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Wilfork to the Texans:

[quote]Ian RapoportVerified account
‏@RapSheet Wilfork to #Texans, per Wilfork RT @wilfork75: Thank you everyone for everything your support has been tremendous [/quote]

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[quote=Chico23231;1109521][url=http://www.richmond.com/redskins-xtra/article_170f67b7-2a0b-5298-8674-ab15601e3ae7.html]Sports talk show featuring Redskins columnist pulled by Snyder-owned station - Richmond.com: Redskins XTRA[/url]

So looks like Snyder going old skool and canceling a Radio show, still cant take the criticism[/quote]

I'm actually fine with this. Snyder and the team get plenty of criticism from ESPN 980. I mean the only thing worst than a sport's radio show hosted by Reid would have been one hosted by Sally Jenkins.

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[quote=Alvin Walton;1109543]Adam Shefter is reporting that Tim Tebow is currently working out for the Eagles.[/quote]
I wish him the best.....

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I always couldn't understand why Tebow couldn't get a job as a backup somewhere. He might be flawed and terrible, but he is a good team mate, a good role model, and is one of those guys you'd never have to worry about getting into off the field antics. Plus he still works out with that Patriots QB coach who supposedly has been giving him ringing endorsements.

Why not take a chance on Tebow - he is going to be cheap, and like i said will never be a hold out or any other kind of problem like most players

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^ Because he's a huge distraction for a 3rd string QB.

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kinda sums it up

[url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-several-nfl-teams-interested-in-tim-tebow-a,33884/]Report: Several NFL Teams Interested In Tim Tebow As Grounds Crew Worker | The Onion - America's Finest News Source[/url]

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[quote=Mattyk;1109582]kinda sums it up

[url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-several-nfl-teams-interested-in-tim-tebow-a,33884/]Report: Several NFL Teams Interested In Tim Tebow As Grounds Crew Worker | The Onion - America's Finest News Source[/url][/quote]

Nice post. The Onion nails it again.

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Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) tweeted at 10:16 PM on Mon, Mar 16, 2015:
So now, in span of a week, 49ers LBs Chris Borland and Patrick Willis both have retired.

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Chris Buckle (@chris_buckle) tweeted at 10:04 PM on Mon, Mar 16, 2015:
Breaking from @OTLonESPN: 49ers LB Chris Borland retiring b/c of concerns about long-term effects of head trauma:*[url]http://t.co/fUnFQYUZN5[/url]
([url]https://twitter.com/chris_buckle/status/577651718193819648?s=09[/url])

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Totally respect Borland for that move. Props to him for taking his health over wealth.

But the are Niners going back to the bottom of the NFC West. Rough times, yo.

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Lots of players are retiring young now. What folks like Borland and Locker did used to be unthinkable.

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Shayne Skov now gets to prove himself after Borland retires.

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[quote=Ruhskins;1109550]I'm actually fine with this. Snyder and the team get plenty of criticism from ESPN 980. I mean the only thing worst than a sport's radio show hosted by Reid would have been one hosted by Sally Jenkins.[/quote]

You may not like Reid but other people lost their jobs because of this. Messing with people's lives either out of spite or incompetence.

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When you do things that piss off the boss, sometimes it will......cost you

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Tim Tebow is his own worst enemy when it comes to landing a job in the NFL. If he really wants to return to the NFL, he needs to put his ego aside and realize that he is not going to be a starting QB in that league.

He has wasted his time working out as a QB when he could have been honing his skills as a pass receiver and blocker so he could become a hybrid TE/H-Back/FB/Short yardage QB. Tebow is a very talented football player but he is just not a good enough passer to make it in the NFL. If he were to present himself as a hybrid playmaker, I think that some team might be interested in adding him to their roster. As an alternative, he could try to make it as a QB in Canada.

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[quote=KI Skins Fan;1109645]Tim Tebow is his own worst enemy when it comes to landing a job in the NFL. If he really wants to return to the NFL, he needs to put his ego aside and realize that he is not going to be a starting QB in that league.

He has wasted his time working out as a QB when he could have been honing his skills as a pass receiver and blocker so he could become a hybrid TE/H-Back/FB/Short yardage QB. Tebow is a very talented football player but he is just not a good enough passer to make it in the NFL. If he were to present himself as a hybrid playmaker, I think that some team might be interested in adding him to their roster. As an alternative, he could try to make it as a QB in Canada.[/quote]

His love is playing QB, not TE. Therefore its QB or bust for him. Now if the argument was that Tebow would be unemployed and homeless in a couple of years... sure, be a TE. But he can, and is, making good money having nothing to do with the NFL.

