NFL 2014 season thread: The good, the bad, & the ugly.

Harbough is going to Michigan. It's going to be announced tomorrow early afternoon. I'd bet money on it.

 

I think he should get the same thing Raiola got, a one game suspension. Both were repeat offenders, and both clearly did it on purpose.

Watch the clip:



You can see clearly in the video that he first stumbled back and his foot kind of half stepped on Rodgers. Now, at that point, he has to know that it is Rodgers he is stepping on. He's on a football field. There is nothing there but grass, except where there are bodies. And the only guy behind him is Rodgers, who everyone knows is playing with an injured calf/ankle. So what does Suh do? He steps back again, and when he realizes he is stepping ON Rodgers, he picks up his other foot to put his entire 305+ lb body weight on the cleats that are buried in Rodgers leg.

Given his previous record, I think the only correct action is to take him off the field for a game. That's the only thing that will really hurt him. A $10-20k fine for a guy making $12.5M this year isn't going to have an impact. More importantly, his teammates aren't going to care either. But if you remove one of the best players from the team from a playoff game, that will not only get his attention, but it'll get his teammate's and organization's attention.

I'm not a Packers fan. I actually love watching Suh play (legally) because he is a beast. He is too talented to be as dirty as he is. And if he'd have injured Rodgers and cost him time in the playoffs it would've been epic unsportsmanlike conduct. If the league wants to combat the horrible image it has projected this past year, cleaning up stuff like this is a step in the right direction. Sit Suh down for the first round of the playoffs.

All that being said, I highly doubt the NFL will do it. He'll get fined and told once again that he's a bad boy, and it'll do exactly nothing towards stopping him next time.
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Well, if the rumors are true, he's going to get a 60% raise in pay (from $5M to $8M) to go from the NFL to college. So that right there is three million reasons to switch.

I also don't think his style works as well in the NFL as it would in college. It is obvious that the last season and a half or so at least some of the 9ers have gotten tired of him, or tuned him out. The two years or so his message gets guys pumped up and motivated. Much more than that and they start getting tired of hearing it and he begins to lose the locker room, or at least parts of it. And his aggressive style was really grating on the GM and ownership.

In college that same thing works perfectly, because after that length of time the players are moving on anyway. And the football coach at a school like Michigan is a 500lb gorilla who gets whatever he wants, even if the AD is technically his boss. So you don't have the front office type conflict as much either. My $.02.

 

I was wrong.


Ndamukong Suh suspended one game for Aaron Rodgers leg stomp | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo Sports

 

Manziel says he's got to stop 'looking like a jackass'.

You said it dude.

Manziel rues conduct: 'I've done this to myself' - Yahoo News

 

Mike Smith is officially out of Atlanta.

Falcons fire Mike Smith after 2nd straight losing season - Yahoo Sports

 

Remember my long winded explanation to @Chris Noyb the other day about the NFC South being horrible, the divisions the NFC South played (AFC North and NFC North) having better records by default because of it, and how the NFL schedule works?



Read the link below and tell me someone isn't lurking on TFP and turning posts into sports coverage.

The NFL's Historically Bad Division Screwed Up The Playoffs Even Worse Than People Realize - Yahoo Finance

 

Boo

Ndamukong Suh wins appeal, will play vs. Cowboys | ProFootballTalk

 

I get being happy as a Lions fan. As I originally posted, I didn't think they'd suspend him in the first place for that.

My main frustration is that the guy is such a talent and has to screw up his reputation and be a distraction all the time by stunts like this.

 

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#5 was the only surprise really, IMO.