Mr. WEO

The gambling billions aren't affected by a football player playing a parlay. Come on. Legal betting has been around for ages and no one cares or even knows if players have been laying bets for decades. Supported/partially owned/encouraged/NFL sanctioned betting is just a ne way of doing the same thing. Just like drug testing has done little to curb NFL PED use (like gambling, only the dumbest players get caught) nor has it affected the "billions of dollars" rolling in before or with legal gambling, none of this really matters. The money will always be coming in. People (on this site especially) have assumed the game is rigged anyway----yet they simply cannot get enough of the NFL. This will never change.

Neon Deion 'tude.

Times are changing!

It's not weak. This whole code of conduct/suspension apparatus exists only to deal with potential stains on the NFL brand---not to punish players or change their behavior. Which is a bigger stain on the league? A serial predator being in the league or having a guy who was currently not active on a roster doing a legal activity that is openly encouraged by the NFL (and partially owned by its owners, who promote it for profit)?

It WAS sold---- to the person who is now re-selling it.

Seems like a lot opportunity for sun roasted fans on a day like today. Also, wouldn't any wind would drench more than he first row it fans?

Come on… https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-france-fires-london-england-b9bc07c1685b76ddf377b65f19fb811b

money loves to blow people in Vegas

The Bills are a "serious SB contender" is a "strong take?? lol--vegas has had them as favorites to win for most of the off-season. Bill Polian with a dyed-in-the-wool hot take!! He's a bum.

Covered meaning the sun doesn't hit you and you can't get rained on?

you said they didn't do a real investigation. they say they did. I think they just didn't care about what they found out. They were going to sign him as long as he wasn't arrested. I bet he didn't tell New Orleans or Indy about the 23rd and 24th either. I don't think it is, for reasons I've mentioned upstream re: Kraft and Snyder.

keep playing those same 6 songs Rog---the oldsters are still eating it up...

wrong. He was already under investigation by the NFL, he was being sued by 22 women...the DOLPHINS had already passed on him. Here's what they said after all that: “spent a tremendous amount of time exploring and investigating the opportunity to trade for Deshaun Watson.” They add that the franchise had “done extensive investigative, legal and reference work over the past several months to provide us with the appropriate information needed to make an informed decision about pursuing him and moving forward with him as our quarterback.” The statement also says Watson was “humble, sincere, and candid” in their conversations.

Again?

I think the NFL's confidence (or "claim", as you put it) that the court's reach is almost nil is based on its own precedent precedent. And since those decisions were handed down, a new CBA has been agreed upon that has made the suspension process more deliberative than it was when those cases were in Federal court. Adding now a jointly agreed upon finder of fact/decider of punishment (Robinson), I really don't know how the NFLPA tells the court that the NFL's own policy and procedure were not followed rationally. Dropping Kraft's name doesn't seem to get them in that door. But I guess if a case is filed in court, it has to be heard. NFL's response will be "Ok, whatever".

A better QB (a franchise pick) ended TTs job. The brief drop of his lung was the conveyance. Had he sprained his ankle, say, slipping on a mat in warmups, the result would have been the same. A mediocre journey man QB at the end of his career. As you said , he made a good career out of his limited skill. I applaud him.

Not really. A needle near the lung for any reason/indication has a risk of pneumothorax. It is recovered from very quickly in most cases. The reason Tyrod was listed as out "indefinitely" after that game where the injury became known immediately prior to kickoff is because Herbert came in as a rookie and threw for 300 yards. That was it for TT.....

Has anyone seen a picture of a shirtless Josh Allen? Anyway, they call him "Playoff Lenny", not "July Lenny"....

The NFL and Florio haven't ousted the courts, so far the courts have ousted themselves and said you people have system to adjudicate this. In the Brady case, the second highest court in the land overturned a District Court ruling in favor of overturning his 4 game suspension. As it was reported at the time: "Writing for the panel, Circuit Judge Barrington D. Parker says that labor law means that a federal court has to be "highly deferential" to the decisions made during arbitration. What's more, the collective bargaining agreement between the League and the players gives Goodell broad authority, the court writes. So, while the court agreed that, indeed, Goodell didn't allow Brady to confront the case against him, that right was not guaranteed by the collective bargaining agreement. "Had the parties wished to allow for more expansive discovery, they could have bargained for that right," the court wrote. "They did not, and there is simply no fundamental unfairness in affording the parties precisely what they agreed on." What will the NFLPA serve up "irrational" application of its policy? Kraft? Obviously the NFL will counter with the fact that Kraft alway maintained his innocence (he claims he got the tug without asking---and in fact that they called him later that evening offering him the "early bird special"--$15 off--the next day) and charges were dropped by the local DA. Did he commit a crime? He says he didn't;t and the DA didn't prosecute (his own bungling prevented this). The NFL could also point out that, in their latest CBA, the have decided to not disallow (by testing and suspension) marijuana use by the players, even though purchase and possession of marijuana is a federal crime. Snyder? I don't think the NFL is done with him and his problems yet.

He brought that sandwich to Whitney in the tub.....

I think there would be little if any chance such a threat is credible to the NFL legal team--their "business" would not be discoverable for the purposes of settling a labor dispute that was recently (2020) been re-bargained for. The courts have been loathe to settle these things--the Brady case is evidence of this. The NFL has not collectively bargained with itself (the owners) to arrive at some sort of punishment schedule for bad owner behavior. And what is meaningful "suspension" of an owner anyway?

The court may not hear it. If they do, why would they get in the way of arbitrated collectively bargained labor disputes? Brady won in Federal court, then lost in Circuit court.

Brady-Belichick had 3 rings in their first 4 seasons together... Most odds makers have Bills as the SB favorites by about 13:2.

lol Anyway, you keep putting arguments in my posts that aren't there. I said they got better despite the pick, not that the pick "caused them to improve". If you can only make straw man arguments, then just hoist the white flag or allow me to enjoy myself reading your responses!

mentoring gone wrong..