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[W:549] Nfl 2018

Crovax said:
Just having 3 rings doesnt get you into the HOF

Brady is obviously in the HOF.

Gronk has a shot but not if he retires now.

Gostkowski has a slight chance but he needs probably 10 more years of play

Edelman, McCourty, Allen and Slater have zaro chance of making it into the HOF
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Can I ask you a question?

Is Lynn Swann better than Julian Edelman? If Lynn Swann is in the HOF, why can't Edelman be in the HOF?

This is man that has made some of the greatest catches in postseason history:

#1, Catch against the Seahawks in the SB;



#2, Catch against the Falcons in the SB:



#3 MVP Performance against the Rams:



The thing people forget is that Brady is a horizontal-style QB. Asides from one season, he is not a QB that like to throw a lot of bombs. He prefers the short passes to guys like Troy Brown, Deion Branch, Wes Welker, and Julian Edelman.... and then he throws a lot of short passes to his rb like Kevin Faulk, Danny Woodhead, Shane Vereen, and James White. And he loves passing to his tight ends.

Now Wes Welker did put up monster stats but that imo was a product of playing next to Randy Moss and then pre-injury Gronk and Aaron Hernandez.
 
Bucky said:
Can I ask you a question?

Is Lynn Swann better than Julian Edelman? If Lynn Swann is in the HOF, why can't Edelman be in the HOF?
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Swann was better compared to his competition. Despite his career being cut short by injuries he made 3 all-pro teams in his 7 years as a starter and he still only barely got the the HOF.

Edelman is still sitting on 0 pro bowls and 0 all pros

Having a coupole of good games at the right time doesnt get you into the HOF. He should be in the patriots team HOF but not the NFL hall of fame
 
Crovax said:
Swann was better compared to his competition. Despite his career being cut short by injuries he made 3 all-pro teams in his 7 years as a starter and he still only barely got the the HOF.

Edelman is still sitting on 0 pro bowls and 0 all pros

Having a coupole of good games at the right time doesnt get you into the HOF. He should be in the patriots team HOF but not the NFL hall of fame
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Edelman is a performance enhancing cheater who got suspended for 4 games- typical Patriot.
 
PoS said:
Edelman is a performance enhancing cheater who got suspended for 4 games- typical Patriot.
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Yeah I was trying to find some pics of him at kent state to show how small he was but hes huge now. I was watching him warm up for the super bowl and was like wes welker didnt retire Edelman ate him
 
PoS said:
Edelman is a performance enhancing cheater who got suspended for 4 games- typical Patriot.
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FYI performance enhancing drugs doesn't make you clutch

LOL. Jeez, A Football Player Got bigger. Breaking News!!!

Tell me a football player that gets smaller after he becomes a professional.
 
Bucky said:
FYI performance enhancing drugs doesn't make you clutch
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If all the Rams players injected a gallon of steroids into their bodies everyday like what Edelman did, they would have been clutch too. That cheater shouldnt have been allowed to play in the SB, and the Pats only won because of his drugs.
 
PoS said:
If all the Rams players injected a gallon of steroids into their bodies everyday like what Edelman did, they would have been clutch too. That cheater shouldnt have been allowed to play in the SB, and the Pats only won because of his drugs.
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Patriots cheat, suck and ruined the NFL. I'm glad SB rating tanked.
 
PoS said:
If all the Rams players injected a gallon of steroids into their bodies everyday like what Edelman did, they would have been clutch too. That cheater shouldnt have been allowed to play in the SB, and the Pats only won because of his drugs.
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:lol:
 
Does eating too much cheese in your youth stunt your growth ? Who's that Munchkin that owns the Pats ?
 
It's interesting I don't remember anyone complaining about Von Miller and his drug usage when he won the SB MVP....
 
And it continues. It's like a never ending soap opera.. Same old, same old everyday...lol

Here we go again: Steelers reportedly might use transition tag on Le'Veon Bell..

ust when you thought the Le’Veon Bell-Pittsburgh Steelers drama was done.

You’d think that Bell holding out all season after being given a second franchise tag would be it for Bell and Pittsburgh. Bell would hit free agency, and that would be that. Maybe not.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac, citing sources, said the Steelers could put the transition tag on Bell, likely with the desire to trade him and not keep him in 2019. It’s probably for the best that the Steelers wouldn’t expect Bell to play for them on a transition tag, because we saw how that went last season.

The transition tag would allow the Steelers to match any offer to Bell but if they use it, Dulac said it would likely be to set up a bit of a complicated deal.

Why would the Steelers give Le’Veon Bell the transition tag?
The mechanics of the transition tag, which is a cheaper option than the franchise tag, would go like this in regards to the Steelers’ reported plan: A team would be interested in Bell, the Steelers would sign Bell to a deal and then trade him right away. That all depends on Bell agreeing to play along with the sign-and-trade plan. It’s not like the Steelers and Bell are on good terms after last season.

