2023 NFL Week 6 News/Views: I Fought T Law and T Law won

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Android Apocalypse: Apr 28, 2009; The future is
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I want to see the list of NFL players that played other sports besides baseball, basketball, or wrestling.

I wanna see the player that also played tennis. Or ran cross country.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 17:53

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 13:25

Ches Neckbeard: Dec 3, 2005; You're all garbage, back up the truck BACK IT UP!

I know the Browns were trying to get Juedy this past off season before settling on Elijah Moore

If the panthers aren't bidding against themselves for him the franchise is lost

Ches Neckbeard fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 12, 2023

# ? Oct 12, 2023 17:54

GD_American: Jul 21, 2004; LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

Android Apocalypse posted:

I want to see the list of NFL players that played other sports besides baseball, basketball, or wrestling.

I wanna see the player that also played tennis. Or ran cross country.

Andy Roddick said Drew Brees beat him in tennis as a kid.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 17:56

wandler20: Nov 13, 2002; How many Championships?

This kid might have a bright future.

https://twitter.com/ChancellorTV/status/1712482842234790063?s=20

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:13

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

I dunno, some fancy test said he has Vince Young brain, he'll probably bust.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:15

Amy Pole Her: Jun 17, 2002

If I�m Carolina I�m calling denver every hour about Jerry J

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:23

Black Sunshine: Apr 4, 2004; LEFT 4 DEAD IS A LOT LIKE FOOTBALL - I JERK OFF TO BOTH

Kalli posted:

I dunno, some fancy test said he has Vince Young brain, he'll probably bust.

Where's hook'em.jpg when you need it?

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:27

YOLOsubmarine: Oct 19, 2004; When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

Amy Pole Her posted:

If I�m Carolina I�m calling denver every hour about Jerry J

Might as well give away the rest of their 2024 draft.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:33

TITTIEKISSER69: Mar 19, 2005; SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS

Diva Cupcake posted:

I would assume there�s a bunch of teams who would be interested depending on price.

TWEET POST
https://twitter.com/mattlombardonfl/status/1712507058669441316?s=46&t=DcBXErlGIUJUj8quAgYfkQ

Google News gave me a similar headline about Frank Clark this morning.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:37

Diva Cupcake: Aug 15, 2005

2023 will forever be known as the year of the S7 test.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:37

wandler20: Nov 13, 2002; How many Championships?

YOLOsubmarine posted:

Might as well give away the rest of their 2024 draft.

Not like they're gonna draft anyone worth a poo poo anyway.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:41

Bellmaker: Oct 18, 2008; Chapter DOOF

N: https://twitter.com/jamespalmertv/status/1712198214227734624?s=46&t=DMzKILyEihBw9OIfj0hfjg

V: what�s the record for time of possession in a game??

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:45

Ornery and Hornery: Oct 22, 2020

wandler20 posted:

This kid might have a bright future.

https://twitter.com/ChancellorTV/status/1712482842234790063?s=20

I respect him, I love him

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:46

Ornery and Hornery: Oct 22, 2020

Chiefs needs to inquire about Juedy and maybe that Bucs WR.

Pls trade for a WR, Mr Mahomes has earned that support

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:47

Pron on VHS: Nov 14, 2005; Blood Clots
Sweat Dries
Bones Heal
Suck it Up and Keep Wrestling

I don�t think the Bucs are trading Evans and I doubt the Broncos would trade anyone to the division rival that has beat them 14 games in a row.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:51

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

Bellmaker posted:

N: https://twitter.com/jamespalmertv/status/1712198214227734624?s=46&t=DMzKILyEihBw9OIfj0hfjg

V: what’s the record for time of possession in a game??

222-0 Part 2: The Scorening lookin' scary

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:54

Play: Apr 25, 2006; Strong stroll for a mangy stray

wandler20 posted:

This kid might have a bright future.

https://twitter.com/ChancellorTV/status/1712482842234790063?s=20

He's top ten in pretty much every statistical passing category, and top 5 or even top 3 in some, on a team that maybe isn't as bad as we thought but is still pretty bad. He's been incredible, that just is not something you generally see rookies do. Looking like the most promising young QB in the league, not just for this past draft year but the last several.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:55

a neat cape: Feb 22, 2007; Aw hunny, these came out GREAT!

