BarleyNY
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I kinda want to see him drafted by the Jets for the sole purpose of having Smith (African), Sanchez (Hispanic) and Garoppolo (Italian) on the same team. The fighting by the Jets fans would be priceless. Three way race rioting wouldn't be far away.
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As a guy who's been getting paid to do "analytics" for quite some time, I believe I can answer your question.
So what's the difference between analytics and behavioral economics, especially concerning behavior? (Analytics, I would think, also includes non-behavioral analyses.) Because I love me some behavioral economics.
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always good when the owner takes hiring authority away from the general manager or CEO. seems functional. dont see why it would give anyone pause.
This confirms for me (if there was any doubt ) that haslam will be this teams undoing.
It tells me he doesn't trust Banner and Lombardi to pick a good coach/be able to convince a good coach to come to Cleveland. I've heard that Banner in particular turned a lot of candidates off both this time and last year. So my question is: Why didn't Haslam just clear him/them out, too?
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The bizarro search: If I didn’t know better I’d swear the Browns’ coaching search has been taken out of the hands of CEO Joe Banner and placed in control of one of those headhunter firms.
Mike Munchak? Mike Pettine? Rich Bisaccia? Could Perry Fewell be next?
These men, fine coaches in their respective specialties, certainly don’t fit Banner’s prototype of young, out-of-the-box, offensive-minded, up-and-comers.
http://espncleveland.com/common/more.php?m=49&action=blog&r=17&post_id=27661
Haslam stepped in and took the search direction out of Banner and Lombardi's hands. They are involved still, but Haslam is heading it up now. Thus the not hiring Josh McDaniels. He appears to see that there have been major issues with the FO, but whether or not he does better remains to be seen. I'd expect Haslam's stamp to be on this hire - whatever that means.
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They already said they aren't signing 2 of the 5 Pro bowlers FWIW. And Joe Thomas was voted to the PB this year on name only. What a joke. He had a really bad year.
Nothing of the sort has been said or determined by the Browns. I do not expect them to re-sign Mack, but expect Ward to be signed. Still, nobody in the organization has publicly said they won't.
Thomas may have had a slightly off year for him, but he was still an exceptional LT by general standards.
Incidentally, word is that the field in Cleveland has narrowed to 3 including Pettine. Gase and Quinn being the others.
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Enticing features of Browns HC job:
5 Pro Bowlers
Lots of picks in this strong draft
Lots of cap space
Downside:
No FQB
Unstable organization
Banner & Lombardi (who are in charge of making those picks and choosing FAs)
Owner still trying to stay out of jail
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The last great coach prior to Bill Belichick was a Bill Walsh. I'd put them at that same Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown level.
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Bart Starr and Sammy Baugh need to be on that list of nominees, too.
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I've been squarely in the bet hedging club for months now. Big difference between giving up on someone and bringing in competition. It doesn't mean you sell the farm to do so, but you look for value. Draft, free agency or trade. I'm certainly not comfortable with Lewis and Tuel being behind Manuel, especially considering his injuries last season.
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I really hope this is not the case.... however, I have feeling it is and he is just waiting for his opportunity to play elsewhere. I hope I am wrong.
I guess the only other thing it could be is that he's simply looking for the biggest and best contract and will go to the highest bidder. Washington will have some decent cap space available this offseason and we know they'll be looking to overspend. Perfect fit.
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I have not seen enough of him to guess if he could slide inside- but it seems he has the size to do so at 6'3 248lbs.
I remember Wade Phillips had used Cornelius Bennet inside at times and worked very well.
It could be the final piece to a tough defense and allow Kiko to move outside to a more natural weak side OLB position.
Then draft OL in rd2 and rd 3........
Mack certainly has the talent to play MLB, but I think it'd be a waste. I see him as a WSLB in a 4-3. That would maximize his value. And with Kiko at MLB already and playing very well there why mess with such a good thing?
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A question: Byrd rejected a top 5 safety contract offer. I understand there are many ways such contracts can be structured with far different realities as to what ultimately gets paid out to the player. That said, what was Byrd's counter? Did his agent actually offer a counter-proposal? Or did they simply say "No."? IOW was there any negotiation? If not, then he has zero desire to stay in Buffalo. If there was some good faith negotiation and a deal simply wasn't reached then it is a different story. It seems like it is the former more than the latter and in that case I'd be looking to tag and trade.
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Filing lawsuits is this murderer's hobby. The man is in for (and I'm not kidding) stabbing to death his estranged wife's ex husband and stabbing her (not fatally) 11 times (starting in her back) after he caught them at a bar together. He stopped stabbing her and took her to a hospital after she told him that she loved him (after the 11th stab and after he had fatally stabbed her ex to death). I literally could not have made that up. Also his sentence maximum is up in the next 4 years. Lovely.
