Probably shock to learn that Biden’s wife is a doctor.
Butker’s own mother is a Clinical Medical Physicist, Department of Radiation Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine.
That apple sure rolled pretty far from the tree then.
Yeah, but that’s at least medicine-tangential. Biden has a doctorate in education.
There’s already been a controversy about her calling herself a doctor.
So Jill Biden is a real doctor in other words, since the original doctorates were for academic pursuits, medical doctorates are a more recent thing.
Yeah, but you’ll never convince them of that. To them, doctors = medicine, and that’s it, and that’s all.
True. Facts aren’t as important as opinions.
Larry Allen has died.
Colts safety Daniel Scott suffers a season-ending injury in OTAs for the second straight year. His rookie year, he tore his ACL. This off-season, he ruptured his Achilles tendon.
In two seasons with the Colts, he’s yet to play a single snap.
It sounds like he got at least one, with his ACL.
You go to your room and think about what you’ve done.
The NFL concluded its investigation of the Falcons for illegally tampering with Kirk Cousins, Darnell Mooney, and Charlie Woerner. They fined the Falcons $250,000, fined the GM $50,000 and docked them a fifth round 2025 draft pick.
In addition, the NFL investigated the Eagles for tampering with Saquon Barkley, but didn’t find enough evidence to take any action.
The monetary penalties seem toothless. The draft pick is the only thing they really care about. If they wanted to actually punish them, they’d forget the fines and cut their cap space instead. Seems like that would be a more appropriate punishment for tampering.
I agree, to me that seems like an extremely appropriate penalty that will make an actual impact.
I have to remind myself that the NFL is run by the owners, so all of this ultimately comes back to a consensus agreement between them, where they compromise on how to handle disputes between each other. You always need to keep that in mind when trying to figure out how they determine what’s fair.
The Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence have agreed on a 5 year, $275 million contract extension. $200 million guaranteed, with $142 million received at the signing.
Agreed that fines are merely a slap on the wrist, but there’s no way the players will consent to giving up a slice of the pie, and I expect the NFL Players Association to fight a salary cap reduction tooth and nail.
Now, if the NFL upped the fines, and had a policy that the fines are to be evenly apportioned to the team’s intradivisional rivals (with the caveat that the rivals must spend this money on player salaries within a certain time frame), then that might provide slightly more incentive for teams to toe the line.
I don’t understand this. The Dolphins lost a 1st and 3rd round pick and had $2M in total fines for trying, and failing, to poach Brady and Payton. I can appreciate that the Dolphins actions were far more egregious and was an ongoing violation as opposed to jumping the gun on FA by a couple days, but the difference between the draft pick penalty is massive.
In 2016 the Chiefs got tagged for a 3rd and a 6th round pick for tampering with Maclin in what seems like a very similar violation to the Cousins one.
Further back the Lions and Chiefs had a 5th and 6th round pick swap to settle a tampering case, and the 49ers lost a 5th rounder plus a 3rd round pick swap with the Bears for tampering with Lance Briggs.
The Falcons penalty seems like the softest one applied since the Detroit/Chiefs one in 2010. I also find it weird that in some cases the original team seems to benefit from the penalty and in others they don’t, wish I knew what logic applied there.
Found the problem. No such thing as logic in the NFL, just a roulette wheel of penalties.
The only thing I can figure is someone said, “Isn’t being the Falcons already punishment enough?!”
That was my thought as well. Maybe there’s a mercy clause for teams that suck.