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while not a perfect measure, ypg is the best single measure of a defense. bad special teams and offense can put the d in tough spots wrt scoring, as the other team won't have to march down the field to score. also, a great O which scores on every drive and has a solid special teams which puts the opponent around the 25 for the start of every drive will reduce the number of points scored due to the fact that the opponents have to go so far to score, or even be in field goal range. Football is not new and there is a good reason why D has always been ranked by YPG red zone D, turnovers forced, sacks, yards per play, yards per drive, all of those should generally be considered (along with #1 mentioned above) prior to PPG allowed in assessing a D. clearly PPG is what matters at the end, but since the opponents D and special teams can score, and put the D in a bad position, it's more of a team stat and less of a direct measure of the D. all that said, i expect our D to be better in most if not all categories compared to last year, and an improvement on O and special teams maybe enough with the D being basically flat to last year to punch us up to number one statistically.

i like the take, but the home and away games don't add up. which game is marked as a home game which is really an away game?

did singletary have a better pro day 40 time than at the combine, or am i imagining that? i THINK he had a similar spread pro day vs combine as did emmit smith. if our line can get it together I'm a fan of our back field. guys who can make a few yards out of small creases and break tackles will pull up LBs for play action.

I think we are likely to just fracture. Stronger states rights and limited federal powers could get us there incrementally. With remote white collar work being such a potential equalizer, I can see big expensive cities being hollowed out and States getting further and further apart culturally and politically. I think that would be the best possible outcome.

watching allen make sick bombs shows me he is an accurate passer, but him airing out over guys or putting a rocket into a guy 8 yards away tells me he just has some consistency problems. I'd say his mechanics breakdown (sometimes necessitated by the hero ball he had to play last year) and decision making are the biggest issues, followed (and not closely) by a need to maybe make some very small adjustments in how or when he actually throws the ball. IMO all of this is well coachable, but being big, fast, strong, swagged out, and having an arm rocket can't be taught, so i like what we have with him.

im thinking the officer may have made a mistake not opening fire. what i mean is if that situation happens 10 times, how many times does his restraint get him killed? I've gotta think more than a few, maybe more than half. Both the officer and the violent criminal got lucky there.

i will admit i hated flutie, but quickly came around to how rob johnson had a mental problem with taking sacks, they were both very good at some things and just horrible at others. that D was disgusting and a win in Tennessee would have lead to an on the road super bowl run and victory. I started watching game of thrones again (with my wife who had never seen it). going back over the old seasons and seeing what happened to the characters i root for is EXACTLY like going back and watching some of these old bills games. IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS!! also, russ will is somewhat similar to flutie, but much much much better.

I was wondering about this. I've read a bunch about how there are racial incompatibilities for blood transfers. Is is the same or worse for organs?

lol, bro i thought the exact same thing. my wife is all about ranch, and i'me a blue cheese man. i'd like to tell you the cops have never had to be involved, i'd really like to.

*old man strokes himself to images of pro athletes* how dare someone post something less than prostrating worship of these living gods! i'll show him!

looool, i love old clown shoes who worship pro athletes and take pot shots at anyone who dares to question their divine right! who knows what fantastical magic they have?!?! and their hidden space steroids!! the athletic ability of every NFL athlete is well tested in the combine, and you can see exactly how you compare by doing the same stuff yourself. all of this is well studied and published. long story short: in most sports small differences in attributes or abilities lead to large differences in results, so you end up with very specialized athletes with very particular phenotypes. all that said, even in a less fine skilled sport like football (for most positions anyhow) has an enormous skill and space/motion talent element. Taylor Mays couldn't play safety as well as a number of much much lesser athletes, for example.

exactly my point. he cut the over eating and still looks like a hoss, but lean. that speaks to more natty mass, and less complete reliance on the sauce.

nah, he's jacked and looks great. he's over 240 pounds and lean. he was obviously bigger and stronger before, but he went from a sloppy gut to being svelt. JT has some natty size at the least.

