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I agree. He's a high character guy. He also has the skill set to play both the weak side and strong side. I don't know how much he has left in the tank but it is certainly worth a look.

I think you are exactly correct. It's what I thought as soon as I read the details of the trade. The other idea that occurred to me is that Pete Carol is gearing up to make one last run to get back to the Super Bowl before he hangs it up. Overall, the JESTS got the best part of the deal IMHO. The vets on the JESTS will probably look at this season as just going through the motions to draw a game check. Looks like they are preparing for yet another rebuild.

There are better free agent options available right now. After teams make their final roster cuts, he may not even be one of the top ten FA options. It is sad because he was such a good player. Time catches up with everyone. I think it would take a real run of injuries to get Shady a gig.

Great suggestion. The Washington Smiths does have a certain ring to it!

There have been numerous coaches that are good X's and O's guys. Unfortunately, many of them have no charisma and are not capable of really relating to their organizations. The few that are great at both are rare. Bill Walsh is the best example that I can think of who was great at both. I don't think that anyone would project Gase being in the mold of Walsh or anyone like him. Selecting a guy to lead your football team because he is a good play caller is total folly. The JESTS will continue to be a dumpster fire until they overpay to get an established capable head coach in the building. They have shown that they are willing to over pay for free agent players. Doing this for a good head coach would be more productive. Let the coordinators be the X and O guys and the head coach be the strong leader. I have to admit that I take great pleasure watching the JESTS flounder like an intoxicated mud wrestler ( like that visual?). Like others have stated, it's great that the Bills are out of this recycled failed head coaching merry go round.

The money is just too compelling. Players that sit it out won't get paid. Some have enough cash to do that but most don't and won't. If Europe can play soccer games in empty stadiums, so will the NFL. We'll see when the time comes.

Owners and players won't walk away from 10+ billion dollars. They'll put games on TV even if it means using entire practice squads on game day. The 72 players include all the guys that have had it and recovered. Combine that with the unreliable test result data and they will not be convinced to scrap the season. Call me cynical but this is the way I see it. I think the "sky is falling" Chicken Little crowd has it wrong.

Don't be surprised if they let Dak walk next year, draft a guy in 2021, and ride the Dalton train until the new guy is ready, Cowboys have a good offense and the QB can hide behind their good o-line and let Zeke carry the load. Jerry Jones doesn't seem to be the kind of guy that will accept these circumstances and may see it as an affront to his ego. It's nice to see the drama in Dallas and I hope it drags their whole team into the gutter.

South Florida got flooded by people fleeing New York and the rest of the northeast. They didn't comply with two week quarantine requirements and the rest is history. It is a cluster but correctly identify the cause. In addition, people got complacent because of the low numbers and undertook risky behavior ( big memorial day parties, etc.). Most of Florida has had minimal impact.

Blue cheese...really

He's a good player and a decent guy. I understand why the Titans gave him a big contract. As tough as he is, he has taken a bunch of big time hits. Everyone likes to focus on his straight arm use and big runs but they don't think about all of the times he gets stopped initially and the second tackler blows him up. He is fun to watch and I hope he holds up long enough to get most of the value from his contract. I agree with some of the other posts about not wanting to pay a RB big money when good talent is available on rookie deals. Managing the cap becomes increasingly harder when the RB is one of the top paid guys on the team.

The owners could only be on the hook for the guaranteed money in most contracts without a season. Additionally, player contracts vary from team to team and from player to player. Blanket statements covering all players are not as accurate as many of us would hope that they would be. Some individual contracts contain provisions that protect some players pretty well and some have stronger protections for the owners. The star players generally have the best financial protections and the lesser players, not so much. It is in the best interests of the owners and the NFLPA to cut a deal that smooths the revenue curve over a couple of seasons. This will allow them to protect the individual player contract structure, protect the majority of players (those without big guaranteed money), and be financially workable for the owners. If the league can cut some deals on TV contracts, streaming services, or other media services to increase revenues, it will make this problem easier to manage. We should all expect ticket prices to jump significantly in 2021, regardless of how this all plays out.

I don't think he does with his right hand anymore....just sayin

Coming out of college Njoku was recognized as a significant talent with a high upside. He has battled some injuries and is on a team where he is usually the last option to receive targets. They didn't bring in Hooper and pay him good money to play in Njoku's shadow. The Browns will try to trade him but I doubt that they get an offer in the range that they probably want. If there wasn't a cap problem in NE, I could see the Cheaters taking a run at him. The Saints could have an interest as well. I think the Bills like the guys that they already have and won't spend draft capital or money to acquire him.

I spoke to a good friend about this a couple of years ago, when the subject was getting a lot of press. He is a Seneca tribal member and resides on tribal lands. He believed that his friends were about equally split on the subject. He had nothing against the name personally but understands why people object to it. He also said that Braves and Chiefs were more aspiring names and were looked at more positively. As I look at it from the point of view that if I had a business and the name was offensive to potentially half of my customers, I'd be looking for a new name. Additionally, having a name that is viewed as being racially offensive to a significant number of people is reason enough to change it just because it is the right thing to do. This shouldn't be that hard of a decision.

Look at the important statistics. ICU cases and deaths

The same leadership that whined that he needed 30000 ventilators when he didn't and the same leadership that sent infected people back into long term care facilities leading to the death of thousands of people. The same leadership that requested hundreds of extra temporary hospital beds and didn't use them. The same leadership that cried when foreign travel was shut off. With that kind of leadership, I remember why I moved away from NY. And by the way, good luck with your state taxes for the next few years to help pay for your great leadership in the state.

Yes, it was hit multiple times and they had to spend a bunch of money to raise it.

What a waste of money! Hopefully it is high enough to avoid having the occasional punt doink off it.

After seeing this minimal penalty imposed, is it any surprise that the cheaters keep on cheating? I believe that this is the fourth time that they have been sanctioned by the league. In a normal corporate environment, most businesses use a progressive corrective disciplinary approach. This means that repeat violators of rules or policies receive successively harsher penalties for each new infraction. The idea is that a normal offender will recognize that the next penalty is not worth the next violation and they change their behavior. If Belicheat knew he could be looking at a year out of the league for his next infraction, I'm sure he would have everyone behaving. It's time for Roger to kick some butt with NE. I'm surprised that the other owners haven't gone off the rails about the constant cheating.

I agree with you. Mayfield and Darnold have really showed little progress. Yet, their fan base doesn't seem as paranoid about being a bust as some posters on this site seem to be about Allen. The WR situation for Allen last season was improved but not great. The addition of Diggs and hopefully some improvement from Knox (eliminate the drops) should help Allen. Mayfield suffered from a below average o-line and some terrible coaching. Even with that he hasn't looked like a number 1 overall draft pick (too many interceptions). Darnold has very little talent around him and a head coach that is apparently in over his head. Allen and Mayfield have the best circumstances for this season to improve; Darnold, not so much.

I thought "Wrecks" would be a better name because it was clueless to what was going on around it.

He must be thinking about cap space next year. I don't believe they have done anything crazy with money. In fact they made the Armstead trade and replaced him with a rookie deal to manage their cap for the future. They certainly haven't done anything like the Rams did with overspending and pushing it to future years. This entire thread just seems a bit incoherent but maybe it's just me.

For any of us who have been to games in Jacksonville, we know you are exactly correct. Sad but true

Exactly....aren't they like number 8 among the owners?