that kind of sedation of any tattoo. It further explains to me why I don’t have a tattoo.”

Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged being surprised that his quarterback went under for 11 hours, but McCarthy said that when Prescott explained to him that the sedation was supervised by medical professionals, he accepted it.

“He’s extremely conscientious and he had a lot of people there,” McCarthy said. “It wasn’t like just one guy, him and the tattoo guy. It looked like a professional operation.”

Prescott’s tattoo artist has shared pictures of the work on Instagram.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
SMH.........

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Dak Prescott knows “People are gonna think it’s crazy” he was sedated 11 hours for a tattoo
By Michael David Smith
Published September 9, 2023 04:38 AM

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott spent 11 hours under sedation this offseason so that he could get an enormous tattoo covering his leg, and he acknowledges that’s not normal.

“People are gonna think it’s crazy and it is crazy,” Prescott told Clarence Hill of the Star-Telegram. “I get that. But I’m crazy. That’s my point is I am. I know I am. I’m not afraid of nothing.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was shocked to learn of the procedure.

“I certainly didn’t know he was under for 10 hours,” Jones said. “Just so you’re clear, I had no idea about tattoos. I better get up to date on it. I had no idea that required that kind of sedation of any tattoo. It further explains to me why I don’t have a tattoo.”

Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged being surprised that his quarterback went under for 11 hours, but McCarthy said that when Prescott explained to him that the sedation was supervised by medical professionals, he accepted it.

“He’s extremely conscientious and he had a lot of people there,” McCarthy said. “It wasn’t like just one guy, him and the tattoo guy. It looked like a professional operation.”

Prescott’s tattoo artist has shared pictures of the work on Instagram.
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That's nuts!
 
I'm flabbergasted this is even a thing.

Who would even carry out the procedure for a tattoo of all things..
How much must that cost..
You could die!?

So I looked it up, and apparently it's in the ballpark of ~$40,000 for qualified professionals to put one under for a tattoo. W.T.F.

The longest tattoo session I've ever endured was about 4.5 hours, so 10+ sounds particularly grueling. But the notion of being put under, I gotta admit, reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t. Like it goes against the very nature of 'getting' a tattoo.

And upon further inspection this is apparently also a newly trending thing among wealthy entertainer types.

And it still reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t to me.
 
Mollywhopper said:
I'm flabbergasted this is even a thing.

Who would even carry out the procedure for a tattoo of all things..
How much must that cost..
You could die!?

So I looked it up, and apparently it's in the ballpark of ~$40,000 for qualified professionals to put one under for a tattoo. W.T.F.

The longest tattoo session I've ever endured was about 4.5 hours, so 10+ sounds particularly grueling. But the notion of being put under, I gotta admit, reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t. Like it goes against the very nature of 'getting' a tattoo.

And upon further inspection this is apparently also a newly trending thing among wealthy entertainer types.

And it still reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t to me.
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This is why the cowboys suck. The QB is a b!tch!
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
SMH.........

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Dak Prescott knows “People are gonna think it’s crazy” he was sedated 11 hours for a tattoo
By Michael David Smith
Published September 9, 2023 04:38 AM

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott spent 11 hours under sedation this offseason so that he could get an enormous tattoo covering his leg, and he acknowledges that’s not normal.

“People are gonna think it’s crazy and it is crazy,” Prescott told Clarence Hill of the Star-Telegram. “I get that. But I’m crazy. That’s my point is I am. I know I am. I’m not afraid of nothing.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was shocked to learn of the procedure.

“I certainly didn’t know he was under for 10 hours,” Jones said. “Just so you’re clear, I had no idea about tattoos. I better get up to date on it. I had no idea that required that kind of sedation of any tattoo. It further explains to me why I don’t have a tattoo.”

Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged being surprised that his quarterback went under for 11 hours, but McCarthy said that when Prescott explained to him that the sedation was supervised by medical professionals, he accepted it.

“He’s extremely conscientious and he had a lot of people there,” McCarthy said. “It wasn’t like just one guy, him and the tattoo guy. It looked like a professional operation.”

