Russell Okung's contract contains zero guaranteed money. So he basically decided to take a long-term, big money contract over a lesser deal that at least included some guranteed money.

I mean, I guess I have to applaud him for being willing to bet on himself like that but for a guy with his injury history it probably would have been better for him to guarantee himself some sort of income. He could shred his knee in training camp and wind up never making another cent in the NFL. Very risky.

He was his own agent in the deal. Right now, he's in on a 1-year $5 mil. deal with a 4-5 year $48 mil. team option after that.

Pretty good deal for both sides, imo. If he proves his worth, he's here for the long term. If not, thanks for the year.

lol is this for real? Fucking hell

Tray Walker has died from his injuries.

R.I.P.

Fuck. 23 is way too young. RIP

Titans are open to trading the #1 pick the draft. But they want the ol' King's Ransom deal.

Supposedly last year the Eagles offered the Titans their 2015 1st and 2nd rounders, their 2016 1st rounder, and the choice of both any QB on the roster AND any defensive player on the roster in order to trade up for Mariota, and the Titans still said no.

Seems retarded on both sides, the Eagles for even offering it and the Titans for not taking it. They could have taken a stud on defense like Fletcher Cox and used Bradford or Sanchez as a stopgap while drafting a guy like Brett Hundley later and still having high draft picks to spare.

I hope Cowboys maybe trade their pick to a team like Tampa at 9. Only if that safety is gone though, I'm not in love with Bosa. Ezekiel Elliot at 9 would be fantastic

Leader of the team/most valuable asset.

Brady was at the top of the list of lawsuit that ended the holdout.

That cannot be true.

Johnny Rehab hires NFL superagent Drew Rosenhaus.

Figured even HE would be smart to stay away from him. But I guess if you're desperate for a job, he's the guy to go to.

Where is colin kap GOING what's taking so long

Maybe he asked for more percentage.

Why would Drew Rosenhaus steer clear? Manziel will sign somewhere,,,,,all about that commission baby,,

Alfred Morris to the Cowboys.

Justin Houston got ACL surgery in February and is out for 6-12 months.

stupid-ass Nate Burleson (actually love him just not rn) keeps saying Calvin should un-retire and join the Pats... ffs. if that happens I will totally be jaded to football and stop following it altogether

The Lions would have to release Calvin's contract rights in order for that to happen. If he unretires his contract is still Lions property.

Same thing happened with Barry Sanders. Took a year off, his agent asked the Lions to release him (presumably so he could unretire and sign elsewhere) and they rightly refused.

2 personal fouls lead to ejection, and touchbacks go out to the 25 now.

I hate that. No one should be getting ejected. The college game has got out of hand with all its ejections in my opinion.

It should be a judgement call by the officials as opposed to just a straight "two personal fouls and you're out" rule. If a guy is going out of his way to hit people after the play multiple times, he should be ejected. If he happens to get called for a facemask in the first quarter and then sacks the QB a bit low in the 4th quarter, an ejection seems silly.

I don't get moving the touchback 5 yards up. What purpose does that serve? Just a small way to encourage more scoring or something? Meh.

Touchbacks going to the 25 is fucking stupid, especially considering it's impossible NOT to have touchbacks in a place like Denver.

Oh, I guess it could be another way to encourage taking a touchback instead of running the ball out to lessen the chance of injury.

Still not a fan though.

I like it, would still like to see them draft one of the top RBs though.

If that's their goal then just fucking get rid of them altogether. It's like they're only keeping kickoffs in just to appease traditionalists at this point but these rules make it pointless to even do them.

They tweaked the rule in a way ejections are probably still going to be rare. Original plan was for all personal fouls to be counted towards while the new rule is just for unsportsmanlike fouls.

Think the stuff Talib pulled in the Superbowl under the new rules still wouldn't have lead to an ejection for him as an example.

Can't get rid of them cause of Onside kick attempts. Would pretty much end all comebacks.