The transition tag would allow Bell to negotiate with other teams. The Steelers could match any offer sheet Bell gets, and then things could get really crazy. The Steelers wouldn’t get any compensation if they don’t match that offer sheet. And as Dulac pointed out, the rules state the Steelers couldn’t trade Bell for at least one year to a team that gave him an offer sheet.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported there could be a dispute about the value of the transition tag. Bell could claim it should be $14.5 million, based on past franchise tags and those rules, but the Steelers could say it should be $9.5 million, the normal transition tag price. Fowler wrote that could lead to the NFLPA filing a grievance and an independent arbitrator getting involved. In case you thought this whole ordeal couldn’t get messier.

If the Steelers wanted to make this easy, they’d let Bell walk in free agency and collect a compensatory draft pick, which would likely be a third-rounder. If they transition tag Bell, presumably the Steelers believe they can get more than that by trading him. That might be risky, considering the market for big-money running backs already isn’t booming.

Steelers have until March 5 to decide
Of course, we heard similar stories about the Redskins giving another tag to Kirk Cousins last year at this time, and that didn’t come to pass because it was a risky and complicated idea. The Steelers might figure out that the potential trouble isn’t worth it. Teams have until March 5 to use the tag.

But perhaps the Steelers feel that a compensatory draft pick isn’t worth all the investment and time they’ve put into Bell and they want more. Maybe it will work out.

No matter what happens, it’s clear that the Bell-Steelers drama still has a little bit to go before we’re completely finished with it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-steelers-reportedly-might-use-transition-tag-leveon-bell-191806140.html
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
And it continues. It's like a never ending soap opera.. Same old, same old everyday...lol

Here we go again: Steelers reportedly might use transition tag on Le'Veon Bell..

ust when you thought the Le’Veon Bell-Pittsburgh Steelers drama was done.

You’d think that Bell holding out all season after being given a second franchise tag would be it for Bell and Pittsburgh. Bell would hit free agency, and that would be that. Maybe not.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac, citing sources, said the Steelers could put the transition tag on Bell, likely with the desire to trade him and not keep him in 2019. It’s probably for the best that the Steelers wouldn’t expect Bell to play for them on a transition tag, because we saw how that went last season.

The transition tag would allow the Steelers to match any offer to Bell but if they use it, Dulac said it would likely be to set up a bit of a complicated deal.

Why would the Steelers give Le’Veon Bell the transition tag?
The mechanics of the transition tag, which is a cheaper option than the franchise tag, would go like this in regards to the Steelers’ reported plan: A team would be interested in Bell, the Steelers would sign Bell to a deal and then trade him right away. That all depends on Bell agreeing to play along with the sign-and-trade plan. It’s not like the Steelers and Bell are on good terms after last season.

The transition tag would allow Bell to negotiate with other teams. The Steelers could match any offer sheet Bell gets, and then things could get really crazy. The Steelers wouldn’t get any compensation if they don’t match that offer sheet. And as Dulac pointed out, the rules state the Steelers couldn’t trade Bell for at least one year to a team that gave him an offer sheet.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported there could be a dispute about the value of the transition tag. Bell could claim it should be $14.5 million, based on past franchise tags and those rules, but the Steelers could say it should be $9.5 million, the normal transition tag price. Fowler wrote that could lead to the NFLPA filing a grievance and an independent arbitrator getting involved. In case you thought this whole ordeal couldn’t get messier.

If the Steelers wanted to make this easy, they’d let Bell walk in free agency and collect a compensatory draft pick, which would likely be a third-rounder. If they transition tag Bell, presumably the Steelers believe they can get more than that by trading him. That might be risky, considering the market for big-money running backs already isn’t booming.

Steelers have until March 5 to decide
Of course, we heard similar stories about the Redskins giving another tag to Kirk Cousins last year at this time, and that didn’t come to pass because it was a risky and complicated idea. The Steelers might figure out that the potential trouble isn’t worth it. Teams have until March 5 to use the tag.

But perhaps the Steelers feel that a compensatory draft pick isn’t worth all the investment and time they’ve put into Bell and they want more. Maybe it will work out.

No matter what happens, it’s clear that the Bell-Steelers drama still has a little bit to go before we’re completely finished with it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-steelers-reportedly-might-use-transition-tag-leveon-bell-191806140.html
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The Steelers are worse than watching the Kardashian's.

A team full of divas and a coach without a spine.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
As a Steelers fan, unfortunately I can't disagree with anything you wrote.
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Don't take me wrong though, as I love Pittsburgh and always have....... but not when they are playing the Pats.

I never have been a Tomlin fan because he doesn't hold his star players feet to the fire.

Bill Belichick would have put Bell and Ben Roethlisberger on the first flight out of Massachusetts to some ****ty National Conference team.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Don't take me wrong though, as I love Pittsburgh and always have....... but not when they are playing the Pats.

I never have been a Tomlin fan because he doesn't hold his star players feet to the fire.

