DJasper Probincrux III

Sitting here thinking about the Exchange St and Cobblestone sites and I can't help but wonder if they used those sites if the playing field itself would not be at "ground level" but instead elevated inside the building on what would be the 2nd or 3rd floor. That would open up the ground floor to street level retail and dining space that would be useable 365 days a year and much more aesthetically pleasing than than large blank wall. Sort of like Harbor Center but on a bigger scale. The field will be turf so it really doesn't matter if it's on the ground or 100 ft in the air. The other thought I had about an elevated playing surface was that at the Exchange St. site it would allow Seneca Street to remain intact. Obviously it'd be shut to through traffic on gamedays but it would offer a way to incorporate a small, team only garage, as well as a convenient, sheltered way in/out for the opposing team bus and media people, and a staging area for ambulances that are required to be on site. If you did it right you could make it so the ambulance could drive right onto the field and then right out onto Seneca Street. Ideally, you'd make it so an 18 wheeler could get to the floor/field level directly. That would make loading and unloading for concerts or large conventions/trade shows much quicker and easier.

Stop entering facts into this discussion

That's nice. Good luck controlling Media Day when 4,000 people all keep asking the same question and you aren't allowed to end the PC prematurely.

Moreover, if the Patriots really did not do anything why is it their place to conduct this press conference in the first place? If they have nothing to hide just keep your mouths shut and let the NFL investigation exonerate you. The truth spins itself, this was needless...unless you're spinning a coverup and trying desperately to get someone...anyone to believe you. IMO this is either the NFL test balloon to measure the reaction or the Patriots first salvo setting up PR for an appeal.

How long before gamblers file suit for fraud and force these things to be investigated in court under oath a la 1919 Black Sox.

Every complex. It weeds out dissenters. In all seriousness is anyone NOT expecting that this is completely swept under the rug?

Patriots cameras have already been installed all around the complex.

"We're going to keep doing what we feel like doing, the league will keep doing nothing about it, and you will keep watching anyway. Piss off."

If he gets hired he'll be collecting big checks from three teams. That's doing it right.

If lane kiffin can keep getting good jobs i think Hackett will be ok too.

Also, no matter what, Miami st needs to be renamed immediately.

Some thoughts. There is plenty of surface parking within the same radius that people currently walk. The last lot at ecc is far and people already do that. Tailgating will look different but it will be fine. Access will be no better or worse than rws. Rws only has a couple main ways in and out. At some point youre on abbott southwestern big tree or milestrip already. The perry projects are gone regardless of what they choose. Iirc they are largely vacant already, the Ohio street site will require infrastructure that will run right through there. Plus if youre looking for private development you dont drop 750m right next to public housing. If only because its a massive piece of undevelopable property right in the middle of everything. A convention center will be folded into the project, if they choose cobblestone it could span south park ave and connect directly to the fnc, and thus harbor ctr as well. Philadelphia convention ctr does this to cut across the city witbout cutting off the grid like the current convention ctr does. I dont mean a walkway either, convention space spans several streets. They could then demo the current ctr and restore the grid to reopen that side of downtown

I played along. I took overvaluing of QBs into account and assumed we addressed OG in free agency. 50. Bryce Petty - QB Baylor 81. Nick O'Leary - TE Florida St. 110 Senquez Golson - CB Ole Miss 129 Jeremy Langford - RB Michigan St. 147 Corey Robinson - OT South Carolina 178 Kevin White - CB TCU 209 Nick Marshall - QB Auburn FWIW - I could have had O'Leary or Gurley in that spot.

Rex, not for nothing but I have 0 NFL coaching experience but I'm pretty sure that if you handed me a top tier QB right out of the chute I could assemble enough competent assistants and talent evaluators to win at least 5 games essentially by accident.

