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NFL 2015 Week 3 |OT| - A Fraud Finds His League

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Pro

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wienke said:
Greg's PC:



Cellphone:



TV:

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Let's not forget Greg's most coveted appliance.

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squicken

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chuckddd said:
Shazier and McCullers ruled out for Sunday.

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Against the Rams? Good QBs kill Jeff Fisher defenses, with the odd exception of Brees. Brady and Rodgers just toyed with them. The DBs are not good. The only way Pitt loses is if Aaron Donald really is another JJ Watt and has one of those games
 
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shadyspace

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Peyton Manning is 100 years old

He begins with his cleats, which he can barely untie without assistance. A Broncos equipment staffer helps peel them off his feet while he does a radio interview, because after nearly 25 years of football dating back to high school, it’s a relief to not have to bend over that far. Next come his shoulder pads, which, when yanked over his head, generate a groan that is a mixture of suffering and sweet relief. Manning’s pale arms and torso are covered in fresh scrapes and old bruises, some the color of strawberries, others a shade of eggplant.

His socks come off after several violent tugs, revealing toes that are twisted and bent into obtuse angles. When he removes a thick blue DonJoy knee brace from his stiff left leg, he twice pauses to grimace and gather himself before stripping it off and handing it to a staffer for safekeeping. As he slices away at the thick layers of athletic tape supporting his ankles, he looks like a surgeon operating on his own leg without anesthesia.
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jbug617

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The Jaguars traded their seventh-round pick in 2009 and their second-round pick in 2010 for New England’s third-round pick. The player the Jaguars wanted to move up to get was cornerback Derek Cox, who had 12 interceptions and 32 pass breakups in four seasons with the Jaguars. However, he missed 13 games because of injuries and never developed into the elite corner the Jaguars believed he could be.

The player the Patriots took with that seventh-round pick? Julian Edelman, who was a quarterback at Kent State before turning into the second coming of Wes Welker.

As for what the Patriots did with the second-round pick in 2010, they gave that pick and their sixth-round pick to Oakland for the Raiders’ second-round pick. The player the Patriots then chose was Rob Gronkowski.
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JABEE

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I don't think my team will beat the Jets this weekend.

Look what has happened to us. We abandoned Tebow, and the darkness has consumed us all!
 
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squicken

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Grover Cleveland said:
Jesus Christ, just retire man damn.
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Sando had something about this in Insider

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insi...nals-defense-aided-carson-palmer-15-2-run-nfl

"If anybody is going to make the change like that, the person who is going to do it is Elway," a personnel director from another team said. "No one else would do that in the middle of the season with possibly the greatest quarterback of all time. If stuff does not perk up, there will be a mystery injury and there will be no coming back. I think they will still have the same issues, but Osweiler is more athletic and more equipped to take some of the beating."

The Broncos already took back $4 million in salary from Manning. They already changed the offense. How long will they stay the course if the status quo continues? That's a question Manning can put to rest with improved play. Otherwise, it's going to linger.
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yankeehater

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JABEE said:
I don't think my team will beat the Jets this weekend.

Look what has happened to us. We abandoned Tebow, and the darkness has consumed us all!
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The Jets are just a terrible matchup for the Eagles atm. The Jets are going to destroy this OL, nothing can be done about that. Just hope no one gets hurt and that the rest of the division keeps sputtering. Giants did the Eagles a huge favor last night.
 
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DeaconKnowledge

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squicken said:
Against the Rams? Good QBs kill Jeff Fisher defenses, with the odd exception of Brees. Brady and Rodgers just toyed with them. The DBs are not good. The only way Pitt loses is if Aaron Donald really is another JJ Watt and has one of those games
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The Rams are just the kind of team the Steelers love to hang around against.
 
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CrocMother

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I always think of Priest Holmes when I hear stuff like that (Peyton):

The greatest fantasy football player of them all wakes up in the middle of the night. He has lost all feeling in his arms; he can’t move them. He lies on his bed, stares at the ceiling and patiently waits for feeling to come back.

Priest Holmes talks to himself while he waits. Talks to himself. “Come on arms,” he whispers to his arms. “I’m bigger than this injury,” he says to his mind. “I’m stronger than what’s happening to me,” he says to his body. When the feeling comes back, it comes slowly, a few centimeters of life prickling at a time, and once all feeling returns he gingerly gets out of bed. There is no more sleeping this night.

Understand: This is not one specific night. This is every night, every single night since the day he retired from the NFL five years ago. The doctors don’t know exactly what to do. This doesn’t seem to be one injury, one damaged nerve, but the product of a lifetime of runs and falls and crashes. When you ask Priest Holmes about a full night’s sleep, he shrugs like you are asking about vaudeville or childhood or something else that is gone and is not coming back. He never gets a full night’s sleep. He never expects to get one again.
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fuck :(
 
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yankeehater

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Himynameischris said:
Surprisingly easy to put our failure into gif form.




I hope so...my fantasy team depends on it.
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Eagles only hope to score is their D getting some turnovers from fitzmagic, or their special teams regaining last years form. The ST thing is the weird thing this year. They were the best in the league last year but this year they have been terrible. Cost them the Dallas game, and really hurt them against the Falcons.
 
