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8 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
With all the talk about intentional tanking in Miami and Cleveland (stemming from the Flores lawsuit), should the NFL change its draft format?
Jason McCourtey alluded to the NFL doing a lottery similar to the NBA, where basically the non-playoff teams go into the lottery for their draft position. The worst record team is guaranteed no worse than the 5th draft pick.
Would such a system work in the NFL
and be better for competitive balance and anti-tanking?
I’d rather take the chance of a team tanking, then trusting the, “randomness” of a lottery. With a lottery, there always will be the worry that lottery draw is manipulated in some way (even with a minimum spot guaranteed). At least the way it is now draft positions are transparent to all.
And honestly, you can “tank” by fielding a less experienced team, while also asking them to go out there and do their best to win. Should that not be allowed? One could easily argue they want to develop their young guys by giving them more reps, with an eye towards the future.
However, with Miami, we have an owner offering the coach $100k a loss. From the outside looking in, that appears to be a wholly different kind of tanking. Like possibly develop a ***** game plan with bad situational decisions type stuff. I feel like something like that would be so rare, it just needs to be firmly dealt with when it arises.
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10 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:
That was my 1st though. The winner of the coin toss has to choose the opponent's 1 yard line. Anything else is coaching malpractice, unless they can choose the 1 inch line.
The team that chooses the spot, chooses the direction of travel (so either 1 yard for a td or 99 the other way). The second team picks offense or defense. So if the second team is faced with going 99 yards on offense or defending 99 yards, chances are good they choose defense.
The rule isn’t horrible, but it’s not football and feels gimicky. Like something a competing football league might try. I hope this isn’t something that comes to stay.
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1 hour ago, dma0034 said:
So the league manipulates outcomes for what end? If you think that an owner like Jerry Jones is okay with his team losing for 2 decades because it's part of a greater plan then you are crazy.
It’s the Cowboys and Jerry Jones that give me pause towards widespread gambling abuse in the NFL, because he seems to be (from my perspective) someone who either would pay to win, or raise holy hell (in a non public way of ofcourse) if he caught wind of it happening against his teams interests.
Although, it doesn’t mean there isn’t some from abuse as Flores has pointed out. It just seems that it would be a few here and there abusing things (like the Pats and spy gate).
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5 minutes ago, Doc said:
How does this make sense? Say the team wins the coin toss and spots the ball at the opponent's 1-yard line. The opponent then has to choose to play defense (1 yard to score for the opponent) or offense (99 yards to score for them) from that spot. Neither are ideal.
The team that chooses the spot, also chooses the direction. So, say the ball is put on the 1 yard line, having to go 99 yards. The next team gets to choose offense or defense, and chances are good they pick defense in that situation.
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14 hours ago, MJS said:
Yes, we have been missing that elite guy on defense. A game wrecker on the defensive line would make this team truly elite.
I don't think we need another elite receiver. We have Diggs. The rest of the guys have shown they can take over when Diggs is doubled and game planned out of the game. Obviously, we have an elite QB. I didn't want Beckham and I stand by that. Von Miller, though? Sign me up. But they traded him out of conference for a reason.
On defense we have Tre White, but we need one more elite guy. An elite MLB or an Elite pass rusher would go a long ways.
The Bills of the 90's had that on both sides of the ball and it is what we are missing now. Jim and Thurman on offense, Bruce on defense. We need our Bruce.
We might just see that we have him in Greg R. Next season, my fingers are crossed this is the case.
Beane mentioned in his presser he thought he hit the rookie wall a bit, but battled past it. With a full season and upcoming offseason under his belt, I’m excited to see him next season.
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33 minutes ago, Marvlevydraftdaygenius said:
Minnesota said that about Diggs too.
I didn’t watch Diggs as close then as I do Metcalf now. So I don’t know about the comparison, but I do know what I see in Metcalf. He gives up on plays in a way you don’t see very often, in any game, from any player and it’s usually when you need him most (after some struggles).
