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If I had to guess, he's spent the last ten days wooing over his victim. I'm not one to paint with broad brushes, but abusers have a very typical pattern.

And if his NFL career and the $8MM signing bonus goes poof, a big chunk of child support she would have received goes poof too. I'm glad he's gone no matter the cap ramifications.

Call it "#53". Start following five six players on different teams in like June or July. The Trinity Benson/Tom Kennedy types of fringe roster players.

So they do know how to make a press release! "a family matter" is a weird way to spell domestic violence. This happens so often in these cases.

The Jake Bates storyline is really giving the "you're telling me in a world with 8.1 billion people there aren't 32 better kickers than Michael Badgley" crowd something to work with.

Once Rashee Rice took the torch, there was no work left to be done.

27th last year and now 28th this year. 5-2 win over MSU to make it this go-around, after MSU beat them in OT for the B1G Championship about a week ago. All those appearances but it's been a minute since they last won it all in 1998. Made it in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2018, 2022, and 2023 without winning two more. They've actually only even made the championship once in that run, 2011. Sounds like they're due!

I don’t believe for a second that Chris Ilitch had nothing to do with the pizza prop.

While this looks bad, Rice has options available to him. He can either (a) hide out with Cam Sutton, or (b) blame it on his interpreter.

I wonder if there might be a calculus to possibly keep four special teams players on your active roster instead of the three it is currently. Instead of looking at the roles as field goals, kickoffs, punts, holds, long snaps, what if it could be divided further into long and short field goals. It feels like if you combined Badgley’s XPs with this dude’s distance you’d have a killer NFL kicker. And for the (rare) situations where you have a kicker pull a hammy, you don’t have to put in Suh to kick an extra point. Roster spots are sacred on an NFL roster obviously, but at the same time, you had guys like Antoine Green and Khalil Dorsey who were active for most games but rarely saw the field. Could it be worth keeping one of them on the practice squad for? Probably not. And will never happen. But #OffseasonThoughts.

I'd be surprised if they didn't allow them to break their contract for an NFL deal. Otherwise I expect a strong contingent of the fringe talent they attract would stay at home, stay healthy, and wait to get a call for a private workout.

I don’t give a **** if he’s Henry Rowengartner, give the dude a contract

DO NOT ALLOW THAT MAN TO LEAVE THE BUILDING

And LOOK how well that worked out! /s

How often does BH give a three-year contract?

He's not worth that.

It would make sense, but he's got to stay healthy. He came in from VaTech with injury history, and fresh off an ACL tear, so he wasn't expected to be an immediate contributor in 2022, but he then had a hamstring injury in 2023 and finished the season on IR after getting hand surgery. He's played in 29 games over the two seasons, so clearly they don't hate him. But he's also only got 13 receptions and 1 TD in those 29 games, so they also don't see him as a weapon in the pass game. Compared to 31 receptions and 5 TDs in 31 games for Wright. I will say when Brock Wright went down with the injury to end the season, Mitchell's snap counts increased from an average of 5.7 per game (that he was active) across the first 14 games, to 24/game in weeks 16 and 17 without Wright, to 46 in week 18 when we were without Wright or LaPorta for most of the game. So they didn't mind putting him in there as the backup to Wright (or LaPorta), it's not like he was getting past up by Firkser.

It's an interesting choice, but I wouldn't be all that shocked if he's allowed to walk, depending on the offer sheet. He's a fan favorite but he's also a primarily blocking tight end. Blocking tight ends grow on trees.

The Lions forum is prepared to offer you a multi-year contract for this quality level of post.

Not to be that guy but this offense is only on pace to score 162 runs this season. Not to be that guy but this pitching staff is currently on pace to give up 0 runs this season.

SWIIIIIIING AND A MISS HE…. GOTIM ON STRIKES.

This draft is really deep at WR. None of the top three (Harrison, Nabers, Odunze) will make it to #29, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of Thomas, Worthy, or Legette make it... If BH is in love with one of them they should get within striking distance of a trade up too. In a normal year, they'd each be top-15 prospects, especially Thomas. Coleman is a prospect who is probably good enough to take at #29 too, though I've seen him mocked in the early 2nd.

I usually admire the Steelers organization, but Patterson is 33. This is a case of trying to be the smartest guy in the room. They'd probably be better off putting Fields back there.

With how quickly plays happen, and the "penalty" to an injured player of having to sit out the next play, I doubt it would. They'll want to do their celebration for the big play and get ready for the next rather than fake an injury. It's not like the "late" hits out of bounds where they'll go flailing into a bench to make it look like a much bigger hit than it was. At least I hope.