Around the NFL - 2011

[Munson]

Really? it seemed like so many kicks were falling short this year and the last couple.

Though I guess he's been kicking off a lot since they've broken the scoring record for the team like 3 years in a row now.

[reese125]

Horrendous rule change.

Not only do you take the excitement out of the game, but now you affect the really good special team players and most importantly teams that are trying to come back late in the 4th quarter. I mean you see so many kickoffs inside the 5 or close to the goal line as it is, so to now see a very high percentage of them inside the end zone kills a teams decision to take the ball out.

Seems to me it's all part of the future master plan to extend to a 18 game season from a player safety standpoint.

[Sgt PSN]

Seems to me it's all part of the future master plan to extend to a 18 game season from a player safety standpoint.

Without a doubt.  Owners are giving up on the 18 game schedule for now.  Once they incorporate some more "player safety rules" and have them in place for a few years and when it's time to work on the next CBA, they'll hope that the statistical data shows how much safer the game is and will then push hard for the 18 game season. 

[Zanshin]

Lawrence Taylor to become a registered sex offender today
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 22, 2011, 11:05 AM EDT

One of the greatest players in NFL history will become a registered sex offender, as former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor goes before a judge today for sentencing after his guilty plea to sexual misconduct and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute.

Taylor is expected to avoid jail time as part of his plea deal, but he's likely to get six years' probation and sex offender designation.

The judge will determine whether Taylor is considered a Level 1, 2 or 3 sex offender for low, medium or high risk of recidivism.

The 52-year-old Taylor admitted to having sex with a prostitute who was a 16-year-old runaway, but said he thought she was 19. He was arrested in May at a hotel and originally charged with third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse and endangering a child.

UPDATE: Taylor did get six years probation and a sex offender designation.

I'm not in the business of defending LT, and he's completely a tool-- but the sex offender designation seems a bit of a stretch here. I don't think for a second that he was angling for an underage hooker...just a hooker. And now he's poised to get sued by the same hooker. Morale of the story: find women to sleep with you for free.

[Sgt PSN]

Agree.  It's not defending LT as much as it's calling out the legal system for not doing it's job. 

[Diomedes]

Sex offender laws as they exist now make me queasy.   There are undeniable overtones of the moralistic tyranny depicted in The Scarlet Letter.  When you're government is branding people for life as perverts and requiring them to present themselves as registered monsters wherever they go, you're not just starting down a slippery slope, you're well on your way.


To what, who knows.  LT is about to learn.

[Zanshin]

I wanted to see how a sex offender app worked on my phone, so I tried it. My town is pretty clean, but where I work is inundated with them like a sex offender bomb went off.

[Diomedes]

I'd like to see an app for showing where the sharks are before I go in the ocean.  Do they have that yet?

Not going in until they do.

[Zanshin]

They're in the water.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

ESPN's top 10 pass rushers

Trent Cole got one #10 vote, and that's it.

Also, apparently Brian Orakpo (not mentioned in the article at all) took to Twitter to express his outrage.

[Sgt PSN]

Apparently Jamaal Charles is trying to get Chris Johnson, PIMP and Adrian Peterson together to run as a team in a relay race in Texas or something. 

Pretty sure they'd lose because AP would fumble the batton.  Todd Haley would pull Charles in favor of Thomas Jones, Chris Johnson would disappear and PIMP would drop the batton before crossing the finish line. 

[Munson]

Jamaal Charles has become my favorite non-Eagle. Dude is a beast.

[BigEd76]

After tearing his shoulder three times, Chad Pennington switched things up and tore his ACL instead....playing basketball

[Sgt PSN]

He should probably just confine himself to a wheel chair for the rest of his life.   

[General_Failure]

Why, so he can blow out a wrist trying to push himself uphill?