The Tampa Bay Spillionaires? Buccaneers is kinda derogatory for those with pirating family ties. Read more

Dom, please stop piling on. Show some MRSA. Read more

“Brody was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on November 22, 1991" Read more

I don’t envy the job Seeger has in acting as a de factor middleman between the NFL Parties (who are EXTREMELY involved in this process to a degree I have never seen a Defendant be in a settlement program) and plaintiff’s firms that see every rule and requirement of the Program as onerous. This all really goes back to… Read more

Definitely. It’s also a pretty common tactic by any large corporation to remove a suit like this from state court to federal court. There is far more procedural crap to deal with, longer timelines, likely more favorable judges/jury pool. Read more

Thats hugely different. Cousins had a great reason to push for a fully guaranteee contract. He wanted one. He wanted the security of full guarantees, particularly after playing on multiple years of uncertainty. And for good reason: he’d probably not see the end of his deal and make less money if it weren’t fully… Read more

In theory. But Wilson also has no incentive to do anything. This is one of maybe 3 contracts he’ll negotiate in his career, and if he’s set on having his contract benchmarked to changes in the cap, his agent can negotiate based on cap projections but with hard numbers in the contract, which is close enough.… Read more

As a contracts guy I agree with Clayton here. The main reason we’re not tying salaries to a variable is because it’s messy; you’d have to make assumptions in the accounting to plan for the future. Halsell’s jump from “messy” to “collusion” is ridiculous. Read more

The deal was consummated at 11:30 p.m. PDT, per Pelissero, and Wilson tweeted about it soon afterward as he lay in bed with Ciara Read more

It better be.  Guy has already shown he’s willing to hold out. Read more

That’s true. But even with shitting the bed, you gotta love where the team is at. Although, we’re playing Winnipeg, so there’s that. Read more

The last scoring change was more recent than 1994. It was in 2015 when the defense could return a failed 2-point try.
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I’m not sure whether to be annoyed that you barely mentioned Drexel, or just happy that you mentioned them at all. Read more

Not only is injury a significant risk for Bell, it’s a risk for the Steelers - and they weren’t willing to take the risk. Bell is making less money in his career because the Steelers weren’t willing to roll the dice on tying up a few more million in cap space.  Read more

Piecing together all reports I’ve seen on the Steelers offer last summer, I believe Leveon would have received: Read more

Great article.  The gibberish which is a NFL contract is hard to understand.  I think a part of his holding out was also the ability to choose where he played.  He was almost always going to take the most money, no matter what, but maybe he also wanted the choice of where to play.  If he lowered his asking price a… Read more

Sometimes, it all works out innuendo. Read more

Dom, thanks for the response. Read more

It’s a pretty simple question... if you stopped posting about the NFL how much would that impact Deadspin revenue? I’m willing to bet it’s over a fifth of your revenue. Read more

Looking over Football outsiders today, the Patriots beat the no.1 DVOA team (KC), the no.2 DVOA team (LAR), and the number 3 DVOA (LAC) team in the postseason this year. That’s crazy. Read more