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i'm 42 and about the same size as gronk was while playing (about 6'4", a smidge under 260, perhaps 15% body fat so i'm not quite as lean as he was). over the past 6 years on two separate occasions i've torn each biceps. while barely moving and feeling sorry for myself while recovering i ate a bit less and lost like maybe 15 pounds over about 3 months. i came back pretty quickly and in clothes most people couldn't tell i stopped lifting or got injured at all aside from the elbow brace i was in. there is no way on God's green earth that these guys are just force feeding themselves and lifting to have that kind of mass, only to lose it SO QUICKLY after stopping. dieting and not lifting at all for a few months would have me lose a bit of mass, but i'd still look like i lift. Gronk looks like a guy who has never lifted, and he was a top flight pro football player one friggen year ago. all of his mass was built with the assistance of PEDs (and i have no problem with that, what kind of pro football player wouldn't use steroids?). Hines ward cut down and did triathalons, and a few years after retiring you could still tell he had some solid muscle mass. gronk's transformation is nuts!

he looks SOOOOOOOOOO OLD! what a broken man. also, has he been abusing drugs/alcohol? I'm sure he has some kind of CTE, but NJ resident Dykstra is off his rocker, and he never got his bell rung that much. He's just a sociopath with a still in his prime ego and substance abuse issues. methinks rippy may have some of the same demons. i second the notion on his daughter. that all girl football league blows my mind.

so what's interesting to me about nfl players and their physiques is how these dudes change post retirement. gronk and that C from San Diego a few years back (hardwick?) went from Atlas to scrawny beach dork. clearly they were not just using PEDs, but had been using them for more or less the duration of their entire football career (that LB for the texans who went to Bergen Catholic and then USC was the greatest example, gain and lost an Arnold physique between high school and college and then got ultra yoked up again. total hero!). Wood went from a chubbed up big man to a strong and healthy looking big man. i'm certain he used PEDs (I think less than 10% actually don't) but clearly he had developed some mass prior to going on like donkey kong. Joe thomas looks terrific now. he looks like he's at least using a therapeutic dose of test, but he also looks like he built up quite a lot of muscle prior to being a pro athlete. the size of gronk's arms (i mean the length and thickness of the bones) and his hands is still nuts to me. at the highest level these athletes are purpose built for their sport.

i'd say ours wasn't run well, and we had one LB, just edmunds, dude from BC was out.

didn't he have like 75 yards of big passes on like 3 plays lost due to easy pass drops and penalties in that jests game? also, didn't our special teams basically lose the game for us? allen's career is starting like elway's or Favre's did, and that's who he is, FavrElway, a future champion and hall of famer!

a healthy murphy is a very solid NFL starter, 10 sack kind of guy. i'd be quite shocked it week 3 of training camp has a rookie OT beating him more than the other way around. i think ford ends up RG, which gives us a Dawkins, Spain, Morse, Ford, Ty line, which is pretty friggen good and a massive improvement over last season.

big tre was pretty bad to start and pretty great to end. mcbean looks for guys with huge talent and a stacked toolbox, and figure they can corch em up to play. cam, star, josh allen, tre white (big play tre, vs big tre who is edumnds), and the rest are all huge athletic talent guys. with a balanced 4-3 d stacked with talent up front, i think all the backers and edmunds in particular are gonna have a monster year. it seems like the closer to the ball you line up, the more raw talent mcbean wants, the further away the more they prize skills, at least on the d side of the ball. our DTs are physical monsters, DEs a mix, LBs err on the side of transcendent athletic ability, safeties are much more cerebral and skilled players. the corners IMO are a bit of a special case all over the NFL, it's just hard to find someone who can cover, but i think our guys play with a lot of skill.

rock paper scissors bro, totally bang on. the balanced 4-3 d that mcbean and co run is actually ideal in that case, because it's not super focused on one single thing so it can (when run well with good talent) be effective vs multiple types of fronts

slam dunk for a 3rd. possibly 3rd and shaq. clown houghs oliver and star is a monster monster front 4. w the LBs we have behind them we'd do as well as we did last year in terms of yardage (#2) and allow way fewer red zone conversions, along w more sacks and turnovers. that kind of talent lets you be scheme diverse on D and actually be at an advantage (or not at a disadvantage) when facing the pats and other smart teams.

people who pretend that the pick someone was drafted at, the personality of the qb coach on the rookie team, etc etc is what makes or breaks a qb make me chortle. it's a sport, if a guy falls apart it means he sucks, period. you can argue that like phillip rivers might have won a super bowl if he were the qb of the giants, or that sam cowart would be a goat if he never got hurt, but you can't argue that a write of joke like ej manual, or jp losman, needed a different play book and then they are a 10 year starter in the nfl. the suck, they always sucked, and no matter what happened, the were gonna suck.

EJ was just the most low confidence zero heart guy ever. high wonderlick, physical gifts, jimbo fisher coached FSU QB, drafted in the first round, had some decent talent at WR brought in to help him out, but he just couldn't help but suck. he made kyle orton look like brett favre out there. He is the opposite world Freddie jackson, who would take anything on the chin and come back, and performed with a ton of heart.