Maybe his desire to return to the NFL isnt as big as everyone tries to make it out to be. If the opportunity to play QB in the NFL (and only the NFL) presents itself, he will take it, but if it doesnt work out, he has other options available to him. If he was as desperate to play as people try to make it out, he would be in the CFL. I think that just goes to show that the NFL isnt the only thing to him and he can live just fine without it. Being able to live without the NFL does not qualify as having an ego... or do you believe that Patrick Willis and Chris Borland have massive egos for the decisions they made?

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The NFL is nervous as hell about this Chris Borland retirement. This could become a scary trend for the NFL. As a huge fan of football it makes me nervous. Not sure how much resources the NFL actually puts into taking care of retired players and brain injury research, but they might want to ramp up the spending quite a bit even if they are already spending a pretty penny.

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[quote=FRPLG;1109625]You may not like Reid but other people lost their jobs because of this. Messing with people's lives either out of spite or incompetence.[/quote]

I'm sure people working for Pollin's show lost their jobs to make way for Reid's show. Maybe Reid should have done his job without having such a big vendetta against the Redskins or pulling stunts like going on a Twitter fight with players

I don't care for Snyder's antics, but as a Redskins fan, I would hated to have Reid spew his anti-Redskins rants every morning. There's plenty of criticism going around in the current shows.

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Supposedly Allen is the main reason the show was cancelled, not Snyder.

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/whats-behind-move-to-pull-plug-on-the-man-cave/2015/03/16/49692a50-cc20-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?postshare=6531426552448659]ESPN radio suddenly halts ‘The Man Cave’, and some blame NFL’s Redskins - The Washington Post[/url]


Anyway, I'm not sure why Reid was even considered for a spot in the first place.

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[quote=SirLK26;1109706]Supposedly Allen is the main reason the show was cancelled, not Snyder.

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/whats-behind-move-to-pull-plug-on-the-man-cave/2015/03/16/49692a50-cc20-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?postshare=6531426552448659]ESPN radio suddenly halts ‘The Man Cave’, and some blame NFL’s Redskins - The Washington Post[/url]


Anyway, I'm not sure why Reid was even considered for a spot in the first place.[/quote]

Thanks for the link.

With this petty and vindictive behavior Bruce Allen once again makes himself, and our organization by extension, into a joke.

Bruce Allen should not be the Presidential face of our franchise.

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[QUOTE=Lotus;1109722]Thanks for the link.



With this petty and vindictive behavior Bruce Allen once again makes himself, and our organization by extension, into a joke.



Bruce Allen should not be the Presidential face of our franchise.[/QUOTE]


Right, because if he wasn't around this stuff wouldn't happen. I'm sure he did this all on his own and Snyder had no clue or input.

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There are other shows on Snyder's network that criticize the Skins that are not getting shut down. Only the one hosted by a guy who called for Bruce's job is getting shut down.

Of course Bruce had to have Snyder's blessing - it's not Bruce's network after all. But this seems like a pretty cut-and-dried case of vindictively silencing critics to me.

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[quote=Mattyk;1109582]kinda sums it up

[url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-several-nfl-teams-interested-in-tim-tebow-a,33884/]Report: Several NFL Teams Interested In Tim Tebow As Grounds Crew Worker | The Onion - America's Finest News Source[/url][/quote]

This is freaking hilarious.




In regards to pulling the Radio show, this looks like a total Snyder move. Im sure a couple of dumbass in the FO (Snyder's Dumbass Posse) came to him and said "hey did you know this" and DS pulled the plug. Im sure if this was known from the beginning it wouldnt have gotten this far...

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1109681]The NFL is nervous as hell about this Chris Borland retirement.[/quote]


Pretty sure no one is losing any sleep ,the next super star will step up.This is not a new trend others have done it ,maybe not as prominent but done it never the less .

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[quote=Chico23231;1109732]This is freaking hilarious.




In regards to pulling the Radio show, this looks like a total Snyder move. Im sure a couple of dumbass in the FO (Snyder's Dumbass Posse) came to him and said "hey did you know this" and DS pulled the plug. Im sure if this was known from the beginning it wouldnt have gotten this far...[/quote]

I bet Snyder and Allen knew about this much sooner than just a few days ago. It's not like Sapienza went behind their backs and tried to keep it secret... 980 publicly announced this thing a month ago.

