Around the NFL - 2009

[Diomedes]

if contracts were actually guaranteed, they would be shorter and they would not be for 100 million dollar figures.

[Eagaholic]

Who says a team can just cut any player any time? Nonsense. The Eagles should cut Reggie Brown but they can't, it would be an $8 million cap hit. Jevon Kearse cap-raped the team for years before they could cut him.

If I show up at my job and don't do shtein day in and day out, I'm out of work. Nobody is going to say fine, just keep doing a lame ass job and we'll guarantee your pay for five more years instead of getting someone else in here that will do the work. If players are that worried that the huge sums they have already made plus their retirement pay won't be enough for them, then they should take out insurance against career ending injuries.

[ice grillin you]

taking a cap hit does not mean the player gets paid....kearse raped no one (cept maybe when he was actually playing for the eagles)...even after he was cut the birds were still under the cap by tens of milions and kearse never saw another dime from them

but for arguments sake lets just say cutting kearse would have put them at or over the cap...what do they care...they still sell out they still get their tv money...what they cant do is be very active in the free agency market...UNLESS and heres the key...they cut four other players to give themselves cap room...so not only does kearse lose his contract but multiple other players do as well with no monotary suffering to the team

so who loses in all this?...the fans and the players...but certainly not the teams

its a system that is grossly unbalanced towards the employer

[Magical_Retard]

So Arizona lost the OC, fired their DC, might loose Warner out to God, and Boldin wants to be traded?

Niners might take that division next season.

[ice grillin you]

So Arizona lost the OC, fired their DC, might loose Warner out to God, and Boldin wants to be traded?

Niners might take that division next season.

all that means is that detroit is now on the clock as the team that will beat the eagles and make the superbowl

[QB Eagles]

Pretty good investigative story on ESPN about the 1963 Chargers, the first professional football team to put their players on a steroids regimen. The science of steroids was developed in Nazi Germany and first appropriated for sports by the Soviet Olympic weightlifting teams of the 1950s. The secret leaked out to the American weightlifting community and it became part of the weightlifting revolution coming out of York Barbell Club.

It seems strange given our modern sensibilities, but the '63 Chargers were also the first AFL or NFL team to do extensive weight training of any kind. Lifting weights was typically considered harmful to athletes until this period. When the idea of weight training and strength coaches began to finally spread through sports in the 60s, the usage of steroids was part of the same revolution, and was seen as no less natural than the training itself.

[Eagaholic]

An interesting story, but it was more of a copy cat piece ESPN took from Chaney

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2008/06/14/2008-06-14_dianabol_the_first_widely_used_steroid_t.html?page=0

At least they credited him with some quotes but it was basically his work. Chaney was on Bob Costas' Sunday radio show the week before the SB. Very interesting guy with much expertise. He thinks banned substances are still rampant in the NFL and since you can't stop it, better to put a cap on the weight of players at each position, based on the max weight and body mass index anyone could put on for their build without drugs.

It may be getting more interesting now with Dana Stubblefield exposing the names of former players and trainers that used or distributed steroids.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3889356

[Magical_Retard]

So Arizona lost the OC, fired their DC, might loose Warner out to God, and Boldin wants to be traded?

Niners might take that division next season.

all that means is that detroit is now on the clock as the team that will beat the eagles and make the superbowl

Cardinals actually had some talent even last season. They were just hoping Leinart developed. What does DET have besides C. Johnson?

I mean they could turn it around but I do not think playoffs. Besides unlike the Cards, the Lions have the Bears, Vikings, and Pakers in their division. Arizona had their division won in like week 8.

[Feva]

Former Falcons' RB Jamal Anderson just got busted for cocaine possession.

[QB Eagles]

Former Falcons' RB Jamal Anderson just got busted for cocaine possession.

Possession of any amount of coke in Georgia is a felony with a 2 year minimum. They don't play around down there. I'm hoping they drop the felony charges and he does the Dirty Bird right there in court.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Damn...and ESPN was really increasing his roles on TV and radio. He was actually half decent.

[QB Eagles]

The guy is still only 36 years old. That Falcons-Broncos Super Bowl feels like it was 25 years ago.

[Feva]

A guy was in the bathroom and heard snorting sounds coming from the stall next to him and called in an off-duty police officer and that's how Anderson and another guy got busted.

Of course, he had some sticky on him too...

[Diomedes]

A guy was in the bathroom and heard snorting sounds coming from the stall next to him and called in an off-duty police officer...

people like this ought to be shot...mind your own business for farg sake

[MDS]

yea def.

thats why MA/south blow. always snitchin. in the northeast someone could be bleedin out on the street and no one gonna stop and do shtein.