CodeMonkey

I will admit that I find the entire definition of what the NFL considers a contract very odd. A player and a team enter into a contract whereas the player plays for the team for 3 years for 1 million dollars a year (no mention of "guaranteed" money). The next day after the contract is signed the team decides they no longer want the player and cut him. The contract is unilaterally dissolved and it is like it never happened. No money is paid to the player, there is no breach of contract or anything. However if the player the next day decides he wants to play for a different team, he cannot dissolve the contract. If he doesn't report/play there are repercussions. I understand it is legal because that's how the lawyers draw up the contract, and is the reason there is guaranteed versus non-guaranteed money in the first place. But it is ridiculously one sided. The NFL is given special considerations to allow their monopoly in the first place. This contract inequity should not be tolerated in my opinion. Why the players union allows it is mind boggling. If you and I enter into a contract where you agree to pay me $X a year for Y years for something and I fulfill my part of the contract you are not getting out of paying me, you can bet that /soapbox

I'm not sure that's true for Dareus, but maybe. Spiller????? Not a chance. Not yet in his career anyway.

Fair enough. A development league would certainly have value to the existing teams talent pool. But at the moment Roger has his hands full trying to find new revenue streams to keep the NFL inflation going. Both things concurrently is probably too much.

This all seems like much ado about nothing to me. There is no way NYS is going to fund a new stadium in Buffalo, even partially. There is no way Buffalo can afford it even if it was a good idea. The NFL certainly not going to fund it without assurance of a payback in a timely manner, which they could never get. The Ralph is going to have to do until either Buffalo turns into a major market or the Bills leave Buffalo.

The NFL wants to expand its market to increase profits and pay for ever inflating player salaries. A D-League in the US will not do that. If they have any hopes of keeping the inflation going, they need to start bringing in revenue from outside of North America. I don't think they have a chance in hell of making that work, but it is their only hope. This is not about development at all, it is strictly a business issue.

I agree but am puzzled by the EJ one. There is no border between below average and solid starter

I agree with this one with the exception of Mario Williams who I would bump up by one.

The NFL is basically trying to remove overly dangerous things like kickoffs so good luck with that one. Though logically I agree with you. Out of bounds should be out of bounds in all directions.

YES! I was going to suggest this one as well. Right now there is almost no reason for a WR not to pull down a DB if there is a good chance of an interception. It should clearly be loss of down and I would also say 15 yards. PI now puts the ball at the spot of the foul. They have to make offensive PI sting as well.

A lot of things factor in but yeah the fans take a financial hit for sure. P. Manning as an example got paid 18 million for the past season. This about that for a minute. Ignoring preseason and playoff games, that's more than 1 million dollars per game. That is pure insanity and that economy has to have a correction at some point I would think. Even TV advertisers are going to have to balk at some point.

It crossed my threshold several years ago. But even with things like PSL's ticket sales league wide are still pretty strong. I have to believe though that at some point the NFL will push it too far and will have to roll back prices, salaries etc. or face a collapse. Until then though they are making crazy money.

Leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths though. Paying money for the privilege of giving them more money for your season ticket.

I never understood that. So a kid signs a letter of intent with a college then the next day the coaches he would have been working with are gone? I'd be pretty pissed, particularly if the deal was made ahead of time. Bait and switch.

Yeah I imagine they would consider it bad press to have players opening using weed.

A good short term fix to generate more revenue. Well done Commish!

i disagree. It's neutral in my opinion (assuming you aren't using it during a game or practice ). But I agree with it becoming a team issue at that point, along with alcohol and any other recreational drug,

That's actually a interesting concept. If a player lives in a state where it is legal, even if just medically, and it is not considered performance enhancing, should testing positive be a problem anymore?

Ribs? Damn I'm coming to your party next year!

True, he did very little in the SB. But he did manage one TD. Maybe Denver decided they were all-in to shut down Lynch and force Seattle to beat them in other ways, I don't know. But if so, those ways proved to be plentiful. In any event, if you look at the season as a whole, he had 1257 yards. Which is 300+ more than Spiller and Jackson. At the end of the day, not a bad seasons work. To me the SB came down to the #1 offense against the #1 defense. The #1 defense took it hands down. Lynch and the offense didn't do much, but they didn't really have to either.

Part of the problem are the rules themselves. If someone on the offense has a muscle spasm they get called for a false start for gods sake. Plus the refs themselves are too old to keep up in a lot of cases. The inconsistent calls are really just due to the refs seeing only some of the action on the field at any one time. The only way to remove this in my opinion is to develop an automated system that has a camera on every player and can look for penalties, in bounds or not, and everything else. Without this you are stuck with a handful of humans trying to enforce a seemingly endless list of [often worthless] rules. And where you have humans you will always have human error.

I disagree. The only unit on the Bills that was decent consistently was the defense. Pretty much the entire defensive coaching staff went to Cleveland. The Browns are loaded with draft picks in the first few rounds and should be able to get a promising QB plus some other supporting cast. Should they be up near the top of that list, no way. Should they be higher than the Bills, absolutely.

That's actually a great idea. She appeals to all age groups and wouldn't sex it up like Katy Perry would.

Most of the "grandpa" bands sucked as well. The notable exception being McCartney. I thought Springsteen also did well. My wife and kids enjoyed Bruno last night. I didn't, but I don't like his music. The peppers were simply sad. I think last night was trying to do both. Bruno for the younger crowd and the peppers for the not so young crowd.

It wasn't legal when he went there. Not that the legality of it is a big deal to him. Oh God no. Not what I've seen from Manuel so far. I certainly hope he gets to Wilsons level some day (this upcoming season would work for me), but by no means is he there now. Unless you meant Manuel playing for the Broncos, in that case I agree completely Basically I'm happy with the outcome. Lynch got a ring and Welker got denied. Works for me.

More TV which equals more $$$. It's a no brainer for the NFL.