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Porky said:
Ditto! That game was awesome. Guys just vibrating up and down the field. I think the sonic vibrations helped them atay healthy too. I never had a guy on IR!
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Got one for Christmas in the early 70s. The Cowboys were the team that came with the game. I thought "Either I was really bad this year or Santa hates me." Eventually it became a nice planter for my mother's flowers.
 
Tush Push remains intact.

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Tush Push vote: Owners decide against banning Eagles’ controversial play: Sources

The Green Bay Packers' proposal fell two votes short on Wednesday.
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The Philadelphia Eagles can still use the “tush push.” On Wednesday, NFL owners voted against a proposal that would have effectively banned the play, according to league sources.

Those league sources told The Athletic that 10 teams — including the Ravens, Patriots, Lions and Jets — voted against that proposal, put forth by the Green Bay Packers. A majority of the league ultimately voted for a ban, but the Packers’ proposal fell two votes shy of the required 24-vote threshold.
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Inside the Brock Purdy deal

Five days after the initial, best-case numbers were leaked at five o’clock on a Friday, the details are out.

The Brock Purdy contract has been signed. The contract has been filed with the league and the NFL Players Association.

Which means that the truth is now available.

We’ve obtained the full details, from a source with knowledge of the terms. Here’s the full breakdown:

1. Signing bonus: $40 million.
2. 2025 base salary: $1.1 million.
3. 2026 option bonus: $37.75 million, fully guaranteed.
4. 2026 workout bonus: $100,000, fully guaranteed but must be earned.
5. 2026 base salary: $8.296 million, fully guaranteed.
6. 2026 per-game roster bonus: $850,000, fully guaranteed but must be earned.
7. 2027 option bonus: $15 million (guarantee details below).
8. 2027 workout bonus: $100,000 (guarantee details below).
9. 2027 base salary: $11.3 million (guarantee details below).
10. 2027 per-game roster bonus: $850,000 (guarantee details below).
11. 2028 option bonus: $20 million, guaranteed for injury and becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2027.
12. 2028 workout bonus: $100,000, guaranteed for injury and becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2027, but must be earned.
13. 2028 base salary: $34.1 million, guaranteed for injury and becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2027.
14. 2028 per-game roster bonus: $850,000, guaranteed for injury and becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2027, but must be earned.
15. 2029 workout bonus: $100,000 (guarantee details below, but must be earned).
16. 2029 base salary: $49 million (guarantee details below).
17. 2029 per-game roster bonus: $850,000 (guarantee details below, but must be earned).
18. 2030 workout bonus: $100,000.
19. 2030 base salary: $49.05 million.
20. 2030 per-game roster bonus: $850,000.

2027 guarantees: The full 2027 pay of $27.25 million is guaranteed for injury. Of that amount, $11.904 million is fully guaranteed at signing. The remaining $15.346 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2026.

2029 guarantees: Of the 2029 compensation, $12.154 million is guaranteed for injury at signing. Of that amount, $7.154 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2028. The remaining $5 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2029.
Of the $55.05 million injury guarantee in 2028, $5 million becomes fully guaranteed before 2027 if Purdy has at least 50-percent playing time and wins a Super Bowl in 2025 or 2026.

The deal has $100 million fully guaranteed at signing and $182.55 million is guaranteed for injury.

In addition to the $100 million that is fully guaranteed at signing, $15.346 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2026. Another $55.05 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2027. And another $12.154 million becomes fully guaranteed on April 1, 2028.

The deal pays out $41.1 million in 2025, $46.996 million in 2026, $27.25 million in 2027, $55.05 million in 2028, $49.95 million in 2029, and $50 million in 2030.

As a practical matter, the first three years ($115.346 million) are fully guaranteed at signing. The first real decision point for the 49ers comes after the first two seasons.

After the 2026 season, the 49ers will have until April 1, 2027 to avoid $55.05 million in full guarantees for 2028. They would owe Purdy $27.25 million for 2027, subject to offset.

