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nonprophet

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  1. 6 hours ago, Bangarang said:

    I don’t see how they can play Peterman again and if they put Allen out there, is he really being set up to succeed?

    I can; it's easier for a QB to develop when there's no pressure on him. When your team is already down 40+ points and there's only a half left to play when you take the field there is no pressure on you.

  2. 21 hours ago, KingRex said:

    Nope.  I am interested in winning next year.  None of the rookie QBs are capable of carrying a team deep into the playoffs (or probably into the playoffs at all).

    Draft defensive players in the high rounds and run an option offense next season with two good running QB/RBs drafted in the lower rounds. Daboll said you have to be able to run even when they expect you to so the Bills offense can just do that 80% of the time and having two QBs in the backfield all of the time should keep opposing defenses guessing. Hold them to a low score and keep hammering the rock at them until they can't tackle anymore.

  3. 1 hour ago, Alphadawg7 said:

    Not only did the league NOT let them off the hook, they enforced the max penalties allowed under the league rules and the most severe penalties in the history of the NFL up to that point.

    The league didn't strip them of their Superbowl trophy, though.

    Tonya Harding was stripped of her national championship medal.

  4. 21 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

    When Schwartzy was in Buffalo we had an amazing D, until we played the Pats who moved the ball at will.

    Schwartz's D was great against all of the NFC North teams. Minnesota is an NFC North team, New England is not.

    1 hour ago, Jobot said:

    Do you recall what happened when the the greatest show on turf met NE in Belicheck's first SB???

    Yeah, the Patriots videotaped all of the Rams' practices, decoded their visual defensive calls (because the QB of the offense got a radio but the QB of the defense didn't back then) and then used that knowledge to change the offensive play invisibly, over the radio, once they knew what the Rams would do defensively.

    Is that about right?

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  5. On 1/22/2018 at 10:38 AM, Buffalo716 said:

    The NFL has been fixed the same way for 20 years... through The officiating 

     

    they then installed instant replay to clean up the game... now they don't even care about that and are blatantly changing calls all the time without proof 

     

    i prefer college ball

    The technology exists to detect what happened on a play to a far greater degree of accuracy than any group of human referees can ever hope to achieve. If the NFL put sensors on the ball, the players and embedded in the field most calls could be made automatically by a bank of redundant, dispassionate computers that independently funnel all that collected data into a decision tree based on the NFL rule book and the decision that the majority of the computers agree on would be the call. The referees would just exist as a backup in the case of technical problems and a sanity check on the computed call.

    Each computer's software could be implemented differently so that hacking enough of them to influence the majority decision would be a lot harder to pull off.

  6. On 1/22/2018 at 11:01 AM, row_33 said:

     

    and 10% of the talent, it's sad watching almost all top NCAA teams run some kind of mickey-mouse-rag-tag-bush-league option game...

     

     

    There's a simple reason for that: there are too many teams for the number of talented players available to play on them. Most football programs lose money but the colleges keep pursuing it regardless.

  7. 1 hour ago, LeGOATski said:

    Tough choice. I'm just drafting Darnold and building my team around him.

    What's the average track record of USC quarterbacks taken in the first round?

    I'm leery of Darnold personally; he's been surrounded with top-flight talent at USC and they may make him look better than he actually is. I'd rather the Bills draft a QB who hasn't had the greatest supporting cast and made them look better than they actually are.

  8. 2 hours ago, LA Grant said:

    The NFL has many problems, but these are the most crucial, imo: Too many games are tedious and boring. and Injuries, Illegal Hits, and Inconsistent Punishment.

     

    I think the simplest way to solve is to focus on revamping Instant Replay.

     

    1) Challenges and Booth Reviews are removed entirely.

    You can't be serious. Given the sensor technology available today it would be inexcusable to remove checks against human error. Look at what they've done with tennis where sensors have replaced line judges; the NFL should do the same thing. There should be sensors in the ball so that it can be known for certain if it touched the ground before the receiver caught it. There should be sensors in a player's uniform to detect if there was contact with an opposing player or that their knee was down before the ball popped out.

    The problem is not that the officials are trying to determine the truth, it's that they're trying to do it after the event has taken place based on insufficient information and possibly questionable human judgement.

    Use sensors to record the what and when, computers to make objective judgements automatically based on those measurements and keep human referees around only as a fallback when technical problems occur.

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