TheFunPolice
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looks like Chan gets to start his favorite QB!
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So if the coaches think he is the "best guy" in a close race, they won't give it to him? Even though they think he is the best guy? He isnt the best guy by enough, so lets give it to someone we dont think is the best guy? I dont get it.
My point is that "the best guy" is subjective. It's open to interpretation.
Just think about how job searches work in almost any field.
I think (and it's just my opinion) that Rex and his staff want Tyrod to win the job and have serious doubts about EJ. Cassel is just there as a security blanket.
So in that case, for the coaches to arrive at the conclusion that EJ is "the best guy" he is going to have to win them over to a much larger degree than the other two.
Am I suggesting it isn't fair to EJ? Not overtly, because I think that the coaches would say they are being totally objective. But I do not think that any human being can be totally objective.
We tend to see what we want to see and arrive at conclusions accordingly. This message board is proof of it.
My bias? I've seen EJ be totally inept and watched the team give up on him last summer/early season. I'm currently doubtful that the guy is ever going to be a GOOD NFL QB. I currently think that he is the type of player who has to try incredibly hard just to be okay in the job. I currently think his ceiling is being better than maybe 5 other starting NFL QBs.
I say "currently" because he could still change my mind. But hearing that he threw a TD in practice doesn't move the needle. I'm going to need to hear from multiple sources that he is CLEARLY the best guy in practice on a consistent basis, and that he is generating a lot of positive buzz. Then I am going to need to see him clearly be the best QB in the preseason. Then I am going to need to see him make plays and contribute to the team winning games in the regular season.
THEN I will buy into him. That might sound like a lot, but it really isn't. All it boils down to is that he needs to clearly be better than Matt Cassel and Tyrod Taylor, then play well when the games matter. In other words, he needs to be an NFL QB.
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Oh I certainly agree I just am confused by why the quoted poster thought it indicted ej and nobody else.
Oh I think it applies to all 3, but of the 3 only EJ was here last season.
My point is that this GM and the previous HC who helped picked EJ cut bait on him last summer. To me that suggests that EJ is going to have to be CLEARLY the best guy by a good margin for them to put their jobs into his hands.
Rex NEEDS to win a lot of games with this roster or he is going to look like a failure. If the team looks good but he can't get a QB to play that is forever going to be his reputation: a great DC who cannot find a QB.
So to me, Rex is looking to find a guy who can be very good to great, and before he puts his coaching career into one of these guy's hands he is going to have to believe fully. I think he wants Tyrod to win out because of his speed and athleticism and the problems they pose. IF not I think he would settle for Cassel as a "do little but make no mistakes" guy.
EJ to me is someone they have to give a shot just in case because of his draft position. If he suddenly plays well Rex and his staff look like geniuses. If not, he's not their mess anyway.
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Joe Flacco is a guy who rises to the occasion, as is Eli.
Neither strikes you as great but Eli took down the cheating Patriots* TWICE in the Super Bowl, ending their undefeated season and "stuff it in the haters' faces" revenge season. Flacco shows up in Foxboro in the playoffs and starts slinging TD passes all over the place.
Each is unassuming but is lights out in big games, especially the playoffs.
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how about just allow teams to do whatever they want to the footballs?
If you want soft beach balls have at it. The other team gets to do what it wants on offense to its footballs, so then there is no advantage since both teams get to do it.
Who really cares?
I think after week 2 Brady is going to want the injunction to end and will willingly just serve the suspension.
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it seems like the tide is turning on this story...
Before it was 90/10 "Brady is a cheater, the Patriots* are cheaters" vs the lone Patriot* fan defending him.
Now it's looking much more like 75/25 "Goodell is an idiot, Wells is corrupt, there's no evidence" vs "Brady is a cheater"
Brady is going to win this thing, as he always does, and all the haters (myself included) are just going to have to live with it.
I'm convinced that Brady loses for a while on purpose just to get our hopes up that the "dynasty" is over just so he can crush our dreams and have it hurt even more. lol
I'm kidding. Sort of.
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Here is what I think based on everything we have heard/seen:
Tyrod Taylor: Rex and Roman want Tyrod to turn into Buffalo's version of Kap. Be smart, hand the ball off a lot, kill the other team with some big runs, and uncork a deep pass to torch them once in a while. But no need for huge passing yardage. Tyrod gives you blazing running speed and a big arm, the same main traits as Kapernick in SF. He's the one with the most exciting skill set in my view, and best fits what Roman has done in SF before. Don't forget that even Alex Smith can run, Kap is just better at it and has a stronger arm. Plus he would be "their guy." Coaches always want their own guys if there is no established starter.
Matt Cassel: He's their "sigh and settle" QB. If Tyrod can't win the job AND EJ doesn't blow people away you settle for the "solid veteran" who really is as exciting as vanilla ice cream. But he can't really play the role of the dual threat QB with a big arm. In fact, he poses almost no threat to the defense at all IMO. He's just a guy.
