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Alex C:
On the bright, I did a li'l fist pump just now while typing "Ray Edwards." It's a ridiculous luxury having a guy like that as your least accomplished starting defensive linemen.
valley_parade:
Clearly, when you get a penalty, up 2-1, this is the mindset you should have:
"Well who should take it? Owen and Berbatov are both on the field."
"Yeah, good point. NANI, YOU TAKE IT!"
Fucking IDIOT.
scarred:
Cutler sacked five times against the Raiders. This is going to be a long season.
Alex C:
The Raiders defense is secretly pretty OK because of their linebackers and dbacks, but yeah, um, 5 sacks is bad.
Alex C:
Sometimes when I feel like being self-righteous I go read the ESPN comment sections on any decision a player makes that's remotely controversial. It kills me how pro-ownership and pro-team the average ESPN poster is and how li'l they give a shit about the rights of any individual that makes more money than they do. For example, Sidney Rice is going to be out due to some hip surgery many people believe he should have gotten months ago. So the scholars on the ESPN comment boards are talking about how he's a moron and that teams should be able to withhold pay from players for games missed if they choose not to get surgeries advised by team doctors within the time frame advised by team doctors. You know, because there is no conflict of interests there or anything with team doctors and they totally have the player's best long term interests at heart. Sidney's decision to go with a doctor his agent recommended wasn't a great idea either, but finding someone who doesn't have a stake in your performance one way or the other is kinda tough as an NFL player, so I'm not about to start casting stones.
Another fun wrinkle: I know a respected orthopedist from the Mayo clinic (he's a friend of my mom) who says that his entrenched private practice colleagues would rather not work with NFL players and teams at all. They have unrealistic expectations on both sides and your average practice wouldn't survive a ruling based on a top player's lost projected earnings, so it's really only a good idea to work with them if you can use the name recognition to attract more clients.
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