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It's clear at this point that Josh Gordon is just not a very smart person.
This incident only confirms my theory that Josh Gordon was the product of a terrible cloning accident where a sample of Randy Moss' DNA got contaminated after somehow coming into contact with Charles Rogers.
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Jason Taylor also went through this not too long before he retired. Horrifying stuff, really.
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Exactly, I was here to bring up the Dan Morgan correlation. Fantastic players when healthy, but their bodies can't hold up.
On a side note, the Panthers' streak of phenomenal inside LBs is fairly ridiculous.
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He's a hell of a player, it's really a shame he keeps getting hurt. Reminds me of Dan Morgan.
That said, I'm all for the Cowboys D being even worse.
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The skins are potentially explosive but who is moving the chains for that team?
Well, the article specifically mentions Jordan Reed (who was fantastic when healthy). The real answer, of course, is Alfred Morris
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shouldn't teams have known about this before the draft
These kinds of issues are notoriously hard to detect... there are plenty of cases in sports where it's only after someone has died that their condition is discovered (remember Adam Gaines?).
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They still may want to trade for him, if hes allowed to hit FA then anyone can swoop in and make an offer
I doubt Mallett will be highly coveted enough for a bidding war to erupt, so the Texans are safe on that front. I would also be surprised if any other teams were more appealing to him than Houston.
Gotta remember that ex-Pat QBs don't have the best track record and Mallett hasn't even had an opportunity to show his stuff. Especially for a guy that fell in the draft due to character concerns, that's not gonna help him much in free agency.
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Definetly surprising. I felt like Arian's rushed the ball better. Ballard had like 800 yards in 2012, and if I'm not mistaken he had more 100 yard games by himself, then we did this year with any of our other backs (I'll fact check that though). The thing with Pep was how he liked to rush on 1st and 2nd downs and then make luck bail them out on third down.
But I liked how he got the RB's in space and let them catch it and work their magic.
I can tell you right off the bat why your perception is skewed towards 2012 being better:
Everyone who got touches ran extremely effectively for you in 2013... except the guy who got the most carries. Trent was SO abysmal at 2.9 ypc that it's easy to overlook Brown's fairly astonishing averages, let alone remember how good Ballard and Bradshaw looked to start the season or how effective Luck was when he took off. Outside of Trent you guys probably averaged close to 5 ypc as a team in 2013, whereas in 2012 every ballcarrier seemed to be a hair below 4 ypc. That one, very costly to acquire man weighed the run game down pretty heavily, unfortunately.
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Yup, I haven't seen a QB regress this far this fast since Tim Tebow in Denver following that playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers & his forgettable season in the BIG Apple.
I wouldn't call Tebow a regression. If you didn't buy into the Timmy Tim Tim hypetrain during his peak and actually watched him play an entire game instead of just half of the 4th quarter of a few games, you wouldn't have even really called him a quality backup prospect. With the circus that follows the guy it's really no surprise he's announcing college games these days instead of occupying a roster spot.
Vince had a little more potential but it's been known for some time that his head just wasn't in it during his key developmental years. No QB recovers easily from squandering that new-to-the-NFL grace period, especially when they've developed a reputation for being an unreliable presence off the field.
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Don't think I saw this article posted in here but it was put out a while ago and gives some interesting perspective on what Hernandez's background is and how things escalated so quickly:
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle
I thought it was pretty interesting.
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the point of this was???
His inability to get a hold of his wife is obvious proof that his knee is still structurally unsound and that his career is essentially over. Just look at that uncomfortable lean as she walks away... a healthy man would have easily manhandled his significant other into the frame.
Fret not, though, for the hopes and dreams of the 2012 class will still come to fruition through future 9-time Super Bowl winner and regional beard contest champion Andrew Luck.
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What do you think of Mark Rypien?
I'm actually surprised his name hasn't come up yet, cause I know many Skins fans over on the Tecmo forum that call him a disappointment since he had that one really good year in 1991, and then didn't do anything for the rest of his career but sustain injuries.
I don't know what to think of Rypien honestly. I liked him as a kid, cause I had his cards, and I liked him in the Tecmo Super Bowl games cause he could throw bombs, but I never really watched him to know if he was any good. Just asking, since my friends are always bashing him elsewhere.
Rypien was a marginal talent who just so happened to play behind one of the best groups of offensive linemen ever assembled while also throwing to one of the best receiving corps of his era, not to mention that Gibbs' teams could always run the ball very well and the defense was probably the best in the league the year he won it all as a starter. I've never considered it coincidence that his numbers fell off a cliff the moment that Monk (and to a lesser extent Clark and Sanders) started to decline.
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I had been meaning to ask you if you are a Redskins fan or just a fan of RG and how far back you go watching football. I began watching in the early 80's and became enamored with the Joe Gibbs Skins with Theismann, Riggins and the Smurfs. The Pats were not a good team back then so I was always rooting for the Redskins as my second favorite team. I don't think Joe Gibbs ever gets enough credit for winning three SBs with three different QBs, one of which made this list. Not to mention Mark Rypien who could also be on this list.
Skins fan. My capacity to appreciate Griffin's talents hinges pretty strictly on his ability to be the guy that we've been missing basically since... well... probably Sonny Jurgenson (Theismann came close but ehhh).
In both of his stints Gibbs was a hell of a leader and players' coach in his own way. The first time around was truly something else but Bill Walsh just happened to (probably deservingly) hog that 80s spotlight. The second go around showed that he needed a quality GM to really run with it like he did during the Super Bowl years but he still got a lot out of relatively little actual talent.
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Namath has some of the worst stats of any QB of that era. Seriously, the people that put him in the Hall of Fame are crazy or were probably smoking crack when they did it. Look at his stats, and you are wrong about the running thing. It wasn't a big part back then as it has always been, running the ball has always been essential.
