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Michael Silver
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Michael Silver
@MikeSilver
Newest book, The Why Is Everything, available everywhere; link below. National columnist for @theathletic; partner, Backstage Media. SI, NFL Network, Yahoo alum
- Reminder: The Patriots gave Antonio Brown a chance. No team has given Colin Kaepernick a chance for three seasons. Not a workout... not an offer...
- THREAD 1) The Urban Meyer situation in Jacksonville has reached a crisis point, especially in the locker room. One player told me, 'He has zero credibility in that stadium. He had very little to begin with.'
- Marshawn Lynch has signed with the Raiders. Terms to come. @nflnetwork
- Report for @ballysports: Tom Brady contacted @Buccaneers GM Jason Licht and told him he has not yet made a final decision on retirement, disputing the ESPN report. Licht is respecting Brady's process and waiting for a definitive answer, whenever it comes, from the QB.
- When you claim Reuben Foster but won’t consider @Kaepernick7 ... you’ve told us, organizationally, where you stand. So don’t whine when people pummel you for it. 🤷🏻♂️
- THREAD: 1) Even before suffering bizarre injuries to his feet, Antonio Brown alarmed Raiders coaches and teammates by railing against the NFL’s enhanced enforcement of helmet regulations, a policy change which will likely force the star receiver to switch to a new model...
- Replying to @MikeSilver4) Said one player: 'We looked at him like, WTF? Right when he left everyone started dying laughing. And he knew it.'
- I'm told OC Kellen Moore called the QB run and Mike McCarthy was on the headset to OK it. Not either's finest hour. Dak should have checked off. I don't get any of it.
- Not really. Players will kneel. The President will send an angry tweet in all caps. And then they'll play a football game with massive ratings. 🤷🏻♂️President @realDonaldTrump said to @ClayTravis on @FoxSportsRadio this morning that if players kneel he "wouldn't like" the NFL season to start. "If the NFL doesn't open I'd be very happy, if they didn't stand for the flag." Sept. 10 is going to be an interesting night.
- Replying to @MikeSilver2) Players were particularly put off by the fact that Meyer canceled Monday's team meeting, as he dealt with the uproar over the videos of him and a young woman getting cozy in that Ohio bar. 'He even canceled the team meeting. He was too scared,' a player said.
- Replying to @MikeSilver5 Bottom line, said the player: 'It's bad. I don't know how he's gonna function.'
- Earlier today, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski told his players that Odell Beckham Jr. is essentially not on the team right now and that the WR has been told to stay at home.
