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It's about time Manuel carries his weight. Franchise?

Nobody circles the tow trucks...

Deck chairs.

Good question... Fair to think Belicheck wouldn't have backed this, but we only know the part of his personality that he shows us. I don't think Kraft would have done it, either,maps it could expose the franchise to fines, if seen to be systemic, not just a Marshawn Lynch not cooperating and therefore gets individually fined. I think it had to be a wealthy member of the roster, who could easily afford to potentially pay 53 players' fines, and who also has a history of being a whiney little baby who cries if he is treated any way other than as a football god... Do we know anybody that meets that description?

I think it should be clearly stated that the fact that our defense has stayed on track in Kyle's absence has everything to do with Corbin Bryant's stepping up, and nothing to do with Kyle not being talented, and therefore replaceable.

Karlos Williams? No... Charlie Sheen? Now we're talking...

I'm not sure if you guys understand what a hypothetical situation is. I'm not proposing these changes as though they would improve the game. I am proposing a different system simply to see how the game would change based on them. Would the players get smaller, because of playing 3x more games? How could the fundamental principles of the game be altered in order to allow for this type of demand, without making it flag football? This is a brainstorm exercise that I've wondered about, not a suggestion FOR change, but what would happen IF change. Please only respond if you have the required "equipment".

He's British, I wonder how he became a Bills fan, if he really is.

If you HAD to figure out a way to get 50 games out of the players, how could you mitigate the damage done to players? The base of the game is a contact sport, so how do you protect the players, if you had to figure out a way, without making it a flag football league, or lining the field with mattresses. Do you make a strike zone on all players from the mid thigh to chest? Will narrowing or widening the field lead to less contact?

Hey, I've had an interesting (to me) idea in mind, and wanted to share it, here, with you guys, and see what different spins you guys could foresee, that I didn't anticipate. Obviously all of this is hipothetical, it would never happen, but it is fun to think about. I'm interested in how a sport's gameplay would change, if the rules/ makeup were altered significantly. If the NFL changed from a 16 game season to 18 or even 20, I really don't foresee a noticeable change in gameplay or roster management, maybe just an extra bye week, which would have the super bowl played in mid February... Which I'm actually okay with. In a 20 game season, maybe the first bye weeks will be between weeks 4-8, and then the second will be between 11-15, with all teams that are on bye in week 4 getting their second one week 11, the ones on bye week 5 will get week 12... Etc... To keep a team from getting a short straw and having to go from week 4 with their first bye, to week 15 with their second. What I'm thinking about, though, is a DRASTIC change. If the NFL changed their schedule to have, say, 60 or 82 games, as the NHL and NBA have, how much would that change everything? Obviously things would not remain as they are now, but how different would they be, and in what capacity would the change happen? First, how the schedule would probably look- right now, the NFL has the shortest schedule of all the other sports, obviously with the amount of games, but also with just how long they are active on the calendar. They only play from about the 1st or 2nd week in September until the end of December, and then 1 month of playoffs, for 5 months. The NHL and NBA go from around Halloween till nearly June for almost 7 months, and MLB is beginning of April till the first couple days of November, for 7+ months. One way of making these games feasible is to give them more calendar months to play in. I prefer the idea of pulling the season's start earlier into the summer, instead of later into the winter, as I think a season that ended in mid March would give too much of an advantage to northern teams, who would have the whole winter to play. So we will start the NFL season on July 4th, Independence Day. Would be a great day to start it, and would absorb the market share almost exclusively enjoyed by MLB after then NHL/NBA end until NFL originally began, as MLB being the only thing going on. The super bowl will continue to be played at the beginning of February, which will now make the sport active for 7+ months. The Pro Bowl game will now be played at the mid-season to 2/3rds point, so as to allow a week off for most players, but also to make it more exciting for fans instead of being buried at the end of January, when nobody really cares. I kinda like showcasing it on Thanksgiving, but that might be a little TOO late. Maybe Halloween. With this time period now consisting of 28 weeks, let's, for the sake of math, make the season a 50 game season. That will allow you to have 5 bye weeks, plus the Pro Bowl game week. Other than the bye games, they will play 2 games per week. This will obviously be a real drain on the players... But that is where the change I was interested in, comes in. I would increase game day roster size to 65, and get rid of the inactives. Change the IR rules to more of an MLB type system, where you have a 15, 30, and 90 day IR. You could not play 50 games in 7 months as a 340lb DT, but would this player adapt and lose 60 lbs, in order to handle the rigors, or would they stay on the roster, but be a mostly "situational" player, only brought in for 4 or 5 plays per game, in either goal line situations on offense or defense, as most likely the linemen will be at least 20 lbs lighter and this type of player would be a specialty type player, like a closer. I would think that teams would likely carry double the amount of offensive and defensive linemen with those extra 12 roster spots, as I think the best way to get through this is to have some sort of rotation going, to keep people fresh. I don't know what that would look like, though. Would it mean that your first team OL would get every other week off, or every 3rd week off, or would they just rotate individual pieces and keep parts of the first team OL or DL on the field most of the time. I basically like this scenario for what it would do to player size-conditioning-usage. The idea of a rotation, whether it's the trench guys, or if it's having a 2 QB rotation, or asking players to 2-way on offense and defense (likely as a WR as CB, or TE as LB). Other than the player's union being completely against this, what other issues do you see coming of this? What tweaks from the game we know would there be, that you can foresee? Sorry for the length, by the way.

