All I have to say is... Bring it Rookie!

Interview by Brooke Cersosimo • May 17, 2017

After a lengthy hiatus from the game, Joe Williams came back on a tear, setting a Utah school rushing record against UCLA. He finished last season with 1,407 rushing yards (ranked 18th in the nation) and 10 touchdowns in nine contests. But even with a great 2016 performance, teams questioned Williams' character during the draft process. The running back explains how he won over John Lynch and the San Francisco 49ers and his initial impressions of coach Kyle Shanahan.

"[I most want to play the] Los Angeles [Rams], especially because of what happened in the draft and taking me off their boards."

Here's the link to the full interview. http://www.nfl.com/labs/rr/oklahoma/desktop/interviews/joewilliams.html

Peter Schrager has been on record as a huge Cooper Kupp fan. He makes his bold prediction on Good Morning Football today...

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Anyone have extra tickets in some good seats? Or maybe post the games that you plan on attending. I'm looking to head to either the FourtyWhiners or Seaquacks game.

Been watching the whole season game by game (done with 9).

Here are some impressions I had:
Dickerson had injuries pretty much the whole year after the Seattle game. He had a 3.7 carry avg through 9 games. He looked good, but was missing something.
The defense played very very well agains the run, and the corners and safeties were great. Leroy Irvin was so good, it surprised me.
The trade for Tony Hunter was a good one. WHat happened to him...he was looking great, and he was only in his 3-4th year I think....why wasn't he on the team in 1988?
Dieter Brock has such a bad reputation, but I am not sure he was the problem. Man, he could throw, and he was a tough, little guy.

The Corners were awesome.

And Robinson got the first (?) basketball player who never played football in college to convert---James McDonald....looked good.

The Rams O line was in flux a bit with Dennish Harrah being out until week 9. The pass blocking did not look good or organized most of the games....especially against mediocre teams.

I think the Rams had a high school offense; when Brock had time he was ok. I trust announcers like Dick Vermiel more than I trust 'us' fans.....he loved Brock, and so did all the other announcers.

In general, I have watched 40+ games from 1985, and to me that was the year the whole league changed a lot (for the better); almost all the teams had professional passing attacks....and you can see it week in and week out--except for the Rams. Though the Rams went to the NFC champ game, they were not going to beat the Bears with that offense. The defense was more than good enough.....I have about 12+ games a year from 1983 to 1989 on Video (16+ in some years) if anyone wants them....just send me an email and I will send via Pcloud.

So I use to belong to a great Graphic Design forum that lasted a long time but then eventually my buddy who ran the forum moved onto other projects and media. I'm wondering if there's any other designers within our forum and if anyone would like to communicate with each other, possibly work on projects together etc. If you're, please feel free to post your work below, any new projects or screenshots of what you may be working on or ideas you may have for the forum or collaboration projects.

I watched a very brief portion of some Fox Sports One show with Jason (new biggest blowhard in sports) Whitlock. I think it is called 'Speak for yourself'.

He said that according to reports that Colin Kaepernick is likely headed to Sheattle. Rapaport reported that Russel Wilson is fine with having CK back him up. However Michael Bennett is expressing a desire for Kaepernick to start.

1.Bennett is stupid and Carroll should have Schneider find him a new team. Wilson is a much better QB. Bennett complained about Jimmy Graham coming to Seattle too. This guy is a bad presence for any team. I am glad he is with Sheattle, even if he does play descent.

2. Why does it feel like a repeat of USC? Pete built his team by enabling and supporting the individuality of the players. He is a low discipline coach. His loose style lead to him losing control of his USC team towards the end of his tenure. Are we seeing the same thing here? He has some vocal players, which to me says more about 'Me' and less about 'We'.

3. If there really is any controversy, then bring it on. Sheattle is due for a good heap of it

The rookie WR's are exciting, but this is Robert Woods' Hollywood story

The Rams have been extremely busy this off-season signing multiple free agents and drafting multiple impact players. The one player that seems like he's primed to breakout is former Buffalo Bills wide receiver Robert Woods.

