Saint Doug

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I'm sure the helmet will help. This is physics. The potential and kinetic energy of a helmet or the ground (or whatever) hitting another helmet has to go somewhere. With conventional helmets, the energy is not transferred to the receiving helmet, due to its stiffness, and travels to the skull instead. These new helmets are designed to adsorb as much as that oncoming energy they can. They may even break in some cases, but this would be a good thing. Evolutionary, the fluid around our brain does a similar thing. It absorbs the energy of trauma so the brain isn't hitting up the inside of the skull. Same thing with the fluid in our automobile shocks. This isn't about eliminating brain injuries, but about decreasing their risk.

The problem I have with these shannigans is how will this affect future lawsuits. I don't think you can sue for damages later on when stuff like this is going on. The players can't have it both ways.

Was he the same same Director of Pro Personel? If so, not impressed. Dolphins seem to follow the "I've heard of him!" philosophy of signing FAs.

No doubt they have to complete their studies. So does every student athlete regardless of university, private or public. The problem arises when they are specifically recruited for their football team, but then are not allowed to pursue the NFL if they are drafted. It'll be better is they just cease recruiting for sports and try to cobble together a team with what they have. Nobody is being deceived then. Which would be a great solution. Why US military academies have D1 football teams is lost on me. Let them form their teams with players who see themselves as military recruits. I'm sure Marcia or Hoodie asked for preferential treatment and he received it.

I have no idea why they want to get these kids. Why would a University that is full subsidized by the US military be interested in a football program that puts kids in the NFL? I'm entirely OK with them making these kids complete their service requirement. That said, if they are recruiting them for their football team and not allowing them to enter the NFL, then they 10x as worse as the major college football programs who see their kids as a commodity in their business. If recruited explicitly for athletics, they should allow all current athletes to transfer without paying back any tuition or service requirement.

Although not a crazy, this remind me of the scenario when IK was lured into the room where they was a naked dude in the bed, then some reverend tried to rob him before he decided to jump out the window. http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13519161/buffalo-bills-ik-enemkpali-punched-man-thought-was-woman-arranged-sex-according-police-report

I'm sure not many on here made a decision as a "kid" that cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. As for his son, I wish him the best. The great part about this is that Hirschsprung's is 100% curable with surgery, unless it's part of a larger syndrome. He'll be fine.

I totally agree with this. There is nothing in McD's background to suggest otherwise.

Sham search. It's sad that a GM who works well answering to his rookie coach is paramount to finding the best man for the job. Should we start the fire Beane and McD thread now? There's just no way this is going to work out.

And they also have a particular stigma of producing QB flops. I see USC and I turn the page.

I pay 8k for a $1.1M home in MD. $27k for that POS is highway robbery and is the reason NY is going down the toilet. I have no sympathy for the NY voter.

Congratulations! Says a lot about him. I wish him the best.

And then Russ patting them on the back afterwards and saying "good job, boys!"

This can't be stated enough. Not only does it do that, it pretty much denies the Bills getting anyone besides a gloried scout. Neither Director of Pro Personel or Head of Amateur Scouting will be able to come as it will be viewed as a lateral move. McD has basically assumed both these roles over the last week.

Todd Bowles will on the hot seat this coming season. It'll be do or die. So, if they go down, it won't be due to a lack of trying.

Yep. He was flying around interviewing QBs. This was revealed during Tim Murray's end of the year press conference.

I meant shouldn't.

I don't think this is what the Pegulas had in mind when they fired Whaley today. They certainly didn't wait to fire Tim Murray, even though both the expansion draft and regular draft are approaching quickly. I'm sure this is just Terry making stuff up as he goes. And they just gave Whaley an extension about 8 months ago. But, hey, it's his money to waste.

I would completely agree with this move, but look at the person who made it. There really no evidence Pegs will find the right person for this job (and a lot supporting the contrary). When it comes to hiring FO personnel (for either team), he has been nothing but incompetent. So, the jury is definitely out on this move.

Never mind Whaley (or...maybe mind him), but wonder if Leroi got the axe.

You know this is a Buffalo Bills message board, right? It would be a Bills fans' wet dream to have their QB hit a ton of wide open slot WRs.

Having teams hoard more QB prospects will make the NFL's lack of good starting QBs even worse. In fact, I would make it even more interesting and say QBs shouldn't be allowed on practice squads. That'll spread the wealth and give some of these kids a chance.

Too soon to call it a dynasty?

Based on that Google Docs spreadsheet, I really can't appreciate any correlation between ball velocity and success in the NFL. Plus, the majority of the best prospects don't have values ("DNT") because they decided not to throw at the combine. That, and you'd be surprised by some QBs who we believe have a "canon", but don't have great ball velocities (compared to 53 mph).