Purdy is guaranteed to earn, as a practical matter, $115.346 million through 2027. The 49ers can avoid his $55.05 million compensation in 2028 by cutting him on or before April 1, 2027.

The new-money average is $53 million per year. The six-year deal, from signing, has an annual value of $45.057 million.


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Prime time games by division. Just another reminder how bad the AFC South is.

AFC West - 19 Games
7 Games: Chiefs
5 Games: Chargers
4 Games: Broncos
3 Games: Raiders

NFC East - 19 Games
6 Games: Cowboys
5 Games: Eagles
5 Games: Commanders
3 Games: Giants

NFC North - 16 Games
5 Games: Lions
4 Games: Packers
4 Games: Vikings
3 Games: Bears

AFC East - 15 Games
5 Games: Bills
5 Games: Dolphins
3 Games: Patriots
2 Games: Jets

NFC West - 15 Games
5 Games: 49ers
4 Games: Rams
4 Games: Seahawks
2 Games: Cardinals

AFC North - 12 Games
4 Games: Ravens
4 Games: Bengals
4 Games: Steelers
0 Games: Browns

NFC South - 10 Games
5 Games: Falcons
4 Games: Buccaneers
1 Games: Panthers
0 Games: Saints

AFC South - 6 Games
4 Games: Texans
1 Games: Colts
1 Games: Jaguars
0 Games: Titans
 
mws said:
Prime time games by division. Just another reminder how bad the AFC South is.

AFC West - 19 Games
7 Games: Chiefs
5 Games: Chargers
4 Games: Broncos
3 Games: Raiders

NFC East - 19 Games
6 Games: Cowboys
5 Games: Eagles
5 Games: Commanders
3 Games: Giants

NFC North - 16 Games
5 Games: Lions
4 Games: Packers
4 Games: Vikings
3 Games: Bears

AFC East - 15 Games
5 Games: Bills
5 Games: Dolphins
3 Games: Patriots
2 Games: Jets

NFC West - 15 Games
5 Games: 49ers
4 Games: Rams
4 Games: Seahawks
2 Games: Cardinals

AFC North - 12 Games
4 Games: Ravens
4 Games: Bengals
4 Games: Steelers
0 Games: Browns

NFC South - 10 Games
5 Games: Falcons
4 Games: Buccaneers
1 Games: Panthers
0 Games: Saints

AFC South - 6 Games
4 Games: Texans
1 Games: Colts
1 Games: Jaguars
0 Games: Titans
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It's not just how bad it is, it's also by far the least "glamorous" division with 2 somewhat recent expansion teams and 2 others that are meh...
 
mws said:
Prime time games by division. Just another reminder how bad the AFC South is.

AFC West - 19 Games
7 Games: Chiefs
5 Games: Chargers
4 Games: Broncos
3 Games: Raiders

NFC East - 19 Games
6 Games: Cowboys
5 Games: Eagles
5 Games: Commanders
3 Games: Giants

NFC North - 16 Games
5 Games: Lions
4 Games: Packers
4 Games: Vikings
3 Games: Bears

AFC East - 15 Games
5 Games: Bills
5 Games: Dolphins
3 Games: Patriots
2 Games: Jets

NFC West - 15 Games
5 Games: 49ers
4 Games: Rams
4 Games: Seahawks
2 Games: Cardinals

AFC North - 12 Games
4 Games: Ravens
4 Games: Bengals
4 Games: Steelers
0 Games: Browns

NFC South - 10 Games
5 Games: Falcons
4 Games: Buccaneers
1 Games: Panthers
0 Games: Saints

AFC South - 6 Games
4 Games: Texans
1 Games: Colts
1 Games: Jaguars
0 Games: Titans
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The Falcons have 5 and I'm sure it's their opponents driving that number but still...
 
