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Maybe It's a double agent type plan. Cut Brown with the intention of resigning him back but cut him knowing the Pats* will prod him for information. So you have Brown fill the Pats* with a bunch of misinformation. Then two weeks later Bryce is back on the team. (All said in a Jesse Ventura conspiracy theory voice).

To play Devils advocate, In Brady's two losses to the Giants in the Super Bowl the Giants needed a miracle Eli Manning to David Tyree play and a Wide open Wes Welker dropping a pass. So it's not like nothing close has ever not gone Brady's way. I think Brady's career has been so successful because of a sociopath head coach willing to bend every grey area and outright cheat in some cases, being handed a great Defense for the first and most successful part of his career, and then building a reputation off of those aspects where he and his team do get close calls and bend pick play rules. So it's a case of the Pats* cheating and having a great defense during the first half of Brady's career leading to him being successful and then that success building to a reputation where even more cheating and calls go his way.

I remember an older interview with the old Knicks coach from the 1970's Red Holzman. "If you ask me about the past and it is about something good. Then I was for it and always was for it, and it might have been my idea. If something was bad, then I was always against it." This seems like Polian is just trying to have an I knew it all along moment.

I am not smart enough in how I watch football to know. I have seen it posted around here that Gronk has been fairly limited when he has played against the Jets. In eight games against Ryan’s defenses, Gronk has 39 career catches for 461 yards and five touchdowns. That's about 4.5 catches, 57 yards, and a .6 TD's a game. And considering how the Jets secondary was oblitrated last season for 2 of those games I would say Ryan has done a decent job against Gronk. He hasn't shut him down but he has seemed to handle him well for such a dangerous player.

I trust Rex, he has defended Gronk pretty well through most of his career.

Yeah, it wouldn't make sense all these players are going for unpaid workouts giving te Pats* everything they want about their former teams without getting signed first. Why not give them some incentive to sign you. I do think Brown will catch on as the season progresses, RB's will get hurt and he is one of the better younger ones on the waiver wire.

You can't blame the teams really, on the field if you can get an advantage by pushing the grey area of a rule you would hard pressed to find a team not doing it. But the league has to step in and enforce it consistently. If the rule is too ambigious and it's too much of a judgement call for the refs then you have to put some sort of emphasis or adjustment on the rule. Much like Seattle pushed the contact rules the NFL snapped back the emphasis to make sure illegal contact and pass interference was called consistenly. This pick play stuff has got to go it's not consistently or fairly enforced.

Football is a violent game. It's not surprising to hear that older players are having issues with CTE. Hopefully more players get access to various levels of treatment and they get out of the game without playing those last couple of years where extensive damage can occur. I remember listening to an interview with Kyle Turley talking about medical Marijuana helping out a lot of former players dealing with the pain of playing and with CTE symptoms. They also said other methods of treatment are becoming more available which is good, however the funding for former players treatments aren't at the levels where they should be.

They really need to find a way to crack down on it. I Think it's ruining the game. It's a cheap play that makes everything a dink and dunk check down type play, then once teams stack the short game via pick plays they take shots deep with ease. The deep passing game shouldn't be set up with a bunch of "Within the letter of the law but against the spirit of the law" type plays. It should be balanced with the running game, screen game, and the receivers ability against one on one matchups. It takes a lot of the strategy out of the game. If anyone has ever played a video game online they will get this, it's become a cheap exploit that everyone has to use which undermines the way the game is intentionally supposed to be played. Thus it just turns into a game of who can do that singular tacit better. As opposed to the natural checks and balances that are supposed to exist. The pick play has introduced a way for teams to get the short passing game going without having to set up any other element of the offense first. It used to be you have to run the ball in order to get teams to stack the box to open up shorter passing routes Or you have to throw deep to open up the underneath routes. Screens introduced a way to throw off over aggressive blitzing and stunting. There was a certain balance where offenses had to attack one element the running game or deep passes to open up short passing. But with picks you now give offense another avenue to open up offense that isn't reliant on being successful in another aspect of offensive attack. To sum up short passing should open up in reaction to success in another aspect of offense, not because some teams have skirted the rules to open it up via pick plays.

Bill Burr Hilarious as always.

To beat the Pats* you need to do two things. One is you have to pressure Brady with your front 4, two you need an offense that can consistently move the ball. Getting to Brady without blitzing is key and keeping him off the field without going 3 and out often. It takes a lot of effort and energy to stop the Pats* by limiting the posessions through consistently moving the ball you help your cause immnesely. Of course putting on points is a dumb generality but when playing the Pats* you have to get 2-3 first downs on every drive at a minimum.