Typically, no... Comp picks are tied exclusively on a balance of how many players you lost last season in FA vs how many you signed, and the higher the pick you get is decided by how much the player lost signed for. There are teams, such as the Pat's, who always seem to be getting several picks, but that's just calculated on their part, on their own management strategy, as they don't pay MOST of their great players a lot of money, so as they graduate from their rookie deals, they get compensated for these guys lost, PLUS the original 7 draft picks they were to be issued (granted they haven't cheated that year and lost another 1st round pick, again). All while remaining highly competitive, by having the constant of Brady and Belicheck there. It's actually a brilliant management strategy. Every year, you would get one or two extra picks, for free, which also keeps you in good salary cap shape.

He's saying that it is insulting to a black person to be described as "articulate", when you rarely hear it about white people, as though it is thought to be common for white people to be articulate, but if a black person is, it is worth note, as so few of them are.

Easy now... two wrongs don't make a right.

No, definitely get the haircut first... he looks like an absolute fool. He should jusy get the red clown nose, to finish off the look, and be done with it.

You should be ashamed of yourself. If you're going to make a wish, don't waste it on just one player, take the whole jet down... c'mon, man!

I would read the article... but I have slow eyes, and have work in the morning.

We should try to win.

What about a straight-up trade of EJ for Kap, wouldn't that be fair, since he could very well be their #2 QB, and EJ is ours? EJ likely will be looking for a fresh start, a new chance to build his career, and SF might offer that... And Kap at least won't be walking into a COMPLETELY foreign world by playing under Roman. I should preface this with the fact that I haven't kept track of Kap out in SF, so I don't know exactly how terrible he has been, and this may true ly be a downgrade to go from EJ to Kap, but this last game sold to me that EJ just isn't going to do it at this level. I know most of you guys got there already, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt... But this Jacksonville game did it for me. Yes, he rallied the team, but the team rallied to make up for terrible mistakes he made earlier, which any competent QB probably doesn't do... At least not to the extent EJ does/did. I feel bad, though, because this is a clear case of the good guy not winning, as I really like who EJ appears to be as a person, and a man.

I would love him back as a DC, as I think he is fantastic and his stats still prove he is a top DC in the game, but he has never been very successful as the head guy.

Solid point, I definitely think that the way the extra points are, now, it could make teams more uncomfortable with their kickers that they originally thought were solid, so it could lead to a higher premium being placed on them. Not a top 3 round premium, the Janikowski thing probably won't happen again, but perhaps could see the statement you made come to fruition. Thank you for your kind words, I think you're very kind. You're welcome.

Do we draft a kicker? With all of these kicker problems league-wide, whether real or just imagined due to the increased difficulty of the extra kicks and now costing teams points, I could see kickers start to go in the draft a round sooner. You used to be able to "get your guy" in the 6th round, but maybe the 5th or 4th round is where top kickers come off the board, now, yearly. I like Carp, but his incompleteness is costing us a roster spot, as he cannot kick off as well.

Dustin Hopkins?

I have never known bush to stop progress towards the goal, it just gives the O a different look, but in the end, a score is a score. Gay at least changes it up. What is Whaley thinking, signing Gay sooo late in the week... he will not know the playbook, won't have a grasp on our gameplan for this week... asleep at the wheel, again!

Geez, I usually don't like corvettes, but that is a sick looking car.

The last time we went 5-0... it was in the middle of our dynasty period, when we went to the Super Bowl at the end of our season, in 1991... I'm not sure what you're getting at.