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Montana help create an entire offensive system. He also dominated against tougher defenses when the rules weren't so lopsided in favor of the QBs. QBs over the past few decades benefited from the rule changes. I still give Montana the #1 spot.
 
Montana help create an entire offensive system. He also dominated against tougher defenses when the rules weren't so lopsided in favor of the QBs. QBs over the past few decades benefited from the rule changes. I still give Montana the #1 spot.

He didn’t help create shit.

That was all Walsh bruh
 
https://www.tmz.com/2019/05/20/ezekiel-elliott-handcuffed-edc-vegas-video/

Ezekiel Elliott Handcuffed at EDC Vegas After Knocking Man to the Ground

Ezekiel Elliott was handcuffed at the EDC music festival in Las Vegas over the weekend after he shoved a security guard to the ground and TMZ Sports has the video.

... but the NFL star's attorney says Zeke was NOT formally arrested (only detained) and claims the whole thing is much ado about nothing.

Here's the deal ... the Dallas Cowboys superstar running back had been spotted in the parking lot at the Electric Daisy Carnival around 3 AM on Saturday morning arguing with his girlfriend.

Zeke never puts his hands on the woman but he uses his body to block her from walking away several times during the argument.

A short time later, Zeke and the woman are seen speaking with event staffers -- when suddenly Elliott confronts one them and says, "You got something to say!?"

Zeke gets in the staffer's face and uses his body to shove the guy backward until the staffer hits a metal gate -- that's when Zeke uses his forearm to shove the guy to the ground.

Zeke immediately throws his hands up and says, "I didn't do anything!"

Event security -- along with Las Vegas Metro Police Dept. officers rush over and eventually put Zeke in handcuffs and escort him away from the scene.

We spoke with Zeke's attorney, Frank Salzano, who says Elliott was released shortly after our video ends and he was not formally arrested or charged with a crime.

Salzano says Elliott was just having a normal discussion with his girlfriend and blames event security for "overreacting."

"Security misconstrued and overreacted to the situation," Salzano tells TMZ Sports.

"He was cuffed as a precautionary measure. He was released with no charges. He left Vegas that night and went to his [youth football camp in Dallas] on Sunday."

Even without an official arrest, Elliott could face discipline from the NFL if they find his actions violated the league's personal conduct policy.

Remember, the league had investigated Zeke in 2017 over allegations he physically abused an ex-girlfriend -- and even though he wasn't arrested, the league believed there was enough evidence to warrant a 6-game suspension.

Zeke has always maintained he did not attack the accuser in that situation.
 
https://www.nj.com/jets/2019/05/jet...to-do-with-gm-mike-maccagnan-being-fired.html

Jets’ Adam Gase breaks silence, says he had nothing to do with GM Mike Maccagnan being fired in ‘power struggle’

Jets coach Adam Gase on Monday made his first comments about the team’s firing of general manager Mike Maccagnan, who lost an apparent four-month power struggle to Gase.

Gase was asked for his reaction to the Maccagnan firing — and whether he agrees or disagrees with the notion that he had anything to do with it.

“I disagree with that, as far as a power struggle,” Gase told reporters Monday. “Because whoever is getting hired [as the new GM] is going to have the same role — control of the roster. I will coach the football team. That’s what I’m going to do. Nothing is changing in that structure.”

Gase said he felt “surprised” when acting owner Christopher Johnson told him Tuesday night that Maccagnan was fired. The decision was announced Wednesday.

“That’s what it was,” Gase said. “He’s the owner. In this business, [expletive] like that happens all the time. It happened to me last year [when the Dolphins fired Gase]. I think that’s what it is. I mean, I work for [Johnson]. That’s how we’re aligned, is the GM and the head coach both report to the owner. That’s the way it is."
Gase was not expected to address the Maccagnan firing Monday. He was expected to wait until his Thursday press conference — after the Jets’ first open organized team activities practice (and third OTAs session overall) — to address the matter.

But Gase decided he wanted to say something anyway Monday, a day before the Jets begin OTAs. Gase answered just that one question about Maccagnan’s firing. He deferred further questions to Thursday’s press conference.

