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NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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07/16/11 12:50 PM
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Still a lockout, but positive glowing reports from ESPN (check out Chris Mortensen's twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/mortreport) think a deal will be made between the owners and players, and that we'll get football this season, with the preseason mostly intact. Only sacrificemight be the HOF game, but I'm not going to lose sleep over that. Are you?
If ESPN is correct, a deal could be wrapped up by monday/tuesday, then on the 25th at the owners' meeting, they approve it (w/ idea that around that time, the NFLPA does as well) and thus Free Agency would officially begin on the 28th, three days after teams have a brief window to "officially" try to resign their clients.
HOF game is/was for August 7, the rest begin on the 11th.
(or basically, less than a month of free agency/trading/re-signing/training camp/practices/playbook meetings before the first snap.)
Ball play this year I'm sure will be alot more sloppier, awkward, uglier, and potentially alot more interesting. Countless fanboys will endlessly claim the lockout was why their team sucked it hard this year.
(Not that it matters for me, since I know the Dolphins will choke anyway.)
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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07/16/11 12:55 PM
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Still a lockout, but positive glowing reports from ESPN (check out Chris Mortensen's twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/mortreport) think a deal will be made between the owners and players, and that we'll get football this season, with the preseason mostly intact. Only sacrificemight be the HOF game, but I'm not going to lose sleep over that. Are you?
If ESPN is correct, a deal could be wrapped up by monday/tuesday, then on the 25th at the owners' meeting, they approve it (w/ idea that around that time, the NFLPA does as well) and thus Free Agency would officially begin on the 28th, three days after teams have a brief window to "officially" try to resign their clients.
HOF game is/was for August 7, the rest begin on the 11th.
(or basically, less than a month of free agency/trading/re-signing/training camp/practices/playbook meetings before the first snap.)
Ball play this year I'm sure will be alot more sloppier, awkward, uglier, and potentially alot more interesting. Countless fanboys will endlessly claim the lockout was why their team sucked it hard this year.
(Not that it matters for me, since I know the Dolphins will choke anyway.) they will most likely suck this year, but they might get carson palmer or mcnabb. but, yea i hope for the bears sake the stupid hall of fame game is cancelled.
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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07/16/11 02:09 PM
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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07/21/11 09:46 PM
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the players better say 'yes' to the deal...otherwise the fans will back the owners. and what, fans quit watching the games? Quit talking about the game at work on monday? Quit bitching about their team's QB sucking on the Internet? This isn't Politics. This isn't Washington where in such political games, there are winners and losers. Winners keep their jobs or win higher offices, losers get kicked out by owners. Look at both parties right now holding the nation's economy at gunpoint over next year's elections. With this NFL lockout, the owners and players will remain regardless of who "wins" and "loses." Games will be played, money will be made, fans will stick around. (this is the owners willing to risk away hundreds of millions to save tens of millions.)
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
[Re: Beth E]
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07/25/11 11:31 PM
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The Ravens already announced they're cutting Todd Heap, Willis McGahee, Derrick Mason and Kelly Gregg. Man, Baltimore really does not want me to have teams to root for does it.  Ravens were over the new (and smaller) Salary Cap, they want to resign those guys to (cheaper)contracts. These next few weeks are gonna be goddamn insane. (and whats the rumors of Titans and 49ers fighting Seahawks for the services of Matt Hasselbeck?)
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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08/02/11 07:23 AM
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Colts are doing their usual lose everyone you can to free agency while signing no one thing.
They did sign a few bad QBs and a first round bust for the Falcons for the D-Line. Supposedly a run stopper who can play DT or DE, Jamaal Anderson.
Re-Signed Melvin Bullit, Joe Addai, and Adam Vinetieri along with some Peyton Manning guy. Lost Charlie Johnson and Daniel Muir. Cut Kelvin Hayden, who was our best Cornerback.
Randy Moss wants to play for the Colts, but they turned him down. Damn it.
 Long as I remember The rain been coming down.
Clouds of Mystery pouring Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun;
And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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08/03/11 01:53 AM
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Dolphins fans chant “We want Orton” at training campIt’s not quite as bad as 49ers fans chanting for David Carr during last season, but the Dolphins organization had a rather embarrassing moment at training camp Monday night. The fans started booing every underthrown Chad Henne pass, then chanted, “We want Orton!” Somewhere, Orton’s agent is smiling. Broncos VP John Elway should be smiling too, except he may be leaning towards keeping Orton at this point. SI.com’s Jim Trotter writes that Orton has “clearly separated” himself at Broncos practices from Tim Tebow, who has struggled in the early going. Orton has looked better by a “wide margin.” The Broncos staff and players seem to appreciate Orton, but the fans want to get rid of him. The fans in Miami would gladly take Orton off their hands. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/01/dolphins-fans-chant-we-want-orton-at-training-camp/
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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08/04/11 07:26 PM
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
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08/06/11 10:30 PM
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New CBA permits HGH TestingNFL players ratified a new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement Thursday, hours after it was finalized, and the contract allows the NFL to become the first major U.S. professional sports league to use blood testing for human growth hormone, a source familiar with the talks told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
Players eventually would be subject to random testing for HGH, in addition to annual checks -- as is the case for all banned substances in the league's drug-testing program -- only after the union is confident in the way the testing and appeals process will work.
The aim is to have everything worked out in time to start HGH testing by Week 1 of the regular season, but that is not guaranteed.
source: ESPN The union will stall long enough for everyone who has taken it to clear their system. HGH helps heal injuries quicker among other things.
Long as I remember The rain been coming down.
Clouds of Mystery pouring Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun;
And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
[Re: MaryCas]
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08/09/11 12:29 PM
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Donovan McDudd to the Vikings. HA! He's better than anything we currently have at QB. He has nobody to throw to though.
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Re: NFL 2011 - where we hope we get football this year
[Re: Longneck]
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08/11/11 11:08 AM
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Donovan McDudd to the Vikings. HA! He's better than anything we currently have at QB. He has nobody to throw to though. Rice left but there's still Harvin and Shiancoe plus Kyle Rudolph was a great pass catching TE at Notre Dame. Oh and Bernard Berrian. And Adrian Peterson will help out a lot. Hopefully Harvin is over his migraine issues. Berrian hasn't really done anything since 2008 either and in fact regressed under Favre in the good 2009 season.
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