There was some outrage at the beginning......the onslaught of rage didn't occur until the video from inside the elevator was released.

Yes I am aware.. I still don't see why somehow that makes Hernandez who apparently or allegedly murdered not one but three of his friends and Sanders who is an admitted serial rapist!

i wish sharper were getting life. UP to nine 9 years is the sentence. he and his cronies had some kind of jungle juice-ish stuff they bragged about giving women to drug them. ugh.

he probably learned it from Bill Cosby

anyone see the vets combine? some ex-jags player was signed to the cardinals. but that seems to be it so far. he ran a 4.33 40 or something like that

40 times are such bullshit. Earl Campbell could not run a fast 40 yards if his life depended on it, but he would run over you.

oh, i agree, just thought it was interesting. people are flipping out seemingly that gasp, dudes who have aged are gonna be slower.

I heard an interesting interview with an NFL agent who represents active and vets who currently don't have a team. He shared some great insights about the vets combine.

01. players had to be invited, but also had to pay their own way.
02. told before hand they would be graded on specific skills, testing those skills is not how combine went.
03. the way speed is graded at regular combine was not how speed was graded at vet combine.
04. no official NFL rep watched anyone lift weights, players videotaped each other to "send in."

Overall, the agent said it was a big disappointment on how the NFL handled it. Said it has the potential to become something very positive, but the NFL needs to take control and treat it as such. Agent also added that some of the players who paid their way really couldn't afford it......was also surprised how many previous first round picks were participating.

About speed graded at the regular NFL combine......95% of the players will NEVER run / be graded at that same speed ever again. Doing specific training for the combine where you try and maximize your speed while running in expensive underwear with no pads is never duplicated in weekly practices or game days.

Personally I thought it was a big facade. Teams already have a "combine" for vets, its called official meetings, work outs, and practices. When teams are legitimately interested in signing a vet they bring them in to their facilities and have meetings and observations to make a decision. This struck me as a losers contest to who can be the least loser. If any of these vets were seriously going to make a team, those teams would already be sending their scouts to establish private meetings. Really it felt like a pity party to me!

So the owners voted that Patriots trick play on ineligible receivers is now illegal.. take that bitchez

One of my all-time favorite players has retired. Polamalu, I will miss your fearless insanity and reckless abandon.

https://youtu.be/b-Pzi8HPWBA 2008, Polamalu schools rookie Flacco in AFC Championship game.

Troy is an Orthodox convert like me.. i like that he always shared his experience and even discussed fasting questions from media during the Advent Fast. Classy guy. Only Steeler i cam say i sincerely like, even Torrey Smith was bigging him up on twidder this morning

Haaaaaahahaaaa!

Tom Brady youz a bitch

Bill O'Brien names Brian Hoyer Texans starting QB......what say you, Rob?

I say that means that the QB that was so shit that the Browns put in Johnny Manziel is now our starting QB

I'll feel better / worse after watching the First Half of Preseason Game 3

In other news......Case Keenum sure had a nice long TD pass for St. Louis last night.

I didn't think much of the 49er's after the Texans played them in the first preseason game......just a little surprised how easily they handled the cowgirls last night.

Has everyone been enjoying, Hard Knocks?

no hbo :[

No HBO either. Missed all Hard Knocks.

Tried to find torrent but no good

Everyone sleeping on Ravens. Sounds good to us.. we like kick in the back window not like those Dick Rider teams that everyone rolls out the red carpet for

Any word or rumours yet as to which franchise is most likely gonna relocate to LA?

It looks like it will be the Rams...

Ugh.. don't remind me of this season. Al Bundy said about the Bears, "they are playing the rams and if you lose to the Rams they throw you out of the League!" Now that is the case with losing big to the Raiders so likely at the least Ravens getting tossed out the playoffs.

