Around The NFL - 2014

[PhillyPhreak54]

Bob Vetrone Jr. ‏@BoopStats 40m

There 120 more penalty flags thrown in this year's NFL preseason week 1 than were thrown in 2013 preseason week 1 (338 / 218).

[Rome]

I've had the SF/Denver game on and holy crap is that a beautiful stadium.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah it is pretty sweet

[BigEd76]

Jamaal Charles injured his foot/ankle while he was moving his stuff out of the dorm

[smeags]

once again a reid camp has a trip up.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 34s

Cardinals think DT Darnell Dockett tore his ACL and MCL, as @MikeGarafolo reported. Cardinals lose one of their emotional leaders.

big loss

[PhillyPhreak54]

Howard Balzer ‏@HBalzer721 4m

For those that missed it, in the 15 NFL games prior to tonight this weekend, there were 311 penalties assessed. That's 20.7 per game.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Johnny Manziel ain't ready and quite frankly looks like shtein

All the A&M fanboys here are losing their shtein

[Eagaholic]

By next week, the NFL is expected to increase the size of practice squads from eight players to 10, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.  This according to an NFL source.

Raising the size of the practice squads will provide an extra 64 jobs to players this year, and help teams groom players in ways they cannot with the absence of NFL Europe.

The idea was discussed among league executives and coaches at the owners meetings in Orlando, Florida, in March, and it will be implemented before rosters are reduced to 75 players, then 53 players, by the end of this month.

Long overdue. Next up they should allow teams to protect 3 or 4 players but I doubt the union would go for that.

[ice grillin you]

Next up they should allow teams to protect 3 or 4 players but I doubt the union would go for that.

nor should they....why should a team be allowed to restrict the movement of their 55th man who isnt even on their roster...if you like someone that much then play him....the restriction is already pretty severe in that a team who takes the player has to put him on their 53...anything after that is just piling on a guy who is barely surviving as is

unless perhaps you wanna attach a monetary amount equal to maybe the minimum rookie salary

[smeags]

i don't normally get a laugh out of a rookie being a disrespectful jackass but johnny-finger did what alot of others would like to do to the racists. 

[Munson]

Practice squad players are barely getting by? Don't they get $6000 a week?

[Sgt PSN]

Practice squad players are barely getting by? Don't they get $6000 a week?

Don't know what they make, but I'm sure it's more than most of us. However, being able to protect guys on the practice squad, prevents them from getting a shot anywhere in the league. Not to mention that while earning 6k per week sounds great to me, I'd still feel like a broke ass compared to my peers on the active roster.

[rjs246]

Practice squad players are barely getting by? Don't they get $6000 a week?

I hate this line of thinking.

They get $6000/week for like 20 weeks a year with ZERO job security. "So, ok," you might say. "That's $120,00 to play a game!" Except that almost all practice squad players are out of the league after one year. Some stick around for two or three. These are not elite football players at the professional level. So great they get some cash and then it's off into the world where... what? What skills do they have that translate into a decent living or career? These athletic marvels who went to football factory schools and prioritized football over everything else because they were always better at it than everyone else? Sure a few of them probably took school seriously, but none of them were ever required to. Did you do things that weren't required when you were 19 or 20?

$6000/week for part-time, short-term employment that destroys your body and leads to nothing doesn't strike me as something anyone would be jumping up and down about.

[Munson]

Practice squad players are barely getting by? Don't they get $6000 a week?

I hate this line of thinking.

They get $6000/week for like 20 weeks a year with ZERO job security. "So, ok," you might say. "That's $120,00 to play a game!" Except that almost all practice squad players are out of the league after one year. Some stick around for two or three. These are not elite football players at the professional level. So great they get some cash and then it's off into the world where... what? What skills do they have that translate into a decent living or career? These athletic marvels who went to football factory schools and prioritized football over everything else because they were always better at it than everyone else? Sure a few of them probably took school seriously, but none of them were ever required to. Did you do things that weren't required when you were 19 or 20?

$6000/week for part-time, short-term employment that destroys your body and leads to nothing doesn't strike me as something anyone would be jumping up and down about.

I mean, it would probably be that teams protect the guys that they think will be sticking around for more than a year. Why protect a guy you don't expect to improve and make your squad next year? And don't a lot of the same guys just get shuffled around and signed to another team's practice squad?

I'd also say they're not destroying their bodies because they're not playing in the games, only going through practices that are largely non-contact. Let's not go comparing a practice squad player to the punishment LaDanian Tomlinson put his body through.

And, finally, I don't see how the ability to protect them from other teams signing them is going to change much about their circumstances. They'll still 99% of the time likely be out of the league in a year or two.

All that being said, I was just saying they do more than "barely get by". They get paid a decent salary. I don't think allowing an NFL team to protect 3 or 4 of them from being vultured by another team would change much about any of their circumstances. And, if you wanted to, you could make a rule where, if one of your protected players gets claimed by a team, you have to promote him to the 53 man squad within 4 weeks or lose him.