The 2014 Running Football Thread (College & Pro)

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Martok

Sigh.  We've got another one... 



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Cards RB Dwyer charged with assault in domestic incidents, deactivated



Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was arrested Wednesday on aggravated assault charges in connection with two altercations at his home in July involving a woman and their 18-month-old child, the latest in a string of such cases involving NFL players.

The Cardinals said they became aware of the situation Wednesday and are cooperating with the investigation.

"Given the serious nature of these allegations we have taken the immediate step to deactivate Jonathan from all team activities," the team said in a statement.

The NFL said the case will be reviewed under the league's personal-conduct policy.

One of the counts was "aggravated assault causing a fracture" involving the 27-year-old victim, whom they did not identify. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant of Dwyer's residence in pursuit of more evidence.

Police said that in interviews with detectives, the 25-year-old player denied committing any assault.

There was no reply to telephone message left for Dwyer's agent, Adisa Bakari, seeking comment Wednesday.

Authorities depicted a stormy relationship between Dwyer and the woman that escalated into violence on July 21, four days before the Cardinals reported to training camp.

Neighbors heard a fight and called police, who showed up at the residence but left without making an arrest because Dwyer hid in the bathroom and the woman said no one else was at the home, Sgt. Trent Crump said.

"She said she was in an argument on the phone only," Crump said.

The next day, Crump said, Dwyer snatched the woman's cellphone and threw it from the second floor of their residence to prevent her from calling police about another dispute.

Crump confirmed there was an allegation that Dwyer threw a shoe at or toward his son. Crump said he couldn't elaborate on it.

Crump said the woman moved out of state with the child, but came forward last week and provided police with information about her injuries and text messages indicating Dwyer "was going to harm himself because of what had been going on."

The NFL has been rocked by domestic violence issues ever since a videotape surfaced that showed former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancee in an Atlantic City, New Jersey, elevator. Then Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was indicted on felony child-abuse charges. On Wednesday, the Carolina Panthers decided that star defensive end Greg Hardy will not play any more games for the team until his domestic violence case is resolved.

Hardy was convicted of assault on a female and communicating threats after the victim said the 6-foot-4, 275-pound player threw her in the bathtub and onto a sofa covered with guns before threatening to kill her. Hardy is appealing the ruling.

Critics have been calling for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's resignation for his handling of Rice's case. Rice was originally suspended for two games, then banned indefinitely after the video surfaced of his attack in the casino elevator.

This is the second domestic violence case involving a Cardinals player. Inside linebacker Daryl Washington pleaded guilty to assaulting his ex-girlfriend and is serving a year of supervised probation. Washington has not yet been penalized by the NFL for the offense but is suspended for this season for violating the league's substance abuse policy.

Dwyer was led into the jail in handcuffs to be booked on counts that include aggravated assault causing a fracture and involving a minor, criminal damage and preventing the use of a phone in an emergency.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which runs the jail, said Dwyer has refused all media interviews.

Dwyer signed with the Cardinals this year and was their second-string running back after spending the last four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He scored a touchdown last week in Arizona's victory over the New York Giants.

His best year for Pittsburgh was 2012 when injuries depleted the team's backfield in the middle of the season and Dwyer filled in and had 100-yard-plus games in consecutive weeks.

Dwyer, from Marietta, Georgia, was a sixth-round draft pick of the Steelers out of Georgia Tech in 2010.

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
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"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

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BanzaiCat

I'm not surprised at all.

Also saw this morning about Pepsi jumping on the FREE PUBLICITY bandwagon by denouncing the NFL. Denouncing the same squeaky wheel that advertises their shitty products to TENS of millions. Sugary, crappy soda drinks that do more to cause diabetes and unhealthiness to thousands than NFL wife-beaters do. The thing that infuriates me is the obviousness of Pepsi trying to get that free pub along with the others - it has NOTHING to do with outrage on their part, whatsoever. They're a business and they're taking advantage of the situation, using this faux outrage to get the media to oblige, and the news will of course like the lapdogs they are eat it up and give them what they want.  :tickedoff: :tickedoff: :tickedoff:

That all said, while I'm completely cynical to their advertisers' motivations, I can't disagree that the NFL drops the ball every day when it comes to player discipline. Personally I think any player that runs afoul of the law should suffer severe consequences. Misdemeanor? You're suspended without pay for a certain number of games, depending on the class of the misdemeanor. Felony? You're out. Period. Go to Canada to play in the CFL or find a real job somewhere. These guys are, for better or worse, in the public eye and acting like idiots and getting arrested, then being on the field the next day, sends the wrong message.

airboy

The SEC was very interesting this week.  Alabama doubled Florida (42 - 21) but trailed in the third quarter due to mistakes.
LSU lost at home to Mississippi State for the first time in 20 years.  First loss to them in 14 years.
Auburn won on the road in an ugly performance against top 20 Kansas State.
Texas A&M keeps lighting up the score board.

Auburn still has to play LSU, Mississippi State, Mississippi, Texas A&M, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.  Talk about a killer schedule.  AU has to play the only two good teams in the SEC East (Georgia & SC) plus the normal brutal SEC West opponents.  In two weeks Auburn plays LSU and my tailgate has the traditional Seafood Boil which is just excellent!

On the down side, UNC gave up 70 points and almost 800 yards of total offense against East Carolina.

GDS_Starfury

I have zero motivation for football today.  Im just sitting here churning out Shogun2 turns and cant be bothered.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


Martok

That was an absolutely bullshit unnecessary roughness penalty called on the Vikes.  And now the Saints' drive is continuing instead of us having the ball back.  >:( 
"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

BanzaiCat


bayonetbrant

Best college football headline of the weekend

QuoteAgainst Florida State, Clemson's 'Clemsoning' was the most 'Clemsoning' Clemson ever Clemsoned

QuoteTop-ranked Florida State, without Jameis Winston, rallied for an overtime win Saturday, 23-17, over No. 22 Clemson. The game is sure to spawn innumerable articles and blog posts about Winston, the performance of his backup, Sean Maguire, and the Seminoles in general.

This isn't one of those blog posts. This post is about "Clemsoning." Or, as it trended on Twitter on Saturday night, #Clemsoning.

See, there it is, to the left, just after "Winston" and a word from one of Twitter's fine sponsors.

So what is "Clemsoning"? Well, it's a term that's made its way far enough into common parlance that it gets defined in Urban Dictionary. That Web site's first definition reads thusly:

"The act of delivering an inexplicably disappointing performance, usually within the context of a college football season."

A helpful example of use within a phrase is then offered: "Oklahoma State's overtime loss to an unranked Iowa State was a full-blown Clemsoning."

The fact is, Clemson's performance Saturday, in which it repeatedly declined opportunities to beat the No. 1 team in the country at their crib, was very much par for the course. It's just what Clemson does, year after year. The team has an uncanny knack for putting together talented squads that inevitably become less than the sum of their parts.

The Web site Lost Lettermen cites, as an example of Clemsoning, the 2012 Orange Bowl, pitting Clemson against West Virginia. The Tigers had finally not done a lot of Clemsoning that season, winning the ACC for the first time in 20 years and reaching its first-ever BCS bowl game. So what did it do in that bowl game? Clemson got blown out, 70-33.

But we need not go back any further than Saturday to find immaculate examples of Clemsoning. In the third quarter, with the game tied at 10, the Tigers had a first-and-goal from the Seminoles 1-yard line. Here comes a touchdown, right? Wrong. Two extremely predictable running plays right up the middle went nowhere, but wait, there was a penalty on Florida State, giving Clemson another second-down play, mere inches from the goal line.

Then Clemsoning happened. The snap to quarterback Deshaun Watson, who was in a shotgun formation — raising the question, "Why are the coaches having you stand back in the shotgun when your team is on the goal line??!!" — sailed right past, and Watson could only sprint back and fall on the ball at the 24-yard line. Two plays and a missed field goal later, the Tigers had nothing to show for near-certain scoring position.

there's much more at the link, including a lot of twitter excerpts that are just funny :)
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airboy

Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 22, 2014, 11:30:50 AM
Best college football headline of the weekend

QuoteAgainst Florida State, Clemson's 'Clemsoning' was the most 'Clemsoning' Clemson ever Clemsoned

QuoteTop-ranked Florida State, without Jameis Winston, rallied for an overtime win Saturday, 23-17, over No. 22 Clemson. The game is sure to spawn innumerable articles and blog posts about Winston, the performance of his backup, Sean Maguire, and the Seminoles in general.

