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LE - Reggie White
NT - Ted Washington
RE - Vince Wilfork
LOLB - Derrick Thomas
LILB - Ray Lewis
RILB - Jack Lambert
ROLB - Lawrence Taylor
CB - Rod Woodson
CB - Willie Brown
FS - Sean Taylor
SS - Steve Atwater
Big, athletic, and extremely physical. Wilfork and Washington can comfortably handle four or so offensive linemen by themselves, allowing White, Taylor, and Thomas to utterly dominate one-on-one matchups. Lewis is the leader and Lambert the enforcer in the middle. Woodson and Brown make use of their superior physicality to disrupt the timing of the passing game with Atwater roaming around the LOS. Taylor is a bit of a sleeper but is the linchpin of the group, making use of his superior all-around skillset to provide a large safety net for the overly aggressive style of play. He can lock down the deep passing game almost single-handedly with his immense size and range regardless of who enters his zone or can come up and make plays in the short game even from 20 yards back. The entire secondary can hit hard and is extremely opportunistic when the ball is in the air.
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I really liked Jimmy Smith & I am dumbfounded to hear such shocking news. I often wonder if he had alcohol & drug problems before he entered this league or if his NFL retirement led to depression & bad decisions...
It's a scary proposition when you have played football for all your life & then the gravy train just stops cold. So many black athletes get everything through football fame, money, women, & a lavish lifestyle. If football is all you have ever known & it has defined who you are as a person what the Hades are you supposed to do when it ends completely? The NFL isn't doing enough to prepare veterans for a post career, private citizen fall back occupation phase. True, Jimmy might have had an addiction problem to booze & cocaine from his youth, but I don't recall seeing any arrest reports for narcotics or drunk driving while he was playing in Florida for the Jags.
Too many NFL players are going bankrupt after being retired from the NFL for 10 years. amfootball & I were just discussing that point recently. Not every athlete is making franchise QB money & not every athlete has an addiction problem. Jesus, 6 years in prison. I wish Roger Goodell would focus more on giving soon to be retired NFL players options. No, not everybody can be saved, but what is the league & players association doing to show that they care about athletes after the routine, spotlight, & paycheck is no longer there? Nothing & that is jaw dropping to me...Sigh...
Jimmy Smith had problems keeping clean while he was still in the league. Odds are all the downtime he had post-football just allowed his habit to spiral further out of control.
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I always wanted to see a behind the scenes NFL in depth expose on the bidding war for broadcast rights. What determines which matchups with be seen on Fox, CBS, NBC, & NFL Network? Is there a lottery system among the TV networks for the most highly anticipated games based on last year's ratings?
And how is it determined which TV Network gets to broadcast the SB every year & who the 2 main booth broadcasters will be? I've always wondered that actually...
The networks basically get to prioritize which matchups they show in which markets within the confines of their broadcasting rights. Fox airs all NFC games and CBS all AFC games with certain rules that I'm forgetting governing who shows what inter-conference games (based on home team?). NBC can generally snipe the best matchups from either network for their primetime Sunday game although I believe there are also mechanisms in place for CBS or Fox to protect a limited number of games. ESPN usually gets mediocre leftovers for Monday night since they're a cable network and NFL Network usually broadcasts games that don't generate a lot of interest because they're still not quite a standard cable fixture.
Currently the Super Bowl is on a 3 year rotation with the bigger three networks (Fox, NBC, and CBS in that order). ESPN will never get a shot at it like ABC had once upon a time because the NFL wants the game viewable to the largest possible market.
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I generally don't think about it too much because blackouts rarely effect Colts games.
I think it's bad marketing though. I don't think the blackout makes people more likely to attend a game, but it makes them less likely to keep up with what the local teams are doing.
My thoughts exactly. That's probably why certain terrible NFL teams (*cough* Jags *cough*) take pains to cover seats to circumvent blackout rules. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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Martin has over 1,400 yards and was hurt part of the year??? As far as pure running back goes Martin is the next great one after Peterson...Spiller is a duel threat and I love him, but I'd still take Martin.
If you're strictly talking about running ability, Martin wasn't even the most impressive rookie. Gotta give that distinction to Morris. Both guys actually have a surprisingly similar running style. Morris doesn't quite have the same top end speed as Martin but he's got considerably better raw power which lends itself to Morris being a more consistent workhorse back. Martin is more of a dual threat of the two, of course, and wasn't really overshadowed by another player in his own offense like Morris was with Griffin.
