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The worst part about that clip is that the runner put his head down. They changed the rule stating that a runner leading with his head would get a penalty but they don't seem to be calling it a lot and now this new rule is just putting even more burden on the defense to be safe while runners are almost being rewarded for lowering their heads (increasing the possibility of drawing a penalty.)

I would eliminate the kick off and replace it with the "Schiano Rule" awhile back Schiano proposed that instead of a kickoff the ball be placed on the the 35 yardline and the team that just scored be given the ball on a 4th and 15. The team can elect to punt (which is a safer play than a kickoff and still preserves special teams or instead of an onsides kick (which is an ugly random play) the team can go for it on that 4th down. My only modification to the rule would be make it a 4th and 20 since the odds of converting a 4th and 15 is roughly 20% while recovering an expected onsides kick is 5.9%. I think adding 5 more yards puts the conversion rate well below 10%, still above an onsides kick a much closer margin. It makes too much sense to replace the kickoff with a 4th and 20 in my opinion. It makes the onsides kick process much closer to a real play while replacing kickoffs with punts which are safer and more dynamic.

Peterman had a good game but I think people going nuts over it are silly. For one its the first pre-season game, although not as meaningless as the 4th it is one that carries less weight. I also caution that Peterman looked like a world beater in last years pre-season and we all know he wasn't ready. There are just some players that shine much better in pre-season than they do in the real games. I think that Peterman is one of those types of players.

You have to be a massive degenerate gambler to bet on NFL pre-season games where the outcomes are likely to be decided by 2nd, 3rd and 4th string players. Also, the lines factor in the backup players, so the line is absolutely meaningless. Don't get too caught up about pre-season scores and such, to me in the 2nd and 3rd pre-season games (I find the 1st to not be meaningful and the 4th to be a complete waste) you are looking at how certain players perform and getting a feel for who is setting themselves apart.

Allen looked like the raw but tantalizing potential prospect he was coming out of college. It's week one of pre-season so I can't get too hyped either way about it. Allen did his thing, some good and some bad. But I think it is clear from what I watched that it is in Allen's best interest to sit for most of this season. If there is 4-5 games left and the season is lost then start Allen with a low-pressure low expectation situation benefiting him. If Allen is rushed in too early it might derail his development.

1st pre-season game. Who cares, as long as no one got hurt the Bills come up ontop.

Jamis Winston has finished 11, 12 and 13 in pass yards the past 3 seasons. In 3 seasons he has thrown for 69 TD's vs 44 INT's. He also has two 4,000 yard seasons under his belt. Tampa's offenses under Jamis have finished 5th, 18th, and 9th respectively. Now there is a lot of context in those numbers as Tampa's record with Jamis as QB isn't that great (6-10. 9-7 and 5-11 respectively) and their defense has been pretty awful which certainly inflates stats esp passing offense stats. But Jamis to me is without a doubt a top 20 QB at this moment and has potential to be a top 10 QB in the league. The off the field issues are certainly concerning but to say on the field he is a bottom third of the league QB is dishonest. I can name 12 QB's Jamis is better than. AJ McCaron, Joe Flacco, Bradford/Rosen, Keenum, Josh McCown/Darnold, Maholmes, Tannehill, Tyrod, Dalton, Trubinsky, Dak and Bortles are all QB's that are in my opinion worse than Jamis I will grant that you could argue Flacco and Dalton but I also think you could argue putting Jamis over Alex Smith, Mariota, Goff, Jimmy G and DeSean Watson all for various reasons. So I think the issue stems from him not being worth it off the field to risk a large QB contract and faith in a player that might give you headaches off the field.

I want to be clear I never said that it was all Trump supporters, I said a minority but a significant minority. Trump has a rabid core fanbase and his reaction to any criticism legitimate or exaggerated is to proclaim it "Fake News" I think within his most diehard supporters Trump has created a sort of us vs. them attitude towards the media that can lead to a view that is authoritarian. I am not going to pretend that CNN or any other news outlet is beyond reproach or criticism but there is a lot of legitimate hard news that comes out of any news agency whose commentary you might view as biased. It's not as though Trump is just going after one outlet either.

