SabreFan1 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 It was definitely more than a big salary. Kelce said on twitter "We just made an extremely unpopular decision today, but I couldn't be more excited and happy with where this organization is going!!!" No player would be happy about a pro bowler leaving for salary reasons unless there was issues. His mom didn't even want him to hang with his friends on the show cause they have no jobs and look like gangbangers on the show They are. He said he still hangs around with old friends that are gang affiliated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offensive Threat Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Don't let some of the old reports out there fool you. He still has some cash left but he had to sell most of the the stuff (cars, houses, etc.) he accrued over the years. Like the rest of us, he has to live within his means now. Not to mention he gets a 6 figure pension every year. No football player since the last CBA can cry poverty anymore after they retire. It's the old players that helped build the NFL into what it is today that have gone broke and homeless. They've been slowly passing away over the last 10-15 years or so. The pension kicks in when he is 55. thats 14 years from now. His pension for 15 seasons will be $6375 per month before taxes according to the current CBA. Its baseball and basketball players that get the 6 figure retirement deals. Football players not quite as much. Plus he has 4 seperate baby mammas to pay for. Still he wont go broke in his old age. Which is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 The pension kicks in when he is 55. thats 14 years from now. His pension for 15 seasons will be $6375 per month before taxes according to the current CBA. Its baseball and basketball players that get the 6 figure retirement deals. Football players not quite as much. Plus he has 4 seperate baby mammas to pay for. Still he wont go broke in his old age. Which is nice. Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggs50 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Apparently Jason Pierre Paul of the Giants blew off some of his fingers last night. That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmen81 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Apparently Jason Pierre Paul of the Giants blew off some of his fingers last night. That sucks. If the stuff I'm reading is true that is messed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 (edited) Apparently Jason Pierre Paul of the Giants blew off some of his fingers last night. That sucks. His fingers are still attached. It's flesh that was burned off. In other words, he received 2nd and 3rd degree burns. *edit* He'll still be able to play football, but my guess is that he will lose a decent amount sensation in that hand. Good thing he's a DE and not an offensive back or receiver. Edited July 6, 2015 by SabreFan1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Now there's a legitimate reason for a team to void a contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Now there's a legitimate reason for a team to void a contract. He's not under contract. His contract ran out and he was/is tagged with the franchise label. Let's see if the NYG pull the franchise contract off of the table now. This incident could potentially cost him millions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 He's not under contract. His contract ran out and he was/is tagged with the franchise label. Let's see if the NYG pull the franchise contract off of the table now. This incident could potentially cost him millions. Giants backed out of the $60m offer they were going to give him. Most likely will see a 1 year deal at the $15m range or cheaper. No way NY gives him more than it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Lol you believe that? Chip Kelly just didn't want his big salary on the books. Oh and he spoke out a little, and Chip doesn't want that. DeSean threw himself out the door. To his credit he was forward but it became excessive. He openly said he takes routes off across the middle as he doesn't want to get hit (in all fairness the last time he cut across the middle this happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKD7s6TpAAk The problem was DeSean was a 1 trick pony he did one thing very well and nothing else. But he wanted money and milked the angle of big plays. He wanted a new contract and caused a stink over it but ultimately still got one making him the 6th highest paid WR in the NFL at the time which in itself was excessive. He had a lousy season then followed it with a strong season and went back to threatening to hold out for more money and a new contract. DeSean was talented but not talented enough to keep dealing with his ego. Keep in mind he was released before Kelly had full control. As far as the Eagles go they never spoke about gang ties or supported that claim only saying it was a football decision to let him go. The Gang report was released by a local media outlet not the team. And to the Eagles credit the Offense averaged 27.6 points with DeSean and 29.6 points without DeSean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Giants backed out of the $60m offer they were going to give him. Most likely will see a 1 year deal at the $15m range or cheaper. No way NY gives him more than it. So far, that's just a rumour. Like I said, he still has a franchise tag on him. NYG can pull that tag though at any time. They're going to wait and see what becomes of his hand injury. The NFL Network on Monday reported the Giants rescinded a $60 million contract offer they had on the table for Pierre-Paul as a result of the fireworks incident. However, an NFL source told The Post the report was “100 percent false.’’ The source did confirm there is an offer on the table for Pierre-Paul, but that the team has not taken the offer away. That source, though, strongly indicated that Pierre-Paul’s option in 2015 will be to play for the $14.8 million “franchise tag’’ tender offer presented to him. http://nypost.com/2015/07/06/giants-pull-jpps-60m-contract-after-fireworks-mishap-report/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NucksPatsFan Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Would 3 other CDC members be interested in getting together and partying with Gronk and other celebrities on a cruise and on a private island? http://www.gronkspartyship.com/prices/ Pretty cheap for what you get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayRayDown Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Would 3 other CDC members be interested in getting together and partying with Gronk and other celebrities on a cruise and on a private island? http://www.gronkspartyship.com/prices/ Pretty cheap for what you get. Yeah that is pretty cheap. Too bad its 700 bucks just to fly to Miami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue90 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) I enjoyed this letter from Albert Haynesworth to his younger self http://www.theplayerstribune.com/albert-haynesworth-letter-to-my-younger-self/ Sorry about the black. Copied/pasted from another forum Dear 14-year-old Albert,I know your knees hurt so bad right now that you can’t sit in the car for more than 20 minutes at a time, but don’t freak out about it — it’s just growing pains. What did you think was going to happen drinking two gallons of whole milk a week? You start high school this fall, and you’re just going to keep getting bigger. You’re going to grow five inches over the summer and when you show up for track practice on the first day of school, all your buddies are going to look at you like, “Dude, you got tall.”You’re going to grow to 6’6”, an inch taller than your hero Reggie White. And like him, you are going to be an athletic monster. During a playoff game your junior season, you’re going to run down the field on punt coverage and stick out your arm to wrap-tackle the returner, only you’re going to clothesline him with so much force that he wraps around your arm and does a backflip. The crowd is going to react like it’s pro wrestling. Don’t worry, the kid will be okay. This is going to be your first experience of playing with so much adrenaline that you’re straddling the edge. It will feel like an insane kind of control. You need to learn how to reign this in. More on that later.In the state championship game, you’re going to rack up 15 tackles as a defensive tackle. Colleges will start recruiting you hard after that, and things are going to start happening very fast. Remember that you’re just a kid from a town of 4,000 in Hartsville, South Carolina. Because when you get to the University of Tennessee, you’re going to feel like a very small fish in a very big pond. This feeling won’t last, but it’s going to feel that way for a while. You’re going to have some very lonely moments. During your freshman year, Coach Fulmer will introduce you to a psychologist who will become one of your best friends. He’ll listen to your problems when you’re struggling. You’ll go tubing and water skiing on his boat and hang out with him all throughout college. He will come to your house and meet your mom. I know this sounds crazy, Albert. But do not trust this man. As soon as you decide to declare for the NFL Draft, he will say, “You know, I do some investing on the side. I’ve been helping other guys out for years. You should let me handle your money.”You’ve heard the horror stories about guys buying a fleet of Rolls Royces and gold chains and going broke. You’re not an idiot. You know you should invest your money, and this guy is showing you a business card that says “Morgan Stanley” and a multi-million dollar portfolio. I know he seems trustworthy. I know he seems smart. But if you let your friend handle your finances, he’s going to take millions from you.Are you paying attention now?Remember when you were 8 years old, watching an NFL game with your mom, and you turned to her and said, “That’s what I’m going to do some day”? Well, it’s going to be a lot more complicated than just a simple game. When you get drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the first round of the 2002 Draft, you’re going to come into camp thinking you got this. Sure, you only benched as much as some of the safeties at the combine, but you can run. You have that short-burst playing power. You’re going to be a better athlete than 85 percent of the offensive linemen you’re up against. You’re going to run over guys in practice. But for some reason, when Sunday comes around, they’re going to do just enough to stop you. Because they have the brains. Year by year, you’re going to figure this out and start picking up little tricks.In 2006, everything is going to change, for better or worse. By now, you will fully understand that to survive in an NFL game, you have to work yourself up into a kind of insanity. This is what it takes. Before games, your coaches will essentially pimp you out. They’re going to use humiliation and fear as a means to make you play as hard as humanly possible. One of them will literally show you a scene from the movie Deliverance during a mid-week meeting in order to demonstrate just how badly the opponent is going to own you. You will love this, in a way. It will make you go absolutely nuts. The NFL culture will brainwash you into a certain mentality: “My opponent is trying to take food out on my mouth, and I want to embarrass him in front of his family. It disgusts me to be on the same field as him.”You will approach games as war. I don’t mean that as a cliche. There will be many times where you feel like your opponent is trying to steal your entire life. In October 2006, you’ll be playing against the Dallas Cowboys, rushing against the guard like you have thousands of times before, when you get your knee clipped from behind. You’ll get up, furious, and see that it’s the center, Andre Gurode, who hit you. This is an unspoken rule among lineman. You don’t do it. But maybe it was an accident. You say, “What the hell was that? You ain’t man enough to block me straight up?”