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I always thought it was cool that at the same time, New England had both Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy. Long before Benjarvus Green Ellis came around.

Well none of us determine whether or not it's news. FWIW, just today: 1) Cornerback Dmitri Patterson became the first Dolphin player to say that he'd accept Martin back as a teammate. 2) Jay Glazer became the first member of the media to interview Incognito and that interview will air on Fox NFL Sunday at noon Eastern tomorrow. 3) Dolphin icon and patriarch Don Shula weighed in on the subject. He feels the Dolphins are tarnishing the brand by compromising themselves with people like Incognito. 4) It was made public that the Dolphins and the league were immediately made aware of the golf tournament incident and that the Dolphins took action even though no one yet knows what action that is. We do know that the Dolphins essentially covered up the incident, thus enabling Incognito to continue to act like the !@#$ that he is. 5) Former Rams Head Coach Mike Martz said that the exact reason that he and the team drafted Incognito was because he had the toughness and belligerence they felt they needed to improve the team. These are all significant events. While not everyone has stamina for this story, it will continue its natural news life cycle.

Very solid take.

Because they play the same position and were taken in the same draft. It's very ironic that Kyle is playing like McCargo was supposed to and that McCargo is playing like a 5th rounder (which Kyle was).

Even talking to some Bills fans whose opinions I respect, it seems like many people can't put rookie QBs in the proper perspective. Luck and Wilson are the exceptions. We're seeing RG3 working his way through a sophomore slump. Clocker and Ponder were more highly drafted than EJ. Ponder finally had a good game the other night in his 3rd season. Clocker has finally shown signs of being decent in his third season. Both of those players basically sucked for their first two seasons. People who don't understand that it takes the great majority of QBs several seasons to properly develop simply don't understand NFL football. You can't pass judgement on whether EJ is good or not. He's not. Yet. You can only judge whether he seems to be developing and improving.

A lot here are talking about the decay of the Steelers front 7 but as big a story is the slide from perennially bad offensive line to horrible offensive line. Their two highly drafted OTs (I described Adams as Frankenstein-like before he was drafted, WTF were they thinking?) suck when healthy and are battling injuries. Pouncey is perhaps their best player and he's done for the season, and DeCastro was showing signs of improvement before getting injured. I think Foster is a bit dinged up too. The Steelers are still strong with offensive and defensive skill guys. Brown and Sanders are very good receivers. Heath is Heath and Bell looks like a nice running back. Troy, Woodley, and Simmons are past peak but still good players. In the trenches it looks like a mismatch in favor of the Bills but it's still Big Ben at home versus a very green rookie QB.

Thanks for linking. Observations: 1) Man amongst boys(t). 2) Plays with better pad level on obvious running downs, needs to play low on all downs. 3) Has decent hand useage and short-area quickness. 4) Has a little mean streak. Pretty happy with this signing. I think our player personnel department is a lot more proactive than the last one. It seems at least like through 10 weeks this year there've been a lot more transactions than in years past.

That's weird. No one gets what I'm saying. Maybe it only makes sense to me?

You're not from Alberta, are you?

Agreed. Smith was either not who they thought he was or they just couldn't figure out a way to production out of him. Either way the fault is not with the player. Which is ironic because he holds several passing records at Missouri.

Well, we've started a lot of different guys at quarterback. To the subject, Aaron Williams has looked like an outstanding safety and I'm very happy that he and Byrd are working next to each other back there. But the amazing thing to me is that Williams looked like a competent starting cornerback when pressed into action there. His improvement at corner is quite dramatic and (again) speaks volumes about the upgrade in the defensive coaching. And I'm not only talking about Pettine over Wannstedt. It's simply amazing that Catavolos coached DBs under Jauron AND Gailey, is it not? Now look at the DBs under Donnie Henderson. For further proof look at the year McKelvin is having. When healthy, he's playing at a Pro Bowl level. The only DB who hasn't improved his play is Byrd and that's understandable as he's just getting back into the groove physically and is learning a new system.

I think his point is that all things being equal, the QB who gets the ball to the receiver later will have more drops because the longer the receiver has to wait for the ball, the more he'll be thinking that he's gonna get whacked.

