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OSUBuckeye said:
I finally got around to watching the Lawrence Phillips documentary. Running For His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story. I wish I didn't. Very sad & tragic life.
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Wait, where did you see that? Being a Husker fan, I'm not sure I could bring myself to watch it anyway.
 
Alk said:
Wait, where did you see that? Being a Husker fan, I'm not sure I could bring myself to watch it anyway.
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I've had it on the DVR for a few weeks. It was on Showtime.

Lot of Husker stuff. It is very tough to watch. All the things he went through right from the start. Painful.

My opinion of him has certainly changed now that I have a better understanding of his life.
 
Jim Harbaugh: I deserve a medal for lasting so long under 49ers ownership

By Matt Maiocco February 23, 2017 11:36 AM
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In Kyle Shanahan’s first breath after being introduced as 49ers head coach on Feb. 9, he mentioned Jim Harbaugh, along with Bill Walsh, George Seifert and Steve Mariucci.
The head coach of Michigan was listening, and he appreciated the gesture.
“It was very flattering that he said nice things about us at his news conference, and I appreciated that,” Harbaugh said on "The TK Show," a podcast from Tim Kawakami of the Bay Area News Group.
“Now, I don’t think I was there long enough to be compared with Bill Walsh or Coach Seifert, etc. But I think did – and correct me if I’m wrong – I think we did set a record for coaching there the longest under the present ownership, if I’m not wrong.”
That is correct.
Since John and Denise York took over control of the 49ers in 2000 from Denise’s brother, Eddie DeBartolo, the 49ers have employed eight head coaches. Mike Nolan was fired after seven games of his fourth season. The two coaches who followed Harbaugh -- Jim Tomsula and Chip Kelly -- were fired after 5-11 and 2-14 seasons, respectively.
Harbaugh’s teams advanced to the NFC Championship Game in each of his first three seasons, including a Super Bowl appearance. He and the 49ers “mutually parted ways,” the club announced, immediately after the team finished with an 8-8 record in 2014.
“I take pride in that,” Harbaugh said. “Maybe there should be an endurance medal, a courage medal, for that.”
Shanahan mentioned Harbaugh during his opening remarks at the introductory press conference earlier this month:
“I’ve got to start out thanking Jed and the whole York family. Giving me this opportunity is, it’s a dream come true and it’s not just an opportunity to be a head coach, but to be a head coach at a place like this where you talk about Bill Walsh, you talk about George Seifert, Steve Mariucci, Jim Harbaugh and you can go down the line with the coaches.”
Said Harbaugh, “Just appreciated it. Appreciated it, and not just for me personally, but appreciated that for all the wonderful players we had and the wonderful coaches and the effort that was put in. People poured their hearts and souls into those years. It’s just appreciated that Kyle would make that comment.”
Harbaugh said he has deep respect for Shanahan and new 49ers general manager John Lynch, whom Harbaugh asked to speak to his Stanford teams during his four-year tenure as head coach.
“Yeah, I would’ve loved to have worked for John Lynch,” Harbaugh said. “He reminds me a lot of the athletic director we have here Warde Manuel, who’s also a former player and a teammate of mine. Common sense guys who are team guys, just the way they go about their business always speaks volumes.
“I thought John took note when they were going through the process. e didn’t want his name mentioned and I think that’s . . . I don’t know if a lot of people noticed that, but I think that’s a profound thing. I think that speaks volumes for who he is as a person. He wants to do a good job and it’s for the right reasons. He’s a competitor at the highest level, so I have great respect for that.”
Kawakami also asked Harbaugh about whether he believes quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still capable of being an NFL starter.
“There’s no doubt he can be an NFL starting quarterback,” Harbaugh said.
“I’m sure Kyle, the coaching staff there and John will meet on it, they’ll think about it, they’ll watch, much like we did when we got in there in 2011. And they’ll make the best decision they can for the team and the organization and it’ll play out the way it’s going to play out.”


http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/jim-harbaugh-i-deserve-medal-lasting-so-long-under-49ers-ownership
 
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Jim Harbaugh: I deserve a medal for lasting so long under 49ers ownership

