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If you have a RB that is used as the lead guy, "eggs in one basket" threat then this is what happens. They appear to be a major part of the offense, especially if they are an elite in the passing game too, and will want to be paid accordingly. The thing is they are probably correct, they should be paid like they are valuable but the NFL "futures" value of any RB has gotten to be much riskier for return on investment.

I'd guess that he must have some reason to think Cam is now healthy.

His list is not a career projection. It's "If I am an NFL head coach and my job is on the line in 2020, how confident does this QB make me feel about winning enough games to keep my job. Thus, Tua's injury status is a HUGE part of this ranking and it's why other rookies are placed higher. The fact Stidham enters year two in the same offense and did well in the preseason last year gets him bumped up in the rankings over a guy who suffered a hip dislocation and fracture 7 months ago. So, I do not think this in and of itself makes Chris Simms stupid.

I'd like to know how they defined what a checkdown is. I know what I think it is but it's maybe not the same for them. Throwing short of the sticks on certain routes has no chance to make a first down. If there is a likelihood that there will be a 4th down attempt then a checkdown that improves the 4th down chances makes sense but then it may no longer be considered a checkdown. Imo, it should be a pass that whether its completed or not, has no chance to make a first down. It's really frustrating when it is thrown to a stationery target well short of the sticks. Virtually no chance to make a tackler miss. It's an easy completion though and will boost completion %. I think he is approaching 3rd and long situations with the right mindset.

Rivers 17, Brees 16, Brady 15. It appears he does a PFT version and then a different one for his Unbuttoned podcast. He does impersonations of his dad which are pretty funny. He favors strong armed, playmaking QBs but thinks QBs get too much credit and QBs in the 20s could win the Super Bowl. Called the 2015 version of Peyton Manning the worst to ever win one (or maybe that 2015 Manning was the worst starting QB of that year.)

I have been watching the pods he has been doing with Burmeister. They go into some depth there. Phil might be on the one tonight. The list is generated by posing the question that if he was a HC whose job depended on winning one game, which QB would he most trust? It's not over the next 1 or 5 years say like a stock investment. So, 18 is fair, imo, and saying that he could be much higher by the end of this season is where most of us are at, I think.

Or maybe that among the subset of human beings that are Americans of European ancestry, there is another subset, "the nonelites," who are not to be trusted with it. That's why the context of the tweets prior might matter to what was intended. She didn't release them in their entirety and at the time she called out his joke for using "elite" and not for being racially exclusive. They were apparently discussing gun control and maybe gun culture. The comment may have been within the context of the Southern White population only and not meant to be excluding the entirety of the remaining world's population. I do not get why the availability of a silencer would be funny in any context but maybe there was something texted prior that would give it some meaning. Anyways, this would be the interpretation that is the least offensive and as a Northerner I would no longer need to be moderately offended. As for the semantics of the words I offer this: Ex. I could say that I only use Heinz ketchup on my cheeseburgers That could either be exclusive of all other brands of ketchup or it could be exclusive of all other condiments.

Tyrod got injured vs the Titans making a long 3rd down conversion. I think he finished the game but it cost him time. He was very aware that it would make a difference and took a chance. EJ had to play against the Bengals and Jags in the next two.

Thanks. I think he will break one of those sometime in his career.

Think about all the kneel down, victory formation plays. There has to be at least a dozen or so of them. I don''t know who would bother to look them up. So 12 for -24 yards? That would make it 171 for 1234 and the the ypc becomes 7.21. This is fun, sort of the reverse of watching the grocery bill go down when the coupons get scanned.

But, if your the OC and you have the green light for a 4th and 1 play? Unstoppable play twice = first down? For grins I looked at Josh's career rushing attempts including the playoff game. I got 207 atttempts for 1233 yards for a ypc of 5.95. Subtracting 24 attempts and the minimum of 23 yards (we know its slightly more--he almost broke one in 2018 in a home game against the Jets or Lions for big yards, the Dallas play got 3 or 4) it maxes out at 183 attempts for 1210 yards for a ypc of 6.61.