Fishy...

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[quote=Lotus;1109722]Thanks for the link.

With this petty and vindictive behavior Bruce Allen once again makes himself, and our organization by extension, into a joke.

Bruce Allen should not be the Presidential face of our franchise.[/quote]

Reid is an A-1 ass as far as I'm concerned. Might be a great guy, but he has for way too long upheld the WashPost/SallyJ code of Redskins writing ethics. "All the hate fit to print". If this managed to get him out of the Post even partially, and let that paper get back to reporting for the fans not for their butthurt reporters, than bravo Bruce, Bravo.

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Wasn't Reid the one tangling with players on Twitter this past season? Yeah kind of an asshole if you ask me.

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1109744]Reid is an A-1 ass as far as I'm concerned. Might be a great guy, but he has for way too long upheld the WashPost/SallyJ code of Redskins writing ethics. "All the hate fit to print". If this managed to get him out of the Post even partially, and let that paper get back to reporting for the fans not for their butthurt reporters, than bravo Bruce, Bravo.[/quote]

I don't like Reid's column much because I think he is an ass. I'm not defending that part at all.

That does not mean that Reid deserves such vindictive retribution, though. What happened to Reid was deeply unfair. If every reporter who criticized a team lost their job like Reid did, ESPN and NFLN would have to shut down because there'd be no one left to report.

Bruce took the low road in a petty, immature, and brattish way. Team Presidents need to be better role models than taking the low road like that.

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[quote=Mattyk;1109730]Right, because if he wasn't around this stuff wouldn't happen. I'm sure he did this all on his own and Snyder had no clue or input.[/quote]

Smithers.

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Everybody should know that Dan Snyder is a first class douche bag who's also a petty, insincere brat with self-esteem issues. I like to call it the little man syndrome.

Go back to John Feinstein's account of running into Snyder in a restaurant and Danny boy lost his shit there because he couldn't stand the fact people criticize him.


[url=http://feinsteinonthebrink.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-talk-in-washington-post-today.html]FeinsteinOnTheBrink: Happy talk in Washington Post today, we'll see if things change; Dan Snyder story[/url]



[quote]

A few years later I was sitting in a restaurant in Potomac (Maryland) not far from where I live and also not far from where Snyder lives. I was with my ex-wife, sitting in the back when the restaurant manager came over looking a little flustered.

“John, Dan Snyder is in here having dinner,” he said.

I shrugged. “And?” I said.

“He saw you sitting here. He says he wants to buy you a bottle of wine.”

I really didn’t want to play this game but there was no choice. If I turned the wine down I’d look un-gracious. So, I said to the manager, “Tell Mr. Snyder thanks and I’d like to buy his table dessert.”

When we got up to leave, I stopped at the table. Snyder was with his wife and Bennett Zeier and his wife—Zeier was running his radio stations at the time although, like most Snyder employees, he left soon after.

“Dan, thanks for the wine,” I said, shaking hands. “That was very gracious of you. I asked Enzo to add your desserts to my tab.” I turned to Mary and said, “I don’t think you’ve met my wife…”

Snyder ignored Mary and said to me, “yeah, I really enjoyed buying wine for someone who has been s----- on me for seven years.”

“Hey Dan, if you’ve got any issues with me, I’d be happy to buy you lunch and discuss them. But I don’t think now is the time.”

“No, you wouldn’t would you? You don’t like it when the tables are turned do you?”

“What tables are turned? Look, here’s my number, call me anytime you want.” I grabbed some paper from my pocket and wrote down my phone numbers. Before I could hand Snyder the numbers, he had turned on Mary.

“How does your husband sleep at night, huh?” he sneered. “Doesn’t he have a conscience? How does he sleep?”

“Actually he sleeps fine,” Mary said.

At that moment, Zeier, clearly embarrassed, jumped in and asked me about a mutual friend of ours, Rob Ades. He introduced me to the two wives who were pretty much cowering under the table.

Snyder plowed through the pleasantries. “You have no RIGHT to criticize me,” he said, pointing a finger. “I don’t know who you think you are…”

I held up my hand. Enough was enough. “Dan, there are my numbers. Call me. We’ll discuss this in a non-social setting.”

