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I got a pretty low tolerance for signed players that play and then tank. Don't like it, set out. Don't show up for work and be a bozo.

I don't know wtf McKenzie is doing with the Raiders.

http://deadspin.com/two-former-players-have-desean-jacksons-back-1553870080?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I love derrick ward dissing jaws there

yeah that was fun

I still think about this interview all the time

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000319102/article/marshawn-lynch-is-just-about-that-action-boss

I'm saying Clowney and Sammy Watkins are the guys I would take at #1, I tend to doubt the Houston Texas will give me a call but hey maybe they have their pulse on ILoveNFL.

Clowney follows through, he could be really good like Julius Peppers was when he came out of North Carolina. That's the guy when I look at Clowney's build and results who he reminds me of.

Watkins looks to me as this years top big athletic wide-receiver. I know I would love seeing this guy play on the Colts, as the #1 wide out seems open for business on that club.

I'm curious to see how Chicago's draft plays out, that club is in change of generation on defense. It happens to all clubs that are competitive over time and how well they rebuild their rosters is direct relation to future success. That's the place the Pats have been about the best at for a while.

I think Clowney is clearly the most talented guy, but I don't understand the people who just dismiss his injuries/bad performances. If a guy is constantly nicked up, has to miss games with injuries that his coach doesn't seem to really believe in etc., then you have to take that into account right?

Apparently the second tier QBs are pretty well-regarded, mettenberger, garropolo. Interesting to see if the browns or texans try to wait for them in the 2nd.

Mettenberger is getting a lot of pub.

Hot rumor here in the ATL is Falcons moving up to get Clowney at 1. Falcons are the anti-Patriots when it comes to draft strategy which is weird since their front office is Pats guys.

compelled to create a separate identity i guess. feel like falcons have to build depth at some point, you can win some games with a handful of superstars and a bunch of vet minimums but you get just a couple of injuries and things looks real ugly

i don't know why they keep thinking they're one player away, they're 4 or 5 players away

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/04/02/richard-sherman-desean-jackson/

But what did they do to Riley Cooper, who, if he’s not a racist, at least has “ties” to racist activity?

i find it hard to believe that the eagles cut desean jackson bc they're racists

well, sherman scores some direct hits on several points but the article is barely about djax

xp not sure how you would make that connection
the implication is that "ties to gang activity" are given priority over "ties to racism"

and my experience reading sherman's writing is that 99% of the time it's about sherman even when it's not

do we even really know why the Eagles cut him specifically? because all I've heard is "gang ties", nothing specific. like Sherman is just saying here "he's friends with some rough people, many of us are", but it sounded to me like there was more going on? or is Philly just that fed up with him?

He was cut because he makes too much money.

If dudes got cut for gang ties there would be noone playing in the NFL.

he makes too much money + he doesn't fit chip's culture + chip doesn't value WR's very much anyway = bye jackson or at least that's what i assume. the eagles knew about the gangland connections back when they resigned him 2 years ago so either you believe chip is exceptionally sensitive to gang ties or it's unrelated.

Kelly's coached guys with LA gang ties before. Its not that. Whitlock:

Kelly made his name coaching at Oregon and, like most Pac-12 coaches, routinely recruited kids from Los Angeles, kids with "gang ties." This was not his first rodeo with a young player with unscrupulous friends. Every NFL and college football coach on the planet deals with this issue.

No reason to pay a WR $10 million in that offense where you spread the ball all over the place. Especially with Maclin coming back. Kelly thinks that he is to WR's what Shanahan is to RB's

the issue is not the "real reason" it's the public perception and the way the eagles have chosen to steer it

the eagles haven't done anything besides cut jackson and wish him luck. everything else is conjecture + speculation.

theyre not responsible for some of those sub rosa 'gang ties' brieifings?

the organization could easily make a three sentence statement that would make that line of discussion go away

That hasnt been confirmed. Could just be shitty journalism. Both the Eagles and Jackson himself deny thats why he got cut.

from what i understand the eagles were looking to deal him up until that story ran when probably they assumed that his value has just plummeted. why would they release a story that devalued a player they were shopping?

what's the theory anyway? that they released the information so that they wouldn't get heat from the philly fanbase? the philly fanbase loves jackson and are furious that he was cut and i don't see why anyone in philadelphia would change their mind bc he was "associated" with members of a gang.

the issue is not the "real reason" it's the public perception and the way the eagles have chosen to steer it

^public perception doesnt mean shit, in my opinion. who gives a shit. Not sure the eagles have steered anything. NB-i hate the eagles and i think they made a massive mistake here.

i love the eagles and i think they made a massive mistake here

hahahahaha, yeah, i dont want anybody to think im coming to their defense over this move-im not. but i respect their owner, he's one of the better guys in the league.

http://instagram.com/p/mWFoiyHxAV/

Philly should just play it more straight. They didn't want to put up that much cash for for the some total of things. I think what might be more telling is that they couldn't trade him and I would almost guarantee they probably tried to. There are free agents available in football, you might not get the exact type player, but you could get others that improve your team.

Chris Johnson cut. Tennessee website cites "gang ties" as the reason.

lol

He wears a grill, you see.

Come three hours south Chris, they can use you down here.

really just don't get the Jackson thing. seems like it's Trade him >>> Sign him >>>>>>>>> Release him, 'gang ties' or no

Chris Johnson is probably headed to the Jets, right? barf

it was either trade him, release him or keep him at $10 mm per. there was no "sign him" unless he agreed to restructure.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/04/04/sources-desean-jackson-was-a-problem-for-kelly-eagles-in-locker-room/

“The fact is, [Jackson] was a ‘me-guy’ with an attitude problem and [Maclin] is the complete opposite, a team guy, a great character guy you go to war with,” said one source. “Funny how [Jackson] has this anti-bully thing and he thought he could push [Kelly] around; he found out otherwise. His being cut had nothing to do with the gang stuff. The team knew it. Everyone knew he had ‘ties.’ Those were his guys. That’s okay. What put him out was his selfishness. He can try and spin it all he wants how he’s ‘a team player.’ He’s not. I’ll put it this way, when it came out last Friday that [Jackson] was released, more than a few guys were happy it happened. They said ‘good riddance.’ He had no real connection with anyone.

Desean Jackson has had some amazing things happen in his NFL career to this point, but this is what I will always remember him for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9bDZ4ej_w

i sure wish ilnfl were localized so i could invite you all to a screening of DRAFT DAY starring kevin costner

just saw a ~20yo guy in brooklyn wearing a cliff branch #21 raiders jersey

Darren Rovell discusses the significance of Robert Griffin III's new logo.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/04/draft_day_movie_kevin_costner_and_roger_goodell_star_in_the_nfl_s_version.html

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10777877/aldon-smith-detained-los-angeles-airport

http://img.pandawhale.com/46113-Jim-Harbaugh-tantrum-gif-AoJN.gif

serious wtf