nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

this bounty thing looks worse than I thought:

Former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams offered cash to the player who struck San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith in the head during the 2011 NFC playoffs, according to USA Today.

According to the video released by filmmaker Sean Pamphilon, who was working on a documentary on a former special teamer with ALS, Williams was recorded as saying, “We hit expletive Smith right there” as Smith pointed under his chin. Smith then rubbed his thumb against his index and middle fingers in reference to the potential fine, saying “I got the first one. I got the first one. Go get it. Go lay that expletive.”

During the clip, Williams also mentioned to injure running back Frank Gore saying, “Kill the head, the body will die. We’ve do to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore’s head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”

The video was released on Thursday morning, the same day Sean Payton and other suspended Saints officials were planning to appeal their bans to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

as gross as that speech is it seems like non-news to me, i'm sure most pregame speeches are pretty gross.

i just think it's funny that the saints d sucked so hard

bring me the head of al gore

my two thoughts are basically

- how historically dumb is gregg williams for delivering that speech IN THE PRESENCE OF CAMERAS

- how hilarious is the phrase "continue to touch and affect the head"

and yeah i don't know, the rhetoric ("kill frank gore's head") is pretty ratcheted up, but that's a message that i'm sure is delivered in locker rooms across the league. the giants admitted to targeting kyle williams, too.

and as i've said before, in that same saints-niners game dashon gholston was knocking people out on head to head hits which is apparently okay because the giants d coordinator didn't, as far as we know, tell him to kill lance moore's head before the game

er, the niners d coordinator etc

j0rdan otm. I mean Williams says all that shit in front of cameras, and on top of that, when this story first broke didnt' they say they've they've got a ridiculous amount email printouts or something crazy where they're talking about this crap IN WRITING.

ffs

it's sort of admirable in a way that the filmmaker is more or less risking his professional career by putting this stuff out there

i mean the whole "this stuff goes on all the time" observation/argument is really meaningless

the NFL is a huge business and this kinda idiotic shit -- esp in front of cameras -- totally opens them up to liability, lawsuits etc

like i can't believe how stupid this guy is. he should be banned for life.

well it is and it isn't...i mean i'm genuinely confused about what this new stuff today adds to the case against williams. i guess makes it more concrete for ppl? idk.

well there is definitely the sense that the perceived worst crime here is hubris against the nfl, and the video is yet another layer of egregiousness

if any players wanted to file a lawsuit this would definitely help

Florio is such a clown.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/05/wonderlic-reporting-raises-questions-dilemmas-hypocris/

that is kind of hilariously bitchy

he shouldn't be publishing that shit and he's a major douche in general tho

that idiot cowherd used 'c'mon he went to LSU' as PROOF the test was bad/flawed/inaccurate/etc. like LSU gives a fuck about educating anybody.

isn't that cowherd just being the smug sarcastic fuck he always is?

I cant tell anymore =\ If I didnt have adult onset ADHD when I drive to/from work I would never listen to that asshole.

cowherd is the fucking worst

Yeah he's really terrible.

he seems like he's some kinda libertarian too, he tries to shoehorn that shit into some of his takes on sports

he probably reads inspiration leadership books by asshole ex CEOs and shit like that or thinks malcolm gladwell is like super deep and shit

only a matter of time till he writes for grantland then

haha no shit. god get him a copy of sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs

it's funny one of the guys on our local sports talk station's morning zoo crew (the power trip morning show) plays in some terrible band as well and just discovered klosterman and was going on and on about how much of a genius the guy was it was hilarious

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/story/2012-04-05/new-orleans-saints-gregg-williams-analysis/54049016/1

I think Gregg Williams is totally fxxxxd and will never work in the NFL again. He's an idiot.

Yeah I think the NFL is a very crass game, but I somehow doubt that Tony Dungy or crap even Belichick (the evil one) would be firing up using messages to attack peoples on bad ankles or giving people concussions.

I don't doubt others have done so, so I doubt Williams talk is unique, but DAAAMNNN no wonder the guy never got another head coaching job (and others wondered about that).

oh come on. the best that you can say is thank god this sort of thing is only IMPLIED on every other team. belichick only needs to look at a dude and that dude will hammer down.

When they hear the slight hum and Belichick's eyes glow luminscent blue for *just* a nanosecond - that means go time

i dont know where else to post this but i didnt even realize until 2 minutes ago that the faith hill SNF theme song is a fucking rip of Hate Myself For Loving You. feel so dumb rn

lol! smdh @ u, dude

why did this occur to you in april

heard IHMFLY for the first time in a gazillion years and was like ohhhhh

luv u

"Tannehill is a hidden gem in this draft, a quiet secret who was always sneaking up to #3..you want him,you better talk to Zigi The Biggie!," Irsay wrote Wednesday afternoon.

Jim Irsay is really weird.

jim irsay needs to be put in prison, he really does

20 years for crimes against twitter

his twitter is so mental i can hardly believe it's real. if it was reveal one of those fyad ppl were behind it you would not bat an eyelid.

its pretty uncoool to meddle in a pick that's not yours like that. if i was a team wanting to trade up to get that pick, i'd be pissed.

Speaking of twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/JabarGaffney

very unchill, jabar

woah

sounds like a rough day

If you haven't seen it, you all should search out the Gruden QB Camp episode with Andrew Luck. It is a good one.

JG drops quite a few references to "The Sheriff" in it and really comes out saying Luck got the mental game more than any college Qb he has ever seen.

Those Gruden QB camps are great, and yeah, the Andrew Luck one was really good.

http://indianastatemuseum.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/121911_irsays_rocks.jpg

EXHIBIT #2 - Jim Irsay is really weird.

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2001/11/06/dd_garcia1.jpg

For reference, yes Irsay own's it now.

omg! that is so wrong.

i saw a glimpse of the RG3 gruden qb camp and i almost melted

got so frustrated watching Jeopardy two days ago, can't remember the question but it was something like "this guy, who won the Super Bowl in 2002, now a Monday Night Football announcer", and the contestants were just staring into space

later I realized, not knowing the answer to that question is probably what gets you on Jeopardy in the first place

the world outside ILNFL is a scary place, frogbs

hah i like thinking of that read as "THIS GUY,"