Steve Billieve

Why shouldn't we wildly speculate?

CFL?

Yea, I spend all my time worrying and hoping, it's a toxic combination.

Yeah, it didn't really sound like he was bashing Rex, just pointing out in year 1 that the personnel wasn't a perfect match for the scheme. I guess you could take this as some sort of confirmation, but I don't see anything in this that all parties wouldn't more or less agree with.

Seems like we are losing a bunch of players without it counting this year.

I would be convinced all these free picks were a dream if I didn't see how many picks the pats* got. With all the great players we brought in during free agency the whole comp system seem oftly arbitrary.

My opinion is that you don't need scientific evidence to be reasonably certain that blows to the head can cause harm. So where the science is at, now or then, doesn't really matter.

I don't know the particulars about the case, neither does anyone else on this board. The idea that you couldn't know about head trauma resulting from being hit in the head bc the science wasn't in yet has nothing to do with the particulars of this case.

No. I'm saying that it's ridiculous to say that an entity has no knowledge of potential head trauma in football. The particulars of that knowledge and what actions, disclosures etc were undertaken as a result are details I'm not privy to.

I'm not saying I disagree. I just don't find arguments like "we didn't know hitting you in the head over and over would do any harm" credible. I think that the parents knowledge of potential harm is a much better argument. I think I just did.

I think the case could be made that letting pre-teens get hit in the head over and over again is negligent. We've known that getting hit in the head is bad for a very very long time.

I feel like I'm dreaming

Lol, totally agree Seems like a better plan than mills.

I smell some comp picks coming out way for once . . .

Sounds about right

It would be nice to have him in training camp to see . . .

I don't know, I think he's better than a number of QBs who will be starting next year.

Is it ridiculous that I think RI agreeing to this confirms he's put his past behind him?

I think we'll be better. I know we could be better. Our problem last year wasn't talent. I don't want to speculate on what contributed to it, but we could have been a lot better with the talent we had going into the year. We didn't loose anyone who was all that helpful to us last year. We still have the draft.

Yep, we cut him saving 12 mil and he signed for 8.

Would it be criminal to pick the 80s?

Yeah . . . super secret . . . Is that always true though? I don't think the Suh and Dareus deals raised the price on DTs

My thoughts exactly!

Now that we've cleared out the dead wood can we change the title of this thread?

That's all I can think of too, but it seems like something else has to be involved. It looks like playing length has been in free fall starting around 2008-2010. Something different had to happen to explain this. Players have been getting better since sports were invented. I guess you could say its reached a tipping point and injuries/awareness are causing players to opt out but to me (without any data) its seems like teams are the ones responsible for players not playing in monumentally more significant numbers. Although it seems very reasonable, has also been put forward, that there are more quality players available now. I don't think that is something new either. As more people play football and it gains in popularity the bell curve gets bigger and more people are in the middle, this should have a relatively continuous effect. Perhaps its the new CBA that is to blame. Although the decline started around 08, that could definitely be explained by natural fluxtuations. Things didn't really start getting significant until 2010, perhaps precipitated by the lockout and new CBA. Were there any major changes that would stop teams from signing there own? I don't really know the CBA but it seems like this has to be something new, something that was changed.