Diggs doesn’t strike me as the kind of person to have ever been like that, and if so, he has grown tremendously.
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On 1/24/2022 at 8:54 AM, Jeffbigalls said:
The Chiefs attempted to get the rule changed after that , it was shut down quick
Yep, your right. However, it still doesn’t change that the NFL is moving to more of a passing/offensive game.
We just saw the leagues number 1 defense get smoked by a top offense, furthermore, since the playoff OT rule change (happened sometime around 2012 I believe), the coin flip winner is 9-1 (where as in the regular season the coin flip winner wins at just about 53% of the time).
I will qualify this by saying, there is more data for the regular season, and thus perhaps the playoff coin flip winner’s win percentage will regress towards the mean.
However, the playoffs also have the best of the best, and maybe, the best offenses are beginning to beat the best defenses. Either way, a full football team consists of offense, defense, and special teams. I believe in such a close game in the post season, we (the fans) want to see the best TEAM move on, and that would require both offense and defense getting a chance.
But as you said, this issue wasn’t even brought up for a vote. So the NFL doesn’t appear to be keen on making the change.
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5 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:
Would the Hawks trade Metcalf?
This is a highly unlikely scenario for many reasons - salary cap, impact to Diggs and likelihood that the Hawks just don’t let him go are at the top of the list. However, there are some uncertainties regarding Metcalf future in Seattle.
As for me, If the Bills could get him for a 1st and a 4th I would say do it all day long every day. Could you imagine the nightmare matchups created with Diggs, Metcalf and Knox in the game as your base set? You have all combinations of size, speed, route running, ability to play at every level and Josh heaving the rock.
I live in Seattle and see a fair amount of Hawks football. He isn’t a McDermott type of player. He gives up on plays, or puts in minimal effort. This year many of my local friends really soured on Metcalfs lack of effort at times.
Personally I wanted him bad going into that draft, after watching his lack effort, I believe that to be big reason behind his slide.
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1 hour ago, Billsfan1972 said:
I said to everyone at my place to kick it to like the 10 yard line and have them run 6-7 seconds off the clock.
Some thought squib, but then you can just fall on it.
Did anyone think kick it out of the end zone for a touchback????
I thought it would be a squib or something like your saying. Either way, force them to field the ball in bounds and kill some clock. I thought that would happen for sure, I called it as well.
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4 hours ago, Jeffbigalls said:
No it doesn't the rule is just fine, you gotta stop the team that wins the toss.
Not when you have QB’s like Allen and Mahomes. Those two wouldn’t be denied last night. It was the same with Mahomes and Brady a couple seasons ago.
Footballs a team game, and the Bills offense and Kansas defense never saw the field in OT, but those sides of the ball are part of the reason for OT. There should be rule changes to allow this to happen, especially when the NFL is moving more to high flying offenses. We will see this more and more. -
He should have squibed on the kickoff after Josh got us the lead. With 13 seconds left, the squib would have took 3-5 seconds off the clock. More than likely we win if he does that. I thought for SURE they would squib. That’s my biggest disappointment from last night. Hell of a game all around.
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It’s awesome seeing all the behind the scenes involvement from the Bills staff members. They did a great job with the video all around.
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4 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:
Can anyone add more insight into "Burglary Domestic Violence"?
Does that mean he basically pushed his way into her house to take something? Likely something he felt belongs to him...
I can add a little insight. Before the attempted burglary, Sherman drove into a closed traffic lane (my project). He almost hit the employee who tried to wave him down. He stopped, was escorted out of the work area, and shortly after leaving he hit a concrete barrier damaging his car.
Don’t have any other details.
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Should there be an NFL Lottery?
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This would create its own issues.
Consider, a fringe playoff team (however could be a weak division’s winner) going on a run from week 13-18 (without a bye, that’s 6 wins). This team would get a nice draft pick, while still being competitive in season, and possibly making the playoffs.