Just so everyone knows. I'm only here so I don't get fined.

Hugo?

:D

are ya ready for some foot baaaal?

gonna be a great game

@edmastermind29 just here so I won't get fined

however doesn't get fined :D

@edmastermind29 just here so I won't get fined

seriously, discipline wins championships

@edmastermind29 that's from last year (still here so I won't get fined)

the hawks' D has discipline

huge money is riding on NE to make the spread swing by 3 points :O

who knows what the common business interests are going to bet on come game time :-/

his fine is a drop in the bucket

exactly^

Belicheater admitted it!

cost him $500,000

-_-

just like the tuck rule

I still stick with the hawks -2 = Opening line

but betting NE -1 would be a good way to play both sides };-)

that way is sea wins by 1 you win all bets

just taking about "common business" interests

> Online sportsbook Sportsbook.com had a prop bet on whether Lynch would get fined for media day. The odds of that happening were set at 8-to-1, but the sportsbook lowered odds significantly after bets came in heavy for Lynch to get docked.

Sounds like easy money

yes

@edmastermind29 not his first time on that count either

then again, selling that stuff is money in his pocket. He's probably happy to get fined for it

@edmastermind29 yeah, they have to hide the logos though

confused, what am I looking at?

@edmastermind29 interesting.

there are lots of possibilities there (including the NFL not having an official glove partnership)

they only crack down if it competes with one of their official marketing partners

is it still riddel?

it was until recently and now they may not have one (players have been able to wear their own for a while now, but could only display logo if riddell)

that partnership ended in 2013,

which is when Cam's fine was

cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/23893993/…

so even covering them up wasn't enough, can't have it on the helmet at all

but it's just the helmet

@edmastermind29 Wow.. That's just.. wow.

Five Thirty Eight on the steady improvement of NFL kickers since the league began

> For all the talk of West Coast offenses, the invention of the pro formation, the wildcat, 5-wide sets, the rise of the pass-catching tight-end, Bill Walsh, the Greatest Show On Turf, and the general recognition that passing, passing and more passing is the best way to score in football, half the improvement in scoring in the past 50-plus years of NFL history has come solely from field-goal kickers kicking more accurately.

Also, the NYT 4th Down Bot frequently gets it wrong because kicking has improved so much and it's using data from a few years ago

that's actually a fairly compelling argument to make the uprights a bit smaller

@edmastermind29 Cool, I'll take a look.