Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

It's possible they could try and show case Brown in pre-season to try and raise up some trade value in him. Even if only gets a6th or 7th rounder, still worth something.

Maybe or could just as easily have been he is just average to slightly better, doesn't get the big pay day because he's just not that good. So would have saved money and had a crappy player in return. The OP called him a "Fan favorite" which guess means we shouldn't have traded him for that reason?? Kiko had a great September, after that was average.

Fixed it for you!

So then no Mario Williams on the team, cross out Clay, Harvins, Graham, Gray, Dixon, Felton, Rambo to name a few. Did we even draft Kyle Wiliams and Bradham?? Without FA not sure even some of the trades would have happened either as often were dependednt on another team signing another player which made the first one expendable, so maybe no McCoy, Hughes, seems like there's another trade I'm forgetting. Likely too if the team does look better this seaosn, we'll be more in the mix of signing better FA's too in the future if we choose to.

Just hope he doesn't have to drive here!

Well it's also a great chance for ABC to promote their fall schedule of new shows.

Somehow the ESPY's being on ABC just doesn't sound right! first time for that.

I assumed any police departments on the panhandle are too busy keeping tab on the Fl State players to have time to deal with this.

This is likely going to be a rather unpopular comment and likely I'll be ripped 100 ways to Sunday, but if the courts don't find the person guilty whether it be a player, coach, or whomever, why should the NFL have the right to step in. Here's my suggestion for NFL discipline. Any player or coach that does anything wrong or gets in trouble for any reason, can have their contract immediately voided by the team. They are now no longer getting paid. Lets see how many teams would cut the guy, and how quickly the line forms from other teams wanting to sign him. If players jerseys no longer had names and numbers on them so no one knew who anyone even was, rosters aren't released so no one knows who they are watching, would this matter anymore? Or would you still be watching the game and hoping that the team you are rooting for outscores the other team. We are watching football not choir practice. I watch movies and TV where people get killed, that doesn't mean I'm endorsing killing. Should we boycott the actors who play there roles too?

You can just as easily argue the opposite. If you have a top rated QB, you're going to devote a much larger part of your salary cap for qb, thus not having enough money left to sign other players and you will lose players to FA. Will be interesting to see what happens in Seattle. If R Wilson gets even close to what he wants, there won't be enough money left for others and Wilson is not elite enough to carry the team either.

Twice I was on the 2nd year of contract and was able to get ST for roughly half off

I'm not very confident that will work though if you've previously had DTV at that same address. Obviously then you can get it. My take on it is DTV doesn't really care, they'll give it to you, and as long as you tell them no I can't receive it, they are happy and will be glad to take your money. But if you've had it prior at the same address or even if a prior owner of same address had it, they likely will say no because if they allow you to have it then they are knowingly breaking the law as opposed to you breaking the law by lying to them about whether you can receive it or not.

Well that's the good part, come July 16th my contract ends, so I'm free to dump them. So I am in a good position to get a good deal,

They had a contingency plan, it just didn't end up working out very well, there's a distinct difference between the two

Often guys are out injured almost as long. I'd be more worried if he was a LB or DB, or some position that relied more on speed. OL is more technique and I think you're less likely to forget that.

I don't know whenever I call I always get told they don't currently have any offers,. spoke with retention dept had the pin and everything, I did get a $10 and a $5 credit off my bill for the next 12 months, plus a one time $20 credit, so the call wasn't a complete waste, but no ST discount. He told me to call back in another month or so and they more likely will have some deals which is usually around the time in prior years I did call in late July. He kind of eluded to the fact that I could probably get at least half off then if not better, but right now nothing more he could do. I will add that I have a pretty stripped down account, have the Xtra package, whole house DVR, 2 TV's total, that's it no movie channels or anything else. That is usually what they kind of tell me I don't spend enough to warrant any great deals, kind of like playing at the $1 Black Jack table and expecting to be comped for my room. Will see what happens next month, hate the time I end up spending on this every year dicking around back and forth, often involved hour long phone calls. At least tonight was a fast rejection.

I found around the end of July beginning of August to be the best time to call. Twice I had been on year two of contract, still got $100 or more off. I did "chat" last night and was given the special 800 number with a pin, but by the that time was around 10:30 so am goign to call them up later. Will see how it goes.

I'm completely off of all contracts this July, so for the first time I have some leverage as I can easily totally walk. Will see what I can get.

Don't think you can drop a player that is still injured. You can have an injury settlement, but don't think you can do that either until the player is cleared for play. And with injury settlements, I'd think the player kind of has the upper hand in agreeing to the settlement terms as otherwise he's still under contract.

I wouldn't mind seeing some type of system implemented that supplimented the salary cap where if a player is say is ranked in the top 10% at his position, he can be paid a bonus or something by the owner of his current team that doesn't count against the salary cap. If you sign bad free agents to huge contracts it doesn't help you, but if you do have that rare player that is better than all of the others at his position, allow the team to improve his odds to keep him by being able to give him more money but not kill yourself wit hregards to the cap. You can put limits on the number of players per team you can give extra money to etc.

Hope the Supplementral draft is on ESPN. Can't wait to watch 32 teams say pass three or four times each. I'll have to mark my calendar to watch.

Assuming you're correct which you more likely will be wrong just because well over half of the QB hopefuls fail so the odds are against you, but even then OK so we have our franchise QB, but if it will take 2 to 3 years by then the rest of your roster will then need to be rebuilt. I also think in today's NFL it's very hard to have a franchise QB and have a great team around him as the elite QB's eat up too much of your salary cap. Which then leads back to my first comment as will then be hard to rebuild the team if you're already paying for a franchise QB. Will be very interesting to see what happens in Seattle over the next couple of years as to what happens with Wilson and the rest of their roster.

I can confirm that to be true as I'm in Vegas and have seen things beyond anyone's imagination! I have to believe there must be a huge silicone mine someplace near by.

I'll be in Las Vegas for my daughters wedding this weekend. Not sure how much I'll get to see mainly due to the time difference. Will be weird to turn on at 4:00 in the afternoon. On the other hand may put a bet down on the Bill's to win the Superbowl Vegas should be hopping this weekend between the draft, the Derby and particually the fight.

Actually that would be an interesting little test, add up all 32 of their predicted team records and see it it equals .500. You'd think anyone writing a column like thta would do a simple check, but maybe not??