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I’m glad the NFL is appealing and not at all surprised to see they are. I felt that ruling made an appeal pretty easy for the NFL. I almost felt like the NFL had to appeal the judges ruling with the way she worded certain things.

i feel the exact same way Mina Kimes does.

Was just reading up on NFL+ over on NFL.com. They confirm that the live regular season games will only be available on phones and tablets. https://www.nfl.com/plus/learn-more?icampaign=npl-edi-cpr-NFL+_Editorial_Launch_Promo I was assuming you could still at least cast it to your TV if you have a method for doing it (like chromecast for ex). I didn’t think that the app would offer a built in casting option but figured I could still do it with chromecast or Apple air play. But then I came across this: https://theathletic.com/3454558/2022/07/27/nfl-streaming-service-nfl-plus/ That makes this service much less appealing to me. I don’t really need it to watch games right now anyway but thought it might be a decent option if I ditch cable. But I’m not really interested in having to watch on my 11” tablet screen or 6” phone screen only. I guess we will have to wait and see if there’s a way around this… too bad it wasn’t available on PC. Then I’d just run an hdmi cable to my tv. But that’s not allowed either. https://support.nfl.com/hc/en-us/articles/5400888930076-I-subscribed-to-NFL-with-an-in-app-purchase-How-do-I-watch-games-on-my-computer- I was going to take advantage of the sale on a year subscription to NFL+ for $29.99 that’s running right now but I think I’ll wait. This really isn’t that appealing to me right now. The only thing I’d be buying it for would be the preseason game access that you can watch on your TV. Game replays for every game would be cool but that costs $79.99/yr for the premium option. I get a majority of games live and the NFL channel shows a bunch of game replays already so I get to see most of the games I want to see as it is. Disappointed with the initial launch of this service. It had the potential to be great but I guess they probably don’t want to deter people from using the other streaming services and networks the NFL has partnered with. Or maybe it was part of the new TV deal.

It’s crazy to read about some of the stuff he went through. But it never changed him. Never made him bitter/angry. There’s a link to the full story of you click on the tweet.

Xbox game pass gives you access to a ton of Xbox games on windows PC. But there’s a monthly fee and Madden ‘23 won’t hit game pass immediately. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/subscriptions-billing/manage-subscriptions/xbox-game-pass-pc-faq To use an Xbox copy on your PC I’m guessing you’ll have to download an Xbox emulator for PC https://www.techworm.net/2018/11/xbox-one-emulators-windows-pc.html

glad to hear this!

What a bunch of nonsense. blaming it on public outrage and then saying they are “Attempting to impose a dramatic shift in culture”…? So players were allowed to sexually assault dozens and dozens of women before “woke” culture got in the way and Watson just wasn’t given enough notice it’s not cool anymore and might piss people off if it gets out? 😂 (only half kidding…) She even said this is basically unprecedented and then says they need to use previous precedence that doesn’t exist. oh, and she has to worry about how this suspension could be used against the next player to assault dozens of women… Then goes light on the suspension for the nonsensical reasons above but imposes an unprecedented ruling that he can’t get private massages for the rest of his career. Makes sense 🤦‍♂️ The NFL should have a pretty easy time appealing this if they choose to (and I sure hope they do).

I knew it was going to be a short suspension when Watson’s lawyers released this statement last night: the talk all along was that his lawyers planned to appeal any lengthy sentence. It isn’t hard to figure out why that suddenly changed… There’s no way they put out the statement above without having a pretty good idea the sentence was going to be short.

So he has to miss time for personal reasons and Mitch Morse says they are praying for him and this is the conclusion you come to? Yikes!

With a VPN you can set your location to anywhere in the world (depending on the VPN service). So I’m guessing he’d use it to set his IP location as in-market for the game.

