colin

just the other night i watched this documentary/whatever series on the chicago bulls last season together w jordan and so on. in it, scottie pippen was straight up being insolent to the gm, heavy disrespectful, and said he demanded a trade (all while not playing due to surgery which he took during the season so he could have a more fun summer, LOL). anyhow it was a real mess and went back forth, but in the end he straight up capitulated, and it was all water under the bridge. i figure this thing is gonna go roughly the same way.

lol, you aren't wrong but i had to read the not unimpressive bit twice. im like, ya so he's not as good as leanard as of last season, but cunningham is on like 15 a year and edmunds is better, WHAT ARE WE SAYING HERE!?!?

if we can trade motor for a pick that gets swapped into a player we really need (i'd presume cb2, og/c, and most of all te) then it could totally be worth it. given how little and how poorly we run vs pass, having 2 3rd rounders and a once decent FA on our team who kinda form a 3 headed monster seems a bit of overkill. of course, if they figure it out and can run the ball well i'd be super pleased, just don't expect it at all.

edmunds can get that contract and perhaps a little more if he plays like he expects himself to play this coming season. if our DL can improve and give him better looks, he has all the tools to do so. if it's today, i let him walk for that contract (or even 20% less, frankly). it will all play out though.

ive teeter tottered on tremaine like two fat kids at a play ground. i think at the very least at the end of this year it will be pretty clear if he's the guy or not. we will play kc and tampa during the regular season, and barring something crazy should see kc again in the playoffs he'll either shine or not. given his tools, the team around him, and how hard he is on himself, i'd stack a lot more chips on him shining than not.

based on this and how our draft went, it's pretty clear our FO wants an open environment where everyone knows they are competing for their job, or at the very least they have replacements in the wings if people leave. it kinda reminds me (in a positive sense) of pete carol. he's jonny enthusiasm and cap'n rah rah, but if someone plays better, they will slid on into the starting role (russ is obv a great qb, but it took big guts to put him in over the FA guy in his rookie year). even tho mcd is conservative to a fault at times, when push does come to shove he will boot the established starter for an up and comer, and it seems they are signalling to everyone that if/when coaches leave they will be replaced without missing a beat. billacheat is obv the goat at this, but when you have a one side of the ball wizard like dude on the rams or fatty in KC, it can take them a while to get the D in order because the consider it the guys who have to go on the field when they don't have the ball rather than at the top of their mind.

such a crazy idea it just might work. that kind of out of the box fresh thinking is what is needed. would you be interested in a Job with the LV Raiders? how attached are you to your current hair style?

sometimes a trade helps both teams, sometimes a trade hurts both teams. you can argue about who it helped more, but then you having timing involved as well, so maybe it helps the bills more for the first 3 or 4 years and minni more after that, but then you have to evaluate how to discount future vs present day wins, and at the end of the day you really just want to win a chip, so it gets goofy cuz you'd rather win it all this year and stink for a few than be good for like 5 years and win nothing. i can't think of a wr i'd rather have on the bills than diggs

it's interesting to me that that you say this sin't the place to debate something, followed by debating it. your assertion makes sense, but the data doesn't support it when we look at the much written about test in public high schools in NYC. most of the children in these schools are from very poor and overcrowded (mostly in the middle of the pack crime wise, but it's certainly not all a bed or roses) places in the city yet somehow manage to score high enough on an aptitude test to get into these very competitive schools. a good chunk of them speak english as a second language as well. the point of my original post is that people assume someone (sherman in this case) is smart because he went to stanford (some might argue being a very elite football player might have had something to do with that) it isn't necessarily the case and there are tests that are designed to more accurately measure someone's smarts than a brand on a piece of paper. the NFL uses the wonderlick, surely after years of college and contracting an agent for the purpose of entering the NFL these players are taught the math and verbal skills necessary to score better on the test, particularly since the impact of that one test can mean the difference between a smaller and a larger first contract.

sure, but only if it was the right place to put the resources. we are pretty good at corner/secondary. a passrusher or tight end with his ability i'd jump all over.

how much do you think test prep raises scores? i've seen data showing the greatest increase (repeatable, anyone can have a bad day and get a low score and regress to a higher mean by rewriting the test) being in the context of like 50-75 points, and that only happens for high (1350+) scoring people prior to the test prep.

didn't he have an 1100 and change SAT? that's not very bright and way way below what people who don't even get accepted into stanford score.

even tho i expect to see it, it's still eerie how absolutely little effort and motion required from him to lace a dart on those routes. a 15 yard in might as well be a 30 yard in.

for security! said another way: he's an enabler who is willing to look the other way in the pursuit of victory.

it makes sense metcalf is in an ad for a product called quick. if there were a product called say nabisco arm strength, allen would have that on lock.