This isn't one of those blog posts. This post is about "Clemsoning." Or, as it trended on Twitter on Saturday night, #Clemsoning.

See, there it is, to the left, just after "Winston" and a word from one of Twitter's fine sponsors.

So what is "Clemsoning"? Well, it's a term that's made its way far enough into common parlance that it gets defined in Urban Dictionary. That Web site's first definition reads thusly:

"The act of delivering an inexplicably disappointing performance, usually within the context of a college football season."

A helpful example of use within a phrase is then offered: "Oklahoma State's overtime loss to an unranked Iowa State was a full-blown Clemsoning."

The fact is, Clemson's performance Saturday, in which it repeatedly declined opportunities to beat the No. 1 team in the country at their crib, was very much par for the course. It's just what Clemson does, year after year. The team has an uncanny knack for putting together talented squads that inevitably become less than the sum of their parts.

The Web site Lost Lettermen cites, as an example of Clemsoning, the 2012 Orange Bowl, pitting Clemson against West Virginia. The Tigers had finally not done a lot of Clemsoning that season, winning the ACC for the first time in 20 years and reaching its first-ever BCS bowl game. So what did it do in that bowl game? Clemson got blown out, 70-33.

But we need not go back any further than Saturday to find immaculate examples of Clemsoning. In the third quarter, with the game tied at 10, the Tigers had a first-and-goal from the Seminoles 1-yard line. Here comes a touchdown, right? Wrong. Two extremely predictable running plays right up the middle went nowhere, but wait, there was a penalty on Florida State, giving Clemson another second-down play, mere inches from the goal line.

Then Clemsoning happened. The snap to quarterback Deshaun Watson, who was in a shotgun formation — raising the question, "Why are the coaches having you stand back in the shotgun when your team is on the goal line??!!" — sailed right past, and Watson could only sprint back and fall on the ball at the 24-yard line. Two plays and a missed field goal later, the Tigers had nothing to show for near-certain scoring position.

there's much more at the link, including a lot of twitter excerpts that are just funny :)

Thanks!  My wife will love this.  Almost as good as the "Chicken Curse" for South Carolina.

What irritated me was Clemson had the ball 1st and 10 around the Florida State 17 yard line with less than 2 minutes to go in a tie game on the road against #1.  Clemson then fumbled the next running play sending the game into overtime.

Clemson could not hold onto the %^*&_%^^%( ball long enough to kick a chippie field goal for a win.  All the while the Florida State morons were doing their moronic, repetitive chant that the IQ level of their average fan can barely manage.

MetalDog

Eli Manning just passed Jim Kelly for 20th all time on the TD Pass list.
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Steelgrave

Quote from: MetalDog on September 25, 2014, 09:40:05 PM
Eli Manning just passed Jim Kelly for 20th all time on the TD Pass list.

Not if you add in Kelly's days as a Houston Gambler  8)  In two seasons in Houston leading coach Mouse Davis' run-and-shoot offense, Kelly threw for 9,842 yards and 83 touchdowns.

And yeah, I know...it doesn't count. Nor should it. But fun to consider nonetheless.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

MetalDog

What's with the guys in the purple uniforms?  Somebody tell'em they are Vikings and can start sucking any time they want now...
And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob

mirth

Ben Roethlisberger -  314 yds & 3TDs and the Steelers lose to the Bucs! Hahahahahahahaha!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

GDS_Starfury

what an odd day of football.

Bears lose at home.
Vikings win with a rookie QB and no Peterson.    :o
last minute loss for the Steelers.
and a crushing win for the Dolphins.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


bayonetbrant

on the college side - my Wolfpack lost, but they didn't embarrass themselves.  Quite the contrary, the game is tonight's highlight 'rerun' on ESPNU tonight.  No one in the history of FSU football had scored 24 first-quarter points on the Seminoles until yesterday.  Of course, NC State got outscored 49-17 after the first quarter...
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers