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[SPTO]

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Yeah I heard this story earlier today, whatever respect I had for Lomas Brown has gone in the toilet.

What an A-Hole.

[mestevo]

Appears Sherman has won his appeal, he's tweeted a thanks to the NFL and fans.

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[N51_rob]

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Got no real problem with his winning his appeal, but that excuse sounded like straight horse ****. They have water boys in the preseason (equipment men/trainers in season) that mix the drinks for these guys during practice and the like. But whatever, he won his appeal and can play.

[N51_rob]

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It's crazy to think how much would be on the line this week if "Fail Mary" had never happened. Good job NFL.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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We'd be playing for alot more than a 1st round bye, I can tell you that much.

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Awesome write up on Jamaal Charles at PFT right here.

The Chiefs are completing a miserable season that may cost everyone in the front office and coaching staff their jobs, but there’s one very valuable asset that whoever takes over the Chiefs next season will inherit: A running back who has blown away the NFL’s all-time record for yards per carry.

When Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles logged his 750th career carry on Sunday, he earned a spot in the NFL record book that had been owned by Jim Brown for half a century. That’s the spot atop the list of running backs with the highest career average yards per carry: In the official NFL record book, a running back needs 750 career carries to qualify for the yards-per-carry record, and Brown’s career average of 5.22 yards per carry has been the gold standard since he retired in 1965.

But now Charles, with 770 carries for 4,483 yards in his career, has surpassed Brown by a huge margin: Charles’ average of 5.82 yards per carry is something professional football has never seen before from a running back.

Brown’s record has technically been broken, but only by a couple of quarterbacks: First Randall Cunningham retired with an average of 6.36 yards per carry, and then Michael Vick, whose current career average is 7.03 yards per carry, topped Cunningham. But if we look only at running backs, Charles is the best ever in yards per carry average by a huge margin.

In fact, Charles tops all other running backs in NFL history even if we expand the list a bit to include running backs who didn’t have 750 career carries. Pro Football Hall of Famer Marion Motley, for instance, averaged 5.70 yards a carry in his career, an even better mark than Brown. Motley was always cited by the great Sports Illustrated writer Paul Zimmerman as the best football player he ever saw, but Motley got most of his carries playing for the Browns when they were part of the All-America Football Conference in the 1940s, and the NFL doesn’t count stats from the AAFC toward its official records, so Motley has never been considered the record holder. Some football historians considered Motley the true yards-per-carry record holder even though the NFL record book gave the nod to Brown, but Charles has now surpassed even Motley’s mark.

Bo Jackson also had a better career yards per carry average than Brown, but Jackson’s career was cut short after just 515 carries. Jackson’s average was an incredible 5.40 yards per carry — incredible, but not as good as Charles’ career average.

A running back who averages five yards a carry for his career is doing something extraordinary. Five yards a carry is better than Walter Payton averaged, better than O.J. Simpson averaged, better than Eric Dickerson averaged, better than Emmitt Smith averaged. A 5.0 average is what Barry Sanders and Gale Sayers had in their careers, and it’s currently Adrian Peterson’s career average as well. Going above 5.0 is the most rarefied air a running back can reach. For Charles to close out his fifth NFL season while carrying a 5.8-yard career average is remarkable.

[l3ulvl]

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Reading on the bottom line that Stephen Jackson is considering retiring at 29, saying he'd rather go out like Barry, leaving people wanting more, than too late.

Not sure if he's sincere or if it's just a negotiation ploy. I think the retirement threat is smarter than the "trade me" threat. TBH, with the beating he takes, and the running back climate in general, I hope he cashes in.

[SPTO]

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Not sure if he's sincere or if it's just a negotiation ploy. I think the retirement threat is smarter than the "trade me" threat. TBH, with the beating he takes, and the running back climate in general, I hope he cashes in.

If I were him i'd pull a Brett Favre so to speak and retire for a year and maybe a better team might sign him to a contract afterwards. He'd have some fresher legs a la Marcus Allen who didn't play very much for 3 years when Al Davis decided to blackball him and he went to KC for a great 2nd half to his career.

[l3ulvl]

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If I were him i'd pull a Brett Favre so to speak and retire for a year and maybe a better team might sign him to a contract afterwards. He'd have some fresher legs a la Marcus Allen who didn't play very much for 3 years when Al Davis decided to blackball him and he went to KC for a great 2nd half to his career.

Would that work in today's age of RB evaluations though? Coming back at 30 or 31 is a huge risk for his position, even though he's been so good for so long.

[SPTO]

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Would that work in today's age of RB evaluations though? Coming back at 30 or 31 is a huge risk for his position, even though he's been so good for so long.

Not too sure but it's a risk worth taking. I mean, if he's concerned about his body breaking down and such then he could retire right now but if he were to quietly send feelers out the following offseason i'm sure some team would be willing to give him a role initially as a backup.

[l3ulvl]

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It might come down to whether he feels Fisher and the Rams are truly trending towards contention, otherwise the retirement threat could be legit. But at the same time, if his deal is up, why bother retiring? Just go sign with the Pats lol.

[Jr.]

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Cam fined $21K for his conduct toward the referee on Sunday

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20121227/cam-newton-fined-carolina-panthers.ap/

[rangerrick012]

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Hyperbole quote of the week.

“I don’t think anybody in the history of the league has played at (RG3's) level,” Shanahan said. “At least over the last 40 years, when I take a look at the numbers and what he has done, I don’t think anybody has played at his level. As we’ve talked about before, he’s got a unique skill set — his ability to throw, drop back, play action, put a threat on a defense with his running ability — and he will just get better and better. He’s just scratching the surface. And the reason I say that is because he works at it.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/28/mike-shanahan-no-one-in-nfl-history-has-played-at-rg3s-level/

[rangerrick012]

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Donovan doing what he does best.

“Making it to the NFC Championship is not easy, and I think they’re starting to see that right now, that getting to the playoffs and going to the NFC Championship consistently, it’s just not that easy,” McNabb said on Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia. “There are teams right now who have winning records, like the Atlanta Falcons, they’ve done it for so many years, and they get to the playoffs and all of a sudden they’re one-and-done.”

McNabb says it’s foolish to judge a quarterback harshly just because he never won a Super Bowl.

“Myself, Dan Marino, there are a lot of quarterbacks who have gotten to that point and just haven’t been able to bring it home,” he said. “People want to make it look like you have nothing to show for it. Well we have a lot to show for it.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/28/mcnabb-philly-is-finding-out-that-getting-to-the-playoffs-isnt-easy/

This guy really just put himself in the same sentence as Dan Marino, SMH...

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McNabb is such a tool. I can't believe how many people on here consider him HoF material. What a sick joke.