Calvin Ridley suspended for gambling:
It will be interesting to see the details of this. If TMZ is correct, the NFL has gone a bit overboard. If it's true he put down $1500 down on some bet WHILE HE WAS AWAY FROM THE TEAM, a full season seems way too much. A guy can beat his wife and get two games, but Ridley bets $1500 out of a 2.5 million dollar salary and loses a whole year? That's the equivalent of a guy making 50K a year betting 30 dollars.
Stephen Ross can offer (even jokingly) Flores 100K a loss for throwing games and somehow that doesn't lead to an immediate suspension. At the least Ross should have been forced to step away from the team while they investigate.
The NFL has just banned Atlanta Falcons star receiver Calvin Ridley for the ENTIRE 2022 season ... after investigators say he bet on games. The league just announced the suspension ... saying in a statement Ridley bet on NFL games in the 2021 season "during a five-day period in late November." Ridley was away from the team on the non-football illness list at the time of the betting, the NFL said in a statement. The league added that an investigation showed there were no signs "that any game was compromised in any way." "There is nothing more fundamental to the NFL's success -- and to the reputation of everyone associated with our league -- than upholding the integrity of the game," commissioner Roger Goodell said in a letter to Ridley notifying him of the ban.A league with Daniel Snyder and Stephen Ross is worried about its integrity? Guys spend at least 10X this much partying in Vegas for a couple of hours. You can't listen to a sports talk show without hearing 2-3 ads every commercial break for legalized gambling. Unless there's a lot more too this (and there may be), this is setting Goodell up for some major league hypocrisy (which is really what the NFL is best at right now).
The NFL needs to get it's priorities straightened out.
The talk this morning is more about how stupid Ridley was that he did this in his own name.
I am much more worried about players who are having their family members, or more likely, some friends bet for them. This has to be rampant and I'm not sure how the NFL handles this. Would Ridley be disciplined if he had a significant other who put down the money in the same way? How do they handle parents of players? All of these people might get inside information.
@mrtundra posted:The NFL needs to get it's priorities straightened out.
Did Sherman get anything at all for his handy work?
Blockbuster: The #Seahawks and #Broncos have agreed in principle on a trade sending nine-time Pro Bowl QB Russell Wilson to Denver for a massive haul, including multiple first-round draft picks, plus additional picks and players, per sources
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 8, 2022
Massive haul is right and that's a pretty good indication of what AR would have brought.
James Jones is saying Davonte Adams is not going to be happy getting tagged…..what does James Jones know anyway.
The full deal:#Broncos get: Russell Wilson and a fourth-rounder.#Seahawks get: 2 first-rounders and 2 second-rounders, a fifth-rounder, Drew Lock, Shelby Harris and Noah Fant.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 8, 2022
So hypothetically, if Denver would have offered GB the same package back how would that look?
Lock is garbage, but Harris is an instant upgrade at one DE spot and Fant is really good at TE. I think Fant is under contract for the next 2 years on his rookie deal.
Throw in one more #1 instead of a 2nd #2 and I'm in. Ah well, moot point.
I would have taken that Denver deal for A-Aron 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.
Yep. Pretty sure Rodgers would have commanded 3 #1 ones. And that would have been fair.
Btw, has no one else noticed Wilson's level of play has sucked of late? Granted, yes, he hasn't had a great OL in front of him. But he had pretty decent weapons at WR and wasn't playing well at all.
It'll be interesting to see how Denver, snowy/cold environment, changes that if at all.
He also came back injured late in 2021. Hard to tell how good he still is.
Someone will be willing to pay 17 what he wants salary-wise. Packers are just ensuring they will get some sort of compensation if he leaves. As the players are so fond of saying these days "it's not personal, it's just business."
That said, I think they give him what he wants to be happy.
I'm fairly confident part of Rodgers agreement to sign this new contract was xx more years of Davante.
@PackerHawk posted:I'm fairly confident part of Rodgers agreement to sign this new contract was xx more years of Davante.
I buy that.