The issue to me is that Trump has gone after any sort of reporting that is negative about him as "Fake News." It's not as though Trump has taken this aggressive stance with nuance. He has generated a very hostile and conspiratorial attitude towards the media in general one that I think his rabid base has taken to.

I don't know if that assertion is true. Only because Trump has gone after the media much harder than any president has in modern history. Trump has repeatedly told his base of rabid followers the media is the enemy and constantly lying about him. Conservatives also have a natural instinct to believe that most of the media has a liberal bias so the narrative is tapping into a long-standing belief. Are there Dems who would want a Dem to have that power? Yes, there are a chunk of Dems that are Authoritarian cunts. But I don't think that it is as high as the current Trump base whose leader is actively telling them how much the media is the enemy.

It wouldn't shock me to think that a significant minority of Republicans would want Trump to have that sort of power. Is it 43%? I don't know, that poll was just one piece of data. You need to do much more polling with more conclusive methods to come to an honest answer or at least one that is more accurate. But Trump does have a weird cult of personality that unlike other past pols who have had similarly devoted fanbases are very conspiratorially minded. That aspect of conspiracy and isolation (Everyone but Trump is a part of the Deep State) makes me very concerned. There are some Trump supporters who genuinely believe the entire government, media, world governments and basically anyone who isn't supporting him is part of a global conspiracy against him. I understand fully that it isn't a large legion of Trump supporters but it isn't that small of a group either.

That is a very odd piece of data, because if you are part of the 43% that think Trump should have the power to censor the press than you are effectively believing in ending freedom of the press in a very major capacity. So it just doesn't make sense to me that 43% of people would want a person in the highest level of government office to be able to censor the press an institution which you believe is essential for American democracy. It just seems like the two ideas are very much at odds with each other.

I think people are thinking that the dude cheerleaders will be dressed exactly the same as the female ones. The college look will probably resemble what this looks like in the pros.

Donald might be the best defensive player in the league. The Rams have a lot of players to play in the future but I they could front load the deals for the first two years so that Geoff and Peters contracts won't be up for renewal until 2 years from now. I would also imagine that Talib and Whitworth would be significant contracts that come off the books once you have to pay Geoff and Peters. My overall impression is that the two most important players for the Rams are Geoff as the key piece on the offense and Donald as the centerpiece for the defense. Every other player on the team is more expendable than those two.

Agreed, the Rams are in more of a win-now mode than the Raiders. The whole Rams defense hinges on Darnold generating massive pressure up the middle (They don't really have great edge rushers.) The Rams have too much invested into this season trading away a lot of picks for win-now talent, they aren't going to tank their defense by trading Darnold. The Raiders have a mentality that their defense was bad with Mack so they can be bad without Mack. Thus I could see a scenario where if a boatload of picks were offered the Raiders would be willing to part with Mack.

I don't get why anyone would want Bridgewater as a starter. Bridgewater wasn't that good before the injury (Look up his stats they weren't that great) and his knee almost exploded and he hasn't played in 2 years. When people on this board were calling for Bridgewater to replace Tyrod I was genuinely perplexed as to what they saw from Teddy other than he just wasn't Tyrod.

You also still have to play to earn that money. It's not guaranteed if you retire or simply don't want to play. But that being said I think most football players want to go out and play the game. Once the money is taken care of that's great but the competition and thrill of the chase motivates them.

Yes and No, I think people don't take the antics seriously but to the outside, it just comes off as white trash but to fans of the NFL it is just stupid fun.

I would be OK with it just being a 2019 1st plus a 2019 late rounder. But I think the Raiders are going to want more and there is a much higher risk of investing a lot of draft capital in a player and a massive contract. But a 2019 1st is a small price to pay for a player of Mack's caliber. Teams that have 3-4 year runs of success (Which in the NFL a run of 3-4 years where you have a window to win a Super Bowl is as good as you can ask for) always have a dominant pass rusher and Mack certainly would provide that esp at an age where he has a solid window of success left. But I think the Raiders would want something that looks like this. 2019 1st, 2019 3rd and a 2020 1st. Trading all that and devoting a lot of cap space to a player is hard to do. But if the Bills could do it with maybe only one 1st rounder and some other 3rd round and lower picks go for it.

