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The 2013-14 NFL football season thread

I see the fantasy league is set up, we still need to get the details worked out.
 
ESPN saying that Tom Brady just got taken off the field at Pats practice today. Went down holding his left knee.
 
rhett7660 said:
Ha.......... You talk about an entire city going crazy lol...... :):D

Hope he is ok though.
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MRI is negative.

And yeah, I do too. I think he'll be fine.

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rhett7660 said:
Ha.......... You talk about an entire city going crazy lol...... :):D

Hope he is ok though.
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For good reason though. Probably one of the most impactful players in the league for his team. New England with Ryan Mallet as QB1 would need a lot of breaks just to get to a half dozen wins.
 
Brady expects to practice today and play in the preseason game Friday. Once again Twitter makes everyone get worked up over nothing.
 
rdowns said:
I know, right?
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I never claimed otherwise. If I'm gonna get called out on it, I'm not gonna let others not be called out too. And damn, you have too much time on your hands if you have time to search back for posts I made years ago.

MacNut said:
Oh please, when is the last time pretty boy has even been touched. These QB's are babied so much it's stupid.
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Last time he got touched? Probably last night by his supermodel wife. :p

In reality though, QB's are "babied" because they're the ones that make the league it's money. Forbes just released their annual values of teams and the Patriots are currently worth $1.8 billion dollars.. because of what Tom Brady has helped create the past 10 years. They're not worth $1.8 billion dollars because of something a 2nd string defensive lineman has done.

League losing its star players to injury = loss of millions of dollars in revenue.
 
zioxide said:
I never claimed otherwise. If I'm gonna get called out on it, I'm not gonna let others not be called out too. And damn, you have too much time on your hands if you have time to search back for posts I made years ago.



Last time he got touched? Probably last night by his supermodel wife. :p
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Do you think Brady would have survived as QB in the Bradshaw era?
 
MacNut said:
Do you think Brady would have survived as QB in the Bradshaw era?
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I don't see why not. Brady, however much you want to hate on him, is a pretty tough dude. A few years ago he broke some ribs at the beginning of the year and played something like 14 games with multiple broken ribs. We've seen him gut it out through injuries multiple times.

The game was different back then. Would he still be playing at age 36 if he was playing in the Bradshaw era? Probably not, but hardly any players at all played past age 33-34 back then. Now you regularly see guys play into their late 30s and occasionally past 40.


If the mild sprain he had yesterday was during a game, and not a preseason practice, he wouldn't have missed a play. Hell, he came back and finished out the drill yesterday, then called it a day because it's week 2 of the preseason and there's no point of taking any chances on a surgically repaired knee when the games don't matter. But you can bet, (well you don't have to actually, because it's happened before) if that happened in a game that mattered, he'd remain in the game.
 
zioxide said:
I don't see why not. Brady, however much you want to hate on him, is a pretty tough dude. A few years ago he broke some ribs at the beginning of the year and played something like 14 games with multiple broken ribs. We've seen him gut it out through injuries multiple times.

The game was different back then. Would he still be playing at age 36 if he was playing in the Bradshaw era? Probably not, but hardly any players at all played past age 33-34 back then. Now you regularly see guys play into their late 30s and occasionally past 40.


If the mild sprain he had yesterday was during a game, and not a preseason practice, he wouldn't have missed a play. Hell, he came back and finished out the drill yesterday, then called it a day because it's week 2 of the preseason and there's no point of taking any chances on a surgically repaired knee when the games don't matter. But you can bet, (well you don't have to actually, because it's happened before) if that happened in a game that mattered, he'd remain in the game.
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Would you agree that the QB's are protected too much in the game today. Should they be allowed to get hit in the pocket.
 
MacNut said:
Would you agree that the QB's are protected too much in the game today. Should they be allowed to get hit in the pocket.
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I think they should be doing whatever they can to keep the best players on the field. Nobody wants to watch a sport that's so violent that by mid-October every team is starting a bunch of third-string scrubs because all their best players got hurt.