Play posted:

He's top ten in pretty much every statistical passing category, and top 5 or even top 3 in some, on a team that maybe isn't as bad as we thought but is still pretty bad. He's been incredible, that just is not something you generally see rookies do. Looking like the most promising young QB in the league, not just for this past draft year but the last several.

He's definitely having the best rookie year since Herbert

# ? Oct 12, 2023 18:59

Professor Funk: Aug 4, 2008; WE ALL KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN

Lmfao

https://twitter.com/andrewmarchand/status/1712524656979194145?s=46&t=Q9JsEynxHxZ9F2lOwU2Uuw

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:00

Kalli: Jun 2, 2001

Bellmaker posted:

N: https://twitter.com/jamespalmertv/status/1712198214227734624?s=46&t=DMzKILyEihBw9OIfj0hfjg

V: what�s the record for time of possession in a game??

That's what I expect. I don't think the score will get too crazy, because the Chiefs will be happy to just sit on the ball and own the game for 40 minutes and win like 27-10 or something.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:01

Amy Pole Her: Jun 17, 2002

MILLIONS? Jesus I knew he got paid (i remember the debate) but I didn�t think it�d be MILLIONS

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:02

Bellmaker: Oct 18, 2008; Chapter DOOF

Cthulu Carl posted:

222-0 Part 2: The Scorening lookin' scary

Nah I just think think the Chiefs are just gonna rush 69 times for 4.20 YPC in the second half

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:04

Amy Pole Her: Jun 17, 2002

Knowing Rodgers gets 1+mm during rehab if his knee earning 40+mm a year to sit in his bed and make up wild poo poo, poo poo which is then retweeted by Adam Schefter who is making 10mm

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:05

Nervous: Jan 25, 2005; Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.

Bellmaker posted:

Nah I just think think the Chiefs are just gonna rush 69 times for 4.20 YPC in the second half

ToP:

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:06

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

Pay me a million dollars for sports shouting

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:07

Diva Cupcake: Aug 15, 2005

Rodgers presence had a half million people tune in to McAfee�s YouTube livestream. He probably deserves it.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:14

Amy Pole Her: Jun 17, 2002

Diva Cupcake posted:

Rodgers presence had a half million people tune in to McAfee�s YouTube livestream. He probably deserves it.

It�s wild he pays Rodgers to spout his bullshit ego stuff while getting to hang with Matthew Mccaughney (sp) during Texas games for free. And it�s funny that out of those two relationships, you get more football related content out of the Hollywood actor

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:17

Docjowles: Apr 9, 2009

I would have been happy for the Pats to add Jeudy preseason, since he would instantly be by far their best pass catcher. Don't see much point now though. The dumpster is already engulfed in flames and they need picks to fill the holes at... well everywhere. Not sure why he would have any more success here than he did in Denver.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:24

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Diva Cupcake posted:

I would assume there�s a bunch of teams who would be interested depending on price.

TWEET POST
https://twitter.com/mattlombardonfl/status/1712507058669441316?s=46&t=DcBXErlGIUJUj8quAgYfkQ

He's pretty much been a dud. I doubt they get that much for him.

Amy Pole Her posted:

MILLIONS? Jesus I knew he got paid (i remember the debate) but I didn�t think it�d be MILLIONS

He's underpaid. He put that stupid show on the map.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:26

Diva Cupcake: Aug 15, 2005

Amy Pole Her posted:

It�s wild he pays Rodgers to spout his bullshit ego stuff while getting to hang with Matthew Mccaughney (sp) during Texas games for free. And it�s funny that out of those two relationships, you get more football related content out of the Hollywood actor

We all know it's the number of eyeballs you serve up to advertisers and not the actual quality of the content that gets paid.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:29

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

N: Deshaun Watson missed practice again

V: I wish only bad things upon Browns fans who support him.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:36

epic bacon: Sep 19, 2022

there's literally no athlete i care to hear talk in an interview. they're all morons who need to Stick to Football, i don't care if they're being witty or saying vaccines are worse than 911 hitlers. just stop talking and play ball!!!

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:39

Amy Pole Her: Jun 17, 2002

Diva Cupcake posted:

We all know it's the number of eyeballs you serve up to advertisers and not the actual quality of the content that gets paid.

