Magox

In case you missed it, generally speaking this has been a bad year for FA's. Quality players are signing for low contracts, primarily because of two reasons. 1) Salary Cap didn't expand this year. So when you have a cap that doesn't expand, and existing salaries rising, you have less available money for new players. 2) Contracts for Franchise QB's have spiked this year. Many teams that are expecting to re sign their QB's understand that in order to retain their services that they have to set aside anywhere from 15-20% of their entire cap for their Franchise QB. So you have a lot of one year performance contracts. Basically what it says is that they believe in themselves, so rather than sign a multi year contract at below their perceived value, they'd rather roll the dice a little, sign a one year deal and hope that next year's FA market will reward them more so than this year.

At times, I wouldn't be surprised if we see this formation. If they do plan on following through with all the disguised blitzing that we believe they will perform, it's not as critical for them to get heavy pass pressure with the front four.

You're like a comedian. But an unfunny one.

Don't strain yourself too much man. Basically it's just another rendition of Al Davis' "Just win baby!"

The answer simply put is: All of the above

Personally I like the signing, but nonetheless, he does have a legitimate concern.

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Holy crap! 6-4 229..... He could end up being a big LB

Whoah! Whoah! Settle down Lets not get carried away.

Dansby!

Looks like he's buying into what they are trying to do.

For sure.

Most liberals that I see, reluctantly support the ACA because it's the president's main achievement, so it's more a matter of trying to help support his legacy. However, I believe once the healthcare law starts showing it's ugly face, they'll dip on him with blinding speed.

Seems as if just about every day there is either a study, news from the actuaries, the administration, the states or medical providers that warn us of some sort of negative impact that we will see as a result of the ACA. One of the worst impacts will be on at the state level, the classic bait and switch, we'll cover your Medicaid expansion costs for the first x amount of years, then after that, "don't worry about it, health care costs will go down, so you will be fine" State budgets will explode! Which will lead to even more dramatic cuts for state government Union employees, and of course they will all be asking Uncle Sam to bail their ass out. Then you will see liberal lawmakers blame Conservative governors for slashing budgets, that basically were imposed by their crappy piece of **** legislation. The ACA sucks ass. Some of us have been saying this for a few years now, soon we will start seeing everything that was predicted. It will be interesting to see how Liberals will react to this abortion of a Law that they created all on their own. Will some of them remain quiet and hide? Will some of them predictably say "see, we should have had the public option". Will some of the more moderate democratic voices admit that it could have been crafted better and support a repeal or a major overhaul. or will some push for Single Payer health care? In any case, it's a train wreck that will undoubtedly affect our health care system, small businesses and state and federal budgets.

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Actually that scouting report, which hasn't completely played out, is pretty accurate with a number of his assessments.

Don't forget Climate Change

Crap! Beat me to it.

I'm guessing all the criticism from all those football players were simply because they were all a bunch of racists.

This isn't the first major criticism of Geno Smith. Obviously scouts are wrong all the time, but the specific critiques on him are disconcerting.

Think of it as a petunia.

Even if you go by what those articles say, they use terms such as "one-time journeyman" "he was a journeyman then" past tense.

If so, it could possibly affect who the Raiders draft with their first pick.