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Kind of hard to evaluate ranking without actually seeing it. 25 might be a bit too low though.
On 15.11.2017 at 5:42 AM, crazycolt1 said:That is ESPN. NFL has him rated at 14th in yardage with a passer rating of 86.7.
He has more yards than Rodgers, Carr, Mariota, Eli, Prescott, Watson, etc. Tannehill hasnt played at all this year. He's not better than those guys.
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Even 2015 version of Peyton, who couldnt throw the football for 15 yards and didn't have the arm and legs to throw in the second half of the games by the end of the year, still had a sharp mind which masked the defiencies Broncos had on their oline and weapons after DT and Sanders.
And as we've seen the past two years, free agents aren't coming to Denver for scraps to play for Trevor Siemian (or Elway or whoever). They came for Peyton.
They should have never booted Wade Phillips because of money either.
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From 2012-2015, per visitor injury rate, the Lucas Oil stadium featured the most injuries in the NFL. Just for the lower leg injuries, Lucas Oil stadium was 3rd.
Source, research and a lot more here.edit. FO also has adjusted games lost stat defined as:
QuoteWith Football Outsiders' Adjusted Games Lost (AGL) metric, we are able to quantify how much teams were affected by injuries based on two principles: (1) Injuries to starters, injury replacements, and important situational reserves matter more than injuries to benchwarmers; and (2) Injured players who do take the field are usually playing with reduced ability, which is why AGL is not based strictly on whether or not the player is active for the game, but instead is based on the player's listed status that week (IR/PUP, out, doubtful, questionable, or probable).
As long as NFL teams are solely responsible for producing weekly injury reports, we cannot say that every single injury has been accounted for, but secrecy is an unavoidable aspect of this part of the game.
From 2013 to 2016, Colts ranked 6th worst. Not sure if site rules allow direct links here but the chart is pretty easily found by googling.
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2 hours ago, JMichael557 said:
Can we take Nelson in the first and still have a shot at one of the three top tackles in the 2nd, Kid from TX, ND or OKL.
A lot can change between now and the draft but with the demand for OL, especially OT, I'd say highly unlikely.
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23 hours ago, Smoke317 said:
Thank goodness for us in that case... I bet you Bill Belichick thinks like that... He comes across as a football mind that thinks deeply on all possibilities. Even if it means circumventing or bending the rules.
He and the Patriots are playing chess while most other organizations are playing checkers... I’m ready for us to get back to playing chess against the Hoodie and lose this checkers playing mentality the organization has regressed to since Polian was fired.
I know some Jets fans who are (probably were at this point though) convinced that if the Jets season (as in the tank) versus the Browns/49ers/whoever and thus a chance to secure 1st overall pick would come down to the last game against the Patriots, Belichick would intentionally lose the game, lol.
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22 minutes ago, dgambill said:
Well did they have London games and Thursday Night games in 1993? I don't remember them if they did. Isn't that the point...those games are so disruptive to the schedule we are getting poor quality? Thus putting in an extra bye before these games actually can get them back to some symbolance of normalcy....or at least its so abnormal already it can't hurt. Mostly I think this helps players rest and get bodies right so they play more games. But yeah...like you said...improve the quality on the field should be the goal for everyone.
Nope, didn't have either.
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They did have that in 1993. But players and teams didn't like it, so it was dropped. Too disruptive of regular schedule or something like that.
And NFL still probably doesn't like the idea (don't know why) because their mouthpiece, Peter King, has been against the idea.
I'd personally like it. Helps reduce injuries, improve quality of football and even make more revenue for NFL if they are smart about it.
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3 hours ago, mikey287 said:
Not Paxton Lynch...butwhy.gif
He's terrible. Much worse than Brock. Somehow.
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PFF ratings matchup fairly well with my eye-test except for corners. I think Melvin is too high and Hairston has too low grade, maybe Wilson too. Farley maybe bit too high. But I don't have access to all-22.
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22 minutes ago, Deadpool said:
Malcom Butler and Trumaine Johnson are FA in the off season. wouldnt hurt to throw some money their way and get both of them.
Yeah, I'd be willing to give either of them basically whatever they want.
FA WR corps is exceptionally deep and we're probably going to need at least one as even if Moncrief isn't traded, he's pretty clearly not in Ballards long-term plans.
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50 minutes ago, pgt_rob said:
Didn't Ajayi have a pretty significant knee issue? Could be the reason to move Ajayi so quickly before something happens. Solid player so far, though.
Yes, that's why he fell in the draft. There are some significant long-term concers.
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21 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:
That's an understatement. I'd like to see his snap numbers for this past game, it might just be me but it didn't seem like he was on the field much at all.
He played 76% of the snaps.
http://www.colts.com/news/article-1/Snap-Counts-Colts-Bengals/3842cdc6-9a51-4571-a5bb-146ac454b1c3
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22 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:
It doesn't look like 2018 is the year to have a lot of money for Free Agency.
About a month ago ESPN.com did a first look at the 2018 FA class... a top-10.
And Vonte Davis was 9 and Frank Gore was 10.
That's how bad it was. Guys who many here want to get rid of were both in the top-10.
By the way, you may be right, but I have not seen that figure of 87 million anywhere else besides your post. Not sure if you crunched numbers or read that elsewhere....
While the FA class for next year doesn't look spectacular, especially on our biggest needs (ILB, OL, pass rusher), Gore is nowhere near a top 10 free agent next year. Not now, not next March. I love the guy but he's on his mid-30s and last legs.
Vontaed Davis doesn't belong in the top 10 either with his play so far this year and last year.
