Around the NFL: Offseason edition 2.0

[Chico23231]

ESPN's Ed Werder reports the NFL is investigating a Periscope video which allegedly shows Raiders suspended OLB Aldon Smith smoking an unidentified substance.

The video is titled "Fire up session" and shows a lit, hand-rolled cigarette. While Smith's face is not seen on the video in question, his voice is clearly heard, and the post comes from an account which featured Smith on camera several times. A woman astutely warns Smith he should not be posting the video, but Smith says it is fine because "they don't have my name." He then says his name at the end of the video. Already suspended until at least November, this situation is unlikely to earn Smith any more fans in the league office.


This league is really full of stupid

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

ESPN's Ed Werder reports the NFL is investigating a Periscope video which allegedly shows Raiders suspended OLB Aldon Smith smoking an unidentified substance.



The video is titled "Fire up session" and shows a lit, hand-rolled cigarette. While Smith's face is not seen on the video in question, his voice is clearly heard, and the post comes from an account which featured Smith on camera several times. A woman astutely warns Smith he should not be posting the video, but Smith says it is fine because "they don't have my name." He then says his name at the end of the video. Already suspended until at least November, this situation is unlikely to earn Smith any more fans in the league office.





This league is really full of stupid

Its unreal. Its just universally a bad idea to film yourself doing drugs, and the more you have to lose the worse that idea becomes....

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by punch it in

Its unreal. Its just universally a bad idea to film yourself doing drugs, and the more you have to lose the worse that idea becomes....

agree, in fact I don't want to be on video or camera anytime.

Speaking of dumb, NFL reinstates Josh Gordon of Cleveland Browns from indefinite suspension on conditional basis

Looks like we could dodge another bullet because we play them the final week of his suspension. Im intrigued by him reuniting with RG3...that could be a good story of redemption for both.

Gordon looked like top 3 receiver in the league a couple years ago.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

ESPN's Ed Werder reports the NFL is investigating a Periscope video which allegedly shows Raiders suspended OLB Aldon Smith smoking an unidentified substance.

The video is titled "Fire up session" and shows a lit, hand-rolled cigarette. While Smith's face is not seen on the video in question, his voice is clearly heard, and the post comes from an account which featured Smith on camera several times. A woman astutely warns Smith he should not be posting the video, but Smith says it is fine because "they don't have my name." He then says his name at the end of the video. Already suspended until at least November, this situation is unlikely to earn Smith any more fans in the league office.


This league is really full of stupid

When I read shit like that, I find it quite remarkable....only 80% end up bankrupt

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by Hog1

When I read shit like that, I find it quite remarkable....only 80% end up bankrupt

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

YOU are correct. I think it was after football that he actually learned to read.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

When I was attending College Park (back in the Boomer Eisason days), I took a night class on Soviet Foreign Relations (or something like that) without realizing it was a "Jock Class." The entire football team was enrolled. When the professor gave a test, he passed it out then left the room and returned about five minutes before class ended. The guys just passed test answers around and blatantly discussed them. I just sat quietly and did my thing.

I routinely sat next to a guy who was on his last year of eligibility and was the 3rd string WR. We're talking one day and he tells me he has a plate in his wrist that restricts its mobility. In the next breath, he tells me how he's training hard for the draft and his agent thinks he could go in the 9th or 10th round; he was certain that, once he got drafted, he would be in the NFL for life b/c his coaches kept telling him he was just a victim of the numbers game at UMCP.

I just remember thinking - "3rd string WR from a sometimes top 20 school with a plate in your wrist. Oh yeah, that's spells perennial All-Pro." Guy was nice enough but dumber than a brick.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

I routinely sat next to a guy who was on his last year of eligibility and was the 3rd string WR. We're talking one day and he tells me he has a plate in his wrist that restricts its mobility. In the next breath, he tells me how he's training hard for the draft and his agent thinks he could go in the 9th or 10th round; he was certain that, once he got drafted, he would be in the NFL for life b/c his coaches kept telling him he was just a victim of the numbers game at UMCP.

I just remember thinking - "3rd string WR from a sometimes top 20 school with a plate in your wrist. Oh yeah, that's spells perennial All-Pro." Guy was nice enough but dumber than a brick.

A shame, but a lot of them have that very mindset.