Around the NFL: Offseason edition 2.0

LOL @ Dallas.
Enjoy your failed draft pick.

There is indeed something....sooo special when the silver and whatever fails so completely.

ESPN's Ed Werder reports the NFL is investigating a Periscope video which allegedly shows Raiders suspended OLB Aldon Smith smoking an unidentified substance.

The video is titled "Fire up session" and shows a lit, hand-rolled cigarette. While Smith's face is not seen on the video in question, his voice is clearly heard, and the post comes from an account which featured Smith on camera several times. A woman astutely warns Smith he should not be posting the video, but Smith says it is fine because "they don't have my name." He then says his name at the end of the video. Already suspended until at least November, this situation is unlikely to earn Smith any more fans in the league office.


This league is really full of stupid
When I read shit like that, I find it quite remarkable....only 80% end up bankrupt

When I read shit like that, I find it quite remarkable....only 80% end up bankrupt

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

YOU are correct. I think it was after football that he actually learned to read.

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

When I was attending College Park (back in the Boomer Eisason days), I took a night class on Soviet Foreign Relations (or something like that) without realizing it was a "Jock Class." The entire football team was enrolled. When the professor gave a test, he passed it out then left the room and returned about five minutes before class ended. The guys just passed test answers around and blatantly discussed them. I just sat quietly and did my thing.

I routinely sat next to a guy who was on his last year of eligibility and was the 3rd string WR. We're talking one day and he tells me he has a plate in his wrist that restricts its mobility. In the next breath, he tells me how he's training hard for the draft and his agent thinks he could go in the 9th or 10th round; he was certain that, once he got drafted, he would be in the NFL for life b/c his coaches kept telling him he was just a victim of the numbers game at UMCP.

I just remember thinking - "3rd string WR from a sometimes top 20 school with a plate in your wrist. Oh yeah, that's spells perennial All-Pro." Guy was nice enough but dumber than a brick.

Cowboys circus in full swing and training camp hasn't started (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cowboys-circus-full-swing-training-000000200.html)

Dallas Cowboys face fine for three suspended players - NFL.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000677133/article/dallas-cowboys-face-fine-for-three-suspended-players)

Sounds like everything its coming together in Dallas for the start of the season

Nick Foles released.
I wonder if the Jets will be interested in him.

Rams release QB Nick Foles on eve of camp reporting date (http://www.theredzone.org/BlogDescription/tabid/61/EntryId/57608/Rams-release-QB-Nick-Foles-on-eve-of-camp-reporting-date/Default.aspx)

Why would the Jets want him?

They signed Fitz yesterday.

Trent Richardson released by the Ravens. That was a quick end to an lackluster career.