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Wrong. A current player getting a hook-up is not a recruiting violation. I understand completely. It's completely silly. NCAA Div 1 football is anything but an amateur sport. That's what the NCAA doesn't understand.

What a farce the NCAA is. Some kids sell a couple jerseys and awards that they own and a coach loses their job, genius. Has the car thing come out yet? Or is it still speculation?

He doesn't look that small. You guys are just pilling on and I've have to be the #1 Maybi hater since day 1. He looks like a LB in that picture. If Von Miller were next to him Maybin would look like the LB, and Von Miller would like the guy that gets wedgies.

Yeah because you just find 6-6 300 pound people that are athletic anywhere. They;ll probably pay Peyton Manning 100 million. Then get the cart boys from the grocery store to play O-line and pay them $4 an hour plus tips. Makes perfect sense.

What else is he supposed to say? "uh naw, we're just doing this desertification thing for a show. Don't worry will be unified again as soon the Owners agree to let us keeping 60%."

It's kind of not fair. It's Cam Newton. Cam will have a big impact either way. If he is a bust the team is doomed for 4 years. If he is a stud the team will be competing in the playoffs next 4 years. If Pererson, Miller, Green, or even Marcellasaureus bust it wouldn't set the franchise back 4 years. So out of those 4 it's 99 problems. When he becomes an immovable object next to The irresisstable object of Kyle Williams. It can change the whole team. No more 200 yards rushing a game. Free up the young Lbs to make plays. In a 4-3 are they going to make Miller a side line to sideline MLB like Patrick Willis? That could take some time. Peterson will take some time. Green could have an impact but he is just a WR Dalton will be more important rookie on that team.

If the coaches are siding with the players and the players are having informal workout. Maybe now the coaching can join-in the informal workouts with their playbooks?

You didn't say that the first time, Mr. WEO What specifically am I missing? Area VPs can hire/fire and market to their area too.

Since like usual, you're having problems with reading comprehension. Here is what I actually wrote:

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Read the whole sentence silly. Not just the part you highlighted.

The juxtaposition is the fact that "owners" have very little autonomy like common stock holder. Not sure where the 1/32nd statement comes from. Clearly not all owners are equal as some owners have seemed to have almost nothing to do with the lockout.

Not personal to you. Just sayin' it's a little simplistic view. It's a bit more complicated than you may realize. Sorry if seemed that way. Go Bills.

The NFL Owners can negotiate whatever they like with whomever they like. If they were serious though they would have tried to negotiate in March of 2009 not June of 2011. They also may not be shocked when the NFLPA is not psyched that want to change a 60/40 split to 49.5/50.5 with no real reason or leverage besides, "well because I want to make more money." You have perfectly summarized the naive and silly sentiment that many fans have. Thank you.

You do not increase revenue by decreasing expenses. I don't think you understand the financial terms you're using. So I'm going to just leave this alone. My point is that NFL "Owners" are "owners" in name only. They're more like common stock shareholders that are Area VPs in a publicly traded company. Some may understand that, some may not. They're not like Mr. Slate, Mr Spacely or Mr. Burns as some people seem to think. I don't know why I mistakingly posted anything. Continue on . . .

It is not like that at all in the NFL. That is my point. Salary's (under a CBA) are a fixed cost. You have a minimum amount you have to spend, and there is a cap you can spend up to. The owners so not have the option to move the team to costa rica and pick up local ticos to play offensive line. The "owners" are little more than shareholders in a privately held corporation called the NFL. There is little they can do autonomously. Using a factory owner as a simile does not apply. In your example using a common stock holder in a publicly traded company is a closer likeness to NFL "owners". The GM is closer to the role the CEO plays. The CEO reports to the board of directors and in theory the stock holders.

Its not a permanent demotion. You can win your way back into the majors. Last year Carolina, Denver, Buffalo, then Cincinnati would have been relegated. Its just a stupid ESPN question. And its stupid to overreact. And its even stoopider to argue that Buffalo Bills shouldn't be relegated after Carolina and Denver. The NFL has a sweet spot where they get a free minor LEAGUE. Its called college football. So you don't have to worry about relegation.

I'm not really wrapped in the emotion. Just stating facts. Like I said earlier the owners aren't likely making personnel decision so they're not choosing to cut a veteran, a GM is operating the franchises. The owners are sitting the owner box, giving the finger to Bills' fans. I just find the commonly spewed sentiment that "the owners" should decide how much they pay the players, a little silly and naive. This isn't flipping pizzas at LaNova this is the NFL.