Then keep onside kicks and eliminate regular kickoffs. Duh.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/l...t-louis-032416

In the wake of the Rams being chosen for this season of Hard Knocks, there's a report going around that the Rams were scheduled to do the show in 2014 but made a deal with the NFL to draft Michael Sam so the league could avoid the negative publicity of the first openly gay draft prospect not being picked.

Moving the ball to the 25 will encourage kickers to try to pin it within the 5 so they have to run it.

Robert Griffin the has-been signs with Cleveland.

With Rueben Randle signing with the Eagles, here's a list of remaining Giants from the first 6 years that Jerry Reese was GM:

2007: long snapper Zak DeOssie
2008: none
2009: none
2010: defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul
2011: none
2012: none

Jerry Reese, man...

He needed to stay out of the AFC North. Not going to end well for him

On the touchback to the 25 rule..if I'm the kicking team idctry to kick the ball inside the 10 and make them return it. I do that in Madden all the time

From what I read he's signed on as the backup QB right now. That can all change if Cleveland drafts another QB in the draft or not.

Why? Baltimore has an okay defense. Steelers are meh. Cincinnati is above average. It's not like he went to go against the Rams, Cardinals, and Seahawks.

but but but, Ruien... DROSTATS!!!

ugh... that was a DAMN iNATOR-esque level of misguided tongue-in-cheek

One college coach proposed you replace kickoff with a 4th & 20 on the -20 yard line situation. You can punt it to replace the kickoff or you can go for it and try to get a 1st down to replace the onside kick.

Husain Abdullah retires after 7 years in the league. Has had 5 concussions during that span, so I can see why he's walking away.

NFL currently demanding the New York Times to retract a recent report related to concussions and NFL's poor handling of the situation.

According to the Times, the NFL's concussion studies ended up ignoring about 10% of all concussions within a time period in order to get a better report for their side and downplay how bad the issue was.

Other studies and reports by the NFL also had a big percentage of concussions ignored or not documented. One report even had more concussions ignored than included for the sample pool.

Colin Kaepernick's $11.9 mil. salary is now guaranteed.

Highly doubt Denver is gonna go after him now.

Chatter going around is that everything is in place for Kaepernick to get traded to Denver. But it ain't gonna happen unless he and Denver agree to a restructured deal. And both sides aren't close to that yet.

Well, this will show if Kap wants to get a ring or just get paid. Personally, I would keep the money since he won't be receiving g a huge contract ever again unless he can show up.

I wonder if drafting Paxton Lynch would've been a better route? But it's not a guarantee he'd be there I guess.

Kaepernick won't take a pay cut. Trade's off for now.

Every team will have to wear those awful single-colored Color Rush uniforms at least once in 2016. Ugh.

That's fine with me as long as they don't have to wear them together. If a team can choose any game to wear them it'd be ok. Just hated some of those Thursday night games with both teams wearing the Color Rush uniforms.

They'll definitely be wearing them at the same time. Probably on Thursday Night Football again.

From the really stupid news department:

A group of Patriots fans are suing the NFL over the lost draft pick that was part of the punishment of Deflategate. The reasons are just hilarious.

Jesus, seriously?

Bet STD is part of that group.

NFL's report itself was pretty flawed but :lol: at that lawsuit.

NFL probably didn't think the Pats pick was going to be where it usually is when they came up with the punishments but them having two 2nd Round picks can be flipped to a potentially higher 2nd Round pick with a good deal. Belichick loves 2nd Round picks a lot more than 1st Round picks based on his draft history.

Really surprised its only 7.

Broncos trade Ryan Clady and a 7th round pick to the Jets for a 5th round pick.

Probably use that for a QB still hanging around.

Nope. The league had no leg to stand on for this entire case but neither does this lawsuit.

http://deadspin.com/former-saints-de...-in-1770120005

Former Saints team captain/defensive end Will Smith shot dead in New Orleans after a fender bender. Fucking hell. RIP :(

RIP Will Smith

According to several reports, the whole thing might not have been a random act of road rage but a premeditated murder.

