Around the league 2022 Camp edition

[mooby]

The best part is he's gonna come back in October with all the pink shit on his uni trying to raise awareness for women and breast cancer. Nice touch NFL.

Sometimes I hate myself for much I love football. This is one of those times.

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by mooby

The best part is he's gonna come back in October with all the pink shit on his uni trying to raise awareness for women and breast cancer. Nice touch NFL.

Sometimes I hate myself for much I love football. This is one of those times.

Oh man. That is bad...

[Meks]

They we also 4-12 with em one year.. records mean something and until he proves he's a winner I'm not anointing him anything but a qb.. for now. I'm not gonna argue the talent or potential but win a playoff game and start winning games and we'll talk

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by Meks

They we also 4-12 with em one year.. records mean something and until he proves he's a winner I'm not anointing him anything but a qb.. for now. I'm not gonna argue the talent or potential but win a playoff game and start winning games and we'll talk

I agree. I mean all I kept hearing from some of those who didn't like the idea of bringing in C Wentz is that a great QB is supposed to elevate all those around him - get the W, find a way to get it done, put the team on your back, etc. Doesn't seem like Watson, as good as he may be, has been able to do that with any consistency.

Going to be interesting to see how he is - coming back from almost a 2 year layoff (or more if the NFL appeals/wins).

[That Guy]

so, NFL can still appeal and say 1 year, and then DW can drag it into court, in which case, I think the NFL has a better case to get its way (but it also keeps DW drama front and center for additional months).

I would have preferred two years :P

[Chico23231]

Unbelievable Watson just get 6 games.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Unbelievable Watson just get 6 games.

But don’t call Tom Brady when you are not suppose then you get the real NFL beat down.

See Miami Dolphins

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by mredskins

But don’t call Tom Brady when you are not suppose then you get the real NFL beat down.

See Miami Dolphins

Or bet on games when you're suspended.


The NFLPA gets all hardcore when it comes to protecting sexual predators or reducing practice time. But when it comes to advocate for better financial terms for players they fold like lawn chairs.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Or bet on games when you're suspended.


The NFLPA gets all hardcore when it comes to protecting sexual predators or reducing practice time. But when it comes to advocate for better financial terms for players they fold like lawn chairs.

The Watson thing it seems was based on the league's punishment of Kraft even though one is an NFL owner getting a consenting handy from a massage parlor and the other is a predator engaging 30-60 unwilling masseuses for happy endings.

It makes no sense. Unprecedented crimes equal unprecedented punishment. And the contract with the salary designed explicitly to avoid major financial penalties for his crimes? That should be punished too.

Our only hope is the Browns pull a Browns and fuck this up like they do almost every year.

[mooby]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...dy-sean-payton

This really seems suspect to me. So the Dolphins lose a 1st and a 3rd for talking to Payton and Brady while they were under contract with other teams, but the NFL found no evidence Ross asked Flores to tank?

Originally Posted by ESPN

In February, former Dolphins coach Brian Flores said in his lawsuit alleging racism in the league's hiring practices that Ross attempted to incentivize him to "tank," or purposely lose games, shortly after he was hired in 2019, with Ross allegedly offering Flores $100,000 for every loss that season. Flores alleged that as the team won games late in the season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier told him Ross was "mad" that the on-field success was "compromising [the team's] draft position."

So you have a GM and a coach that both knew about the owner being pissed they were winning and you also have a coach who put his name on the fucking record that the owner offered him 100k for every game he lost? But there's no evidence? The punishment makes me think the league is cracking them for tanking but using the Brady/Payton tampering as an excuse.

Between this and the Watson shit the league continues to lose major credibility.

[SunnySide]

6 games for Watson seems fine by me. Seems like others wanted more, and thats fine.

Guy missed an entire season (paid) but unless the victims testified to the NFL investigators (havent heard anything like that) then all there is to go on is civil complaints and settlements (which arent an admission of guilt).

Id think the League wont appeal, they kinda choose to go this neutral arbitrator route to avoid appeals imo and so they can turn around and point to neutral arbitrator for 6 game scorn.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

6 games for Watson seems fine by me. Seems like others wanted more, and thats fine.

Guy missed an entire season (paid) but unless the victims testified to the NFL investigators (havent heard anything like that) then all there is to go on is civil complaints and settlements (which arent an admission of guilt).

Id think the League wont appeal, they kinda choose to go this neutral arbitrator route to avoid appeals imo and so they can turn around and point to neutral arbitrator for 6 game scorn.

league just wants the drama to go away i'd bet. hurts ratings.

[MTK]

The whole Watson thing is pretty disgusting. 6 games and a net less of about $350k for him. Really doesn't seem just at all. I thought he deserved a season long suspension. But the NFL is well known for taking it pretty light on their stars, so this is just par for the course. Still very disappointing.

It's why I have no hope for anything coming from the ongoing Snyder deal. They let all this disgusting behavior slide all in the name of keeping the money making machine moving forward.

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by MTK

The whole Watson thing is pretty disgusting. 6 games and a net less of about $350k for him. Really doesn't seem just at all. I thought he deserved a season long suspension. But the NFL is well known for taking it pretty light on their stars, so this is just par for the course. Still very disappointing.

It's why I have no hope for anything coming from the ongoing Snyder deal. They let all this disgusting behavior slide all in the name of keeping the money making machine moving forward.

It's true that if QB gets a slap on the wrist, it's hard to imagine an owner getting more than a "Ah good ol Danny, no big deal, just try and do better from now on"...
Difference being the possibility of getting tired of the bad press on the long run still exists... But I'll admit it feels like the possibility, which was getting more likely to some extent, is fading away.

[MTK]

This doesn't sound good