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We won't lose TT if he plays well enough to get a franchise contract. We'd cut every player on the roster first.

The state of the defense is actually a little frightening to me. These guys all know they were dominant last year. 3 ProBowlers, breaking records, etc. If they don't get to playing at a comparable level soon, I could see them starting to point fingers, at least internally. And those fingers will be pointed at none other than our HC. And finger pointing on a Rex Ryan team will probably lead to a volatile lost season.

Agreed. I liked the changes to Ramsay's character, making him more charismatically psychotic rather than the pure evil brute he is in books, but the showrunners made a big mistke making him extremely competent and basically a main character. Personally, I think they didn't want to make him Joffrey 2.0 (a cruel, evil coward) so they had to make him competent, but he gets way too much screentime. I know that keeping the North arc the political powder-keg/Theon redemption story would've been a risk for the showrunners to take. Switching the scene of politics from anywhere but King's Landing would probably confuse the most of the audience a bit, but I wish they attempted it. Instead, we get the "Ramsay is an evil omnipotent mastermind" story which I hated. There was a vacuum to fill with an evil character everyone could hate, and the show did too many acrobatics to make him the winner. I actually didn't care for the entire fifth season, not because they made changes, but because their changes were either A. extremely predictable or B. extremely stupid. The Dorne arc was dumb, it should've just been done like the Theon/Ramsay torture scenes. One scene every 2 episodes to remind you they exist and purely for set up. The way it went in the books was too much for TV. It just goes to show you the limitations of TV when telling this story. There was no set-up for the Riverlands arc with Jaime emulating Tywin, because we only knew two River Lords. There was no set-up for the North political showdown because we got 1 northern lord per season, purely for one to die, one to disappear, and one to betray Robb. They had to give Brienne something to do because she's a big side character, but she does nothing but take up screen time to look around. They had to give Sansa a relatively major arc as a main character, but it was another character's story that she was shoehorned into strictly to justify more Ramsay screen time. Basically, the things they had to leave on the cutting room floor all the way back in season 1 (for justifiable reasons) came back to bite them in the ass. No northern land disputes with Manderly, who is the chief ally of the Starks in the North. No introduction to any other lords in the Riverlands, or the North for that matter. All in all, I would've put Bronn and Jaime in the RIverlands doing their thing, even with a on-the-nose comment like, "You sound like your daddy." I would've put Brienne on the other side of the Riverlands conflict, helping the Blackfish (I think the actor was great in this role and would've loved to see more of him) because she was Cat's sword, in Riverrun, escaping the siege with him and just missing meeting up with Jaime again. Dorne purely with cut away scenes, plotting their revenge, with one major plot point, a failed assassination attempt on Myrcella to try to invoke a war between Dorne and the IT. And then have half of the north join Stannis, the other half in Winterfell with war councils with Roose, Ramsay and Theon. Sansa could've been in the Vale taking care of Robin/meeting Harry/make up some crisis for her to solve. Dany's arc was fine, with some minor quibbles. Tyrion's was decent, but Jorah getting grayscale made ZERO sense to me. if you're gonna cut JonCon, just cut everything about him. Giving Jorah a death sentence on his way back to Dany was unnecessary, as we already knew he was willing to die to see her again. His "death wish" had nothing to do with grayscale, it's just a useless plot point. And Cersei's arc was fine. Season 5 would've rocked if it was like that. But most of all, that one scene where Stannis gets the report that they're all out of horses, and then it cuts to Mel getting on a horse bothered the hell out of me. How does no one catch that?

The Mannis is definitely gonna die, I just don't want him to lose that battle.

GRRM's biggest problem is, well, his editor. When the size of your series goes from 3 planned books, to 5, to 7, to now maybe 8, you're making mistakes. Especially when it's almost a 20 year affair to finish them. I'm torn on the show/book spoiled thing. I do hate getting spoiled, but the show is good consolation if it never gets published. Hopefully the show writers changed Stannis' story like crazy, because that's gonna suck if it plays out very similarly.

Tyrod though.

I'm not saying they are great or even good. I'm just saying, to me, them not putting up more than 20 on the Colts was due, in part, to their conservative approach once they got a lead. IMO.

Really? They went short pass, run, pass, or run, run, pass on their drives in the second half, until the Colts scored. Then they scored. Then Luck turned it over again, and they ran the ball 6 times to one pass. Kicked a FG and the game was over.

How many of those passes from each?

They went into a shell after the first Q. They weren't trying to score all that much, until Indy put up some points, then they marched down the field and scored to end the game.

I told you bro.

They also had Aaron Rodgers.

No.

That's probably true. In fact, it is. The Vikings moved on from Cassel the exact same way. Just too close to the situation I guess.

I believe the Rex blitzing stat is much better than the rest of the leagues' on Brady, historically.

I'm not viewing it in absolutes. I'm just wondering how you can have a guy that you're confident in bringing home a game if your running QB gets dinged up, then say, "yeah, he's worth a fifth two years from now." You say he has a value of Cassel and a value of the 2017 pick, and the pick was higher. Fine. At what point do we place precedence on this season when we're "all in," and "get ready, we're going?" Seems incongruous. Having that pick won't make or break us this year, but having the guy who clearly was thought of as the second best QB on the roster might. I don't mean to claim that we can only exclusively be a short term thinking team. Cutting Fred was another thing I thought Whaley was wrong on, but I saw the rationale to re-sign Dareus. I don't view the 5th rounder two years from now anywhere CLOSE to that. Do you?

But liked him enough to be our #2.

Because Julian Edelman never catches 10 balls in the 2-10 yard range. Rarely ever happens.

I think you're confusing confusion and fits. It just seems like we 180'd over two weeks. I'm not really sure why. But I'll end it there, because it seems some folks are getting upset that I'm consistent, instead of flip-flopping at the altar of Whaley.

Yeah, okay... For the record, it's a job I could never ever bring myself to do. But the truth is that the innocent and the guilty need defense attorneys.

Oh, now you're wishing rape on my innocent daughter? Is this is sort of classiness you wish to hold the attorney to? It's a big new story about the trial. He gave a comment directed towards his client's innocence. This story can directly affect potential juries. By your same logic, the accuser's attorney also should not be able to go public, but he held a presser today.

Ask Dallas, they just had to trade for one. I suppose they had a bunch of guys they loved in FA, but just wanted to get rid of some picks to help out the Bills.

That's sexist, and also pretty ignorant, with a spoonful of false righteous indignation to top it all off.

We could package up and get a second! The Bills need another Troup in the worst way.

See, that makes more sense. Rex didn't really want Cassel and he won out. I can understand that. There's no proof, but at least it comes together. Two weeks seems a short time to flip flop, though.