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Jules · 5 February 2018 03:14

Come on Eagles

TheSpecialCnut · 5 February 2018 03:18

What a fucking ending

BigWeng_4LYFE · 5 February 2018 03:18

Yayyy! Can’t stand the Pats good job Eagles.

Burgundy · 5 February 2018 03:24

World Champions?

giner · 5 February 2018 03:58

Yeah, highly arrogant calling it that. Fucksake, it’s two American teams in an American league. So how is it ‘World’ champions?

Same with ‘World’ Series in Baseball, or Rounders.

Electrifying · 5 February 2018 08:32

BBC had Gareth Southgate on the coverage for this
Wtf would he know

Woke up and saw Patriots lost lol thank god. Good for Philadelphia, Robert DeNiro in Silver Linings Playbook will be happy now.

sevchenko · 8 February 2018 19:50

Been tracking Jimmy G for a while, now highest paid player in the league. NFC West just got alot harder
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/961670067636318209

Electrifying · 8 February 2018 20:29

Apparently the patriots fucked up letting him go

sevchenko · 8 February 2018 20:53

Jimmy G was a pawn in an ongoing power struggle between Kraft and Brady vs Belichick.

Garoppolo was Belichick’s own project, it was his intention to replace Brady sooner rather than later but Tom desire to play on at 40+ messed things up when Jimmy’s contract was coming to an end.

Rumour has it that Brady, who has very close personal relationship with Kraft, pleaded his case to Kraft about his ability to continue at 40+. Kraft basically forced Belichick to trade Jimmy at a loss after Belichick intended to keep him (They were being offered 1st round picks for him in preseason)

Apparently there’s been growing tension between Brady and Belichick over legacy and credit for the Pats success over these years. Jimmy G was Belichick’s opportunity to show the success (if they won SBs under Garoppolo) was largely down to him whilst Brady wants to boost his sporting legacy by attributing the Pats success to mainly himself.

In the aftermath of SB52 it appears Brady and Kraft were right because Brady performed quite well in the SB whilst the Pats defence conceded 41 points under a Belichick whose meant to be a defensive coaching specialist.

I think the pats fucked up not getting the 1st round pick for Jimmy that’s totally due to Brady.

sevchenko · 9 March 2018 01:30

Damn Rams Front office killing it, super aggressive. Jimmy G and Russ better watch out. Wade Phillips defence is a gotdamn no fly zone

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/968189409194577923
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/971912702347096064

BigWeng_4LYFE · 9 March 2018 02:54

All this because one of their aging cb’s is about to be up for a contract and he’s gonna be expensive. So it’s all to save money. Still good moves though because you’ve replaced him now with young cost controlled talent. Now you can really pay the guy who deserves it, Aaron Donald the reigning defensive player of the year. We got rid of our best linebacker for picks in the draft as well (Ogletree).

sevchenko · 9 March 2018 03:08

Pretty much agree…

I’m using this off season to learn more about typical off season matters like the draft, Free agency, cap space and trades. Can be very complicated and simple at the same time lol. The Rams are good place to focus, I’m looking at the Jets too

I do have to say the concept of a salary cap is very interesting. From my POV it seems to work. Things become balanced and consistent domination is rare, the dismantling of the ‘Legion of Boom’ and monitoring how the seahawks attempt to rebuild is very interesting too. It’s very refreshing compared to European football where lesser teams can never dream of breaking through to the top level

BigWeng_4LYFE · 9 March 2018 07:19

Yeah it has it’s pros and cons. With the way our sporting leagues are set up I prefer a cap, it works because there is no relegation here. It does kind of promote a culture of tanking though. I don’t think it would actually work for football football. I think FFP is the way to go, but it just actually needs to be taken seriously and enforced. FFP should also have much greater sanctions for offenders.

sevchenko · 26 March 2018 23:28

Yep, I picked the right time to bandwagon the Rams. This is BIG

https://twitter.com/RamsNFL/status/978395258659618816

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/978394608475561989

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/978395325911183362

Kroenke with the assist!!!

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/978401183718150144
https://twitter.com/BenVolin/status/978399291730485248

Electrifying · 26 March 2018 23:57

All I know about him is that he’s on ballers

BigWeng_4LYFE · 27 March 2018 01:13

One of the top interior lineman in the game, and he’ll be playing with the defensive player of the year, Aaron Donald. They basically play the same position, that d-line is gonna be stacked.

@sevchenko The other rumor is that the Rams are in trade talks with the Giants for OBJ…wuuutttttttt

Maverick79 · 27 March 2018 16:05

goes to show that it definitely aint kroenke holding us back. He seems to have made the Rams better even though he may have pissed the fans off in the process they seem to be on the up and up. I dont find him the problem at Arsenal like all these fans that keep on begging for fucking Usmanov which is the guy that wants to take money out of the club in the first place. I feel the main problems are from wenger.

BigWeng_4LYFE · 27 March 2018 16:25

He also likes to step on other players balls, done it several times, bit of a dirty player.

shamrockgooner · 27 March 2018 19:24

He does?

sevchenko · 27 March 2018 19:31

Not sure if everybody can access FT so I’ll post the article

Arsenal strikes back at Usmanov demands
Roger Blitz, Leisure Industries Correspondent OCTOBER 4, 2007

Arsenal hit back on Wednesday at Alisher Usmanov, the Russian billionaire metals magnate, saying his demands for an independent board and dividend payments were unacceptable.

Football club officials were understood to be dismayed at Mr Usmanov’s decision to hold a press briefing in Moscow on Tuesday about his 23 per cent stake in Arsenal, and at his tone.

Mr Usmanov, who owns Metalloinvest and is worth £5bn, paid £120m for his Arsenal stake together with Farhad Moshiri, his business partner, through Red & White Holdings, their investment vehicle.

His briefing was an attempt to prove he was not hostile to the board and not about to launch an aggressive bid. But the strategy appears to have backfired.

Mr Moshiri held a meeting with board members last week, which the club described as constructive. However, club insiders say the board believes progress at that meeting has been undermined by Mr Usmanov’s briefing.

“They feel they have been told one thing, then they read other things coming out of a press briefing,” one insider said.

“Mr Moshiri expressed a view that he wanted to be a friendly long-term investor. The interpretation coming out of Moscow is somewhat different.” The business partners, who want the board to consider dividend payments, are unhappy about a lock-down agreement signed by board members who hold 45 per cent of the shares.

The board members, who include Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, have agreed not to sell shares until April and will probably extend the agreement. But Red & White says such an agreement is incompatible with their status as board directors.

Arsenal insiders said that, in Chips Keswick and Lord Harris, the football club already had independent directors who were non-shareholders.

The Arsenal Supporters Club, which represents minority shareholders and has been in contact with Stan Kroenke – the US sports franchise billionaire who owns 12.2 per cent of the club – was more forthright, saying it supported the club’s no-dividend policy.

“We fully support the current board’s decision to forgo dividends, allowing all surplus monies to be re-invested into the club,” the supporters club said.

“We call upon Red & White to clarify their position. So far Usmanov has paid a lot of money to purchase 23 per cent of Arsenal but he has not put anything into the club itself. It would be appalling if he were to now seek to extract monies.”

https://www.ft.com/content/7cce6a7c-7205-11dc-8960-0000779fd2ac