NFL News:
Franchise tags:
- Today at 4:00ET was the deadline for applying a franchise tag to a current player under negotiations.
- The list:
- Franchise tagged:
- Le’Veon Bell (Steelers)
- Lamarcus Joyner (Rams)
- Jarvis Landry (Dolphins)
- Ziggy Ansah (Lions)
- DeMarcus Lawrence (Cowboys)
- Transition tagged: ($2 million less)
- Kyle Fuller (Bears)
- meaning he can negotiate with other teams, but the Bears get first right of refusal
- Kyle Fuller (Bears)
- Franchise tagged:
- If teams cannot negotiate separate deals for these players by July 16, the franchise tag becomes a one-year contract & counts 100% against the salary cap.
- None of that “signing bonus” and “deferred salary” crap the Patriots always seem to get away with that can be spread out over multiple years.
- SB Nation has a basic primer on the topic.
- The list:
- Here are the positional values for the franchise tag, based on the NFL’s 2018 salary cap of $177.2 million:
- Quarterback – $23.189 million
- Running back – $11.866 million (*Le’Veon Bell gets $14.5 million, as a two-time tagee)
- Wide Receiver – $15.982 million
- Tight end – $9.846 million
- Offensive line – $14.077 million
- Defensive tackle – $13.939 million
- Defensive End – $17.143 million
- Linebacker – $14.961 million
- Cornerback $14.975 million
- Safety $11.287 million
- Kicker/Punter – $4.939 million
Other news:
- Retiring:
- Al Riveron announced via Twitter that Ed Hochuli & Jeff Triplette were retiring.
- Their replacements include Ed’s son Shawn.
- Hochuli had been in the League since 1990, and Triplette since 1996.
- A fair amount of sentiment for Ed; a whole lot of “about fucking time!” for Jeff
- Plus, the classics!
- Al Riveron announced via Twitter that Ed Hochuli & Jeff Triplette were retiring.
- Trade talk:
- The Seahawks are definitely trading Michael Bennett.
- The Eagles want a first-rounder for Nick Foles.
- Stealing from Crimebeat!
- The Raiders have released Aldon Smith following reports of domestic violence charges.
- The warrant lists charges of willful infliction of corporal injury, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, false imprisonment and vandalism.
- He turned himself in this afternoon, and was held on a $30,000 bond
- The Raiders have released Aldon Smith following reports of domestic violence charges.
- PFT has the complete draft order on their site, if you are so inclined.
- Atlanta currently has the privilege of drafting Mr. Irrelevant at #256
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Red Wings at Bruins – 7:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- Capitals at Ducks – 10:00PM | NBCSN
- NBA:
- Hawks at Raptors – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
- Rockets at Thunder – 8:00PM | TNT
- Pelicans at Clippers – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN2
- Nets at Warriors – 10:30PM | Sportsnet1
- NCAA: Conference Tournaments
- Men’s:
- ACC: Syracuse vs. Wake Forest – 7:00PM | ESPNU
- Horizon League: The championship: Cleveland State vs. Wright State – 7:00PM | ESPN
- Northeast: LIU (Brooklyn) at Wagner – 7:00PM | ESPN2
- Summit League: The championship: South Dakota vs. South Dakota State – 9:00PM | ESPN2
- West Coast: The championship: Gonzaga vs. BYU – 9:00PM | ESPN
- Women’s:
- Big East: The championship: DePaul vs. Marquette – 7:00PM | FS1
- Men’s:
- WWE:
- Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- “Fastlane” is this Sunday; the last PPV before Wrestlemania, so that card should really start taking shape soon.
- Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
AVOID THAT SUMMIT LEAGUE ACTION, HIPPO!
Who’s got two thumbs and just led a team of randos to a Pub Trivia win?
/counts thumbs
THIS GUY!
Hey beerguy and litre: Ever do the drive to BC from Alberta or vice versa in April? Do you need winter tires for that or is the highway fine by then?
In my experience, there can be some ugliness between Salmon Arm & Banff right up until May. All-weather tires should be okay by that point, but don’t hold me to it.