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In Kyle Shanahan’s first breath after being introduced as 49ers head coach on Feb. 9, he mentioned Jim Harbaugh, along with Bill Walsh, George Seifert and Steve Mariucci.
The head coach of Michigan was listening, and he appreciated the gesture.
“It was very flattering that he said nice things about us at his news conference, and I appreciated that,” Harbaugh said on "The TK Show," a podcast from Tim Kawakami of the Bay Area News Group.
“Now, I don’t think I was there long enough to be compared with Bill Walsh or Coach Seifert, etc. But I think did – and correct me if I’m wrong – I think we did set a record for coaching there the longest under the present ownership, if I’m not wrong.”
That is correct.
Since John and Denise York took over control of the 49ers in 2000 from Denise’s brother, Eddie DeBartolo, the 49ers have employed eight head coaches. Mike Nolan was fired after seven games of his fourth season. The two coaches who followed Harbaugh -- Jim Tomsula and Chip Kelly -- were fired after 5-11 and 2-14 seasons, respectively.
Harbaugh’s teams advanced to the NFC Championship Game in each of his first three seasons, including a Super Bowl appearance. He and the 49ers “mutually parted ways,” the club announced, immediately after the team finished with an 8-8 record in 2014.
“I take pride in that,” Harbaugh said. “Maybe there should be an endurance medal, a courage medal, for that.”
Shanahan mentioned Harbaugh during his opening remarks at the introductory press conference earlier this month:
“I’ve got to start out thanking Jed and the whole York family. Giving me this opportunity is, it’s a dream come true and it’s not just an opportunity to be a head coach, but to be a head coach at a place like this where you talk about Bill Walsh, you talk about George Seifert, Steve Mariucci, Jim Harbaugh and you can go down the line with the coaches.”
Said Harbaugh, “Just appreciated it. Appreciated it, and not just for me personally, but appreciated that for all the wonderful players we had and the wonderful coaches and the effort that was put in. People poured their hearts and souls into those years. It’s just appreciated that Kyle would make that comment.”
Harbaugh said he has deep respect for Shanahan and new 49ers general manager John Lynch, whom Harbaugh asked to speak to his Stanford teams during his four-year tenure as head coach.
“Yeah, I would’ve loved to have worked for John Lynch,” Harbaugh said. “He reminds me a lot of the athletic director we have here Warde Manuel, who’s also a former player and a teammate of mine. Common sense guys who are team guys, just the way they go about their business always speaks volumes.
“I thought John took note when they were going through the process. e didn’t want his name mentioned and I think that’s . . . I don’t know if a lot of people noticed that, but I think that’s a profound thing. I think that speaks volumes for who he is as a person. He wants to do a good job and it’s for the right reasons. He’s a competitor at the highest level, so I have great respect for that.”
Kawakami also asked Harbaugh about whether he believes quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still capable of being an NFL starter.
“There’s no doubt he can be an NFL starting quarterback,” Harbaugh said.
“I’m sure Kyle, the coaching staff there and John will meet on it, they’ll think about it, they’ll watch, much like we did when we got in there in 2011. And they’ll make the best decision they can for the team and the organization and it’ll play out the way it’s going to play out.”


http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/jim-harbaugh-i-deserve-medal-lasting-so-long-under-49ers-ownership
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Jim is so awesome. Hard to believe he and John are related other than the constant whining. lol.
 
Former Dolphins DT Earl Mitchell to the 49ers. 4 years, $16M with $5.5M in 2017. He was due $4M on his old contract with the Dolphins, so basically getting released meant a raise for him.
 
End result of illegally using walkie talkies: Giants fined $150K, McAdoo $50K, 4th-round pick drops 10 spots from No. 130 overall to 140.

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Undertaker #59* said:
End result of illegally using walkie talkies: Giants fined $150K, McAdoo $50K, 4th-round pick drops 10 spots from No. 130 overall to 140.

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Mike Hurley puts Goodell's favoritism in perspective.