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I think Reid's Off knows how to use a RB. (Similarly like Shannahan does with Morris). But look at Westbrook before McCoy. And then look at what Byrce Brown did after Mxcoy went down. More Tds and a better YPG.
McCoy is probably the most Barry Sanders like running back around right now. His talents don't really seem to suit any conventional running scheme, he just lives off of being quicker than everybody else and making something out of nothing.
Reid's offense was best at using runners as receivers and using the run as almost a trick play because of how pass heavy they were. It wasn't exactly a tremendous pure run scheme like Shanahan has employed.
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Morris was probably the second best runner last season but from a total package perspective I could see Spiller, Martin, and Marshawn narrowly hopping ahead. A lot of strong running performances last year, it was definitely a bit of a shift from some recent seasons.
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I think Tebow deserves a chance too but he does not need try another position as I don't think he would be very good at RB, too slow, and he can't catch well enough at WR. I think what he needs to do is improve his throwing the way Rodgers did when he was sitting behind Favre. Perhaps he should hire the GB coaches to work on his delivery. He has to look more like an NFL QB to get the job again. I think that is clear. Whether he can do it or not...who knows...
Tebow tried like hell to clean up his mechanics in the time between the end of his college career and the start of his NFL career. Didn't take. He showed a little progress throwing in front of scouts prior to the draft but in the line of fire he immediately reverted back to his old ways. The change came too late for him.
Besides, his problems are far more severe than Rodgers' were and there's no way he'll get access to cream of the crop NFL QB coaching at this point. The QB gurus of the league aren't going to waste a roster spot on him and they aren't exactly available for hire on weekends or during the offseason.
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I don't feel so bad now that we didn't seriously pursue him. Honestly I love Ed Reed but I think his body is becoming run down sadly.
Last season was the healthiest he's been in some time. Seems like he finally resolved a few lingering issues he'd had with, IIRC, his neck and back. Somehow I doubt this procedure will prove to be a big deal.
Can athletes getting major surgery done get a 2nd opinion from another surgeon outside the organization's medical staff? I always wondered what the CBA says about that actually. I'm sure specialists can be flown in to conduct specific procedures naturally, but would the team an athlete plays for still pay for it? Or would that be considered an out of pocket expense? Hmmm...It would interesting to see what the Players Union says about this too.
What if 1 player had major surgery done, had minor setbacks, was traded to another team, contracts have been signed, sealed, delivered...Which medical staff resolves the problem & nurses him back to health now? Assuming of course that that trade did not fall through, I'd assume that rehab would take place at the athlete's new team facility. Again, I'm just guessing here.
Players have flexibility to seek out doctors with no team affiliation or to rehab away from team facilities if they so choose. Not entirely sure how expenses are handled, though.
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JJ Watt
Haloti Ngata
Aldon Smith
Our secondary just got a massive injection of ballhawks with questionable consistency, might as well make their jobs as easy as humanly possible.
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You just wasted 30 seconds of my life reading that drivel. It won't happen again, welcome to my ignore list.
Always astounds me that there are 49 year old men out there that can't handle a simple difference of opinion to the point where they have to resort to this...
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I was obviously talking up coming draft picks and the the cap penalties imposed by the nfl.....not the past. Hate to break shatter your delusion, but the redskins current roster isn't that impressive. But thanks for the usual long winded unnecessary break dowm
When I'm talking about the Skins being ahead of the Colts in the rebuilding process I'm not talking about the future, I'm talking about the past and present. You must not have actually been responding to me to begin with. :hmm:
Also, context is important, I am really not talking up the Redskins roster all that much. We have a ways to go to be year-in, year-out contenders (do we even have a secondary?). All I'm saying is that we've got a jump on the Colts as far as restocking a once depleted roster goes.
I don't really think that what the Redtails are doing could really be considered a rebuild... I like what the organization has done (complete home run w/ the Morris pick)... but Morris and RGIII were basically drafted onto a playoff team... that, to me, doesn't take away from anything that the F.O. did last season... its just a different situation.
