2015 NFL thread

Discussion in 'The Green Room' started by Demiurge, Sep 10, 2015.

  1. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    They have decent O-line starters, they were all injured. So your suggestion amounts to using high draft choices for the practice squad. I don't see them going that route. One high end offensive lineman, one high end outside receiver, that would cover the main deficiencies.
  2. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    Yeah, the Patriots definitely need a star wide receiver.
  3. Dr. Krieg

    Dr. Krieg Stay at Home Astronaut. Administrator Overlord

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  4. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Chargers owner Dean Spanos is back to making unrealistic demands of the city demanding around $1 billion from taxpayers. Fuck him. His "owner" isn't even remotely realistic as he has selected the single most expensive option, which has already been rejected by the city multiple times.

    It seems clear the guy is not even interested in getting a realistic project done and he just wants voter to turn him down so he can go to the owners and claim he tried but he just has to move.
  5. Liet

    Liet Dr. of Horribleness, Ph.D.

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    It's back!
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    Tom Brady’s Deflategate Suspension Reinstated

    Tom Brady might serve his four-game suspension after all.

    In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan on Monday reinstated the suspension of Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback. Their ruling overturned a lower-court decision that had voided the N.F.L.’s suspension.

    Brady’s lawyers had argued that he was unfairly suspended for his involvement in a scheme to deflate footballs used in a playoff game, and last summer, a Federal District Court Judge, Richard M. Berman agreed, allowing Brady to play the entire 2015 season.

    The N.F.L. appealed that ruling to the Second Circuit, which heard oral arguments in early March. The judges were openly skeptical of many of the arguments made by Brady’s lawyer, signaling that they sided with the N.F.L.’s case that Commissioner Roger Goodell had broad discretion to suspend players.

    In their decision, the judges did not consider the much discussed underlying facts of the case, including the science of football deflation, but looked solely at whether Goodell, as arbitrator, acted in the spirit of the collective bargaining agreement.

    “We hold that the commissioner properly exercised this broad discretion under the collective bargaining agreement and that his procedural rulings were properly grounded in that agreement and did not deprive Brady of fundamental fairness,” Judges Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. and Denny Chin wrote in their opinion. “Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the district court and remand with instructions to confirm the award.”

    Chief judge Robert Katzmann dissented.

    Brady’s lawyers can still appeal the decision to the full Second Circuit, or even the Supreme Court. Legal experts say both attempts would be long shots.

    The Second Circuit made “the right ruling that conforms to a very well established pattern in the labor law,” said Michael LeRoy, who teaches labor law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brady’s chances “of succeeding are close to nil.”
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  6. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Salty Dog

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    Man, did anyone see Laremy Tunsil slide down the draft board after someone hacked his Twitter half an hour before the draft and posted a vid of him smoking a bong?

    That was something else. Someone - possibly his stepfather - has a serious hate on for him.
  7. TheLonelySquire

    TheLonelySquire Fresh Meat

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    Just goes to show there's a price to pay for bad behavior. Bongs cost him 10 million+. Total moron.