The shooter might have held a grudge against Smith going back to when he worked as a member of the Saints security and for having a dinner with a cop who later ended up killing the shooter's father in a different incident.

https://twitter.com/kluthfairy/statu...21001775673344

http://www.austin360.com/news/news/c...killed-/nq3Xf/

Interesting. His dad was killed in 2005 though, why go after someone not involved whatsoever 11 years later. It'd be crazy if it was completely random

Misread when the dinner part happened since the way the article worded it made me think it was before the father's shooting but it was actually before Smith's shooting instead.

Location of Smith's death was very close to the location where the shooter's father died years ago. Also seems the shooter was preoccupied with trying to pursue his own football career until last year in regards to possible motive reasons.

Johnny Rehab is rooming with Josh Gordon................who just failed another drug test.




Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand go!

NFL denied Josh Gordon's appeal for reinstatement. Next possible chance for him would be in August.

Ended up being currently suspended due to something else getting triggered for the test result than just because of weed.

List of prospects who will be in the green room for the draft this year:

Pretty safe picks. I'd guess that Neal, Butler, and Jones have the biggest chance of uncomfortably sitting there on day 2 but I don't think there will be any meteoric falls this year.

They invite too many.

Have a feeling Carson Wentz is wearing a star on his helmet

F your name is Eli Apple you should probably kill yourself

Joey Bosa sounds like a fat Hawaiian

Hope he is an OL

UPDATE:

Rosenhaus has told Johnny Rehab to either "get help", or he drops him as a client.

I now await NFL to step in and do something.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...ck-from-titans

Holy crap, what a haul for the Titans.

Bye bye, Nick Foles.

Schedule drops tonight. I've got Colts/Broncos tabbed as the favorite for the opening night game with it being pretty much a 4 hour circlejerk honoring Peyton.

Don't think they'd do Pats/Broncos this early with Peyton gone and with the uncertainty of who will be under center in Denver. They could also do a Super Bowl rematch but I'm just not sure they'd start with an inter-conference game right off the bat.

I just want the Giants to start with a fucking day game. They're probably due to open at home (last home opener was 2012) but they've started at night four years in a row now. I know the Giants always end up in at least five night games but my god.

Probably either Cowboys or Redskins first

They might be overdue for an Eagles game to start the year. At least I'm already accustomed to seeing the Giants start 0-1.

Unless it's in the playoffs. I don't wanna play the Colts or Pats for another 5 years. It's like a broken record now.

And I just checked, strength of schedule game is the Patriots, and we play the South conferences. Which means we play the Colts.

Sucks.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand the Super Bowl rematch of Carolina vs. Denver is your season opener.

DL

You were right. Giants/Cowboys Week 1. In Dallas again for the 3rd time in 4 years. Fuck the NFL.

GIANTS 2016 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE:
Week 1: at Cowboys, Sept. 11
Week 2: vs. Saints, Sept. 18
Week 3: vs. Redskins, Sept. 25
Week 4: at Vikings, Oct. 3 (Monday Night Football)
Week 5: at Packers, Oct. 9 (Sunday Night Football)
Week 6: vs. Ravens, Oct. 16
Week 7: vs. Rams (London), Oct. 23
Week 8: BYE WEEK
Week 9: vs. Eagles, Nov. 6
Week 10: vs. Bengals, Nov. 14 (MNF)
Week 11: vs. Bears, Nov. 20
Week 12: at Browns, Nov. 27
Week 13: at Steelers, Dec. 4
Week 14: vs. Cowboys, Dec. 11 (SNF)
Week 15: vs. Lions, Dec. 18
Week 16: at Eagles, Dec. 22 (Thursday Night Football)
Week 17: at Redskins, Jan. 1

Well.....at least week 1 isn't a fucking night game for once. Having to play back to back night games and having a short week heading into Green Bay blows as well. Not terrible though.

