NFL News:
- players getting paid before the franchise tag / free agency deadline:
- Antonio Brown, Steelers: 4 years, $68 million
- technically, an extension of his rookie deal, which would have paid him $4.7 million in 2017
- he got a signing bonus as well, to top-up this year
- technically, an extension of his rookie deal, which would have paid him $4.7 million in 2017
- Eric Berry, Chiefs: 6 years, $78 million
This one’s for Dok. - Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Chiefs: 5 years, $41.25 million
- good for the Canadian kid out of McGill
- who spends the off-season studying medicine
- good for the Canadian kid out of McGill
- Antonio Brown, Steelers: 4 years, $68 million
- today’s franchise tags:
- [Redacteds] – Kirk Cousins
- Browns – Isaiah Crowell
- Giants – Jason Pierre-Paul
- Cardinals – Chandler Jones
- Los Angeles Chargers of Carson – Melvin Ingram
- kicked to the curb:
- Adrian Peterson – Vikings opt to not exercise his 2017 option – $18 million
- to become a UFA March 9
- interest from the Giants
- to become a UFA March 9
- Jamaal Charles – released by the Chiefs
- Adrian Peterson – Vikings opt to not exercise his 2017 option – $18 million
Here’s how the franchise tag numbers break down for 2017:
If you feel like some light-ish reading, ESPN has a short story on 25 years of the franchise tag.
Finally, if you want some long-form rehash with new updates, the MMQB has a story about Jerry Kramer still vying to get into the Hall of Fame. It fills you in on the number of times he’s come up for votes (10 – 9 during his eligibility window; once on the senior list), and what he does to stay both active & in the public eye. I read it because I’m a Packers fan.
I’m including this reference, because it shows – yet again – how much of a disgrace Roger Goodell is.
Kramer says Roger Goodell once asked him why he never attends the annual Hall of Fame ceremonies. Kramer told him because he’s not in the Hall of Fame. He said the commissioner was astonished.
PEOPLE FORGET THAT!
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Avalanche at Flyers – 7:00PM | NBCSN
- Capitals at Rangers – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Flames at Kings – 9:00PM | Sportsnet1
- NBA:
- Wizards at Warriors – 7:00PM | TSN
- Hornets at Lakers – 10:30PM | TSN
- NCAA: lotsa good matches tonight; hard to pick
- Georgetown at Seton Hall – 6:30PM | FS1
- Florida State at Duke – 7:00PM | ESPN
- Indiana at Purdue – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- have a read on a Purdue perspective of the incident.
- DePaul at Providence – 8:30PM | FS1
- Vanderbilt at Kentucky – 9:00PM | ESPN
If you need yet another reason to hate Bobby Knight,
HERE YOU GO!
Rebuild the infrastructure? WHY DIDNT OBAMA THINK OF THAT?
Makes ya go HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM….
Ha!!! Vandy kicking UK’s arse in Lexington.
Won’t last, but for now this is fun to watch.
Immigration Reform
Golden State lost. Good.
Has Trump announced his favorite Kelly Anne Conway on the couch meme yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdFne7LnuA
Fuck Jon Stewart
I would pay to see TWBS ollieing.
Hahaha….I’ll have you know I still own TWO skateboards and a surfboard.
I’ve never tried to do the doctoring thing on either, however. I think that would lead to a lawsuit and I’m already too poor.
Onion Politics @OnionPolitics 22s22 seconds ago
Obama Asks Michelle To Turn That Shit Off And Come Back To Hot Tub #JointAddress
Everything Washington is determined to anger me this evening. Trump and the Ice Redacteds.
Trump’s line about “removing regulations to ensure the future of our great coal miners” just shows me how he 1, has no fucking CLUE what a coal miner actually DOES, and 2, existing regulations ensured the actual in-the-fucking-cave miner GOT a goddamn future outside the mine.
Maybe he should give this a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUUmY_Kx3Mc
I can’t recall where I read it, but what’s killed the coal industry isn’t crippling regulation, but the fact fracking has caused a huge natural gas boom.