I'm of the opinion that if any of the four first year starters that made a splash last year would have made the playoffs with Washington's roster... same goes for Seattle and the San Francisco... Of those four teams, the only one that was rebuilding (no matter what Pagano wants to call it) was Indy. No other team had 1/3 of the roster turnover that the Colts had or anywhere near the number of rookies seeing significant playing time. I'm not saying that RGIII couldn't have taken the Colts to the playoffs, just that there is absolutely no question that Luck would've taken the Skins. Cousins or even Grossman probably could've game managed their way into the postseason with that O-Line/run game/defense, and that, to me, doesn't constitute a rebuild.
Considering where we were in 2009 and before, this team has undergone a pretty dramatic rebuild.
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I think the offensive production also had something to with the shanahan vs arians. And personally, I think you are crazy if you think there'd skins are a few years ahead of the colts...especially with the lack of number one picks and cap restrictions the skins have.
That's pretty silly.
We've only missed one number one pick since Shanahan took over and that was in this previous draft. All-in-all we've made 33 picks over the past four drafts, so we haven't exactly been lacking in selections and most of those players have contributed for us in some fashion. Our team is more settled into its offensive and defensive schemes as well with a higher number of system veterans and returning starters across the board. Cap-wise we haven't been able to make a big splash the last two years but we've still mostly made smart, low-risk signings that have worked for us.
The difference manifests itself most on the offensive line, where 4/5s of our group is solid-to-elite all-around and our weak player is still proficient at executing in the run phase. You guys had Castonzo, an iffy piece or two, and a whole lot of hot garbage protecting Luck and blocking for Ballard. That takes a few players and a few years getting comfortable in one scheme to completely rectify.
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The colts held the Super Bowl champs to the lowest offensive output of anyone in the playoffs. On a defense that was put together with duct tape and bubble gum. Fact of the matter is that the Colts were about 2 plays away from winning their game vs Baltimore
We actually beat the Super Bowl champs with an arguably even more atrocious defense at the end of the season. We've got the biggest single question mark of just about any team in the NFL right now but we're still a few years ahead of you guys in terms of rebuilding and our offensive production last season was proof positive of that. Just need our QB's sense of self-preservation to improve. ;)
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Let's compromise... the Colts were one of the least convincing 11-5 teams in recent memory and the Texans had the least convincing second half of the season of any team last year. Clearly both should be below the Redskins
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There were questions about his ability to play either end or OLB in the NFL. He was considered a bit of a tweener because he doesn't have great size as an end, but doesn't have elite speed for an OLB and had little experience in coverage. I wouldn't say he went completely under the radar, but there were question marks.
Exactly. He was clearly a first round talent but he wasn't viewed as a surefire 3-4 OLB prospect in the same way that Aldon Smith or even Von Miller were that year. Heck, I remember Akeem Ayers had more buzz as a rush LB that draft.
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Your last sentence is the points.....
A lot of rookies don't start because the jump to the NFL in their first year is too much for them.... too fast for them... too big for them.... too complicated for them.... too..... something for them,.... and they're just not ready to start in their rookie season.
That's not that uncommon.
So, while we want Werner to be good enough to start, I don't expect it.
I expect him to play roughly 40-50 percent of the snaps, and see mostly situational duty depending on down and distance.
That's how the 49ers handled Aldon Smith his first year.... and how the Seahawks handled Bruce Irvan his rookie year.
That's more common than you might know......
I wouldn't count heavily on him not starting either. The last college 4-3 DE that went completely under the radar as a potential 3-4 prospect that was drafted around where Werner went was Ryan Kerrigan, who I don't believe has been off the field for a single snap in his first two seasons. Much like our situation two years back, I don't think you have anyone good enough to keep Werner off the field unless he completely fails to meet expectations.
I certainly don't have any reason to think highly enough of Walden to expect a Smith/Haralson situation and Werner doesn't quite have the one-dimensional, speed-rushing specialist pedigree that Irving has. If anything, Werner should be fairly solid against the run.
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I'm probably overdue to mention that the genesis of the team name was to have a name that was in step with the Red Sox (who the Skins shared a field with in Boston) that also paid tribute to the team's head coach (the half-Sioux, half-German William Lone Star Dietz). It's really not the most offensive origin story out there, the presence of George Marshall aside.
It's definitely not like the Cleveland Indians, whose name was chosen seemingly arbitrarily by early 20th century Cleveland media and possess the most ridiculous logo of any team that alludes to Native Americans.