While the fans themselves may be more engaged on a percentage basis, any city with competing newspapers will be more vicious than any city with only one. Add NY's other media outlets, multiple TV, multiple radio, etc. and there is a need to feed an insatiable beast that is the 24 hr news cycle. These outlets all compete for readers, watchers, listeners, and clicks. The Buffalo media scene is much more tame, one paper (with lapdog reporters to boot), minimal local TV bordering on none, minimal local radio (one sports driven station). There's less need to be cutthroat and everyone feels a little more safe so the mud slinging, dirt digging and overall vitriol gets toned way way down. The Bills have created a very sour arrangement with their own media. As such, TBN for instance has to set up a good cop/bad cop system to maintain a balance that is unnecessary in markets where the team isn't manipulative. I disagree with this, in Philadelphia you see good cop bad cop all the time - particularly on the radio. There are two competing sports talk stations who are out for blood and they each have on-air personalities who toss the teams under the bus at a moments notice. They are also balanced out by having former players as co-hosts (Keith Jones, Ike Reece, Hollis Thomas) who never really kill the teams but also give good insight. The lack of coompetition amongst the media is IMO what hurts. Philly is a one paper town as well (they have an AM and PM paper but they have the same owner) and the level of digging and scathing reporting is significantly decreased compared to radio here. The radio stations take no prisoners and regularly go after each other directly. The PM drive time host on one station made it his mission to steal market share from the opposing host (whom he hated personally) until they fired him. He talked about it all the time and made every effort to make the guy look foolish (which he was) and eventually they took the guy off the air when he had been the czar of PM drive for decades. You'd NEVER see that in Buffalo.

Or David Shaw, or Jim Tomsula....or Bobby April.

Rooney Rule interview. He covers the "Unnatural Red" check box.

The suspects: Russ Brandon Jim Overdorf Scott Berchtold Don Purdy - Director of Football Administration (started with the team as an intern in 1989) Purdy's a guy with an importantish job who has been in the building forever but gets to fly under the radar. We already know Overdorf and Berchtold are issues and I expect them to be gone anyway.

Yes I saw the same thing. I was screaming at the TV on the second TD when Hairston split out at WR and the middle of the whole defense opened up for the TD. Where the hell was THAT creativity all year long? It's not refreshing when you can only grow a set of balls when it doesn't make a difference any more.

Is that all? Hell, that's easy. Right? Tons of QBs out there for the taking. No it's not, it's treading water. Take this substandard team, subtract Spiller, Hughes, Spikes, Pears, probably FJax (retirement) and possibly Searcy. That's your starting point in March, and you have no #1 pick and 0 capable QBs.

Twice this year the defense had a 3rd and long needing the ball back to have a chance to win. Twice they sent 3 men. Twice they gave up the first down. KC and again today.

Yeah it got a little dusty at the end there. I'll say one thing. If by some act of God we get in? Nobody wants to play us. Nobody. The defense beats people down. It is the absolute antithesis of the Jauron pillow soft crap we endured for so long. We're big, we're fast, and we're nasty. The attitude is contagious and it's spreading the longer the year goes on. More and more guys are flying around every week and it's starting to get to the offense a little bit now (Pears running across the field to stick up for Fred, Wood laying out Matthews, Pears going after a guy again later on). O line is athleticism and technique and all that but on some level it's about wanting to beat the living crap out of the man across from you and we're getting there, slowly but surely. I want to see us come out and lay the wood to Oakland in their own house. Bully them from whistle to whistle and then roll into Foxboro like stone cold killers. If you can't get a team to galvanize and be us vs. the world in that scenario you're broken as a human being.

yeah....that's exactly what i did. The reason it matters is the strength of victory tiebreaker. Go ahead and fill it in the way we said then mess around with different combinations of chicago, minnesota, green bay, detroit, miami, jets, houston and jacksonville. Watch what happens. Depending on the outcomes it changes that last tiebreaker slightly, it also matters how you have the rest of week 16 set. It's not neat the way you're describing my friend.

You are correct, I think but it's more than just what you said. If all the teams I listed win in week 16 and what you said happens in week 17 Green Bay and Jacksonville must also win in week 17 for us to hold the tie breaker. So technically not mathematically eliminated, just mathematically really really small.

There are a number of scenarios that lead us to control our own destiny in Week 17. Keys to that. (Other than Buffalo winning) Houston over Baltimore Several combinations of wins to give us Strength of Victory tiebreaker over Baltimore. There are many combinations. Long story short, NFC North winning = good. Cleveland winning = good. Indianapolis losing = good, San Diego winning = good (oddly) Nope, if if all that happened in week 17 we'd still be out.