Lucky Luciano

and just when the mccaskey's 'thought' the rumors of their being CHEAP were being put to rest they shoot themselves in the foot to save pennies. the law they want to pass, with the help of THEIR lobbyists and the governor, is BS. it's just another land grab by greedy owners and the corporate NFL who consider their employees replaceable meat suits. they don't just want all the pie, they want the pan it was baked in too. the rebuttals and justifications for passing this law are just calculated red herring's planned and planted by the PR leg of these franchises and corporations to appeal to idiots whose visual (in this case mental) depth perception is comparable to ray charles. if these were viable and just laws, why tack them nearly unheard of to the state budget to try and sneak them through?

you are correct. the era's are apple and orange comparisons. the nfl changed all the rules to the game in favor of the offense especially the passing game. where the tackles can line up. the holding on nearly every play is evident compared to the past. in the past there would be holding calls on nearly all the linemen on every single play. in the past you could not grab the jersey and hold on. as soon as your arms came out to wrap a player it would have been a flag.

the drive where the pats made their first TD... there were two instances where the drive stalled and they should have had to punt. it was third down and 9 or 10? in each instance. brady throws incomplete passes and then comes the flags. on the replay you are correct in a sense. there was MINOR holding but it should NOT have been called in reference to the rest of the officiating going on. one flag if you wanted to be VERY nit picky. two flags and it was a give-me drive by the officials that turns out to have been the difference in the game. this seems the MO of officiating in the nfl. give early questionable calls and makeup calls later in the game to the other team to 'appear' unbiased. it seems like no big deal at the time but in reality it IS a big deal. it gives the team they choose to favor riding time and momentum.

atlanta... complete chumps. had the game won twice and pissed it away. in reality, i find it hard to believe any coaching staff is that stupid. a field goal signs the pats death warrant and they do the SAME thing twice in a row and end up punting? smells like week old dead fish. again, the refs determined the outcome of this superbowl. the first TD was due to the refs giving the pats TWO golden penalties to give them the first touch down. subtract that and who wins?

i believe he just had groin surgery and might not be healthy enough for buffalo to cut him before the big money in his contract takes effect. how that effects his status i don't know. he is an interesting thought although his size is a concern. he is only 6'.

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if this were a non salary cap league like it used to be then it could turn out fantastic. but with the cap i just do not see how we can pay other top tier money position players and do this (especially the top player, QB, you hope to obtain). sure, in the near future it would be a great addition but it hurts our team in the long term in many ways. defensively: we can't assume floyd is a bust possibility at this juncture or that garrett is going to be a can't miss player. there have been many 'can't miss' players who never transitioned into the nfl. in today's league you have to have at least one very good to elite DB preferably at the corner position. offensively: you MUST have a very good to elite QB to succeed more than one season's anomaly. to make this position the keystone you have to have a very good to elite LOT (unless he is a lefty) not to mention the rest of the offensive line must be at the least good to very good. without them your keystone player is minimized or ends up on IR. what of the very good to elite WR to make our offense work? we faced that dilemma this past season with jeffry tagged. running backs seem to have dropped in value leading to the cap but TE's have taken their place. even so neither are cheap per se'. if someone can tell me how to pay elite players on both sides of the ball needed to win more than one lucky superbowl i surely would be willing to change my mind on this garrett. otherwise if no QB, LOT or CB are worthy of this high a pick for future consideration then try to trade down as i have stated in previous posts and let someone else use their multiple picks on garrett and we gain ammunition for next years attack to move up in the draft for that elite QB.

the dolphins had a very good offensive line. that said, marino killed the bears with his quick releases. we kept blitzing and couldn't put the hit on him enough to stop them from manhandling us. this was one of the few instances that i recall buddy ryan was outcoached. Paul M. Banks, August 23, 2013 http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-sports-m...rino-bears-842/ “Looking back on it, we got off to a good start, and what we did is we took our normal base offense and took our tight end out of the game and moved Nat Moore in and spread it out a little bit, and they stayed in their same type of defense, so they had linebackers trying to cover Nat Moore, and when they blitzed they had to bring a safety down.” “So that kind of helped what we did offensively, I hate to say it, but it’s as simple as that,” Dan Marino summarized. Dan Marino was known for having one of the quickest releases the league has ever seen, so he was one of the very few passers adept enough to beat the Bears blitz packages. In short, he was fast enough on the trigger to get past the blitz and exploit one-on-one mismatches. And with Moore, the Dolphins had a WR on LB mismatch to complement the “Marks Brothers” at wideout beating the Bears corners and safeties.

