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Dominate post Wait, dominant lol

Nnamdi Asomugha comes to mind. Philadelphia lost big in that deal when NA went downhill precipitously after being the prize of the UFA in 2011.

Buffalo beat the NE JV team. Who's the average QB they're going to acquire? And via what means?

A lot of people on this very board have called for the same thing since Fitz was the starter. Those people were roundly criticized for disagreeing with Nix and then Whaley. I see things have come full circle.

Aqib Talib? Andrew Luck not play in that division anymore? Even without a QB? Still can't root for the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, D'aesh or the like. Not after what they've done to people. I will however, root for the A-10 Warthog close air support missions and Peshmerga fighters who may or may not be joined by US Forces.

Marrone couldn't live up to the hype created by his agent Jimmy Sexton. And of course, the Jets didn't have a team president who'd fall for that hype. That, and the media skewered Marrone which made it impossible for Woody to hire a guy who quit on his former employer.

Donovin Darius?

Which teams are winning without a QB and outstanding RB's? Even Adrian Peterson in his finest year with Ponder QB'ing the Vikings they barely made the playoffs and lost in the wild card round.

One of the biggest changes has been moving financial people out of the org chart overseeing football people. And of course, making football people responsible only to the owner.

I'm so insensitive for not thinking of them. Guess I need re-training.

Eventually someone will commit a crime and we'll be told in the name of safety that a new law must be passed. The claim of "safety" always seems to get thrown out there when something happens. The public needs a hook before they approve something, and who could possibly oppose new laws in the name of "safety?" Except the SAFE Act has rounded up decent people and the state cannot provide objective evidence the law works as they advertised it to. Ask the guy in Amherst who took anti-anxiety meds and had a pistol permit revoked. Or the retired police officer who had insomnia in Rochester. Or the gun shop where a SWAT team raid was threatened when it was learned they sold AR's without a fixed magazine. People want to feel safe and they'll pretty much vote for anything. If they bothered to understand true intentions, i.e. control over gun-owners, they'd realize the safety narrative is BS.

I thought Hackett was the good guy and Marrone was the bad coach, Guess that narrative just died.

He may have had a job lined up, but the NYC media destroyed Marrone and Sexton was weak responding. By then Woody couldn't, from a PR perspective, hire Marrone. It would've gone over like a lead balloon.

If only Jauron had been given more time...

Beckham Jr. wasn't healthy all season: http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/12230342/odell-beckham-jr-new-york-giants-affected-hamstring-injury No one's arguing Sammy isn't a good player or won't improve. But they both were dinged up and Beckham managed to produce more. Sure, some of that's QB play/offensive scheme/whatever. I guess the bigger issue was the Bills traded up to select a fine WR in a WR heavy draft when they didn't have a QB on the roster at the time who could get him the ball. That speaks to something greater than the players or coaches on the field.

I would hope this new front office has the sense to not let a player have maximum leverage and get to play in a contract year. It hasn't worked out in the past.

Who's going to replace those personal foul penalties? Buffalo has seemingly done well drafting LB's the past few years. Brown has 3 years left on his contract, Alonso I believe has 3, and there's Bradham who played well in his third season. You keep Spikes, who at times played less than 20% of the defensive snaps, and you're probably losing something elsewhere.

Objective is a concept that remains elusive because any discussion the QB isn't playing well is invariably greeted with a crescendo of "hater" rhetoric No one wants EJ to fail. It's simply looking, based on objective evidence, that he's not going to be a good enough NFL QB to get this team in the playoffs, never mind advancing in the post-season. I don't need to see a player completely bottom out before one can reasonably conclude they'll succeed. For some that point is earlier than others, although there is a propensity to declare someone a bust.

There should be some offensive quality control positions available. Perhaps a position coach job out there, which is where he should have been back in 2013 when saint douglas was hired. Then again, it's hard to get coaching jobs in the NFL.

Warden Samuel Norton from Shawshank Prison described what I think you're getting at: "This is a conspiracy, that's what it is. One... big... damn conspiracy! And everyone's in on it, including *her*! Government, NFL, Patriots...one big conspiracy. I'll bet Kraft bought off Tagliabue and then Goodell.

What if you could go to London and sit behind the Jaguars sideline and heckle Marrone during the game? He might get mad though. Lol

Another one of Buddy's guys out the door. College Scouting Director Chuck Cook was demoted in 2013. Whaley hired Monos and Fisher. And presumably he's now fired Gibbons and demoted Cook. Guess Doug and Buddy weren't on the same page in 2011 when Gibbons and Cook were hired.

David Lee should talk to Jimbo Fisher. Perhaps then Lee can correct the low confidence, slow eyes, inconsistent accuracy, propensity to throw to point targets, and inability to sense a pass rush.

Who believed Galileo? Who believed Billy Mitchell? Thanks for not debating.

As I suspected, we're right back at the "luck" narrative which states that teams acquire their QB without much skill or savvy manuevering. It's the same mantra preached over and over again that said Polian just happened to have Peyton fall in his lap 17 years ago. And the one cited here, which cherry-picks 2 QB's who were picked later. (EDIT: or found in UDFA. There are zero starting QB's found in the 3rd round or later aside from Romo, Brady or Wilson and if you want, Mettenberger. That means 27-28 teams have a guy who was originally drafted in the 1st or 2nd as the top guy on their depth chart. Or their QB situation is in flux and will be answered this off-season) I stand by my point that the cap does not level the playing field much. When half of the teams in the NFL account for almost 87% of the playoff appearances, it tells me there isn't enough top personnel people, which invariably leads to the same teams making the playoffs. And while we're selectively finding examples, how about the Packers, who transitioned nicely from Favre to Rodgers, missing the playoffs once since 2007. I guess Ted Thompson just happened to be lucky in that 2005 draft. The front office matters. Perhaps as much as the QB, because they're the ones picking that QB.