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There was a study conducted by a University about this. They apparently found that a lop sidded problem does exist. It was presented to the league and the leagues response was basically that the study did not take into account revenue from good teams/matchups at primetime. Comes down to more money for the everyone involved. As long as the competitive balance isn't normalized with fan base sizes (completely even markets per team), this problem will always occur.

So do people just post whatever random thought crosses their mind? This is a waste of time

Agreed, One thing to note is that the line seems to be solid at pass protection IMO, but does not fit a ground and pound style running attack. I think the offense has looked at it's best when TT takes over with a pass first approach. At least this has been when Karlos Williams has made teams pay for not stacking the box. Bottom line, 1st and 10 running plays seem to be generating very minimal gains on a consistent basis. If you would have told me at the beginning of the season that qb play would be our strongest position through 4 games... I would have predicted a 4-0 start.

Don't buy it. Wednesday they remove his name from injury report....Thrs leaves practice... I think he's just messing with Bleicheat

What I believe happened.... Waley wanted to release Freddy before training camp all along, but Pegula told Doug to keep him on and to allow Jackson to prove him wrong... Problem, jackson played great against Pittsburgh, but Waley was planning on cutting him all along. In the end Waley doesn't have a reason for keeping Jackson on the team through the preseason other than the owner made him... It would have been a better for all parties if they had parted ways before camp, but Waley was handcuffed. There's no doubt that Whaley told Jackson (which was a lie) that he will make the team if he wins the rb back-up competition. What was he supposed to tell him? The owner is making me keep you on, but I'm definitly going to cut you in the end because we would rather keep our younger plethora of running backs? I see this blunder on Pegula. He's a new owner, he needed to either give Waley full control of the situation to cut Jackson prior to camp.... Or he can be an Al Davis and have told Waley that Jackson stays no matter what. He went for something in the middle and it now looks bad for everyone.

I don't believe that defenses ever figured out their offence, I think the 49ers just abandoned it. I doubt he could survive 10+ seasons as a franchise qb playing this style of football, but the guy was lightning in a bottle, I would say let it ride if he was on my team and hope he stays healthy.

The 49ers were idiots for not letting him dominate the nfl with the pistol read offense that led them to the super bowl. They panicked because of RGIII's injury (and maybe rightfully so), and tried to convert kap to a pocket passer. But Kapernick is much bigger and seemed to be able to avoid the contact much better than RGIII. Run the offense that your talent allows you to run!!!

Could just be security in case the league ends up suspending Dareus

I feel like we're giving Marrone too much of a free pass on the play calling. He is the head coach and is responsible for the entire team which includes Hacketts play calling. The fact that nothing has changed with the play calling all season, and now it might be at an all time low after the Jets game concerns me about Marrone. I blame much of the offensive line woes on predictable play calling that allows other team's D to just tee-off on the Bills. Regardless, the Bills offense is getting frustrating to the point where it's unbearable to even watch! Run Run Pass Repeat!

I'm trying to pick up Brown in my league. The plan has always been for Dixon to get around 3-5 touches per game when Freddy and Spiller were healthy and I don't think that needs to change much, maybe closer to the 4-7 range now with the injuries. He looked winded towards the end of the last game and I feel that the Bills were planning to eventually just plug Brown in next year if Spiller leaves and Freddy will be a year older. I could see Dixon possibly getting a chunk of the goal-line work, but Brown getting the majority of the carries. With Marrone's 'Win now' philosophy, I can't imagine him holding Brown back going forward this year. I predict the goal line work for Dixon could keep his fantasy value equal to Brown's value, however Brown showed elite play making ability at times in Philly and has a higher upside value. I'm placing a claim for Brown with a back-up claim for Dixon in case I fail to land Brown.