"Official" NFL Smack Talkin' Thread

[Bobcat]

[Wrinkleface]

yup

[Ratickle]

At least Detroit has the Number 1, most over-rated player in the NFL!!

[Bobcat]

Vikings VS Steelers tonight @8PM Eastern.

[Ratickle]

So, were you impressed?

[Bobcat]

Teddy 97 Passer rating

[Bobcat]

[Ratickle]

Unless there's a championship game to rig.......

[Wrinkleface]

They R cry'n in cheeseville already!!!

[Bobcat]

[Wrinkleface]

Is that Brooks???

[Ratickle]

Could be. Hard to tell because that's his good side......

[Ratickle]

Well, now I have another team I can't watch on TV no matter who they play.

Tough to believe they count it as a win when the judge only said the punishment was wrong, not that the Patriots didn't cheat.

[fund razor]

Goodell has essentially been made irrelevant. No future sanctions will be taken seriously.

[Ratickle]

You are probably correct. But, I think the league will redo the penalties and suspend the entire team for four games instead of just the quarterback. The defense is that Brady didn't order the team's ball boys to cheat, so it must have been the entire team's fault? A habit of cheating started by the ownership and passed down throughout the organization? Spygate, Tapegate, and Deflategate?

[Ratickle]

ESPN the Magazine published an exhaustive look into allegations of widespread cheating by the Patriots and the team's relationship with Roger Goodell on Tuesday.

— From 2000 to 2007, the Patriots videotaped the signals of opposing coaches in 40 games.

— Goodell's handling of Deflategate turned around owners still simmering over Spygate; some say he is now more secure in his job.

— Two teams caught the Patriots videotaping opposing coaches' signals in 2006, but the NFL failed to act.

— Goodell ordered tapes and notes from the Patriots destroyed, eliminating "a library of scouting material."

— Goodell told Sen. Arlen Spector that the Patriots' tapes destroyed by NFL employees went back to the 2006 season, but then confessed that the Patriots began taping in 2000 and that the destroyed notes, on mostly AFC East rivals, went back to 2002.

— Numerous allegations were sent to the he NFL's competition committee members, but none of those were investigated.

— A former Patriots assistant coach said the "system of covert videotaping" and " a secret library" had gotten "out of control."

— The Patriots had an employee, Ernie Adams, whose job it was to spend all week decoding signals on spreadsheets obtained by a scout at Patriots' future opponents' games.

— Patriots videographers were told to put tape over their team logos and say they were from Patriots TV or Kraft Productions when questioned by opposing team's security. In November 2006, the Senate investigation of Spygate said Patriots staff member Matt Estrella said he was "taping panoramic shots of the stadium."

— The Patriots would sign players recently cut by upcoming opponents and "pay them only to help decipher signals."

— The Patriots would send low-level employees into the visiting locker room to steal the play sheet, consisting of the first 20 scripted offensive calls, or into the visiting team hotel to look for playbooks and scouting reports.

— When at home, the Patriots would scramble and jam the coach-to-quarterback radio line of their opponents, and it happened so often that when a league official was told to sit in the coaches' box and wait for it to happen, it did, as expected, on a big third-down play.

— The Patriots' tactics helped them against lesser teams like the Dolphins and Bills, who never changed their signals throughout the season.

— Although many opposing coaches knew of the Patriots' methods, only Eric Mangini, Bill Belichick's former protege, changed his team's signals when he was head coach of the Jets, a team Belichick hated.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/...dkc?li=BBgzzfc

[Bobcat]

Vikings don't play until 10:20 on Monday Night

[Ratickle]

Well, Mariota ended up his first game with a perfect passer rating of 158.3, and sat out most of the fourth quarter with a 42 to 7 lead. Reminded me of when he was at Oregon!! Second player in NFL history to throw 4 touchdown passes in his first pro game (Fran Tarkenton), first ever to do it in the first half of a game.......

Meanwhile, Winston threw his first NFL pass and had it picked off and returned for a touchdown!! Also the second player in NFL history to do that.....

Unfortunately I couldn't watch the game as I won't watch any games with Tampa Bay or the Patriots. Trying to vote with my TV stats......

[Ratickle]

Only took one game,

Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin isn't saying the Patriots messed around with the Steeler coaches' headsets in the first half.

He's just saying, you know, it does seem to happen a lot when he plays in New England.

"We were listening to the Patriots radio broadcast for the majority of the first half on our headsets," Tomlin said after New England beat the Steelers 28-21 on Thursday night in the NFL opener.

Responding to a report on the TV broadcast that the Pittsburgh coaches lost the ability to talk over their headsets, Tomlin said, "That's always the case."

"Here?" a reporter asked.

"Yes," Tomlin said.


The ESPN Outside the Lines story;
"At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents’ coach-to-quarterback radio line — “small s—” that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach — occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches’ box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out."

[Ratickle]

Even Miss America, (and the judges), know:

Miss America Betty Cantrell Crowned After Tom Brady "Definitely Cheated" Response

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...ctions-2015149