West Ham Online

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

Just caught up with last night's game. That Tua head injury looked horrible and I hope he turns out OK. He needs a long time off to recover.. He should never have been put in that position after last week. I don't care what the so-called independent doctors said. I chose to give up playing rugby (it was only club 2nd XV level) after 3 concussions in 10 weeks. Sometimes players are their own worst enemies and I came back twice after a month off to recover but it wasn't enough. The third time I was knocked sparko and still can't remember how it happened or anything else from that match day. Still - Go 'FIns!

Former WWF wrestler now with a PhD in Neuroscience absolutely going off on the Dolphins and NFL. https://twitter.com/ChrisNowinski1/status/1575667285863571456?s=20&t=iF5jBjLKZKGAR1zxldUl9A

"Donk. Saw a conspiracy theory on a Saints board about magnets in the ball and why there are more uprights hit these days. Ha. Crystal Yeah, wonder if anything now comes back on the Dolphins letting him play after last week. Good luck Teddy."

FWIW Tua should never have been in the game to begin with. So obviously got concussed in the Bills game he couldnt even walk straight at one point but they swept it under the rug and blamed a bullshit back injury. 2 bad concussions like that in 4 days can end a career.

"Happens when you get knocked out, called fencing. You see it in the ufc whole body goes stiff"

But maybe more than that

That finger did not look go on Tua.

This white bengals against the classic dolphons teal is a beautiful uniform matchup

"this is a brilliant watch, Steve Mcnair : A Football Life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXWwZS3F6w"

Oops I forgot we had Brett Favre and Jim McMahon on the way down as well

"My Vikings had Warren Moon for a while but he was on his way down, same with Randall Cunningham, The Vikings are the West Ham of the NFL"

Warren MOON was brilliant. Definitely one of the better players to have never won the Super Bowl.

"Far Cough 7:42 Thu Sep 29 My first memories of this kind of football was Warren Moon winning stuff with the Edmonton (now formerly) Eskimos in the CFL. So I followed them from a far a bit. Glanville's time with Atlanta was just before I found the Saints but Deion Sanders was all over Sports Illustrated and the like. It was the time that started the Dirty Birds, I think."

I loved Jerry Glanville's Smashmouth football at the House of Pain

Looking at old hits https://youtu.be/5xuXPUGJGuU?t=207 Never got to see them but all indications were that the Saints Dome Patrol was the best set of linebackers with the worst bunch of dross around them. Under-rated because they never won anything even a playoff game.

"Mclaurin getting up after the Bucs Whitehead tries to decapitate him last year, it's why he's loved so much https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz-YF5hBsY"

You still get some good clean hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8wxEE_0eI But also some filthy cheap shots as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0g8K-AfOf4

"Yanks can't drink for shit, but definitely as gay as some of the shit over here now. I don't want to see players injured, but it is pathetic when our broadcasters refuse to show bad replays. Red zone will fucking show anything and personally I like to grimace at it üòÇ"

"I was surprised. Two weeks ago, there was a tackle in one of the games I was watching, a prime time one, I think, where the tackler basically hog-tied the carrier and body-slammed him right near the goal line and it wasn't called. Looked it up, it was Kelce being tackled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJy6tSYxop8 Immortalised in LA https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdCBrlUacAIp5lK?format=jpg&name=large"

"Cough, the bizarre thing about that injury is Alex Smith had almost the exact same injury, but the most strange thing is they both occurred on November 18th (1985/2018)"

"Oh, definitely for the era it was a perfect hit. Well within the rules then. Bit like when we talk about the good old days of Bonzo winning the ball but also putting the oppo player into the first row of the stand as well. That said, given the really brutal nature of the NFL, I can't argue with the steps they've taken in the name of player safety, even if it's dampened the spectacle somewhat."

Joe Theisman's shin....ouch

"I thought it was a perfectly times tackle but I agree, it was dangerous contacting his back that way. I don't think he was ever the same again after that, though I'm sure he wouldn't swap that for theisman's snapped shin"

"Takashi Miike 3:30 Golden era! And no way would that hit be legal today, I think. They actually comment on how he led with the helmet and planted him right between the shoulders. Actually it caused really significant injuries as well: 'In the fourth quarter of the 1990 NFC Championship Game, Montana was hit so hard by New York Giants defensive end Leonard Marshall he suffered a bruised sternum, bruised stomach, cracked ribs and a broken hand. Montana missed all of the 1991 season and most of the 1992 season, never starting another game for the 49ers.' ...and people say wearing pads makes them pussies...."

"Been pretty busy with work today, but have enjoyed reading this thread today. A complete contrast to the ""The Return of Noble"" thread which made me want to poke my eyes out when I started to read it."