nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

it's also important to note that they all have dementia

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7647468/the-new-orleans-saints-nfl-concussions

could be a little more explicit but: what the Saints will truly be punished for is the unpardonable crime of ripping aside the veil.

We may well be reaching something of a tipping point in our relationship with our true national pastime. Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself. But the players got bigger, and even the unsolicited hits got louder, and the damage to the athletes soon became too obvious to ignore.

My theory on some of this is that the emphasis on protecting the quarterback and getting rid of the contact within 5 yards on WR has in some ways led more to the big bang hit.

A running back going full out is prepared to take a hit and sometimes even gives out more than he gets. In the classic running game, you also used to see more pulls where a lineman or fullback leads the way.

A wide out running some short 5 yard timing pattern to a zone on the field that some safety or linebacker has seen over and over and over in film is just lying in wait to take someone's head off. And the sheer fact that when you go to catch a pass you are not in a position to defend yourself until after you have caught the ball, planted and then start to move forward.

I could also hypothesize that in someways going for the tiny slot reciever (like say Wes Welker) or vice versa going for the huge TE in some pass sets like say Antonio Gates is in someway trying to find a player in those kind of passing games that can either be hard to hit or can take the hit in those situations.

I'm not sure that letting the run come back into the game 'might' fix some of these kinds of issues.

It should also be taken into account that aside from maybe the Favre/Warner playoff bounties (which, should also be mentioned that both those injuries were aggravations of injuries the qbs were already playing with), most of the $$ for these wouldn't offset possible personal foul fines (which the saints got a lot of last season) incurred by a too-vicious hit.
It was kind of interesting last season to watch the conflict between just how cavalier Greg Williams was publicly about how little he cared about all of the personal foul penalties and the saints d's rep as being "dirty" vs. the NFL really starting to get serious about protecting players for once.

tbf, i would've paid five bucks to see those guys laid out myself

ryan fitz shaves swastika into hair to celebrate signing of stevie j:

https://p.twimg.com/AnO0u6xCMAA4_m5.jpg

I'm not surprised because i always saw the saints for the dirty scumbags that they are. Nothing less than forfeiture of the next decade of draft picks and a permanent post-season ban will suffice for punishment.

^^^i've been waiting for that post since this story broke <3

pvmic etc

I'm not surprised because i always saw the saints for the dirty scumbags that they are. Nothing less than forfeiture of the next decade of draft picks and a permanent post-season ban will suffice for punishment.

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:29 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Overreact much?

Team hatred is a beautiful thing, Bill

If this were the Broncos I'd be saying the same thing, lol

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/03/saints_bounties_in_a_game_where_everyone_gets_hurt_does_it_matter_why_everyone_gets_hurt_.html

I find it unlikely that a player would focus on injuring an opponent in defiance of the referees on the field, the league office that reviews every hit, and his peers to whom he must answer every day and who don’t take kindly to cheap shots. No matter what cash they dispensed, the Saints didn’t play the game differently than any other team once they hit the field. These peripheral reward systems are pebbles around a boulder, and that boulder is rolling downhill.

Besides, in a game where 100 percent of the players get injured, why does it matter to us how they’re injured? The real outrage here isn't the bounties and the cart-off hits and knockout blows; it's the league office's need to sanctify all the bloodshed and ugliness with well-drawn rules and regulations. The NFL wants us to buy the myth that football would be safe so long as the guys on the field played with a little integrity. But bounties or no bounties, there isn’t much integrity in a game that maims everyone who plays it.

lol such rhetorical bullshit. painful to read.

peyton's a free agent

FINSFINSFINS

i think peyton's got a real shot at the nomination if they get to a brokered convention

ochocinco
@MittRomney Excuse Mr. Romney i'd like to have a 30 minute sit down with u. If u're available I'd love for my followers to hear ur thoughts.

peyton in another jersey is gonna be fukked up

honestly i can't pretend like i won't be jacked if peyton comes to miami, even if he's one hit away from paralyzation

Did you guys read the Peter King article on the bounties? Very good I think:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1195695/1/index.htm

Barnwell is a treat sometimes

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/19546/free-agent-countdown-teams-that-cant-spend

Carolina Panthers
Why they can't spend money: They spent wildly to keep a 2-14 team together last year.

a real treat... on opposite planet, in the clown dimension.

Ohhhh snap

http://cbssports.com/images/blogs/Peyton_Manning_John_Elway_Denver_Broncos_Tebowmania_Meeting_John_Fox.jpg

undead john elway seeks to drain remaining force from peyton manning

when asked for a comment on acquisition talks, elway responded "BRAINS!"

i heard mort talkin about it on the radio today, saying that if houston made it known that they wanted him, peyton would sign in an instant. but they're stayin out of it for now. all the other teams seem like mixed bags to me - you can see the advantages & disadvantages w/each one. hope he finds the right fit...

Anywhere but Denver, Peyton. Please. For me.

Gary Brackett, Dallas Clark, Joseph Addai and Melvin Bullitt cut; Freeney probably being traded.

welcome to the rebuild

wau that is a disturbing pic of elway

can someone explain the 'restructuring of contracts' to me? are cap hits merely being put off until later or is it basically a loophole?

that is far from a disturbing pic of elway, that's like a glamor pic of 2012 elway

http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/john-elway-tim-tebow.jpg

why is he wearing foundation

Because his head is a giant tooth

makes sense

It's for our own protection

damn... skins are getting RG3

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/gbhvr8

holy shit

what a haul

i just put on the local news and they're listing all the draft picks we gave up

RGIII should be like, not signing that contract until you change the name

everyone here been freaking out that snyder would find a way to give up all that for peyton so

The Cleveland Browns had stepped up their efforts to try to acquire the No. 2 pick in recent days, going so far as to offer at least three No. 1 picks to the Rams and possibly even the second-round pick, according to one source familiar with the deal. Cleveland sensed it was going to get the deal done, only to be informed that St. Louis planned to deal the coveted No. 2 pick to the Redskins.

wau

holy

sanchez got a 5 year extension

bedard @ boston globe: 'high fiving in foxboro'

lollllll

i shall have to ask what they think of this at the pork store tomorrow

Hahaahah J E T S

mike tannenbaum should be put in jail

mark sanchez's agent might've actually fainted when he got that call

RG3 could end up being the best qb in the league for the next 15 seasons and he's still not worth 3 years of 1st round picks and a 2nd round this year.