Shhhhhh…
Jesus, I can hear that fucker’s voice just by looking at him.
Simple economics. So….teh JEWS!!!!
Obviously, one cannot expect Trump to understand the myriad causes of what causes an entire industry to collapse! I’m waiting for him to call for a ban on cheap imported steel so that the Blast Furnaces here in PA light up again:
http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem_impact/photo/illuminated-blast-furnaces-596f9c058e461fab.jpg
You can read that in natural gas prices and Eia data on gas, wind, and solar all being installed at higher rates due to costs.
You gotta love technology. This animatronic robot looks so good, you’d think this is really Donald Trump making this speech.
This is where I point out how much life really does fucking suck out loud. It really will be a blessing when the bombs land. Cleanse the planet of its fleas, once and for all.
The brass band I’m watching went Final Countdown-Sweet Georgia Brown-Officer Krupke from West Side Story. My friend’s playing trombone so I think I’m allowed to ask for Free Bird.
As a Southern boy, I assure you it ALWAYS right to holler “play Freebird mayyyun. WOOOOOO!!!!”
Fuck that, I’m Pennsyltucky born n bred and I shout “FREE BIRRRRRRRDD” whenever I can.
Quite the Bonanza you’ve got there
My dog is ether really really scared of this speech or is really into it I cant tell. He is watching tv more than I am
Well, to be fair, Trump is going to be using a lot of dog whistles.
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German shepard?
Oh I know Im basic… Labradoodle
Meanwhile, Tiffany Trump has been locked in a storage closet while attempting to enter the chamber.
Nonsense, she’s having a great time. They give her a bag of the ‘good stuff” from the DEA supply closet and her cell phone. She’s fine.
Trump just clapped at his own applause?
The fact Chicago has seen not one but two nights of thunderstorms in February is enough to convince the end is nigh.
Ignore Trump right now and watches the final five minutes of Wiz/Warriors
All set on that first part. Leaving for the brewery shortly.
Fact Check: 2026 is 9 years away… True!
Trump: “What will America look like in 15 years?”
Crow T. Robot: “Depends on the fallout.”
@OnionPolitics
Report: It Already Clear Trump Didn’t Write This #JointAddress
Surprised this isnt a GoToMeeting with Putin
Give it time. Its barely started yet.
He prefers to hear, “go daddy, fuck me.”
Do you think if we ask nicely, Her Majesty The Queen, will take us back?
She’ll make us call Football,”American Football”. Tough choice.
You don’t think they’d learn to love “Lesser Footy” FOAR their kickety sport as much as we have?
Well, like the 5-ish percent of Commentists who pay attention to my coverings??
As an Irish O’Merican, I’d rather be nuclear waste than British.
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This is the part where I link to “You’ll Be Back” but I’m out so I’ll just mention it.
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And here comes the President
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDWPvhiPWg
What are the odds Trump talks about his poll EC vote count?
All?
DAMN YOU, DEMOCRATS! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!
You had a charismatic, old Jewish, Socialist politician that your voters were in love with but you had to shove Hillary down our throats because she’s earned it. You saw the Republicans do that in 2008 with McCain and lose. Did you think you’d be different?!
Sorry. Had to get that off my chest.
Fuck you and that argument. A) Bernie wouldn’t have won B) Bernie is an asshole C) Trump is 100% the Republican party’s fault. They stoked his birtherism when it was useful to them instead of condemning the racist claptrap that emboldened him.
A) Obama represented changed. Hillary represented status quo and corruption. That’s why the independents went with the unknown. Trump. You add Bernie, then its closes.
B) Agree. Republicans screwed themselves by tolerated Trump early on for publicity.
C) “Fuck you” noted and acknowledged.
No, fuck the fake ass progressives that populate the DLC. Find me an instance where one of those useless fucks took a serious progressive stance on anything before it was politically expedient to do so other than occasional lip service. They alienate the legitimate progressives to keep the stink off of themselves until the activists have made enough headway to shift popular opinion (Wellstone, Kucinich, etc… they went so far as to allow Kucinich to get gerrymandered out of Congress after he stayed in their faces for long enough.) Once there’s an advantage to be gained, they slide their sorry asses into place to reap the benefits like they’d really been there all along.