The AFC South's record in the AFCCG since the division realignment after Texans joined the league. The AFC South has 7 appearances. Of course if you take Manning & Luck out that leaves you with 3. Still it's a little better than I thought

2002: Raiders 41- Titans 24 - L
2003: Patriots 24 - Colts 14 - L
2006: Colts 38 - Patriots 34 - W
2009: Colts 30 - Jets 17 - W
2014: Patriots 45 - Colts 7 - L
2017: Patriots 24 - Jaguars 20 - L
2019: Chiefs 35 - Titans 24 - L

It is kind of sad that the Titans have made it 2 times, the Colts 4 times & the pathetic Jags once. The Texans are even sucking hind tit in this pitiful division. We have to change that starting this year..
 
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Lucky said:
Can someone explain to me why a team that hasn't had a winning record since 2017 has 5 prime time games? It's not like they're the Cowboys.
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Maybe there’s a promise to wear their throwback Red helmets and Gray pants in all Primetime games.
 
Keep in mind that in the 2024 NFL season, running backs averaged approximately 4.4 yards per carry.

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Javonte Williams: I feel completely like myself for first time since 2022 knee injury
By Josh Alper
Published May 23, 2025 04:04 PM

Running back Javonte Williams only missed one game during his final two seasons with the Broncos, but he doesn’t feel like he was 100 percent healthy for those contests.

Williams injured his ACL and other knee ligaments early in the 2022 season and saw his yards per carry dip from 4.4 before the injury to 3.6 after his return. Williams moved on to the Cowboys as a free agent this offseason and said this week that recovery time “depends on who you are, it depends on your body” while explaining that he feels like he has finally made it all the way back.

“I feel completely like myself. . . . I probably can get more flexible and things like that, but as far as healing up, that I feel like is done,” Williams said, via the team’s website.

The Cowboys also signed Miles Sanders and they drafted Jaydon Blue in the fifth round, but Williams has been getting the early first-team work and a return to his rookie form would go a long way toward keeping him there.
 
Roger Goodell hints that next CBA will address owner concerns about cap system, rising costs
Published May 24, 2025 01:05 PM

During Commissioner Roger Goodell’s press conference to cap this week’s ownership meetings, he was asked about potential discussions on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. With the NFL intent on expanding to 18 regular-season games (the current CBA allows 17) and 16 annual international games (the current CBA allows 10), a new deal with the NFL Players Association becomes a must.

And a new deal can be done, in theory, at any time.

“There are no formal plans on any discussions,” Goodell told reporters. “We obviously continue to be in close communication with the union on a variety of matters, but no start of negotiations have been set or are under consideration really at this point. We did spend time today talking, at length, about areas of our Collective Bargaining Agreement that we want to focus on. The two areas that we spent time on were really the cap system itself, the integrity of that system, how’s it working, where do we need to address that in the context of collective bargaining, when that does happen. That was a very lengthy discussion.”

Go back and read those last three sentences again.

“The second is just the rising cost, the cost of stadiums, the cost to facilities, the cost of operation, the cost of investment, and how dramatically that’s impacting the ownership view,” Goodell said. “So, I think both of those will form what I would call our priorities. Going into any negotiation whenever that occurs. So that was the extent of our discussion today. [the] 18-and-two [season format] did not even come up.”

This is how it starts. With fewer than five years to go before the current CBA expires, the league is signaling its eventual objectives.

Reading between the lines, Goodell seems to be saying that the owners are considering whether the current split of revenue between players and owners possibly isn’t working. Really, why have a “very lengthy discussion” if things are going swimmingly?

Here’s the basic reality. The owners learned in 2011 that, when push comes to shove, the players will do a deal. They’ll huff and they’ll puff but they won’t miss game checks. It creates an imbalance in bargaining power that the owners — who would shut a season down in a heartbeat without blinking — have yet to fully leverage.

With the salary cap not at $279.2 million per team, some owners surely think that too much is being spent on players. That, as the NFL continues to make more and more and more money, the players no longer need half.

