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Disagree. The NFLPA approved a collective bargaining agreement that contains a standard form player contract that gives each team the contractual right to cut a player (even if he has a multi-year contract). Exercising a contractual right to terminate a multi-year contract does not amount to "failing to honor it." Here's a link to the 2011 collective bargaining agreement: https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/PDFs/General/2011_Final_CBA_Searchable_Bookmarked.pdf It's really long, but the standard player contract starts at page 256. Section 11 of the contract, at page 260, reads:

You have about as much imagination as Doug Marrone.

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Fish love you - - women fear you.

Hey, we've got nothing better to do during the playoffs for the last decade and a half, so I'll start with: Whaley gets Watkins Egotistical Marrone Coaching carrousel I'm sure y'all can do better!

That's not obvious to me. You can at least make an entirely rational argument that despite having a bad offense, you should take risks on 4th and 1 if your defense is so good that failure is not likely to result in points for your opponent. Especially if your offense is in a situation where one more first down puts you within FG range for a kicker as reliable as Carpenter has been. Because you can make rational arguments to support either decision, it would be interesting to see what the analytics department would recommend based on actual in-game data (say for teams with a similar overall defensive and offensive ranking). My sense is that NFL coaches in general are far too conservative, but that's a hunch based on no real data analysis.

If I pick the home playoff game, Brandon won't have my name or number, and I won't have to deal with the endless calls asking me to come back.

Gravity.

My brother Darryl says the Bills should use the Coors "blue mountain" technology to make white uniforms that turn a little more blue every time Orton throws a pick: http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/13/smallbusiness/chromatic_color_changing_ink.fsb/

Maybe it's more like Bills fans have a greater chance of becoming bums.

Well now I've only got an extra hour today but I'd still like to know what happened in 3rd grade. If you learned not to be a coward then you should now be brave enough to tell us. Seems like your gf would be disappointed if you weren't strong enough to do that.

I got a couple extra hours today .. what happened in 3rd grade?

I saw that sort of behind-the-back onside kick on ESPN highlights, so I know what you're talking about. That was even stranger than what I'm suggesting. BTW, Darryl is a Renaissance moron. His lack of knowledge covers many fields, including football ones.

I absolutely agree that the type of kick I'm suggesting won't work if the kick goes high enough for anybody on the receiving "hands" team to call for a fair catch and actually get to the ball. I guess I need to focus on the receiving team's player placement a bit more to see if there are any spaces behind the front row that the kicker could sort of lob the ball into. I'm suggesting a fairly low "lob" just high enough to go over the first row of receivers. More like an offensive lob in tennis that goes just over the opponent's head (not a high defensive lob). I've never been a placekicker (the one time I kicked off in high school gym class doesn't count). But I'm pretty sure I've seen talented soccer midfielders sort of scoop the ball over defenders' heads into the space behind the defenders and in front of the goalie so that a striker with a well-timed run can sprint to the spot where the ball lands before the defenders or goalie can get there. I may not have described it very well in the OP, but what I'm suggesting is the same sort of slow, scooping kick for an onsides football play. Maybe there just isn't enough open space anywhere behind the first row of receivers to give this play a chance.

Our lame onside kick attempt at the end of the Broncos game got me thinking - - what could we do to improve our chances of recovering an expected onside kick (besides kicking it more than 10 yards)? OK, this is probably nuts, but how about this? Seems like a kicker with elite leg talent could set the ball on the tee with as much backwards lean as possible, then very slowly sweep his foot under the bottom of the ball so that at first the ball rolled back onto his instep as his foot slowly rises. After he has the ball resting on his foot, the kicker increases his leg speed just enough to push it over the heads of the waiting hands team. With practice, the kicker should be able to do this in one continuous but variable speed motion, so that he doesn't contact the ball twice (not sure if double contact would be a rule violation). Would have to find a spot behind the first row of receivers where the ball could bounce before a receiver got to it, because a well-coached receiver would call for a fair catch. But if the kicker could find an open spot for the ball to land, we'd have a shot. Our guys could even try to catch it in the air as long as no receiver called for a fair catch. Seems like it would be easier to do this with a straight ahead leg motion like a punter uses (not a sidewinder soccer style kick). Our other 10 guys would have to delay their run for a beat to make sure they didn't cross the starting line before the ball actually left the kicker's foot. The initial slow leg rise would be a dead giveaway of what was coming, but only after somebody in the league had tried this before - - I don't think it would be a giveaway the first time it was tried. Questions: 1. Is the variable speed, single contact "push" kick that I've described legal? 2. Do you think it could work? 3. Is the kickoff required to start from the middle of the field by some rule, or is that merely customary - - could we "push" kick the ball from an off-center tee somewhat closer to one side of the field, into what I'm guessing would be more open space closer to the other sideline? 4. Is my assumption correct, that our 10 guys would be offsides if they crossed the starting line a split second after the kicker first touched the ball but BEFORE he "pushed" it off his foot? If not, that opens up additional possibilities. If the kicker could balance the ball with a slowly rising foot for even half a second, our 10 guys could cover part of the necessary 10 yards, and be that much closer to taking out the other team's receivers. Receiver has to judge flight of the ball for a bit before calling for a fair catch, and maybe we put at least a few front line guys on their backs before they can assess the situation and call for the fair catch. Hard for a guy to call for a fair catch if he's on his back.

Gay is the regular kick-off guy. Marrone probably figured that if he used Carpenter, the Broncos would suspect something was up, and he would have lost the element of surprise (which is crucial for recovering an onside kick).

For most of the last 14 years there's been no NFL team in Buffalo and I rooted for the Bills anyway.

Well, Natasha Richardson did die too young a few years after being in the movie, in which Nell spoke her own unique language, so . . .

I liked: "Playoff Committee declares Germany winner of WW II."

Your screen name is deceptive - - you should change it to "Once Is Not Enough."

Insane Clown Posse added a clown and got lost on their way to The Gathering.

American Indians used animal hides to repair things, so I suppose it's possible.

OK, I don't expect the Bills to hire a rocket surgeon to write articles for them, but this may be about the dumbest thing ever written: http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/Scouting-Report-Bills-at-Broncos/ed9f4a73-1ad0-4519-b90c-d1c6c3be4e2a So it's more important for the offense to win time of possession than to score points? Really?

Kiko went to the beach, stuck his head in the water, and located the Red October.

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