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Himynameischris

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yankeehater said:
Eagles only hope to score is their D getting some turnovers from fitzmagic, or their special teams regaining last years form. The ST thing is the weird thing this year. They were the best in the league last year but this year they have been terrible. Cost them the Dallas game, and really hurt them against the Falcons.
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I don't mean to take joy from your misery but fantasy is all I got at this point :(
 
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BigAT

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CrocMother said:
I always think of Priest Holmes when I hear stuff like that (Peyton):



fuck :(
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Really not hard to see how guys abuse and become addicted to painkillers. I don't know if abuse is even the right word, it's not like they aren't in pain when they use them, it just happens to be chronic.

Dan LeBatard had a really good article a few years ago on some of the crazy shit Jason Taylor went through.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article1946293.html

We begin the anatomy of Taylor’s story at the very bottom … with his feet.

He had torn tissues in the bottom of both of them. But he wanted to play. He always wanted to play. So he went to a private room inside the football stadium.

“Like a dungeon,” he says now. “One light bulb swaying back and forth. There was a damp, musty smell. It was like the basement in Pulp Fiction.”

The doctors handed him a towel. For his mouth. To keep him from biting his tongue. And to muffle his screaming.

“It is the worst ever,” he says. “By far. All the nerve endings in your feet.”

That wasn’t the ailment. No, that was the cure. A needle has to go in that foot, and there aren’t a lot of soft, friendly places for a big needle in a foot. That foot pain is there for a reason, of course. It is your body screaming to your brain for help. A warning. The needle mutes the screaming and the warning.

“The first shot is ridiculous,” Taylor says. “Ridiculously horrible. Excruciating.”

But the first shot to the foot wasn’t even the remedy. The first shot was just to numb the area … in preparation for the second shot, which was worse.

“You can’t kill the foot because then it is just a dead nub,” he says. “You’ve got to get the perfect mix [of anesthesia]. I was crying and screaming. I’m sweating just speaking about it now.”

How’d he play?

“I didn’t play well,” he says. “But I played better than my backup would have.”
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Taylor was leg-whipped during a game once in Washington. Happens all the time. Common. He was sore and had a bruise, but the pregame Toradol and the postgame pain medicine and prescribed sleeping pills masked the suffering, so he went to dinner and thought he was fine. Until he couldn’t sleep. And the medication wore off. It was 2 a.m. He noticed that the only time his calf didn’t hurt is when he was walking around his house or standing. So he found a spot that gave him relief on a staircase and fell asleep standing up, leaning against the wall. But as soon as his leg would relax from the sleep, the pain would wake him up again. He called the team trainer and asked if he could take another Vicodin. The trainer said absolutely not. This need to kill the pain is what former No. 1 pick Keith McCants says started a pain-killer addiction that turned to street drugs when the money ran out … and led him to try to hang himself to break the cycle of pain.

The trainer rushed to Taylor’s house. Taylor thought he was overreacting. The trainer told him they were immediately going to the hospital. A test kit came out. Taylor’s blood pressure was so high that the doctors thought the test kit was faulty. Another test. Same crazy numbers. Doctors demanded immediate surgery. Taylor said absolutely not, that he wanted to call his wife and his agent and the famed Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion. Andrews also recommended surgery, and fast. Taylor said, fine, he’d fly out in owner Daniel Snyder’s private jet in the morning. Andrews said that was fine but that he’d have to cut off Taylor’s leg upon arrival. Taylor thought he was joking. Andrews wasn’t. Compartment syndrome. Muscle bleeds into the cavity, causing nerve damage. Two more hours, and Taylor would have had one fewer leg. Fans later sent him supportive notes about their own compartment syndrome, many of them in wheelchairs.

Taylor’s reaction?

“I was mad because I had to sit out three weeks,” he says. “I was hot.”

He had seven to nine inches of nerve damage.
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squicken

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I wonder if this was what Chip had in mind with Tebow, only to see that he was no threat to pass. But with a guy like Cam?

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13732184/going-two-become-best-option-touchdowns-nfl

But not all runs are the same. On two-point conversions, it really matters which position is doing the running. Runs by the quarterback are exceptionally successful, with a 65.7 percent scoring rate. Even typical running back handoffs are successful at a 58 percent rate, above the necessary break-even rate even under the old extra-point rules. The overall run numbers are skewed by several unsuccessful "other" ball carriers, typically kickers and holders attempting to make something out of a botched snap.

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A Wildcat or option-style athlete who can stretch a defense with his speed but also pass might be the ultimate threat from 2 yards out -- and not just on two-point plays, but anytime an offense is on the goal line. If teams can make room for a specialist like a long-snapper in addition to the two centers they typically carry, it more than makes sense for them to carry a player who can significantly improve their ability to score from within 2 yards.

Time and score should ultimately dictate the choice, but as long as the game is a point-maximization contest, which is typically until the beginning of the fourth quarter, most teams with decent goal-line rushing ability should default to the two-point try.
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eznark

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All these fucking sob stories, give me a break. Any idea how much knee and back pain I will be in when I am older? You think walking around casually on a golf course three times a week and sitting around meetings all day is easy? Not to mention all the bourbon self medicating.

Tiny violin, football multi-millionaire. Tiny violin.
 
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Alligatorjandro

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eznark said:
All these fucking sob stories, give me a break. Any idea how much knee and back pain I will be in when I am older? You think walking around casually on a golf course three times a week and sitting around meetings all day is easy? Not to mention all the bourbon self medicating.

Tiny violin, football multi-millionaire. Tiny violin.
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You poor thing
 
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Narag

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eznark said:
Pretty pathetic that stuffing leaves in a kids mouth and cutting open his scortum faded quickly.
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it's really uncomfortable when media starts lauding his achievements, someone hints at that, and the stance becomes "let's keep it on the field."
 
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