It’s one thing for the NFL to make record revenues. It’s another thing to turn those revenues into maximum profits. And it’s safe to say that more than a few owners could be thinking that the ongoing explosion in cash (as mentioned earlier today, the cap has increased more than 230 percent since 2011) may be getting to the point at which the franchises should be retaining more than half of the money.

If nothing else, the NFLPA is on notice. The owners could end up plotting a hard bargain that will convert unlimited payments based on percentages to fixed numbers that will look great on paper — but that will keep more total cash in the owners’ coffers.

At the end of the day (and at the expiration of the CBA), what will the players do about it? The owners could be ready to make an all-in bet that they’ll blink.

Again.
 
It is unusual to require surgery for a bone bruise.................unless there is meniscus damage and/or articular damage..........both of which Moses has been found to have. Prognosis for this is unpredictable.

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Morgan Moses had offseason surgery on knee injury from Week 3
Published May 25, 2025 07:52 AM

New Patriots tackle Morgan Moses has yet to participate in full-team drills during the offseason program. He has a very good reason for it.

Via Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, Moses said he’s recovering from offseason surgery to repair a knee injury.

“Just pacing things out,” Moses said.

While playing for the Jets last season, Moses suffered an MCL sprain and a bone bruise during a Week 3 Thursday night win.

He missed two games at the time. He also was inactive for the regular-season finale against the Dolphins.
 
Lucky said:
Can someone explain to me why a team that hasn't had a winning record since 2017 has 5 prime time games? It's not like they're the Cowboys.
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It's a fair question, who knows ?
I lived and worked there for a year back in the 1990s and my recollection is that MLB was
bigger in ATL than the NFL. And the NFC South is not that popular anyway is it ?
 
IDEXAN said:
And the NFC South is not that popular anyway is it ?
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Well, Atlanta is a top 10 media market. Just not sure if that translates to watching the Falcons.

Falcons Prime time games:

Week 2 at Vikings SNF. Doesn't move the needle for me or most fans.
Week 6 vs Bills MNF. Meh.
Week 7 at 49ers SNF. Two losing teams in 2024. OK the Niners have a solid fan base. Still, pretty weak.
Week 15 at Bucs TNF. This might be the best game on the Falcons schedule. And few people will watch it because it's on Prime.
Week 17 vs Rams MNF. This could be a game with playoff implications. Or a snoozefest. My guess is the latter.

Still don't get it.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Sounds like Demeco's philosophy.

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Aaron Glenn won’t shy away from relying on younger players
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Like DeMeco said post draft, “If you were the man in college then be the man here.”

Cream rises to the top. Kamari Lassiter didn’t take long to take a starting spot ahead of a couple veterans signed for the role. They wanted to play him at nickel but he made it where they couldn’t pass on playing him every down at outside CB day 1. He was the man in college, now he’s the man here.
 
A player new to a team will usually attend voluntary OTAs (even if injury recovery precludes active on field participation) for purposes of learning the playbook, building chemistry and demonstrating a player's commitment and work ethic, which can be important for earning the trust of coaches and teammates. It is obvious that Diggs has different priorities.

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Mike Vrabel on Stefon Diggs: We want to make great decisions on and off the field
By Josh Alper
Published May 28, 2025 12:49 PM

Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs’s appearance in a viral video over the weekend led to questions for the team’s head coach at a Wednesday press conference.

The first question to Mike Vrabel had to do with a video showing Diggs on a boat with several women. Diggs produces a bag filled with what appeared to be a pink powder at one point in the video and Vrabel was asked about the team’s response to it.

“It’s something that we’re aware of,” Vrabel said. “Obviously we want to make great decisions on and off the field. . . . Any conversations that I’ve had with Stefon will remain between him and I and the club.”

Vrabel went on to say that Diggs was not present for Wednesday’s voluntary OTA session. He said any player that isn’t with the team has been in communication with the club, but did not give any idea about when Diggs, who has been at other work, might be back with the team.
 