Every time someone brings up the "it was a different era" argument in regards to Namath my head firmly plants itself on my desk. Namath had numbers that only would have been considered good in the 1940s. In his own era he was utterly outclassed by Unitas, Tarkenton, and Jurgenson on top of the guys you already named. Even the likes of Griese and Lamonica were far more dependable.
Namath was a more famous Norm Snead, good enough to stick around for some time but not good enough to truly impress outside of his one shining moment. He was more of an elite personality than an elite QB. He's the Michael Vick of his era.
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Before last season I would have said Nicks. He was shaky in 2013, though, while Jackson had a career year which muddied the waters considerably. Both guys are fairly high risk/high reward for their own reasons. I'd say that they both complement their respective teams well. I like TY/Nicks and Pierre/Jax better than TY/Jax and Pierre/Nicks.
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My point is players are greedy he's already made a ton with Philly and he could have went to SF for less money sure. It's not like they are paying him 100$ a year it's a few mil less then what the Skins would give him. I'm not sure the Skins were the best of the bottom feeders either seen the browns had interest they are better IMO
In what universe is "a few mil less" not a big deal? For anyone who isn't a billionaire that's a huge sum of money and fairly hefty chunk of the lifetime earnings potential of an NFL player.
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The McGynn deal is more likely to blow up like a present from Jokey Smurf. I hope Robert Griffin III has a chance to get these guys the ball.
It really doesn't matter how good or bad our offensive line is. Griffin will take punishment regardless if he doesn't learn to speed up his progressions and make quick throws.
DeAngelo Hall... good influence? Not in a million years. He'll probably provoke him in practices.
I wouldn't be so quick to peg Hall like that. He's a weird dude. Very big on the trash talk, very feisty, but he's got a surprisingly good work ethic that's kept him a starter for over a decade. He might not be the best role model but he means well and tries to be a positive presence in the locker room. Besides, I like having at least one hot-headed, energetic, enforcer type on each side of the ball (e.g., Trent Williams). They serve their purpose.
Honestly, the best case scenario for DeSean might be to become a little bit like Hall. You can only reign some guys in so much. I'd obviously rather him pattern after Garcon and take heed to Clark of the veteran guys I mentioned, though.
Just something I've never understood players would rather go to a bottom feeder then a SB contender all cause of greed
The reason he went to DC as his first stop was because we were the "best" of the bottom feeders. Contenders don't tend to shell out big bucks on guys like this, they use the fact that they don't need talent to be competitive to their advantage to try to get a bargain. Otherwise they're usually better off saving the cap space for guys that are proven pieces in their system.
Gotta keep in mind, these guys only have a limited window to cash in on their talent and they are very much using up their body to do so. You can't completely forgo earnings for a chance at Super Bowls, as nice as that idea may sound to us fans.
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Retired players on both the NFL Network and ESPN both made the similar points......
Where is the veteran leadership on the Redskins to keep DeSean from getting out of control in the locker-room?!?
That's not a strong locker room he's going to. Not a strong culture of leadership. He'll be very hard to reign in.
Good luck to 1st time head coach Jay Gruden! Be careful what you wish for..... you might just get it!!
Gotta bank on Pierre, DeAngelo Hall, and Ryan Clark being good influences on DJax. Not really an ideal coalition of guys for the job but it could work out in its own way.
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My money is on it blowing up in our face.
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Hester has little more than a snowball's chance in hell of becoming a HoFer unless he ends his career on a truly ridiculous high note. If he just gradually fades away as it looks like he has been trending towards then that's it. Going out with a bang is really the only way I could see it happening for him.
Just take a look at Brian Mitchell. There's a guy I'm sure almost no one even remembers anymore but he's ranked second of all time in all-purpose yardage (behind Jerry Rice), almost all of that coming as a return man, and was the previous record holder for total return TDs. He's never really even been close to getting into Canton (I won't complain, of course, because the guy annoys me to no end as a radio personality). Glory positions have a huge advantage and special teams takes a backseat to basically every offensive and defensive role in that regard.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's it
He'll definitely get more money than he was going to off of the remainder of his Eagles deal, I can pretty much guarantee it. His new deal may be slightly more cap-friendly to the Skins in the short run but Jackson will ultimately benefit from this whole ordeal.
Personally, I'm not optimistic about the whole thing but it sounds like the deal may have already been reached... so its just a waiting game to see the numbers.
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Having considerable experience watching the cap situation of a team that was proclaimed to be in cap hell for about 10 years in a row, I am disappointed to say that the Cowboys' situation will probably be resolved in a less dramatic fashion than many of us would hope for. Cap wizards are damn good at their job.
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You know something weird? I think in this superbowl any of the other teams in the NFl would have played better than Denver.
I can think of one team that probably wouldn't have.
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there's no way to copy what Seattle has....
..they worked some less-than-1st round drafts into a title team.
That's not a blueprint...its just a streak of good picks
It cannot be stated enough how hard it is to get things right in the draft even with superb talent evaluators and coaches on staff. You'll certainly have better odds with those guys in place than you will by hiring the law firm of Millen, Ireland, Davis, and Cerrato to run your team... but at the end of the day a lucky two or three year acquisition streak is what makes dynasties.
Quality evaluation helps get you guys who fit the system and have the kind of character you can work with. Getting those truly special, cornerstone players requires being in the right place at the right time while fostering the right kind of environment for those specific talents to flourish. If you can find a meager 5 or 6 special talents in a few years (and have a passable QB if he isn't one of the 5 or 6), your team is going to contend.
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I heard about that from the national media yesterday. Won't be big news until he completely tanks in a preseason game.