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He's good. Better than I expected his career to have gone. But he was never supposed to be the top 10 WR the Dolphins thought they were supposed to get that's for sure

We'd cream our pants over that. Would have been best catch of the season. Of course given the game I'm sure Saints fans can say it's the best catch of their season circumstantially

Just rooting for the Rams in the Rams Saints gameday thread. Go Rams! Still in it

I think McCoy still has it but our offensive dearth of talent really obscured a lot of what anybody could show they were capable of. Just give me an equal rushing and passing threat.. WRs and some road graders and we'll see a marked improvement without too much effort improving what's been so terrible this year

That the Jordan Matthews touchdown was super important to the Bills? Or any inaccurate throw this week and last week makes Josh Allen more or less accurate now?

U spent the entires Eagles game reveling in confusion about the ramifications of the Jordan Matthews TD catch on Bills management when literally no one else cared

Well think about it like Marino vs Montana in the SB. Ya didn't know that was Marino's only shot and Montana's icing on the cake at the time. Just my rationale to imagine Goff/Mahomes as the next Marino lol.

Yes be confused as to my excuse to root for the Rams for petty meaningless reasons. We're neutral fans. It's nice to have fun with it. Go Goff and the QB youth revolution that includes JA

U a confused man. Everything is about JA

Pulling for the young bloods, JA for one. Lotta football to be played.

**** old Quarterbacks. You had yer chance.

I wish the article had some statistics. Like if aging OL were more likely to be obese than the average Joe. I'd say most former big boys have the metabolism that makes them struggle to get weight off moreso than a normal dude. Then again they have loads more time than I do to work out and eat healthy Instead of cherry picking some sad stories i didn't catch anything in the article to say anything about this being more common for NFL players, although I'm sure that's somewhat statistically true. I bet it comes down to if players that get to the trenches at that high level are there because they have relative ease to maintain a fat *** playing weight or if it's unrelated and guys like Woods and Joe Thomas are just as likely to be successful artificially blowing up to playing weight against their natural metabolism

I've been careful to say the entire collective group of NFL athletes get paid less than NBA and MLB athletes as a percentage of revenue. It's really the only league I'd argue justifies getting paid more and having more guaranteed than the other major leagues due to health risks. Taking into account how they compare with compensation to other leagues and the relative danger they play through, they just have a crappy union. I'm not going to keep going back to pretending professional athletes are in the same stratosphere to other professions. It's obviously a very different life style. Just comparing them with other professional team sports leagues.

Athletic quarterbacks are awesome. Being athletic doesn't preclude you from throwing like Peyton Manning. Show em how it's done Pat Mahomes.

I think Bell to the Colts would be a slam dunk.. of course the emergence of Marlon Mack makes that a tougher call. Bell to the Packers or Seahawks is a good fit as well. Troubled players of such talent are absolutely worth going for in a limited win now window. Not exactly the position the Bills are in or should pursue.. although Bell is much less a headcase than Brown and would make our offense amazing overnight.. and perhaps give us the exact same window provided JA is who we think he is (AND USES HIS RB FOR ONCE IN THE PASSING GAME lol) I'd have to wait and see if JA likes his RBs in the passing game so as not to waste Bell's talents for the pay he'd demand though. JA seems to just need a bevy of good to great -not necessarily elite- WRs, possession guys and elusive route runners is the book I have on him so far to maximize his talent. He spreads the ball and fires fast balls to anybody and everybody that needs the route running skills and hands to catch it. We need like.. 4 Fosters, maybe 2 Fosters and 2 Agholors or Coopers. That and simply a non-JA oriented running game complete with a passable OL (doesn't need to be the best in the league IMO of JA's skillset) Ultimately finding out what skill position players JA needs to maximize his strengths and cover his flaws is something that needs figured out.. and I think that's running game (easy fix IMO) and superb route runners along Amari Cooper's level.. like a lot of those guys (much harder fix). But who knows, maybe next year he'll show a better picture on how his tendencies are best utilized.. think Nick Foles needing an Alshon Jeffrey for his tendency for jump balls, or Wentz needing the penultimate safety blanket in Ertz.. One WR is much more valuable to one QB than the other. Goff is Brady esque on his penchant for slot type Cooper Kupp rather than burners. Big Ben is fantastic with his RBs on broken plays in the pass catching game.. not every quarterback fully utilizes elite WRs of a certain ilk, TEs, or waterbug RBs.

