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Astro I love your draft insight and all you do for this site but please tell me you don't believe in pff. In 2011 was great! For 10 games before getting injured. The #1 back and he only plays in 10/16 games?! In 2014 Fred played in 14 games had a 3.7 ypc and 3 total tds but was the 22nd best rb in the league? I love Freddie but I have to take issue with that. Also Bryce was 27th best back in the league and played in parts of 7 games!

Freddie has been great for this team. He was not the same back last year. He looked to be running in quick sand. He may stick around this year but it would not be shocking to some of us to see him not be on the opening day roster. That is all I am saying in this thread and will now be stepping away from my (surely) dead horse. I do appreciate your snark though

No I think everyone (Frdddie included) will see that he doesn't have it anymore. It was readily apparent last year that he had lost more than a step. I don't think they will outright cut him. I also don't see it as out of the realm of possibility that he is not on this team in 2015. He will be the oldest back n the league by far. He has played 1 full season in the last 4. At some point in time it will be over for Freddie. I would not be shocked to see it be this year.

I don't disagree but that means absolutely nothing going forward.

Seriously you hope it falls flat? I will never understand a fan like this. I don't care if it is the dumbest move in the world. I am ALWAYS hoping it works out for the Bills.

Ingram is not anywhere near the class of McCoy If McCoy at 26 is over the hill after 6 years in the league what is Gore? Ajayi? A 3rd round prospect?! A guy who has just as much chance at success as washing out of the league? It is clear from your posts that you love Kiko. Think about the trade this way. The Bills traded a maybe star with 2 knee injuries in 4 years for a definite star that will touch the ball 20-30 times a game. I don't know about you but I'll trade a maybe for a definite every time.

First off Wood and Glenn are certainly at least "decent starters." Now for the Philly O-line. Johnson was suspended for the opening four games, and by the time he returned, center Jason Kelce and left guard Evan Mathis were out with with a sports hernia injury and a knee injury, respectively. By the time they were healthy enough to return to the field, right guard Todd Herremans was sidelined with a torn biceps. Instead of a single starting five, the Eagles used seven different starting combinations along the offensive line, featuring 10 different players. For a unit demanding cohesiveness to be outstanding, the Eagles were forced into a piecemeal approach for the entire season. As for the 2 pro bowlers even Kelce admitted that he was elected based on reputation. Dude missed 4 games and still got elected?! Come on.

I think Freddie will ride off into the sunset at the end of tc. Let's be honest he is the heart and soul of the offense but he didn't look great last year. Especially when he returned from the groin pull he suffered against air. Boobie fits the ground and pound attack, has familiarity with roman, and is a special teamer. Mccoy is locked into #1. Brown was just traded for last year and is younger than Freddie as well as a better replacement for Mccoy as a similar style back. I could certainly see Brown being cut but it wouldn't shock me to not see Freddie make the team this year.

No their line was not better than the Bills last year. Only Jason Peters started all 16 games last year of their original starting O line. The year before all 17 games were started by the same group.

I can't keep reading this and not offer a rebuttal. Mccoy had a turf toe injury at the beginning of last year. The Eagles then had their entire offensive line decimated by injury. All that and Mccoy still finished 3rd in rushing and that was a down year for him! Kiko might be great Mccoy is great.

My grandfather was on the USS Chester for over 2 years and this was one of the battles his ship saw. One of my favorite things as a child was listening to his stories and his story about Iwo Jima was one of my favorites.... He was not a religious man but knew that this would be a bloody battle. He said the night before he prayed to somehow escape this battle. On the first day his ship took some damage and had to return to SF (port) to be repaired. By the time the ship was repaired this battle was over.

What I'm hearing (and I hate to stick my neck out too lol) Fab and Southerland academics The booster issue repeated failed drug tests with no action taken by the university. There may be more but those are the main things I heard and none of them are a surprise to any of us.

Seriously. lol I loved being single and had come to enjoy the idea of being a bachelor forever. I had a list of things that a girl would have to do/be for me to give up the bachelor lifestyle. Loving sports was on my list. Somehow I ended up marrying a girl who within the first year asked me why I didn't just start rooting for a football team that won once in a while. A girl who, while watching a Laker game with me (hey I do root for some good teams - these last couple of years aside) commented on Lamar Odom being married to a Kardashian and loving the fact that all of the celebrities were there. Doesn't care for football (understands Sundays are mine though, and Thursday/Monday nights and doesn't give me a hassle) and doesn't like going to Cuse games (hates walking up the hill in the cold). She does like a sport though so I didn't completely go against my idea. She loves her some UFC lol.

my screen name is from my Bills season tickets. I sit in 310 for SU seasons. We sold the tickets for this game, because we got 150 each which gave us 300 towards the 1016 our 2 tickets cost for the year, and well because I have the seasons with my sister and my wife would have been pissed if I spent v day at a cuse game. I floated watching the game and got a similar response to JR lol. Yup me too. I even had to explain exactly what that meant and stupidly used the phrase that "it basically means that this season doesn't count for anything." She probably would have been slightly agreeable if it wasn't at 6. 8 would have been okay as the 3 month old would have kept her occupied. 4 o'clock would have worked as it would have been the middle of the day, who cares. 6 is the absolute worst though. I cut the cord last year too. I only have regular cable as they never shut me off and internet so dvr/tivo is out for me. I'm thinking I will miss most of this game and will be lucky to catch the second half. What the f*ck happened to me?

So on to the important question: How are you convincing your significant other to let you watch the Cuse on what is probably the dumbest scheduling in the history of SU Basketball? 6pm on valentines day?!?! Couldn't be 8? or 4? Had to be right at dinner time? What no wife/gf having douche scheduled this?!

I get that and knew we could have a conversation about it without you getting defensive on me. That comes from your 22k+ posts Good to hear and keep the info coming!

I'm sure I have a different perspective as I came to the thread late and like I said after the news had already broken but it just smacks of I was wrong but it is his fault I was wrong. He has 158 posts in 10 years and (to my knowledge) it is his first time breaking any sort of news. Perhaps he didn't know the proper etiquette that you and others expected. I see it from a different perspective. He offered a tidbit, there was push back, he offered more support to back it up, should have been end of story.

Not at all true. The next day you could start applying at competitors. Then when they called to do a reference check your former employer would be able to give dates of employment and position title. You would not be blackballed for a year, have your name dragged through the mud in the media, or suffer any long term consequences other than being unemployed until you found a job. Employers hands are tied anymore. There is no "you shouldn't hire that guy" as it would result in a lawsuit.

Things I don't care about with incognito: Death threats - most people in a heated exchange have uttered something like this. Usually at a younger age but verbal threats of physical harm are far down the list of things I worry about Sexually explicit comments - Get a group of guys together (especially meat heads in there 20s and the conversation will quickly turn to women and what they would do to them. The bullying scandal - I still can't grasp a 6'5" 320 lb man being bullied. Things I do care about: The penalties - for obvious reasons The sexual assault incident - taking words to the next level is not acceptable. Who knows what really happened but I am sure something happened Drugs - always a concern. Drug use when you have that much opportunity in front of you, just screams poor decision maker. What I like about this signing: There is zero risk - if he keeps his nose clean and performs, great! If he is a knucklehead or sucks, he is gone. No harm in looking.

The tone and tenor of that thread was embarrassing to say the least. Even this thread is a little sad. Some long time posters or short term heavy volume posters attacked the information with no need. Just because they were tired of discussing it? The same posters that will tell others just to not click on a thread or ignore it. By the end of page 2 (and I saw the thread late enough that the news had already broken) I certainly felt bad for the guy. It wasn't the worst I've ever seen but it felt uncalled for. Some offered half-hearted apologies, others said it was his fault for the way he posted the information (which continues in this thread), some apologized with out excuse and owned their mistake (JiH). If it truly was discussing the information that is all well and good but some posters took it too another level. Sure the tenor here can be good and at times it can get out of control, that doesn't excuse the times that it gets out of control. There are several posters here who mainly focus on attacking belittling people (I won't name anyone here but if you really need a list feel free to pm) and have high post counts, there are other clear trolls (ieatcrayonz although the new persona has certainly toned it down a bit), etc... I don't mean this directed at you bandit so please don't take it that way. I am glad this thread popped up though because that thread was not a shining example of what tsw is or should be. Many of us come here for these inside info tidbits and I for one (altough it appears I am not alone) don't want people run off or attacked for sharing. If they are trolling it will be apparent soon enough and then the flaming can begin.

No I'm not. What I'm saying is your sense of humor at 35 is probably much different than it was at 15.

Contraband was so terribly painfully obvious. I pegged that ending very early in the film. I enjoy Wahlberg a great deal. Fear was a very good movie and Shooter was phenomenal. However he can have a stinker here and there. Pain and Gain was absolutely terrible imo. I know this is your opinion so I won;t press to hard with this but.... The movies you quoted are over 20 years old. I would be willing to be you were in your 20s or younger when they came out. When that type of humor would be appealing to you. Now that you are older, your tastes have changed and "dumb" funny isn't as good to you anymore. I would bet if you asked your parents when kingpin or Dumb and Dumber came out they would have thought they were terrible much like you do with Ted. The target audience isn't older people it is teens and early 20s which I don't believe (guessing) you fall in.

This isn't disgusting at all. The secondary market let the NFL know that what they were selling was more valuable than the price they had attached to it. The NFL then adjusted their prices. This isn't them being greedy this is them being smart. They are simply removing the middle man. I don't feel sorry at all for stub hub or any other places that took a calculated risk that didn't work out. If anything this story tells you of the greed of the secondary market not the NFL. It is indeed. It also is them charging what people are willing to pay. If I had something that people were willing to pay $10 for and was selling it at $5 only to have someone else buy all of mine to turn around and sell it for $10 wouldn't I be an idiot not to mark my price up to $10? That is all that is going on here. There are many instances of the NFL being greedy this isn't one of them.

Yeah that was me. I'll readily admit too that I was indeed looking for a smoking gun to prove that they were somehow cheating lol. It turned out that outside of benjarvus green Ellis the rest of the players I looked at (woodhead, Sammy morris, and blount) all fall within a very close range on and off the pats*. I chose The players I did bc they were the rbs that played for other teams. Ridley, vereen, Kevin faulk, and Maroney were exclusively pats* players so there was no data to use. The one thing I will say is that I did not look at any wr or other positions. due to the volume of touches rbs got I figured that would be the best sample size to pull data from.

Undeniably this is bringing more attention to the game. The pats* have done the impossible and made the Seahawks out to be the good guys in all of this. Regular news broadcasts have been covering this topic bring ing in casual observers and giving them a rooting interest. This case is falling in the "there is no such thing as bad press" for the league. The pats* however are kind of on the other end of the spectrum.