so, this could be random or it could be some knucklehead wanted a piece of him, or even someone he knew. there is also the chance he was up to some dirty and it blew back on him. this reminds me of travis henry, who was behind some kind of low level criminal syndicate (think he was bank rolling it) and went away for a long while. what is interesting about that one to me is he signed a 25mm contract, and was running some kind of crime ring that couldn't feasibly make him 5% of that a year. i no longer will sponsor him for a Field's medal. there was that RB for the ravens who looked like he was a robot made out of muscles, he got fined and went away for some kind of conspiracy charge, but i think got off fairly light and came back. there was tamarik vanover (SP) who played cfl ball, and then was on the cheifs like 20 years ago. monster return guy. he was some kind of kingpin for a stolen vehicle ring or some such, and he got popped. and i once read an article about about marvin harrison, consummate pro and i think a hall of fame WR, and a super bowl champion. there was some long form article about how he was (SI maybe?) basically a street king in philly, had detail shops and such to wash his illegit operations and was known to enforce his own code on people (evidently he was a very skilled boxer). i'd love to see the athletic or someone do a big piece on all the nfl (and other sports i guess, i just don't follow any of em) guys who were career criminals and so on.

he's been ok, but more than anything we need some super star play makers on D. one of our DEs needs to work out, one of our LBs, and ill stick w tre at CB. if oliver does as well, we then start to have the nucleus of a championship team.

if he has a security detail, how did they not claim the weapon and show their papers? the blurb i read on this is that the weapon was like just sitting in his car. could you imagine paying someone money to protect you and they just leave a pre 84 ban fully auto weapon in your car? that's like hiring a personal physician who just leaves a crate of oxy's in your bathroom and the cops find them. im even starting to question if clark did his due dilly on the background of his security contractors! the humanity.

ya, i'd say decent to solid is a good qb, in any other position it would be more than acceptable, but in the nfl today qb is so important you want simply the best one you can get, even at the expense of other parts of the team. i think tua's ceiling is around dalton, and less than alex smith (who i think some people under rate). i also think there are more chances he doesn't reach that plateau than does

obv it's early, but i think an nfl qb needs a great body (physical gifts) a great head (smarts, learning, processing) and a ton of moxy (toughness, confidence, a green light, being a leader). I think TUA had a lot of all 3 on bama at the college level (being on a super team like that just has a different requirement from a qb) but is lacking anything special in all 3 at the pro level. obv he might turn it around, but i really doubt it because i think he's much closer to a finished product who doesn't have enough extra to tap into. he might end up being a career decent to solid bq (andy dalton, less than alex smith) but i don't see him being on the level of allen, mayfield, jackson at all.

im cool w his stance, but he's choosing the wrong hill to die on. one thing i've learned from old school guys vs everyone under the age of 40 today, back then (mostly before my time) people got up to stuff, did dirt, and had crazy opinions and such that would get them cancelled today, but they tended not to air these things. I've heard stories about guys working together where one guy would be some kind of che type communist and the other some kind of crypto fascist, and they'd have various arguments and so on, but it was kept behind the curtain and no one bladed anyone on anything. I think social media was the death of private life for people in the public eye, and many people outside of it.

ive been telling anyone who will listen, and most people who won't, that Josh is FavrElway. the (sometimes massive) lapses in his game early was a function of him getting too amped and in many cases just not having his feet anywhere close to right. even his two less than standard playoff games last season were a result of him being a touch too antsy at times, and that's with bad weather and banged up WRs. in my life i've never seen a guy do things like stiff arm a DT and then deliver a bullet for a good gain like Josh allen.

i can see who doesn't have little kids in this thread. Sky is the name of the original (one of two now, iirc) female dog on the Paw Patrol. Scoff if you will, but the guys who started that up (company called spin masters) are billionaires.

IMO this is the stuff that people often miss. A GM who always makes good picks and signings, but can't stack the chips up right to get contracts that allow for replacing hurt guys, resigning talent, and staying out of cap jail will end up being an ex GM. i remember pats playd someone, i think the rams, in the super bowl, and there were like six or 7 ex browns on the two teams. basically a farm team. Not to mention, if a GM can't get good coaches, well all the talent won't get you over the hump. the same thing applies to head coaches, we get wrapped up in game day management, and play calling, but how one organizes the practice week so that you have guys able to execute a good plan (you can't just call plays you don't practice because they would work in madden), how you allot time and reps to back ups so they are ready, and what you can get built up over the course of the year so that come playoffs your team has money in the bank on some go to stuff is generally unseen, but really counts.

at this point i've almost lost interest if we get ertz or not, but the meme's and replies in this thread show me i'll never lose interest i the discussion. CHARGERS NEVER PULL OUT, COME ON!!