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Sammy, Woods, and Clay will all put up bigger numbers when we can start throwing the ball in the middle of the field. This is especially true for Clay at TE. I get that it is a mismatch to suddenly have him running down the sideline, or the screen pass. But this is not the best way to use the guy consistently. If we cannot consistently get those 15 yard throws over the middle, our great route runners in Woods and Clay, will never pan out as effective.

Murph: If you were a Bills fan, would you have booed you today? Trent: I don't know. I am not a Bills fan, I am an NFL quarterback.....something something something. I stopped listening after I am not a bills fan

There are more intangibles in sports than their is in business. But you do see this all the time in business, see Google. My sister also takes a pay cut to work for the DCCC, I do CDC (community dev) because it makes me feel good. These are intangibles, that intrinsically do in fact have a dollar amount correlated to them. Career advancement in sport is the same as going to the super bowl, it is indeed career advancement, goals, and aspirations. Actors are a terrible example. They take pay cuts all the time to work on Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, and Tarantino movies, and sometimes just a really great script. My GF works for a local company where she makes less money than she could elsewhere, but her work life balance is better, she gets free lunch, and brings her dog to work. The

You could argue, that Kelly, who was staunchly against Buffalo, would have continued to hold out if not for the presence of Blue Chip Players...ie BRUUUUUUCCCEE

The NFL defender an effort by BU to figure out a way for CTE to be diagnosed in live patients. However the league wanted control of the results, which BU wouldn't provide. Why? Because diagnosing CTE is a huge risk for football. Imagine diagnosing a couple of kids at your local HS in anywhere USA. That team and school district caries insurance in order to have that team. Given a diagnosis of head injury across players on the roster would make it nearly impossible to continue to afford having that team. Colleges outside of the big time football programs, like SUNY, will no longer be able to afford having a a football team for the same reasons. The NFL will lose it's pool of athletes over time and will eventually be less viable.

The question is, when will Jims close?

Hughes takes "stupid" penalties, but Vontaze....he might literally kill somebody

I was just saying last night, I think EJ will have a longer NFL career. RG3 might even be the better QB/football player, very good back up, to bottom end starter. But the guy is a really bad teammate, so won't be able to bounce around in back up rolls at all.

I have Sirius and listen to NFL radio a ton. Since he has been out of the Buffalo market for so long, people hadn't realized that he has been wrong about most things football for sometime now. Literally the past few years, if he claimed left, the story went right. He has been flat out bad for a long time now. The nice thing is, he doesn't really ruffle any feathers and has way more professionalism than those hacks Sully or Bucky.

"anything less than your best is a sacrifice of the gift" -prefontaine

I dislike his charts. The NFL plays a 16 game schedule, compared to the NBA, MLB, and NHL, that's basically a month. The difference between a 4 win and 8 win team is stark, and he lumps them into one group. He could look at numbers of teams within a standard deviation, but doesn't. Or size/spread of deviation. He didn't really prove any lack of parity. If he wants to talk about lack of pay in the NFL given their part of revenue generation, career length, and injury risk, he should do so, but placing it on the back of parity I think is flawed.

Is there a link for this?

I am not sure we need a 3-4 DE. Marcel can play that position no problem. KW is the question mark there, but I believe he can. We need a NT. Then let Jerry Hughes be a wild man, lining up all over the place, and just have him pin his ears back. 2 coverage LB's (maybe one?) and a big ol middle of the D MLB. This is a sad reality.

That is my most frustrating part of the this season. I just don't get it. His defenses has always been good. They upgraded lots of personnel from last year to this in NJ, but last years defensive starters were not good, and he got a lot out of them for the talent they had. Willing to criticize athlete management (ie leadership, captains, accountability), not getting plays in on both sides of the ball, penalties/discipline. These are things that come with Rex, but they also come with a tough strong defense. I am just so baffled as to where that is. As I type this, I posted about how my junior athletes handle things and approach their sport (rowing). I realized, I imply the need for a lot of accountability (can't preach, it becomes ingenuine and can create rifts on roster), and have for years. Success breeds success, my hard working athletes know this. It isn't me that makes those, who give half effort, feel uncomfortable or even unwelcome, it is the athletes that are putting in all the work and extra. While Rex needs to set the tone, that feeling has to be inbred already in professional athletes. You know who needed to instill work ethic and drive at the Olympic Training Center....NOBODY,we got coached, we wanted to be better so it was always up to us to get better. Professional money sports should be the same. Rex is responsible for giving out the directive, it is up to the players to follow through. Maybe because my sport wasn't riddled with cash, and we all worked while we trained full time, so obviously the desire was there already, but professional athletes should no better if they want to get better.

