downhill from here >>> nfl 2017/18 weeks 10 thru 17 thread

obvs none of this is scientific, but giving talib/crabtree two (initially) and gronk one is silly. not to mention the w33d suspensions

NFL suspensions are a joke. I think they just spin a wheel.

league priorities when it comes to player discipline prob couldn't be more fucked up

Gronk deserves to be out longer than a game. That hit was really rough and really unnecessary.

one game is a big suspension imo

for him that's close to 500k

NHL suspensions are messed up because they vary by injury -- slash someone and break a bone, you get suspended; slash someone and give them a bruise, everyone laughs

but gronk actually concussed the dude

yea you'd think that would be worse than the Talib fight, Gronk completely blindsided the dude

oh i didnt know he got a concussion. kick him out for the season them imo.

then*

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UkNMwkPi--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/u0ij2n65odbxrtixtjug.gif

this is just a shitty move

leading with the elbow into the back of his head...damn. i mean white is very very lucky (and gronk is lucky to be very very white tbqf.)

i mean considering everything we know about this type of injury, what the actual fuck at 1 game, i can only imagine it's subconscious "great white hope funtimes 69 guy" BS that allowed that.

Yeah, he did some kind of WWE move, clocking him in the back of the head with his robo-brace. It's one of the worst hits I've seen.

nice footwork tho

it does look very goonish

the leagues awful track record on these issues notwithstanding, i am fine with talib/crabtree getting more games than gronk.

tho i am also open to the idea that they all deserved more

gronk shdve gotten more than one game that was a very bad very late hit, amongst the worst in the modern safety conscious era

talib i guess got one game for each chain he snatched, crabtree got dinged cause people seem to generally dislike him

crabtree kind of strangled talib on the sideline and threw a punch that missed, so he did do something at least. i can understand him getting ejected, hard to untangle those on the spot, but he should never have been suspended. talib 2nd time chain snatching prob had to get a suspension. problem with suspension as a tool in the nfl of course is the difficulty of graduating its use, you only get 1/16th blocks. i don't think talib should've been suspended one eighth his whole season and i don't think gronk should've either.

fuck gronk imo

fuck the bills, too, though bc they suck

sad times when even horseshoe is scorning the twin institutions of western ny state

gronk was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me

hi Roberto Spiralli!

HI :D

I still love the Bills, you understand; I just hate them

even tho the qb merry-go-round has been a shambles, i think they might at least have a good coach finally. and if white is still alive he looks really good.

what happened to shazier? scared to check the footage. taken to hospital w back injury.

Steve young says he clearly couldn't move his lower body.

oh no

yeah it looked bad, play was stopped for quite a while

#22 on that LeVeon Bell run, wtf was that

what a shitshow

man alive another massive helmet shot on brown there.

never a doubt that the Steelers would come back to win this

anyway that was the kind of game that makes you want to quit watching football altogether

sources indicate that eli is getting his job back

anyway that was the kind of game that makes you want to quit watching football altogether

I only caught the postgame show but Steve Young looked like he was going to throw up.

JOHN GRUDEN called the game "disgusting".

if this had happened 10 years ago, the league would be selling fatheads of smith-schuster's hit

I posted this in the death spiral thread but it's kind of hypocritical for Gruden to say that given that he was complaining about penalty flags all game and revealed his man-crush for Burfict "despite all the fines"

yeah they were in fact straight up blaming the players while simultaneously propagating the culture that makes the players think this shit is desirable

Suzy Kolber was especially trashy in that segment. Charles Woodson and Young and Gruden all seemed pretty messed up and were clearly trying to figure out what to say, but Kolber kept steering it back to how hardcore and badass it was. It was hard to take.

they all were feeling the tension of having to actually call the game and act like it's exciting/cool while acknowledging what had happened (except mcdonough, he dngaf and would have murdered the nfl all night i think)

Startin to wonder what gets you ejected anymore. Even the Arena League used to toss people for far less

if this had happened 10 years ago, the league would be selling fatheads of smith-schuster's hit

― mookieproof, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:18 PM (five hours ago)

had this same thought

Don't worry, I'm sure the next Ravens and Steelers game will take it to a new low. That division is all about the he-man tough guy thing.

that game was a good reminder that football isnt going to be around in 20 years. not in it's current form anyway.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/davante-adams-green-bay-five-toughest-nfl/

really interesting piece from davante adams on wr/cb contests

Mike Mitchell absolutely killing it. Must watch. @TheAthleticPIT pic.twitter.com/SwcvJMJyHy

— Mark Kaboly (@MarkKaboly) December 6, 2017

that Davonte Adams article is great. never knew about that "super jam" thing, that's pretty interesting