Ravens/Patriots 12/12 MNF

Interesting.

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year. Everybody plays Saturday. Ravens/Steelers and Broncos/Chefs are your Christmas games.

Sept. 11 BUFFALO BILLS 1:00 p.m.
Sept. 18 at Cleveland Browns 1:00 p.m.
Sept. 25 at Jacksonville Jaguars 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 2 OAKLAND RAIDERS 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 9* WASHINGTON REDSKINS 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 16* at New York Giants 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 23* at New York Jets 1:00 p.m.
Oct. 30 BYE
Nov. 6* PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00 p.m.
Nov. 10 CLEVELAND BROWNS 8:25 p.m. (NFLN)
Nov. 20* at Dallas Cowboys 1:00 p.m.
Nov. 27* CINCINNATI BENGALS 1:00 p.m.
Dec. 4* MIAMI DOLPHINS 1:00 p.m.
Dec. 12 at New England Patriots 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Dec. 18* PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 1:00 p.m.
Dec. 25 at Pittsburgh Steelers 4:30 p.m.
Jan. 1* at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00 p.m.

Quirks..aforementioned Christmas game..back to back road games vs Giants/Jets at Met Life..really easy schedule before bye week..

Seems like the fairest schedule the Ravens have had in a while..no insane road trips like last year at least

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><th>Date</th> <th>Opponent</th> <th>Time (ET)</th> <th>TV COVERAGE</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, September 11</td> <td>at Arizona Cardinals</td> <td>8:30pm</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, September 18</td> <td>Miami Dolphins</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Thursday, September 22</td> <td>Houston Texans</td> <td>8:25pm</td> <td>CBS/NFLN/Twitter</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, October 2</td> <td>Buffalo Bills</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, October 9</td> <td>at Cleveland Browns*</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, October 16</td> <td>Cincinnati Bengals*</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, October 23</td> <td>at Pittsburgh Steelers*</td> <td>4:25pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, October 30</td> <td>at Buffalo Bills*</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
</td> <td>BYE</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, November 13</td> <td>Seattle Seahawks*</td> <td>8:30pm</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, November 20</td> <td>at San Francisco 49ers*</td> <td>4:25pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, November 27</td> <td>at New York Jets*</td> <td>8:30pm</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, December 4</td> <td>Los Angeles Rams*</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>FOX</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Monday, December 12</td> <td>Baltimore Ravens</td> <td>8:30pm</td> <td>ESPN</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, December 18</td> <td>at Denver Broncos*</td> <td>4:25pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Saturday, December 24</td> <td>New York Jets</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sunday, January 1</td> <td>at Miami Dolphins*</td> <td>1:00pm</td> <td>CBS</td></tr></tbody></table>

Lot more balanced schedule in regards to where the Bye week is and the home-away splits than last year for the Pats.

I will be shocked if Manziel is still alive by the end of the year at this rate.

The Titans are already trying to trade back into the Top 10, and the Browns want out of the #2 spot.

Somewhere, you can hear writers all over the country ripping up the mock drafts they've just completed to account for the Rams trade.

Manziel has been dumped by Rosenhaus.

Browns trade the # 2 pick to the Eagles.

christ...first the Rams and now this. I don't understand it at all.

Feels like the kind of trade you make for a no-doubt, sure-thing guy like Andrew Luck or something. Neither Goff or Wentz seem worth what was given up to get them.

Rams doing it makes sense, seems they're just a QB away from being a playoff team.

Eagles tho idk, they have more holes to fill

Sick of playing the Giants in week one. Go away, Giants.

I know it's cool to start the season with a big rivalry and the game is usually great/down to the wire... but change it up a little. Jeez.

2nd time he's been busted this year with the previous just being a fine worth four games.

Jake Roberts wants to fix Johnny Football. Somehow I think its end with Jake back on drugs.

Seems like the Rams had to give up a he'll of a lot more for 1st than the Eagles did for the 2nd.