Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Let's start a pool to predict the date of the demise of Major League Football League.

Sunday night is the #1 night of the week for TV ratings, as opposed to the lowest rated night is Saturday. Granted if the Super Bowl were played on a Saturday, I'm sure for that one week things would change. Probably shouldn't be talking about this too loud, else the NFL may get ideas like MLB or NBA, or even college sports and start the game at 9:00 pm instead. Or how about 4:00 in the afternoon on New Years Eve? That worked well!!

Interestingly, the number of players retiring before age 30 has also gone up every year for the past five. Guess the players have figured It out too.

I'm not comparing to Buffalo, face it if the Bills had left Buffalo wasn't getting another team. Comparing to places like LA, San Antonio. Having said that though IMO there likely are more high paying jobs in Western NY than there are in Vegas, medical fields, technology, etc. And definitely confusing with Clark County. There's a ton of money on the strip, mostly belonging to tourists. Get off the strip and the residents all work in the gaming industry and it's supporting businesses, restaurants, etc. Not sure ther'es all that much money there.

Lets not forget singing on the sideline with 3 minutes left in the game and doing his Superman routine even when losing by 30. Cam does many good things, but hard pressed to recall another who comes across as cocky as he does.

I question if there's much money in Vegas at the level of an average fan. I'm sure there's tons of money there but I think compared to most cities of equal population the big $$ is shared by a small few. There's no real economy there except for gambling and doubt most of the Casino workers and those that it support that industry earn much money. Probably not enough to buy a ticket to a game. So do agree with Augie in that not enough permanent residents who'd actually spend money on a ticket. The gambling angle is interesting as the league has always stayed away for that reason. I think this is just Mark making enough noise to tr yand get a better offer from the NFL.

A few days back on the Mike And Mike show, they were talking about Chip Kelley and how when you give these guys all this power, there has to be someone in the organization who they will listen to when that person tells them you are wrong, or that's a terrible idea. In that respect I think having Rob here may be good for Rex as I'm pretty certain he won't be afraid to tell Rex to stick it at any time. Also think Rob understand the D that Rex wants to run better than anyone else on the staff so his presence will allow Rex to have more time to actually be the HC instead of having to hold Thurmans hand all the time.

Of the teams you list, Baltimore, Chargers, Cowboys, Saints, & Cards all have current starting QB's with better all around resumes than TT The Jets' and Lions are a wash as to whether TT is better. In n most of these cases these teams current starter is better today than TT, but the end of their careers is near. Would those teams like to have TT as a back up or as WC posted to complete, sure, but again not going to pay 19 mil for him to be the backup the next couple of years. So do agree with many, your list of teams willing to spend anywhere close to $19 mil is very misguided. I will say, IF he does have a great or even very good year in 2016, that list will grow, but really a large leap to come to conclusion that TT will jump at the chance to leave due to disrespect.

If you're worry is when TT doesn't play, doubt the draft is going to help much for another couple of years unless there's an Andrew Luck out there you can get with a 3rd round pick. More likely need to find someone like another Kyle Orton. If you're drafting a guy, then he's to maybe play in a couple of years.

Cause most teams barely even carry three

I voted for Carolina, though am rooting for Denver as would like to see Peyton win one and go out on top. But will be surprised if it happens as can't see Denver being able to hold Carolina from scoring enough. Don't know if this has been mentioned or not, but it kind of reminds me of the 91 Bills Giants game. Bills crushed Oakland 51-3, beat Miami the week prior pretty good, offense was humming along. Giants were playing their back up QB, everyone was asking how could the Giants slow down Buffalo's offense. Granted the Giants did have a better running game than Denver, but in many ways reminds me of that game as no one is giving Denver much of a chance, mainly due to Peyton.

Yeah, but the Denver defender in front of him could have lumped up to cut off most of the angles, and if he lead him much the next defender also would have been in the passing lanes. Would had to have been a perfect pass to thread it in there.

Yeah, but if they had kicked and assumed made, then kicked off Denver would likely not have been pinned in quite so deep, who know what would have happened?? Is this Wade's first Super Bowl? I'm pretty certain he only came to Buffalo after their four SB run had ended, can't recall if he went with some other team, as he's been with so many over the years So here's a question, when the Bronco player fumbled it, if the NE player had recovered it clean without being "touched down" Could he have ran it back into the endzone and would NE then still get the 2 points. Or is it kind of like a field goal, once a kick is blocked, they play is dead for the team attempting the play? I'm assuming the answer is no, but not certain what exactly the ruling would be??

