2008 NFL Week 1 running thread

JakeandElwood · Sep 3, 2008

Angola! said:

DisembodiedOwlHead said:

Stallworth to the Browns is old news !
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Ha!

Go Seahawks. I wonder if they will actually have a running game this year, now that the corpse of Shaun Alexander has left town.

I'm a little concerned with Hasselcrap not playing throughout the preseason, but hopefully he will warm right up.
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Julius Jones will be carrying the load. I think he'll have to be better than Alexander was. Amazing how fast he went from MVP to unable to find work.

MU_was_not_so_hard · Sep 3, 2008

Injuries didn't help.
And just, I believe Julius Jones will tear some shit up in Seattle. They have enough in the passing game to make some top-half tier back be extremely good.

Drip · Sep 3, 2008

Give the No Fun League credit for doing something right. It paid homage to Upshaw at his funeral and this season, teams will be wearing patches with his initial and uniform number. Also, for the first game of the season, every field will have something stenciled on the playing surface. Very classy.

93Devil · Sep 3, 2008

NFL owners owe a lot to Gene Upshaw.

pseudo · Sep 3, 2008

According to ProFootballTalk, Tatum Bell: moron. (Remember that PFT loves to throw shit against the wall and see if it sticks, so adjust your suspension of disbelief accordingly ... but if true, what a story.)

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/02/rudis-crazy-day-in-detroit/
Posted by Mike Florio on September 2, 2008, 9:17 p.m. EDT

A strange thing happened to running back Rudi Johnson when he visited with the Detroit Lions on Monday.

Someone stole his stuff.

Seriously.

Specifically, and as we’re told by a reliable source (i.e., not the person who told Mort that Joey Harrington had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Monday, or the person who told John Clayton that Todd Bouman had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Tuesday), Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millen’s office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team.

So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky.

The team checked the videotapes generated by the team’s in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance. When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew. The girl, however, said that she hadn’t seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and it’s our understanding that charges won’t be pressed.

Tatum apparently didn’t know that he was being monitored.

Fortunately, the displaced running back wasn’t Najeh Davenport.
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Bonus points for the Najeh Davenport play.

Drip · Sep 3, 2008

93Devil said:

NFL owners owe a lot to Gene Upshaw.
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Yes they do but there are a few who didn't like him. There are many who remember the NFL strike in the late 1980's. Gene wasn't very well liked and the owners did their best to make him look like a fool. But he hung in there. Won the support of the players and the owners were forced to deal with him.

Drip · Sep 3, 2008

pseudo said:

According to ProFootballTalk, Tatum Bell: moron. (Remember that PFT loves to throw shit against the wall and see if it sticks, so adjust your suspension of disbelief accordingly ... but if true, what a story.)

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/02/rudis-crazy-day-in-detroit/
Posted by Mike Florio on September 2, 2008, 9:17 p.m. EDT

A strange thing happened to running back Rudi Johnson when he visited with the Detroit Lions on Monday.

Someone stole his stuff.

Seriously.

Specifically, and as were told by a reliable source (i.e., not the person who told Mort that Joey Harrington had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Monday, or the person who told John Clayton that Todd Bouman had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Tuesday), Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millens office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team.

So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky.

The team checked the videotapes generated by the teams in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance. When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew. The girl, however, said that she hadnt seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and its our understanding that charges wont be pressed.

Tatum apparently didnt know that he was being monitored.

Fortunately, the displaced running back wasnt Najeh Davenport.
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Bonus points for the Najeh Davenport play.
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If this is true, Bell could be brought up on charges.

pseudo · Sep 3, 2008

Drip said:

pseudo said:

According to ProFootballTalk, Tatum Bell: moron. (Remember that PFT loves to throw shit against the wall and see if it sticks, so adjust your suspension of disbelief accordingly ... but if true, what a story.)

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/02/rudis-crazy-day-in-detroit/
Posted by Mike Florio on September 2, 2008, 9:17 p.m. EDT

A strange thing happened to running back Rudi Johnson when he visited with the Detroit Lions on Monday.

Someone stole his stuff.

Seriously.

Specifically, and as were told by a reliable source (i.e., not the person who told Mort that Joey Harrington had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Monday, or the person who told John Clayton that Todd Bouman had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Tuesday), Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millens office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team.

So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky.

The team checked the videotapes generated by the teams in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance. When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew. The girl, however, said that she hadnt seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and its our understanding that charges wont be pressed.

Tatum apparently didnt know that he was being monitored.

Fortunately, the displaced running back wasnt Najeh Davenport.
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Bonus points for the Najeh Davenport play.
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If this is true, Bell could be brought up on charges.
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Asked and answered.

Drip · Sep 3, 2008

pseudo said:

Drip said:

pseudo said:

According to ProFootballTalk, Tatum Bell: moron. (Remember that PFT loves to throw shit against the wall and see if it sticks, so adjust your suspension of disbelief accordingly ... but if true, what a story.)

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/02/rudis-crazy-day-in-detroit/
Posted by Mike Florio on September 2, 2008, 9:17 p.m. EDT

A strange thing happened to running back Rudi Johnson when he visited with the Detroit Lions on Monday.

Someone stole his stuff.

Seriously.

Specifically, and as were told by a reliable source (i.e., not the person who told Mort that Joey Harrington had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Monday, or the person who told John Clayton that Todd Bouman had agreed to terms with the Ravens on Tuesday), Johnson left his bags outside CEO Matt Millens office while he met with team officials and, ultimately, worked out a deal with the team.

So when Johnson came back to get his bags, they were nowhere to be found. Johnson and Millen were stumped.

Enter the eye in the sky.

The team checked the videotapes generated by the teams in-house surveillance system, and they quickly identified the culprit.

So who might it have been? None other than Tatum Bell, who lost his gig with the Lions after Rudi arrived.

Per the source, Bell took the bags to the house of a female acquaintance. When confronted on the matter, Bell offered up some cockamamie story that he thought the bags belonged to someone he knew. The girl, however, said that she hadnt seen Bell in several months and he showed up out of the blue and asked her to keep the bags for a while.

Johnson has retrieved the bags, and its our understanding that charges wont be pressed.

Tatum apparently didnt know that he was being monitored.

Fortunately, the displaced running back wasnt Najeh Davenport.
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Bonus points for the Najeh Davenport play.
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If this is true, Bell could be brought up on charges.
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Asked and answered.
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Perhaps I should have stated this a little better so I apologize. I know that Johnson won't press charges but that's not stopping the team from doing so because it occurred at their facility. I'm no lwyer but they could hit him with trespassing or something along those lines.

Simon_Cowbell · Sep 3, 2008

Pats-Chiefs could be played - or not - in a tropical storm Sunday.

Wonder what the alternate plan might be.

hockeybeat · Sep 3, 2008

Simon_Cowbell said:

Pats-Chiefs could be played - or not - in a tropical storm Sunday.

Wonder what the alternate plan might be.
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Would the league move the game to Foxboro, a la Bucs-Saints pre Gustav?

Simon_Cowbell · Sep 3, 2008

hockeybeat said:

Simon_Cowbell said:

Pats-Chiefs could be played - or not - in a tropical storm Sunday.

Wonder what the alternate plan might be.
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Would the league move the game to Foxboro, a la Bucs-Saints pre Gustav?
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I should have written Chiefs-Pats....

It's at Foxboro now...

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