Did Rodgers really sign a new contract?
Why would they give a WR coming off his rookie year a new contract?
@GBFanForLife posted:Did Rodgers really sign a new contract?
He’s mulling it over.
@YooperPackfan posted:Did Sherman get anything at all for his handy work?
A slap on the wrist.
Ol' Rog might give him something like a 2 game suspension, or similar pittance for tarnishing the shield...
@YooperPackfan posted:Did Sherman get anything at all for his handy work?
I do not know.
WFT grasping here
@AdamSchefter: Colts are trading QB Carson Wentz to Washington for a package of packs that is thought to include two third-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
Washington is paying the full $28 million due to Carson Wentz this year, which includes a $5 million roster bonus due next week.
massey_evan: Jordan Love is a name to watch closely for the #Colts at QB. Chris Ballard tried to get him in the draft, and now they have assets to easily make a deal with the #Packers for him.
First round draft picks at QB. Has there ever been a worse stretch of the league missing on QBs entirely in the first round than from 2013 to 2016? Not a single one of those guys is with his original team.
23 total 1st round picks from 2013 to 2020. Love is the only one we don't really know about yet in terms of how he'll turn out.
5 grand slam HRs (Mahomes, Watson (talent-wise), Allen, Burrow, Herbert
2 great picks but trending a little downward (Murray and Lamar Jackson)
Mayfield, Tua, and Bridgewater are decent but unremarkable.
2013 Manuel (16)
2014 Bortles (3), Manziel (22), Bridgwater (32)
2015 Winston (1), Mariota (2)
2016 Wentz (1), Goff (2), Lynch (26)
2017 Trubisky (2), Mahomes (10), Watson (12)
2018 Mayfield (1), Darnold (3), Allen (7), Lamar Jackson (32)
2019 Murray (1), Daniel Jones (6), Haskins (15)
2020 Burrow (1), Tua (5), Herbert (6), Love (26)
Starting QBs the Packers are slated to face in 2022.
Elite
Josh Allen (1)
Stafford (1) - generously ranked
Good
Cousins (2)
Tannehill (1)
Mac Jones (1)
Prescott (1)
Other guys
Fields (2)
Goff (2)
Wentz (1)
Whoever the Bucs end up starting (1)
Jalen Hurts (1)
Tua (1)
Whoever the Jets end up starting (1)
Daniel Jones (1)
Bobby Wagner out at SEA?
@MichiganPacker posted:Cousins now rumored to be headed to Indy.
Maybe the Vikings can get Trubisky to replace Cousins?
When you look at GBs schedule, it’s pretty damn favorable.
Sure, the game at Buffalo looks tough, and at Minnesota can be tricky, but they get the Rams, Cowboys, Pats, and Titans at home. If any of those games are late in the year (cold) the Packers should have an advantage.
Even if they trip up against MN in MN and at Buffalo and split the 4 games mentioned above that’s a 13-4 record. Factor in one surprise loss and it’s 12-5.
Assuming Brady doesn’t go to SF you have to figure the Packers toughest competition in the NFC is the Rams. Yet they play SF twice, AZ twice, at KC, Denver, the Chargers, the Raiders, Buffalo and Dallas. That’s not an easy path by any stretch and of course they will have a hangover effect from winning the SB.
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@ilcuqui posted:WFT grasping here
@AdamSchefter: Colts are trading QB Carson Wentz to Washington for a package of packs that is thought to include two third-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
Washington is paying the full $28 million due to Carson Wentz this year, which includes a $5 million roster bonus due next week.
Wentz is a better version of Sam Bradford.
Hicks isn't nearly as good as Campbell, but he would be a decent (and cheaper) alternative should Campbell hit the open market and receive a bigger than expected offer. https://t.co/wmUBLhEPY4
— Michael Rodney (@PackersNotes) March 9, 2022
@Fedya posted:Maybe the Vikings can get Trubisky to replace Cousins?
I was thinking they go after pa-nub
Kahlil Mack to the Chargers for draft picks.