Wife is from salmon Arm. We do it all the time in a aWD Honda cRV. The sketchy part os between golden and revelstoke. Hell, I am doing it in 2 weeks. No worries at all.
My melt your earth hot taek: Browns should go defense for picks 1 and 4 in round 1* and trade their 4th or 5th round pick for Bennett from the C-Hox. Then sign Bridgewater and Koepernick for QB, sign a pissed off Dez Bryant and then profit.
*I’m kind of surprised most prognosticators aren’t even entertaining the notion that the Browns go defense for both picks. The Browns could become historically measty if they did
This young lady has more talent up front than the Browns ever will.
I think this is supposed to be Hoyer’s wife.
I say they take Barkley with the first pick, trade the 4th & a third rounder to Seattle for Bennett, and then follow the rest of your plan.
I’d spend picks 1 and 4 in the first round on those.
As of now, I still have to go to work tomorrow. Womp womp…
http://splitsider.com/2018/03/men-find-me-intimidating-just-because-im-a-sentient-robot-sent-here-from-the-future-to-destroy-john-connor-by-erica-lies/
I mean, all the T1000 had to do was find out what guys find attractive and morph into it. Instead, it turned into a kind of ugly dude and a haggard housewife
/Bitching guitar riff for 2 minutes
SEX!
THERE WILL BE NO ENCORE!
Still an infinitely better choice for President than the current one.
Scorpio cared way more about his people than both political parties have combined.
Kinda love Hank Scorpio. I mean, even if he was real.
He’s never making it past the DUI checkpoint.
Found a funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_AR-c5cC0
Warriors vs Nets. Should be an easy W.
They should rename them the Nyets amirite??
/punches self in groin
That is so fucking hot.
I am not prepared to live in a world where Gonzaga might actually be good. Instead of, you know, scrappy. But hey, thanks to the cool nicknamed Blackbirds for making me good money tonight. Only have a little on the Jackrabbits (also cool name) so the Summit trap is no biggie.
Asian Traci Lords is confusing.
Somehow I missed this Deadspin article dragging Uproxx until now
https://deadspin.com/reading-product-plugs-from-joshua-tree-helped-me-unders-1822234122
re: Rep Sonny Bono, below –
When I was a kid we lived down the mountain from Lake Tahoe and the county had a winter program where they took the kids up to heavenly every Sunday in winter to ski all day and then bus us back to the high school for pick up each night. I’m sure my parents just shoved us in it because it was cheap and got rid of us once a week. It was great and I learned to ski by, after one morning lesson, just following along with my older brother and his friends. Basically, my ski style is “And 1 Streetball Mixtape” (I mean, I’m good but i know I’m no The Professor).
Anyways, I found out about Sonny dying because i went off a jump from a ditch and barely missed slamming into two trees. Some dude yelled down from the lift, “Nice one, Sonny Bono!”
That actually may have been my first introduction to politics.
Died too soon? He’s one that should have died earlier, before he got elected.
I have never heard anyone say he died too soon.
Republicans.
I meant humans.
Cher didn’t have to pay him alimony any more, so she saved some bucks.
I’ve received four mailers from J.B. Pritzker’s campaign and each once has raised the chances I scrawl “go fuck yourself” over his name on the ballot.
Running a billionaire failson for chief executive. That’s a bold strategy.
I’m pro-accelerationism.
Honestly it all seems to be accelerating on its own.
“Just not in a Rimac.” -Richard Hammond
HEY ICE COWBOYS FEEL FREE TO SCORE A FUCKING GOAL OR TWO!!!
A what?
— All of Dallas
Brett Hull did that once. Broke the Sabres.
This is actually the first time I’ve actually seen the video of the Kony 2012 guy in San Diego.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvzKednIlw
Hahaha!
Low Commander?
Not enough lightning bolts and calling upon hellfire to smite the Spanos Clan.
Now that I’m off on a tangent about the changes to the HHS funding decisions, someone please explain to me where the entire idea of people waiting til marriage to fuck comes from in the year of our lord 2018? In the entire history of mankind, it’s never been the consensus thing to do. Are people really convinced that this was ever a thing people did? Did they not have parents and grandparents who admitted at some point or another that they were good, decent sinners? This is somehow a more fringe belief to me than fucking Infowars schtick.