Woods is a former University of Southern California Trojan. He played at a coliseum in college and was a fan favorite among many of USC fans. Back when he was selected in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft, only USC were the only ones to play in the coliseum. Things have changed since then and now the Rams find themselves playing in the coliseum just where Woods showed out for the Trojan faithful.

The honeymoon in the coliseum won't last much longer as it's only until the Rams Inglewood stadium is completely built. However, it's going to be exciting and a memorable time for the Rams and their franchise's history. Woods actually had a chance to play at coliseum again last season with the Bills. He felt as though it was the last time he would ever step foot in the old home of his, but that wasn't the case.

Woods ended up signing on with the new era in Los Angeles Rams football and agreed to a five-year and 39 million dollar deal with the franchise. Now, with two years left on the Rams "lease" in the coliseum, Woods is ready to savor every second of his time back home. He is likely going to have the opportunity to play at least 14 games there and possibly more depending on what kind of team the Rams are through the 2017-2018 season and the 2018-2019 season. Obviously, it is an exciting moment for Woods who just signed a nice long term contract at the age of 25.


So what does Woods bring to the table? Well, for starters, he is a great route runner which is something the Rams have definitely lacked or at least seem to have lacked with the lack of separation play in and play out. Woods doesn't just run crisp routes, but he also has the best catch percentage on the Rams roster as of right now. Woods doesn't drop a ton of passes and that will be a breath of fresh air for Rams fans that were shaking their hand and rolling their eyes over the lack of help rookie quarterback Jared Goff would receive from his receivers. Woods' game doesn't end there, he shows off the vertical leaping ability to make the play and on top of that he excels as a ball-tracker, plus he is willing to take hits over the middle and make the tough catches to extend the drive.

Goff is in need of a spark or at least replacements for two receivers that (whether you like them or not) made up of almost half of the on-field offensive production last year for an offense that was a last place offense as well. Woods can now come in and be the number one receiver for Goff. I believe Woods is likely to be a perfect match for new head coach Sean McVay's offense. Goff may not have his 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds receiver in Kenny Britt any longer, but make no mistake Woods has been waiting for his chance to prove everyone he can be a number one receiver and he's definitely not a player to throw away and take lightly.

Why do I find myself so confident in Woods? Well, for starters, the negativity against him is his lack of production in Buffalo. Well, how is any receiver supposed to do anything when all their team does is run the football? The Bills ran the ball 492 times last year which was second in the entire league only behind the Dallas Cowboys. How about the offense though? Oh, no big deal, they just threw the lowest amount of attempts at 474 in the entire league. In 2015, the Bills finished second in the entire league again in carries and second to last in the league in pass attempts. The Bills threw more before Rex Ryan came to town (Woods had 699 yards at age 22), but still, Woods was not given enough of an opportunity to really show what he was made of even with the upside he showed early on.

While in Buffalo, it's safe to say Woods wasn't around any teachers of the offensive side of the ball like he will be with the Rams. Woods is set up for success. With a head coach that is debuting this season as the hottest offensive coordinator after Kyle Shanahan last year, and an offensive coordinator that was the quarterbacks coach under that same Shanahan. There is a good chance Woods is about to take his game to the next level.

Goff is going into his second year and the Rams have added a whole new group of toys to play with. The rookie wide receivers in Cooper Kupp and Josh Reynolds offer some excitement, but the fun factor is going to be watching how well Woods translates his game. We have seen players who were phased out or not utilized as much on their first team really turn it around with big performances on their next team. Emmanuel Sanders left the Pittsburgh Steelers in free agency at age 26 as a 740 yard max receiver (that is not to say he couldn't have had more) he then went to the Denver Broncos and has been a back-to-back-to-back 1,000 yard receiver ever since.

Woods was not in an offense that suited him and between the idea of coming back home where he played college football, coming to where he will be with coaches that understand offense, coming to a place that has a young quarterback that he can grow with and coming to a place that offered him long term security and a system to succeed in...It's easy to see Woods as the breakout star the Rams have been looking for. Sanders turned his 740 yard career high into legit pro bowl numbers that are well over 1,000 for the past three seasons, Woods has a career high of 699 yards receiving and is younger than Sanders was when he moved on.

Cooper Kupp is going to be a treat for Rams fans to watch starting alongside Woods, but make no mistake about it, Woods came out to make history and make a Hollywood story we won't forget.