Look what happened when Davis got the snaps in the playoffs that he should’ve been getting all season. He had one of the best playoff performances we’ve seen in years. You can say it won’t take snaps away from him but it absolutely will. There is no way Sanders should’ve been taking snaps away from Davis last season but he did… Plus we have a pretty deep collection of pass catchers already. There’s only so many passes to go around. Who’s snaps would you give to OBJ if not Davis? Diggs? They gotta come from somewhere. I also feel like if we put another veteran WR in front of Davis this season, he’s as good as gone in free agency. And who would blame him? He put in possibly more work this offseason than any other bills player. He’s earned the right to get first crack at the #2 role. OBJ is hurt. He won’t be back till after the regular season starts anyway. I’d rather give davis the chance at that #2 role first and sign OBJ if davis struggles. I just think we have other more pressing needs to use our very limited cap space for. But again, if we sign OBJ I won’t complain. I don’t think he’s a diva or anything like that. He’s supposed to be an excellent teammate. I do think he’d fit the culture here. I’d just rather give Davis the #2 role is all. I honestly think he has the potential to be a #1 caliber WR. I’m very high on Davis.

I’m good with it if it happens but I don’t want to take snaps away from Davis either. If OBj would be #2 and it would push Davis to #3 I’d rather just give Davis the snaps. Especially after all the work he’s put in. I really think he’s going to have a breakout year.

Really glad to see him there. It makes me hopeful that Kim might be feeling a bit better. 🤞🤞 I believe that’s the first time we’ve seen Terry since Kim’s medical issues. He wasn’t at the Sabres draft afaik and he’s always there.

I sure hope Hyde is ok!

Here’s his impromptu press conference: He seemed to kind of confirm that he doesn’t spend a lot of time watching film on his own with his “there’s multiple ways to watch film” comments, saying he likes watching film with other players on the team and that there are different ways to learn besides just watching film (at least that was my interpretation). Reports said that he watched film while at the facility but the issue was him studying the film on his own when he was away from the facility. I don’t see how there are multiple different ways to watch film on your own. You either sit and watch it or you don’t. unless he’s not really sitting and watching it… Maybe that’s why they put that clause in his contract about how he had to watch the film I distracted - that he couldn’t just have it playing in the background while he did other things.

He actually listed accomplishments from high school 😂 And says he feels disrespected by the talk, but he himself said that he doesn’t need to study film. Now he feels disrespected by it? 🤷‍♂️ This dude seems to have a VERY fragile ego…

Oops, my bad. I thought he was referring to Kyler Murray

i could see him potentially making the roster over someone like Crowder.

Are you sure it wasn’t an old story about Jamarcus Russell? I can’t seem to find anything on a similar story about Kyler Murray. https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2022/7/25/23277988/kyler-murrays-contract-jamarcus-russell

Yeah but he always heaps praise on his opponents and he tells his players to do the same. even clearly terrible teams he talks up like they’re great. https://www.masslive.com/patriots/2019/09/bill-belichick-talks-up-every-opponent-so-how-did-he-try-to-praise-195-point-underdog-dolphins.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/10/01/redskins-would-be-lot-fun-if-they-were-good-bill-belichick-says-they-are/ he also uses any comments the other team makes as bulletin board material. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/how-bill-belichick-motivates-patriots-players-using-opponents-comments it’s a coaching strategy of his. Endlessly praise the opponents while using anything they say as bulletin board material for his team. Id like to see how he normally talks about his own QBs to the media. Like what did he say in the past about previous QBs they drafted. I think that would be more relevant. (not that I think his praise of Mac Jones actually means much anyway).

It’s scary they even needed this clause in the contract.

There are services kind of like that. Like on Amazon fire sticks, cubes and TVs you can add channels to your Amazon prime account for a fee. You can’t add something like Netflix or Disney plus but you can add a lot of channels that are also separate streaming services like Starz, HBO, paramount +, EPIX, etc. I believe Apple TV boxes offer the same thing.

I hope you are right! I already have the NFL app on my smart tv (android os) and fire stick/cube. So if I could watch using that I may consider trying this service. But it seems many places are reporting that the games can only be watched on mobile devices and tablets. ex: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/25/23277153/nfl-plus-streaming-live-games-super-bowl-premium-subscription and on NFL.com it says this: https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-launches-exclusive-streaming-subscription-service-nfl that sure makes it sound like the games will only be available on mobile devices.

Looks like a nice option for cord-cutters who live in their team’s local market, but yeah that’s about it. Disappointed they won’t offer a package with all the live games. Full game replays are nice but I already get a bunch of those with NFL network. edit - I take that back! Well that’s stupid. Phone and tablet only? I guess I could probably cast it to my tv but I’d rather be able to download an NFL+ app and just use that on my tv (or fire stick, etc).