What control do the owners have? Can they change the team name if they wanted? No would take years and years to maybe get approved. Can they change location the team plays in? No. Would take years to get approved and after the Cleveland fiasco the NFL is even more conservative. Can the owner decide to pay a veteran player the same as rookie? No, 1 the owner probably has nothing to do with contract negotiatiation. 2 there is structure around veteran minimum. If the NFL went away the owners would be in just as bad shape. Look at Ralph, he only has a 140 million outside of the Bills. Look at Snyder he only made a couple hundred million during the .com days and now they are both paper Billionaires because of the value of their franchise. Snyder is so over leveraged on finances and has so many bad investments (six flags, Johnny rockets, random radio stations) he couldnt get financed to bring an Arena League to the area. If the NFL is "lockedout" for two years and the Redskins are no longer worth a Billion but worth a 500 million he is going to need a bailout. Drew Brees is a talented athelete that spent his life working hard and training on a specialized skill because it pays very well. But guess what there are other sports where athletes can get paid. There aren't other sure thing, no risk investments that can take any idiot with a couple hundred milll and some financing and turn them into Billionaires over night. If there is something legal like that let me know. Yes Drew Brees would be screwed without football right now but Dan Snyder would be just another failed, bankrupt business man without the sure thing of the Redskins in his portfolio. And BTW the next Drew Brees that is still in High School, the talented athletes that are coming up can focus on any other sport that will give them a free education and pay them nicely. If the NFL WRs played soccer their whole life the US would have the most devastating soccer team in the world and the TV and advertising money would follow. If they focused on Hockey or Baseball both sports would be relevant again or wanted to be boxers or track stars. Today's NFL represents many of the best atheletes the US has to offer. Most of the stars would have found away in life without football. As long as athletics are rewarded in this society these people will be just fine. Don't be confused by the greater socio-economic issue that athelets make more than teachers. Without the NFL athletes still make more than teachers, a world without the NFL doesn't change the issue. Fans will find some other spectacle to watch. (BTW the owners like the 2010 rules, the players don't. No cap, no floor, no FAs until a player plays for 6 years. The CBA expired prior to the 2010 season when if the owners wanted to ensure the 2011 season they would have negotiated. They didn't want to because they planned for a lockout to squeeze the players and live off of TV money)

If Jenkins and Michael Floyd went to a suplemental draft. That would be one hell of a sublemental draft. It doesn't look like that will happen this year though. Those are both top 5 talent. If either is available when we pick at 12 next year it would be a steal. If somehow they fall out of the first in 2012 you have to take them in the second. It's going to be interesting seeing Jenkins play amongst the boys of N. Alabama. He may actually kill someone when he blows them up from the safety spot. They might have to make him play both ways too. A team like N. Alabama could use him as an H-Back more than safety.

The problem is, this isn't any other market. This is a tightly regulated monopoly. On top of that most of the current owners have little to no risk and have done little to anything to improve the game. What was the last significant improvement to the game, HD telecast? Owners had nothing to do with that. The Owners are glorified common stock owners. They have no real control or decision making to do anything autonomous and have made no innovations to the game. I own tons of stock, but I don't try to tell the companies how much to pay the employees. Apply the commonly held belief that an "owner" should call the shots doesn't apply here. The "Owners" are owners in name only. Most of them look at the NFL franchise as nothing more than another investment vehicle and don't really know how to run a football franchise. Look at one of the only owners that is a GM, Al Davis. Everyone thinks he off base. If the GMs and players were patching this out, I'd have more faith than the "owners" being involved.

Why shouldn't Drew Brees make a ton more than Levi Brown? Seems fair to me. Biscuit makes a good point. What's the point of a lockout? Just use the 2010 rules and negotiate in parallel.

You're missing the point. You can leap all day long to block a field goal. You can even "leap" to block a field goal and land on an opposing player if you're lined up at the beginning of the play at the line of scrimmage. You can't line up 5 years off the line of scrimmage and cannonball yourself into the offensive line. That is the penalty he landed on an opposing player when he was lined off the line of scrimmage, it wasn't simply because he leaped. The offensive line can't be held accountable with blocking a 300 pound lineman while 250 pound line backers are raining down from the sky. There would be some shattered spines and other appendages. It's a pretty sound rule. Any special teams coach teaches this rule and makes sure that players don't do this, even though it could be tempting on a game winning field goal. It's just a matter of being disciplined, which Simeon Rice was not. You also can't launch yourself off of a teammate or opposing player to block a field goal either. Which sure would help block a field goal but again 250 LB guys raining from the sky isn't a safe thing for anyone involved. Or imagine if the D-line tossed CBs at the field goal kicker. Could probably a field goal or two but the CB, K, holders and O-line would last too long.

His publicist is an excellent writer.

Erik Flowers played in 31 games had 4 sacks, 26 tackles, and 1 Int at this point in his "career" Maybin wishes he had the impact that Erik Flowers had. When you're looking up at Erik Flowers that shows just how unbelievably horrible your career has gone.