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Quoted: Ki-Jana tore his acl on his first carry in the nfl, and did it behind the line of scrimmage without contact. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Ryan Leaf and Jamarcus Russell say hi. Ki-Jana tore his acl on his first carry in the nfl, and did it behind the line of scrimmage without contact. Wasn't it in the pre-season as well? |
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View Quote Not a bad list but I'd probably put the LA Rams in the middle class. |
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Quoted: Not a bad list but I'd probably put the LA Rams in the middle class. View Quote Jalen Ramsey gone. Bobby Wagner gone. Leonard Floyd gone. Allen Robinson gone. The Rams have the smallest active roster in the NFL. Entering the draft they only had 44 players on the roster. They had 14 draft picks (after trades, 10 of them came in rounds 5-7). Which bumps their roster to 58 of the 90 preseason limit. They are going to have to sign/deal/find 32 players to fill out the roster. Meanwhile they are coming off the worst performance by a defending Super Bowl Champion in NFL history. Not a lot to be high/up on for the Rams right now. |
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Quoted: Stafford is still an enormous question mark. Jalen Ramsey gone. Bobby Wagner gone. Leonard Floyd gone. Allen Robinson gone. The Rams have the smallest active roster in the NFL. Entering the draft they only had 44 players on the roster. They had 14 draft picks (after trades, 10 of them came in rounds 5-7). Which bumps their roster to 58 of the 90 preseason limit. They are going to have to sign/deal/find 32 players to fill out the roster. Meanwhile they are coming off the worst performance by a defending Super Bowl Champion in NFL history. Not a lot to be high/up on for the Rams right now. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Not a bad list but I'd probably put the LA Rams in the middle class. Jalen Ramsey gone. Bobby Wagner gone. Leonard Floyd gone. Allen Robinson gone. The Rams have the smallest active roster in the NFL. Entering the draft they only had 44 players on the roster. They had 14 draft picks (after trades, 10 of them came in rounds 5-7). Which bumps their roster to 58 of the 90 preseason limit. They are going to have to sign/deal/find 32 players to fill out the roster. Meanwhile they are coming off the worst performance by a defending Super Bowl Champion in NFL history. Not a lot to be high/up on for the Rams right now. That is the cost of an all in approach by the FO. They got a ring and a years long recovery process. |
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Quoted: That is the cost of an all in approach by the FO. They got a ring and a years long recovery process. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Not a bad list but I'd probably put the LA Rams in the middle class. Jalen Ramsey gone. Bobby Wagner gone. Leonard Floyd gone. Allen Robinson gone. The Rams have the smallest active roster in the NFL. Entering the draft they only had 44 players on the roster. They had 14 draft picks (after trades, 10 of them came in rounds 5-7). Which bumps their roster to 58 of the 90 preseason limit. They are going to have to sign/deal/find 32 players to fill out the roster. Meanwhile they are coming off the worst performance by a defending Super Bowl Champion in NFL history. Not a lot to be high/up on for the Rams right now. That is the cost of an all in approach by the FO. They got a ring and a years long recovery process. I think McVay and Stafford can get it done. But Dave is right, there are more questions than answers right now. |
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View Quote This upcoming season is going to be different. |
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Quoted: The ring is pretty special and worth a few down years. Of course if you do it and don’t get the ring you are a dumbass. It is a big gamble. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: That is the cost of an all in approach by the FO. They got a ring and a years long recovery process. The ring is pretty special and worth a few down years. Of course if you do it and don’t get the ring you are a dumbass. It is a big gamble. We mocked them pretty hard for their strategy until it paid off. You’re absolutely right. A title is worth multiple down years. |
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Quoted: We mocked them pretty hard for their strategy until it paid off. You’re absolutely right. A title is worth multiple down years. View Quote It all depends on how your roster is constructed and who your QB is. I think if you have a top tier young QB it is a bad move but for a team like the Jets it makes sense to go all in. KC, Buffalo, Cincinnati are probably going to compete for the next 5+ years if they don’t spend recklessly. |
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Quoted: Top college teams have NFL quality players. The USFL and XFL are like college teams with the best players removed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Watching a USFL game for the first time. I like that personal fouls are reviewed. I am watching Houston/Bama. I bet any top 15 college team could defeat either team. Top college teams have NFL quality players. The USFL and XFL are like college teams with the best players removed. Yep, that, and they slow... |
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View Quote Well looky there - the Chiefs are solidly NOT in the "contender" category! |
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Quoted: Stafford is still an enormous question mark. Jalen Ramsey gone. Bobby Wagner gone. Leonard Floyd gone. Allen Robinson gone. The Rams have the smallest active roster in the NFL. Entering the draft they only had 44 players on the roster. They had 14 draft picks (after trades, 10 of them came in rounds 5-7). Which bumps their roster to 58 of the 90 preseason limit. They are going to have to sign/deal/find 32 players to fill out the roster. Meanwhile they are coming off the worst performance by a defending Super Bowl Champion in NFL history. Not a lot to be high/up on for the Rams right now. View Quote Is it mandatory to get up to 90? |
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View Quote I have no idea how this model works outside of the regular season. My understanding is that it is based on a system of calculating weekly matchup odds relative to each other. |
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Quoted: Mandatory? Not at all. But would be a complete waste not to enter camp with the maximum player number allowed. The end goal is 55 (official roster) + 16 (practice squad). So 71 players end up retained. View Quote 53 unless it just went up. I know that's standard wisdom but I'm wondering. 80 to make 70 would seem fine. I guess it amounts to 10 'free' longshots. At NFL budgets the cost of 10 short, minimum rate contracts and camp space is approximately nothing. |
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View Quote That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. |
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Quoted: That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. Bills beat KC this past season. |
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Quoted: 53 unless it just went up. View Quote Edit: It also looks like the practice squad might have gone back down from 16 to 14. It only remained at 16 while there were active Covid protocols. |
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Via ESPN : How one Super Bowl loss helped define Matt Ryan's legacy
There's some good stuff in there, I kind of just cut and copy/pasted bits together to give you the main point/TLDR: Click To View Spoiler Midway through the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LI, Matt Ryan dropped back to pass in what sadly would be the most memorable play of his career. ... Ryan was the regular-season MVP. During that playoff run, he threw nine touchdowns and zero interceptions. He had outplayed Aaron Rodgers in the NFC Championship Game, and to that point, had outplayed Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. He was not only less than nine minutes from a championship, but also from probably clinching a spot in the Hall of Fame. He was a quarterback in the 98th percentile of his craft, about to move into the 99th.
So he dropped back, and while we remember everything that went wrong on the play, some of the Falcons coaches would remember one thing. In private conversations when reliving that traumatic loss, they remember that Ryan, after doing so much right, did one thing wrong: He hitched. He paused, for a split second, with the ball in his hands, rather than just cutting it loose. There's a reason Bill Belichick later said that it was a "fraction of a second away from being a bad play" for the Patriots. And yet, because there's always an "and yet" with Ryan, if he had just decided to fire the ball, just trusted what he saw a little faster, just done what the immortal quarterbacks do as a matter of habit and instinct, if Matt Ryan had just ... What made me sad for him was not that he failed to win a Super Bowl, or even that he failed to return to his form of 2016 and 2017, when he was probably at his best. It's that he never became what he wanted most: an undisputedly great quarterback. And he was so close, better than 98% of quarterbacks in NFL history. But that final 1% ... He never got there. Or, if he did, he didn't stay there for long. Along the way, he became known for something far worse than having a career most quarterbacks would dream of: He became known for losing. It was a particularly damning kind of losing, too. He wasn't a heroic loser, throwing for a million yards in wasted efforts, like Matthew Stafford was in Detroit. And Ryan wasn't an actuarial loser, because anyone with access to Pro Football Reference can look up his statistics and see that he won a majority of his games, and that he also won more games than celebrated winners like Eli Manning, who has a similar sample size. No, after 28-3, Ryan became known for these death spiral losses, losses that crush souls and uproot coaches' families and scar not only a person and team but a city, losses that still seem inconceivable, losses that get pegged to a quarterback rather than a defense, no matter how big of a cushion Ryan would gift his team ... Losses that didn't stop last season when Atlanta traded Ryan to Indianapolis and the Colts were up 31 against the Vikings, only to, you know. Now that he's walking away, it's more than the presumed end of an outstanding career. His striving is over. He will never get to where he wanted to go. The magnitude of Ryan's losses seem inconceivable against the slim margin between very, very good and great, between the 98th percentile and the 99th. |
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Quoted: Quoted: That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. Bills beat KC this past season. Who cares who beat who. |
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This is the best photo they could get? |
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Quoted: That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. View Quote Bills might have just been emotionally exhausted but it didn’t look like they even belonged on the same field as the Bengals. And that was at home. The Bengals are a real problem in the AFC. |
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This is the best photo they could get? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwMZWp6WIAsh5dk?format=jpg&name=small View Quote Obvious pick but he hasn't succeeded after the adversity yet. Other than not staying dead. |
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Quoted: Bills might have just been emotionally exhausted but it didn’t look like they even belonged on the same field as the Bengals. And that was at home. The Bengals are a real problem in the AFC. View Quote Yeah, these aren't the Bengals of years past. They're just crushing my Titans & it's not even close, IMO. Gonna be an interesting year with them. |
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Quoted: Being dead and then not being dead is about as big as a personal accomplishment as it gets. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Obvious pick but he hasn't succeeded after the adversity yet. Other than not staying dead. Being dead and then not being dead is about as big as a personal accomplishment as it gets. Attached File Attached File |
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On TickPick, the week 1 return of Brady to New England (vs the Eagles) has an average price of $1,176. It is 96% higher than the 2nd most expensive game of the season. On Vivid Seats it is 49% higher than the 2nd most expensive game.
SeatGeek has the average price of a 2023 NFL game at $331 currently. Up from $307 at the same time last year. The Patriots currently average $560 a ticket for the entire season, inflated by week 1. The Raiders (who were #1 in 2022) are in 2nd at $468.
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Buffalo Bills quarterbacks Josh Allen, Kyle Allen and Matt Barkley joined the Toronto Blue Jays batting practice before the NY Yankees game on Monday night.
Josh Allen, "It was fun to get back out there. I was telling some [of] the coaches I miss shagging balls and spitting seeds and just talking with the guys. That's some of the best memories I had in high school. Just sitting here and talking with the guys, they're so chill and they're so focused on what they've got going on here in Toronto. It seems like they've got a good vibe in the locker room which is very fun to see. As a player and a leader in our locker room, to understand and see some different vibes, it was really cool to see what they've got going on." Home Runs: Josh Allen - 4 Matt Barkley - 5 |
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Quoted: Bills might have just been emotionally exhausted but it didn’t look like they even belonged on the same field as the Bengals. And that was at home. The Bengals are a real problem in the AFC. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: That's cute how it has the Bills ahead of the Bengals, who got a thorough ass-whippin' by whom, in the playoffs a few months ago? Rhetorical question, Bill-y Bobs. Bills might have just been emotionally exhausted but it didn’t look like they even belonged on the same field as the Bengals. And that was at home. The Bengals are a real problem in the AFC. Burrow claims the Bengals’ Super Bowl window is “as long as I’m there,” but realistically their odds drop significantly after Burrow becomes the highest paid player in NFL history. Or, if they kick the can down the street, at least after the bill comes due. |
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Free agent Ndamukong Suh unlikely to sign before training camp. Speaking on NFL Total Access Suh said, "I have no desire to be in a training camp. I will come in and watch and look and give some advice, but when Week 1 happens, I'll be ready."
Suh, now 36 years old, didn't join the Eagles last season until November, playing in only 8 of their regular season games. |
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Quoted: Free agent Ndamukong Suh unlikely to sign before training camp. Speaking on NFL Total Access Suh said, "I have no desire to be in a training camp. I will come in and watch and look and give some advice, but when Week 1 happens, I'll be ready." Suh, now 36 years old, didn't join the Eagles last season until November, playing in only 8 of their regular season games. View Quote I know he played OK but was he that relevant? I can't remember who knocked Purdy out of the game, was that him? |
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Quoted: I know he played OK but he that relevant? I can't remember who knocked Purdy out of the game, was that him? View Quote 11 games (8 reg + 3 post season): 1 sack, 12 combined tackles, 0 TFL, 0 FF, 0 FR, 5 QB hits. PFR "Approximate Value" of 1. He averaged exactly 8 each season over the 5 previous (w/MIA, LAR, TAM). Of course, that is only on the field. He could have been a valuable locker room and training asset, and the Eagles only paid him $2M (not much more than vet minimum). At that price it could entirely be worth it for the intangibles (on the right team). |
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Quoted: Not sure why you've got KC there. They're clearly not contenders. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: KC, Buffalo, Cincinnati are probably going to compete for the next 5+ years if they don’t spend recklessly. Not sure why you've got KC there. They're clearly not contenders. The irony in your incessant spamming is that there is only ONE supporting argument for why the 2022 Chiefs could/should have had good odds to win the Super Bowl with that roster: There was, for some, a reasonable expectation that Patrick Mahomes might do something Tom Brady was NEVER capable of. |
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Quoted: The irony in your incessant spamming is that there is only ONE supporting argument for why the 2022 Chiefs could/should have had good odds to win the Super Bowl with that roster: There was, for some, a reasonable expectation that Patrick Mahomes might do something Tom Brady was NEVER capable of. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: KC, Buffalo, Cincinnati are probably going to compete for the next 5+ years if they don’t spend recklessly. Not sure why you've got KC there. They're clearly not contenders. The irony in your incessant spamming is that there is only ONE supporting argument for why the 2022 Chiefs could/should have had good odds to win the Super Bowl with that roster: There was, for some, a reasonable expectation that Patrick Mahomes might do something Tom Brady was NEVER capable of. Broskie, you gotta lean into it and eat some humble pie. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
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