ESPN's Adam Schefter reports Chargers first-round WR Mike Williams may need season-ending back surgery on a herniated disk.


 Williams recently received a second epidural in an effort to try and get him ready for some point during training camp, but the team is preparing as if he won't be ready. There's a chance it won't even help at all, and Williams would then have to get surgery. The No. 7 overall pick in April, Williams has been hurt seemingly ever since being picked. He missed the entire spring and has fallen way behind. Even if he somehow manages to recover at some point, he's highly unlikely to make a year-one impact. The good news for the Chargers is they're well-stocked at receiver with Keenan Allen coming back from a torn ACL, Tyrell Williams coming off a breakout 2016, Dontrelle Inman proving capable as a No. 3, and Travis Benjamin as a deep threat. Williams allegedly may have "masked" the injury in the pre-draft process.

 Jul 19 - 4:09 PM
Source: ESPN.com


 Neck in college, now this...yikes...

https://coldspot.org/2013/10/06/mankato-...esota-usa/ 

Dalvin Cook - RB - Vikings
Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer is campaigning coach Mike Zimmer to allow him to use rookie Dalvin Cook on kick returns.


 One of the best STs coaches in the league, Priefer admitted he's not holding his breath that Zimmer will allow it. Cook is in the mix, if not the favorite, to be the Vikings' No. 1 running back, which would surely mean he won't be on returns. Minnesota is looking for a replacement for Pro Bowl returner Cordarrelle Patterson. Rookie WR Rodney Adams is considered the lead man for the job.

 Source: Sirius XM NFL Radio Jul 18 - 9:17 PM

Laquon Treadwell will have his chance to prove Mike Zimmer right.
On several occasions this offseason, the Minnesota Vikings’ head coach has sung the praises of the club’s 2016 first-round draft pick, who made just one catch on three targets in his debut season.
“He looks good,” Zimmer said during OTAs. “His stopping and starting, some of the routes he’s been running as far as when he has to come back…when he has to accelerate over the middle, inside breaks in routes, and you guys saw him catch the deep ball the other day. I think his game has expanded, I think he’s so much more comfortable now than he was a year ago.”
http://www.1500espn.com/vikings-2/2017/0...treadwell/

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/coli...li=BBnb7Kz

whats the big deal here?  is it really earth shattering that corporate America would prefer to have their representatives ( QBs are often the faces of the franchise)  to fit a certain mold?  Kapernick was being very outspoken on unpopular topics to many and with the radical hairdo it sends a message that he will continue to rock the boat and not conform to the image and type of player that a corporation would want out front.  Its like a hippie in the 60s,  if you saw long hair... what did you expect to hear?  if you saw a well groomed person would you expect anti war rhetoric and all the other hippie generation themes?

Does the hair make the man.. no chance no way,  but it does at times reflect on a persona that a person is trying to portray or a way of life they are trying to live.  or it could be they are just having a bad hair day.

If I  was kapernick i wouldnt be trying to piss off anybody that is reaching out to me with help or advice... he has a lot of people that supposedly support him,  but apparently none of them are in a position to actually do anything about it.

http://www.vikings.com/news/article-1/TC...98854653=1

Trump suggests Republicans will let ACA market collapse, then rewrite health law...

Its apparent to most conservatives that the new proposed health care bill is no better than obamacare for most Americans.  Its also apparent to most that this is going to be a partisan issue until a solution falls on its face and another is created out of desire to help all Americans and not just their voting base.  IMO this move should show more libs that the ACA is a disaster in terms of what it was supposed to be ( affordable care for all Americans)  and should move them to demand that their elected officials fix the issue...just as the cons have been begging their elected to so for the last decade.

I am so fucking sick of obamacare that I would almost like to see socialized medicine tried....fuck the insurance carriers, fuck the drug companies,  fuck the major medical providers that have destroyed their smaller competition... fuck them all and let the govt decide who lives or dies.  in actuality they always hold the cards anyway through the bull shit laws they pass, so lets put them on the hook for the whole enchilada.  Might be just the card needed to bring about the political "revolution" that so many want to see.

I am going with The Steelers vs The Seahawks

AFC CG - Pitt vs NE
NFC CG - GB vs Sea 

Viking fans suddenly become Seahawks fans repulsed at the potential of the The Packers playing a SB in a Vikings stadium. The ultimate indignation. 

Bruce Allen seemingly referred to Kirk Cousins as “Kurt” five times in statement

Posted by Curtis Crabtree on July 18, 2017, 6:08 AM EDT

AP


As team president of the Washington Redskins, it would stand to reason that Bruce Allen would know the name of the team’s starting quarterback.

However, in reading a statement to announce they had not reached an agreement with Kirk Cousins on a long-term contract ahead of Monday’s franchise tag deadline, Allen appeared to mispronounce Cousins’ first name on multiple occasions. Allen seemingly called him “Kurt” five separate times during the reading of the statement.

Was Allen trying to pull a version of the “cat game” from Super Troopers? Does he think his quarterback is actually named Kurt? Is he just unable to pronounce Kirk?


 A team spokesman told John Keim of ESPN.com that Allen “sounded that way because of the Redskins president’s accent.”

The statement itself was already a weak effort to turn public sentiment against Cousins and put sparkles on a contract offer that Cousins had no business entertaining. If Allen wasn’t a victim of his accent and was instead trying to be cute regarding his pronunciation of Cousins’ name, it’s another poor look for a franchise that seems to specialize in them.

Either way, Washington might want to find a different way to conduct their business right about meow.


 Gerald Allen could not be reached for comment...