DrDawkinstein

Not really, but feel free to post any tweet or article for something else to discuss! This and the Justin Fields toe injury kinda dominated the internet yesterday. Let's see what today brings!

Right, right. I was just saying that with the personalities on both sides, it could be anything. Looks like the Raiders are playing it as him refusing to get the surgery they want. There is the boot thing. I think they had another video of him dancing in the locker room or training room while he's supposed to be immobile. Will be interesting to see this play out.

Was just reading up on the whole Wilkins saga, and turns out he was originally injured by one of his own teammates as they were celebrating and the teammate jumped up and then landed on Wilkins foot. VERY Raiders here. Love every minute cause it aint us (anymore). Another point on Raiders doing this: NFLPA is at an all time weakest right now with no leadership. Any other year and maybe Wilkins gets traded or Raiders even eat it. But it'll be interesting if FOs smell blood in the water and start taking advantage of an NFLPA in shambles.

Oh absolutely. I cant wait to see what dirt the Raiders air on him

That's all off-field, non-football stuff. ***** around with your Football stuff will get you cut and money taken. Cant wait to see all the details aired.

Could also be Wilkins is a lazy POS. With these two sides its impossible to tell.

It would be nice if any team in that division stepped up and gave the Chiefs a run for their money. Even just play them hard, get a 1-1 split and maybe injure a couple of their players in a hard fought game.

"Due to how Wilkins treated the rehab from his foot injury he suffered last season, the Raiders voided the remaining $35.2 million of guaranteed money left on Wilkins contract last month and today, Wilkins filed a grievance with the NFLPA." Interesting.

Figured we could use 1 thread to post stuff happening at camps for other teams. Also because I wanted to post this and didn't know where else, and while entertaining, probably doesnt need its own stand alone thread Chase laughing so hard had me cracking up too

Based on it being much much harder to win in the modern NFL with 7 round drafts, free agency, and the salary cap. edit: Oh, and there were only like 28 teams in the league so less watering-down the talent pool.

It's almost impossible to really compare with the 12 round drafts, little free agency, and no cap of the old days.

Agreed. At that point the tag is essentially a 5th year option on a guy we got in the 2nd but is a 1st round talent. The RB franchise tag is $13.6M this year, likely to be around $14M next year. So still a deal for the Bills compared to his $15M+ asking price. If he leaves after that because we can't afford him, then it is what it is. I can understand when people say they dont want to pay a RB $15M-$17M as a general philosophy. And if that is how Beane is going to operate and build the team then so be it. What I dont agree with is when folks try to devalue Cook and say he isnt worth $15M. I also start to question Beane "wasting" that 2nd round pick on a guy who he knew was already a big name from a major program, who just won a Natty, and if he was successful with the Bills would be wanting big money, but knowing he wasnt going to re-sign him to big money. 2nd round picks are too valuable to waste on 1 contract rentals, and more so for Beane who has whiffed bigly on most of his other 2nd round picks. But I'm glad (and not surprised) to see Cook at camp and participating. I hope he has another amazing season.

Interesting. Especially since Marcus West had been a Defensive Asst/Asst DL Coach under Washington for so long before getting the job outright last year. And now Nielsen is listed only as a Defensive Assistant as well.

DL Coach was Eric Washington 2020-2023, then Marcus West took over the spot last year.

The day Saquon signed his new deal. This is one of the tweets that some fans are so upset about.

Glad he has a sense of humor about constantly being in the news for horrible things like beating women. Real cool that he can laugh about it. I didnt see any humility in that clip. Certainly no contrition. I'll believe he's "grown" when he can go an entire 12 months without another violence transgression.

Can't blame the kids. Also, the statement that his kids sit on Youtube nonstop is pretty much exactly where I expect his parenting to be at...

He definitely lived a full life. Good for him. He will be missed. RIP you crazy sob

At least the Jets are relevant on one thing over the last 50 years

The final regular season game ever at the Ralph. Very nice. (Hopefully the last game ever is the AFC Championship)

There you go. Everyone rejoice!

I think Beane has enough precedent set on getting guys paid well enough before their contracts expire that he can do one-offs in certain situations without affecting the way he normally likes to operate. Kinda like how at this point, the locker room should be able to absorb a "bad attitude" guy if we needed to bring in a Free Agent.

Ha for real, hopefully someone whose judgement we dont rely on during games. Good luck in that thing this winter

Ah man, this is a big bummer. I really feel for his daughter too. RIP Theo. Cockroach and I will miss you...

Yeah I cant disagree with any of that. Especially the Exec part and that's why I mentioned it above. I think its very telling that so many current players love Beane and talk about it all the time, whereas so many former players HATE Whaley and spent a lot of time at the Fred Jackson Roast talking mad ***** on him. Fitz, FJ, Wood, Aaron Williams, etc... HATE Whaley. And those are some good dudes too, so that really says something. I do wonder what the team would look like if we could've somehow convinced Whaley to work for Beane. I know it never could have happened, and they might not have even gotten along to work well together. But on talents and specialties alone, it would have been interesting.