The Official 2017 NFL Season Thread

[caddo man]

Wow! that fucked up. Just like the Raiders last year.

 

[Stew]

Wow! that fucked up. Just like the Raiders last year.

Don't worry bout it bruh, he'll be aight

 

[MR.CJ]

Eagles season over

 

[NCswag]

https://twitter.com/snytv/status/940219729142304768

Must go get that w next week against the saints, guy !

If y'all gotta go get kaep just so that shit !

 

[DaBull]

NFC playoffs gon be official this year

 

[peagle05]

WELP

 

[marc123]

I hope Wentz has learned his lesson. Stop all that tough guy running!!! He is to important to the eagles, to be doin that fuck shit. Slide every single time....live to play another down.

 

[marc123]

btw w this wentz injury now. the NFC is wide tf open. imo any team that gets in, can make it to the SB! cant wait.

 

[HustleThaDon]

Lmao a rare peagle has appeared

 

[natural born sinners]

btw w this wentz injury now. the NFC is wide tf open. imo any team that gets in, can make it to the SB! cant wait.

It was open BEFORE that. Niggas still acting like Philly was a lock to win the NFC. Niggas lost to Seattle w Wentz and were down to the Rams before he went down.

 

[natural born sinners]

I remember last year a bunch of us on here were saying how Wentz puts himself in harm's way too much. Nigga looked like RG3 and a young Cam out there. Them defensive players see you celebrating them 1st downs after u scramble ain't as happy as your teammates brah, they don't like seeing themselves on the tape during film sessions

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/profootballtalk/status/940272540311801856

 

[BDBIID]

NFC is always open.

Even that year the Panthers ran through the league 15-1 going into the postseason a bunch of people had the Packers making a run or Seattle. Many people had that Seattle/ Carolina divisional round as a pick em game.

AFC the conference where you know it’s either gonna be Pats, whatever team Peyton was on, Steelers. And the Ravens would be in the mix once in a while.

 

[Maywood]

https://twitter.com/BroadcastingBri/status/940027688152055808

Talk That Shit Double B..Talk That Shit

 

[Maywood]

And All ya'll in here celebrating injuries that's Wack Cac shit..If u ever suited up in any sport u know better than that...Weirdos

 

[Stew]

And All ya'll in here celebrating injuries that's Wack Cac shit..If u ever suited up in any sport u know better than that...Weirdos

call'em out b

 

[Maywood]

I believe I did Sir ....& Stewart stop Instigating

 

[Swiffness!]

Rather have Nick Foles than Brandon Weeden and most of these other backup muhfuckas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's hilarious to hear that all these cacs suddenly begging for Kaepernick on WIP tho

 

[aneed123]

cant front tho we did laugh at romo doin snow angels after breaking his back and shit.. folk gave no fucks when obj got hurt... so dude kinda got a point

 

[stringer bell]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ll-hear-secret-tapes-of-vile-racist-language/

Pilot Flying J jury will hear secret tapes of “vile” racist language

The criminal fraud trial of several Pilot Flying J executives has been placed on hold until January 8. At some point after it resumes, the case is going to make major headlines for a different reason than the scheme to defraud customers of the truck-stop chain by cheating them out of fuel rebates.

Via the Knoxville News Sentinel, the presiding judge said on Thursday that secretly-recorded tapes containing the voice of former Pilot Flying J president Mark Hazelwood will be played for the jury. The judge described the comments as including “vile, despicable, inflammatory racial epithets” that disparaged “the entire population of Cleveland, Ohio,” the city of Oakland, California, and the Cleveland Browns.

Browns owner and Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy Haslam was asked about the audio during the Friday press conference introducing John Dorsey as the Browns’ new G.M.

“I’m actually glad you brought that up,” Haslam said. “I have said since the investigation began almost five years ago that we wouldn’t comment, but yesterday’s comments that came out of the courtroom I think justify comments. I will just stand behind what we said yesterday: First of all, none of those individuals work for us anymore. Nobody that works for our company now was present at that event. That is not how we act and do things, and those kind of remarks are intolerable. I’m actually glad you asked that question.”

Haslam also admitted that the company is paying for the defense of Hazelwood and other former employees who are on trial.

“Without getting into too much detail, it is traditional when employees of a company are sued or have a legal problem that the company until those employees plead guilty or are found guilty, the company pays for their legal expenses so that will continue,” Haslam said.

It’s definitely traditional for employees who are sued for things done in the course of business to have their legal expenses covered. The tradition is a bit murkier when it comes to criminal misconduct, and any company that pays for the legal expenses in a criminal trial of a former employee invites speculation that there’s a not-so-subtle quid pro quo at work regarding the things that will or won’t be said, and/or the defenses that will or won’t be pursued.

For example, if Pilot Flying J weren’t paying for Hazelwood’s defense, maybe Hazelwood’s lawyer, Rusty Hardin, would be arguing not that code words used by lower level employees kept Hazelwood from being aware of the scheme to defraud customers but that Hazelwood was simply doing what he was told to do from above.

Regardless, and even though Haslam didn’t make the comments himself and apparently wasn’t present for them, the publication of “vile, despicable, inflammatory racial epithets” from the person Haslam hired to be president of Pilot Flying J could spark a broader discussion and debate about whether Hazelwood’s attitudes and words reflect the culture and attitudes of others in the company.