EJ: To me, EJ has to CLEARLY be better than everyone else on a consistent basis to win the job. In short, he is damaged goods, and he is someone else's mess. Marrone and Whaley picked him and they gave up on him the day they signed Orton IMO. It was just a matter of when EJ was pulled at that point. Argue all you want but it was pretty clear that nobody who put their necks on the line believed in him last year, and it doesn't seem any different this year. The "QB purgatory" comment from Whaley is hardly a ringing endorsement. Forget fair, this is the NFL. Impressions of EJ on the FIELD are not good, so he is going to have a steep hill to climb to change them. Doing "pretty well" isn't going to matter. He needs to play so well that they CANNOT go with someone else.
All just my opinion, but I think they WANT Tyrod to win the job, will settle for Cassel otherwise, and are simply doing their due diligence with EJ just in case.
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This is what I love about sports: either EJ can play or he can't. It's that simple.
Whether fans, media, or people on a message board "like him" or not, and regardless of whether we are all big bad meanies, he either has the skills to play QB in this league or he does not, and it will be readily apparent in time.
We spent so much time arguing about Fitzpatrick, yet time and two different teams after the Bills showed that he is just another backup QB.
If you can play QB effectively in the NFL you are going to play, because good QB play is hard to find and coaches want to win at all costs.
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So can you order the digital package this year without having them deem you worthy of giving them your money?
I live in an apartment building that does not allow dishes, but the building wasn't on the secret special list of addresses that could subscribe to the digital package via Xbox/laptop, etc. so instead of them getting my money they got nothing.
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What grounds does the judge have to vacate the suspension?
The union and the league signed a contract that stated that Gooddell would have the right to hear all appeals. This case is just an attempt to invalidate part of the CBA.
Is the judge really going to get into ideal gas laws and PSI readings?
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EJ was never supposed to be some great blue chip talent that would come in and be the man at QB from day one. Around the league that QB draft class was almost universally viewed as mediocre and uninspiring.
Just go and read this list of names from EJ's QB class:
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft/positions/_/year/2013/quarterbacks
Had the Bills not taken EJ in round one it's likely there would have been zero QBs taken in the first round that year. That tells you something, given how many get picked every year in round one.
He's basically been exactly what the scouting report said he would be. On the other hand, looking at that list there has to be ONE guy who can make it right? lol
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Today's show prep for WGR:
"Are we going to count tomatoes as a vegetable? I think they are technically a fruit, but..."
"Well, most things we call vegetables are fruit, so..."
"Because Tomatoes would definitely go #1"
"Wow now THAT is something! We've got something here!"
[interruption]
"Guys, Brady's suspension held up, so cancel the vegetable draft and get prepared to talk football..."
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I want this year to be one steady string of those BEATDOWNS that the cheaters* got on MNF last season.
Cheaters* fans got to get one over on all the haterZ last February, but being labelled a CHEATER and having there be no doubt is worse than losing a football game.
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This notion that he WILL take this court and that WILL render the suspension obsolete is nonsense.
He doesn't want the exposure.
I hope so.
I also don't get what the cause of action would be.
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you know Schopp and the Bulldog are ecstatic right now....
The only other option was a vegetable draft!
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if the league pays him but suspends him, what is his basis for a lawsuit?
He will have been denied nothing and his union agreed to these provisions in the CBA
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Patriots* fans are convinced that everyone is out to get them.
This season we are! It's time for more of those Chiefs MNF games!
It's coming!
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He will forever be known as a cheater.
If it weren't for one freaking STUPID playcall he would have had his heart torn out in the Super Bowl AGAIN, been 3-3, AND has his legacy destroyed all in one year.
But I guess we can't be greedy.
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oh he's guilty as hell but this is all part of his plan....
Sue, play while the case drags on, and ultimately push the penalty as far down the road as possible.
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He will now sue, his lawyers will drag the legal process out for years, and he will retire without ever having missed a single game.
Damn you Russell Wilson....
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suspension is upheld, so now Brady will sue, not miss a single game while the never ending legal process plays out, lose his court case, appeal his loss, lose that appeal, appeal the lost appeal, etc.
In short, he will never miss a single game because of this.
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Where does he go to work in the morning?
Also, does he change his tie based on which team he is overseeing at that moment?
All kidding aside, that is a LOT of responsibility. But by all accounts he is a great executive so that's good news!
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he had better work on his shoulder strength so that he's ready to lift all the trophies that are about to come our way!
That cup is heavy!
Geno Smith Punched, Jaw Broken, Out 6-10 Wks
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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overheard in the locker room just prior to punch:
Chan (to the assailant): Listen son, you aint makin the team, but if you knock eem (pointing to Geno) out there's a basket of homegrown 'maters with your name on it!