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Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers is currently dealing with a toe injury, which is causing him to sit out of OTAs. Although not specifically identified by the team, his injury is a significant turf toe. He has been dealing with this problem off and on since his days at LSU. HC Brian Daboll has stated the injury is "nothing serious"..............of course.............

A turf toe that has repeatedly been aggravated does not bode well for future consistent performance, availability or longevity.
 
I feel so sorry for NFL owners.............NOT!

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“Big beautiful bill” has an ugly provision for NFL owners
By Mike Florio
Published May 28, 2025 11:58 AM

The so-called “big beautiful bill” has one component that the NFL’s owners will regard as downright hideous.

Via the New York Times, the domestic spending bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week includes a provision removing the ability of sports-league owners to write off the entire value of “intangible assets” over 15 years.

The House bill will limit the write off to half of the value of the intangible assets, which include player contracts, media rights, and sponsorships.

As explained by the Times, the tax break can equate to “hundreds of millions of dollars,” because intangible assets “make up the bulk of a team’s worth.”

With franchise values skyrocketing, the tax break has become even more valuable. And it helps justify the higher and higher prices owners are getting, especially for minority shares of a given team.

The measure would affect future owners only. Still, it would tend to hold down the price to be paid for all or part of an American pro sports team.

The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the change will raise $991 million over 10 years. Per the Times, owners believe the real number will be much higher.

At last week’s quarterly meetings, owners were encouraged to call senators to lobby them to kill that portion of the bill. The Times reports that some owners believe the change to the tax laws “feels punitive,” with President Trump seeking leverage over NFL owners.

“The president is committed to ensuring that sports teams overcharging ticketholders do not receive favorable tax treatment,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told the Times in a statement. “His focus is on fairness for fans, not team ownership.”

Regardless, the owners are the ones whose oxen will be gored. Not now, but when they try to sell equity to people who won’t have the tax break available.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
A player new to a team will usually attend voluntary OTAs (even if injury recovery precludes active on field participation) for purposes of learning the playbook, building chemistry and demonstrating a player's commitment and work ethic, which can be important for earning the trust of coaches and teammates. It is obvious that Diggs has different priorities.

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Mike Vrabel on Stefon Diggs: We want to make great decisions on and off the field
By Josh Alper
Published May 28, 2025 12:49 PM

Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs’s appearance in a viral video over the weekend led to questions for the team’s head coach at a Wednesday press conference.

The first question to Mike Vrabel had to do with a video showing Diggs on a boat with several women. Diggs produces a bag filled with what appeared to be a pink powder at one point in the video and Vrabel was asked about the team’s response to it.

“It’s something that we’re aware of,” Vrabel said. “Obviously we want to make great decisions on and off the field. . . . Any conversations that I’ve had with Stefon will remain between him and I and the club.”

Vrabel went on to say that Diggs was not present for Wednesday’s voluntary OTA session. He said any player that isn’t with the team has been in communication with the club, but did not give any idea about when Diggs, who has been at other work, might be back with the team.
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I didn't know such as thing as pink cocaine existed. I thought it was called snow for a reason. I don't do any of that stuff so I wouldn't know. A few sugar babies trying to get their freak on and get close to the real reason they are there. $$$$$$$$$
 
Porky said:
I didn't know such as thing as pink cocaine existed. I thought it was called snow for a reason. I don't do any of that stuff so I wouldn't know. A few sugar babies trying to get their freak on and get close to the real reason they are there. $$$$$$$$$
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You left out and 'A' in front of those dollar signs.
 
The one on the right might be a bit thick. The other two are not unless you consider anyone over 115-120 lbs thick. They are all beautiful, but shouldn't be indulging in hard drugs. But like I said...they are there for the $$$$. Cozy up to Daddy Warbucks.

Pats can't be happy with this at all. Glad we jettisoned him and didn't re-sign him.
 
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