The most leveraged contract in the NFL 2014-15 WEEK 2 thread. Uncuttable and untradeable.

Phil Simms, making an excuse for Ray Rice's diminished 2013 stats: "Well, he was beat up last year."

Steve Smith looking fucking great

jesus christ the one time in my life i actively root for the steelers and they look like they're getting incentivized for committing 15 yard penalties

lol otm

totally otm. then midway through the third i remembered who ben roethlisberger is so fuck both these teams imo.

tbf I've never seen a "roughing the passer" call in which the QB still had the ball in hand and wasn't hit in the head or anything

steve smith: hall of fame?

without looking up any stats i'd say absolutely

if he'd been drafted by a competent franchise he'd be a lock but...

DENIED

https://vine.co/v/OazhFtii3Oi

tbf I've never seen a "roughing the passer" call in which the QB still had the ball in hand and wasn't hit in the head or anything

― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were some terrible personal foul calls made by the refs against both teams. Let them play for fucks sake.

ok i'm kinda done with ray rice story news but this is amazing:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/09/11/felger-mazz-bill-polian-you-are-an-embarrassment/

21 minutes apart bill polian goes on sportscenter and says completely contradictory things about the nfl office.

what did polian learn in that 21 minutes...

I saw that on deadspin. TOTALLY fucked up. Im not a big conspiracy theory guy, but come on.

uh adrian peterson just got indicted for injuring a child??

can't wait for the corporal punishment apologists to go apeshit over a man's right to beat his own child bloody.

Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson has been indicted by a Montgomery County, Texas, grand jury on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. The team deactivated him for Sunday's home game against the Patriots.

Peterson's attorney, Rusty Hardin, issued a statement Friday saying his client's conduct "involves using a switch to spank his son." According to a report by Sports Radio 610 in Houston, Peterson removed the leaves of a tree branch, which he referred to in a police report as "a switch," to strike the child.

"This indictment follows Adrian's full cooperation with authorities who have been looking into this matter. Adrian is a loving father who used his judgment as a parent to discipline his son," Hardin said in his statement. "He used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas. Adrian has never hidden from what happened."

Hardin said Peterson has cooperated fully with authorities and voluntarily testified before the grand jury for several hours.

"Adrian will address the charges with the same respect and responsiveness he has brought to this inquiry from its beginning," Hardin said. "It is important to remember that Adrian never intended to harm his son and deeply regrets the unintentional injury."

He used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas.

Was going to add, I'm sure he got worse coming up but to get hauled in on spanking in Texas...

the pictures aren't entirely shocking, definitely broke the skin tho

75% of the ppl in my office didn't know what a switch is

I got the shit kicked out of me as a kid by my dad and I turned out ....not great. I really hope nobody defends this as some sort of "east Texas justice".

A friend of a friend of mine just got sentenced to 6 Months in jail in Georgia for tripping while carrying her kid after having a couple of drinks and breaking the kids leg. That's bad but beating a kid with a switch is worse.

this is really good: http://deadspin.com/the-only-thing-unusual-about-ray-and-janay-rice-is-that-1633583402

this is really good: http://deadspin.com/the-only-thing-unusual-about-ray-and-janay-rice-is-that-1633583402

Yup v good.

this AP shit is sickening

reading the details of this peterson stuff and if he were on fire in front of me i'd have a hard time getting motivated to look for water.

ugh. i just saw the photos. and then i saw they were taken a week *after* AP doled that out.

fuck any sites reporting that he "swatted" his son or playing it down.

that's a fucking beating & i need to go look at something else bc this is fucked up

Could someone explain how the fuck some ppl think this is OK? If Michael Vick had been caught doing the same to a dog these apologists would be condemning him

yeah i don't know

i think parents get away with a lot of bullshit under the guise of 'discipline' & ppl will rally around him & defend a father's right to lay down a whipping on a 4 year old

at any age it's fucked up but what really makes me want to scream is that this kid will believe for most of his young life that he deserved it. what the fuck could a 4 yo ever do in their life to deserve *that*

some ppl just really want to reserve the right to beat their kids

also wtf that that is supposedly a "spanking"

Not nfl but relevant this week:

http://deadspin.com/mayweather-on-being-a-serial-woman-beater-only-god-c-1634290732

I'm just gonna watch golf the rest of my life. This is a joke.

I truly long for the days when we all got pissed that a guy fucked a Perkins waitress. Goddamn.

fuck AP forever, that giant piece of shit

Poor kid was probably so excited to visit his dad, the big time NFL star. Then gets the shit kicked out of him. Seeing those pics made me start crying.

me too, Bill

drew stanton to start for az

can someone remind me, do the Patriots have a secondary?

"miscommunication"

idk i never think much about the first series

oh got did rgiii get hurt nooooooo noooo nooooo

I flipped from the giants game just in time to see rg3 go down

no one could have predicted. sigh

pats secondary figured it out

cousins!

glad they decided to wake up

do not throw to revis island

Chandler Joooooooooones!!!!!!!!!!!

loool vikes

Spiller!!

klassic giants special teams

first-place buffalo bills

yaaay raiderpaws :(

lol that's exactly why I think the "Kirk Cousins > RG3" rhetoric is so overdone right now - hell he may indeed be a better QB going forward but tearing up Jacksonville is not exactly an accomplishment.