Harbingers

Cole is a good fighter too. But he hasn’t had one since 2019(according to Hockeyfights.com), he might be getting to old to be the first enforcer.

Neither of them have dropped gloves with Ritchie according to hockey fights. So, either one, who ever is more in the fighting mood? Ian’s last recorded fight was 2019. I suppose about the same for TDA.

Hmm. That’s a tough choice. Lemme pull up hockey fights and see if either of them have a record Vs. Ritchie.

With blood drawn. These refs got orders to keep Toronto in this game.

Come on svech. Millimeter lower!

Can we not offsides every entrance?

We are gonna need up our physicality tonight. The refs are clearly “play on” tonight.

And Andersen gives up the easy 5 hole.

Refs look like they are a play on mood tonight.

Bad storms?

I’m pretty sure we just need to resign ourselves to the fact PJ will be our starter at some point this season. Rock fugging bottom.

Back at home. Ayers on the horn, Andersen back in net vs. his old team. Let’s go get the W.

How many draft picks do we have? That’s how many CB’s we are gonna draft.

Looks like we are riding the hot hand in Andersen again. I feel like Rod thinks this is a trap game for sure.

Frankly, can we just trade them a 2023 first and Darnold for Tyrod? He’s basically PJ, except, you know, good.

So basically 60 million in quarterbacks cap unless Darnold is part of the trade any way you look at it plus PJ’s nominal fee cause you know Rhule ain’t cutting him.

Remember, the players still get paid on the exempt list. So there is no reason to exempt them unless it’s detrimental to the NFL’s pocket and a arbitrator will never uphold a suspension for no cause. That’s the rub. Yes it’s broad but the players don’t take any penalty they wouldn’t have already. He’s talking for the NFL but mostly for media hype. There is no such rule. There is precedent in the Adrian Peterson case, they waited until he was indicted. But the moment he was they whisked away to the exempt list. If Watson is indicted by the grand jury with felony charges and they don’t follow their precedent here, that’s going to be a very bad double standard for the NFL. And worse for the team that traded for him, because they’ll be on the hook for the entire exempt list payments while things are ongoing, in this case Watson could end up with substantial jail time. So in our case we’d end up footing the bill while he’s on the exempt list, if he’s convicted he’ll get suspended so we’ll get that money back but if it’s a serious conviction we’ll have to cut him anyways. So basically we’ll be out all those draft picks and players for maybe a few games played overall? It’s better just to let this work itself out, if he’s indicted and convicted welp bullet dodged for no cost. If he’s indicted and exonerated, he’ll have been on the exempt list, perhaps even forced to be cut by the Texans anyways and will be a free pickup to wherever he wants to go.

It leaves it up to the commissioners, there is no if the person is charged or not. below is very very very broad but that’s not the commissioners exempt list. That’s the suspension list. The second paragraph is the exempt list. Which would do ABSOLUTELY nothing at this point for the NFL. The Texans are still paying him either way, the exempt list does NOT equal suspension in the first place it just can be used to mitigate suspension weeks once the player is officially suspended. So if they exempted him now, the Texans would still have to pay him, they know the Texans want to trade him now and he wants to be traded. If he’s exempted the least penalized person by the NFL would end up being Watson. Because Watson could offset those games to his suspension, and pay back the Texans for those games. It helps the Texans with trade value or trade in general to keep him off the list. Once he’s moved, I highly suspect we will see some movement. This way basically the NFL is hedging it’s bet. But to the original notion that “he can’t be put on the exempt list because he hasn’t been charged” is complete bullshit. The commissioner can exempt any time he wants for any reason he wants, there is no constraining text. Suspensions on the other hand, maybe it could be argued in front of an arbitrator but the below bolded text is very very very broad. “involving action taken against a player by the Commissioner for conduct detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of professional football (other than as described in Subsection (e) below)” “Players who are placed by the Commissioner on the Exempt list prior to the determination of discipline and any appeal therefrom under the Personal Conduct Policy will be paid while on the Commissioner Exempt list and credited for the regular and post-season games missed against any suspension ultimately imposed. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if such a suspension is ultimately imposed, the player must promptly return and shall have no further right to any salary for the games for which he was paid while on the Commissioner Exempt list that were credited to the suspension (i.e., for a number of games no greater than the length of the suspension).”

People have been put on the exempt list while under investigation or just because the NFL felt like it. Rapaport is just blowing smoke stir up drama.

That is vastly inaccurate.

As fun as it might be to have Watson. Nobody should be trading for him. A grand is impaneled and with the amount of complaints that all of the don’t get a bill is slim to none. If even one of them get a bill the NFL will be stuck between a rock and a hard place with the exempt list. It’s much better to let that happen, make Houston cut him and then pick him up post charges.

Ditto but I know there’s no way in hell cam is coming back here after how we did him.

If they keep playing like they have the past 4 games they will easily drop down into the high teens in a few games here. Plus we are already 18th or something in rushing yards total, 12th in ypg. But if we have a few more games like the last couple weeks. Not good things.

Public backlash will change that real quick.

Unless your Rhule, who has already proven to be clueless.