Tony Sullivan
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I just want to point out a moderator must have added the (april fools) tag in the topic title, I would never be that easy on you guys ;)
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The Eagles and Colts are at it again, this time the Colts are sending their 1st round 24th overall pick over to Philadelphia in exhange for WR Jeremy Maclin. The Colts are expected to announce an extension with Maclin later this evening supposedly paying him slightly more than what Percy Harvin received in Seattle. April Fools!
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Personally I'm comfortable with our DB's even if we went into the season with the unit we have now.
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I hope the Ravens draft picks work out for them after their superbowl like ours did for us!
Anthony Gonzalez and Tony Ugoh have been anchors for our team... kept us stuck for years ;)
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I felt like they finally got the game playable without sliders in '12, then set themselves back 5 years with '13.
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If we get him I imagine it would be for cheap so I'm not opposed to the gamble. In OAK he was probably under a lot of pressure because of his draft position, so if he does sign here, hopefully the change of scenery might let him just play ball.
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I've been a Colts fan far longer than twitter and this fan forum have been around. If Jim was saying these remarks on this forum as opposed to twitter I'd still have this poll up asking the commuinity's opinion on his remarks. I'm not going to stop loving the Colts because our Bob Dylan wannabe owner says stupid things online. Social media is more than definitely here to say but that's why most franchises have specific, experienced, people to handle public relations.Absolutely not. Like I've said before, if his tweeting really bothers you, you probably shouldn't be on the fan forum he operates. It's 2013, social media is here to stay. There's something really ironic about complaining about twitter on an online social media platform which is kept up to date by posters using twitter as a tool. It's not like he's divulging important info anyways, and the media would eventually find out from a "source." Really, Irsay is just his own source who controls what fans and media know. The cool thing about tweeting is the fans know at the same time the media does...
Then again maybe old Jim is a mastermind scheming what teams believe we'll do in the draft ahead of time, who knows. I still wish he didn't make the Colts image seem so goofy/whacked out from time to time.
Personally, I like Jim's tweets when he's engaging with the fans, but not when he's airing out our potential personnel moves.
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In light of the recent potential fall-out with a "wopper," of a receiver, I've read some people say they think his twitter postings effected the negotiations.
Irsay is the owner of the Colts, and as such any public action he makes reflects the Colts.
Do you think he hurts the Colts image with his postings, and furthermore do you think it effects how players, agents, and other football personnel interact with the Colts?
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I'm pretty sure it's you can't hit a defenseless receiver in the head with any part of your body. If a player uses any part of his helmet to hit an opponent violently or unnecessarily its unnecessary roughness.The defenders could go head first....ask Steven Ridley. They just couldnt at a defenseless player
Stevan Ridley was the one who lowered his helmet when he got knocked out, I think that's the kind of play the rule is aiming to change.
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They should have made this the rule when they changed it that defenders could no longer lead with their helmets. It never made sense to me that RBs were allowed to go in head first but defenders were not.
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Robinson is intriguing.
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Yes I would expect the trenches to have a serious drop-off for the CFL side, but at the same time I would expect the pass-coverage of the NFL defenders to have a serious drop-off as well. It's more than an extra receiver, CFL also has lots of motion rules and pre-snap movements that NFL defenders probably have never seen. Even the coaching staff, without preparation, would probably have no clue the best plays to call for certain situations.There will be a small adjustment period but NFL teams are used to going nickel all the time and DCs like Rex Ryan even play 6 or 7 DBs on the field at a single time. However, the trenches will not be a match for NFL D-lines or O-lines, it will get one sided pretty fast.
A couple of recent examples of players making the switch are Cameron Wake coming up from the CFL to the NFL. He hasn't had much of a drop off in success and terrorizes NFL OL almost as much as he did CFL OL. Ricky Williams also went down to the CFL where he was at-best mediocre (I would say bad because a 4.8 YPC in the CFL is like a 3 YPC in the NFL), it wasn't just the end of his career either, he put up over 1000 yards and a solid YPC when he returned to the NFL.
If you put a NFL playoff team in against the CFL I think they would adjust, but put a team like the Browns in and it may be a different story.
That said, if a CFL team played any NFL team with NFL rules, they'd be no match.
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If they played CFL rules the NFL team could struggle from lack of experience with a much larger field, larger end-zone, 12 players, and 3 downs.Given time to adjust it would be a different story, but for their first game I might put my money on the CFL in that circumstance. Maybe not.I have no doubt that the best team in the NFL is the best in the world, since it is a game as far as I know (I’m not sure of this) that is only played on a professional level in the US and Canada. But it is kind of silly to call themselves world champions when they haven’t even played anybody from another country, not even the best team from the CFL (a game they of course would have won).
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Yes I've seen enough of Luck to make these comments as well.
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Did I say assistant coach?Matt Walsh was not an assistant coach.
You really don't have any idea what you're talking about, huh?
I guess you really don't have any idea how to read.
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So much drama in Patriots land this offseason
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Where there's smoke there's fire, they got busted against the Jets and had claims against them of it that only got retracted when it was 1 assistant vs. the Pats instead of the Jets vs. the Pats. They probably had illegal tapes for all their superbowls.This is so ridiculously wrong that it truly makes me question your football knowledge. The Patriots were never shown to videotape a walkthrough.
If you think Bill's first dirty work with the camera was in '07 you're livin' in a dreamworld!
