HardyBoy

Being successful as a head coach isn't about scheme. I think people are misunderstanding that a lot. McDermott himself said on Pat McAfee that his role as a head coach is basically to let the coordinators coach and he is there to make sure he is coordinating things across the organization basically...a CEO sets expectations, sure, but they're not in implementation meetings talking about the tactical steps required to hit those expectations if that makes sense...McD said he is going to have to delegate a bunch of responsibilities in order to be able to take on the d coordinator position...he wasn't a quasi headcoach d coordinator, McD was solely a head coach. Frazier seems like a person who would actually be a better head coach than d coordinator in a lot of ways.

EJ Manuel & Josh Allen might both might a thought on the translating to wins, but overall good point.

Cam Newton & Andrew Luck...both broke down.

Not just attractive, but insanely talented...she's a very talented musician who plays instruments iirc Huh?

Not just Hawkeye, check her out in the Edge of Seventeen with Woody Harrelson, it's an incredible movie. This makes me happy for some reason (random people dating random people should not make me happy, but their personalities mesh really well I think!).

Tom, is that you?

It has come 10000x, but in what direction?

My first madden was madden 95 or 96 on pc... they had like an academy, where madden taught you different football fundamentals, like cover 3 vs cover 2. I used to play online a ton on madden 2007 for ps2... it's so sluggish now and the angles are all weird and defense is basically impossible, where in madden 07 you could shift your team, dictate a coverage and play defense with any player, and bait people into throwing to a hot route...they really just need to scrap the whole game and start from fresh code imo... like build an in home physics based engine and I'm hoping they've been working on that with a small team over the last few years...I want to get into madden again so bad, it just needs better online head to head play and offline franchise mode.

Seeing what's happened to Madden is so sad...I wasn't aware they've said they were legit going to try and fix the platform...going to do some digging there, but they've said that in the past too and then just added some feature that used to be in the game years ago back in. Like they need to unwind whatever crap happened when they switched to Xbox 360/ps3... it largely broke when they switched to that version of next gen, but then the damn ultimate team microtransaction bs started and the dev focus shifted on that and they couldn't spend enough time fixing the game...plus the decision to go to animation based game play instead of genuine physics based...

Do you know that's the case though? Also, do you know tre wasn't cleared for golf?

It really might be more sophisticated than that... I'm sure the pr/marketing/social media depts have metrics around engagement of social media posts (and I'm sure agents have that as well, as do media companies). Imagine Russ Brandon still running the team and there not being a wall between football ops and organizational ops... there's gotta be a better reason that players do that than to just publicly apply pressure, but I'm also a data analyst who people sometimes say has a utopian view of the way business should be run and this to me is perfect for trying to collect data to show the value of a player off the field as well and get places like espn to pick up the story because they see the engagement data of their audience with that social media scrubbing.

Right, then you watch the clips coming out of the practice and you realize he's being genuine.

Haha, because of the back...check out what Kincaid looks like blocking with his back injury in the PAC 12 champ game this past year compared with his other blocking film for someone suddenly having stiff feet.

Absolutely, but at the same time I'm sure they establish a draft value chart in advance have the operational maturity to stick to it to avoid making mistakes, or more so allowing potentially lame duck gms to burn the future to try and win now...in conference trades would require higher value assets than out of conference trades to score the same on that value chart I would think. On the flip side though, if you're close to a super bowl, that chart probably helps you keep from going all in for a superbowl and screwing your future...as well as it worked out for the rams, the odds of that going well were really low, and they had to have a bunch of highly unlikely events happen to beat Tampa Bay to even have a chance to win a super bowl... the rams kind of objectively screwed up big time, it just happened to work.

That's what I figured...I've pulled my lower back plenty (happens more often and easily...if I could store time in a bottle I guess)...the idea of squating with a pulled lower back is even more something I feel would be tough than turning side to side...being 6'9" or whatever and having to get low, that would be tough. This is phenomenal news that he is able to do that motion to the point he's hitting home runs.

This is great news just because of Brown's back right? Gotta think swinging a bat with active disc issues would not be easy or comfortable, right? Genuine question, I haven't had that type of injury.

Broncos might have wanted more if they were trading Miller in conference, though they weren't really in the running that year and it was a theoretical rental... just something to think about though in terms of compensation.

Haha and I also am sad of the way the world is shifting from long form meaningful content to tiny bleh "easy to consume" bleh.

TLDR! Haha, kidding, have you seen the length of some (most) of my posts?

How am I the first person to respond to this... so goooood!! I'm still laughing Edit: not because I think what happened is at all funny for the record

I always travel with bills branded tackling dummies

Look at getting rabbit ears for that (I'm being serious, I have them). Obviously depends on where you live, but over the air signal is in HD for the network channels. Then you just need to figure out how to get espn for mnf if applicable. Obviously you need to be in range of a signal.

There's a difference between reading old stuff and letting people who weren't engaged in the previous thread a chance to connect and have a discussion on it from scratch. I say let the thread live till it gets near the bottom of the first page and then merge with the old thread. Kind of like that South Park episode with the "Simpsons did it"

You're a nut...

Right! They used to sit in this big tree behind my house and squawk, they'd case the mail man (like sprint after the mail truck), sit on top of the cars and scratch them and poop on top of them... Like, nope... still not sure, imagine this at all hours!