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Manuel never had the hype of CH but he never looked as bad in college as CH has the last 2 years.
Really?? I thought Hogan looked very good this year. As you have pointed out, he had a strong supporting cast and great coaching, but still . . .
I did not see EJ play much in college. I know he put up some pretty good numbers, but the level of competition was not great. And in the biggest game of his senior year, against Florida (one of the few games I saw), he was cover-your-eyes awful. He looked absolutely flustered and completely hopeless, kind of like how he looked against Houston last year.
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I thought the same thing after his first two or three years, but I think he has really improved. I also think his arm is underrated. We'll see.Respectfully disagree. I think he is a smart and high character but I see zero upside. I think his ceiling is backup qb at best. Smith and Dalton were stars in college. Hogan was a game manager.
IMO, Stanford might be one of the best situations for Qbs. Loaded team with great coaching. He doesn't have to win games like other qb prospects. He is along for the ride. JMo.
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I think he will last well into day 3, but I see Hogan as a potential starter with a ceiling of say, Andy Dalton or Alex Smith. He started 4 years for a very successful program in a pro-style offense. He is quite mobile and extremely durable. Would it be cliche to describe a Stanford QB as smart? Seems like a guy who could be a capable backup in his first year. I'm wondering if someone will take him earlier than we all think.It`s not that I don't think we should ever draft one late it's that I want a potential starter. This way either the draft pick or tt become the back up.
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i really have no idea what you're talking about or what your point is.Oh yah, we're GREAT at proritizing players... That's why we had smaller, productive receivers like Bob Woods rated higher than guys like Leveon Bell, and Travis Kelce in '13.... And probably why we took the ever-productive Marquise Goodwin over Markus Wheaton in that same draft... By the way how many catches has Marquise made in three years? -Oh, never mind....Because we're great at "targeting" Talent .. Yah, I remember now...
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When did it become given that we need size at the second WR position, and why? It is dangerous to go into a draft targeting "tall" receivers instead of just excellent receivers of any size. It's how you end up picking James Hardy instead of DeSean Jackson.
The Bills' return game was atrocious last year. Finding a productive WR who can also return punts and/kickoffs should be a priority. Bralon Addison comes to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of others.
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Not to be pedantic or anything, but your ode to Antoine Winfield would have been more convincing if you had bothered to spell his surname correctly.Like some of the best corners in the game, Winnfield got better and better each year...when he left Buffalo, his game went to another level as a Viking. Looking at stats never tells the whole story. Winnfield was a great tackler, and was a great run supporter....jeez...these kind of threads always get my blood boiling. This team, frankly, has been mostly garbage (much as I love them) for 15+ years..its' a team game...there have been some fine football players in Buffalo over the past 15 year, just never enough of them at one time...I once heard Joe Montana opine that had he not ended up in San Francisco, when he did, he very well might have never had the great NFL career he had.
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Everyone should go back and read this thread, especially the post from BigK, which was posted at the beginning of training camp (post number 7 in the thread). It's my nominee for post of the year on TSW. BigK accurately predicts to a "t" the problems with Rex's defense and his inflexibility, including the fact that Rex was bringing in his Jet henchmen specifically to enforce "the system". Now he's brought in his brother for more of the same, so no, Rex is not going to change. This thread is worth a re-read, especially the predictable reaction from the faithful to BigK's incredibly insightful post.
http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/179582-dareus-and-dunbar-its-kind-of-a-clash/
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PPG is a great stat, but 3 and out is a much better stat than 3rd down conversion to measure efficacy of an offense. 3 and out means you did NOTHING.
I would go so far as to say that 3d down conversion rate is virtually meaningless. If you looked at 3d down conversion rates across the league, I'm willing to bet there would be close to zero correlation between that stat and overall offensive ranking and/or PPG.
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You do know that in 2013 he was the most dominant offensive player in the league, and had almost 1700 yds receiving in just 14 games, right? And that the QBs he was working with were garbage, right?False
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For a couple of seasons, Cowart was the best ILB in the league. Is his son playing college ball now? I remember seeing someone with his name playing for an SEC team this fall.I agree with you on Sam Cowart. He was fantastic. That 2000 season went down the tubes when he was injured.
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If Gordon truly returns to previous form, it is Sammy who would become our #2 receiver option.Get it done and our #2 receiver option is set for the year and put Woods in the slot
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Many states have freedom of information laws that make it impossible (or at least very difficult) to keep settlements with a public university confidential. That may be why some of the terms of the UT settlement are known. Not sure about the second lawsuit. It sounds like the school was not a party to it.Just to be clear, Beerball, and not intending to weigh in on other comments, there were two settlements with confidentiality agreements:
1) when Naughright left Tennessee in 1997, settlement by university for $300,000 to which Manning was a party (signed confidentiality agreement
2) settlement to lawsuit Naughright filed 2 years after Manning published his book, after Florida University dismissed her and she apparently cound not find other employment, amount not to my knowledge disclosed (2003)
Now apparently there is a new lawsuit against UT alleging a hostile environment that violates Title IX.
