Maybe you’re onto something and he’s just broken mentally at this point. I figured after the Steelers drama he would be on his best behavior with the Raiders to show that the Steelers were the problem not him. Sure, eventually he would start up with the drama again, but you would think he could at least make it through training camp before acting like an ass clown. Still, I’m betting that the GM Mayock did not handle the situation very well and there was probably bad communication there.

Without Elliot the Cowboys are also rans. Running backs like Zeke are not a dime a dozen, and if you compare Dak Prescott’s stats with and without Zeke in the lineup they are startling. As for being under contract and honoring it, that is not a thing. Under the collective bargaining agreement a player has a right to hold out just as a team has the right to cut a player at any time. Running backs are being used up under these bogus rookie contracts and then spit out when they are off them. Running Backs are getting totally screwed under the current system.

Jerry Jones talks about honoring a contract, but he frequently doesn’t honor his. He cuts players under contract all the time. He cut Dez Bryant who was contractually owed millions. Jerry never paid him because Dez wasn’t as productive as he thought he would be. So why can’t a player cut his contract when he is more productive than was thought he would be?
There was a cowboy I forget his name, but he broke his leg and Jerry Jones cut him and didn’t pay him what was owed him under contract. That’s just the way it’s set up. If you want players to honor their contracts then the owners have to start honoring theirs.

Edit: if Jerry Jones forced Zeke to “honor” his contract, the whole team would revolt and noone would ever want to play for the Cowboys again under his ownership.

To me this is about setting a president and the reason Raiders are not suspending him this minute is that they want to go through all the proper channels to void his contract. I know Raiders gave up 2 draft picks for this guy, but that’s sunk costs. No use throwing good money after bad, this is an Albert Hainsworth code red situation. No use keeping a cancer in the locker room. The Raiders are not going to win the SB in this year anyway. Might as well get a higher draft pick and move on. You can not have an employee threaten to punch his boss in the face and just let it slide. Also NFL is going to investigate for personal conduct violation and I could see this being a 4 game NFL suspension, dismissal from Raiders, voiding of total contract, and maybe he plays half a year on Tampa Bay or somewhere else. I don’t think Bill Bellicheck would touch this guy to be quite honest any playoff team is better without him.

I think Bill Belichick would scoop AB up in a heartbeat if he could get him cheap with little or no guaranteed money. Belichick would tell him straight up, the moment you start any crap you’re outta here.

I totally understand Zeke holding out but imo it never got personal like Gordon. Also Gordon is half the player Elliot is.

My problem is (to me) poor guys like JuJu and Kamara both making peanuts but it’s unable to renegotiate a contract until 3 years (iirc).

I mean heck Tyler Higby just got a $31M contract extension and if you know who he is you’re ahead of me. But Alvin Kamera and JuJu both have 4 year around $4M contract. Both are grossly underpaid and yet they are not holding out. Only can renegotiate after 3 years iirc.

It’s the same with any contract in business. The young talented guys get screwed so the older hacks can get paid. This whole putting in your time crap is bs. You should get paid based on your talents. Kamara and Schuster are subsidizing the older less talented players.

A great offensive line will make an average running back look like a great running back. Look at Emmit Smith, his stats prove that. If he had played for a bad or even an average team you wouldn't even know who he was right now.

Or if you look even further back at a guy like Larry Csonka, he was a running back and offensive line all in one. He'd knock his own guys out of the way. Anything that got in his way.

Yes you are right but remember, there are exceptions to everything and i personally don't rely on exceptions. Some people smoke until they are 95, doesn't mean cigarettes are good for you.

Enough chatter. Let’s get this freaking game/season underway!

Sidenote. For anybody watching the pregame, I would bang Kim Pegula.

I hate to agree with you, but that incredible Dallas O line made Emmitt and Aikman hall of famers. Imagine what Barry Sanders would have done if he got to play for Dallas. I honestly think Offensive Linemen are the most important factor in winning. You give any qb enough time and they’ll make the throws.

Simms looks like Jake Busey

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All right Bears, let’s fuck these guys up.

Why would you hate to agree with me? The turth is the truth. Walter Peyton or Barry Sanders either one would have crushed Emmit Smiths stats behind the offensive lines that he was so lucky to play behind. You could have drove a Mack truck through the holes that they created. Football is won in the trenches on both offense and defense. Thats a fact!

It's official now.

After the first score they played a clip from the song 3 Nights by Dominic Fike going to commercial. I've been saying for months that is the song of the summer. But hadn't cracked the underground....till now.

12 yards for Aaron Rodgers in the 1st quarter. Thats pretty good!

Well, it’s kinda like for all the horrible ideas that Hitler had he might have had one or two good ideas mixed in that a reasonable person would agree with him on. But you certainly would hate to admit that you agree with Hitler on anything. Noone wants to be associated with Hitler. Now I don’t mean to say you’re like Hitler, but there it is.

I would hope not because that would be totally innacurate and just dumb to think that.

Boos in soldier field, just 30 minutes into the season. Love it.

No he doesn’t.

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The Bears taking Trubisky ahead of Mahomes in the draft will rival Portlands taking Sam Bowie over Jordan and Greg Odin over Kevin Durant.

I gotta wonder of all the internet forums out there if we are the only one that has made the noone connection.

You can thank RobT and Noone's boat ride for senior citizen rockers TV ad for giving me that inspiration.

