The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Pete Carroll on the 2 yard line decided to throw instead of letting marshawn lynch fall over. I give Pete Carroll credit but he thinks he's smarter than everyone else

Bill b is the goat and he sat Malcom Butler in a Superbowl coaches don't always make the right call hardly fair to judge someone on one call everyone makes mistakes

Tom Brady seems to be enjoying Twitter, nice to see his lighter side
https://twitter.com/TomBrady/status/1118242409962442753?s=19

How Atlanta decided to show of their schedule:
https://twitter.com/AtlantaFalcons/status/1118665439263981568

I lost it at 40 seconds :pac:


The Chargers one wasn't half bad eitehr:
https://twitter.com/Chargers/status/1118665449594470400

Frank Clark traded to Chiefs

Oat23 wrote: »

In other words, I don't want to stay in this horrible sunshine. Trade me back home to the cold :pac:


I don't remember seeing a kicker demand a trade before? I don't see the Niners letting him go though.



https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1120740809517731842

Someone must be grovelling pretty hard at his front door in Chicago.

phatkev wrote: »

great move by the Chiefs

Given the compensation, the supposed d line talent in this draft and having to pay him 20m+ a year I think the Seahawks got the better end.

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Someone must be grovelling pretty hard at his front door in Chicago.

At the tail end of the season last year he spoke really highly of how much he was enjoying his time at the 49ers and spent months in talks for an extension. Pulling this now he was either tampered with, and knows someone will trade something for him, or has lost the plot.

Foxtrol wrote: »

At the tail end of the season last year he spoke really highly of how much he was enjoying his time at the 49ers and spent months in talks for an extension. Pulling this now he was either tampered with, and knows someone will trade something for him, or has lost the plot.

Or maybe he just misses his family and decided himself that he wants to be closer to home? His wife gave birth near the end of the season and they live in Chicago. He lived in a SF hotel last season. He also spent a lot of time between January and when he was tagged talking about the Bears and perhaps returning. He was basically begging Pace to sign him and he would have if it weren't for the tag.

“I’m not really thinking about it. I’m not really worried about it. I’m just worried about playing football. My family is not living out there with me right now, so I have a countdown for when I can go home and kiss my three boys and my wife.”
Five weeks ago, Gould’s wife, Lauren, gave birth to the couple’s third child. The 49ers’ kicker was able to make two trips back to Chicago to spend time with his family. Because he was beginning the second year of a two-year contract he signed with the 49ers, the decision was made for Gould to live in a hotel close to 49ers headquarters while the rest of the family remained in their permanent home.
“My wife and I decided this year because my deal is up at the end of this year that we wanted them to have normalcy,” Gould said.

Oat23 wrote: »

Or maybe he just misses his family and decided himself that he wants to be closer to home? His wife gave birth near the end of the season and they live in Chicago. He lived in a SF hotel last season. He also spent a lot of time between January and when he was tagged talking about the Bears and perhaps returning. He was basically begging Pace to sign him and he would have if it weren't for the tag.

He’s a grown adult and supposed professional who you want me to believe has, after 2 seasons in San Francisco plus 3 months of the offseason, only now realized that he misses his family?

I like Gould but he has spent the last few months playing both sides of things. One minute he is in the media loving life at the 49ers (see below), then suddenly after the Parkey miss he’s back in the media courting a return to Chicago, then he gets tagged and continues through the whole period to negotiate a long term contract with SF, before finally waiting until 2 days prior to the draft to request a trade (a month after tagging).

I’m all for players doing all they can to earn their money, but he has been all over the place and has now put his team, that he apparently appreciates, in a bad spot. Hopefully it’ll work itself out for both sides, but I won’t feel bad for him if he ends up losing his $5m contract this year and has to sit out.

"Ultimately, at the end of the day, I hope I'm back here," Gould continued. "If that's how it is, I love it here. I've enjoyed it here. I think this place checks a lot of boxes off as a player. I think the support staff here is phenomenal. I think the York family has been incredible through the entire two years I've been here, especially through some tough situations that my wife and I have had to deal with, whether it's delivering a baby, whether it's going through a personal situation last training camp.

"I don't think they get enough credit for the human side of football. Everyone looks at wins and losses, and I think those are things that, as a player, you take into account. And then you go to my special teams room, that room is probably the best room I've had in my 14-year career. Those are things that all go into it."

phatkev wrote: »

great move by the Chiefs

Horrendous, if you ask me. They gave up way too much draft capital and now have to pay him 20m a year, plus.

They essentially traded a first rounder away to move from Dee Ford to Clarke, and still have to fork out the contract.