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...and the black mayor
Vincent Gray? Another paragon of upstanding citizenry and social justice right there.
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I'm not making any assumptions here, but I'm wondering how medical experts will disseminate between concussion related issues and just your typical anxiety/suicidal personalities?
I realize Turley has suicidal thoughts, but so do MANY Americans. Doctors in America prescribe psychiatric drugs over 250 million times per year.
What scares me is the thought that every time an NFL player, active or retired, falls into this category of mental illness, the knee-jerk assumption is going to be that it's a result of concussions.
Yep, I always wonder what the balance is that contributes to the mental anguish in these cases. Seems to me that the brain trauma probably does play a part but so does having to settle in to life without football. For these guys football is such a HUGE commitment for around two decades of their early life and to suddenly be retired at 35-40 leaves you with a lot of free time and very little to focus on unless you're fortunate enough to jump right in to your next career. There's also the chance that they were somewhat predisposed to depression and the downtime helped bring it out irrespective of the head trauma.
Complicated stuff, really.
This is why I hope my unborn son never wants to play football. I love to watch football and I'd like him to watch football with me. But in terms of sports I want him to play. . . Basketball.
Very few people have nagging basketball injuries nor do they have long term mental health issues due to basketball.
A LOT of people have nagging basketball injuries, there's still a lot of stress involved with that sport. The worst of it just isn't typically related to head trauma.
Honestly, anything you do when you're young is going to risk coming back to haunt you when you're older. It's no reason to avoid the activities you love, it's just part of growing old. Best you can do is just weigh and manage the risks accordingly.
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Yep. It's white folk whom are ashamed of America's past that push for such change.
Take a gander back in time. Look at what every other civilization was doing then, during the European occupation of North America. The world was an ugly, violent and conquer-centric affair.
Incidentally, one of the most outspoken advocates for this nonsense in the DC area is the ironically named white sports columnist Mike Wise. That man epitomizes a level of oversensitivity that would make even the most diehard social liberals cringe.
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Typically the PC culture goes overboard, but in this case I can definitely see how Redskins is in poor taste. Red skins was a term used by Europeans and Americans to talk about the Native Americans. With names Chiefs, Braves, and Indians you are more along the lines of Cowboys or Giants when it comes to team names. When your team name is a word used to describe a group of people because their skin was darker I can see how it could rub Native Americans the wrong way. You throw in what the Eurpeons and Americans did during the time that Red skins was a common term used for Native Americans I can definitely see why they are less then ecstatic about it.
I posted a link in one of my first posts in this thread that refutes that from someone actually qualified to comment.
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I dunno, man. Tim Fugger was pretty awesome.
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Lol so it's likely he was making a little quip about this situation.
But your willing to say say it applied to many things. Which your not wrong about, but my first post you quoted isn't any less valid.
Actually, it's fairly unlikely. Claims have been made by other people that he was talking about the Redskins name, the Jason Collins thing, and a few other concurrent events. What he had been talking about on twitter leading up to that comment was actually backlash from comments he made about the Skins making Cowboys Stadium home.
I'm not a huge Twitter guy, so I can't vouch for the sequence of events and am thus willing to accept the tweet's origins as pretty open-ended but the people who do follow him seem fairly certain it was related to that (there was an NFL.com article on it the other day).
Teams most likely to step back in 2013
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Honestly, I think the Colts are a team that are actually a good bet to take a small step backwards when it comes to record. It'll be very tough for them to go 11-5 again (or better) especially with the turnover you've had amongst the coaching staff and players. I'd be shocked if there weren't signs of major improvement going forward in spite of that, though. If Pep has learned anything from the guys he's worked with at Stanford your offense will be in far better shape in a few years than it would have been with Arians sticking around and Luck is a virtual lock to steadily improve his game over the next few years.
It's not the worst distinction in the world because you have to be at least decent to begin with to take a step back. Teams like the Jaguars, Eagles, and Chiefs are at a point where they can't possibly get any worse so they're out of the running entirely.
Oh... and to preempt the inevitable response from one of the people with major insecurity about taking Luck over Griffin: Yes, the Redskins are decent candidates to take a step back as well (particularly depending on your individual beliefs about the health of one player in particular). No, I am not concerned at all.