I think weed being illegal in the NFL is stupid. But in a world where you know weed could damage your career (Which suddenly is looking up due to the Coleman trade) why on Earth would you take that chance? Idiot, and if Calloway is missing time boy do the Browns need Josh Gordon to come in quick.

43% of Republicans are authoritarian cunts (If that poll is correct.) Anyone that wants to let any government agency shut down speech that falls in line with free speech (which can only be restricted by either Slander or Direct Incitement) is an authoritarian !@#$. Google, Facebook and Twitter are private companies they can do what they like. Free speech only protects you from the government censoring you. Now don't get me wrong, I am a free speech absolutist so I think that what Google, Facebook and Twitter SHOULD do (key word is should) is allow all speech that doesn't fall under the category of Incitement and Slander (Which Alex Jones skirts the line with and even crosses on rare occasion but most of his content is only on the border.) I think it is important to remember the debate is between what companies like Google and Facebook should be doing instead of arguing for free speech in a legal sense. It is just unfortunate that the canary in the coal mine for online free expression is a repugnant idiot like Alex Jones who is so close to the border on incitement and slander that it almost makes it hard to defend him. It might not even be the case that Jones is the canary in the coal mine, it might be that most far right and far left commentators get left alone and that Jones was just so close to the border in terms of incitement that there might not be another case of this type of mass censorship ever since you won't find another large media figure claiming mass shooting victims weren't real. But I would almost rather not take that chance if free expression is on the line.

Can't blame them, playing high-end Division 1 ball is a full-time job that masquerades around as an amateur sport. If you are a legit enough prospect to make it to the NFL focus on the thing that is going to make you millions potentially.

I wouldn't hold my breath for Mack, as much as I like him, he just isn't a likely possibility. I think Mack would likely command a 1st and 3rd in 2019 plus a conditional 3rd that could bump to a 2nd in 2020. I might consider doing that but you have to factor in just exactly how much cap it is going to cost to resign Mack. So not only are you giving up a massive amount of picks but also a massive amount of future cap space as well. That might be too much to mortgage for one defensive player.

I think with running backs coming out of college and being better receivers who can also be workhorse backs you are going to see the return of the elite back. Guys like Gurley and LeVeon who are all around threats at their position are having tremendous value because they are threats to run and catch passes at extremely effective levels. Sure these types are rare and once in awhile, you find a Zeke who is a complete mauler with subpar receiving ability but I think the relevance of the NFL running back is on an upswing because of the dual-threat RB's emergence. If you consider Phillip Rivers a HOF QB then the Chargers could get Gates/LT/Rivers. Also Peyton/Edge James/Marvin Harrison are another possibility.

Could the track practice and competition have played a factor? It could have, it’s all speculation but my point was that a lot of Goodwin’s injuries were heavy contact injuries like concussion and injuries that happened after hits violently tore muscle. Also the narrative the poster was saying was that Goodwin was simply playing for Buffalo to fund his true passion for track. Which by all accounts for how hard he worked while he was in Buffalo is not true. Also on the surface it makes little sense since Goodwin was on a 3rd round pick deal and there isn’t exactly a lot of money to be made in track. If Goodwin was truly that passionate about track he probably wouldn’t have played football at all since one tear to the ACL could damage your speed forever. You could argue that Goodwin’s track training contributed negatively to his injury history. However I would put that more so on the training staff for allowing him to train in such a way that would make him more likely to get hurt than on Goodwin for doing something that he got team approval to do. Also Goodwin always to me looked like a legit big play type WR when he was healthy. It was just right when he would have a big game he would get hurt. It's not necessarily something that just happens to the Bills, players leave a team they struggled with and go off (I am sure Colts fans lament Jerry Hughes.) It’s the unpredictable NFL. I was sad to see Goodwin go since in 2017 he signed with the Niners for so little and if the org was willing to let Woods go and trade Sammy why not kick the tires on Goodwin for one more year if it isn’t going to cost a lot? No need to try over sour grapes, I can’t hate Goodwin as long as a player works hard and is respected by his teammates you are good in my book even if the results on the field aren’t the best.