Very true, just funny when I thought about it. Rodgers is such a massive douche

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:45

FizFashizzle: Mar 30, 2005

Who needs a very good, misused, weak side linebacker?

https://twitter.com/catcraveblog/status/1712510180045324655?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA

Also there�s ANOTHER reason they might not be at practice

https://twitter.com/thewhiterozay/status/1712524923355152702?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:46

Shinji2015: Aug 31, 2007; Keen on the hygiene and on the mission like a super technician.

FizFashizzle posted:

Also there�s ANOTHER reason they might not be at practice

https://twitter.com/thewhiterozay/status/1712524923355152702?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA

That this is still going on for whatever reason is maddening

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:50

Acebuckeye13: Nov 2, 2010; Against All Tyrants; Ultra Carp

Cardinals organization, somehow, even worse than we thought:

https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1712460611139834265?t=FzIbg0go3WB7QiS_aI_iAA&s=19

Article intro:

quote:

One day in 2019, Arizona Cardinals employees arrived at the team’s headquarters in Tempe, made their way to their offices or cubicles on the second or third floors, opened up their emails and found . . . An employee survey.

At most workplaces, this would be a decidedly ordinary part of the grind. But in Cardinals’ offices, the survey was monumental. Some who received it filled unglamorous, back-office jobs in finance, marketing, community relations or business development departments and had never felt like their opinions about the operation were valued. Further, many had negative feelings about the workplace but had been reluctant to share them because they felt replaceable — if they didn’t value the privilege of working for an NFL team, someone else would.

The team, owned by the Bidwill family for nine decades, didn’t have a dedicated director of human resources at the time. Some employees wondered if they could trust that their survey answers would stay anonymous.

Despite their fears, some employees wrote about unpleasant encounters with team owner Michael Bidwill and unwritten rules they dare not break in his presence. Many female employees addressed a variety of issues that made some of them feel like second-class citizens inside the building. After finishing the survey, some employees shared what they’d written with each other and realized how critical the results would be of the team’s culture and leaders.

“People tore Michael Bidwill to shreds,” said a former employee with more than five years of experience with the team.

In the following weeks, many Cardinals staffers awaited the fallout. “Everyone was wondering, what’s happening with the survey? Are we going to find out the results of the survey?” said one former employee.

But weeks became months, then a year. The survey was briefly mentioned in an email about gym memberships, but otherwise, many staffers concluded:

“It disappeared into thin air.”

The Athletic spoke to more than a dozen current and former employees with 100-plus combined years of experience with the team, most on the non-football side of the organization. All were granted anonymity out of their fear of retaliation from Bidwill, an attorney and former federal prosecutor.

Those who spoke to The Athletic detailed how Bidwill would sometimes react strongly to what they considered minor transgressions – like a squeaky wheel on an office cart or a woman laughing too loudly in the office – contributing to a culture where many employees felt constantly on edge. That culture was referenced in a letter outgoing COO Ron Minegar delivered to Bidwill in December 2019 – “a majority of our employees are working in fear,” Minegar wrote.

Former employees also described unwritten policies about how women were to dress, interact with male football staffers and players, and where they could and couldn’t go in the building. Those policies forced them to operate in an environment that, as one framed it, was “outdated, archaic, constricted.” They also described how the lack of a robust human resources department made it difficult to know where to take complaints, such as nursing mothers having to pump near a shower area or in a conference room.

“You would think being an entertainment sports team that it would be a fun place to work. No, not at all,” said one employee.

In response to the allegations detailed in this story, Bidwill issued a statement that read: “As I have said personally to every member of the Cardinals organization, I certainly have room to grow and with the benefit of hindsight, would have done some things differently over the years. I also know that my direct approach doesn’t always land well, and I’m working on that. I have always been driven by the desire to learn and improve and more importantly, to use those lessons in building the best organization possible. Over the last several years, we have taken significant steps to improve our culture and build a stronger community. We are a better and more inclusive organization today than we were yesterday and I’m extremely excited about what we can be tomorrow.”

# ? Oct 12, 2023 19:57

Acebuckeye13: Nov 2, 2010; Against All Tyrants; Ultra Carp

goddamn sharia law in Arizona

quote:

Along a second-floor hallway of the Cardinals offices, there’s a white plastic wall. Employees who spoke to The Athletic weren’t sure exactly when the wall went up (at some point during Bruce Arians’ coaching tenure from 2013-17), but they believe they know why it was erected.

