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Raiders’ Aldon Smith Suspended One Year
November 17th, 2015 at 4:13pm CST by Zach Links

The NFL will suspend Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith one year for his role in an August incident, a league source tells Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (on Twitter). Smith violated the league’s substance-abuse policy following his DUI arrest this summer and the consequences were expected to be serious. The suspension will last one calendar year, meaning that he’ll be eligible to return to football in November 2016.


So far this year, Smith has been a solid contributor and the Raiders made no secret of their desire to sign the linebacker to a contract extension. While his off-the-field issues have not reared themselves in recent weeks, Smith’s offseason troubles have brought his season to an early end. In nine games for the Raiders, Smith racked up 28 tackles, 3.5 sacks, and three pass deflections.


When healthy and on the field, Smith can be one of the league’s most effective pass rushers, as he exhibited during his first two years in the NFL. As a part-time player in his rookie season, the linebacker recorded 14 sacks, and he piled up another 19.5 as a starter in 2012, en route to a spot on the All-Pro first team.


However, Smith’s off-field issues have limited his production in 2013 and 2014 — he missed nearly half the Niners’ games over the last two seasons after entering a rehabilitation facility in 2013 and serving a nine-game suspension in 2014. Most recently, Smith was arrested by Santa Clara police on hit and run, DUI, and vandalism charges, though when he was released from jail, the outside linebacker disputed the fact that he had been driving under the influence.


The Jaguars, Buccaneers, and Rams also made contract offers to Smith, and reportedly offered more money, but Smith chose to sign with Oakland partially because of its proximity to his Bay Area home. Smith’s missing the final seven games of the season costs him $514K in base salary and $1.75MM in missed roster bonuses. He also could have earned additional money by reaching contract incentives.
 

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Well, that all turned out to be a big bunch of nothing.

Cowboys end the Christine Michael experiment
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Cowboys waived RB Christine Michael.


Michael's Cowboys "career" ends with 15 carries for 51 yards. Dallas is the second team in three months to give up on the 2013 second-rounder after the Seahawks gave him away in September. Michael is a freak athlete, but has never shown a feel for the professional game, and has reportedly caused headaches in the locker room. It's alarming he couldn't carve out a role on a team rolling with Darren McFadden as a workhorse. Now 25, Michael will likely get a third chance, but his fantasy future is grim.
 

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^^^^ I guess "anyone" can NOT run behind the Cowboys O-line after all.
 

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^^^^ I guess "anyone" can NOT run behind the Cowboys O-line after all.

From what they are saying, he was more interested in running his mouth.
 

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From what they are saying, he was more interested in running his mouth.

Sounds like he should have fit right in

edit - maybe he needed to commit some sort of crime :noidea:
 

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Sounds like he should have fit right in

edit - maybe he needed to commit some sort of crime :noidea:

He did - not running behind that offensive line. ;)
 

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Doesn't everyone? :pound::pound::pound:

Bills CB Stephon Gilmore said the team has a "game plan" to take Rob Gronkowski "out of the game."


If only other teams would have thought to make a game plan. The Bills ostensibly had a plan to stop Gronk in Week 2 as well, but he rumbled for 113 yards and a score in the win. Buffalo has been solid against tight ends since that game, allowing just one touchdown total, but Gronk is still the top overall tight end by a good margin this week, game plan or not.
 

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Yeah I remember that one, they were gonna maul him at the line and be physical. ..yet no one ever touched him coming off the line.

Game plans are great, but not worth a squirt of piss if you don't execute them
 

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What? 64 TD in 75 games or something? Good luck with that Gilly!
 

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Damn...dude musta really been causin' a ruckus in that corral.

Ex-Cowboys RB Christine Michael passed through waivers unclaimed.
He's now an unrestricted free agent. Despite immense natural running ability, Michael never improved as a collegiate at Texas A&M, then flamed out with both the Seahawks and running back-needy Cowboys. Michael figures to be atop most teams' running back emergency lists down the stretch.
 

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Well, that all turned out to be a big bunch of nothing.

Cowboys end the Christine Michael experiment
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Cowboys waived RB Christine Michael.


Michael's Cowboys "career" ends with 15 carries for 51 yards. Dallas is the second team in three months to give up on the 2013 second-rounder after the Seahawks gave him away in September. Michael is a freak athlete, but has never shown a feel for the professional game, and has reportedly caused headaches in the locker room. It's alarming he couldn't carve out a role on a team rolling with Darren McFadden as a workhorse. Now 25, Michael will likely get a third chance, but his fantasy future is grim.

should have been named Sue
 
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