comes out to about .600 record, or 9.6 games per season. Dude wins 10 games more often than he doesn't

I thought the same. How the QB isn't leading players only meetings is baffling to me. QB puts in the most work on the roster, and is the leader of the huddle. I get he is getting his feet wet with the starting QB role, but the guy played with Ed Reed, Joe Flacco, and Ray Lewis. He's seen that type of leadership in action. I's be astounded if Flacco doesn't call offensive meetings. Astounded. I coached highschool kids who on off days or "rest" times during the offseason hold their own practices....granted those teenagers are national champions, and if they are not, are working their butts off to become one. It should be noted, that I have never ever been an enforcer of a coach. I don't force anything on anybody. I simply revolve my programs around those that put out the most effort and have the highest level of accountability. The rest I pay literally zero attention to. Pulling players for bad plays or ruling with a really heavy hand does not necassarily correlate with strong leadership.

I never understood the czar hysteria. Each team should have one, isn't that the point of the GM. If you as team owner find yourself incompetent of making te right football decisions for your franchise, hire a president to preside over it all. Either way the answer is to step aside and let the football people do football things. If they fail find a new one, hire a consultant with whome you trust to find a new GM and get out of the way again. Having a guy act as the pen optic for the GM, ony says we don't have the right GM. If they start over ruling said GM in the draft, FA, and re-signings, aren't they then just the GM? It comes back to, for Terry, the Ted Black role. What was his job? Why have him? I always hated Terry's quote saying something like "Ted isn't the only one in the room with a hockey iq" (paraphrasing). He's got to do a better job of letting the sports people do their sports thing. A Csar only muddies the waters, and becomes a sounding board for outside (owner) influence.

Pegulas know money because they have it. A little info, Pegula had a business partner that handled all the business/money things in an official manner. Terry was the scientist/geologist, Mullan is the man who organized the business and money. While a man does not accumulate that much wealth by accident, he by no means was brokering his own deals in the slightest.

Can be, and am. The leading research for high level physiology globally are coming out of the GIS, AIS, and Switzerland. The most astringent body in the USA to practice sports medicine is US Ski and Snowboard. They have some of the best sports medicine professionals in the world, let alone the nation.

Football isa high strength highly explosive sport. To be both of those things, you need to be tight to be that explosive at a high level in this sport. That said I think football/the NFL does a poor job. I've seen these guys lift in person. Technically it's poor, with really heavy weights. I know guys who work in high level physiology (international competition) who all pretty much agree the NFL is full of the B team guys in regard to sport, and are considered meatheads. Think rubber band. You want to flick one across the room, or use it for a "slingshot". What produces the greatest distance/speed/power. Brand new rubber band, out of the box, not the one that has been keeping together your mail or pencils. Conversely, being looser related to better endurance and aerobic capacity, but significantly lesser max power output and explosiveness.

Whose the backup there?

Well at least he's on the stat sheet this week...

Agreed. That was my first thought. Shouldn't have mattered catch or not. Dude shoved McKelvin. I've noticed more this year that networks aren't showing replays of penalties. It's pretty annoying

I'm I the only one who thought that was a push off?

I've been thinking about this. Not sure my plan works with part time refs. But I think there should be a base salary along with a "bonus": Each ref starts with 100k in their bonus at the start of the season. With each poor call, money is subtracted. So if there is a terrible call that is completely unfounded, said ref is withheld 20k at the end of the year. Each call is weighted depending on severity of the call and impact on the game.