“I don’t call the media,” he shouted. “Why don’t YOU call me?”

“Because Dan, I don’t have a problem. You do.”

I walked away with Snyder still shouting something at my back. At the front of the restaurant Enzo was waiting with a bottle of wine. “Tell Mr. Snyder to keep it,” I said.

I never heard from him.
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Yes it was fucking Dan that canned J-Reid's show and you can bet that insecure prick was gloating the whole day over it as well.

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I wonder if maybe Sapienza was told by Snyder as soon as this show started coming together(well over a month ago) that Reid wasn't an option and Sapienza either had to find a replacement or cancel the show altogether? Sapienza "agrees" just to get Snyder off his back (supposedly the former was absolutely behind the new show and hosts), then moves on with his original plans. Few days ago as the debut date gets close, Snyder/Allen looks into the situation again to see how Sapienza's resolved it and find out Reid and The Man Cave are still in the station's plans. Of course they pull the plug right away, and Sapienza resigns instead of taking the inevitable firing from a very pissed off Danny Boy. Maybe I'm overthinking and I know I'm assuming a lot, but this fits in with everything I've heard about the situation.

I have a very hard time believing that Snyder and Allen knew about the show all along and waited until the last second to ax it just to damage Reid, and an equally hard time believing that they only found about it a few days ago.

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[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/17/the-redskins-espn-980-and-jason-reid-vindictiveness-or-incompetence/]The Redskins, ESPN 980 and Jason Reid: Vindictiveness or incompetence? - The Washington Post[/url]

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they own the station, they can put on whatever they want. if you don't like it, don't listen. I don't know why anyone would think a radio station owner shouldn't be allowed to control what is and isn't put on air... I must have missed the oligarchy elections again.

the point that it might be vindictive or the LDS can be/do d-bag things is fair, but J reid is a cowboys fan that did a horrible job covering the skins beat and somehow got paid for it (like JLC). the redskins don't owe him future employment or earnings. they just don't.

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I'm not going to comment on the Reid situation, only to say that, like him or not, he was on point about what has been happening with the organization more than most reporters/columnists covering the team.

And if they made him sign a contract, they better be paying him to stay off air or cancel his non-compete

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[quote=NC_Skins;1109761]Everybody should know that Dan Snyder is a first class douche bag who's also a petty, insincere brat with self-esteem issues. I like to call it the little man syndrome.

[/quote]

Your description fits Snyder but also fits Bruce. Many people describe Bruce as a giant douche.

Blaming Snyder alone for this doesn't pass muster. Other Snyder-network shows are critical of Snyder, yet remain on-air. Only Bruce's critic got shut down...by Bruce himself.

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[url=http://www.redskins.com/news-and-events/article-1/Redskins-Propose-4-Rule-Amendments-For-2015/3f1e09c5-f78e-4faf-bba4-b75a9d20cd1e?campaign=social_20150318_42305356&adbid=578259533270638592&adbpl=tw&adbpr=36375662]Redskins Propose 4 Rule Amendments For 2015[/url]

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[quote=SirLK26;1109789][URL="http://www.redskins.com/news-and-events/article-1/Redskins-Propose-4-Rule-Amendments-For-2015/3f1e09c5-f78e-4faf-bba4-b75a9d20cd1e?campaign=social_20150318_42305356&adbid=578259533270638592&adbpl=tw&adbpr=36375662"]Redskins Propose 4 Rule Amendments For 2015[/URL][/quote]

I would definitely like for all personal foul calls to be reviewed. Some were very questionable.

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[quote=skinsguy;1109791]I would definitely like for all personal foul calls to be reviewed. Some were very questionable.[/quote]

I would make it specific to the QB because I believe its gotten wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over sensitive. Some of the hits the on the QB is way garbage. Alot of acting going on.

I think they mostly get it right on defense-less receivers

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[url=http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/18/colts-propose-allowing-teams-to-go-for-three-after-tds/]Colts propose allowing teams to “go for three” after TDs | ProFootballTalk[/url]

Wow...I think this would be interesting...thoughts? First comment is great too

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[quote=Chico23231;1109793]I would make it specific to the QB because I believe its gotten wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over sensitive. Some of the hits the on the QB is way garbage. Alot of acting going on.

I think they mostly get it right on defense-less receivers[/quote]

Agreed. First and foremost, the QB hits, and the secondly, the hits by safeties.