NFL Week 4: "What did Richard Milhous Goodell know, and when did he know it?"

[CountDeMoney]

 

NFL Point Spreads For Week 4 - Week Four NFL Football Point Spread - NFL Spreads 9/25 - 9/29, 2014

Date & Time    Favorite    Spread    Underdog
9/25 8:25 ET    At Washington    -3    NY Giants
9/28 1:00 ET    Miami    -3.5    Oakland (At London)
9/28 1:00 ET    Green Bay    -1.5    At Chicago
9/28 1:00 ET    At Houston    -3    Buffalo
9/28 1:00 ET    At Indianapolis    -8    Tennessee
9/28 1:00 ET    At Baltimore    -3.5    Carolina
9/28 1:00 ET    Detroit    -1.5    At NY Jets
9/28 1:00 ET    At Pittsburgh    -7.5    Tampa Bay
9/28 4:05 ET    At San Diego    -13    Jacksonville
9/28 4:25 ET    At San Francisco    -4.5    Philadelphia
9/28 4:25 ET    Atlanta    -3    At Minnesota
9/28 8:30 ET    New Orleans    -3    At Dallas

   Monday Night Football Point Spread
         
9/29 8:30 ET    New England    -3.5    At Kansas City

Official: Tape sent to Jeffrey Miller
Updated: September 25, 2014, 9:38 PM ET
ESPN.com news services

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee inside a casino elevator was sent to NFL headquarters to the attention of league security chief Jeffrey Miller in April, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The NFL has repeatedly said no one with the league saw the violent images until TMZ Sports released the video earlier this month. Miller said Thursday through an NFL spokesman that he never received the video.

The official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release details of the case, said he doesn't know if Miller ever saw the DVD or opened the package. His only communication with the NFL was a 12-second voicemail on April 9 from league offices confirming receipt of the package, in which a woman says, "You're right. It's terrible."

The official told the AP two weeks ago that he sent the video to the NFL, but asked the AP not to report that he had addressed the package to Miller. He eliminated that restriction Thursday.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11589797/official-says-ray-rice-video-was-sent-nfl-security-chief-jeffrey-miller

[Valmy]

The NFL is aparantly going to talk to Charlie Strong about having a good moral culture or something.

Meanwhile the ol' racial slurs look to be establishing themselves at the bottom of the worst division in football.  Is this really the best way to honor the Native Americans Snyder?

[CountDeMoney]

Is this really the best way to honor the Native Americans Snyder?

Nah...you leave that to South Park. 

[Valmy]

Is this really the best way to honor the Native Americans Snyder?

Nah...you leave that to South Park. 

Oh did you watch the Redskins episode?  Looking forward to seeing it.

[CountDeMoney]

Instant classic.

[Ed Anger]

I enjoyed the thread title. 

[Alcibiades]

Refs in this Chicago-Greenbay game are unbelievable.   

[CountDeMoney]

Not even crumbling infrastructure can stop Stafford

Stafford among motorists near bridge collapse

Allen Park — Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was among those in traffic approaching a pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto the Southfield Freeway in Detroit early Friday morning, but he was unharmed.

The Cathedral Street overpass bridge near the Joy Road exit collapsed around 6 a.m. after being hit by an oversized truck. The truck driver died; no other injuries have been reported.

Stafford was heading southbound, going to the Lions' practice facility in Allen Park for Friday morning's practice. He said he didn't see the bridge collapse but was one of the first few vehicles approaching the downed bridge.

"I think I got right up to it right around 5:50," Stafford said Friday afternoon. "It shocked me but it probably shocked some people that were right around it even more.

"I didn't really know what I was looking at; you don't expect to see that when you're driving to work. I'm sure there were people closer to it than I was."

Stafford was seen walking near the collapsed bridge afterward. Elton Moore, the Lions' director of security, also was near the scene and gave Stafford his car so the quarterback could drive to the practice facility. Moore waited in Stafford's car until authorities let him drive away.

"Elton, who is in charge of security here, happened to be not too many cars behind Matthew," Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. "Although (police) didn't let (Stafford) go through underneath the bridge, he was able to get turned around and head back in the other direction. I think he actually took Elton's car."

Caldwell said that he had arrived earlier at the practice facility and he and defensive coordinator Teryl Austin had just missed the bridge collapse.

"Fortunately, because I had probably gone by that same section maybe 15 to 20 minutes prior — somewhere between 5:30 and 6 myself — and Teryl Austin wasn't too far behind me," Caldwell said. "By the time we get to the facility, we had heard about it and found out that Matthew was right there at the front of the line."

Although many players use the Southfield Freeway to drive to team headquarters, a team spokesman said no other Lions needed to be taken from traffic as of about 8:30 a.m.

"Most guys made it in okay. I called our security guy and said send out a mass text just to let everybody know not to take Southfield," Stafford said. "There were a couple guys on our team calling me and (asking), 'Should I turn around?' and I said yeah."

The Lions could not have afforded an injury to their franchise quarterback. They've already lost four key players to injured reserve, and tight end Joseph Fauria suffered an ankle injury Wednesday night not related to football activities.

[Neil]

You know who's pretty good at football?  Steve Smith.

I forgot about LFFL for the last two weeks.  Today I left Flacco and Smith on the bench.  Oh well.

[CountDeMoney]

LULZ, Steelers. Serves them right for the freebie TD that NFL Properties gave them earlier in the game.

[CountDeMoney]

And for all you Ravens haters, here's a skit from last night's SNL:

http://youtu.be/v5P_GqS30xg

[MadBurgerMaker]

Are there no videoboards in Jerryworld besides the monster thing above the field?  They just showed a replay where Brees threw the pass, then immediately looked straight up.  I know guys will, if possible, use video screens to see when potential tacklers are coming up behind them, if a pass is completed, etc, so I presume that's what he was doing.

[Grey Fox]

Seedy don't celebrate too hard.

[derspiess]

I was hoping for a physical game that exposed some Patriot weaknesses, but holy crap.

[Neil]

This game is great.  Tim must be suffering.

And next week they get the Bengals, who might be even more physical.  LOL.