The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Steelers, whichever's easier)

[BootyWarriorUkaUka]

If anyone takes a chance on him I doubt there's much if any guaranteed money on the contract after that they gave me 50 million dollars cause they're stupid thing.

Well the options are either Aiyuk or Stefon Diggs. You kinda have to pick your poison

 

[Absolutego]

Well the options are either Aiyuk or Stefon Diggs. You kinda have to pick your poison

I feel like the choice there would be Diggs, hands down. He's a diva, but the legal trouble was clearly his employee looking for a payday (since they got footage of her dancing around because she thought she'd won the ghetto lottery after their argument) and he's never completely welshed on a team the way Aiyuk has.

 

[Nogg]

Well the options are either Aiyuk or Stefon Diggs. You kinda have to pick your poison

A guy who was just the leading receiver on a team that made the Super Bowl vs a guy whose one good season was three seasons ago, is a pretty easy choice to me.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Well the options are either Aiyuk or Stefon Diggs. You kinda have to pick your poison

AB's probably gonna get his charges dropped so, idk if anyone wants to roll the dice on that one but hey he might come back.

Like shit OBJ never seems to leave.

 

[break these cuffs]

Like shit OBJ never seems to leave.

Interesting word choice there.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

AB's probably gonna get his charges dropped so, idk if anyone wants to roll the dice on that one but hey he might come back.

Nah after AB pulled that stunt with the Bucs and his disasterous foray into Arena Football, no team wants him.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Nah after AB pulled that stunt with the Bucs and his disasterous foray into Arena Football, no team wants him.

That's the thing though. He didn't go out because he was washed or injured. He went out because he's fucking insane.

If you can get his ass medicated he's still got a few seasons left in the tank.

 

[Zaryiu2]

That's the thing though. He didn't go out because he was washed or injured. He went out because he's fucking insane.

If you can get his ass medicated he's still got a few seasons left in the tank.

It's not just a question of what he has in the tank, there's also the fact he hasn't played in years and does he even want to play again?

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

It's not just a question of what he has in the tank, there's also the fact he hasn't played in years and does he even want to play again?

He...should. He's like borderline HOF but absolutely will not get in without some kind of redemption arc.

Honestly that's what I've found so weird about this. If you know AB's history you know that he's crazy but he also has an insane dedication to the game. If I was in the HOF bubble I'd be busting my ass out there. Instead he just kinda fucked off to go with his awful rap career.

 

[Absolutego]

He...should. He's like borderline HOF but absolutely will not get in without some kind of redemption arc.

Honestly that's what I've found so weird about this. If you know AB's history you know that he's crazy but he also has an insane dedication to the game. If I was in the HOF bubble I'd be busting my ass out there. Instead he just kinda fucked off to go with his awful rap career.

I dunno, I feel if Terrell Owens can get in after waiting a bit, Brown will as well. He's got a statistical peak on par with Rice and Moss, has a ring, was on the 2010's all-decade team, sure he flamed out spectacularly at the end, but if he is able to keep his name out of headlines for a few years and the logjam for WR into Canton clears a bit it'd be egregious not to include him.

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

I dunno, I feel if Terrell Owens can get in after waiting a bit, Brown will as well. He's got a statistical peak on par with Rice and Moss, has a ring, was on the 2010's all-decade team, sure he flamed out spectacularly at the end, but if he is able to keep his name out of headlines for a few years and the logjam for WR into Canton clears a bit it'd be egregious not to include him.

AB is a little bit more of weird case compared to Owens. Owens had a lot of the drama in the locker room, but he never had the drama off the field that AB has had. Owens also has always been desperate to play again and have his career end better. AB on the other hand ran off the field in the middle of the game and hasn't looked back sense.

I definitely think AB can eventually get in. It however is going to be a much longer wait for him.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

I dunno, I feel if Terrell Owens can get in after waiting a bit, Brown will as well. He's got a statistical peak on par with Rice and Moss, has a ring, was on the 2010's all-decade team, sure he flamed out spectacularly at the end, but if he is able to keep his name out of headlines for a few years and the logjam for WR into Canton clears a bit it'd be egregious not to include him.

Well honestly I think he deserves to get in, but like it's probably gonna include the words IN MEMORY OF

I don't think the media ever wants that dude standing behind a podium unless he cleans up his act quite a bit.

 

[Timothy McGay]

Nah after AB pulled that stunt with the Bucs and his disasterous foray into Arena Football, no team wants him.

Jerry Jones should sign Antonio Brown to the Dallas Cowboys; it would be the funniest thing ever. It would be like having Terrell Owens again.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

I dunno, I feel if Terrell Owens can get in after waiting a bit, Brown will as well. He's got a statistical peak on par with Rice and Moss, has a ring, was on the 2010's all-decade team, sure he flamed out spectacularly at the end, but if he is able to keep his name out of headlines for a few years and the logjam for WR into Canton clears a bit it'd be egregious not to include him.

AB is a little bit more of weird case compared to Owens. Owens had a lot of the drama in the locker room, but he never had the drama off the field that AB has had. Owens also has always been desperate to play again and have his career end better. AB on the other hand ran off the field in the middle of the game and hasn't looked back sense.