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Thank you.I'm an attorney Boyst62. Nobody in the profession says they lost a lawsuit when they settle. If that's the case then Manning lost also. Stop talking out of your a$$.
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The sheer ignorance of the legal system demonstrated by this post is absolutely breathtaking. I don't even know where to start.she did not win the lawsuit, therefore she lost. with the nda and all things of that matter it is as much a lost that it was settled as it was a win.
i am stretching this statement for a purpose. because if someone can say manning lost the settlement than one could easily say she did, as well.
it does not matter at all that the judge said the case can move forward. it was not a verdict, nor a ruling of resolution to the case. it was simply that the case had legal merit in the civil case - which is actually quite easy to obtain.
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Funny how "continuity" lost out when it came to keeping Schwartz and his top-ranked defense, but a year later this same "continuity" was cited as the biggest reason we now have to endure another year of Rex's clown show.
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Now I think perhaps you didn't even read the article. The only "court ruling" described was the court's decision that her case should NOT be dismissed and should be allowed to go to trial. Both cases were resolved by settlement agreements that resulted in her being paid $$$$, so your statement that "she sued and lost" is simply untrue. What is your agenda?how did they do that?
everything is alleged. the court rulings, like them or not, are final. she sued and she lost. we don't know the facts, this guy doesn't either.
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That was the settlement of the first lawsuit. I did not see any speculation regarding payment amount for the second one, but I'm guessing it was more.in the other article, it said she got 300k in the settlement.
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It's possible. He looked very good at times over his career. He was probably a victim of the turmoil (and awful coaching) that afflicted the SC program the last few years. I have not read anything about which round he is projected to go.Honorable mention must go to Cody Kessler... He's actually a very good prospect... My second favorite in this draff.... Some team is gonna get a STEAL with that kid
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Thank you. You've now proven that you are unable to identify a single falsehood in the article. The closest you've come is 1), but calling the episode a "secret" is at most just a bit of hyperbole. I think I've been paying attention the past 20 years, but I'd never heard of these incidents until now. And of course there HAS been secrecy--Manning paid handsomely for her silence when he settled the two lawsuits.ok here we go, just pointed facts of error. not an entire list, but it will help you get what logical sense should allow.
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It was not a secret for so long. It was not at all. This was national news in the sports world when it happened and back when he released his book and was sued for the NDA. but King sensationalizes it to make it look like a cover up - in essence he simply lies by omission. which is not factual. had he looked in to this more, he'd have seen it.
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This paints her a martyr, almost.
also. please take special note about her nickname bumper. she has been the victim many times in her life. i guess its just coincidence. and than going to the crisis center was just bizzare, i personally believe.
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Odd that in this article he is a grown man at 19 years old.
but in this Shawn King article a 19 year old is just a teenager.
sensationalism.
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Wild speculation on some parts, but mostly, and completely wrong. therefore a major error.
it was already in the public light, the public knew of the incident in 1996. and again in 2001/02.
she was let go from a position and never sued florida southern - the premier flagship of sports in the NCAA? was there more at play? according to what i remember, yes. she has been a bit of a thorn about whining and hard to work with - though, professionally quite talented.
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Until last week he had never heard of Jamie Naughright.
and what is not mentioned is she probably does not have to work anymore due to the probably +$1mm in settlement she got.
again, the truth and errors are not just about flat out bold faced lies. it is much more than that.
The question isn't whether Manning should go to jail for what he did; the reason this is still relevant is that Manning makes tens of millions of dollars a year in endorsements, and probably will for years to come, trading on a squeaky clean image that, based on the FACTS cited by the author, appears to be utterly fraudulent.
I agree that it's poorly written, but the facts are pretty damning, and their impact is not much diminished by the likelihood that the writer has an agenda.It's crap journalism with unneeded ad hominem attacks... and yet he makes some good points.
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He has been asked repeatedly to identify an untrue statement in the article and we are still waiting. I'm guessing it won't happen.When you posted "what he wrote was not true," I thought clarification may be in order.
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He averaged 13 sacks/year for the first 3 years of the deal, and was the team's best run defender.
It was hardly a bad deal.
Correct. With all the awful free agent signings around the league the past five or six years, the Mario signing ranks as one of the better ones. And at the time, there were very few FAs who wanted to come to Buffalo at any price. Where else were they going to spend that money?
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It's a ridiculous argument. Does every defensive player who played in Buffslo the last 16 years suck since they never made the playoffs? And the fact that a few teams have made the playoffs with lousy QBs doesn't validate it.JJ Watt and the Texans made the playoffs with crap QBs in 2015.
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What are you talking about?yeah pick a bum at QB in the latter rounds always works, brilliant
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That's just silly. How many above average QBs has he played with?Really. People blaming Rex on Mario? How many playoff games has Mario won since joining the NFL?
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