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No, Peterson was not at the "same stage Von Miller is at" (being arrested. Peterson was indicted by a grand jury Sept 12 and placed on the exempt list 5 days later. The league has said they will wait to act until/unless there are charges. That's apparently their standard for "exempt list" This has been explained multiple times up thread. The bottom line TL;DR is: Police can arrest someone they have 'probable cause' to determine to have committed a crime. This is different than charges, which are filed by a prosecutor or by a Grand Jury. A person can be indicted or charged without being arrested A person can be arrested without being charged (anyone who is arrested can plea for bail) Don't believe me? ==> Google

The difference is right in the headline of the linked article in the post. "Charge against Chiefs receiver Justyn Ross upgraded to felony in domestic violence case" See the key word "charge"? Ross was charged. That's why he went on the "exempt" list.

We are in entire agreement here.

Jerry is such a Rosebud. Ralph fired Bill Polian, despite the pleadings of Marv Levy, because, as Levy recounted Ralph to have said, "I just can't get along with him", over a period of 3 years Ralph said so in an interview at the time published in TBN, I think

Yes, he was charged. In November he made a deal to misdemeanor "disturbing the peace", pled guilty, and was sentenced to a diversion program for 1st timers.

I believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus 🎅, the Easter Bunny🐇 , and that Ty Dunne in fact just happened to randomly finish this story and decide to put it on his site 3 days before one of the biggest games of the year. In fact, someone upthread posted about an interview Dunne did, where Dunne said that he hurried to finish the article and get it out after the Eagles game because reasons. I'm feeling too lazy to dig that post out of 101 pages though, so Believe it or Don't

You may have to be logged in to see the whole chain of 7 or so 'tweets' or "X"s or whatever they're called now. You can log in with a google account and then log right out again without setting anything up.

I thought it was pretty clear the reporters caught Hyde on the way from practice and asked if he had any statement about it.

playing with a cast on his wrist apparently. Hope he's not allowed to use it to club people a la Gronk

Interesting perspective from someone known to a number of folks here.

Bite Your Everlovin' Muther-fudging Tongue!

Nice snark, Bro. Some pundits predicted the Vikings would improve in their 2nd season under Kevin O'connell. It's not an uncommon prediction for a 2nd year HC. Darrisaw and Addison were viewed as strong additions. So no, not everyone but me had them "regressing". And to their 'relatively knowedgeable fans', success was expected. So yeah, by some viewpoints, they've under-achieved. By the same token, a number of pundits predicted that the Bills would only finish 2nd in the AFC East this season due to a surge by the Dolphins under 2nd year head coach Daniels, while the Bills didn't do enough to improve on offense or defense. Sports Illustrated I believe predicted us at 9-8. So if the Vikings haven't underachieved because some pundits predicted them to regress, wouldn't that same logic apply to the Bills? As for "Burrow hurt", if the Bengals get a "pass" for their 2-3 start because "Burrow was playing hurt" (therefore they didn't under-achieve), shouldn't the Bills get a "pass" for under-achieving during the Giants game and 4 games afterwards, when they went 2-3 (therefore they didn't under-achieve)?

Interesting perspective. I know someone who once made the statement (this was back in the height of the Cold War Era with the Soviet Union dominating Eastern Europe and concern about the "domino effect" in Vietnam, Korea, etc, so give it that context): "if we really cared about fighting communism, we should never have defeated Hitler in WWII". This was at a dinner party with some veterans and people of Jewish faith in attendance. It went over like the proverbial "Lead Zeppelin" and could best be described as socially clueless. But one could probably craft a strong historical argument that it wasn't, objectively, a mistaken statement. Given the multitude of other reasons why WWII was a "must win" (as historian Marv Levy once said) and the probability that people in the room lost relatives either in the Holocaust or in Military Service, it was a totally clueless thing to say. I think the reason so many of us do find that 9/11 anecdote troubling is because one of the biggest jobs of a football HC is to be a Leader of Men, to be able to deal with multiple different diverse personalities and viewpoints effectively and meld them into a team fighting for one objective. So for a HC to be socially and emotionally clueless enough to choose the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorism as any kind of positive example, is troubling. It represents a monumental failure to "read the room". But on the other hand, it happened 4 years ago and the team has had strong success since then.

? I mean, the Bengals were 12-4 and appeared in the conf champ for the 2nd time in a row in 2022. A repeat was expected, This season they're 6-6 at present, but they were 5-5 before losing their franchise QB in a loss to the Ravens. Most relatively knowledgeable fans see that as "underachieving" for the Bengals The Vikings were 13-4 last season and were expected to advance in the playoffs, not lose to the Giants and to correct that flaw and go deeper into the playoffs this season. They were 4-4 when they lost their franchise QB, Kirk Cousins, in a win over GB, and are now 6-6 and 2nd in their division. Most relatively knowledgeable fans see that as "underachieving" for the Vikes. I could go on. It's legit hard to sustain success in the NFL.