With Gase (now the interim GM) yet to even coach a training camp practice, the Jets are currently seeking a replacement for Maccagnan, who had been on the job since 2015.

Eagles vice president of player personnel Joe Douglas is considered the favorite, as he has a previous relationship with Gase and could presumably work well with him — something Maccagnan couldn’t do. Gase and Douglas worked together for one season, 2015, with the Bears. Gase was offensive coordinator, Douglas college scouting director. They’re friends.

Even though Johnson has said the new GM will have the same complete control over the 53-man roster that Maccagnan had, it’s pretty clear Gase now has at least some increased personnel-decisions influence in the organization, since he will help pick the new GM — and since that GM’s outlook on building a team surely will align largely with Gase’s.

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http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york-j...-leonard-williams-remain-part-of-adams-family

1. New sheriff in town: The front-office shakeup will have a significant impact on the roster, now and in the future, because that's how it goes in the NFL. Whenever a new regime takes over, the player turnover spikes. The high-profile players who could be most affected by Adam Gase's rise in power are Le'Veon Bell, Robby Anderson and Leonard Williams -- former general manager Mike Maccagnan's first draft pick.

Bell's situation is fascinating now that reports have surfaced about how Gase was turned off by the running back's price tag (four years, $52.5 million). Bell isn't going anywhere in 2019 because he already has been paid $11 million in bonuses, with another $3 million in guarantees on the way. But what about 2020? He has $13 million in guarantees, including a $2 million roster bonus on March 15, but a one-and-done isn't beyond the realm of possibility. Hey, the New York Giants traded Odell Beckham Jr. only one year into a megadeal.

Truth be told, a Bell trade wouldn't be crippling from a cap standpoint; it would just be a matter of a finding a team willing to pick up the contract. If not, Bell is an easy cut in 2021, when his guaranteed money runs out.
 


@5th Letter

Gase aint fuckin around. Leggett played pretty decent towards the end of last season. Gase didnt even give him a chance to earn a roster spot thru training camp n pre season.
 


@5th Letter

Gase aint fuckin around. Leggett played pretty decent towards the end of last season. Gase didnt even give him a chance to earn a roster spot thru training camp n pre season.

That’s how it usually goes. Bubble guys from previous regimes sometimes gets cut because they don’t see in them what the previous regime did.
 
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26793693/bills-issue-oj-no-32-first-1977

Bills issue O.J.'s No. 32 for first time since 1977

The No. 32 has been put back in circulation by the Buffalo Bills for the first time since 1977, the last season O.J. Simpson wore the number.

Running back Senorise Perry, who signed with the Bills as a free agent, is wearing the number during the team's organized team activities. He told The Athletic that he thought the number was retired.

"I thought it was retired, but then I was told it was available. Boom, I took it," he told The Athletic.

"I know the situation. I know that greatness comes with that number, playing in Buffalo. But I'm willing to take anything that comes my way. I'm going into my sixth year, and I know what it takes to get in this league and stay here. With that number on my back, I know I'm doing well for my family."

Simpson rushed for 10,183 yards and 57 touchdowns and led the NFL in rushing four times in nine seasons for the Bills, but his post-career troubles with the law have kept his number from being retired. His name does appear on the team's Wall of Fame at New Era Field.

Simpson, 71, was acquitted in 1995 for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but a civil court jury found him liable for wrongful death and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. That total has now increased to more than $70 million since the original verdict in 1997. He was sentenced to prison in 2008 for armed robbery and kidnapping after entering a Las Vegas hotel room to recover stolen memorabilia items. He was paroled in 2017.

"Whatever they do is fine with me," Simpson told The Athletic in a telephone interview. "That's how I feel. When I played there, I tried to honor the team. Since I left, I always tried to honor the Bills.

"And, to be honest, it's not something I think about. There's too much else going on in life."

Perry, 27, has mainly contributed on special teams during his NFL career, averaging 20.6 yards on 22 kick returns. He has rushed for 30 yards and caught two passes in his career.
 
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