Prescott’s tattoo artist has shared pictures of the work on Instagram.
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Lol at him trying to pass having to be under just to be able to get a tattoo that as “crazy.” More like being a straight up P***y.
 
Mollywhopper said:
I'm flabbergasted this is even a thing.

Who would even carry out the procedure for a tattoo of all things..
How much must that cost..
You could die!?

So I looked it up, and apparently it's in the ballpark of ~$40,000 for qualified professionals to put one under for a tattoo. W.T.F.

The longest tattoo session I've ever endured was about 4.5 hours, so 10+ sounds particularly grueling. But the notion of being put under, I gotta admit, reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t. Like it goes against the very nature of 'getting' a tattoo.

And upon further inspection this is apparently also a newly trending thing among wealthy entertainer types.

And it still reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t to me.
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As a surgeon, I always have to balance risk with benefit. Furthermore, i have to do the same when determining topical vs local vs regional vs conscious IV sedation vs general anesthesia. I really have to severely question not Prescott's motivation for the long tatoo session.............."sedation" vs "anesthesia has never been defined in his case. But what I do know is that the tatoo procedure was performed in Prescott's private home. Even in Hollywood where this question tatoo/sedation if performed under general anesthesia or IV sedation is done in an operating room under sterile conditions and under the supervision of an anesthiologist. This whole situation seems to be at very least ill-advised, but you can always find someone to do anything if you throw enough money at them.
 
austins23 said:
This is why the cowboys suck. The QB is a b!tch!
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no offense to the fairer sex, of course

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Mollywhopper said:
I'm flabbergasted this is even a thing.

Who would even carry out the procedure for a tattoo of all things..
How much must that cost..
You could die!?

So I looked it up, and apparently it's in the ballpark of ~$40,000 for qualified professionals to put one under for a tattoo. W.T.F.

The longest tattoo session I've ever endured was about 4.5 hours, so 10+ sounds particularly grueling. But the notion of being put under, I gotta admit, reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t. Like it goes against the very nature of 'getting' a tattoo.

And upon further inspection this is apparently also a newly trending thing among wealthy entertainer types.

And it still reads like some genuinely b*tch sh*t to me.
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Agreed with the bolded. Imo his tattoos are meh too, if I had his money I’d get something way better like realism or something…… but to each his own I guess
 
heymak said:
One of the things I respected about tattoo art is enduring the procedure. Kind of shows you earned it. Sedation seems to negate that.
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And I'd agree.

Can't speak for everyone with tattoos, but for me there's a sense of 'earning' your new tat. And particularly for the bigger and more elaborate work done the more earned.

Guy who did a couple of mine wanted to learn about and how to do old school Japanese tattoos. So he traveled to Japan and had a huge back piece done that took something like 20+ hours in total (multiple sessions of course) all done by hand-tapping method, aka no mechanical tattoo gun. It was dope.

At any rate what Dak did just reeks of phony.
 
Will NFL tell officials to call false starts on tackles?
Published September 9, 2023 07:55 PM

As the first full Sunday of the 2023 season looms, there’s a very real question as to whether Thursday night’s inexplicable failure to persistently flag Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor for false starts was an aberration or the start of a trend.

Or the continuation of a pattern.

On Friday’s PFT Live, Peter King suggested that, this week, the NFLs officiating department will send a note to all crews regarding the Taylor situation, with a reminder that such activities (lining up too deep in the backfield, having the Jimmy legs before the snap, and/or starting into pass-block set early) are both frowned up and should be flagged.

But here’s the deeper question. Does 345 Park Avenue want such behavior to be penalized?

Giving the tackles a way to better prepare for an edge-rush onslaught helps keep the passing game going. It also helps keep quarterbacks in one piece.

And the league fully and completely appreciates the connection between keeping quarterbacks healthy and generating massive ratings for games.

Keep an eye on it this weekend. Especially in the Eagles-Patriots game at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday. Philly right tackle Lane Johnson has mastered the art of the early start. Will he still be allowed to do it? Will it be flagged?

Given the NFL’s obvious sensitivity to the issue of quarterback safety, it’s safe to assume that the league office will be inclined to look the other way on the officials looking the other way on obvious pre-snap fouls by NFL offensive tackles.
 
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