I live in Eastern NC and go to the Waffle House quite a bit. Great breakfast!! I don't ever get any kind of meat, just get the eggs,hash browns, and toast. Always fast and decent, no complaints. Ironically the one menu item that they seem to struggle with making are their waffles. They seem to burn them or forget to make them half the time, but I don't bother with them. Waffle House tends to be an acquired taste, kind of like White Castle which I also like.

That is true, however in the case of Mario he seems to have a very small window where he is happy and plays well. From rumblings, it sounds like a similar thing happened in Houston prior. Even was it his 1st or 2nd year here everyone was ripping him for his level of play. So for as much money as he's making, can't really fault the Bills or Rex on this one. Will be interesting to see how many teams will give him big $$ considering his past reputation.

Sure if you want to do nothing for the rest of your life which many would be fine with, even then at his age at 4.5% per year not going to last him all his life.. But he wants to be a coach, if what you're implying is true he wouldn't be out interviewing. From that standpoint, what he did by quitting in hindsight was career suicide.

I think the wool was pulled over their eyes too. When he was hired I'm certain they believed all these things to be true, else why hire him? But they found out wasn't exactly so as did the fans. It also could be to get information from him. Wouldn't shock me at all to hear that teams often interview guys they have no plans to hire, but they are looking to gleam information from him, maybe others that worked with him, who he'd hire as assistants. Maybe a team is waiting to see what's to happen with Doug Whaley and is interested in hiring DW. So they bring Marrone in, and ask him about Whaley. It's not a big time commitment or cost to bring these guys in, so may be worth doing it. Wouldn't also rule out it may also be partly doign a favor for the agent, or they are interested in another client the agent has, so agree to interview both. I don't think he was smart at all. If he had stuck around and been fired, the Bills would have been on the hook for the remainder of his contract, minus any offsets he gets from future employment. But other teams wouldn't be looking at him in such a negative light if he'd been fired as opposed to quitting. I think by now he realizes walking away was the biggest mistake of his career. He probably got around $1.8 mil after taxes not enough to live the rest of his life off of at all.

I was happy to see Seattle lose too, I'll never root for Lynch. They better play much better next week though as Az has a good set of receivers, and a good QB to get them the ball and a D as good as Seattle. College football and basketball are more popular down here. Plus too many transplants.

It may be that often whe nthe player goes out of bounds they camera switches to a "close up view" of the players untangling themselves, etc and the clock is not in that camera view. By the time they switch back to the "wide view" that includes all the graphics, the ball has been re-spotted and clock has restarted. Some times it will be re-spotted more quickly than others, so it likely did stop for a couple of seconds, but you didn't see it, or maybe it is the officals choice that sometimes he doesn't feel the need to stop it at all. Think you may have that part backwards. If he goes out of bounds heading backwards of his own free will, the clock does NOT stop. But if he's tackled in a backwards direction OOB, then the clock WILL STOP as he had not deliberately caused. That was the argument in the Sammy Watkins play, the clock should have stopped because an opposing player tackled him OOB and dove him backwards. Well just read a later response, maybe either way it should stop in the NFL??

So all the position are now filled, and Dougie will spend another season on the unemployment line. You'd think after two years of being turned down, (two year total has to be near half the teams in the league) he'll look much harder next year at a college position as it seems his chances of getting back to the NFL based on a somewhat mediocre record and have on his resume the distinction of quitting are rather low. If he can succeed in college then the NFL may come calling.

Rex and Rob both entering the 4th of July Hot dog eating challenge at Coney Island!!

I think you raise a very good point here with the one bolded below but from a different view. The football minds may all say how great of a coach Marrone would be and maybe they are right. But an owner probably sees a HC who took $4 mil worth of money from another team essentially because he could, and thinking that could have been coming out of my pocket. That in turn may completely tur noff any owner. And yes the argument can be made most teams let the GM hire the coach, not the owner. But I'm sure on every team that GM still is getting the owners buy off on the signing. And in Marrone's case, that ain't happening. The other rather interesting thing I heard listening to that Tim Graham and believe Tyler Dunne podcast a week or so back. It sounded like they felt the person who convinced Marrone to walk away was his wife. She was labeled as a control freak which is kind of funny when comparing to Marrone himself.

Probably right, but my point was more that these cities want to play hard ball and tell the owner, "No we're not giving you a sweetheart deal" but the then once the team leaves they backtrack and give the next guy the same sweetheart deal. Not saying the cities should cave, but if you ended up caving anyway, why not same everyone time and money \and do what you're goign to eventually do anyway.

I read someplace the league will either loan or give (can't recall which) Mark Davis the money to build a new stadium in Oakland.

Actually probably not. If history repeats itself, once the team actually leaves, the city then will turn around and give some new team exactly what their old team that just left had wanted all along. See Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, and even St Louis.