Unless you think it's good for the league to continually lose it's best players to injury, I don't see how you couldn't be in favor of rules like the Palmer rule.

Personally I think the NFL needs to do more to address all the injuries that occur. It seems to me that the NFL has a way higher rate of major injury than any of the other major sports, even hockey. Hockey has just as much contact and physical play, a faster game, and way more games in a season, and yet the rate that players get major injuries is way lower. The NFL needs to do something. Nobody wants to watch a league of Ryan Mallets and Brock Osweilers, they want to watch a league of Tom Bradys and Peyton Mannings.
 
zioxide said:
I think they should be doing whatever they can to keep the best players on the field. Nobody wants to watch a sport that's so violent that by mid-October every team is starting a bunch of third-string scrubs because all their best players got hurt.

Unless you think it's good for the league to continually lose it's best players to injury, I don't see how you couldn't be in favor of rules like the Palmer rule.

Personally I think the NFL needs to do more to address all the injuries that occur. It seems to me that the NFL has a way higher rate of major injury than any of the other major sports, even hockey. Hockey has just as much contact and physical play, a faster game, and way more games in a season, and yet the rate that players get major injuries is way lower. The NFL needs to do something. Nobody wants to watch a league of Ryan Mallets and Brock Osweilers, they want to watch a league of Tom Bradys and Peyton Mannings.
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People have complained that the sport has gotten weak. Now do you protect the players and still keep the game hard nosed. Football is a dangerous sport, there is no way to stop the injuries. The players know this going in that they risk life threatening injuries either playing of when they retire. Unless we are willing to watch a watered down sport I don't know how you make the game safer.
 
MacNut said:
People have complained that the sport has gotten weak. Now do you protect the players and still keep the game hard nosed. Football is a dangerous sport, there is no way to stop the injuries. The players know this going in that they risk life threatening injuries either playing of when they retire. Unless we are willing to watch a watered down sport I don't know how you make the game safer.
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There's no way to stop all injuries in any sport, but they can take steps to reduce them like they did with the Palmer & Brady rules, and like they did this past offseason with the Cushing rule and making it illegal to lead with your helmet outside the tackle box.

What's more watered down? A game that is slightly changed to reduce injuries and try to keep the players on the field more, or a game that has so many injuries that by the end of the year you have half your original roster on IR and have to fill it out with a bunch of scrubs who couldn't even make a roster out of training camp?
 
My cousins who live not far from Hernandez's mother in Bristol were telling me about this last week.

BRISTOL, Conn. — When Aaron Hernandez was a child in this faded factory town, his mother, Terri, twice turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection.

When he was in sixth grade, she began taking bets for an illegal gambling organization. Police would later seize reams of evidence from the home.

There is no way to know how much, if anything, Hernandez knew about his mother’s activities, or about the darker side of her second marriage to a violent ex-convict who had previously wed his cousin.

But the events reflect a strained family dynamic that grew more tangled as Hernandez rose from schoolboy prodigy to prime-time Patriot, living a double life of sorts.

As his celebrity status grew, Hernandez was never far from his Bristol roots, never free of the orbit of his childhood — a fact that has become increasingly clear over the last 50 days, as he has gone from national football star to prisoner No. 174594 in the Bristol County jail.

Hernandez has long nurtured an image of himself as a former honor student whose deeds were worthy of the 2013 Pop Warner Inspiration to Youth Award. He has also cast himself as a loving father to his young daughter, and a committed partner to his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, a high school classmate.

But in his alternate life, the lavishly tattooed multimillionaire allegedly consorted with a cadre of ex-convicts from Bristol in a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence. He has been linked by prosecutors and a civil lawsuit to a series of assaults, shootings, and, ultimately, three killings.

Hernandez and his lawyers have proclaimed his innocence. But much remains unexplained, and perhaps unexplainable — including the influences of his childhood in Bristol, and growing up in a home where crime was no stranger.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...8HVP3srfqakDqHb1K/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw
 
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