Like I said elsewhere, I've actually enjoyed Dunne's writing with TBN and early Bleacher Report. I thought he was a good writer then. Of course, editing plays a role. I can't judge the $8 fee piece he just wrote, because as you pointed out, I haven't read the entire thing. I didn't like his 2020 Aaron Rodgers piece. I thought it was disjointed and not particularly well crafted. I will note that one thing Covid taught most of us is what we needed to set up to work effectively from home. A headcoach with school-age children who expects (say) his subordinates to assemble film breakdowns before they leave and send them to him for evening analysis, would not be a shock

Well, I do appreciate your viewpoint. On the QB thing, it seems to me it's not been uncommmon for a coach to talk about his QB's mental state usually in the guise of "his confidence leve" or etc. Seems to me Gailey did it with Fitzpatrick, seems to me I've heard it before with a couple other players as well - Martz talking about Warner maybe? But, I don't make a practice of tuning in to HC pressers for 31 other teams around the league week after week. So, if you do and you feel you have the data set to say "I can't think of a single other example of such a thing" in a meaningful way, I have to defer to your superior knowledge of HC-speak Around The League. (Obviously, if you can't think of a single other example of such a thing but you only tune in to a few other team's HC pressers a few times a year, what you say would be True, but Meaningless) Sounds to me as though your mind is made up and Dunne's article reinforces your viewpoint. One of three things is true: either McDermott actually does sound authentic to his players and has the respect of the locker room or He doesn't or The picture is far more nuanced I would say Wawrow's tweets imply (3) is true.

Yeah, that's the Cold Hard Financial Facts of the situation. If Dunne pulled in 100 new subscribers who spent their $8, that's $800 and a Merry Christmas for family and friends. If he pulled in 1000, that's $8000, a Merry Christmas and a trip to Hawaii (or the server bill and maybe his home's utilities and property tax too.) If he pulled in 10,000, that's $80,000 - twice the per capita income reported for Erie County by Census.gov With a story that got nationwide airplay as the 9/11 anecdote from 2019 has done, I don't think it's beyond the pale that 10,000 people might have had $8 of curiousity.

Another source directly announcing the layoffs and who they impacted https://awfulannouncing.com/br/bleacher-report-layoffs-ben-osborne-howard-beck-br-mag.html Dunne was "laid off" "fired" "position eliminated" "downsized", whatever lingo you like when your employer tells you your services are no longer required.

Straight up, I felt the defense would be mediocre this season as we tried to fill in for Edmunds with a choice of a 2nd year player who had looked lost when he played as a rookie in Bernard, a career ST guy in Dodson, and a couple of lower eschelon guys. If you told me Bernard would walk on the field and own the position and even look like an upgrade during the first 5 games, I would honestly have suggested you might be "terminally optimistic". If you told me we would lose White, Milano, and Daquan Jones by Game 5 and still be statistically, the #5 defense in the league coming out of the bye, I would have been incredulous. I guess I should add that does go to show the limit of statistics, since we have had 3 games now where the most proximal cause of the loss was the defense's inability to "seal the deal" with a lead and get a crucial stop on the last drive.

Concur.

As someone said, "when you get a dose of that Vitamin W, it changes everything" I think Daboll may be undergoing what some call an "On the Job Training Experience". When you're winning and everyone's inspired, it's easy to believe in giving your coordinators autonomy. When you're losing, and your defense is 26th in the league for points given up, you may feel you need to "mix it in" and give your input to the DC. That may cause friction when the side of the ball you are closest to, the offense, is 32nd in the league. It surprises me that there's apparently a strong fraction here that want to bring in Daboll as HC. He was COTY last season, great! But a number of new coaches have come in and given the team a "spark". The question is whether that "spark" lasts and turns into sustained success.

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I don't, actually. I think he did the right thing as a coach and a leader to say that, but both of those players had coaching and film about how to play certain defensive looks pre game. One of those two players read the defense and made the correct call as to route or throw, and one of them read the defense and was mistaken. So maybe I just don't understand what you mean by "genuine accountability" here. Brady took accountability in the "starts with me" sense, he's the coach and the one having the pre-game film sessions and conversations during the week of preparation, so when he talks about watching film with his players and preparing them, he can say he needs to do a better job there. But how is this different from the accountability McDermott says when he says "it starts with me"? Brady wasn't saying he made the wrong call for the down and distance, or he'd make another call if he had a do over, he specifically mentioned preparation and film.

If you'll allow me, I'd like to just focus in on this. Weren't most of us commenting on the same thing - that we felt Allen was looking like a whupped dog on the field and not showing a lot of fire or emotion, up through the Broncos game? And weren't most of us commenting that in the two subsequent games, Jets and Eagles, he was visibly playing with a lot more energy and fire, including being heard saying "I'm ***** back!"? But now, somehow the same observation that many of us had made, is not 'authentic" and is a sign of a control freak feeling defensive, even though we jumped from an average of 20.6 PPG in the 5 previous games, to 33 PPG (and 505 yds vs the Eagles!) in the two subsequent games to date? I'm very confused here.

I'm afraid this kind of calls your "knowledge of the situation" into question. Dunne was terminated, released, let go, downsized from Bleacher Report during a staff reduction. That's a fact. His friends and colleagues agree. He didn't have a choice about whether or not to "break from there". (there being BR), his position ended. He says that he had the option to find employment elsewhere. His track record and credentials give no reason to disbelieve this. He chose to start "Go Long" instead. I thought it was a gutsy move at the time, and admired it, but it's kind of going in a bit of a dark direction at times IMO. Putting out very critical pieces which rest on large quantities of anonymous sources, for example.