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I'm told in rugby that there is a ref that reviews the other refs calls in game and can overturn them. I think the NFL should instantiate something like that, so that when you have a blatantly bad call, you can actually do something about it.

Is that better of worse than their current headline pun "Vick-torious"? Or are you talking more about the fact that Vick is an ex-con?

Fully 4/5 of the U.S. get to see this game. I still haven't been able to watch one live on tv in my own home this year...stupid Iggles and Steelers...

I mostly agree with that, but have a slightly different take. I'm pretty sure Cruz primarily works out of the slot. Have Roby take him, since he's so good covering slot receivers, and let Gilmore take on their big, physical receiver Randle on the outside. Have the ultra-athletic Darby cover their deep threat Beckham. Give Darby safety help over the top (though I don't think he'd need it all the time), let the other two play on islands, and get after Manning and stop the run. Gilmore should be able to shut Randle down, Darby plus the occasional safety would leave Beckham having trouble to find space, and occasionally giving Robey some help on Cruz to potentially reduce Cruz's impact, and they'd be stuck with the run game and checkdowns. Other than Gronk, we've been good against TEs recently, so as long as we can have someone match up against their TE, and we continue to stop the run, I think we should be fairly well off on D this coming week.

Blast! I've always been a much bigger fan of the blue jerseys. The pants I have no real preference for, except not blue on blue.

Haha, I really can't disagree. Definitely just got looks at work for laughing out loud.

I don't know how many other people on here play Madden, but is anyone else upset about the way they handled the Bills? I think the player ratings are rather ridiculous, especially the speed ratings. Watkins has a 93 speed, and Shady, Percy Harvin and Leodis McKelvin all have speed in the 80s! Everyone's talking about how the Bills can field one of the fastest offenses in the league, yet Madden makes them incredibly slow. They also have Marqueis Grey listed as a FB, and a bad one at that. If you put him over at TE, he gets worse. Andre Davis, one of the stars of training camp, isn't even on the team. Jerry Hughes is listed as 81 overall, Mario Williams is only in the high 80s. And of course, they don't give you any 4-3 packages so that you can play four man fronts with Hughes, Williams, Williams, and Dareus, so Kyle Williams becomes a rotational player, and Hughes is a 3-4 RE. You'd have to go in and mess with the depth chart, playing people "out of position" in order to get your best guys on the field. I just think Madden just really screwed over the Bills. Hopefully we get some updates for them to fix this BS soon.

I'd watch that movie.

I actually went through all those throws. The Jags have been one of the few AFC teams I'd root for, after the Bills, since they came into the league. I was hoping to see something, but those first two passes were both hospital passes, then almost all the other passes were underneath throws or check downs. I don't know if that's all he was being given, but it seemed very simplistic and easily contained in the regular season. Not as impressed as the writer of that article apparently was.

Screw that. Injuries happen, suspensions happen, etc. You play whoever you play. Brady is a @$$ and deserves his punishment. In fact, he, Bellicheat, and the entire organization deserve to be punished more than they already are. If Brady's not in the line-up week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. If he is there week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. Doesn't matter one way or the other.

I went to undergrad down in FL, made it to a Bills game in Jacksonville (thankfully before they changed to their horrendous new jerseys). I'd always sorta liked the Jaguars since they came into the league (who didn't think big cats were cool growing up?). Their fans were pretty cool, though. I got a bunch of "Go back to Canada!" yells in my direction, but it was all in fun. Of course, it was too hot to get really rowdy, but they seemed like a fairly classy group.

Half way between Pittsburgh and Philly, I came in disliking the Steelers and feeling "meh" towards the Eagles. 7 years later, still pretty much the same thing.

Perhaps I should have named it "Vintage NFL Posters" to avoid that

Why can't the NFL have posters like these any more? http://imgur.com/a/O2626 The Jim Kelly ones are pretty awesome: Also, if they started making new ones what might you put on them? My preference: A.P. in a baseball uniform with the name "The Switch Hitter" 2nd choice: Tom Brady in Horatio Caine's sunglasses with the name "P.S.I. New England"

What I'm kinda wondering about is how big of a hammer the NFL is going to bring down on the Jags after that video came out. Unless I'm mistaken, minicamps and rookie camps and whatnot are supposed to be non-contact, but if you look at that film, the entire O and D lines were going at it, blocking and pass rushing. I'm guessing they get penalties levied against them like the Seahawks did.