The grasroots groups threaten to withhold support election after election and crumble every time. It’s like a parent that threatens their kid with punishment but never actually follows through. They do nothing unless it offers them an edge. Yeah, of coursed they champion abortion rights and popular progressive— it’s an issue with at least 50/50 support. Where the fuck were they on the gay marriage issue when it still made people squeamish? Where were they before the wars lost steam in public opinion? They sure as shit weren’t standing up to it, and I can tell you that for a fact. I was one of the assholes getting screamed at and pelted with shit for protesting on the street corners back in 02 & 03 when those cocksuckers were still beating the drums to blow the shit out of Iraq right along with the Republicans. They didn’t come anywhere near standing up for anything then, nor have they since. You want to stand behind professional politics and the bullshit lesser of two evils argument, go right ahead, but don’t be surprised when people get tired of it.
I went to an event in ’06 because Slick Willy (and I think the Hilltrain) was speaking and I wanted to see him live. Having just gotten home fresh from ‘The War’ with an unbridled feeling of pessimism for the the effort — partly due to the circumstances but mostly due to that fact that people who set priorities for the military are complete fucking morons — I wholly took to hear the democrats’ promised to defund the wars and force the President to bring troops home.
Then Pelosi & Co got swept in to power where they proceeded to, not just fund the wars, but actually throw MORE cash and MORE bodies at these quagmires under a little operation history books will surely praise, known as ‘THE SURGE!!1!!!11!!!”.
Z) McCain lost because he tried to use Palin to go after the Hilary Vote
The good thing is that they haven’t learned a thing.
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Portland?
Indeed
Trump hasn’t started talking and the dollar is falling.
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If we get through this night with 50 states, I’ll take that as a win.
#Calxit
So no Dakota merger?
If Trump is spiteful, he’s made Betsy DeVos the Designated Survivor.
I’d rather it was Keifer.
I think Sean Spicer would make a reasonable Little Caesar’s employee.
If Trump is spiteful?
IF?
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They went with VA secretary.
One of my favorite things that Ufford ever wrote at warmingglow: “…exploding into a hail of broken metal and noise”.
http://uproxx.com/tv/michael-bay-approves/
He just went saaaaailing right over.
/Who knows the quote?
The bible?
Fine, it’s “sailed right out there,” but It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? Anyone?
Was he late for Happy Hour?
WWWWEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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You know the best things about off season signings…all the AM Sports Radio hot teaks from morbidly obese fuckers who haven’t exercised since the Carter Administration complaining these “wimpy athletes get paid too much. Give me a mill, I’d play running back!”
Its like the tradition of Groundhog day, only imagine the groundhog is a moronic, overweight rodent.
Looks like it is starting to get choppy between the Ice Giants and Ice Redacteds.
The Denver Broncos offensive line has somehow gotten involved?
BOOOOOOO!
An oldie but goodie.
So my wife just left for a two week business trip and I’ve already skipped walking the dog. I intend to start drinking heavily quite soon.
She wants me to fly out to London for a weekend to join her. I love the hell out of her but I have little interest in sitting on a plane for fourteen hours just to visit a city I’ve already been to in the middle of winter.
If travel time is greater than stay [for vacationing somewhere anyway] I tend to skip it. But the wife and all…
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For a WEEKEND?? This sounds like a bizarre “Cosmo relationship test.”
Her dad used to work for United, so a pretty cheap flight should be available.
My last flight over there was 8 hours over and about 9 back. Sounds like it is not really an option.
It’s the time zone crossed for the time spent. You will still be jetlagged when in line for the return flight boarding.
Plus you’ll prolly get flagged for “enhanced screening” on such a short int’l jaunt.
One can only hope. That’s when you wear your special undies.
That just means he and the little woman will have to get really drunk (blitzed) so he feels even worse.
