Mikie2times

I think most the sports leagues do a great job at rendering the regular season meaningless by not giving it's best teams more of an advantage in the playoffs. These are professional athletes, usually the competition is tight and the best teams over an entire season should be given an advantage over the rest. That said, I have had a huge issue with the current one team bye system. One team can have a horrible division, injury luck, all sorts of outlying factors. Rarely do we ever have one clear #1 with a distant #2. Usually it is extremely close. This year we will have beaten every division leader and will win our division 🤑 but we still have risk of not getting the bye. 74% of the bye teams win in the divisional round so in our current system, you have what amounts to a 75% chance of playing the AFC championship game at home if you get that bye. It matters and it should be given to two teams as they used to in order to balance out how much of an advantage it is (spare me examples of wild card wonders or how the bye team never seems to win the big game). Run a sample size large enough and it's a big advantage, one an injury riddled team like Buffalo could really stand to gain.

I don't think it was Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. I think it was Cole Beasley.

I'm 40 and have had two fairly major surgeries and will always be impacted to some degree by them. I just don't understand how these people have the strength and courage they do. It's easy for me to say I have been unlucky with these surgeries as that is the case. Then anybody who has been in the hospital for more than a week knows how much that sucks. What I'm trying to say is it's really easy to let your mind spin in the wrong direction with your fortune. Then I consider people like this girl. How she is approaching it. The mental strength she must have and that gives others strength through her. I hope she understands this. That even as an 18 year old who has barely experienced life at all, she has the ability to impact more people than most of us ever will and she is doing so right now. I will tell her as much in a card. Thanks for sharing her story.

I think it has a place because as the OP pointed out, footballs origins are from rugby. It allows for an advantage to be had to a team that is better prepared and plays with higher awareness. Which again, I don't see an issue with.

On defense we match up exceptionally well against the Bengals and the Chiefs match up very poorly. All the Bengals want to do is get you in man. This trend dates back to last year where they just torched man coverage but struggled with zone. In an ideal world the Bengals will dispatch KC for us and we will dispatch the Bengals. We will see for sure at the end of the year but i just think we match up better against Cincinnati. Perhaps as well as anybody. https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/joe-burrow-bengals-issues-when-facing-cover-2-defenses https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/joe-burrow-zac-taylor-concinnati-bengals-offensive-line/

Little concerned about blowing a knee out. Sometimes we see the air Allen, but defenders go at his legs with force and every time they land one it’s scares this crap out of me. I think the biggest difference from Josh and just about any comp or even unfair comp, is when Josh can no longer be mobile he will be just fine. His mobility gives him another dimension, but he can also beat you from the pocket just fine.

I know a guy that can get you a CFB jersey with the name and a torso in it.

Prior to Art Briles Baylor competed with Kansas as the worst team in the Big 12. Briles tenure ended with a sexual assault scandal that left the program in shambles. All coaches and the AD were dismissed. Most of the team left. That is what Matt Rhule inherited. Scott Frost inherited a UCF program that had a history of winning for over a decade in a softer conference. They happened to be coming off the worst year they had in program history. For Baylor, losing was just normal until Art Briles and RG3. Frost coached two whole years at UCF, with one exceptional season then proceeded to become the laughing stock of the Big 10. The literal pinnacle of ineptitude. While Rhule restored Baylor back to the level Briles had built in a major conference. Rhule should have never got the NFL job. Almost none of these NFL jobs work out for the CFB guys. But Frost failed once he reached the level Rhule already succeeded in. It's not a comparison to me. It's not as if Nebraska wasn't a talented team.

Is that you Lamar?

He was running out to celebrate. He ran on the field when the player was down on the ground, but not ruled down. Up until NFL, he is down. Shocked this hasn't happened more. I think when he realized he was on the field he chose the second pill instead of the first.

