ATL - 2025 Season - Aaron Jones on IL

Steelers at Jets needed to be a prime time game (every team gets at least one, even the Jets). But I can see the reasoning to have this early in the season.

Matches Malone · Post #1129 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 14, 2025 5:43 pm

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Post #1130 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed May 14, 2025 6:29 pm

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HKPackFan · Post #1131 » by **HKPackFan** » Wed May 14, 2025 6:50 pm

Treebeard wrote:Watch Rogers sign with the Saints now

That would actually be funny.

Post #1132 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu May 15, 2025 12:12 am

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GOAT stay the GOAT.

Post #1133 » by **MickeyDavis** » Thu May 15, 2025 1:42 am

Commanders are going to be interesting. Their 2 road playoff wins were impressive. But they had an incredibly easy regular season schedule and only beat one team with a winning record. The Eagles with Pickett at QB

Profound23 · Post #1134 » by **Profound23** » Thu May 15, 2025 2:06 am

Vikings having 7 of their first 9 games on national television is weird. I know two of those games are due to playing overseas but still.

Profound23 · Post #1135 » by **Profound23** » Thu May 15, 2025 2:18 am

ReasonablySober wrote:

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GOAT stay the GOAT.

Atlanta with a Mario Kart parody was good too

MikeIsGood · Post #1136 » by **MikeIsGood** » Thu May 15, 2025 3:54 pm

Meanwhile, Colts with L after L. My how that '00s titan has fallen.

Post #1137 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu May 15, 2025 4:45 pm

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This whole thing is wild.

Quarterback Caleb Williams was so concerned about being picked by the Chicago Bears in 2024 that he and his family weighed blowing up the entire NFL draft, consulting with lawyers to figure out a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement while considering signing with the United Football League, details from a forthcoming book reveal.

"Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die," Carl Williams, Caleb's father, told Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," in the months before the 2024 draft.

Caleb Williams wondered aloud to confidants: "Do I want to go there? I don't think I can do it with [former Bears offensive coordinator Shane] Waldron."

"I don't want my son playing for the Bears," Williams told several agents in 2024.

Looking for a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement, Carl Williams spoke with Archie Manning, who helped Eli Manning assert a measure of control over his eventual team in 2004. He also met with labor lawyers and agents -- and even considered whether his son could sign with the United Football League and become an unrestricted NFL free agent in 2025 to be able to pick a team. In addition to the draft process, Carl Williams vented about the rookie wage scale, which could lock his son into the team that drafted him for up to eight years. He calculated hundreds of millions of lost market-value income.

"The rookie cap is just unconstitutional," Carl Williams told Wickersham, later adding that the CBA is the "worst piece of sh-t I've ever read. It's the worst in sports history."

"I need to go to the Vikings," he told his father.

"Let's do it," his father replied. But both Caleb and Carl knew that a trade to a divisional rival was extremely unlikely.

Bears GM Ryan Poles stood firm, telling Williams, "We're drafting you no matter what."

That left one option: To publicly attack the Bears and the city of Chicago, hoping that it would make the situation untenable -- similar to what Jack and John Elway had done with the Baltimore Colts in 1983.

"He's worried about me taking bullets," Carl Williams told Wickersham of his son. "I don't care. I just don't agree with this sh-t, you know? I'm more interested in making sure that he can do what he wants to do."

But Caleb was concerned that if they did try and the Bears refused to trade him, it would make a tough situation worse. In the end, Caleb Williams told Wickersham, "I wasn't ready to nuke the city."

Post #1138 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu May 15, 2025 5:10 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:

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This whole thing is wild.

Quarterback Caleb Williams was so concerned about being picked by the Chicago Bears in 2024 that he and his family weighed blowing up the entire NFL draft, consulting with lawyers to figure out a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement while considering signing with the United Football League, details from a forthcoming book reveal.

"Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die," Carl Williams, Caleb's father, told Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," in the months before the 2024 draft.

Caleb Williams wondered aloud to confidants: "Do I want to go there? I don't think I can do it with [former Bears offensive coordinator Shane] Waldron."

"I don't want my son playing for the Bears," Williams told several agents in 2024.

Looking for a way around the league's collective bargaining agreement, Carl Williams spoke with Archie Manning, who helped Eli Manning assert a measure of control over his eventual team in 2004. He also met with labor lawyers and agents -- and even considered whether his son could sign with the United Football League and become an unrestricted NFL free agent in 2025 to be able to pick a team. In addition to the draft process, Carl Williams vented about the rookie wage scale, which could lock his son into the team that drafted him for up to eight years. He calculated hundreds of millions of lost market-value income.

"The rookie cap is just unconstitutional," Carl Williams told Wickersham, later adding that the CBA is the "worst piece of sh-t I've ever read. It's the worst in sports history."

"I need to go to the Vikings," he told his father.

"Let's do it," his father replied. But both Caleb and Carl knew that a trade to a divisional rival was extremely unlikely.

Bears GM Ryan Poles stood firm, telling Williams, "We're drafting you no matter what."

That left one option: To publicly attack the Bears and the city of Chicago, hoping that it would make the situation untenable -- similar to what Jack and John Elway had done with the Baltimore Colts in 1983.

"He's worried about me taking bullets," Carl Williams told Wickersham of his son. "I don't care. I just don't agree with this sh-t, you know? I'm more interested in making sure that he can do what he wants to do."

But Caleb was concerned that if they did try and the Bears refused to trade him, it would make a tough situation worse. In the end, Caleb Williams told Wickersham, "I wasn't ready to nuke the city."

There were some hints about this last year. I'm not surprised. If I was a QB, no way I'd want to go to Chicago under the old regime, even with some of the weapons they got him on offense. But the new regime has set him up for success, so he is out of excuses.

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #1139 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Thu May 15, 2025 5:18 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:

"The rookie cap is just unconstitutional," Carl Williams told Wickersham, later adding that the CBA is the "worst piece of sh-t I've ever read. It's the worst in sports history."

I mean, he aint wrong. No way in hell the founding fathers intended for anyone have to endure 8 years in a Bears uniform when they were drafting the constitution.

Post #1140 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu May 15, 2025 6:18 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:

"The rookie cap is just unconstitutional," Carl Williams told Wickersham, later adding that the CBA is the "worst piece of sh-t I've ever read. It's the worst in sports history."

I mean, he aint wrong. No way in hell the founding fathers intended for anyone have to endure 8 years in a Bears uniform when they were drafting the constitution.

Pretty sure that's what the Eighth Amendment is designed to prevent.