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[froot loops]

I hope those folks realize another a new owner might move the team.

[The King]

Who are the clowns? The idiots who paid however many hundreds of bucks to attend a shitty game?

[whatever_gong82]

They're cute when they're young:

Jaguars fans plan clown-costume revolt on Sunday

Posted by Mike Florio on January 4, 2022, 12:45 PM EST

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Jaguars fans aren’t happy with the news that the latest reboot of the team won’t include giving right-place-right-time G.M. Trent Baalke the boot. For Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Colts, some of them plan to show their discontent with their attire.

Via Mark Long of the Associated Press, some fans plan to wear clown costumes to the game. It’s an extension of the proliferation of a social-media effort consisting of clowns with owner Shad Khan’s handlebar mustache and the heavy use of clown emojis in response to posts from the team.

Fan hope to engineer the firing of Baalke, who reportedly will survive the hiring of a new coach.

Baalke is just a symptom of the deeper problem. Through a decade of ownership, Khan has made one mistake after another. He’s the common link, the wildly successful captain of industry who believes football is easier than it is, and who lacks the knowledge (including the knowledge of what he doesn’t know) needed to make good decisions about the identity of his football decision-makers.

The NFL is set up for all teams to cluster around .500. Apart from the 2017 season, which nearly resulted in a Super Bowl berth, the Jaguars have been bad. Very bad. This year, they’re 2-14 bad — one year after being 1-15 bad.

That’s too bad for Jaguars fans. Owners can’t be fired; they’re stuck with Khan. Just like every fan base of every other dysfunctional team is stuck with the ultimate source of the dysfunction.

Will Sunday’s clown-out make a difference? We’ll see. Regardless, keeping Baalke will make it harder to hire the best possible coach, because multiple candidates won’t interview for the job if they know on the way in that the last man standing from the last two failed regimes has somehow climbed to the top of the mountain.

But even without Baalke, will Khan be able to hire the best of the best? Absent a major financial investment or significant power over the football operations, candidates with options may opt to work elsewhere.

If WCF Sr. was still alive, he could give Khan pointers on how to be an inept owner. However, with the Washington Owner, Dan Snyder still breathing, maybe he can take bozo lessons from him.

[Cody_Russell]

Jaguars were always #1 of the rumored franchises that could move to London. Nah, Khan has rather invested millions into Jacksonville.

Perhaps it’s a good that the Jags will decide between Thibs and Hutch at #1. They will make the wrong choice and the Lions will benefit because of it. Sure, let the incompetent drafting team decide.

[Futureshock]

If WCF Sr. was still alive, he could give Khan pointers on how to be an inept owner. However, with the Washington Owner, Dan Snyder still breathing, maybe he can take bozo lessons from him.

Nah, he's just a creep

[Futureshock]

Ah yes! The Detroit Lions making opponents into Faux Superstars since 1961


Rashaad Penny named NFC offensive player of the week

Posted by Myles Simmons on January 5, 2022, 8:38 AM EST

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Though the Seahawks are out of postseason contention, they still put together one of their best performances of the season in a 51-29 victory over the Lions in Week 17.

Running back Rashaad Penny was on of the keys to victory and now he’s been named NFC offensive player of the week for his performance.

Penny took 25 carries for 170 yards with a pair of touchdowns and caught a pair of passes for 15 yards in the victory.

Penny’s 170 yards set a new career high for the former first-round pick, who is set to become a free agent in March.

He now has 559 yards rushing and five touchdowns this season.

The Seahawks end the 2021 season on Sunday against the Cardinals.

[Futureshock]

Jalen Hurts seeks answers about FedEx Field railing collapse

Posted by Mike Florio on January 4, 2022, 7:09 PM EST

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Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts came dangerously close to a serious leg injury on Sunday when a railing gave way, spilling fans into the tunnel at FedEx Field. On Tuesday, Hurts sent a letter to the Washington Football Team and the league regarding the situation.

The letter refers to the “dangerous situation” that was created by the collapse of the railing.

“I understand the severity of what happened and am extremely concerned for the well-being of fans and media,” Hurts wrote. “As a result, I would like to know what safeguards the NFL and the Washington Football Team are implementing to prevent this from ever occurring in the future.”

The NFL has said that it’s investigating the situation. Based on the manner in which the NFL investigated years of alleged workplace misconduct within the Washington Football Team, it would make sense to not have high expectations regarding any eventual transparency or clarity.

That’s unfortunate. It was a shameful display of disregard for the safety of paying customers and participants in games. And it’s the latest example of the dysfunction that flows from the top of the WFT organization.

I said it during PFT Live and #PFTPM, and I’ll say it again. Daniel Snyder must go. He’s a toxic presence, the personification of conduct detrimental to the National Football League. The league gains nothing from keeping him around. Their toleration of his various misdeeds constitutes complicity, or at least complacency.

What do they gain by keeping him around? What would they gain by pushing him out?

He needs to go. If Hurts had suffered a season-ending injury or if any of those fans hand endured a significant consequence (including loss of life) from tumbling through the railing and to the ground, the outcry to get rid of Snyder would have been immediate, and intense.

Why should he benefit from the fact that he got lucky? He owns the stadium. This is on him. It’s the latest reason why Snyder must go.

Meanwhile, when will FedEx Field ask to have its name removed from the stadium? How is having the corporate name attached to the worst stadium in the NFL (if not in all of American professional sports) helping the corporate cause?