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Mike Vick returns to football, sort of
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Former NFL quarterback Mike Vick has retired from football of the tackle variety. He will nevertheless return to the field, without pads.

Via Darren Rovell of ESPN.com, Vick will participate in a professional flag football game on June 27. Recently-retired running back Justin Forsett also will be playing in the game.

It’s a test run for a potential eight-team league, which would play seven-on-seven football on a 100-yard field for 60 minutes at a time.

“I just thought to myself, ‘what would this look like if great athletes played this?'” American Flag Football League founder Jeff Lewis said, via Rovell. “There’s certainly a huge pool to take guys from. Every single year, NFL teams cut 800 guys. We need less than 100 players to field eight teams.”

Lewis won’t necessarily be looking for the best of the best, however.

“We’ll try to find a 60-year-old guy with a beer gut who can stand in and be a quarterback of one of our teams,” Lewis said. While that sounds intriguing, Lewis will need to decide whether he wants it to be a competitive football league or a reality-style sideshow.

Either way, it’s going to be an uphill climb. When it comes to football, it’s become well established that it’s damn near impossible to lure American fans to something beyond the NFL, college football, and their local high-school programs.
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He added: "We think what will make this successful is urgency, affinity and quality. This is why shows like American Idol and American Ninja Warrior have been popular. We think the game and how we've set it up will give us this."

The report also noted Vick has "committed" to play quarterback for one of the teams in addition to his role as a league adviser.
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Ladarius Green’s final tally: Six games, $6 million, sixth-round pick
Posted by Michael David Smith on May 18, 2017

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The Steelers’ decision to cut tight end Ladarius Green today closes the book on what has been called the team’s worst free agent signing ever.

Green, who was signed last year after the Steelers reportedly failed to thoroughly investigate his concussion history, played in just six games in his one season as a Steeler. For those six games, in which he caught 18 passes, Green made $6 million.

In addition to paying Green $1 million a game, the Steelers also lost a sixth-round draft pick in the deal. As noted by compensatory pick guru Nick Korte, the Steelers would have had a sixth-round compensatory pick this year if they hadn’t signed Green last year.

The Steelers cut their losses with Green today. Those losses were significant.

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Meet the Rams' 'stone-cold killer,' 'beast' and prep football legend: coach Sean McVay

LOS ANGELES -- The genesis of Sean McVay's renowned clairvoyance dates to December 2003, near the goal line of a state quarterfinal game, on third down, his high school team trailing by five with only a couple of minutes remaining. McVay, now the Los Angeles Rams' head coach, was a short, stocky triple-option quarterback for Marist School in Atlanta, which on this night continued to get stuffed by a powerful Shaw team while trying to punch it in on a power formation they called "Wham."

Timeout was called.

McVay, who had spent most of that week poring over film of his upcoming opponent, huddled the coaches together. He wanted to call a play the team had never run before -- a naked bootleg off "Wham," which involved McVay faking the handoff, hiding the ball, then rolling out and running with it all by himself, with no blockers in front of him.

"He just had this crazy ability to feel out plays," McVay's high school teammate and good friend, Chris Ashkouti, said. "He knew. I mean I’ve never seen anything like it. He walked in the end zone."

Fourteen years later, those who knew McVay then still marvel at that play. At the outside defender selling out for a running back without the football. At other defensive players celebrating what they thought was a game-clinching tackle. At a packed stadium rising to its feet as the quarterback turned the corner. At the foresight and courage McVay displayed as a teenager.

McVay never played in the NFL and didn't really stand out in college, but he was a Georgia high school football legend. He became the first player in program history to both rush and throw for 1,000 yards in back-to-back years. He led his team to a state championship during his senior year in 2003, playing most of the title game's second half with a broken foot.

After it was over, McVay beat out former Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson, a Hall of Famer in waiting, for Georgia 4A Offensive Player of the Year, an obscure piece of trivia many will chuckle at today. McVay calls it "more of a team award than anything else, because there's no doubt about it when you were just looking at the recruit. He was a five-star receiver, he was special, and I was not of his caliber."

Others will tell you McVay is being humble.

