Your “My Buns Have No Seeds” Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Ravens owner Steve Biscotti (pictured right) reached out to people like Ray Lewis to garner possible reactions to the potential signing of Colin Kaepernick. Because Ray Lewis might've helped kill a guy, but Ravens fans DO NOT FORGIVE taking a knee during a ceremonial part of a sporting contest.

Your “Daylight Upon The Horizon” Thursday Evening Open Thread

Two big highlights of the day: All teams have their main training camps opening today or tomorrow; and The Hall of Fame Game is one week today. Funnily, the increasingly shorter days seem a little bit brighter. NFL News: Problems on the elite front: Joe Flacco, depending on which story you read,

Your “Blah Blah Blah…We Can’t Hear You” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: The NFL has responded to yesterday's news about CTE in athletes' brains: We appreciate the work done by Dr. McKee and her colleagues for the value it adds in the ongoing quest for a better understanding of CTE. As noted by the authors, there are still many unanswered questions relating

Your “Oops, Our Bad” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: One day after being cut from the Cowboys for being nothing but trouble (& not named Ezekiel), Lucky Whitehead has had all charges dropped by Virginia police. The cops original warrant was based on comparing the DMV photo of Whitehead to the guy they had in custody, later

Your “What’s Old Is New Again” Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Based on his gradual recovery from shoulder surgery, Andrew Luck will start camp on the PUP list. more time foar gravy! Also PUP'd - Teddy Bridgewater. He is expected to be on it to start the season, which means he'll automatically miss the first 6 games. Honestly, I

Your “Classic Nordberg” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Given their history as a dumpster fire, it's perhaps not surprising that the Browns' stadium is clapped with the same material as the Grenfell Tower fire. not from the initial construction, but from the refit in 2014.    FOX has a sense of irony, as they have assigned Jay

Your “Whoops – Forgot There’s A Nooner Today” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: The Panthers hired former GM Marty Hurney as their new interim GM until they can sort out the mess they've created as a distraction for their forthcoming 6-10 season. The Lions are taking down their playoff participant banners, choosing to only leave reminders of division titles & such. (Ron

Your “Wait – What’s That On The Horizon?!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

The wait is almost over! Five teams - the Ravens, Bears, Cowboys, Jaguars, and Saints - all open training camps tomorrow. It's just first-year players, but it still means the season is approaching. The Cowboys & Cardinals have veterans report by the weekend, because Hall of Fame Game. Oh, and the stadium might

Your “What Fresh Hell Is This?” Monday Evening Open Thread

The first stills for the HBO Sandusky movie came out today, and the best comment at Deadspin was about how it'll be the second time Pacino has played a blind guy. NFL News: Today was franchise-tag day for teams to negotiate deals or leave players alone for the season. Winners include Kirk

Your “You Don’t Have Beerguy To Kick Around For A While” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Zach Orr is coming out of retirement, after being told by doctors that his congenital spinal condition is not as bad as first feared. His risk as been downgraded to "just like anyone else who plays that position". Luckily, he has a crack medical team behind him. The

Your “Ugh – This Crap Again?!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Dreamboat came #1 in the players poll of the Top-100. something something save us Bernard Pollard. Hey - he's currently available. Matty Ice came in at #10 on the same list. He's currently being featured in a new Gatorade ad with the tagline, "Make Defeat Your Fuel". Vince

Your “One Month Until Camps Open” Monday Evening Open Thread

Most training camps open between July 25-27. As such, it's nothing but "here's how we're gonna do this year" quotes coming out of most players & teams. Of note: NFL Notes: Cam Newton is throwing footballs again, having recovered from shoulder surgery. And get this: he wants to win a Super