They're good. I wish that wasn't the case, but they have the greatest play making WR in the game, opposite him, a WR that is turning into a Top 10 player, if not already, at his position. Then a QB who plays within the system and does so effectively. With a coach who has the right system for his players. Then bring in a defense that is not a liability and can even make some plays. It doesn't really matter who they played the last 5. They're good, when healthy, we are better. Hopefully we can get healthy soon.

Crazy

I don't find what your saying unreasonable by any stretch. Again, he's just not what I want, but in a world where the best guys get paid the best (not this list) I would say around 10.

I don't think we watched the same game. He constantly bailed out of the play design. Couldn't do anything in the 4th quarter. Looked average. Which is what he is. I can name 15 QB's I would rather have, 10 in a landslide.

I wonder what it looks like outside of a Roman offense. I doubt he is going to get the Baltimore treatment somewhere else. IMO, it could look much worse, but what they're doing with him right now won't allow for things to get much better. We have seen the best the Ravens can be with Lamar and in that system. It's never going to progress or get better, nor is it ever going to be bad. Just not good enough. I don't want all these questions with a guy I need to pay 200 million dollars to. I don't want questions when I spend that type of money.

I wouldn't be in the market for him. This is a passing league. I don't care about the MVP or how athletic he is. He's got a ceiling over his head in how far he can take you and will decline more rapidly than just about any QB in the league.

The Ravens letting him walk will turn out to be a blessing long term.

Watson aside, I give the Browns major props for cutting ties with Baker and not allowing themselves to be at a crossroads near the end of a contract. They avoided what Arizona could not.

Russ was better than Kyler at the same age. Not as good an athlete but better QB skills. With Russ, I just don't think his style of play ages well. Not like Kyler's will either, Russ is just older. It is a bit ironic, with all this talk of Kyler not being a leader some have accused Russ of the same. Further, both QB's could have played major league baseball.

Sorry, but his height does hinder him. This isn't college. Just because he can run around like his head is cut off and find some throwing lanes, he does not possess the zip on the ball or the accuracy in the short and intermediate passing game. So he makes some plays once and awhile. He's a hell of an athlete, but his deficiencies limit him. Watching him is literally identical to watching Flutie. If he has issues between his ears outside of just lacking the skills to be a pro football QB than I don't know what to say. I wouldn't take him if you paid me.

After watching him get dismantled and quit on his team in the playoffs. Including a clause in his initial contract that required him to put in additional time studying. Then seeing his agent put out a public statement basically demanding a new contract. It looked awful as far as how it reflected on what's supposed to be the leader of your team. At the time all I could think of was he knew defenses were figuring him out and he did not want to play another year risking what damage would be done to his next contract. His leveraging, to my surprise, worked. I have no idea what Arizona was thinking. They had all of 2022 with a 2023 option. Instead they're on the hook for 230 million with 190 of it guaranteed. Watching this guy, I would be so disappointed if I was a Cardinal fan. Running around like this is arena ball just to float a wounded duck 15 yards. He just doesn't have NFL skills. Even in today's dual threat era, he doesn't have the skills to be successful. I think perhaps the greatest curse a team can fall victim to is paying a Franchise QB without really knowing for sure if he is. If I'm an NFL GM I have a rule in place. If my QB makes to the last year of his deal and I don't know for sure, move on. The risk of making the wrong decision in this spot will kill your franchise.

I would have to say yes

I was placing my wager on the Jets, first one went through at -6.5 -110, then I was doing a teaser and the second one kept updating before I could push it through. -6 -120, -7 -110, -7 -115, now -7.5 -110, I pushed it through at -7 -110 on a 7 point teaser. So I'm not a Peterman fan today. I remember dropping like 2k in live bets the year we played on the road against the Chargers. His infamous 4 INT performance. We know what we will get from him. Trent Edwards on steroids. Can he limit the mistakes? I hope he can do well long term so if he busts my bets against a divisional rival I'm not going to be too bent out of shape.

I'm going to get some Noxema, I'll be back in a couple of hours

Just saw our boy on this commercial. Is this the first national spot by a Bills player since Bruce?