Todd Holcomb, an editor at Georgia High School Football Daily who has covered high school sports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2001, said McVay "might've been the most valuable all-around football player in a very strong football state" in 2003.

"There were much better college prospects," Holcomb wrote in an email, "but nobody had a greater impact on a high school football game than he did."

McVay didn't have the strongest arm, but he was quick and explosive, and he was tougher and smarter than everybody on the field. Longtime Marist coach Alan Chadwick remembers a particular designed run where McVay's responsibility was to read the 3-technique and decide where to go with the football. He pulled it, got into the B-gap and exploded through the hole "like he had been shot out of a cannon," then ran nearly untouched for 60 yards.

Ashkouti's favorite plays came immediately after interceptions, on nights when McVay also played defense.

"We would all stand back and watch," Ashkouti said, "because he was on a mission to crush the guy who picked him off."

McVay arrived at Marist as a standout soccer player with great football bloodlines. His grandfather, John, was the former 49ers general manager who teamed with Bill Walsh for five Super Bowls. His father, Tim, was an all-state quarterback in Ohio who played defensive back at Illinois. After starting as a cornerback his sophomore year, McVay was the starting quarterback for Marist as a junior and senior, finishing his final season with 1,128 rushing yards, 1,107 passing yards and 375 punting yards.

McVay received scholarship offers to play option quarterback at Rice, Air Force and the Naval Academy, Tim said, but instead chose to be a slot receiver for Miami of Ohio. He broke his ankle early in his redshirt freshman year and was never the same.

"It’s one of those things where you look at the doctors and they’re like, 'You can mess this up for the long term,'" McVay said from Rams practice this weekend. "You kind of had a realistic approach that you wanted to be involved in football, and that opportunity opened up."

McVay was hired by Jon Gruden, something of a family friend, to be a coaching assistant on his Buccaneers staff in 2008. He went on to coach tight ends in the United Football League in 2009, then spent his next seven years with the Redskins, working with tight ends and eventually becoming the offensive coordinator. Now, less than four months removed from his 31st birthday, he is the youngest head coach in modern NFL history, presiding over a team desperate to re-establish itself in the vast L.A. market.

Many still know him best from his high school days.

Tim McVay laughs at how his son used to stay up late in the coaches' office studying opponents during the week.

Chadwick saw Sean McVay as a "vivacious, energetic, outgoing, mature-beyond-his-years type of personality" who was exceedingly comfortable in his own skin. Ashkouti called McVay "a beast" and "a stone-cold killer" on the field, but beamed at the way he inspired others.

It happened at the start of the drive that ended in the naked bootleg, which ultimately sparked a state championship.

Marist had just given up the go-ahead score and needed to put together an 82-yard drive to win the game, so McVay -- 17, his voice squeaky and his hair shaggy -- addressed his teammates on the field.

"He looks everybody in the eye and he’s got this, 'We’re going to do this, get on my freaking back, let’s go' look in his eye," Ashkouti remembered. "He was just so calm. When you had him on the team, you just knew, a hundred percent, that you were going to win with this guy. Of course, him calling the play was huge. But it was his ability to make you believe. And it was all the time."

I'm hungry and about to enter an all you can eat Chinese restaurant so I'll think of some later, but what companies would be good for the new stadium? What don't we want? "Depends stadium"

United Gets L.A. Coliseum Naming Rights In College-Record Deal
By Michael Smith & John Ourand

Published May 18, 2017

United Airlines is buying the naming rights to L.A. Memorial Coliseum for more than $70M over 15 years, according to sources, making it the richest naming-rights deal among college football stadiums. At $4.7M per year, United’s deal will surpass the 10-year, $41M deal Alaska Airlines signed with the Univ. of Washington for Husky Stadium naming rights in '15. Fox Sports, through its partnership with USC, has been attempting to sell naming rights to one of the nation’s most recognizable venues since '15.

The revenue from a naming-rights deal is expected to help offset costs of the $270M renovation to the Coliseum, school officials have said. The renovation, which is in the early stages, is supposed to be completed in time for the '19 football season. How United’s brand name will be attached is not clear, but school and Fox officials in the past have said “Memorial Coliseum” would be retained in the name.

