NFL

[shafnutz05]

I was at that game. What a moment.

[NTP66]

He was just exorcising the demons.

[offsides]

Looks like Navajo Nation president, Jonathan Nez suggested the name of "Code Talkers" for the skins. Doesn't ring any bells for me.

https://twitter.com/NNPrezNez?ref_src=t ... -name-logo

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Code talkers doesn't ring any bells? Pretty sure they were used during WWI or WWII, to relay commands in their native tongue.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Yes! Navajo code talkers were used in the Pacific during WWII. The Japanese couldn’t decipher/translate their coded messages, so they would be used in close combat comms quite frequently. There was a terrible John Woo film with Nic Cage that sort of covered them, vaguely.

That would be a great name.

[willeyeam]

Cool story, bad team name imo

[offsides]

Code talkers doesn't ring any bells? Pretty sure they were used during WWI or WWII, to relay commands in their native tongue.

I know who they were and what they did. I just meant it seems pretty lame for a football team name, at least to me. Just seems weird to say, go Talkers.

[willeyeam]

Would be a great short season A ball team name

[RonnieFranchise]

If they give this team some dumbass #MACTION sounding nickname like Redwolves I am selling out to the Green Bay Packers.

[willeyeam]

First off, **** off

[faftorial]

My vote is Senators since the last new team there failed to use it.

[dodint]

Yeah, abandon all connection to Native Americans. They'll just have to change it again in 90 years if it has any ethnic basis.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

My vote is Honkies, Wasps, or Crackers.

[Freddy Rumsen]

[Shyster]

I'd like the DC Pork Barrels, or maybe the Washington Porkers. The logo could be a cartoon pig sticking out of a wooden barrel. Also entertaining would be to just call it "The Washington DC Football Team." Although the most appropriate name would probably be something like the Washington Twitter Mob or the DC Cancel Culture.

[mikey]

DC Carpetbaggers

[dodint]

DC United

[meow]

ha!

[LITT]

First off, **** off

[NAN]

Supposedly AB got $5MM from the Patriots in a grievance settlement.

Part of me is like "screw AB, I wish he got zero", part of me is like "haha, f the Patriots, paid $5MM for 1 game".

[tifosi77]

Take: The League is out of the Antonio Brown business.

Their statement following his release from NE was that they would not pursue any conduct punishment while he was a free agent, and that their punishment decision would be somewhat dependent on the resolution of the various legal cases pending against him; those cases aren't resolving any time soon. Figure he'd miss the entire 2020 season just dealing with that stuff, and then factor in the speculation that his League punishment would likely be an entire season ban - at least. So any team signing him might not have him available to actually play for a year following this year, at which time he'd be coming back as a 33-year old who had played exactly one game in three seasons.

So that statement from Goodell was effectively a TYFYS note.

[shafnutz05]

5 million should be plenty for AB to invest and live modestly and be fine for the rest of his life.

[NTP66]

5 million should be plenty for AB to invest and live modestly and be fine for the rest of his life.

searches for the /s...

[NailedPenguin]

At least half that already belongs to the baby mamas I'm guessing

[Stoosh]

Take: The League is out of the Antonio Brown business.

Their statement following his release from NE was that they would not pursue any conduct punishment while he was a free agent, and that their punishment decision would be somewhat dependent on the resolution of the various legal cases pending against him; those cases aren't resolving any time soon. Figure he'd miss the entire 2020 season just dealing with that stuff, and then factor in the speculation that his League punishment would likely be an entire season ban - at least. So any team signing him might not have him available to actually play for a year following this year, at which time he'd be coming back as a 33-year old who had played exactly one game in three seasons.

So that statement from Goodell was effectively a TYFYS note.

I'm not sure if I posted this here before, but this just made me think about it again.

Given everything that happened during and after the 2018 season with Antonio Brown, I'm not sure he cared one iota about career records. But it's incredible to me that at the end of 2018, Brown had at least a somewhat realistic shot to break at least one and possibly all three of Jerry Rice's big career receiving records - receptions, yards, and touchdowns.

Having just turned 31 when the 2019 season started, Brown had:
- 841 receptions, more than halfway to Rice's 1549,
- 11,207 yards receiving, very nearly halfway to Rice's 22,895
- 74 TDs, to Rice's 197.

A lot of this would have depended on Brown 1) playing at least another 8-10 mostly full seasons, 2) not going batsh*t crazy, and 3) remaining in an offense that was pass-heavy with a QB capable of getting him the ball. Brown's brain is a bag full of cats but I'm not sure I've ever seen a better route runner in NFL history (Rice and maybe Largent), and he seemed to have a Crosby-like dedication to working on his game, at least on his own when cameras were around.

I think he could have broken the receptions record in 6 years, maybe even five. The yardage & TD records would have been considerably tougher to get, especially the latter as ten 12-TD seasons would have still left him just a couple short.

I remember looking at Rice's numbers when he retired and thinking no one would ever really get close to those. Brown was very much on his way to putting himself in that conversation.