As to the LA smoke and mirrors, if you ask me ain't no teams coming to LA, its all real estate speculation and old fashioned black mail.

oh, i have an old la raiders t shirt i was hoping might be relevant again

So do like a million gullible Angelinos here but if you ask me its all bullshit. Its not that its impossible or even a bad idea so much as the current plans just don't seem realistic. Also i understand St Louis committed to funding a new stadium so Rams are staying. Indeed the Rams owner owns the land that used to be Hollywood Park and so more likely he used this bogus LA stadium plan to black mail St Louis into paying for a new stadium while simultaneously boosting the value of his LA land based on the speculation of building LA stadium.

As to Raiders its 50-50 but honestly i think economically rebuilding in Oakland would be better for them financially. Its like when LA turned Skid row into the Staples Center now including LA Live center and many expensive lofts. The Oakland Colloseum is in similar economically depressed neighborhood would be cheaper to build a whole entertainment complex there like LA did. The NBA Warriors are leaving so that complicates it so really the Raiders are waiting to see if MLB As commit to building their stadium in that area as part of multi sport plan. If As stay and build Raiders will stay.. if As leave LA is in play

Thanks for that. It does seem weird that LA hasn't had an NFL team for so long, especially given you can sustain two NBA and MLB franchises (assuming you can). Were audiences down when you had the Rams and the Raiders or was it just politics?

Not really a factor but given the NFL is committed to exporting certain games to England, an LA Raiders v Miami Dolphins match played at Wembley would be absolutely huge here, as they were the two big cult teams in England when we were getting terrestrial coverage in the mid 80s.

Don't forget we have probably the only world class MLS team in the LA Galaxy, and two elite NCAAF teams (USC, UCLA), and a handful of sometimes elite NCAAB teams...

However NFL NOT being in LA is the NFL's CASH COW.. LA is the largest TV market for NFL, by LA not having its own team, LA TV Market supports a large swath of ALL the teams. Indeed half of all Angelinos (we're talking about at least 5,000,000 people) weren't born in LA so they moved here and likely brought their previous team with them so they watch the games, buy merch, etc etc..

The NFL likes LA not having a team, it allows the NFL to make way more money of LA than if LA did have its own team. Remember LA is such a lucrative football market that we supported TWO NFL teams for decades..

Something else I've heard is that it suits the owners of other franchises, who can always threaten to relocate there if the demands they put on the cities they are located in aren't met.

You may have heard that from me. Even Jerry Jones blackmailed Dallas to invest in Cowboys recent stadiums threatening to move to LA! 49ers did it too

Possibly, but also http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...e-an-nfl-team/

The thought that the Cowboys would even consider relocating is precisely why I really don't like the idea of franchises in sport.

Why Dean Pees still has a job is convincing me that the once great Ozzie Newsome is currently struggling with a drug problem.

Sorry to my Tejanos friends here on SYG but today was possibly the most boring NFL day of yhe year

That was the worst damn game I ever saw the Texans play.what a pathe3tic joke of a team

Yes it was pretty bad

Reporters said that Brandon Weeden was asked by coaches to start the 2nd half but that Hoyer went and whined to the head coach (loser-ass O'Brian) and that O'Brian said to go ahead and play. HORRIBLE.

Where are you hearing this? I listened to a couple hours of Houston sports talk this morning, but I didn't hear that??

My biggest disappointment with O'Brian was his decision to try and have JJ punch one in at the goal line. With reports after the game that JJ has been battling a groin injury for the past 7 weeks, that requires surgery tomorrow......why even put JJ in that position???

To the best of my memory, this weekend was the first time the networks televised AFC games on Saturday and NFC games on Sunday. I remember them being split int he past......wagering on all four home teams losing would have been a nice parlay!

Every team in the AFC South should be embarrassed!

Looking for New England to win by 7-12 points and for Green Bay to possibly upset tonight.

it was surreal to see an NFL game being played in LOS ANGELES.. it waa one of biggest preseason games i have ever seen