I hope you're wrong. They're going to have a lot of dusting to do at SoFi if it just sits empty for a year. https://nflcommunications.com/Pages...gest-Ever-Videoboard-in-Sports-Completed.aspx
Redskins seem to be on track for a name change. Maybe they'll take Redrockers, Sammy would stoked! I also am not exactly optimistic about this years season. 2020 just fucking blows.
It makes absolutely no sense for them to play football in the middle of a pandemic. Players will get sick, and they will infect others before it is caught, it's just inevitable. So what happens when an entire O-line gets sick? The whole quarterback room? 2-3 WRs? You've got guys practically off the street stepping in to form entire units? Those games are going to suck, the "sick" team is going to get pillaged while the "healthy" team gets a cheap win. Standings will be a lottery of which teams got hit with the virus and when. The games will be bad, which is bad for NFL viewing. There have been a hundred proposed mitigations, but none of them address the core problem: it's not possible to play (current-rules) football with any level of safety, and that absolutely destroys the basic equality that the NFL operates at. Sure, players go out now, but the first team that loses 8 of their O-linemen overnight because they were all practicing together is going to be basically nonfunctional unless they happen to be playing against a D-line that lost their guys that week, too.
The rumors are bigger than that. People are expecting Snyder will be forced to sell the team. Story drops tomorrow. From the Washington Post ...and not their sports desk.
Link? Never mind... found one: https://prosportsextra.com/rumor-so...-involves-former-coach-jay-gruden-and-others/
WaPo runs an article that will decimate the team's value, and Jeff Bezos is interested in buying the team? Neat. Who owns the Washington Post again?
Wow... that was insanely over-hyped. Was Gruden even mentioned anywhere? I cannot imagine any hell breaking loose over this any time soon.
lol, I thought it was overhyped, but thought maybe I was reading it wrong. Maybe there is more to come. Trickle out method.
I mean, I think in any normal organization that article would be a big deal. But the Redskins were caught a couple years ago literally pimping out their cheerleaders in a foreign country after they took their passports so they couldn't leave. This kind of pales in comparison to that, and if that didn't cause any major upheaval in the organization, I can't imagine this will. I'm still absolutely shocked about how that got swept under the rug so fast.
also possible that there was an original version of the story that was being hyped up, and when they ran it through legal it came back with a bunch of red marks and comments like "we can't afford to say this" and "if you print this then the fallout is on you because I will quit"
Wow, this ESPN post completely undersells how dramatic Smith's return is. To simply say he suffered a devastating fracture skips the fact that he had an infection that damn near ate his leg off, many surgeries and grafts to try and save the leg, and how close he was to dying. Remarkable.
In case any NFL fans have been living under a rock, the Seahawks traded for Jamal Adams. Jets get a safety, two firsts and a third. Still like this trade for Seattle.
My first thought was that it cost a lot in terms of draft capital. My second thought is that Russell Wilson is in the prime of his career and is a top 3 QB right now. Pete Carroll is probably going to retire after his contract expires in 2021, so going all in on the next two seasons for another Super Bowl is worth it to me. It helps that Seattle can't apparently draft in the first round for shit anyway. If I'm Clowney or Griffen, I'd sign with Seattle. There is zero pass rush right now and an opportunity to play with potentially the best defensive backfield in the league right now would go a long way towards possibly getting a big payday in 2021. Also, fuck the NFC West. It's a prison riot every year and it seems like it always will be.