The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

Richard Sherman was intoxicated and threatened to kill himself during a confrontation with family members before his arrest early Wednesday in a Seattle suburb, according to a 911 caller who identified herself as the free-agent cornerback's wife.

Audio of the 911 call, believed to be made by Sherman's wife, Ashley Moss, was obtained by ABC News and ESPN early Thursday.

The caller described Sherman as being "drunk and belligerent" and said he was "threatening to kill himself." The caller, who identified herself at one point as "Ashley Sherman," also said Sherman was "being aggressive," wrestled with her uncle and "sent text messages to people saying he's going to hang himself."

The caller can be heard attempting to prevent Sherman from leaving the residence, saying, "Richard, please stop." She also told the 911 dispatcher that Sherman drank two bottles of hard alcohol.

At one point during the call, the caller asked the dispatcher to tell police, "please don't shoot," and said Sherman told her he would fight police if they arrived.

In a subsequent 911 call, the caller said she thought Sherman was driving to her parents' home in Redmond, Washington, which is just under 30 miles away from the couple's home in Maple Valley.

Sherman is facing several charges after authorities said he crashed his SUV in a construction zone, tried to break into his in-laws' home and then fought with officers, who used a police dog to apprehend him. He was booked early Wednesday at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle. Records state he was denied bail, but a spokesman for the Redmond Police Department told ESPN that is standard procedure for suspects of domestic violence until they can appear before a judge.

Shouldn’t the bucs have put him on an injury report then ? I don’t recall him being listed on one unless I missed it.

Interesting stuff from Schefter that GB offer Rodgers a two year contract extension and he told them to effectively get stuffed.

GB should try and get what they can for Rodgers at this stage because it seems pretty clear that he won't play for the Packers again.

Well so there’s this report and along with the packers holding their shareholders meeting where they said they are committed to Aaron Rodgers on the one hand and president mark murphy also said he doesn’t know if Rodgers will be there this week. So either he’s retiring, he’s going to be at training camp and then the season, or the packers have no idea.

Reports are that his ultimatum was that they bring back Randall Cobb to play alongside him. And that a trade is in motion to make that happen now. Slightly odd given Amari Rodgers already likely filling that playing role with the team, but I guess it gives his ego something so it doesn't appear like he totally folded coming back.

And with the niners singing their QB trey Lance to his rookie contract, there’s now only one outstanding and unsigned and it’s zach Wilson of the New York Jets. How very jets like to not have the apparent saviour of your franchise not in camp because they can’t work out his deal months after he was drafted.

It is a pity. He is talented but I feel he needs the most work of any of the 1st round QB and is probably in the worst situation. Mac, Fields and Lance can take their time, no one is expecting them game 1 and Lawrence has better receivers in Jacksonville. The other 3 probably also have better receivers than Wilson and he also has some of the toughest defenses going in his division.

And in eagles news I appreciate the enthusiasm from our new HC Nick Sirianni in general but him wanting the team to “attack everything in the off season” is good but let’s not go too hard on attacking rest.

Haha oh enjoy colts fans.

Oats as an eagles fan I’d love if nick foles could repeat history.

Problem is though Oats poor Carson might not like foles coming in and energising the team and win games. I could be wrong but I believe that he never got over/moved past the fact that someone else won the super bowl when he was the franchise QB in philly.

it would be typical if that happened.

Absolutely. I thought they’d have to send a pick with him to dump the contract as well.

Wentz still has time to turn his career around but he is a giant question mark at this point.

Every teams fans complain about their GM and HC at some point. Some may have more reason to than others. I think the Eagles did ok in that trade in any case

Is there talk of teams trading for him? I haven’t seen any suggestion that he is likely to be moved ant time soon. Very unlikely until his situation is sorted out and the extent of whatever sanctions he is going to face is known I would think.

Talk of trading for the last few days alright. The fact he hasn't been put on the exemption list yet maybe the NFL have some information on the cases against him that haven't come into the public domain yet.

Any team would be crazy to sign him now though.

Josh Allen got paid. A nice extension which makes him one of the highest paid QBs in the league.

Carl Lawson done for the season with a torn achilles. It never rains for the Jets

That’s tough for Lawson who is a very underrated player. On a personal level at least he got paid. Devastating for the Jets without a doubt, they looked like they were putting a decent unit together in that front seven.

That's definitely leading to another suspension and it might be a lengthy one.

And I loved the quote about wanting Lawrence “earn the job.” FFS you drafted him no1 overall.

I've missed Scott Hansen