i'm sorry but that is a huge gamble unless you figure in 4 years we have a cheap qb to offer a contract, a cheap LOT to offer a contract, cheap CB's and LB's or any other player who might be good enough to be considered all-pro or pro-bowl material (although i guess if we do have those types of cheap contracts coming up we will be picking in the top 10 again anyway). in this cap era you can't, i repeat can't, dump that much money into the 'same' position and not expect your team to suffer from lack of supporting quality players. that leaves, at least to me, the ability to financially support one all-pro pass rushing DE, possibly one all-pro cover CB and throw in another POSSIBLE defensive all-pro player at the remaining positions. after this you can best hope for good to very good players you have acquired through the draft playing out rookie contracts. now take into account your offensive salary cap restrictions. QB and WR along with LOT are some big ticket items. where are you going to find the cap money to pay them? finally... to me you are hopefully picking in the top 10 rarely. this SHOULD be a cornerstone to the foundation of your franchise for 10 years. to draft a player there you know you can't support and will not last past his first contract is madness.

i have to completely disagree with your assessment. with TWO contracts coming do nearly at the same time there is just not enough money in the cap to do this. pass rushing DE's are one of the highest paid players in the nfl with the exception of franchise qb's. you would virtually pauper your defense and more than likely your offense as well. in today's world, no, it would bust your franchise and it's possibilities to be a consistent contender for a real shot at a title. if this were pre cap times then it would be a nice proposition which might work although if you want a reality check look no further than the 85 bears defense. we had 2 HOF defensive ends not to mention HOF quality linebackers. the type of offense run today is very similar to what the dolphins did to us in that season with marino. it's the quick release that will negate a pass rush and put the burden on your linebackers and defensive backs. thus the importance of quality corners. in today's defense does that mean we go with mediocre linebackers and defensive backs? your safeties would be just 'good' at best in this scenario and probably even less quality for your linebackers. this also means you are fielding bottom of the barrel cornerbacks. good to elite cb's get nearly if not more money than a DE does. it would be nearly impossible to pay a franchise quality quarterback and certainly franchise quality LOT's along with him if you put that much money in two similar positions on your defense. are you suggesting we go with a mediocre offensive line yet again? if you are forced to let one of these high quality DE's go then you 'literally' wasted a top 5 or 10 pick. it's a recipe for disaster for another decade.

i am not familiar enough with a 3/4 defense to yet understand how the players compare to those in a 4/3. that said.. if this garrett is playing in a similar position as floyd and both are supposed pass rushers how can we afford both? there is no way if floyd pans out like we expect/hope that this franchise can give the kind of money garrett and floyd will demand when both their contracts come due. that would make it 2 franchise quality pass rushing (DE?) contracts due nearly at the same time. so IF we go the garrett route, and he is a similar position player as floyd, how can we justify two top ten picks at the same position two years in a row knowing we will have to release one of them due to cap restrictions in 3-4 years just when they reach their prime?