“Nah,” he’ll say, “I’m trying to put your ass out.”This will be one of the most significant moments of your life. You will go the sideline, and your vision will be red. You will be madder than you’ve ever been in your entire life. A switch will get flipped. You will not be able to control the monster, and you’ll step way over the line for the first time. I know this will seem impossible to you — but you will stomp on Andre’s head, cutting him above his eye and causing him to get 30 stitches.After that moment, you will never be looked at the same way again. And the complicated thing is, this is going to help you on the football field. Even as the media and the league is vilifying you, the irony is that this mistake will put you on the radar of everybody in the NFL. Guys will think you’re crazy. When you return from suspension and you play against the Eagles, an offensive lineman’s helmet will come off at the end of a play, and he will look at you scared ****less, like, “Hey Albert, you OK? Just relax.”Guys will be terrified of you. They’ll shy away from your side of the field. And that’s where things are going to get really murky. On one hand, people expect you to flip a switch and be a killer when you’re on the field, and on the other hand, they expect you to be able to instantly switch it off when it’s over. Should you embrace the bad guy? Is that who you want to be, even if it means success in the short-term? I still don’t know if I have the answer for you, Albert. What I know is that you’ll make back-to-back Pro Bowls in 2007 and 2008, and you’ll start to believe that you’re unstoppable. That you can do anything. That’s when you’re going to do something really dumb.If nothing else, listen to me on this, Albert: Do not leave the Tennessee Titans. Your defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is a mastermind. No matter how much I tell you this, you’ll probably never realize it until your career is over, but it’s true. You’re like a system quarterback. You thrive in a very specific scheme. When you hit free agency, the Washington Redskins are going to offer you $100 million. Everyone will talk about this (they won’t talk about the fact that most of that money is not guaranteed, or that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offered you $135 million). The $100 million will become a huge burden. Take less and stay in Tennessee where you belong.Oh, when you get on that first phone call with Dan Snyder and the organization in Washington, it’ll be all good. “We want you to play just like you did in Tennessee, Albert. We’re going to let you loose and destroy the Giants, Cowboys and Eagles. That’s your job.”Then during your first OTA, you’re going to be introduced to a different brand of football. I can already see you rolling your damn eyes. How can football be different? I’m a defensive lineman. Well, football in Washington versus football in Tennessee was like the difference between a general physician and a cardiologist. Both doctors. One is just a little more sophisticated.People are going to be all over you for your contract, and you’re going to feel really frustrated. You’re going to do some dumb things. But what people aren’t going to see is Mike Shanahan calling you into his office and saying, “Albert, we just want you to eat up space. All we want you to do is grab the center and let the linebackers run free.”You’re going to look at this famous NFL head coach in total disbelief and say, “You want to pay me $100 million to grab the center?”And he’s going to say, with a straight face, “Albert, if you have more than one sack this season, I’m going to be pissed.”The last thing you’ll say before walking out of the office is, “Can’t you just pay someone $300,000 a year to do that?”You will lose your passion for football in Washington, and it will be impossible to get back. In retirement, you will discover that your financial advisor has squandered most of the money you made with the Redskins, and he will be under investigation for financial fraud. Thankfully, you will have discovered a passion for restoring houses and buying property during your offseasons. You’ll even open up a BurgerFi restaurant in Knoxville (I know you love burgers). Instead of being on the beach in the Bahamas, like most people probably think you are, you will be hanging drywall in a condo in South Carolina. And you know what? That will make you extremely happy.You are just a kid from a town of 4,000, and you made it out like your hero Reggie White. You did what you told mamma you were going to do. The same traits that got you to the NFL are the same traits that got you into trouble. You have to live with that. I am proud of what you’ve accomplished.Remember to enjoy it a little bit,Albert Edited July 8, 2015 by Blue90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah that is pretty cheap. Too bad its 700 bucks just to fly to Miami Only a little bit over a $100 for me and I have some free miles to use =D Though I feel that will be a sausage fest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayRayDown Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Only a little bit over a $100 for me and I have some free miles to use =D Though I feel that will be a sausage fest. I'm sure there'll be women trying to get with Gronk lol Most parties are sausage fests anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Romo Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 You guys think their will be a NFL team in London in the future? Tottenham got approval of their new stadium that will have retractable grass pitch for footy, and underneath artificial turf for American footy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 You guys think their will be a NFL team in London in the future? Tottenham got approval of their new stadium that will have retractable grass pitch for footy, and underneath artificial turf for American footy. Would be the dumbest thing ever. Rather just have a Canadian team and I'm all against that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NucksPatsFan Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah that is pretty cheap. Too bad its 700 bucks just to fly to Miami Well, I've got a free round trip flight from Aeroplan, soo .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 @RapSheet: The medical report of Jason Pierre-Paul that @AdamSchefter reported is accurate. The #Giants pass-rusher had his finger amputated today. Well holy frack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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