Sources indicated that the contract has not yet been signed, but an agreement is in place. While Fox takes the lead on the sale, USC and Fox have been working in tandem to identify corporate candidates for a naming-rights deal. One of the reasons United emerged is because the airline's CEO, Oscar Munoz, is a graduate of the USC business school. L.A. Int’l Airport is one of United’s U.S. hubs.

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I dare someone to sit in the wrong seat

Thought it was thread worthy since it will be our home for longer than we all expected.

The Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers will have to wait longer than expected to move into their new digs.

The Inglewood stadium, scheduled to be completed by 2019 and house the recently relocated Rams and Chargers, will be delayed one year and should be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season, the teams announced Thursday in an e-mail to fans.

The delay is due to record-setting rainfall from January through March in the Los Angeles area, per the Chargers.

The Rams and Chargers will play at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and StubHub Center, respectively, through the 2019 stadium, per The Los Angeles Times.

Around the NFL will have more on this story soon.

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•Though Jason Cole of B/R says that the Rams are “pleased with the progress” of QB Jared Goff this offseason, people within the organization is also “extremely pleased” with backup QB Sean Mannion.
•According to Cole, the Rams believe Mannion has improved footwork and reads as a quarterback, while a team source “wouldn’t be surprised” if Los Angeles turns to Mannion if Goff struggles during the regular season.

Los Angeles partially answered it by signing former Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth to anchor the line, which keeps Rodger Saffold at left guard. Head coach Sean McVay has also moved Greg Robinson and Rob Havenstein to compete at right tackle and right guard, respectively.

It’s at center where L.A. continues to bring in options with OTAs beginning next week. In early April, the Rams signed John Sullivan, who started 93 games for the Vikings from 2009-2014 before missing the 2015 season with a back injury. He served as the backup center in Washington last year, learning McVay’s offensive system.

At rookie minicamp over the weekend, McVay said Sullivan and 2014 seventh-round pick Demetrius Rhaney have been taking the majority of snaps at center so far.

While they did not draft an offensive lineman, the Rams signed Jake Eldrenkamp as a college free agent out of Washington. He saw plenty of action at center during last weekend’s rookie minicamp.

“He’s got the movement skills that we look for in a center and he’s a big guy,” offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur said.

And L.A. made another move this week, claiming former Colts center Austin Blythe on waivers. A seventh-round pick out of Iowa in the 2016 draft, Blythe appeared in eight games last season, starting the club’s Week 4 matchup against the Jaguars.

But aside from the listed centers, McVay has said offensive line coach Aaron Kromer is working to cross train interior linemen.

“I think just because you’ve got to have the season in mind when you’ve got seven, maybe eight linemen [active on gameday], if something did happen to one of those centers, typically it’s going to be [a] guard [filling in] — unless you’re going to have one of those guys that’s your sixth or seventh linemen be exclusively a center,” McVay said. “It’s important for those guards to be able to have some flexibility and be able to snap that football if some of those emergency situations dictate that.”

And so while Sullivan is likely No. 1 at the position at this point, the center competition will likely be one to monitor through OTAs and training camp.

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Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden, dies at 52

Singer Chris Cornell, the lead vocalist for the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died Wednesday night in Detroit, his representative said. He was 52.

Brian Bumbery told the Associated Press in a statement that Cornell’s death was “sudden and unexpected” and said his wife and family was shocked.

The statement added that the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause and asked for privacy.

Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement with Soundgarden. The band emerged as one of the biggest bands out of Seattle’s emerging music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.

Formed in 1984 by Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden's third studio album, "Badmotorfinger," in 1991 spawned enormously popular singles "Jesus Christ Pose," ''Rusty Cage" and "Outshined" that received regular play on alternative rock radio stations.

Cornell also collaborated with some members of Pearl Jam to form the band Temple of the Dog, which produced a self-title album in 1991 in tribute to friend Andrew Wood, the former frontman for Mother Love Bone.

Three years later, Soundgarden broke through on mainstream radio with the album "Superunknown," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Record in 1995. It included hit singles "Spoonman," ''Fell on Black Days," ''Black Hole Sun," ''My Wave" and "The Day I Tried to Live."