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'Solid pass blocker' and 'Jay Ajayi', don't really belong in the same sentence..
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6 hours ago, southwest1 said:
So, I take it that Kirk Cousins won't be reuniting with WR Pierre Garçon next yr?
Well, I'll be darned, I thought Cousins in the Bay was a done deal next season.
I read somewhere that Cousins and Shanahan have the same agent.. you know...
And Lynch may not want to give 30M per year and 100M guaranteed for Cousins or whatever when their roster is at the state that it is.
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4 hours ago, Superman said:
I think he had a strong first year. His second year was awful. And I say that with the benefit of hindsight, so it's inherently unfair, but bottom line, look back and his moves in 2013 and they were almost all poor decisions.
The draft was a bust, from Werner to Williams, and everyone in between, for various reasons. Free agency, pretty much just Erik Walden, who was basically average. Sizable contracts for Cherilus and Landry, and neither of them made it to Year 3, and several other guys who were, at best, nondescript for the Colts. And then, the cherry on top, trading a first rounder for one of the biggest draft busts of the last decade, Trent Richardson.
Those problems festered for a couple years, and by the time the dust settled, it was determined that Grigson was a terrible GM who needed to be exiled. I was never to that extreme with him, and still am not, but 2013 was not defensible, regardless of the way the team performed.
In hindsight* how the Dwight Freeney situation was handled should've been a big red flag.. it made little to no sense. Other than that, the 2012 offseason was pretty damn good but the whole Freeney situation, from not restructuring/cutting him to not making even an offer for him an year later was some major incompetence,
* For me because I didn't understand much about how the salary cap worked back then.
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4 hours ago, Trace Pyott said:
I meant to say Bostic btw. Also, if a stud MLB appears in the draft when do most teams pick one up? For instance an amazing qb will be picked top pick but an amazing punter will be picked in a later round. Do teams waste top 10 picks on MLB or if we had our eye on one would it be a case where we traded our top 10 pick to get more picks and pick him up later??
Kuechly wnt 9th overall back in 2012. Panthers are probably not regretting taking him there.
Anthony Barr also went 9th overall but he was a pass rusher in college and not really a typical MLB at NFL either, though a stud off-ball LB.
No other off ball LB has gone in the top 10 this decade, other than Rolando McClain back in 2010.
However, there really hasn't been many stud MLB prospects coming out, not with tape and traits comparable to Kuechly. Jaylon Smith and Myles Jack could have gone if not for their unfortunate knee injuries. Foster could have gone if not for on/off-field issues.
But usually teams get their stud MLBs later in the draft.
Top 10: Kuechly
Mid 1st: Shazier (15th ovr), Mosley (17th ovr)
Late 1st: Hightower (25th ovr, if one counts him... I do)
2nd rounders: Eric Kendricks, Sean Lee (though he's been playing WLB to keep him on the field more instead of IR), Bobby Wagner
3rd rounder: Jordan Hicks
Late rounders: Danny Trevathan
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4 hours ago, Jules said:
So now Hoyer is coming back? Interesting.
What is really odd to me is I always thought NE was VERY high on Jimmy G.
I wonder if behind the scenes Brady didn't like him breathing down his neck.
Pats really didn't have much of a chance here. Jimmy is going to be UFA and probably has wanted to start somewhere for a while. Brady is still playing at very high level. Tag for QB is going to be something like 22-23M.
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59 minutes ago, danlhart87 said:
Apparently one of the teams interested is Eagles.
Chip Kelly was running things back then but the Eagles wanted Gore in 2015 and Gore was pretty close to signing with them.
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On 24.10.2017 at 6:11 AM, Track Guy said:
I think Andrew Norwell is also coming up on free agency. Panthers don't have a lot of cap room either.
Assuming the cap jumps close to 10% like it has in many years, they are set to have about 20M in cap space. No other major UFAs either, except Lotulelei but they have Short and '16 1st rounder Vernon Butler at DT. They can keep him quite easily if they want, even without restructuring any contracts they have.
But that might be a big if. They're already paying big money to Kalil brothers and Turner. Not many teams are willing to give big money for both guards or 4 offensive lineman.
I thin Gettleman would've paid him as he values trenches so much but he was fired and no one knows who will be the GM making the decisions for Panthers next year.
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Some want just money. Like Suh when he said pre-FA that he'll let his agent decide where he'll go next. Nothing wrong with that, though. Some might value winning/pedigree more. Jefferson took less to go to the Ravens, for example. Lang took about the same offer from the Lions instead of Seahawks because he's from Michigan. Akiem Hicks went to Chicago in 2016 over staying with the Pats because his mom lived there.
Luck being hurt all year surely wouldn't help but it wouldn't kill our chances either to attract good FAs.
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Looking at stats, it seems like we haven't been that bad covering WRs but backs and TEs have killed us. Footballoutsiders rank our pass D bottom 5 against them both. Matches the eye-test, ILBs can't cover and lack of Geathers hurts. Hooker usually plays single high and isn't matched up in man against backs or tight ends.
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14 hours ago, krunk said:
I knew Hugh was going to end up between a rock and a hard place when he and his GM passed over Carson Wentz to attempt resurrecting RG3. Knew that would come back to bite.
I think that trade had nothing to do with RG3. They just didn't believe in Wentz, whether it was right or wrong and believed the extra picks from the trade would help them more than having a QB they didn't want at #2 and a terrible roster.
IIRC, Browns even fired scouts who wanted Wentz.
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Despite Brissett having more passing yards than those guys doesn't mean that he's better than them..