Maybe it's been answered similarly but here's mine: Kneeling is not inherently disrespectful. Kids kneel at soccer games when one is hurt. A man might kneel during a marriage proposal, a knighting ceremony or at the altar before their God Almighty. It's likely Jesus had to kneel to wash the feet of his disciples. So, it's not the kneeling that offends. It's the act of protest. He is making a point that his emotional state of being is not the same. Question. What would it say about someone if they are more upset about kneeling as an act of protest during the anthem versus kneeling on the neck of a person in police custody until he died? The irony here is one for the history books. Brees is entitled to his opinions and emotional response to the flag and anthem. When we pledge allegiance to the flag we close with "....liberty and justice for all." We can't expect that all our fellow Americans should feel the same about the symbols of our country if are denied liberty and justice in equal measure simply by their race, religeon, gender or sexual identity. Brees equated the kneeling as disrespectful to the flag as do you. I know many who feel the same. One, who I consider to be a thoughtful person, gave Trump credit for "defending the flag." Personally, I don't think anyone who got five draft deferments, one with a phoney medical diagnosis, should be the arbiter of anybody else"s patriotism. Why his comment was a mistake is the circumstances of his team. I'd bet he has been through the issue with his teammates and peers more than once. He is more than aware of why it was done and how they feel. He could have expressed his emotional connection to the flag without crapping on those who protest and why they do it. He could have supported them and their cause as just apart from his own personal feelings.

I rewatched Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary back in January but made the mistake of binge watching it. It was overwhelmingly, depressingly educational. Too much so to do without some recovery between. That was the depth of how screwed up things could get and how poor leadership can get us there. Thank goodness despite what some wish to say, we aren't near that level of fubar yet.

Winston and Brissett? You're complaining that they lost their starting jobs to Brady and Rivers? And you're giving them credit for the production generated by the six who are keeping their jobs including Mahomes, Jackson, Wilson? How many times has Fitz been replaced? How many games does he start this year until Tua is ready and replaces him? Either you make a convincing case for being the long term answer for your team by your 4th season in the league or your're moving on. Black or white.

That's the one I was thinking of. Alphonse and Gaston lead the way.

Tyrel Dodson?

Thanks for the laughs. I needed some.

This was not "social media" available to the public. It was a private text exchange. Whether there is "other" stuff in the public realm but we have yet to see it. It's also curious that this young lady does not call him out on having made a racist statement. She calls him out for using the word "elite" and implying that he himself was.

I would want to know what that says before I could come to a conclusion. As a member of the jury in the court of public opinion, I'd want to know that.

Context always matters. I do not understand the context in this case. Do silencers have a racial or class context? I was never aware of one. Was this some sort of gun control discussion? By specifying elite whites was he excluding the entire rest of the population or was he excluding lower class whites only? I could list all the derogatory terms about lower class, rural whites but they may or not be considered offensive now so I won't. I saw some Tweet that implied Jake was saying that blacks should not have access to guns. Come on now. If you need to distort what was said to strengthen your point, then it was weak to begin with.

As a fairly average, somewhat struggling, middle aged, definitely nonelite white guy, I am only moderately offended.

Against the NFC East the Cowboys were +97. Add the Dolphins and it's +122 and a 6 and 1 record. Blowout the struggling teams and go 2 and 7 against the rest of the schedule. Many of the losses where the offense fell flat, NE, NO, Bills, @ Phi. I am more anti Cowboys than anti Dak. Many points in my post are open to the possibility that Dak could be more successful outside their team culture. The 2019 Cowboy offense was all about racking up points and stats against bad teams and failing against good ones.

It's not like we could see the entirety of the NFL back then, but it seemed like he was the pioneer of that sideline footwork. Toes in, arms extended and fall on his face to make the catch count.

I'm ok with it. Have an opinion and justify it with some rationale. He mentions his misses on his rankings from last year which is respectable. I think his take on the Diggs trade is way off. Tell us which one of the rookies that were available for the Bills to draft will be as good as or better than Stefon over the next 1, 2 or 4 years. The additional picks were mostly house money anyways and were not of much consequence. We have seen a trend where Beane likes to acquire extra draft capital and then use it to target the guys he believes in. His hit rate has been way better than most and the Bills are in the mix because of it.

This is deja vu all over again. He is +15 for his NFL career and 9 of that is from 2016. So, that leaves +6 for the last 3 seasons. The leader of the over hyped Cowboys with mostly underwhelming results. There are other QBs like him that did get paid for their stats but whose teams have never amounted to much. Once they get the big money it's not likely team results are going to improve with the added roster restrictions.