Well of course that's what apple does. They don't have a monopoly on the labor demand for professional engineers. But as far as sports teams go I'm simply saying NFL makes the most, yet players (collectively) get a smaller portions of the pie relative to other Leagues. Yet their jobs are much more dangerous than an an NBA player. That just sucks. I know they have a fun job we would do for practically free and all but athletes are worth so damn much I'll stand on my soap box and say they should get a larger pie relative to owners. If this was cricket with no CTE, Obesity (although that's one of the sillier dangers), I wouldn't mind them getting less % of NFL revenue. But football players damn well deserve more than baseball or basketball based on their relative danger compared to other popular sports. I'd simply argue for a lucrative pension plan to cover future medical costs as they wrack up medical bills and inevitably mostly blow their money out of stupidity. Certainly a strong long term disability insurance plan really. Mostly a privatized insurance industry not given by employers but very applicable to NFL players above most all team sports.

BRUCE. Tons of teams would take him if they could pick any non QB outside their franchise.

I'm saying maybe the owners should share it, not the players dividing up the smaller slice of the larger pie they created over other leagues. Any ordinary profession that received the same earnings per revenue generated would.. find a new profession or riot lol. But whatever, I agree, they certainly make more than enough money to manage obesity. Money's not a problem for this subject.

You're describing a pension. They get enough to live by very comfortably after 55. But sure, the NFL could mandate more of the compensation from contracts is contributed to a pension plan to smooth out income for those who don't know any better. The old pensions (which I assume this article is touching on.. players in the 70s and earlier, SUCKED). But they're much better now, more along the lines of what you describe. How long you play and how much you are paid determines the size of the pension without any salary contribution. And contracts can be drawn up to add contributions to an annuity to the pension. But I don't think anybody wants to be forced to turn their contract into an annuity. But a stronger pension essentially does just that. Companies and the NFL are absolutely incentivized economically to give out lump sums rather than managing pensions. The cost to manage annuities and pension plans are extremely complicated and expensive. That's why I get paid to do just that.. and at the end of the day you're just turning one form of compensation to another more costly administrative form for jackwagons like me.. mandated by the government.. to get credentialed and professionally determine liabilities on an annual basis to constantly make sure the NFL coffers can pay liabilities. But companies are phasing out pension plans for 401Ks as a form of retirement for that exact same reason. They're putting the "power [to manage retirement money] in the employee's hands and out of the employer's [astronomical cost of administrating retirement plans] hands" Code for: They're giving you the responsibility cause it's a pain in the *** for them so they'll spin it as giving you control, not responsibility. Pensions and annuities are way better for employees than a lump sum, but lump sums are easier.. economically way better for employers. They don't have a cost of administration.

The fact that they exercise every day like athletes, and force feed themselves to stay big boys. Says a lot about their genetics. I imagine guys like Woods really had to pack in food to maintain a C's weight and fight against their natural metabolism, whereas most big boys probably have made it all the way up the NFL ranks because they have the metabolism genes to maintain that weight with relative ease even while practicing football every day. Not hard to imagine what happens when football goes for a lot of these guys. They likely don't have the natural metabolism of the average adult. It's gotta be harder than what most of the posters are anecdotally saying how to fight obesity. It's still a battle of wills at the end of the day but it's much harder for some than others (in some cases almost impossibly hard)

Way underpaid. NFL players bring in the most revenue of any league. Doesn't matter if they get paid to flip pancakes. The NFL fan has deemed that to be valuable entertainment worthy of our dollar and advertising revenue. They're the most valuable entertainers in the world, risk their bodies more than most other sports entertainers, and don't get compensated as much as other leagues. Where's all that money going WEO?