For the crime of using walkie-talkies to communicate during a game against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium when the Giants experienced some technical problems with their coach-to-QB communication system, Goodell moved the Giants’ fourth-round draft pick to … 10 spots lower in the fourth round.
Wow.
Justice has been served.
This is, of course, entirely a farce. And it is the latest example of Goodell ruling however he wants to rule based on the team in question.
What’s most perplexing about this instance is that no investigation was necessary. Head coach Ben McAdoo used the walkie-talkie in plain view, and it aired on the TV broadcast.

But additionally, there’s this: illegally using a walkie-talkie in order to communicate with your quarterback in the middle of a game provides more of an advantage in a game than does the filming of coaches who are giving signals from the sideline. The thing is, what got overlooked in the Spygate hysteria, is that … the coaches in question were giving these signals in plain view. People could see them. In fact, the Patriots were free to film them if they wanted to; they just had to do the filming from specified locations.
So, in the controversy known as “Spygate,” it was not illegal to film coaches on the sidelines. It was merely a technicality regarding the location of that filming. The Patriots got hammered for ignoring a memo from the league office — a memo which said, essentially, “knock it off.”
On the contrary, the NFL strictly forbids the use of a walkie-talkie on the sideline. As Mike Florio reported, the NFL “made it clear that the coach cannot use the walkie-talkie, in any way.” This mandate came in the form of a … memo from the league office.
Both cases are pretty black-and-white. And yet, here’s the discrepancy in penalties:
PATRIOTS IN 2007-08
Stripped of first-round pick (first time in NFL history)
$500,000 fine for Bill Belichick (largest ever fine of a head coach in NFL history)
$250,000 fine for Patriots
GIANTS IN 2016-17
Fourth-round draft pick moved from No. 130 to No. 140 overall
$150,000 fine for Giants
$50,000 fine for Ben McAdoo
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Slight discrepancy there, no?
Perhaps it would be more difficult to speculate that perhaps Goodell is playing favorites if the commissioner had not gone out of his way to try to help the Giants avoid any and all issues with Josh Brown during the former Giants kicker’s issues with domestic violence. Had Goodell not worked with the Giants to bypass the automatic six-game suspension which Goodell instituted himself, had Goodell not personally worked to drop that suspension to just one game in hopes of sweeping it all under the rug, then maybe — just maybe — nobody would accuse him of favoritism with regard to the New York Giants.
Maybe.
But he did.
And so, here we are.


http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/02/24/roger-goodell-giants-walkie-talkie-punishment-unbelievable/
 
chevss454 said:
Mike Hurley puts Goodell's favoritism in perspective.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/02/24/roger-goodell-giants-walkie-talkie-punishment-unbelievable/
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That is a great piece by Hurley but honestly at this point, I am really over the injustice of Goodell and his favorites. Watching that clown hand that trophy to Kraft while the other 31 owners including his fav Mara watched was just glorious. Really, the best sport moment of my life. At this point, Goodell to me is just a shadow, a puppet. Barstools depiction of him as a clown was spot on.

As Kraft said, the haters will hate and the Pats will continue to do their best to make sure they stay in that state. Once again, it is great to be a Pats fan. :patriotlogo::shoot:
 
Mazz22 said:
That is a great piece by Hurley but honestly at this point, I am really over the injustice of Goodell and his favorites. Watching that clown hand that trophy to Kraft while the other 31 owners including his fav Mara watched was just glorious. Really, the best sport moment of my life. At this point, Goodell to me is just a shadow, a puppet. Barstools depiction of him as a clown was spot on.

As Kraft said, the haters will hate and the Pats will continue to do their best to make sure they stay in that state. Once again, it is great to be a Pats fan. :patriotlogo::shoot:
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What if the asshat does something even more nefarious in the future?
 
Big/Sky/Fly said:
What if the asshat does something even more nefarious in the future?
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Well if the Deflategate punishment was based on the Patriots "history of cheating" as many have stated, now the Giants, Falcons, Broncos, Seahawks, Panthers, Vikings, Redskins, Cowboys and Browns (I'm probably forgetting a few) have a documented "history of cheating" so we can expect Gozo (my Goodell clown name) to come down hard on these teams for a second offense.
 
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