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Goodell didn't burn the tapes, give Belichik the maximum fine of $500 000 which is also the largest fine against a coach ever, and force the Pats to give up their first round pick, over something that was a 'league wide,' problem. It would be very ignorant to believe Belichik just started doing this in 2007, that's just when he got caught.Where to being with this. Perhaps you not aware of this but the Pats have won the most games of any NFL franchise since Robert Kraft took over in the early nineties and second is not even close. In terms of the 2000's the Pats didn't just win rings, they also won their division every single year save for 2002 and the year Brady was out, 2008. They also own the record for most seasons with 14 wins or more and went a perfect 16-0 in 2007. You act like the Colts somehow have won more than the Pats. They haven't either regular season, post-season, and Super Bowls. This not disputable. Go look up the numbers.
I still can't believe how much mis-information people believe about spygate. The Pats were penalized for the location of their camera equipment being on the sideline. A memo was sent to all 32 teams in 2006 because it was a league-wide problem. The Jets blew the whistle the first game of 2007 and the Pats complied and paid the penalty and did not even so much as appeal. The story from the Herald about the Pats videotaping the Rams walkthrough was never proven with the videotape man, Matt Walsh, giving an interview with Roger Goodwell saying he was never asked or had any knowledge of taping a walkthrough. The reporter from the Herald who had reported the story also printed a full back page apology to the Patriots for his story which was founded upon heresay. Haters always seem to embelish spygate and blow it up to astronomical levels to try to somehow detract from the Pats success.
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You're not even talking about the same season as me. When Manning missed a season he was still on our team, thus not dead cap. It's hard to talk to you because you jump around not even replying to what you're reading properly.Sure. And remember the Pats lost Brady for a season and still went 11-5 with Cassell who had never even started a game in college. Again, just proves my point that Polian built the team around Manning which is why it only won 2 games when he was out for the season while the Pats won 11 and didn't make the playoffs because of tie-breakers.
You says SB wins are the only thing that determines how good a Front Office is at managing the cap, so why don't you put the Ravens, Steelers, Giants in front of us, they all won more rings than us since 2000. You can't just say 3 SB wins, we're the best at everything about the Patriots, considering they only have 1 more than those teams and needed Spygate to do it.
It shows when you have guys like Welker screwing up in the playoffs possibly because they don't know if that catch is going to cost them their contract or not.They could care less about bickers or media squabbles when it comes to building the team. That is what makes them so good.
And one more thing about spygate, you might not like it but it's a serious event. You guys were caught videotaping a team practice before the superbowl and were caught doing it years later against the Jets. Goodell had to lay down the biggest punishment on a Franchise I've seen in the last 20 years and you say it's something haters say???
Also, you elevated this from cap management to the entire front office. Colts managed their cap better than anybody, they made pieces fit with cap-wizardry teams could only dream of. Maybe if you guys had the Colts cap-managers to work it a little better you'd have Welker and Samuel still.
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What are you talking about, I literally named multiple players, offensive and defensive MVPs, future hall of famers and you try to say we only paid one guy? Who else has won more consecutive division championships and more regular season games from 2000-2010 than us? Congrats, you guys won only 2 more superbowls with the aid of spygate.That's the whole point. Even with a star studded team you only got one ring. Not enough left over $$$ to field a complete team 1-53. Pats know how to sign enough stars combined with quality, mid-tier guys to win and contend for championships every year. I would certainly not knock Indy though but Polian's strategy was certainly flawed. Trying to build a team around the QB just does not produce the Lombardi's. Looks like Elway is falling prey to the same philiosphy - signing a $6mil slot man when the team has other glaring needs especially defensively is part of the Manning curse. Hard not to want to stack that side of the ball for him given how talented he is but in the end it produces more one and done's than deep playoff runs.
Also I think the Patriots are known for bickering with players over contracts; Samuel, Givens, Law, Branch, Welker. Maybe if they weren't disrupting their core and leaving guys wondering if they'd be back or not they wouldn't be dropping passes and the Pats might win those games against the Giants.
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If we kept Manning it all still fit. If anything it's a credit to us that we can chop Manning, take that hit, and still have a playoff team. It takes cap-wizards to pull that off. 1 season doesn't negate a decade and a half of fielding a roster with 5-6 hall of famers.Sorry, but the Colts aren't even close to managing the cap as the Patriots are.
Put it this way. We just went through a season with $40 Million in Dead Cap money. Money we couldn't spend because it was committed to players no longer on the roster.
When was the last time that happened to the Patriots?? Ever??
They've sustained greatness for a decade or more. In a salary cap world, that's incredibly hard. Part of the reason Polian deserves more credit than some here are willing to give him.
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The problem is it can all be for naught if it's a contract the Giants are willing to match.I'm aware. I also think it's possible that 6 days of haggling means there's much more going on than just whether or not we're giving up a #1 and giving Cruz a big contract.
I think there's much more going on than a simple yes or no to a big contract and giving up one first round draft pick. If that's all there was to this, I think the deal would either be done or dead by now.
Just my hunch.....
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Cruz keeps making more and more sense. If they were making an offer for him, they'd want it to be something that doesn't cripple the Colts, pays Cruz fairly, and prevents the Giants from matching. I would imagine trying to meet those criteria for a contract would be a difficult and time-consuming task.
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He literally tweeted right after you posted this.... and if he knows anything, he's definitely not saying anything.
He appears to be completely in the dark on this.....
https://twitter.com/DougBaldwinJr
I don't think our deal is for Baldwin. And if it is, I doubt we're giving up more than a #6 for him.
https://twitter.com/DougBaldwinJr/status/3133966018487500838
Check it, I ain’t going anywhere! Word?! Word!
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