The 2017 NFL Season Thread

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Wentz out of the game with a knee injury.   

[RVR II]

Oh crap! 
I went to bed at the half

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Oh crap! 
I went to bed at the half

He's going to have an MRI today, might be a torn ACL, that would be a season ender, 6 month recovery....  And probably kill our superbowl hopes, I don't see Nick Foles taking us all the way....

[RVR II]

Oh crap! 
I went to bed at the half

He's going to have an MRI today, might be a torn ACL, that would be a season ender, 6 month recovery....  And probably kill our superbowl hopes, I don't see Nick Foles taking us all the way....

Ugh.. Yeah that doesn't sound good.
I hate that I can't stay up for these late afternoon/evening games with my current work schedule

[MartyS (Gromit)]

It's confirmed: Carson Wentz has a torn ACL, out until next year.

Here's hoping Nick Foles can step up big time...... 

[RVR II]

Wow! The Dolphins Beat the Patriots in Miami!
Nice Job Fins

[Jesse412]

[RVR II]

Ok WTF

The Carolina Panthers announced on Friday that the team is investigating team owner and founder Jerry Richardson for workplace misconduct.

Richardson, who has owned the team since it began play as an NFL expansion franchise in the 1995 season and led the ownership group that brought professional football to the Carolinas, is 81.

The investigation will be conducted by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP, an international law firm. It will also be overseen by Erskine Bowles, a limited owner with the team and a former White House Chief of Staff.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article190077119.html#storylink=cpy

[RVR II]

Panthers host the Packers with AR back at QB but we should be able to handle them..
And the Bills host the Fish in Buffalo so hopefully they can squish the fish

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Eagles defense has not showed up yet, Giants have scored on every possession.

Foles is playing OK but hard to keep up when your defense is giving up touchdowns...

[RVR II]

YEAH!! Panthers Sack Rogers on 4th & 14 up by 2 TouchDowns
And my Bills hold a comfortable 2 score lead over the Fins

[RVR II]

YES!!! Catch, Fumble by GB, Recovered by the Panthers! GAME OVER!!

[RVR II]

Details emerge from the Jerry Richardson ongoing investigation and they aren't pretty..

Richardson, 81, reportedly made multiple inappropriate comment to women employees on 'Jeans Day,' when team workers were allowed to wear denim on Fridays to work. Here are some excerpts from the SI MMQB story.

    Friday was Jeans Day, when most staffers at the Carolina Panthers team offices would wear denim to work. The female employees knew what that meant. As the team's owner, Jerry Richardson, made his rounds on the way to his spacious office, he would ask women to turn around so he could admire their backsides. Then, in his rolling Southern drawl, he'd offer comment, drawing from a store of one-liners he'd recycle each week. Among those in heaviest rotation: "Show me how you wiggle to get those jeans up. I bet you had to lay down on your bed to fit into those jeans. Did you step into those jeans or did you have to jump into them?"

    ....

    Richardson's conduct was treated as something of a running office joke, according to multiple former Panthers team employees, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Male employees would knowingly ask the women whether the Carolina owner had noticed them that day. Women subjected to Richardson's comments would often dismiss them with a sheepish wave of a hand. "No one ever said anything, at least not that I heard," says one former Panthers employee. "He was the boss. It was [viewed] more of a creepy-old-man thing than a threat."

    ....

    During its own investigation in the weeks prior, SI learned that on multiple occasions when Richardson's conduct has triggered complaints—for sexual harassment against female employees and for directing a racial slur at an African American employee—he has taken a leaf from a playbook he's deployed in the past: Confidential settlements were reached and payments were made to complainants, accompanied by non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses designed to shield the owner and the organization from further liability and damaging publicity.

This could very well cost him ownership of the Carolina Panthers team

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Eagles hold on to beat the Giants, so they get their first round bye.

Foles played well, the defense did not...

Oh, special teams actually won us the game, blocked punt, blocked field goal....

[RVR II]

The Cleveland Browns went "defeated" 0-8 at home this season.