When's the last time we had a prime time game at home? That's not correct. New England's bye week is week 4

Wait, Bills fans dislike the Packers? Since when? Apparently I've been rooting for the wrong team in the Packers vs Seahawks games all along! Also, I'm not really sure "My team is going to see your team in the Super Bowl, and our players will play well" can really be considered "smack" or "a hard time." Considering our post season drought right now, I think that may actually constitute well wishes.

I think we can get 4 wins out of the division, and the non-divisional games aren't nearly as bad as they were last year. The AFC South is by no means the AFC West, and the NFC North was better than the NFC East will be, especially after the Chip Kelly implosion. Our defense is going to be as good as it was at worst, while the offense got upgrades both at skill positions and coaches. The play calling literally can't get any worse than the Hackett version of the offense. If we don't get to double digits, it will be a disappointing season. 11-5

I disagree with this comment. Cordy actually blocked the guy exactly how he was supposed to, pushing him deep into the backfield, making the defender go deep into the back field than work his way back up. It's not Cordy's fault EJ backed up into the pass rush and held on too long. The play was designed to have the ball out of the QBs hands before the defender could get there. That definitely is on EJ in that video.

I didn't realize Ol' Dirty Bastard was underrated, but I didn't think he was a football player. I thought he was a rapper...and dead

Dolphins @ Titans Cowboys Texans Colts @ Jets @ Jags Bye @ Redskins Patriots @ Chiefs Jets Bengals @Eagles @Patriots Giants @ Dolphins No southern teams late in the year (cause that would be unfair to the southern teams and the NFL would never give us that advantage), and only 1 home game the last month of the season. Just because the NFL loves Buffalo

I can just about guarantee you that it won't be the Bills playing the Patriots in the opening game. The NFL doesn't think there's a big enough market for the Bills, and as this is a nationally televised game to open the season, they would want to draw in fans from more nationally popular teams. The Bills, unfortunately, aren't. All of us that hail from in or around Buffalo would absolutely love to see this, but I doubt it happens. Additionally, we always seem to play the Patriots in New England late in the season, to give them a home divisional game as they're trying to make the playoffs, in the snow, etc. to try and give them the best chance of winning. That doesn't mean our away game against the Pats will be the last game of the season, but it will probably be within the last month. The Pats home games this year are against the Bills, Jets, Dolphins, Jags, Titans, Eagles, Redskins, and Chiefs. In my opinion, the obvious choices for a nationally televised game that will draw the biggest crowd would be the Jets or Eagles, with a slightly less chance for the Fins. The Jets due to the huge market in NYC, the whole "Revis left NE for NY" storyline, and the NYC/Boston rivalry. The Eagles because they're one of the more nationally known/liked teams in the league (at least I would guess), and with Chip's demolition of the team, people are going to want to know just how badly he blew it up. There's all the talk of him remaking the team in his image to win, but lets face it, you can't win without talent, and he shipped a hell of a lot of it. The Dolphins I throw in there to draw people from a different part of the country than just the northeast, its a divisional game, and they can highlight the fact that the Dolphins have Suh now, and try to pump up the whole "ascending face of an NFL franchise" in Tannehill vs "the heroic savior of a franchise on the descent" in Brady storyline. TL:DR - My money's on the Jets or Eagles.

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Does any one else see this as Rivers saying that he would retire rather than play anywhere other than San Diego?

No, I believe he's correct. Wikipedia says "If a player signs a contract after receiving the transition tag, his original team can not use the tag again on any player until the contract has expired. The exception is if the player first signs a transition offer sheet..." So if Mack signed the transition offer, then got signed to a long term deal, they could use the tag again. If he had been offered by another team, than the Browns matched that deal, without ever signing the transition offer, then they couldn't use the transition tag again until that player plays out his contract.