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Eight years old and living in Cleveland. Bad snow, but the wind creating drifts was what made it so terrible, I remember riding in the car with my mom (front seat, probably a seatbelt on) and BOOM! There'd be a six foot drift in the middle of the road that we couldn't see because of the horizontally blowing whiteout snow. Have no idea how many times that happened to us. People trapped in their houses or having to get out upstairs windows due to drifts against all of the downstairs doors and windows. Crazy.
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Why am I the only one who understood you without you having to explain that?
The title says it all... Trade Byrd AND a 3rd, for a 1st. Simple. Maybe the confusion came with all the urrrr sounding words.
I would totally trade Byrd for 3 firsts? :-)
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I think the OP is confusing a pre-draft smokescreen with reality.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20131226/black-monday-primer-coaches-gms-2013/
O'Brien is mentioned for every possible job.
Wow. Thanks for linking that.
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As a native Clevelander and current Buffalo resident I have seen enough of Lewis to say that, as a player, Lewis is what he is. At this point in his career I don't see him making a major improvement.
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You're right I will try again.
Okay, so you've determined after 2 preseason games and 10 regular season games that EJ Manuel does not have the potential to be the Bills "franchise" QB moving forward?
Since you mentioned that a veteran "re-tread" would not suffice in bolstering the QB position, would you like to see the Bills draft a QB every year until they find a player who demonstrates (during their rookie season) that they are immediately ready to be a NFL "franchise" QB?
Looks like I did a nice job paraphrasing your earlier post. Is this accurate in describing your sentiment with regard to the Bills' QB position?
That is very reasonable. I have not made the determination that Manuel is not a franchise QB. He should get more opportunities here. He has potential and it would be great if he reaches it. I think we will know early next season if he's made strides. What I think must be mitigated is the risk that he doesn't - be it because he doesn't raise his level of play or because of injury issues. I don't think any of us want to be midway through next season and have no other options. That doesn't mean going all out and trading up or even using our first round pick on one. I'd say it depends on value and who is available but somewhere, somehow a QB with potential to be more than a backup needs to be acquired. The probable place for that is the draft in rounds 2-4, but I don't have an issue with the right kind of retread. I'd take a player that might be miscast or still has room for development. Someone young would be preferable. I'd only go with a veteran at the end of their career as a last resort. QB is just too important and there is too much talent on this team to put so much on Manuel working out. If the Bills were in total rebuild mode then fine, but not as we sit now. Manuel just has too many questions unanswered.
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Okay, sooooo we should draft a QB every year until we find one that plays at a pro bowl level during their rookie season?
Framing the opposing viewpoint in exaggerated terms is poor form, I think you want to see more from a first year QB than we did from Manuel before you stand pat and that is all some of us are saying. I hope Manuel develops and becomes a franchise QB, but I'm not betting next season on it. I haven't seen enough from him. Another QB with potential needs to be added in some fashion.
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Outstanding work on that analysis. Thanks for posting.
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One more thing: Adjustments are always made to the league base salary cap. IOW it works like this example:
Year 1 for team A: League salary cap: $125M, carryover from previous year: $15M, equals adjusted team salary cap of $140M.
Team spend is $120M.
Year 2: LSA: $128M, c/o from year 1: $20M ($140M-$120M), atsc=$148M.
Team spend is $130M.
Year 3: LSA: $131M, c/o from year 2: $18M. Atsc=$149M
The mistake some make is that they keep adding unspent cap space to the adjusted cap number from the previous year. That is incorrect. The carryover is added to the unadjusted team salary cap as determined by the league.
It can be misleading especially when a team has a big carryover. You'll hear things like "So-and-so has $30M in salary cap space!" But that can be the result of a wide range of things. A team with no carryover might have very low obligations moving forward whereas a team with a huge carryover would probably already be spending at the league limit moving forward. Or a team could be in between.
I try to think of carry over in terms of that being an effective contract that could be spent on a player, not an amount that could be spent annually moving forward.
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This article cites the league rule. They read it the same as I did.
If you are going to lose cap space money because you can't re-roll it, wouldn't it be better to extend/rework a few player contracts before this season ends so you don't loose it? Or does that not make economic cap sense?
This is exactly what the rule was meant to eliminate the need for. No more BS mechanisms to bring cap dollars forward. Just ask for it.
Mike Pettine speculation-interviewing w Cleveland
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I agree, but that's how it looks to be playing out. Mack doesn't look like he wants to stay in Cleveland and Banner doesn't look like he's going to shell out the cash to even make it interesting. It doesn't make sense to me either.
Ward looks more amenable to staying and it looks like he will be re-signed or tagged.