You’re overthinking this, dude. It’s just to punish poor people for being poor.
Puritanism’s legacy.
Ok…when we were kids/teens, it was mainly used as “don’t do anything stupid yet” but once we hit a certain age, we understood that no one meant that.
From a religious standpoint, like everything else, it’s about control.
As one of the great philosophers of our time once put it:
They don’t count anal..
BYU vs Gonzaga is a pretty good game; post-game celebration sex will not feature birth control.
The system works!
Just…fuck everything. Motherfuckers better fucking vote in November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
Carolina with its back against the wall and the season on the line….goes down 5-0 to Minnesota. Was gonna make a Cam Ward AARP joke but the motherfucker’s younger than me despite being in the league for 16 years.
Who’s he? Redshirt Sophomore?
Ready Player One looks like a movie I could really enjoy if I could turn my brains off long enough to revel in nostalgia, but definitely a movie that is going to be complete dogshit on its own merits
NBC headline: Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says ‘hush agreement’ invalid because he never signed
Always, ALWAYS sign your NDA with the porn star you fucked.
Hard to sign an NDA if you can’t read the NDA.
Kinda doubt he can spell NDA.
He never really approved of Dr. Dre
More of a Naughty by Nature fan.
No doubt. He can’t.
That’s almost impressive.
Remember when Congress tried to impeach Bill Clinton for getting a BJ?
That’s different; she was a fat chick.
Yeah, I would have banged her too.
They also DID impeach him. He just didn’t leave the presidency.
He got impeached for lying under oath.
For a guy that was a fucking lawyer, he deserved to be impeached.
Well, that depends on what the definition of “is” is.
Garbage husband and the epitome of a slick-as-hell politician, but holy shit is he a better human being than current White House squatter.
The bar is basically submerged at this point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0napnfxd-dU
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is
…
James Cameron.
The basis of our entire legal system is testifying under oath.
As per Trump, one of the things I appreciate about him is he does not make his shtick palatable for white America. Clinton was very good at hiding his destructive policies.
Yes…testifying under oath about consensual sex because the guy tapped to convict the Clintons about Whitewater couldn’t find anything.
Fine, Clinton was…complicated. But to favorably compare Trump to any other President is not something I can get on board with.
*But to favorably compare Trump to any other almost any other person is not something I can get on board with.
The irony is that witness testimony is a lot of shit.
Trump, making his shtick palatable for a big portion white America is what got him fucking elected.
I didn’t like Bill Clinton until the Lewinsky scandal happened. Then I liked him.
Presidents: They’re just like us!
In fact I remember when it broke, because I was back visiting Washington DC (my hometown) and Congressman Sonny Bono had just died in a skiing accident. And I drove around the U.S. Capitol Building and saw the flag at half-mast. And I thought to myself: “The U.S. flag over the Capitol Building is at half-mast for Sonny Bono. Sonny fucking Bono.” And then the scandal broke and everyone forgot about Sonny Bono.
Well, he WAS a Congressman (somehow). But even Congressmen are not immune to the dangerous California Sneaky Wandering Pine.
(Note: I did not look up whether he died in California. Don’t care.)
It was the Sierra Nevadas. Which side of the border doesn’t really matter when you hit a tree at 90mph.
And quite the congressman he was. His lasting legacy is *checks notes* the perpetual extension of the duration of copyrights as a personal favor to Disney to make sure no one can ever utter the words Mickey Mouse without being sent directly to the gutter.
TBF, that’s mostly the Lanham Act granting perpetual rights on trademarks. The 20-year extension to the Copyright Act was just a way to delay early films becoming public domain.
he’s a smart businessman who’s smart at business ,, ppl forget that
oooh you said it; not easy retaining money after six bankruptcies… also you knees by not paying east coast contractors.
Been thinking about this album all day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRJE0pyUQnw
This is equal parts horrifying and nauseating
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Wow.
Aw, shit. The tweet is wrong. It says Travolta is playing a stalker and Devon Sawa is playing the Durst character.
