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Last night I watched 34-year old Larry Foote blowing up run lanes and disrupting all over the field. He was signed to a 1-year 955k contract. I honestly cannot believe how completely invisible our LBs are in plays after hearing that our new dline responsibilities were to create lanes for them.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 09:37 PM) During the SDSU game ESPN declared Mizzou as "D-Line University" If there wasn't enough evidence, 0-star Charles Harris being 2 deep as a RS Frosh and everyone raving about him is going to seal the deal (knock on wood for him performing).

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 08:47 PM) Which you would think would really infuriate the women's rights groups, because this is basically a group of men telling a woman "You dont know whats best for yourself sweetheart, let us men decide." No, they are punishing Ray Rice, because Ray Rice committed a brutal assault in an elevator for the public to see. You should make sure to mansplain to the women's groups how to feel about how we shouldn't punish Ray Rice, because it may hurt her. Make sure to use your great puns. Domestic violence puns are hilarious.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 08:32 PM) I just like how all the people who are so supportive of his wife dont get that this actually hurts her economically and that in no world would she want Rice's contract to be terminated. Its pretty much a slap to her face (pun intended), because not only is she a victim, she now suffers economic harm as well. But hey, lets not think about this logically, instead lets just get our pound of flesh. If anyone actually cared about his wife, they would give her 50% of the salary he would have made, or hell donate the money to a charity to help battered women. But nah, Ravens will pocket the money, Rice will get paid a lot less by someone else, and all of the people who yelled for Rice to be "punished" will pat themselves on the back for being awesome. I guess I'll speak for myself when I say that her financial stability is not worth the physical abuse, and likely verbal abuse. There are no winners here, but Rice should not have the privilege of being an NFL football player after performing such a violent act. Hopefully he takes this extra time to spends it on addressing his issues.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 08:20 PM) Oh, ok...well than then matter is clearly settled. Sorry, but if you watched that video and the thing you came away with was "man, that girl was annoying", you are viewing it in a cause and effect lens. If no punching happened, nobody would have had any strong opinions on how that person in the silent video behaved. But in addition, and this is me judging, if you watched that video and one of your thoughts was "man, that girl was annoying", I don't' even know how to finish that. It's just absurd that could be a takeaway.

I really have a hard time understanding how this isn't justification. You are, you may not think you aren't, but you are.

QUOTE (TRU @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 05:31 PM) What I saw in the video. Doesn't mean Ray Rice is justified in what he did. Point is, people are making a bigger deal about Ray Rice over the guy who killed someone and for some reason will be back on the field and playing this season. Sorry, you can be disgusted by Rice all you want but its not even close to the Josh Brent thing. Listen, this isn't the victim olympics. Just because this other terrible event happened that you think is being underappreciated doesn't mean another terrible event is unimportant. But you almost certainly will not gain support for your view by justifying domestic violence. You can say that's not what you were doing, but you were quite clearly saying Ray Rice's incident was not that bad because his wife was being drunk and annoying. Drunk driving in the NFL has a terrible history, as does this country. The Leonard Little era was disgusting. But there is likely less outrage for Brent because he did face criminal charges. Ray manipulated his way out of the charges, and the league showed way too much support for him. This also happens to be a common situation for victims of domestic violence, whereas victims of drunk driving tend to get the sympathy they deserve. People don't act like it was their fault.

QUOTE (TRU @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 05:08 PM) Why is there a public uproar over Ray Rice knocking out his annoying drunk wife but no one says anything about Josh Brent KILLING someone and only getting suspended 10 games, never mind only having to spend 6 months in jail. You shouldn't hit a woman and I have no respect for Ray Rice, but its a bigger travesty that Josh Brent will be back on the field earning his millions in 11 weeks. What is going through your head when you write this?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 03:13 PM) I don't see how this video changes everything. We already knew Rice knocked her out, to have some new reactions is childish. The suspension was sickeningly short before, and it remains sickenly short now. Well, all the hit job pieces about women "provoking it", and then to see how unprovoked it was. It doesn't make it right if she was hitting him like Solange in the elevator, but it certainly looks so much worse when it was a completely out of nowhere, incredible force. And then kicking her to get up.

Also apparently Rose is really pumped because he figured out what was wrong with his shot. Pretty disappointing he has been by far the worst player on team USA. But I'm really glad he's getting game conditioning in. It's so hard to deal with seeing someone come back like this, but I'm trying to get in the mindset that he may not be a good offensive piece well thru the year

Well if the bulls are said to be interested, that sounds like a pretty good signal he'll sign elsewhere.

I almost think it's worse that he has seen it. Since they already had all evidence, there is no sudden escalation they can take. There should be more accountability for this, and I don't see how they can do that with their current set-up.

It wasn't that bad, I know there is a lot of riffs in Atlanta between suburbs and city though, so it probably makes more sense locally.

Had to take a risk on Sankey, and oof. At one point he had 3 running backs getting carries over him. I don't know how you can be an NFL coach of a clear rebuilding team like the Titans and not give reps to the draft pick.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 02:39 PM) This is the worst part about it IMO. The team had a press conference where she apologized for her "role" in the incident. Are you kidding me? I wonder if she even remembers it. How terrible would it be if she was fed these ideas that she was at fault. Like Balta says, common. But worse, with the league going along with it.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 02:20 PM) Awful new video of what Ray Rice actually did in the elevator leaked today. Disclaimer: It's brutal. He needs to be suspended for a lot longer after witnessing this http://m.tmz.com/videos/0-ekaflcqq/ Ugh, that makes me nauseous. Just awful awful awful stuff.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 6, 2014 -> 11:06 PM) You're not wrong. I'm super pessimistic to start what seems like every season, especially since the SEC move. That being said damn, Mizzou stomped Toledo. Markus Golden, I think we may have something here.

Sigh. f***.

Football sometimes works out exactly as you'd expect

Sigh, I just can't see bears pulling this off. Zero confidence.

Damn. Just wish our turnovers didn't happen. OT is scary as hell. please be ot thou lol

Need an Alshon miracle.

Just abysmal decision.

AWFUL Cutler. Awful. Awful.

Hammy for Alshon. Yuck.