2025-2026 NFL Season Thread

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Seahawks defensive lineman Jarran Reed has been suspended 6 games for a 2017 domestic violence incident in which Reed was not arrested and no charges were filed. I'm guessing this is going to upset a lot of people after Tyreek Hill was not suspended.

HAHA WTF Goodell is a joke

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by R3P0

HAHA WTF Goodell is a joke

You have to have standards in order to have double standards.

[Eschenpod]

Originally Posted by R3P0

HAHA WTF Goodell is a joke

One of the main highlights of the annual NFL draft for me is when the fans boo the hell out of Goodell no matter what city they're in.

[fatediesel]

Looks like Adrian Peterson is just the latest highly-paid athlete to go broke. Peterson will top $100 million in career earnings this season which makes him by far the highest-paid running back in NFL history, but he has been ordered to pay $3 million in judgements to banks and may owe another $6.6 million:

A Pennsylvania lender is suing Peterson for allegedly defaulting on a $5.2 million loan, the proceeds of which he used to pay back other debts he incurred, including millions from a “pay-day lender,” court documents in New York show.

The sum, which with interest and legal fees is now $6.6 million, is separate from the $2.4 million a Maryland state judge last week ordered Peterson to pay another creditor — Democracy Capital Corp. In 2018, a Minnesota court ordered him to pay $600,000 left unpaid on a $2.4 million loan.

[imsounoriginal]

If you're gonna make guys go to college, at least make them take a personal finance or money management course while they're there.

[BizCat]

Mark Sanchez has retired.

[BizCat]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

If you're gonna make guys go to college, at least make them take a personal finance or money management course while they're there.

While true, one could also use common sense.

[RageATL]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

If you're gonna make guys go to college, at least make them take a personal finance or money management course while they're there.

I'm pretty sure they go over this type of stuff in the rookie symposium, but granted a 1-2 hour session on finances probably isn't gonna change a kid that just signed a multi-million dollar contract.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by RageATL

I'm pretty sure they go over this type of stuff in the rookie symposium, but granted a 1-2 hour session on finances probably isn't gonna change a kid that just signed a multi-million dollar contract.

That's the real issue: you get these kids from mostly impoverished backgrounds, many of whom never really took academics seriously because they were focused on a career in athletics (and that's fine, if you're gonna commit to something then go all-in), dump millions of dollars into their laps, and magically expect them to know how to handle it.

But the personal finances of individual players doesn't really reflect on the Shield at all, so of course the league office has no incentive to actually help these guys. Sadly, it'll probably take a former player getting killed because of an unpaid debt to get the league office to wake up, if that. At the very least, I'd hope the NFL can point players in the direction of good money managers, but even those guys can be crooks.

[Moviefan1203]

NFLPA needs to do more to educate them as well.

[R3P0]

how about just using common sense, the NFLPA and league dont need to do dick for these guys they are college educated.

If you make 10 dollars dont spend 12 it means you cant afford it. Dont rack up tons of credit debt, dont take out loans, bank your salary live off of endorsements. If you only make 100k in endorsements guess what live off 100k.

They have all no matter their background had basic math since 1st grade.

Stop paying for your boys in the hood as well they made their choice you made yours.

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

NFLPA needs to do more to educate them as well.

Honestly in the last few years they go far beyond that of any other employer in the world imo. Short of having to start taking a percentage portion of players salary and setting it aside for them so they don't blow it, I don't see what else they can do for some of these players.

Just look at draft night and some of these kids coming right out of college flossing 20+ grand worth of jewelry and custom clothing, at some point the responsibility needs to lie with the player!

[Samus Aran]

It's not just athletes who go from zero to millions and then blow it all. Pro athletes making seven to nine figures just outnumber lottery winners or entertainers so there will be more stories from them. And these stories are common and everyone's heard them, so they know exactly what will happen. Especially in the NFL where they get paid the least and have the shortest careers. But they do it anyway. You can't stop them because you can't withhold their money from them.

[El Rey]

There was an excellent doc on this a couple years ago, forgot the name of it. Think it was a 30 For 30

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by El Rey

There was an excellent doc on this a couple years ago, forgot the name of it. Think it was a 30 For 30

Yeah, it was a 30 for 30 called Broke.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by El Rey

There was an excellent doc on this a couple years ago, forgot the name of it. Think it was a 30 For 30

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Yeah, it was a 30 for 30 called Broke.

Gonna look for that, thanks.

[dcowboy7]

[BizCat]

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

Wow Kraft bought the pats in 1994 for like 175 million, talk about one hell of a return!

[Batman1980]

Pretty sure Jerry bought the Cowboys for $1 million in 1989 after other possible investors passed on it.