The Bills need to play smart and physical. Make it hurt by dishing out punishing hits on all those dink and dunk type passes (Also the first guy there needs to make the tackle). Each time they touch the ball they need to be more sore than the last time. Do that and don't beat yourselves and that's a recipe for success against the Pats*. The Ravens always seem to have success against the Pats* by having good strong open field tackling to go along with a front seven capable of pressuring the QB.

He looked good but Tampa's defense isn't very good. Rookie QB's real test always comes when team get 5-6 games of film on them and make adjustments. It will be interesting to see how good he looks come the end of the season. Either way he is playing much better out the gate than most thought.

Even if Darby or Butler plays great alongside Gilmore as the number 1 and Robey out the nickle or dime then having McKelvin step in as the 4th corner is great. Depth is key, even in the best case scenario Darby and Butler play well and McKelvin sits the bench and the team has tremendous depth in case of injury. In the NFL it's the teams with Depth that win. Also the team could entertain an offer via trade if Darby and Butler are that good.

Lower top 10 seems fair. They were an upper middle of the pack team going into the Indy game and with an impressive win against a highly rated Indy team that vaults them into the top 10 of any ranking.

True but Indy's D-line has two rookies starting neither of whom were drafted very high or came out of camp and pre-season looking too hot. Kendall Langford is the vet starter and he isn't a particularly good player either. The depth behind them isn't too impressive. On top of that they didn't look that great against the Bills week 1. So it is possible to have a bad unit on defense and still be a playoff team esp with a great QB.

Hopefully he comes back as a luxury because Darby is playing so well. Still good news, Leodis had his best year under a Pettine system, Rex has a system you have to think is similar. So hopefully he can give the team a boost in the stretch run.

Indy's D-line is not very good. Luckily with Wilfork now gone the Pats* line isn't the best either. So it's good to see our line turn in a strong performance (InCog and Glenn mainly) the context should be taken into account. Although if you aren't going to dominate a weak D-Line then who are you going to play well against? So it's still a good sign that the line looked like a capable O-line in week 1.

Just picked him up for my fantasy team. He is on my bench. But I might need him in case Mike Evans misses another week.

My fantasy team hopes so.

I think this will most likely be Peyton's last year. I could see him pulling a Farve if he has a half way decent year and trying to go to a good team in desperate need of a half way decent QB for one last ride. But if he can't be an effective QB anymore then I think Denver with a rising defense and a young QB in the wings will dump Peyton's huge cap hit to further add and retain talent and give Brock a shot. However if Peyton turns in a good season it's going to be interesting. Denver will likely want to resign Brock to a modest short term deal to take over as the starter if Manning looks spent. But if Manning still looks like a top 10 QB then it will be very interesting to see if the Broncos try and go for it another season with Manning and let Brock walk, or do they still let Peyton walk and take their chances on a much younger but unproven QB.

Probably the most underrated and under appreciated great player of all time. He won 3 MVP's (2 during the Bird and Magic era), 12 NBA and 1 ABA All Star Games, took a horrendous Rockets team to the Finals, Won a Championship with the 76ers and was their Finals MVP, and was a 6 time NBA rebounding champion including 5 years in a row. Yet he never seems to be talked about as much as he should be. RIP 60 is too young to go, but these big guys always seem to go early sadly.

The author has a point about Brady being light years ahead of Fitz and Tyrod (Tyrod being more of an unknown but still) and still significantly better than Tanny. With the QB position being such an advantage in the modern NFL it's hard to see the Pats* not being the favorite out of the division. However the Pats* defense with the departure of their starting corners and Vince Wilfork among others on the defense no longer have a good defense. The Pats* will revert back to the team they were from 2009 to 2013 where they could score at will be also get scored on by moderately good offenses. So yes it's the Pats* and everyone else till proven otherwise simply due to the QB disparity. However if the Bills overall roster is much better than the Pats* then maybe the Bills can win in a head to head matchup and win double digit games challenging them for the division.

That play was nuts, Kiko looked like the reciever on that play. Kiko has looked pretty good, not as active and all over the field like when he was here but that's to be expected recovering from a serious injury and having a setback in camp.

It is encouraging how good the Bills played with McCoy and Watkins looking a little rusty and Dareus suspended and Graham knocked out early on defense. I did think the Colts are a bit overrated but I do think that they are a legit playoff team with Luck and some decent talent around him. Overall it's hard to see the win as anything but a positive. Let's hope they can beat the Pats* next week and keep the momentum going.