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Why is this still a surprise to people? There were multiple stories about the league memo to officials in regard to only calling clear and obvious penalties. “When we were preparing, certainly going in, we had a theme of ‘clear and obvious’ and we wanted that to continue throughout the year,” Anderson told the league’s in-house TV/digital conglomerate. “We had to address clear and obvious. You can’t miss clear and obvious and it starts with that. Going forward we don’t want all of a sudden to start calling the ticky tack stuff. We want things that are clear.” ~ NFL senior V.P. of officiating training and development Walt Anderson.

They should implement a draft lottery system this year (only) because of covid.

Yes, it can be fixed. Almost anything can be 'fixed'. I can't speak so much for their TV as I haven't watched ESPN in many years, but I suspect it's much the same problem it had back then and the same problem they have on the web. I work for a company that runs a website and charges people a 'subscription'. It's a different world as we're a tech company who provides data, but the one thing I harp on is not mentally fatiguing users. Don't wear them with awful navigation, going to parts of the site and getting a "Oh, you need to pay money to see this", moving things around, different UI in different areas. Generally, a fragmented user experience. ESPN is the very definition of a fragmented experience. There's articles I can't read without a subscription. There's 'team based' section that look and act wholly different based on the team. One of the most maddening is that when I go and scroll through the articles, it's tough to find the content I was looking for...it's in chronological order, but then.. it's not. Over the years in the push to monetize, monetize, monetize everything, they've been haphazard with no clear vision and it's now mentally taxing trying to use their site. The only time I'm interested is when someone direct links something. They need to get someone in charge with a clear vision (even if that vision is not perfect and start unifying the overall experience. Then start investing in some better regular content.

I could never be comfortable giving him a huge contract. He's great, but if you have to replace him for 3-4 games a year...well, now you've got to pay (or invest draft capital) for a high quality backup too. Great player, seems like a great guy, the exact type of player I think you *should* pay, but his injuries seem to be increasing year by year so not only do you have the "Is he gonna play question?", but how long before these injuries affect the quality and not just the quantity of his play?

this game is disgusting

2019 - Mahomes Chiefs - 2.4% 2018 - Brady Patriots - 12.4% 2017 - Foles / Wentz Eagles - 4.6% 2016 - Brady Patriots 8.9% 2015 - Manning Broncos - 12.2% 2014 - Brady Patriots - 11.1% 2013 - Wilson Seahawks - .6% 2012 - Flacco Ravens - 6.6% 2011 - Eli Manning Giants - 11.7% 2010 - Rodgers Packers - Uncapped year 2009 - Brees - 8.7% 2008 - Roethlisberger - 10.7% 2007 - Eli - 9.2% 2006 - Peyton - 10.4% 2005 - Roethlisberger - 4.9% 2004 - Brady - 6.3% 2003 - Brady - 4.4% 2002 - Johnson - 7.88% 2001 - Brady - .5% However, this is HIGHLY misleading. Many of these teams had players who took up a higher % of the cap than the arbitrary 20 million number which would be 10.1% of the cap this season. The largest percent of the cap ever spent on one player while winning a Superbowl was Steve Young at 13.1% which would be about $26 million this year.

I have hopes Davis will become more difficult to defend as time goes on to provide some real depth. No, he has a contract. I don't expect when it's up after next season the Bills will re-sign him. He'll be priced out after Diggs gets a new deal. As above, hopefully Davis or another young receiver can take over.

Right on. It's almost always a confluence of events and not just any one thing. If it was one thing then it's generally easy to fix and compensate. Fans tend to like to reduce things down to it being one simple thing such as "AJ KLEIN!" or "EDMUNDS!" and think if they just replaced Klein then everything would be great again on defense or that trading for TE would fix everything.

Yes, but he didn't really keep up. He was probably 2-3 feet behind him. A badly underthrown ball that he had no idea was even thrown until it hit him because he was trying to catch up. He had a great game though and hopefully they have figured out an effective way to keep using his talents.

I agree. I think Darnold is 'hurt', but I don't think it's his decision to sit. The Jets have traded two players immediately after a game ended (and it's said they were actually traded before the games) and been cutting players who have been on the active roster. They certainly seem to have pivoted to full on tanking. I'm really curious if BB will match.

Jets. A Jets win would be devastating to their chances of 1st overall.

He had a great game, but I loved the play where he was in coverage and Wilson underthrew it and it hit him in the back

It surprised Pete Carroll for some reason.

..from one of the most irrational and biased people on here...

Honestly, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. You really need to see it for yourself.

I just saw Phillip Rivers try to tackle a guy. Wow. That was amazing.

Yea, I think it's because he speaks too passively about games in press conferences. 😉

99% sure he was being sarcastic

They need to upgrade the position, but I'll take Kroft 10/10 times. He had a clutch catch today instead of Knox's clutch drops.

Brilliant gameplan for the defense (despite giving up an arseload of points). They knew they had guys like Klein who could be abused and put them in positions to succeed. There were some breakdowns, but you can only do so much with some of the guys they were putting on the field.

Told you that you're a *******

Why be such a ******* passive ****? Gameplan to score 80 or just go be a **** **** somewhere else because the NFL isn't for you!

Yet another national enquirer post from lb48. Hurray.

How did the Raiders get lambasted yet the Titans got a slap on the wrist?

If the Dolphins end up thinking that Tua isn't the QB and move on then I'll be very concerned about their future in the division. Recognizing you made a mistake and moving on is something good organizations can do.