All things off season 2015.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Jerry generally pays his guys. Even guys he probably shouldn't. (Miles Austin/Roy Williams)

Dez? DeMarco? even Hatcher, Ware. There's been a bit of a shift down there, smarter heads are prevailing unfortunately.

My bigger point though was that maybe they made a good deal for a good player at an opportune moment, but they aren't replacing T Smith soon, and while he may replace Free, the upgrade to their line isn't going to be as much as if it were someone like Buffalo or us. So now they will have a guy who having never played an NFL down felt his agent was well advised to threaten the teams with not signing. Ok. I will take a wait and see on that.

[53Fan]

So Brady's balls are deflated and the Cowgirls sign a guy who refused to sign with anyone who drafted him so he could pick his own team? Sounds about right.

[Alvin Walton]

I dont know what annoys me more, ball inflation rules or the Dallas Ploughboys.

[rocnrik]

On Brady Its the lying part that bothers me..i can tell you this if the redskins do this they get hammered. as far as cowboys getting Collins I thought the Skins should have gambled and drafted him in the 3rd..call me crazy but unless Jones is a very good RB what would we have lost?..we could have really been set at o line ..

[Hog1]

I have had the opinion and I still do....
Why does the NFL care what the opposition does with it's Footballs? Allow all offenses to do what they want with their balls. All teams have the same opportunity. More air....less air....nitrogen...helium...whatev's. The same opportunity will exist for all and those that are more clever may gain a competitive advantage.
And now undoubtedly the NFL will overreact and hire a team of 32 guys to watch their balls. A Brinks team of guards will have to account for.....escort.....watch safeguard, said balls.
Why?

[MTK]

Integrity of the game. You can't have teams messing with the balls. Where do you draw the line after that? Let the teams modify their equipment too? You set a standard and enforce it. The league should have been monitoring the balls years ago. Dumb that it even got to this point.

[NC_Skins]

Remember that time we all believe the NFL were honoring Vets out of sheer kindness?

Report: The National Guard has paid NFL teams millions to honor veterans on the Jumbotron - Vox

[MTK]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Remember that time we all believe the NFL were honoring Vets out of sheer kindness?



Report: The National Guard has paid NFL teams millions to honor veterans on the Jumbotron - Vox

Not surprising. The military advertises just like anyone else. Should we expect the league to just turn down the $$?

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Remember that time we all believe the NFL were honoring Vets out of sheer kindness?

Report: The National Guard has paid NFL teams millions to honor veterans on the Jumbotron - Vox

"But what makes this sort of thing so disingenuous is that fans assume NFL teams are thanking soldiers out of genuine appreciation for their service. In these cases, they were getting paid for it: it was advertising, disguised as gratitude. It's a lot like a news outlet running an ad as an article without any sort of disclaimer."

So these teams were happy to let their fans think they were "good guys" by not acknowledging that these tributes were paid advertising? Nice.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

"But what makes this sort of thing so disingenuous is that fans assume NFL teams are thanking soldiers out of genuine appreciation for their service. In these cases, they were getting paid for it: it was advertising, disguised as gratitude. It's a lot like a news outlet running an ad as an article without any sort of disclaimer."

So these teams were happy to let their fans think they were "good guys" by not acknowledging that these tributes were paid advertising? Nice.

This pretty much sums it up.

[Hog1]

Try it out in preseason...see how it goes. Apparently Brady likes lower pressure, manning likes more than the league allows...let em'. They're apparently doing it anyway...Panthers Vikes heating balls during the game
It will now become an expensive albatross to be enforced by an army of BS..

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Try it out in preseason...see how it goes. Apparently Brady likes lower pressure, manning likes more than the league allows...let em'. They're apparently doing it anyway...Panthers Vikes heating balls during the game
It will now become an expensive albatross to be enforced by an army of BS..

The NFL has uniform police, I think they can handle hiring people to monitor the balls. Not a big deal.

[ethat001]

He's a cheater, Belichick's a cheater. They're good, but cheaters. Deserve the maximum punishment allowed. Hope he gets screwed up from OVERinflated balls for the rest of his career.

Just saying, you cheat you don't deserve the Super Bowl trophy. I don't care if it didn't affect the game.

[Hog1]

FWIW
Apparently according to the report, Both BB and the team were found in no way to be.....complicit

[That Guy]

they probably did cheat. just seems like the MO, and it's not like this is the first or second time these guys have been caught doing something shady. how much of an advantage did it give them? who knows. probably not as much as taping jets practices or whatnot. Not really too broken up or concerned about it, even though maybe I should be? I guess the Pats are going to end up with a league sanctioned inflation monitor now, which would honestly be pretty funny.

sad the boys got collins. that's a good player i would have liked to have (talent wise at least). we could have spent a 7th to secure his rights and make sure no one else could sign him.

still a bit of a bad precedent to skip the draft and then immediately sign a (presumably) big money contract relative to to everyone else that waited in line for their turn.