rstencel

Don't forget the 0-4 variation of prevent that patriots played for a while, and the 6-1 that bears did year before they came up with the 46 defense. then variations of secondary like 2 deep, 3 deep, cover 3, cover 4, tampa 2, and zone blitz to name a few. Short yardage or big is considered a type as well. Depending on whether mean type or personnel on field there are several hundred different names given for schemes played out of base sets, and blitzing types.

Well considering you cant practice with team while on pup, except during a short window where they can have you practive for 2 weeks while they decide if going to activate or not, and if decide not too, cant practice with team again.

Linebackers usually spend a portion of thier time with secondary coaches going over coverage schemes and responsibilities at very least, if not going over coverage technics and other skills as well. So they should have a basic working knowledge of each other, at very least.

I would like to have had Taylor for the games that Lynch misses, but for the rest of the season, would prefer Rhodes for the reasons you point out. Although we have a pretty good backup already who can catch and is exciting in the open field when he does in Jackson. He doesn't run routes as precise as Rhodes does. I think that is why he doesn't see as many balls come his way as one would think with a QB like TE. With Rhodes as 3rd down back, I think the passing numbers to the backs goes way up, since the confidence TE will have on knowing the RB will be were he should on the play will be higher. So while we may have been better off in the short term with Taylor, I think Rhodes brings more to the Bills over the course of the season.

They had proof that he had a direct hand in killing 6. Hundreds did die through the organization he ran however, either by the people he employed or through the actually fights they where in. So what I am getting from this argument, is that a crime only should count if someone dies? Or the masterminds behind the organizations who commit crimes should be able to hide behind the people they pay to do them for them? Not sure if I'm understanding what your point is, but there are more things than murder that are illegal in this country.

I think that fact that he ran an organization doing illegal activities, put up a legal front to try and hide the activities, then lied repeatedly after they where uncovered in an attempted to still hide the facts are pretty major. Also the killing of the dogs isn't the issue, its the way he killed them. If he just shot them or killed them without torturing them, there wouldn't have been such an uproar on that point, but he still would have gone to jail for running an organized criminal organization.

So you dont think financing and running a multistate criminal orginization for over 6 years is worse than these offenses? Most of them where emotional spur of the moment crimes, and werent planned and run for years, like Vicks was. Sorry but think being a crime boss is a bit too much to forgive in my eyes.

Every seems to be on the killing an animal as not being that bad, so he isn't that bad. I am more concerned about 2 aspects myself. 1. He bankrolled, and pretty much ran a multi-state organization for illegal activities and put up a shell company to cover it. The fact he went through the trouble of the cover shows he knew he was doing illegal activity, and went through allot of trouble to hide it. 2. He didn't just kill the animals, he purposely torchered them. He killed them in slow painfully ways, just for the fun of it. I have seen allot on TV and INTERNET saying someone in the NFL is playing after Driving Drunk and killing someone, so he shouldn't be punished. While I am not condoning drunk driving, there was no plan there to kill or torchered anyone. So while killing a person is much worse than killing a dog, dint think there is a direct comparison. The WR for Panthers that hired people to kill his kids mother would be a closer comparison in my eyes. Basically what it comes down to to me, isn't that he killed dogs. It is that he ran a criminal organization. I dint see how he can be considered a good person after doing that. Of course, most people that know serial killers say what nice people they are too.