RavensAllTheWay

I wanted Quin lol

I hope you get Manti Teo and suffer. 

That isn't nice!

Really does sound like a disease 

^^^ Lmao. That judge was overly wound up to me, but still hilarious.

What drives me crazy is that if you read some of the other media outlets everyone is blaming Joe's new contract for Q being traded. People need to realize that his contract had no bearing on this move and get their facts straight.

Skip....

I'm 100% on the Danario Alexander train.

Amen to that if he signs a cap friendly deal.

More space to re-sign Ellerbe and hopefully McKinnie. Get those two back, and we'll go from there.

where is the post where i said the team is doomed ? good luck finding it i never did. try to quote what people actually said ok. wow

You said we'd have a losing season without Boldin, a few pages back.

Ironic that Boldin is on the NFL Channel right now in a re-run of "Hey Rookie", lol.

Yeah, I'm in my dorm at the computer with the TV on, half watching it, lol.

Obviously the FO has more important reasons for cutting a guy like Boldin but I have to wonder if a side benefit of doing so isn't the FO's way of telling Flacco "you wanted to be the highest paid...this is what happens".

That's basically suicide. It's one thing to try and teach someone a lesson, but not at your own expense also.

Am I the only one who feels like they just might work something out?

Do you know the reason we are having to release players at this point?

Please tell us all why, and i wont respond. I'll let everyone else do it.

Not because of a whopping $6.8 million cap hit by our "overpaid" QB

A lot of these arrests are DUIs and other drunk driving incidents. It's not so much that the NFL is filled with horrible people, it's mostly that players are acting really stupid, not understanding the possible consequences of drinking and driving.

Not every match at NYR was an elimination chamber match and a lot of people got hurt from normal matches.

NYR 2005 Regal and Lita got hurt. NYR 2007 HHH got hurt. A few other stars got small injuries like Shelton in 06 and Carlito in 05.

Backlash is usually Wrestlemania rematches,that's why I'm glad they got rid of it. The only good match that I can remember was in 2004 w/ Benoit v. Michaels v. HHH.

Judgement Day was usually 2-3 weeks away from Backlash and One Night Stand

But I mean WM rematches aren't all that bad. Some were obviously better than others, but I also remember a lot of varifications of matches at WM being held at Backlash. For example, WM 22 in 06 was Cena vs HHH for the WWE title, while backlash was a triple threat with those two and Edge. Also in 06, WM 22 had Carlito and Cris Masters vs Kane and Big Show for the world tag team titles. Baclkash was Carlito vs Masters. There are other examples of simple modifications like that that change things up a bit. Plus, I saw Backlash as like a WM aftermath. Nothing wrong with that is there?

Also, One Night Stand was not every year after the original ECW was destroyed. Plus, Judgement Day was three weeks after Backlash usually, but No Way Out was always three weeks after Royal Rumble, Unforgiven was three weeks after Summerslam, No Mercy was three weeks after Unforgiven, Armegeddon was three weeks after Survivor Series and NYR was two-three weeks after Armegeddon. Really no different with Backlash and Judgement Day.

You have to keep in mind, though, that the brand-specific PPVs were flawed because they had to take brand-specific storylines and stretch them out for three hours. Now, I've heard the argument that a two-hour show for a reduced price would work, but the problem with that is there's no justification for paying for two hours of programming in the minds of viewers since the average PPV sporting event lasts three hours anyway. Additionally, even a match-filled two hours wouldn't give the proper time for each match. Furthermore, if you really look at the storylines on each show, there isn't really enough worthwhile material that could be stretched to three hours' worth of matches.

Also, Backlash traditionally has had at least one WrestleMania heavyweight title rematch every year except in cases of injury, or some variation of a WrestleMania main event matchup expanded to include other participants.

You could even throw in a couple of extra matches. Say, for example, one of the brands has a PPV of its own and has about 5 or 6 previoulsy scheduled matches (world title match, US/IC title match, a couple of non title matches to settle a feud, a divas match and maybe a tag team match). Then, you add a couple of others soon before the PPV starts. This will be even easier with the addition of NXT because you could throw some of these rookies into PPV action. I mean hey, if it was done similar to this before, it can be done again.

Plus, I still think this sounds better than each show having to rush for a PPV every three weeks. Not only does that weaken storylines, but it makes them last longer because there's less time to plan turning points and feud changes. I think the average feud should last about two months, maybe a little less.

