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yea I could do without the personal gossip and whether his employees kept his private matters private…. But I do think shining light on skeezy medical people is not terrible for possible accountability

have a few fun black label shows under my belt honestly, I’d love to hear the reasoning on Hyde/poyer I don’t think Hyde was ever intended to play. I’m assuming same here. On a purely unemotional level - asst coaches and get a younger athlete prepared starting today I’m assuming it’s some family values angle that they take care of their own so buy into the system fully but even there… is poyer better off floating around on the practice squad or putting a coaching title on his resume? Seems teaching the man to fish by introducing his next career option would be totally appropriate

Sign him as a coach - you can have as many as you want.

I have to think at some point that your core demographic consistently and across the board raising concerns about the deteriorating quality of your product would raise concerns. while of course that could be a case of grumpy old men being a naturally complaint filled group…. it reminds me of espn thinking they had the magic ratings team and paying everyone only to later realize everyone was watching for Tebow news, not their newscasters and ratings plummeted when Timmy flopped. Could we be in a weird bubble where people are falling out of love with nfl football despite being highly engaged socially at the moment through things like fantasy football?

part is there are only so many 6’6 guys that at 270 lbs can run a 4.6-4.7 forty so he exists at that size well and seems to like football

wasn’t watching today but the coaches had to hate seeing him impressed by his own reverse spin out of the pocket the first game. just a terrible move 99% of the time and here he was acting like Garrett would be impressed

Both less talented and less destructive

the nfl would absolutely love the ratings boost of a sanders sideshow. It’d be Tebow 2.0 with a mediocre qb that’s completely polarizing a GM would not. A head coach even less. it makes no sense to say the league directed teams to avoid him

yes and no. part of the value is the 4 years of getting contributions that exceed paychecks. we just burned one of those years. further we just paid several guys to fill these roles. Keon is a draft value if we can let Shakir walk, for example. im not sure running back the entire franchise of the team that lost to the team that was blown out in the Super Bowl does the trick. frankly last year was the mostly healthy, mostly good bounces year. There’s a good chance they found their high water with this crew already.

Real creative way to say that first impressions may be hard to shake

For all we know, it was a players gun going off and that’s why we never heard about it

I don’t think Josh had great chemistry with him. so many of Josh’s negative plays were Gabe.

Unless pocket looks like the savior, but somehow Flacco looks better than that even…. You have to protect sheer upside of the young guys, even if long shots. Pickett or Huntley will likely be around if you need to call them because Flacco got hurt.

ever since that run of bengals players going bananas everyone very eagerly looks to the nfl to dole out punishment as an employer for things the legal system should generally cover. It often puts them in weird no win positions. I’ve admittedly been back and forth. If a semi violent head case doesn’t belong in the nfl, where in society, outside the prison system, do we really want him? But no one wants to watch that jerk cash weekly checks larger than I make in 5 years.

continuing stellar judgement. no qb, and 4th in their division. Race to sign.

A larger volume of very good guys doesn’t help him but in a world where everyone is trying to stack edge talent for less than $40m a year and you need several…. It still speaks to managing expectations that he lasted. hopefully he unlocks the upside!

in glass half full, he has a lot of tools and seems like a hard worker sooo good guy to take a swing with still!

as a premium position guy that lasted a long time…. Clearly the nfl saw significant limitations. it’s not quite the same but a 3rd round qb has nearly no expectation while a round 3 running back is probably carrying a bit more pressure to contribute early. he’s at a position that gets overdrafted and he still lasted. I would plan to give him plenty of runway to figure things out and would not put all my chips in on him reaching all pro status.

you would’ve sold it for a couple cases of beer when it doubled and that would be way worse

all of them were born? I’m saying adding in a bunch of 80s rock (ie 35+ years old) probably isn’t going to happen to replace the current stuff that’s growing stale

and unfortunately, can only count on so many classic rock or metal songs to do that for team and crowd. Half the crowd wasn’t alive when many of the suggestions were popular

A lot of guys in this thread have not learned from the Super Bowl halftime threads - we are old, and rock songs from 40 years ago aren’t what the players or next generation are seeking

in this league, having a few of those force multipliers is important. I know @Kirby Jackson and I have beat that drum a lot- 4 quarters are nice but sometimes you need the dollar. Superstars elevate those around them and change the count. Guys like Allen (or healthy bosa) make it 12 vs 11 on the field

hopefully Keon isn’t just looking good against our secondary

3rd round pick vs a respectable vet that’s unspectacular? yea, usually an uphill path for the young guy