That area of the second floor was occupied by a group of predominantly female employees. Some of those women, like others in the office, came to understand that Bidwill and others did not want them fraternizing with the male members of Arians’ coaching staff and players. No sources said they received that directive straight from Bidwill, but multiple women said supervisors or others conveyed to them that any contact with the football staff and players was frowned upon.

But coaches or players, perhaps unaware of this unwritten rule, often made small talk with the female employees as they walked down the second-floor hall. One day, a coach stopped to chat for longer than usual. Shortly thereafter, one employee said, a director told her they’d be putting up a wall to “cut down on hallway traffic.” Later, employees arrived to find the wall: a seven- or eight-foot-tall extension of two cubicle walls, tall enough that passersby couldn’t see the people working behind it.

The wall ordeal contributed to a feeling some women had that they were constantly under watch, and that feeling made some modify their behavior.

One former employee said she had to take a roundabout route to the women’s bathroom because the most direct path took her past the coaches’ offices. Once, at a golf event, a player offered her a cart ride to the next hole. She eventually took it, but not before asking herself if a supervisor might punish her for it.

Another former employee said a player took the seat next to her during a flight to a road game and engaged in a long conversation, something the player had done before with several of her male colleagues. Afterward, she said, a male coworker approached her and told her it wasn’t a good look to be talking to the player.

“It was a very old-school mentality that you’re always fighting against,” she said. “There were a lot of things that were just gray areas or rules that weren’t really ever set in stone or in a book, but just like, this is the way it is.”

Until early 2020, male office employees could use the team’s weight room whenever players weren’t present, but four women who spoke to The Athletic said they were either told directly by a supervisor or made to feel as if they weren’t allowed to use it and were discouraged from even using the staircase that led there, “for fear we might end up in the locker room,” one former employee said. The team eventually closed off the weight room to all non-football staff and offered employees discounted memberships to a local gym.

Female media members from outside the organization were permitted to enter the team’s locker room during open periods in accordance with NFL rules. But up until the 2022 season, female members of the Cardinals’ staff, including those who worked for the team’s in-house media operation, could not go in. Those in-house media members had to wait for players to be brought to them outside the locker room. A Cardinals spokesperson said the team intended to change that policy in 2020, but that COVID restrictions meant the locker room was closed to all media in 2020 and 2021.

“It felt like I was walking on eggshells,” one former employee said. “Am I okay to be here? Oh my God, what if someone sees me here? You’re just doing your job and trying to walk around the building in which you work and feeling like, ‘Oh, I can’t be on this side.’”

Up until at least 2020, some nursing mothers had to pump in an area adjacent to the showers in the women’s locker room. Others hunted for empty conference rooms to use.

Several women described an unwritten dress code for female employees in which women wearing leggings or shorts or skirts had to tie a sweatshirt or jacket around their waists if they were going to work on the field or be near players or football staff. They couldn’t show their shoulders and understood they needed to cover up so they weren’t distractions. One woman said she felt a responsibility to inform new female employees about the dress code, even though she felt uncomfortable passing along what she thought was a sexist restriction.

Shaun Mayo, the Chief People Officer hired in July 2021, responded in a statement: “These ‘unwritten rules’ are largely urban myths and old news. They were unknown to senior leaders until we received employee feedback from the 2019 survey. In most, if not all cases, they were based on perception – or misperception – rather than any actual policy. But the feedback was valuable. We’ve addressed them over the last several years and now have clarity across the organization.”

# ? Oct 12, 2023 20:06

soggybagel: Aug 6, 2006; The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.

They�re paying him that much? Pathetic.

https://x.com/andrewmarchand/status/1712524656979194145?s=46

Aaron has been paid over a million dollars cumulatively to appear on Mcafees show.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 20:07

Docjowles: Apr 9, 2009

The most surprising bit of that article is that they didn't link survey responses to employees and immediately mass fire everyone who said anything critical. 100% thought was coming

# ? Oct 12, 2023 20:10

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Grittybeard: Mar 29, 2010; Bad, very bad!

Android Apocalypse posted:

I want to see the list of NFL players that played other sports besides baseball, basketball, or wrestling.

I wanna see the player that also played tennis. Or ran cross country.

Jim Brown's the most famous, he was an early Lax bro.

Derrick Thomas once tried out hurling of all things but maybe that was a one day deal and not something he did for a few weeks.

And we do have the post-retirement curling crew out there trying to make it happen.

# ? Oct 12, 2023 20:15

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