It might have been a good idea to have both brands have their own PPV's,but in the long run it was pretty bad.They may have had more time to develop story lines but they also were making less money by splitting PPV's than combining them. So I can see why the WWE put it back as a multi brand show.

NYR was always a massive clusterfu** of injuries and the WWE didn't want their big name wrestlers to get injured right when the year gets started.

Backlash was just Wrestlemania rematches and they were rarely good.

They changed Vengeance to Night of Champions and that's cool considering you'll get every champion appearing on the card.

Judgement Day was one of the PPV that were too close together with other ones and the Great American Bash was a WCW concept and the WWE wanted to create their own version.

Each brand having its own PPVs might've been bad for them, but for us fans, it probably helped out. Vince switched it up because he's Vince and he cares only about the money, not that he needs much more.

And yeah, NYR was injury-filled, but then again, it was the PPV that held all those elimination chambers, which as we know, are really dangerous.

Backlash wasn't always WM rematches.

Judgement Day was close together with some of the others, but weren't all PPVs like that? They were very evenly spread out. I thought it was a good system, but of course it had to be changed at some point.

I think one of WWEs biggest problems right now is that there are too many PPVs. I mean there's no need to take some away, but it was much better back when Raw and Smackdown had their own separate PPVs. RR, WM and the two SSs (hope you follow me) were obviously special PPVs and great chances for each show to come together. They were fine, but when each show has one PPV a month on three-four week intervals, it means there's a lot less time for good storylines to develop. Instead, they just rush the storyline in three weeks and it comes out bad. This is also why we have so many rematches every three weeks. They basically just throw matches together.

It was great when raw had New Year's Revolution, Backlash, Vengeance and Unforgiven. And Smackdown had No Way Out, Judgement Day, Great American Bash, No Mercy and Armegeddon. That way, the two shows were given a lot more time to develop better storylines. But now it's long gone.

I like Matt Striker tho he is a decent announcer,and sort of the heel,Grisham is boring can Joey stop being a internet guy please

Joey Styles was GREAT. I always cracked up at how he said, "OH MY GOD!!" lol

Like most play-by-play analysts in the business, his job was basically to defend all the faces while the color commentator played the heel. So, really, you can't fault him for that. You can fault him for being a below-average commentator and still somehow having a job after all these years, though...

I think Vince just keeps him around because he's the only one besides J.R. who's taken all his crap and still showed up to work the next day.

I think that Cole could easily be a heel since the fans already hate him. They don't hide their hatred of him whenever he comes out, and they experimented with him playing a heel announcer when he was moonlighting as a color commentator on the first season of NXT. He still has a long way to go before he can be a truly good heel announcer, but he can at least get genuine heel heat...even if it's go-away heat.

True I guess. And I think people like me are a reason he still has his job despite being below average. While he may suck, at least he keeps us all tuned in and doesn't bore us to death. He makes it more fun to watch and more fun to root for a certain side (even though it's not the side his character wants us to root for, lol). I will give him that.

Ohhhh, Maryse and Eve, how you both have my heart...

That aside...

I like the build-up to this anonymous GM on RAW, even going so far as to give Michael Cole a podium that said "General Manager" on it -- but he's probably a red herring. I would love for Cole to be a heel GM and to get away from announcing duties, but that probably won't happen. The writing behind this mystery is actually pretty well-done if you consider all the clues planted that point to Cole, but I hope the pay-off is certainly worth it if it's NOT him. I can't imagine it'd be Bret Hart (no logic there) so the only person that I would honestly be satisfied with (off the top of my head) is The Rock as a heel.

Rock did say he'd do something special this summer with WWE but never said what. He hinted at a documentary series-type dealie, but nothing was ever announced. Additionally, even with Rock's upcoming film schedule, there really hasn't been much on the internet in the way of Rock's promotional appearances over the next couple of months (though I honestly didn't look too hard).

Two months of The Rock making plenty of appearances on TV, even just weekly, should be enough to tide me over for a year...

I stopped watching wrestilng a little while ago, and Michael was the most openly biased commentator on the face of the earth. Sometimes I would listen to him defend whatever face was in the ring (particularly Mysterio) and just get so annoyed. He made me like faces a lot less and heels a lot more because he was SO biased. Don't know if he still does this.

And that's also why I don't see that happening. Him as a heel? That'd be a change of pace.