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I like the personal conduct discipline he's brought to the game, yet it's still not quite a balanaced as it needs to be. But don't blame that all on Goodell, he has people who recommend the penalties and discipline to him. As for his handling of the CBA, or games played in Europe, he's done what he is being paid to do, which is to do the bidding of the owners. Goodell represents the league, vis-a-vis the owners period.

Anyone who still tunes into Fox news should be well aware of how poor new reporting has become.

As for buying one's way out, unfortunately it does happen (far too often). Yet in this case, LT is reported to be broke so the cash he had was his celebrity status.

It was the perfect response to a perfect setup.

No team wants their own players laying out their own players. Scrimmages are helpful, but Jack Tatum, Dick Butkus, and countless others made their status by destroying other teams players. Less preseason games? I would agree with 2 games, but no more than three should be sufficient.

Jeez......even Clayton is now pointing out that the owners offer numbers simply don't add up. No matter how you slice it, the owners are demanding serious give backs. Is there room to make a deal (and don't be jealous because players make more than you)? This isn't a matter where the players are asking for more. But if owners do, then that's OK? Clayton...numbers.

Ah, I love when history is re-written. Not! Our infamous Owner Paul Snyder decided he was done with the Brave, and to pocket a profit, he sold Moses Malone, Bob McAdoo, and then the team for a lousy 6.2 million. Theft? That was Paul Snyder, John Y Brown and Irv Levin who screwed Buffalo, not San Diego. Buffalo Braves

Now thats original.....

Goodell and Smith are both jack wagons, but I too would have to give the nod to Smith as being the bigger one.

Why the heck do you continue to beat the decertification as a shame (ploy maybe, sham not so much), while ignoring the lockout preparations the owners made over years ago in their last TV deals? You sound like a Fox News man.....one sided.

That he did. Rest in Peace Rico. You will live in our hearts forever........

Are you another tool of the rich, or are you incredibly wealthy?. De-certifying in inexcusable, but breaking (OK, opting out, same thing) is not? Then in doing so, claiming costs, expenses, etc., that they're unwilling to show, but demand the players accept at face value? Owners greed is what's led to NFL licensed merchandise being ridiculously over priced, the raising of ticket prices, parking increases, PSL's, TV revenues. Remember, the players are (or were) capped at a percentage of the overall revenue, minus a billion of the top. The owners imply want more for themselves. Yeah, Peyton Manning is wealthy, but guess what, I believe most would prefer to watch Manning at QB than Irsay. Yet while Manning is wealthy, Irsay is incredibly rich. Mutli-year contracts will always apply in any business. To say otherwise is incredibly ridiculous premise. I began initially favoring the owners, but the more I've reviewed and understood about all this, it only made logical and moral sense to favor the players. Enjoy watching Irsay take the snaps this year......if there is a year for the NFL.

Right is right, and while it's simply not be comparable with your stores vs. employees, when you have an agreement, and one side decides to opt out and then demand concessions due to cost, expenses, etc., you can't somehow see that some tangible explanation and evidence of those costs is reasonable and logical? I take a simple view of all this, which is in today's climate, it all about working the employees harder, pay them less, reduce their benefits, all while those in power (control or ownership aka "the rich") take more for themselves, and get huge tax breaks besides. The times are not good for 95% of the USA, and far too many are so stuck on ideologies, they don't even realize the ones that they shooting in the foot are themselves. Why we have become so hell bent on making the ridiculously rich people richer is beyond me, and don't start with the myth that they create jobs. They do however, eliminate or export jobs, all in the name of furthering their own nests. Invest? Real investment is in growing a company, not in buying ownership into other companies. It does however increase ownership. The only constant in the last 35 years in the amazing continued rapidly growing concentration of wealth and ownership by the top 1%. The middle class has and continues to lose ground. Those are facts, not myths. Yet somehow we are led by some Pied Piper into believing giving more to those who already are incredibly well off is going to somehow help us? That's an ultimate act of insanity.

Mr. Mr. Mr. Weo....... How the initial basic premise of TV has escaped you. It's free to the viewer, who is inundated by advertisements in the hope of the advertisers that we will buy their products. Truth is, we often do. Those very same advertisers pay huge sums to the NFL for the right to broadcast the game. We all pay, some more, some less, but we all pay. The NFL doesn't print $$$, the TV networks don't print $$$, the manufacturers of the advertised products don't print $$$, but they all get their $$$ from the fans (and non-fans alike) that spend their hard earned $$$ on the products and services related to the advertisement. The little guy ALWAYS pays, in the the price of the products we buy, the tickets we purchase, etc. The little guy ALWAYS pays.

Of course your book is titled, "Dick and Jane". Watt has the size and quickness to play in a 3-4 or a 4-3. Looks to be a very solid player and should not be so easily dismissed.

Kelly is still running.......should finish in a year or two....

Just saw this: Tiki Barber?

Freudian slip? Wishful thinking?

Bangles

Not a bad thought.....

Strange choices for analogy......yikes!

That should end this thread.

I wasn't alone in not being happy he signed with the Vikes. Final nit-pick, the Bills (Donodud) made an offer, but it too little too late. It wasn't a simple "just not re-signed". Donodud thought he was smarter than everyone else and simply lowballed Pat, and then acted surprised that Pat walked.

First, Pat was not CUT. He was an FA and Donodud simply low balled him and he went elsewhere. Secondly, far more folks here wanted him to stay. Nice attempt at revisionist, inaccurate history., not............

Based upon how stout we were up the middle against the run, I'd say lay of the sarcasm. William is a 4-3 tackle...period, if he's to be most effective.