#firstworldproblems
Yes, perhaps not a Sophie’s Choice type quandary.
If it was a two month trip, I would say suck it up and get on the plane, but for two weeks, just offer to take her out to dinner when she returns.
I don’t think you have a choice. Unless you can make do with half.
I was gonna say the same thing, though phrased slightly differently.
When did the new change in the website happened?
Couple of weeks ago. Whatcha think?
Looks nice.
Only moderate bitching so far. DTZM fixed the issues and did a great job #circlejerkish
Watch it Moose. The last time this site went circlejerkish was the 2nd quarter of the Super Bowl and we all know how that night ended up.
That was one of the complaints in the recent poll.
Speaking of, did we all lose the little toolbar thing at the top that lists your comments and replies or did I fuck something up on my end again?
My kid is at a concert at Duke Chapel, so I am watching the Dook/noles (way to show up, shitmonkeys) at Satisfaction downtown. With the sound on.
/hey, at least the NC craft beer is on sale
//no, I don’t think the Durham strip club is still open and the airport too far
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You’re a good dad. Your sacrifice to hermitness is duly noted.
Da fuq dude….Greenville and now back to Durham? No wonder you’re suicidal.
My apologies.
Evening all, have we all died yet? I’m watching my friend’s brass band so I’ll be the last to know!
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So… I got bored a while back and dabbled in Forex trading… kinda want to log in during Trump’s speech and watch the dollar drop.
I am interested in learning more about trading foreign exes. I have a Japanese, a South African, and a Korean to offer.
tWBS’ ears are no doubt burning.
That is far better banner material than mine. #circlejerkexpress
Odds that the Mace of the United States House of Representatives is used during Trump’s speech: 50:1
Odds that the Mace of the United States House of Representatives is used to hit Trump over the head: 500:1
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
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Just substitute “Republican” for “Time Lord” and this is how I feel being a Republican in today’s America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo
http://stopmasturbationnow.org/civics/should-people-who-masturbate-be-allowed-to-vote/
This inspires me to masturbate
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I’ll be in my bunk…
If they get what they want, the voting poll is reduced to a few dozen, maybe.
I’d feel better thinking of you as a “conservative” because (although I have ideological differences with many of them) it implies a set of consistent set of values and viewpoints. I don’t feel that way about the term “Republican” anymore.
Wait… but the conservatives (re: southern former democrats) ruined the republican party.
Yep, the eternal THANKS OBAMA.
True conservatism has been dying out since Reagan.
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I guess the Giants followed the rule of thumb in tagging Jason Pierre Paul
NICE! #circlejerk
Didn’t need another reason to hate Bobby Knight, but I’ll gladly accept one. Fuck that fucking asshole.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/isps-wont-have-to-follow-new-rule-that-protects-your-data-from-theft/
Fuck tennis and fuck time warner. I just got texted by my boss saying I needed to be on a call to talk about an upcoming tournament. I get my work laptop get the info and call in and its empty. I call back 5 or 6 times to make sure I got the information right, and its still empty. I emailed my boss and he replies that everyone got off the bridge already and will call my ops center back. Nobody thought to inform me.
/rant
Tennis and Time Warner are worthy of hatred, but in this case it sounds like your boss was being the asshole.
I am will to compromise: FUCK tennis and Time Warner AND ESPECIALLY YOUR BOSS.
Also, I am sorry my #content does not generate much in terms of commenting. My posts really are just a one-man circle jerk.
At work late (as usual – but that’s ok bc the mrs is working late too) and I just want to say that, about five weeks ago we shit-canned our POS superintendent who I’ve had it out for for a couple years (yeah, I saw the look on your face when it was announced that I was brought in to ownership you lazy bastard) and things are turning around even faster than I expected. So that’s a good thing and should be so adequate that Fozz can go all negative on his next piece (which will surely be about ketchup on too much shit, like steak).
Now let’s go, Trump! Get to slashing corporate tax rates! SLASH ‘EM TIL IT HURTS [schools].