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"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."

"Vikes seem to be doing alright, anyone watching that?"

Lamar Jackson has some arm on him. Looks like no effort at all throwing it 50-60 yards in the air.

I'm watching the Eagles getting smeared by the Redskins. Smashed by Case Keenum.

Cam's boys and the Dirty Birds are losing so good start so far.

"Come on Fins, lets not make it *too* blatant. #FishTank"

Takashi Miike 3:49 Well used to that!

Odds on Cleveland having the worst discipline in the league this season?

Cheers

"you pick a team for each week and you play against everyone, sometimes twice and it works like a normal league with pts difference separating any ties"

I assumed with the Fantasy league that it was a straightforward accumulation of points over the season and yet I'm matched up against Brady's love child. How's that work then? Do I accumulate points based on whether I beat the person in the match up instead?

"I don't buy the deep conspiracy theory stuff. I do think referees and officials in sports make bad calls that disproportionately favour big teams. The PL is rife with it. I think that's human nature though, self preservation. Make a bad call against Man U and you're analysed to death in th media. Make one against Watford and it hardly gets a mention. Probably the same in the NFL. At the end of the day the Patriots are dominant because they have the best coach of all time who runs the most professional organisation and examines every little detail to gain an advantage. Add to that a QB who takes way below par wages in an attempt to create cap space in a salary controlled league, and you have the winning formula."

"watch the officiating in your game later, almost impossible getting any calls your way in that stadium"

"Cowboys Patriots Steelers Packers A few teams who sometimes seem to be in the middle of situations either in games or outside of games that can turn out somewhat 'favourable' and 'interesting' in their favour. Wouldn't have anything to do with how well followed they are both in the US and globally, and how their general continued success is financially good for the sport would it? Then again you can lay that observation on most sports. Baseball and the Red Sox and Yankees, Premier league and certain teams, India and Australia in cricket, Ferrari in F1, particularly in the Schumacher years..."

(Looks over towards Foxborough.) Arf

Miike. I with you regarding the overall game. But Goodell is only as powerful as the owners let him. I think he would love nothing more than hammering certain teams who basically bend the rules to breaking point. (Looks over towards Foxborough.) But like the Premiership cash rules. And while it's raking it in very little will change.

"the more I think about the speed of this deal, the more I think I was spot about it being engineered and corrupt as fuck. as years progress, I lose more and more interest in a league that's rigged as fuck. don't think so, just watch some officiating of games of how goodell deals with certain teams in regard to bans"

"I mean brown has always been known as the hardest working receiver in the nfl, thats how e went from a late round pick to arguably the 3rd best receiver in history. Issue with alot of receivers coming into the patriots is that the playbook is so complex and full of ""option"" routes, i have no doubt he can work hard enough to pick up the system its just if he has the attitude for it, the ""patriot way"" is a million miles away from what he's used to, if he can accept being a cog in the larger machine then it could ve great. I just cant see it happening, i see him saying something in a press conference he's not supposed to and Bill coming down on him and the whole thing blowing up"

Hopefully he gets on well with Josh Gordon.

"Well that just makes the AFC fucking YAWN again this year. Got signed suspiciously quickly, too."

I stick my neck out now and say he end up Super Bowl MVP. He's that type of character who enjoys giving the bird to everyone. He has now got the fuel to light his fire.

"Could go either way, i could easily see him being on the patriots for less than a week"

"Just feels like brown had become radioactive to most teams and nobody would even consider him If there's one team who can bring him in and put him under heel its the patriots, i do worry if this goes wrong what impact it may have on josh gordon"

Takashi Miike 12:05 Sun Sep 8 It does smell badly of a set up right down to all the helmet bollocks earlier.

Brown's agent has been a busy (and no doubt mightily rewarded) boy.

"not something to celebrate, you have to wonder if they engineered this. who knows, but it just made them cunts a lot stronger"