NFL 2014 Pre-Season Discussion

[Zealbee]

Do you guys know if any preseason games are being shown on Foxtel?

 

[bomberbaird]

Doesnt seem like it.

 

[Blacky]

Game pass ftw

 

[bomberbaird]

Got to have Gamepass!..Been watching all the in camp stuff...already worth every cent

 

[Zealbee]

I have Game Pass, it's easier and better if Foxtel show the games though.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Suspected broken foot for Cowboys rookie defensive end Demarcus Lawrence.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

New contract for Patrick Peterson - 5 years, $70 million with $48 million guaranteed.

I'm in the wrong line of work.

 

[Shupe]

Shame re: David Wilson. Would have to be almost career over.

 

[Blacky]

I thought it was just a stinger for Wilson?!

That sucks if it is more; Jahvid Best all over again

 

[Blacky]

New contract for Patrick Peterson - 5 years, $70 million with $48 million guaranteed.

I'm in the wrong line of work.

Ridiculous

 

[Blacky]

Suspected broken foot for Cowboys rookie defensive end Demarcus Lawrence.

That sucks

Was really looking forward to seeing him in preseason

 

[Dixie Flatline]

That sucks

Was really looking forward to seeing him in preseason

Knew I should not have counted on drafting a Cowboy to replace the Kraken I traded away.

 

[Shupe]

I thought it was just a stinger for Wilson?!

Reported as a stinger, yeah. But hasn't he only just been cleared for practice? Obviously I'm jumping the gun a little, fingers crossed for the guy.

 

[dlanod]

I thought it was just a stinger for Wilson?!

That sucks if it is more; Jahvid Best all over again

Reported as a stinger, yeah. But hasn't he only just been cleared for practice? Obviously I'm jumping the gun a little, fingers crossed for the guy.

Yeah, stinger, but given stinger = nerve damage in the neck that he recently had surgey on... to repair nerve damage (IIRC). Doesn't bode well.

 

[Zealbee]

New contract for Patrick Peterson - 5 years, $70 million with $48 million guaranteed.

I'm in the wrong line of work.

Overpaid IMO.

 

[Zealbee]

Suspected broken foot for Cowboys rookie defensive end Demarcus Lawrence.

Good news for the Eagles. Dallas will be a mess this year on defence.

 

[bomberbaird]

I have Game Pass, it's easier and better if Foxtel show the games though.

Do you have your PC or Laptop hooked up to your tv?

 

[Zealbee]

Do you have your PC or Laptop hooked up to your tv?

I've bought an ipad and have Apple TV. Also have a Surface tablet and a HDMI cable so can do it that way. Just a bit more annoying than watching Foxtel.

 

[Shupe]

I've bought an ipad and have Apple TV.

I'll also be doing it this way.

 

[Blacky]

It's great

 

[aussiedude]

Do you guys know if any preseason games are being shown on Foxtel?

Just the 2 games covered by ESPN, also showing the HOF inductions.
Jags Vs Bears Aug 15
Browns Vs Washington Aug 19

 

[jerry springer]

wasnt sure where to put this, but this is a awesome article if you have a few minutes

http://grantland.com/features/j-j-watt-houston-texans-2014-nfl-preview/

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Robert Mays is a great writer on football. He and Bill Barnwell do a really good podcast, too.

Mays wrote a series about the underrated stars of the NFL this time last year, including one on Mo Wilkerson (I wonder if the unnamed alternative defensive end referred to in Mays' article about JJ Watt is Wilkerson - without looking up the draft that season, I'm 75% sure that it was Watt and Wilkerson who were the two defensive linemen picked in the first round). Worth reading.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Very good article for once by PFT....

Lack of HGH testing could contribute to Gordon suspension
Posted by Mike Florio on July 29, 2014, 5:17 PM EDT

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A difference of reporting exists as to whether an agreement on HGH testing would or wouldn’t result in a relaxed marijuana testing threshold for NFL players. While no tentative agreement to use a higher limit for marijuana metabolites has been reached, it’s clear that the NFL would listen, if the NFLPA makes a request along those lines in an effort to break the lingering logjam arising from the authority of the Commissioner in PED/HGH appeals.

Regardless, the NFL’s current limit of 15 ng/ml needs to change, especially since (as pointed out by ESPN’s Bomani Jones) the World Anti-Doping Agency raised its limit by an order or magnitude in 2013, from 15 to 150 ng/ml.

A low limit of 15 ng/ml can be reached via second-hand smoke. As pointed out by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Gordon’s appeal also will advance that argument.

No matter how or why or when the NFL adopts a higher limit, it will be grossly overdue and any positive tests or suspensions based on anything lower than the WADA limits will be grossly unfair — especially since the NFL has been consistently pointing to WADA to support its proposed HGH testing protocol.

Under the current policy as previously negotiated by the NFL and the NFLPA, arguments based on the disparity between Gordon’s “A” bottle and “B” bottle and whether the average concentration (based on the split sample) of 14.8 ng/ml in the two bottles came from second-hand smoke won’t matter. A strict, literal application of the policy will result in Gordon being suspended for a full year, during which time he’ll be completely banished from his team and required to continue to pass up to 10 tests per months, or he won’t be reinstated.

If any notion of fairness and common sense is applied to the appeal process, Gordon won’t be suspended at all. Especially since the NFL apparently hasn’t and won’t subject Colts owner Jim Irsay to the same kind of rigorous testing for an admitted addiction that, if it’s not cured, eventually would result in Irsay being kicked out of the league for at least a year, too.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Confirmed broken foot for Lawrence. He'll miss 8-10 weeks and thus won't be available until about week 7 at the latest (week 4 at the earliest).