Getting YOUR response to this post, given your insider track with this team, is great. I'm glad to read that there's nothing to see here from someone in a position to post with authority on the topic. Thanks for that.ElcaballitoMVP said:
#DFG: Canceling the Noise
- Thread starter nattysez
- Start date
With the reactions to the perceived slight, 78 hours can't pass fast enough.
TB didn't extend an olive branch to RG with those remarks to the Pittsburgh press -- he gave RG the goddamn Genco olive oil company. If the League wants to be petty, that's fine. The team usually responds very well to slights, real or imagined.
Saving my worrying for performance and injuries. Thankfully, this will be buried in the Second Circuit for a minimum of 9 months.
TB didn't extend an olive branch to RG with those remarks to the Pittsburgh press -- he gave RG the goddamn Genco olive oil company. If the League wants to be petty, that's fine. The team usually responds very well to slights, real or imagined.
Saving my worrying for performance and injuries. Thankfully, this will be buried in the Second Circuit for a minimum of 9 months.
PedroKsBambino said:
This strikes me as a far assessment, but it still doesn't explain Carson Palmer's inclusion. Of the seven QBs on the poster, five have SB rings. The other two are (one of) the best young QB in the league and a guy who literally quit the game at one point not too long ago. Even if you throw out the notion that it was petty exclusion of Brady, if it's going to be seven QBs on a poster promoting Super Bowl 50, why not use the seven active QBs (Brady makes 8) who have rings and include Flacco and Eli instead of Luck and Palmer?
MuppetAsteriskTalk said:
Which they did during the preseason before the games. Which is why all this questioning if it was a troll job or not is ridiculous. If it was the only incident, yes , the reaction would be somewhat petty, (still warranted, though). But "you people" dissecting every possible other meaning are pretty naive. They have been trolling all summer. I'm sure the delicate genius that came up with the graphic might be able to dig deep down inside and find a way to magically remove Brady , had he been included in the original and the suspension was upheld.
cornwalls@6 said:
I think I'm going to start a thread that ponders whether the next Superbowl will be
Superbowl L
Superbowl XXXXX
Superbowl 50
Just to annoy you.
Whether the SB50 promo snafu was real or perceived, given the bullshit of the past 7 months, the NFL does not deserve any benefit of the doubt re its intentions towards Pats/Brady.
Fuck them
Fuck them
Eddie Jurak said:
The above comment made me wonder if we were observing a kind of recreation of the Stanford Prison Experiment. There, a group of perfectly normal Stanford students were arbitrarily assigned to be either "guards" or "prisoners", and the guards were given complete control over discipline, without any oversight to rein them in. Within a few days, the "guards" turned into drunk-with-power sadists. As for the "prisoners", the wikipedia page notes "Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it." [emphasis added]
There's also this:
I have to wonder about this seeing the owners accepting not only ridiculous penalties but now even being lied to about getting independent investigations. At some point, you can only hope it will dawn on them that there's really no reason that they need to put up with this abuse.
A big difference being that in the experiment, the superintendent and warden condoned the abuse, whereas the NFL has been continuously rebuked by a higher authority.garzooma said:
soxhop411 said:
Not really relevant to the DFG thread, but the coach in question is Andy Moeller, who was involved in an unspecified "incident" over the weekend. Moeller has had some past issues with alcohol abuse/DUI, and his father (Gary) lost his job as head coach of Michigan after a drunken outburst in Ann Arbor back in '95.
Sadly, the apple seems to have fallen very close to the tree there...
The NFL will richly deserve the bad press it gets this year each time one of these things happens---"have they spent as much on alcohol education as they did on the failed DFG investigation?"
Those are exactly the questions the media, and the other owners, should be asking RG.
Those are exactly the questions the media, and the other owners, should be asking RG.
PedroKsBambino said:
Now that the tide has shifted a bit and the scope of the deflategate investigation has been questioned, it's possible that these type of issues will be raised.
But the timing couldn't be worse ... for the average fan won't give a crap now that they have games and fantasy football to obsess over
https://twitter.com/philtrexler/status/640988726525452289
https://twitter.com/philtrexler/status/640988726525452289
link to tweet
https://twitter.com/philtrexler/status/640988726525452289
link to tweet
A little late on this, but the NFL social media team made their bed with the SMD and PSI tweets. They don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.PedroKsBambino said:
How long does it take to swap out the photo before you publish it? Seems like they had enough time before last night, no?
Paragraph 6 of this story anticipates a future hell we all just lived through. It is from 2007.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2832237
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2832237
Yes. IMO Paul Tagliabue is a very wise man and was a magnificent Commissioner. The owners eased him out because they viewed his last CBA as too player friendly. Which tells you about as much of most of the 32 owners that you need to know.riboflav said:
If they are borderline sociopathic toward the players, why wouldn't they gang up on an owner who has won too much, with Goodell doing the dirty work and taking the beating?
My favorite part of that article. 8 years later and the motto of integrity of the league and game has run its course, nobody is buying it anymore.riboflav said:
"The blindfold that often blurred the vision of commissioner Paul Tagliabue is gone. Tagliabue is a good man, but he also is an attorney and often fretted more over due process than enunciating a can-do policy of punishment against repeat offenders. Also gone, it seems, are any bindings that once tied the hands of the commissioner and limited the scope of his ability to maintain the integrity of the league."
Looks like the Pats haven't contacted the NFL or Vincent is lying.
https://twitter.com/troyvincent23/status/640929238221201408
https://twitter.com/troyvincent23/status/640929238221201408
If history has taught us anything, if anything in this life is certain, it is that you can kill anyone.Average Reds said:
So when does Jonathan show up at the airport sporting a fedora?
And yes, Michael was projecting 1963, Coppola channeling it.
If this was a softball game, RG would be 6-6 with 6 HRs. Bunch of clown questions tomorrow, bro.Ed Hillel said:
A Reddit poster claims the social media guy for the NFL is a Jets fan. Reddit grain of salt yada yada.
http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/3jxg92/nfl_doesnt_think_the_defending_superbowl/cutcefp
http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/3jxg92/nfl_doesnt_think_the_defending_superbowl/cutcefp
On the other end of the political spectrum, President Obama just cited the whole brouhaha to make a point about the importance of unions.dcmissle said:
"People are so jealous of Tom Brady and the Patriots. No court could convict based on the evidence. They can't beat him on the field, now this!"singaporesoxfan said:
Donald Trump, May 11, 2015
No, I'm not a Trump partisan, though he is as interesting as hell. But he nailed a 7-month story -- really an 8-year story -- in one tweet, almost 4 months ago.