Still has some nice train wreck potential.
So Stan’s getting a stalker? What a fucking weird world we live in
That’s just all kinda great.
This is equal parts horrifying and touching
Did he kill himself out of shame for being a Twitter atheist?
I like this kid. Quote from 2:17 of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIRNURx1-3E
I edited that. I was mean. But I kinda meant it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just remember, most people suck, so odds are good that any individual will suck. But it’s not a lock.
That just means he’s a good actor, and – HOLY SHIT, ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT!
I think I’m good with the transition tag for Fuller. Means there’s still a chance for him to stay with the Bears and still a chance for me to be right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-V_ah6IIs&feature=youtu.be
She went down like a lady…head up.
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Pacific War was how the Japanese Navy considered damage control drills to be “defeatism”, hence they generally did not practice often. On the opposite end, the US Navy pretty much did it non-stop, so even in a situation like the CV-2 Lexington, the vast majority of the crew survived the sinking.
Should I re-up my hours to get re-certified for fixed wing?
Should I just start over for rotary ?
(which is what I really want to do, frankly)
((that’s helicopters, you assholes))
I’d be better than that. Probably.
Or should I just say fuck it, I’m too old for any of that shit and just spend the money on weed and hookers?
Brick Meathook…what say you??????
Whirley Birds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_GRRzmjt6I
When I want to fly I put on my homemade pilot’s uniform and just walk past security at LAX and go sit in an airplane cockpit. United Airlines is particularly easy to do this with. I just tell the first officer to fly the plane and that’s it. Surprisingly no one has ever questioned me. I think the secret is that on my jacket sleeve I put six stripes (it’s just gold xmas ribbon from Walgreens) and therefore I outrank all other captains by two stripes. Try it sometime
Agreed. Weed and hookers is the best answer. Because otherwise, this…
But I am sad I’ll never get to fly that A-10. Such a cool fucking vessel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGcn2XGr48
Maybe we could buy a vintage one. Granted, without the GAU-8 it’s like flying a glorified paper airplane, but it’s better than nothing.
A local “marina” had a vintage attack chopper for sale recently.
It’s not for the unrich like us. I could have taken out a loan, but I’d have been paying it off until my great grandchildren were dead.
If I ever hit the lottery, we’ll talk.
/doesn’t play the lottery
Then robbing the lottery it is.
I think you are the DFOer I am most curious to meet in person.
Ditto. He’s cool as fuck.
Brick, what do you say, SoCal meet up when tWBS is in Venice…which is where I am at this exact moment.
You sonofabitch.
No, I’m not jealous at all.
That reminds me, I need to update the email thread.
I talked to the Santa Monica Parks people today.
No dice on the grilling, more or less.
I’ll try! Fifth time’s a charm!
I’ll loop you in when I update the email thread in a day or so.
I feel weird “liking” such nice compliments about me but I’ll do it anyway.
Do both. I need a private pilot to fly me down to L.A.
I already have a way to get myself off. I want someone else to get me off for a change.
GET TO DA CHOPPA!
Evening gang!
Found a funny:
[god creating infinity] oh I’ll finish that later…
Twitter is good sometimes
It’s a shame Joe Theismann didn’t react with such shock that he fell out of his chair and broke his leg again. Joe Theismann fucking sucks and I hate him, the Washington team, Cousins, Snyder, and the Washington metro area for continuing to perpetrate this fucking farce.
Any time I think back to him calling Sunday Night Football, all I can see is this gif
So close.
I gonna call it. Nick Foles goes to Arizona and plays for Cardinals!
This Bos-Det game is approaching soccer levels of scoring, and still in the first period.
Like the Pens-Bruins last week. That ended 8-4.
What a fucking shock. The military is only the largest employer in Maryland. What the fuck did he think was going to happen? Everyone involved in this can eat shit and die.
10 will get you 1 that the N word was involved in that conversation.
There’s a typo in that though, it should say “..high, ranking member…”
I think I’m going to revert to being a Stillers fan.
Oh wait.
This is why in person, I never mention I am a veteran.
Jesus Christ so many of us are just pretentious pricks.