What’s interesting in the fallout of Tom Brady’s overturned suspension, Jolly Roger seems to have had his legs cut out from under him. Throw in the Bounty-gate overturning, and the absolute bungling of the Ray Rice/Greg Hardy suspensions overturnings and reinstatements, players these days are immune to misdeeds. Barring convictions. Seeing as most of these guys can lawyer up pretty hard, and can therefore put things off til the season is over, they are pretty much able to live abouve the law and hide behind the shield.
I’m sure this isn’t was Goodie Goodell intended by being a hard-ass not interested in due process, but now the players use that very tactic to put off legal proceedings.
Aldon Smith is the latest example of a guy who has burned bridges and broken laws at every turn, and yet gets a make-good deal with the Raiders. And we all know that if he was a scrub, he’d be working at Home Depot stocking shelves. But hey, I don’t begrudge the guy a damn thing. Get what you can get while you can. There’s no law against accepting a job offer.
My point is some should make a stand regarding this. Tiring, sure to point this out again, but the league and the owners don’t care that some of their players are habitual criminals. Domestic abusers, child abusers, drunk drivers, and drug-fueled steroid freaks. All is fine as long as the collective perception jives with the reality that no one really cares what these guys do. Except for the victims of their misdeeds, of course.
So who makes the stand? Well, in the Niners case recently, Jim Harbaugh hid behind the very due process keeping these guys on the field. Of course he gave Seattle and the Ravens shit for the steroid problems and the Ray Rice deal, but he sure wimped out when the chickens came home to roost in the form of Aldon Smith and Ray McDonald. He ate teo big helpings of crow over that shit.
Course it took 3 strikes to force the Nienrs hand with both RayMac and Aldon. Now they can at least try to get in front of another situation by benching Ahmad Brooks. The team? Hiding behind the shield. Same with Sir Jed Tweetsalot. Seeing as Harbs wimped out, maybe Jim Tomsula will be the one to make a stand.
Forty Niners Forever 
Carr looks bad starting his sophomore season. Raiders D is still a sieve. One draft and Aldon away…
Meanwhile on the “other” blog ……Bullit and his buddies are watching NFL ball with their hot water bottles and warm pink blankets. Thumbs are placed firmly in place. The Asylum is at peace waiting for tomorrow’s Monday Night FOOTBALL!
The Raider personal foul penalties used to fire up a great team. Now they’re shooting down a potentially good team.
Raiders D is non-existent, The O is awful. What happened to Carr?
Wonder how Crabs feels now.
Carr injured his throwing hand stiff arming a guy. He was scrambling for a first near midfield on a third down. His body made the first, but when he hurt whatever he hurt, he fumbled out of bounds short of a first. McCown came in for a fourth and short. Big mistake, it was only 10-0 at the time. Bengals went down and scored on the short field and now again. It’s over.
Earlier Carr overthrew an open Crabs on a third down. Crabs will see the difference.
It’s only the 1st game. The Raiders should be better than last year, time will tell. We will know more about Crabs as soon as his first injury hits.
It is definitely going to be a tough road in our division once again. Just have to wait and see what the Niners are gonna do. I think we will be faster on D and hopefully more creative on O. The Vikes will be a good challenge for our Dline and we shall see what our piecework Oline can do.
Good call by an anonymous fan: why, after the Ram fair catch in OT, wasn’t a personal foul called on the Seahawks for TWO guys hitting the receiver???
Instead, a penalty was called on the Rams, later reversed. At least one if not more ref was totally in the bag for the Seahawks.
Crabs 0 catches 0 yards. Stevie Wonder gets a TD.
Seattle’s pass defense looks a lot weaker without Chancellor.
Nah, he got 1 for 10 yds. and a FD with a nice catch. I could’ve sworn I saw it, so I had to look it up after seeing your post.
Marcus Mariota: 12 of 15 passing, 4 TDs 0 Ints, 158.3 passer rating. Do you think anyone on the Bucs is saying right around now, “Uh, fellas….?”
Nah, they’re the Bucs. That’s why it’s 42-7 Titans.
Niners may lose this first game tomorrow night. But, if Kap actually completes a screen pass, or they execute a draw play for positive yardage, it’ll be a positive game for me…
Both the Ravens and Broncs defenses have scored more points today than their offenses. LOL
My mistake: It’s Broncos offense 9 (counting FGs), defense 6.
Crabs is the emergency QB if McCown gets hurt. But losing 30-0, why risk injury to him? Put in a running back if necessary.
Cards about to win. Seahawks in dead last.
Geez, I just now saw that the Chargers came back to knock off the Lions, who I thought were on the verge of greatness. I stopped even paying attention to the game at 21-3. I guess the Lions miss Suh more than I thought they would.
This is awesome. Complete domination by the Cowpokes, their offense marching up and down the field. TOP off the charts. 10-6 Giants with a good chance for more before half.
13-6
Just wow, what can you say? 4 pts. just handed to the Cowturds by the refs. Pass interference in the endzone when the CB didn’t so much as lay a finger on the receiver.
It’s plays like that one, and memories of the Lions playoff game last year also in Dallas that make me wonder if the NFL isn’t really professional wrestling.
Why do the refs bother calling penalties? Why not just announce to the crowd, “Dallas is too far behind so we’ve decided to add 4 pts. to the scoreboard in their favor. The league stands by Jerry Jones and the fine Dallas Cowboys organization.”
AND….
He’s got a pretty cool bus 😀
lol.
Can’t speak for certain when it comes to NJ, but the whole goddamn lot of you would rather have Kap > Tony Romo. Shit. You mooks would favor Alex Smith > a great bowl of clam chowder.
And as I finish my sentence…
HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!
Del I’m still hoping the ceiling is higher than the floor for Kaep.
Haven’t given up on him by any means but, I don’t see him looking too comfortable with his feet yet.
See what he shows us tomorrow night.
Giants regretting not punching it in with 1st and goal from the 1. Cowpukes gonna win this by a great Romo last second drive. Scheist. I hate the Cowboys.
If any, ANY, of you would raise their hand and say they’d still prefer Alex or Kap > Romo…
well, someone with a cleaner ability to fire a riffle and put *you* out of their misery would have done so long before now.
HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!
Del nothing personal BUT…..Fuk Dem Cowboys!
ALL DAY Every Day…Twice on Sundays.
With a splintered pick axe handle.
Looks like Suh is facing yet another review of unsportsmanlike conduct after 1 game with his new team.
What a headcase.
http://tinyurl.com/pfwbpv6
And while you’re there – Aldon’s situation may gain some attention this week as well –
http://tinyurl.com/ntph3rl