2014 NFL thread: Down and Dirty - Part 1

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[MessiahDecoy123]

A new football season rapidly approaches.

Discuss the 2014/2015 season here!

 

[W/ Great Power]

It is so unfair that great tragedy is one of the few ways that truly teaches us how to appreciate our good fortune.

Couldn't have been said any better

Oh yeah, Roger is a dumba** beyond words. I really want this to hurt him to the point where he's no longer commish.

At this point, it doesn't really matter if you hurt him or not. He seems to be doing that to himself pretty well.

 

[Donut]

Some Twitter accounts are saying that news maybe soon should confirm that the NFL knew about the tape. Like no **** Sherlock

 

[Boom]

You'd have to be incredibly naive to think that nobody in the NFL saw this video before today.

They wanted this to disappear as quickly and quietly as possible and it just keeps blowing up in their face.

 

[Donut]

They wanted this to disappear as quickly and quietly as possible and it just keeps blowing up in their face.

I'm actually surprised no one brings up the 49ers guy. They are just focused on Ray Rice lol & yeah no one believes that claim once so ever. But apparently some sites wants to use it as news

 

[DarthSkywalker]

You'd have to be incredibly naive to think that nobody in the NFL saw this video before today.

They wanted this to disappear as quickly and quietly as possible and it just keeps blowing up in their face.

Well if Chris Mortensen is being honest, he knew what was on the tape months ago and he learned it from someone in the league.

I'm actually surprised no one brings up the 49ers guy. They are just focused on Ray Rice lol & yeah no one believes that claim once so ever. But apparently some sites wants to use it as news

Someone did bring him up, I believe it may have been Steve Young. Apparently the police reports stats the victim had visible marks upon her. Yeah, he will be lucky to play again after the league makes an example out of him as well.

And really, I cannot believe how Jim and John Harbaugh are handling this situation. Pathetic, and I use to like both of them quite a bit. Steve Young is so right about this situation. As soon as the cops get involved, these players should be sent home, with pay until an investigation is carried out. Too much emphasis on "winning", and not enough on human decency.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Anyway...

It's always nice seeing Eli suck it up.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Anyway...

It's always nice seeing Eli suck it up.

How the Lions aren't up 30 is beyond me. They are still somehow in this.

 

[Boom]

Uh oh, spaghetti-o's!

http://thebiglead.com/2014/09/08/ha...g-evidence-for-the-nfl-on-the-ray-rice-video/

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Uh oh, spaghetti-o's!

http://thebiglead.com/2014/09/08/ha...g-evidence-for-the-nfl-on-the-ray-rice-video/

He didn't mention this on the People's Court today.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Really isn't a shock.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

There is a flood in Arizona. Come on Cards. Whoop dem' Chargers.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Really isn't a shock.

It almost sounds like they didn't want to see it, so they could give him a small ban. Willful ignorance. That is horrible if true.

 

[zeroapoc]

Maybe I'm late to the party but I just learned next year's Super Bowl will be styled as "Super Bowl 50" instead of Roman numerals. Simply because "Super Bowl L" doesn't look good.

 

[mkilban2]

Whoever was asking about the new Madden game: if you're planning on getting it for 360 or PS3 it's pretty much a $65 roster update, I played it at my brothers house the other day and it seems like literally nothing has changed.

I haven't played it on Xbox One or PS4 but from the videos I watched on YouTube it seems to have been visually upgraded nicely, can't comment on the actual gameplay though. I'm planning on just saving up for a next gen console and playing then. But I did get a free month trial of gamefly just to get a months worth of Madden 15 on my 360 lol, but won't be buying it. I just love the Ultimate Team mode so much haha.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I haven't bought a madden game since 07. It went downhill ever since the transition to last gen (PS3, Xbox 360) and never had as many features as it used to have.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Guys, this could be a blessing in disguise. I want Goodell gone and this could potentially be damaging.

 

[Warhammer]

If there is anything that I've learned in 2014, it is that you don't f*** with TMZ. Donald Sterling, Ray Rice, and now Roger Goodell and the NFL as a whole. TMZ will f*** you.

 

[zeroapoc]

Does everyone really expect a new commissioner to be anything great? It'll just be more of the same.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Does everyone really expect a new commissioner to be anything great? It'll just be more of the same.

Lulz, no. No one will be as lame as Roger.


Pointing is now a penalty? Really?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Maybe I'm late to the party but I just learned next year's Super Bowl will be styled as "Super Bowl 50" instead of Roman numerals. Simply because "Super Bowl L" doesn't look good.

Yep, and it is as stupid as it sounds imo.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What is exactly people's problem with Goodell outside of this incident?

 

[DoomsdayApex]

What is exactly people's problem with Goodell outside of this incident?

He's taken the football out of football, and made it less fun. The guy is so full of it. I'm going to enjoy watching him get slammed by America.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

So Peter King is basically admitting he made up that the NFL saw the video.

http://deadspin.com/peter-king-issues-statement-on-his-ray-rice-reporting-1632044670

One strange aspect of the ongoing Ray Rice fiasco is that the NFL is vigorously denying it ever saw a video of Rice beating his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in an elevator, flatly contradicting what top football reporters were saying both publicly and privately over the summer. As we and others have noted, foremost among those reporters was SI's Peter King, who wrote the following in July:

There is one other thing I did not write or refer to, and that is the other videotape the NFL and some Ravens officials have seen, from the security camera inside the elevator at the time of the physical altercation between Rice and his fiancée.

How to square this with the NFL's insistence that it never saw the tape? Here's SI's Peter King, writing in his capacity as editor-in-chief of The MMQB, to explain:

Earlier this summer a source I trusted told me he assumed the NFL had seen the damaging video that was released by TMZ on Monday morning of Rice slugging his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City elevator. The source said league officials had to have seen it. This source has been impeccable, and I believed the information. So I wrote that the league had seen the tape. I should have called the NFL for a comment, a lapse in reporting on my part. The league says it has not seen the tape, and I cannot refute that with certainty. No one from the league has ever knocked down my report to me, and so I was surprised to see the claim today that league officials have not seen the tape.

I hope when this story is fully vetted, we all get the truth and nothing but the truth.

This is an incredible statement. In the most generous gloss of it, King is admitting to having casually transformed a third party's assumption that the NFL had seen the video into a factual assertion that it had actually done so, and to having done this at a time when it was convenient to the NFL's interests for the public to think that league officials were diligently investigating the case against Rice. This is the sort of thing no college newspaper reporter would ever do, to say nothing of the best-connected reporter in the game. (A less generous reading suggests that King is covering for his source, which would be incredible in its own way.)

Not to worry, though: King sincerely hopes someone else will eventually get to the bottom of this, and maybe they will.

He's taken the football out of football, and made it less fun. The guy is so full of it. I'm going to enjoy him get slammed by America.

They still kick plenty in American Football.