Soundgarden disbanded in 1997 due to tensions in the band, and Cornell pursued a solo career. In 2001, he joined Audioslave, a supergroup that included former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford. The band released three albums in six years and also performed at a concert billed as Cuba's first outdoor rock concert by an American band, though some Cuban artists have disputed that claim.

Audioslave disbanded in 2007, but Cornell and Soundgarden reunited in 2012 and released the band's sixth studio album, "King Animal" in 2012.

In addition to his music, Cornell also became involved in philanthropy and started the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation to support children facing challenges, including homelessness, poverty, abuse and neglect.

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NFL owners expected to vote on shortening OT from 15 to 10 minutes

NFL owners are expected to vote on a proposal next week that would reduce overtime from 15 to 10 minutes during regular-season games.

Owners had tabled the proposal after discussing it in March with the expectation that they would vote and approve it at the spring meeting, scheduled to take place next Monday through Wednesday in Chicago.

According to NFL Network, the league is also mulling a change that would allow two players per team to return from injured reserve each year, up from one as the rule currently stands.

Owners debated the overtime proposal during meetings in Phoenix in March but tabled it for further discussion. The idea is designed to limit the number of additional snaps players are exposed to when games go to an extra period. Last season there were six overtime games in which the extra period lasted more than 10 minutes -- the second-highest total in NFL history.

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said at the time that it is "really a competitive disadvantage" for a team to play close to the full 15-minute overtime period. In theory, players are less rested than their next opponent. There has been some concern that a 10-minute overtime would lead to more ties, but that potential increase has not dissuaded proponents of the change.

Meanwhile, the league currently allows teams to bring one player back from injured reserve per season, after a minimum of eight weeks on the sidelines. At that moment, any remaining players on the injured list are ineligible to return that season. The proposed change would allow two players to return after an eight-week absence.

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It's really a video of Price and Rogers caught my eye and impressed me a ton with his pass blocking. He handled Price when he was assigned to him. Did very well against pretty much anyone they told him to block! He's not a devastating run blocker, but he does seem to get to the right spot and get a hat on a defender. He springs a nice run in that game with a block on the second level. He really is that utility do it all guy.
Price has a very nice get off and can threaten the edge with consistency. Seems to get neutralized when the OT can get his hands on him clean. Seems like he has the power to hold up ok in the run game though. Just needs to learn some good inside counter moves IMO.
For late rounders, I like what these guys can bring to the table. It'll be fun to watch both of them fight for jobs in camp.

Login to view embedded media Not sure if this has been posted already but this video shows a quick glimpse of all the drafted player (quick hit) highlights. More I watch the more excited I am for football and seeing what these kids can do!

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Gisele says Tom Brady had a concussion last year, has had others

The New England Patriots played 19 games last season and filed several injury reports each week. The only two times Tom Brady appeared on the injury report, he was designated as questionable due to a thigh injury.

According to his wife, though, Brady sustained a concussion last season. Gisele Bundchen told Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning" that Brady "does have concussions."

"I just have to say, as a wife, I'm a little bit -- as you know, it's not the most, like -- let's say, [it's] an aggressive sport. Right? Football, like, he had a concussion last year. He has concussions, pretty much. I mean, we don't talk about it. But he does have concussions. And I don't really think it's a healthy thing for your body to go through that kind of aggression, like, all the time. That cannot be healthy for you, right? And I'm planning on having him be healthy and do a lot of fun things we when are like 100 [years old], I hope."

The revelation that Brady might have sustained a concussion at some point is not exactly shocking. Quarterbacks take vicious hits all the time and concussions also often result from repeated small blows to the head, of which quarterbacks take plenty as well.

The bigger news here would be Brady having a concussion and the Patriots not reporting it. Failure to properly disclose an injury has in the past occasionally resulted in the loss of a draft pick, though the Seahawks did not lose a pick for their failure to disclose Richard Sherman's MCL injury last season.

It's obviously not known if the NFL would consider the extemporaneous comments of a player's wife to be evidence of an injury that actually occurred, and it's not known if the "we" Gisele was referring to when she said "we don't talk about" meant the Patriots, or herself and Brady. The latter would mean that Brady concealed the injury from the team, rather than the team concealing it from the league, which would probably insulate the Patriots from any punishment.