I definitely think AB can eventually get in. It however is going to be a much longer wait for him.

TO isnt in simply because he was so antagonistic to the media so they have to punish him. He always gave 100% to his team when he was on the field. It's bullshit he's not in.

 

[Absolutego]

TO isnt in simply because he was so antagonistic to the media so they have to punish him. He always gave 100% to his team when he was on the field. It's bullshit he's not in.

He is in, 2018 class. Like I said, he had to wait a few extra years (3 to be precise)

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Aldon Smith ded at 36.

This is something:

The day that Aldon died, I received text messages, phone calls, FaceTimes from some of our ex-teammates,” Whitner said. “And some of the shit that I saw was fucking disgusting.

“Now, I’m gonna go ahead and say it. C.J. Spillman called me. Six a.m. Bali time. And he put me on FaceTime, and he was showing me pictures of Aldon slumped over in the front seat. Aldon, laying on the ground in front of the vehicle that he was traveling in . . . with all the shit hooked up to his body, pretty much deceased. And I want to say that it’s disgusting, because if you call me and we barely talk, and it’s circulating around, there’s more than just me that saw those videos and those pictures

 

[Iron Hamster]

https://www.thescore.com/nfl/news/3554545/smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-research-as-attorneys-investigate-death

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The family of former NFL star Aldon Smith is donating his brain to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries following his sudden death at age 36.

Smith died Saturday hours after delivering pizzas to a homeless charity in the San Francisco Bay area.

No cause of death was given and Smith's family has hired attorneys Harry Daniels, Bakari Sellers and Wayne Kendall to investigate Smith's death.


“As with anyone who dies so suddenly at such a young age, we understand that there is a great deal of interest in and speculation about Aldon Smith’s passing and we intend to get to the bottom of it," the attorneys said in a statement released Tuesday. "To that end, we have taken a number of steps including sending his brain to Boston where medical experts will examine it for CTE as well as other damage caused by years of concussions and additional trauma.

“In the meantime we simply ask you to keep Aldon’s family in our prayers and respect their privacy as they struggle to come to grips with this terrible loss.”

Smith’s friend, Amir Shirazi, told the San Francisco Chronicle, that he found Smith slumped over in the front passenger seat of his car after delivering the pizzas on Saturday. Smith was taken to a hospital and was declared dead.

“He was a creative mind, so smart, so fierce, so real, so powerful, his presence, his passion and his aura meant a lot to me as a brother and I wish I could’ve did more to help him and pray to God he doesn’t have to hurt anymore,” his former teammate, Anthony Dixon, wrote on social media.

Smith was drafted by the 49ers with the seventh pick out of Missouri in 2011 and made an immediate impact on the team, helping San Francisco snap a playoff drought and reach the NFC title game his first three seasons with one trip to a Super Bowl.

He had 14 sacks as a rookie when he finished second to Von Miller in voting for the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year and had a franchise-record 19 1/2 sacks in 2012 when he was named a first-team All-Pro.

His 33 1/2 sacks in his first two seasons are the most in NFL history. He kept that pace up with 4 1/2 sacks in the first three games in 2013 before the off-field issues started with an arrest for DUI and a stint in rehab for substance abuse that sidelined him for five games.

He was released by San Francisco in August 2015 after another drunken driving charge — his fifth arrest in three years. He signed with Oakland just before the start of the 2015 season and had 3 1/2 sacks in nine games before being suspended again.

Smith applied for reinstatement to the NFL in 2016, but was not allowed back initially. The Raiders released him in 2018 following a domestic violence arrest. A plea agreement was reached in that case.

He eventually was reinstated in 2020 and played 16 games for Dallas that season and had five sacks.

He signed with Seattle the next season but was arrested again for battery and was released in training camp. He served a six-month jail sentence for DUI in 2023 and never played again in the NFL.

Smith finished his career with 52 1/2 sacks in 75 games.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Yeah, the “he delivered pizza to the homeless and then just died” narrative was going around - that’s why I found Florio’s article about Donte Whitner going off and naming names interesting.

 

[evergreenrider]

I reckon he scored some dope in the process of handing out pizza to homeless addicts.

 

[Absolutego]

Yeah, the “he delivered pizza to the homeless and then just died” narrative was going around - that’s why I found Florio’s article about Donte Whitner going off and naming names interesting.

I mean the symptoms the pizza guido was describing pretty well describes extreme withdrawal symptoms. Lethargic, kind of moody and withdrawn, dude could've tried to self-manage a detox post-bender and was doing charity shit to try and get right again (common theme you hear in recovery rooms, when you're struggling, throw yourself into service), got more tired than he expected, sat down to drive home and promptly had a seizure/heart attack. Very, very, plausible, especially among the frequent relapsers who've been to treatment more than once. They don't want to go there or to a detox center, either out of shame or general disillusionment that they'll have some new epiphany the n-th time in, but the more you re-train your body to expect drugs in it, the faster it does it, and more it suffers when you quit cold turkey on it.