In between punts, I was reading a story about Drew Brees getting flack for starring in a promotional video for the hate group “Focus on the Family”. He claims he was “unaware of their views” when he shot the promo. First he invests millions in diamonds, then this. For someone who is considered to have a high football IQ, he sure has made some stupid decisions in his personal life lately. I mean seriously, diamonds as an investment?

He's also into Advocare, I'm pretty sure. The placebo drink my idiot sister-in-law tries to claim made my fat brother skinny (he's still fat). She says things like "Jason Witten promotes it!", like that would mean it's a good idea.

But those promo videos are a new thing. The name isn't really indicative of a hate group. These guys are lazy, and someone pays them 1k to say happy birthday to some jerkoff. Someone thinks to look into it, and then it's a thing. He doesn't know them. Didn't know anything about them, just wanted to make some money. Probably to recoup some of his other poor investment decisions.

One game down in the W column...who said Bears were gonna take the Packers down?

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Wow, that was one fugly game.

Hate group? I dont know anything about them and this is even the first time that ive ever heard of them but wouldn't calling them a hate group be going a little too far just because they dont support LGBTQ? I mean from what i am reading they are a Christian group so it only stands to reason that they would not support those type of views.

I doubt that they "hate" gay people, they probably just don't support their lifestyle because of their Christian beliefs. I don't think that makes them horrible people. Is there something that i am missing? Please educate me if their is. Im not trying to stir the pot here at all, i am just trying to understand why you consider them a hate group.

Lol i swear that im really not trying to stir the pot. I am just legitimately wondering if there is something that i am missing? Calling them a hate group just seems a little over the top if its only because they dont support LGBTQ seems like. Most Christians that i know dont support it because of their strong beliefs in the Bible but i dont think that they "hate" gay people by any means.

Lots of penalties, but that was a pretty great defensive show. I'm not right often, but..

Nagy going for it on 4th and 10 in lieu of a 51 yarder just goes to show that he's still in his head about that kick. Satisfying.

No doubt. I wasn't paying much attention to most teams off season moves but they made some good ones.

They bolstered their defense really well which is necessary to compete when the QB and offense are past their prime and in decline.

I think it was a pretty good defensive game for the Bears but the Packers were the beneficiaries of a pathetically bad performance by Trubisky. His throws were woefully inaccurate and he just made poor decisions the whole game. Mahomes could have been leading the Bears tonight.

Pettine was a great hire. I'm glad to see us cash in our chips a little this offseason. With Thompson, it always felt like we were building toward a sort of perennial future. I'm still upset we couldn't land Mack, but we made some moves to bring in some talent on both ends and safety.

Chicago's defense is still as good as advertised. That front 7 is just stout, running the ball early clearly didn't work very well. That was abandoned early in the 2nd (our sole offensive burst), and that allowed the run game to reopen just a little.

I just don't understand most of this comment. Trubisky has an arm. He really didn't make many mistakes (besides one big one). It was played perfectly by the safety. Packers D did a good job to close that pocket. If he could have broken out to run a little more, might have been a different outcome.

You saw it when we decided to rush 3, he made a play downfield. He should be respected enough that you bring pressure.

And Mahomes was the MVP, so if he was leading the Bears... that would have been? Don't get it.

It'll take me a few weeks to size up each team. Long gone are the days before free agency where the team was basically the same as where they left off the year before. And it takes a while to see how well all the new players fit in and make an impact.

The game I was watching showed Trubisky repeatedly miss on his passes. Don’t take my word for it, rewatch and listen to all the boos at Soldier field. As for Mahomes, the Bears drafted Trubisky instead of Mahomes. Their scouts thought Trubisky was the better QB. The Chiefs were flabbergasted at their good luck and immediately scooped up Mahomes.

It’s called a google search. Start with the Southern Poverty Law Center. They document all their shenanigans. But let’s not get into the whole religion thing. Brees should have known better than to associate with them. Now back to football.

Yeah, he wasn't very good. Just throwing the ball out there counting on the receivers to make plays. Not the guy I'd want leading my team for sure. Maybe he was just having a bad night, but the great ones rarely do.

Oh sure. Yeah, I will need to go back and watch a little closer, but I felt we bottled him up pretty well on the first watch. I will watch again though, cause it was great, and I have another couple of days until real football.

Loud and clear on Mahomes. I was as happy as anyone that they chose to trade up to draft a QB that no one really wanted. I think he's in the bottom third, but potential to rise to an average level. He only has 2 years of football under his belt, so hard to know what will come.

Same old Bears, decent defense and no offense. Duuuuh Bears.......

That's part of it too. Frustrate the young QB until he starts making errant throws. Both teams need work to make the playoffs. At least it's not a super tough division.

To sum up last nights game...….snoozefest.

Yup and the funny thing is, i got two friends that live in Wisconsin and they are ready to buy their Super Bowl tickets already. SMH......

Yeah he looked awful. Inaccurate and even when he just heaved it the ball didn't seem to have any zip. The Bears just seem historically incapable of decent QB play for the past 60 years?

I'm glad the Skins have a strong-armed god of a QB like Case Keenum suiting up this weekend!

If the Bears play like this all year then they could be crippled for a long time due to the Mack contract and what they gave up. They better start winning because the window is closing!

Maybe they can get Mack to play QB?

He's been worth their investment, don't blame them at all. The problem is that Chicago has been allergic to offense since Walter Payton retired.