Jonathan Stewart, who missed 17 games the past two seasons with ankle and knee injuries, has a severely sprained right knee that has his status for this week’s game at Baltimore in doubt. Rivera said Stewart would not practice until Friday at the earliest.

Stewart’s injury is to the same knee that sidelined him for the final five weeks last season after he tore his MCL.

DeAngelo

Mouai ca fait des années qu'on l'a plus vu à son top. Vraiment une des equipes les moins bien gérée de la ligue pour les skills players offensifs.

ESPN suspends Bill Simmons over Roger Goodell tirade

Bill Simmons, one of ESPN’s most popular and influential figures, was suspended Wednesday by the company for three weeks because of comments he made about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. On Simmons’s podcast, “The B.S. Report,” which was posted on Monday, he launched into a profanity-laced tirade in which he repeatedly called Goodell a “liar.” That podcast appears to have been removed from ESPN’s Web site.

In a weekly segment in which he discusses NFL point spreads with Cousin Sal of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Simmons brought up the press conference Goodell held on Friday, in which the commissioner was pressed on what he knew about the details of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident, and when he knew them.

As Simmons talked about how “insincere” Goodell came across to him, he seemed to get increasingly agitated. Subsequent remarks by Simmons included these:

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“Goodell, if he didn’t know what was in that tape, he’s a liar. I’m just saying it. He is lying. I think that dude is lying, if you put him up on a lie-detector test, that guy would fail. And for all these people to pretend they didn’t know is such [expletive] [expletive], it really is, it’s such [expletive] [expletive].

“And for him to go on that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.” …

“I don’t like liars. Really, I think just people who, when you know they’re lying and they’re lying anyway, those are the worst people. We know you’re lying!” …

“I really hope somebody calls me or emails me and says I’m in trouble for anything I say about Roger Goodell. Because if one person says that to me, I’m going public. You leave me alone. The commissioner’s a liar, and I get to talk about that on my podcast. … Please, call me and say I’m in trouble. I dare you.”

It seems that someone took Simmons up on that dare, because the company suspended him three weeks for violating “ESPN’s journalistic standards.” ESPN issued this statement:

“Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN’s journalistic standards. We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks.”

This is the fourth recent suspension ESPN has handed out to one of its best-known personalities. In July, Stephen A. Smith was suspended one week for comments on the role of women in domestic violence incidents. In August, Max Kellerman was suspended a week for talking about his own experience with domestic violence. Also in August, Dan Lebatard was suspended two days for paying for a billboard in Akron that made fun of LeBron James.

In addition to covering the NFL, ESPN is a corporate partner with the league, televising a game every Monday night.

14-0 apres le 1er QT, easy contre Washington


Larry LEGEND !

NFL exec thinks team could be based in London by 2022

Even though we keep sending them things like a Dolphins-Raiders game, the English for some reason can’t get enough of NFL football.

And spurred on by a good response to the international series that will include three games this season, the league is emboldened in its pursuit of a full-time franchise in London.

Mark Waller, the NFL’s new head of its international division, said he could envision a team based there by 2022.

“When we started [with the series in 2007], I reckoned it’d take 15 years to do it,” Waller told the NFL Network’s Albert Breer. “That was what I expected, and we’re still on course. We’re at the midpoint now.”

That timing is not coincidental with another CBA and a new round of television contracts, which creates a climate ripe for a move.

The league is currently working through the logistical challenges, experimenting with start times, and bringing teams from different time zones to gauge how to proceed if/when it’s a full-time endeavor.

Waller also mentioned two other interesting points as it pertains to expansion of the international market. He specifically mentioned Germany and Brazil as possible future sites of games, with China perhaps more of a long-term goal.

But perhaps most interesting was the possibility of partnering in some fashion with the Barclays Premier League, England’s top soccer league.

That process could be expedited by joint ownership of clubs in each league, since Stan Kroenke owns the Rams and Arsenal) and Joel Glazer owns the Buccaneers and Manchester United). Jaguars owner Shad Khan owns Fulham, a former Premier league team that was relegated to the minor leagues after finishing next to last last season.

“We have goals that mirror one another,” Waller said. “They’re big in the UK and want to be bigger in the U.S., and we’re big in the U.S. and want to be bigger in the UK.”

The piles of money those two powerhouse leagues create in a year are vast, and the fact there’s talk of working together creates a world of possibilities.

Gurley c'est fou.
Sinon je vias pas regarder mais ca aurait ete interessant de suivre Arkansas vs A&M qui demarre dans quelques minutes. Arkansas est coache par Bielema depuis 1 an et ca commence a prendre. Il a garde le style a l'ancienne qu'il avait a Wisconsin, y avait un bon article la dessus sur grantland. Pour aujdui ce sera sans doute court quand meme.

Sinon Houdini, tu peux me faire un CR du match de Chicago, je ne l'ai quasiment pas vu