FedEx signed a 27-year, $205 million naming-rights deal for the venue in 1999. At this point, it would make sense to tell Snyder to keep the money and lose the name.

Before doing that, FedEx and every other league sponsor should lobby the NFL to lose Snyder. The game would be much better off without him.

[Futureshock]

One MVP voter says he won’t vote for Aaron Rodgers, calling him “the biggest jerk in the league”

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 4, 2022, 6:48 PM EST

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Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the favorite to win the league’s MVP award. But one voter has already ruled out Rodgers for consideration.

That voter is Hub Arkush, who is one of the 50 members of the media the Associated Press gives a vote for the MVP award that the NFL treats as its official MVP and awards at the annual NFL Honors event. Arkush called Rodgers a “jerk” and a “bad guy” and said today on 670 The Score in Chicago that Rodgers won’t have his vote.

“I don’t think you can be the biggest jerk in the league and punish your team, and your organization and your fan base the way he did and be the Most Valuable Player,” Arkush said. “Has he been the most valuable on the field? Yeah, you could make that argument, but I don’t think he is clearly that much more valuable than Jonathan Taylor or Cooper Kupp or maybe even Tom Brady. So from where I sit, the rest of it is why he’s not gonna be my choice. Do I think he’s gonna win it? Probably. A lot of voters don’t approach it the way I do, but others do, who I’ve spoken to. But one of the ways we get to keep being voters is we’re not allowed to say who we are voting for until after the award has been announced. I’m probably pushing the envelope by saying who I’m not voting for. But we’re not really supposed to reveal our votes.”

Arkush said he is free to vote how he chooses without any rules about whether he can consider off-field issues like Rodgers being unvaccinated and spending 10 days on the COVID-19 reserve list.

“There’s no guidelines,” Arkush said. “We are told to pick the guy who we think is most valuable to his team. And I don’t think it says anywhere, ‘strictly on the field,’ although I do think he hurt his team on the field by the way he acted off the field. They’re gonna get the No. 1 seed anyway, but what if the difference had come down to the Chiefs game, where he lied about being vaccinated, and they ended up getting beat?”

Arkush is a longtime Chicago sports writer who acknowledged that some people will “just think I’m a Packer hater,” but he said he knows for a fact that he’s not the only person who won’t vote for Rodgers.

“I can guarantee you I will not be the only one not voting for him,” Arkush said.

For Arkush, it comes down to who Rodgers is as a person, not who Rodgers is as a quarterback.

“I just think that the way he’s carried himself is inappropriate,” Arkush said. “I think he’s a bad guy, and I don’t think a bad guy can be the most valuable guy at the same time.”

Frankly, Arkush’s reasoning is ridiculous, and calls into question whether the Associated Press should even be the arbiter of the NFL’s MVP award. If the AP can’t find 50 voters who will consider players based on their on-field performance and not for the voters’ subjective assessments of whether the players are “bad guys,” then the NFL should stop using the AP for its official awards, and instead find a panel of voters who will carefully consider players’ on-field performance and vote without personal bias.

[Fraquar]

Rodgers shouldn't even need a vote, his body of work speaks for itself.

The only question about his career would be what would his final career numbers look like if he didn't have to sit those first 3 years.
Kinda like what would Ted Williams career numbers have looked like if he didn't have the better part of 5 years of military service....

[TheLondonLion]

I hope those folks realize another a new owner might move the team.

They’re after a new GM, not owner.

[froot loops]

Yeah sure, the Millen Man March was only about Millen as well. When the clown makeup has handlebar mustaches, it is certainly more than Trent Balke.

[JGSpartan]

Sensitive football writers needed to get over their shit with TO and they should get over it with Rodgers. This is who is the best football player, not who is the most well liked. This Arkush fool should have his vote revoked for this admission. Why they make these decisions in the first place is a head scratcher.

[The King]

Rodgers did miss a game due to not getting the vaccine. Then he lied about it. People are people, and many voters will hold that aganist him.

[jaadam4]

Rodgers did miss a game due to not getting the vaccine. Then he lied about it. People are people, and many voters will hold that aganist him.

Not trying to turn this thread into the back and forth of COVID but your post is misleading. Rodgers didn't miss any games because he wasn't vaccinated as players can still get COVID. He missed the game because he tested positive, the vaccine has nothing to do with that.

He also didn't lie about it with his employer as the Packers and the NFL knew about it. He was misleading to the public and the media but that's his prerogative. I'm not sure how its any of our business of what he does with his body.

[dpatnod]

His non-playing time in isolation would have been shorter if he was vaccinated. Meaning he could have played if he was vaccinated. Or maybe he wouldn't have been infected?

He also violated the protocols that protect the many older members of the organization on the sidelines, coaches, etc. I can't explain again how it is the obligation of living in a fukkin society to do the right thing and not be a dumbass. I am sure the K'aaron Rodgers / Joe Rogan research facility has been burning the wicks at both ends for the last 15 months, but I gotta tell you, I don't think they are any closer to cracking the case. The horse shit didn't protect him. We're still all living with this shit. At some point, don't people ever realize that what they are doing isn't working? Maybe he's wrong?

Rodgers is a dumb motha-fukka. Anyone supporting his bullshit is too.

But I remain unsure how I feel about this.