Bill Belichick would have put Bell and Ben Roethlisberger on the first flight out of Massachusetts to some ****ty National Conference team.
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I give Rothlisberger a little bit of a pass because a few years he was fed up with the nonsense and the divas and lack of discipline and said basically things need to change around here. I think that was his way to try and get Tomlin to do something, anything to tighten the ship. But Tomlin has done NOTHING so I 'think' Rothlisberger has figured it's up to him. But admittedly Big Ben hasn't always handled that well. He's come across as petty sometimes.

I wanted Tomlin fired 3-4 years ago. When the end-zone celebrations were more important than winning, and they were getting penalized every game for excessive celebrations and Tomlin did nothing, that was my red flag. I can see then he lost the discipline of the team, the players were running the show and as Terry Bradshaw rightly said, 'Tomlin is nothing but a cheerleader'.

Then of course Brown filming on his phone in the locker-room after a game for youtube or whatever, and again nothing happened. That's inexcusable.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
I give Rothlisberger a little bit of a pass because a few years he was fed up with the nonsense and the divas and lack of discipline and said basically things need to change around here. I think that was his way to try and get Tomlin to do something, anything to tighten the ship. But Tomlin has done NOTHING so I 'think' Rothlisberger has figured it's up to him. But admittedly Big Ben hasn't always handled that well. He's come across as petty sometimes.

I wanted Tomlin fired 3-4 years ago. When the end-zone celebrations were more important than winning, and they were getting penalized every game for excessive celebrations and Tomlin did nothing, that was my red flag. I can see then he lost the discipline of the team, the players were running the show and as Terry Bradshaw rightly said, 'Tomlin is nothing but a cheerleader'.

Then of course Brown filming on his phone in the locker-room after a game for youtube or whatever, and again nothing happened. That's inexcusable.
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I could not have put it any better.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
And it continues. It's like a never ending soap opera.. Same old, same old everyday...lol

Here we go again: Steelers reportedly might use transition tag on Le'Veon Bell..

ust when you thought the Le’Veon Bell-Pittsburgh Steelers drama was done.

You’d think that Bell holding out all season after being given a second franchise tag would be it for Bell and Pittsburgh. Bell would hit free agency, and that would be that. Maybe not.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac, citing sources, said the Steelers could put the transition tag on Bell, likely with the desire to trade him and not keep him in 2019. It’s probably for the best that the Steelers wouldn’t expect Bell to play for them on a transition tag, because we saw how that went last season.

The transition tag would allow the Steelers to match any offer to Bell but if they use it, Dulac said it would likely be to set up a bit of a complicated deal.

Why would the Steelers give Le’Veon Bell the transition tag?
The mechanics of the transition tag, which is a cheaper option than the franchise tag, would go like this in regards to the Steelers’ reported plan: A team would be interested in Bell, the Steelers would sign Bell to a deal and then trade him right away. That all depends on Bell agreeing to play along with the sign-and-trade plan. It’s not like the Steelers and Bell are on good terms after last season.

The transition tag would allow Bell to negotiate with other teams. The Steelers could match any offer sheet Bell gets, and then things could get really crazy. The Steelers wouldn’t get any compensation if they don’t match that offer sheet. And as Dulac pointed out, the rules state the Steelers couldn’t trade Bell for at least one year to a team that gave him an offer sheet.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported there could be a dispute about the value of the transition tag. Bell could claim it should be $14.5 million, based on past franchise tags and those rules, but the Steelers could say it should be $9.5 million, the normal transition tag price. Fowler wrote that could lead to the NFLPA filing a grievance and an independent arbitrator getting involved. In case you thought this whole ordeal couldn’t get messier.

If the Steelers wanted to make this easy, they’d let Bell walk in free agency and collect a compensatory draft pick, which would likely be a third-rounder. If they transition tag Bell, presumably the Steelers believe they can get more than that by trading him. That might be risky, considering the market for big-money running backs already isn’t booming.

Steelers have until March 5 to decide
Of course, we heard similar stories about the Redskins giving another tag to Kirk Cousins last year at this time, and that didn’t come to pass because it was a risky and complicated idea. The Steelers might figure out that the potential trouble isn’t worth it. Teams have until March 5 to use the tag.

But perhaps the Steelers feel that a compensatory draft pick isn’t worth all the investment and time they’ve put into Bell and they want more. Maybe it will work out.

No matter what happens, it’s clear that the Bell-Steelers drama still has a little bit to go before we’re completely finished with it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/go-steelers-reportedly-might-use-transition-tag-leveon-bell-191806140.html
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I have to say I love this Bell drama.

One because I hate the steelers and two because it shows that the NFL is still one league where the stars dont run the show and cant hold the league hostage.

Bell gave up $50 million dollars and a year in his prime because he thinks he worth what $60 million dollars? The one lost year negate literally all the extra money he thought he was worth. Bell gained nothing and the steelers have proved once again its their offensive line and play schemes that make the running backs so great in Pittsburgh
 
Crovax said:
Marijuana is still a federal crime, they could have been exposed to a lot of liability if they ran that commercial
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under age drinking remains a crime, yet cbs did not hesitate to run multiple alcoholic beverage commercials
 
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