Don't know how to re-phrase it BB but I'll try. I'm saying that if John McCargo played as well as Kyle Williams has (2 Pro Bowls, 2010 All Pro), people would be saying that McCargo was a good draft pick.

You guys speak for me. Ah yes. The Grand Theft Autoing of America. It really is sad. I love NFL football but it's definitely a world in which intelligence is a liability and savagery is a virtue. Richie Incognito is a person who can be admired for one thing alone: his valor and competitiveness in a violent sport. As others have said, if there was no such thing as football he might not fit into this world. Luckily for Incognito there are enough stupid, unthinking, and unsophisticated people in the world of football to sustain his behavior in a way in which it almost seems normal. However that he could be tabbed as a leader by an NFL team is incomprehensible. It's one thing for an NFL team to tolerate a certain degree of necessary savagery. It's an entirely different thing for them to hold it up as the greatest good.

Hey, boys will be boys.

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FWIW, the over/under is 43.5 points on most books.

Stanford's pretty good at smashmouth football. The biggest thing that's changed since Harbaugh left is that Luck is in the NFL. Other than that, it's pretty much the same team.

This happens to some rookies.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've posted before that if McCargo had the career that Kyle Williams is having, no one would have considered him a bust.

Thus my point about being able to flick the ball effortlessly.

This is a big opportunity for EJ to develop chemistry with Hogan and Easley and then carry that chemistry over into a game.

Being a big Michigan fan, I knew Branch was a very solid player and figured he'd be a great addition. He was drafted 33rd overall so he was virtually a first rounder and the Bills gave him $3 million for this year. A very good established NFL player and fans of building a team in the trenches should have been thrilled. Lawson was also a good pro. He confounded many because he's good at everything and has no real weaknesses, yet he isn't outstanding at anything either. The "scouting reports" on him were wildly conflicting: good in coverage, bad in coverage, decent pass rusher, weak pass rusher, etc. What we got is a player who understands leverages, angles, and who never makes mental errors. Lawson's probably on the downside of his career but the Bills should be able to get 2 good years out of him on the journey towards upgrading the roster talent. Sheppard demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he sucked and Hughes was coming off a career best season so how could anyone be surprised that the Bills got the better of that deal? In a league which covets pass rushers, it's amazing to me that Indy made this trade. I view it as an organizational failure by the Colts. Love the moves this team has made since the end of last season.

Hopefully EJ will look better than he did against the Jets. I thought that EJ lacked poise against the Jets and that he made things worse for himself and the O-line in that game. Also his mechanics really broke down. I was beating the drum for EJ leading up to the draft and overjoyed when we got him. Now I want to see him develop. There were just a few questions I would have asked Marrone on Tuesday: 1) Will EJ wear knee braces? 2) As head coach, was is your personal opinion on knee braces? 3) In light of the John Fox and Gary Kubiak situations what do you do personally to stay in good health? 4) Do you work out regularly? Of course none of these questions was asked. I agree. I notice in college football that it seems like all the O-line wear knee braces. Unless you're a QB like Kaepernick, Vick or RG3 where the majority of your game is still running, it seems like it would be a good idea to wear knee braces. More so if you're a tall guy like EJ who's more prone to taking shots to the knees.

Thank you. "Moffitt's spot was taken on the 53-man roster by center J.D. Walton, who was activated from the physically unable to perform list before the 2 p.m. Tuesday deadline. The Broncos have five days to release Moffitt, who walked away from more than $1 million in salary for the remainder of this season and 2014." Moffit's replacement was heading his way, and in fact there's a possibility that Moffit was gonna be cut. Also he walked away from a lot of money. The team gets to keep that money. http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268750/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CyiEJLlT "I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all," Moffitt told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Seattle. "And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money. Moffitt, 27, made about $1.8 million before taxes in his 2½ seasons in the NFL. "I've saved enough. It's not like I'm sitting here and I'm a millionaire," he said. "That's what I kind of realized. I'm sitting here and I got to this point and I was like, what is the number that you need? How much do you really need? What do you want in life? And I decided that I don't really need to be a millionaire. "I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that." Moffitt stressed that he's not passing judgment on his former colleagues, saying, "This is all my personal stuff and I respect this game and I respect the men in this game." Although Moffitt never had a history of concussions, he acknowledged all the blows he sustained in practices and games concerned him.