first let me qualify this... i do not watch college ball anymore due to the crap from the BCS (or whatever it is called) and the BIG 10 garbage mess they created by adding a ridiculous amount of teams that can't even play each other in a regular season, along with the 'you have to pay and subscribe to BIG 10 network' in order to watch your local/state college team. it's total BS!!!! that said: i am still saying YES to drafting a QB at #3 IF that player looks to be a franchise quality player. this does NOT mean that the qb drafted has to be ready to start in the NFL this season or even next season. if it takes 2 or even 3 years for us to have a FRANCHISE quality quarterback i am more than willing to wait. i am sick and tired of us drafting qb's who are questionable just so they can qualify to start sooner. it hasn't worked for us and odds are it won't unless we get lucky. nothing will destroy a franchise quicker than to rely on 'luck' rather than building solid foundations. i am also tired of trading down for more draft picks when we should have been trading UP for the most important player on your team. NOW... if the people who evaluate qb talent for this franchise really determine that this draft class does NOT have that franchise quality talent for the future then i would try to trade down ONLY if i can get the team we are trading with their first round pick this year and their first round pick NEXT year. i don't care if we get anything else in return. i want to be able to trade UP with 2 FIRSTS next season to get that qb who IS a franchise prospect without bankrupting our franchise like we did for cutler. if it's determined that no qb is worthy of a franchise possibility and we can't trade down for what i stated above then put me down as my 2nd choice at the 3rd pick for a CORNERBACK. there is no way that a safety can compare in value to a shut down cb and anyone who believes this is dreaming. a shutdown corner not only takes away the other teams #1 receiver it gives our FREE SAFETY the chance to double up with our #2 corner for shut down coverage on that side. this in turn gives our defensive line the extra time to disrupt/sack the opponents qb. here are the TOP 4 values in any draft. QB first and foremost, then it's a grab bag for LOT, CB or pass rushing DE.

what i would do... IF the QB class (or even a killer LOT) looks strong NEXT year i trade down in the first round near the mid or even further in this draft. i take for that trade the teams first this year and their first next year. i then have 2 probable mid round or better first round picks next year to move up to get that primo position filled in the draft. i gamble on where the trade team is going to finish out the 2017 season and make the trade with the team with the projected highest pick in round 1 for next season. any other extra picks this season is a bonus.

peanut always had good games against moss peanut in truth was his nemesis. he was drafted to counter moss and the big receivers from green bay and did a really excellent job on the larger WR's throughout his career. peanut was one of the best #2 cb's ever.

with the selections you put up i went qb and cb. i would like to know if you meant these two choices to be for the first round option or overall. the left tackle option would also be there if you meant for this to be in the top five picks in the draft where we pick. if there was a LT stud and the QB's were an uncertain value i would have to go with a shut down CB or a stud LT. if there were no true studs in those three positions i would seriously consider trading down only if someone were to give us NEXT years first round pick. that way next year if the QB class looks good we could throw 2 first round picks out there to move into the top 5 again. that said, somewhere in the first 3-4 rounds you have to think of a RT in the mix although not in the top 10. this could also change depending upon if whitehair could project to become an ABOVE AVERAGE tackle if you moved him there. everyone seems to want a TE in those rounds. i just don't see that as a valuable pick for us in those slots. i think that brown has potential to be a starter for us. the guy has great hands.

this guy is waaay small. at 5'6" and 179 lbs. i just don't see this guy as a pro rb. he would be crushed by the bigger players in the nfl as a back and doesn't have the elite speed to outrun competition. that said, the only way i 'could' see this guy is as a possible return man. he has the moves and enough speed to MAYBE succeed fielding punts or kickoffs. now THAT would be interesting to see.

well lets hope he never leaves michigan. this guy is completely nuts.

uhhhhh... if this happened it would seriously be a bad thing. we dump players who are trouble so WHY hire a criminally stupid, documented thief and cheater for a head coach? i don't want to win that bad to hire garbage like him. stay with the group of coaches we have at least one more year.

yea and i'm not so sure that is a good idea either. this guy and staff seem to be able to get good results out of our string of nobody QB's. unless we find a proven, can't refuse this guy quality OC that looks like he will be around for a number of years, it may be best to let loggains have another year. we don't need another OC who is gone in a year or two. we need consistency. consistency and more consistency.

if true, this would set this team back 1-2 years minimum. you are right, it doesn't make ANY sense. we $h!t can our standard 4-3 defense and draft/acquire FA's in the previous 2 years to play in a 3-4 after picking up one of the few available GOOD 3-4 coaches in the league. this would be a major loss especially if we lose all the position coaches that go with him. if so, welcome to the bottom of the league/division/barrel yet again.

it's a good dilemma to be in for a change. whitehair has real potential to be a future pro-bowl player at center. but... 1. unless we cut sitton who IS a pro-bowl guard i don't see him replacing either him or long. 2. grasu is an unknown with potential to be a good center. how good we don't know because he hasn't been able to stay on the field without injury long enough to make a decision either way. 3. IF whitehair can play tackle at a high level, which he did in college, that opens up a whole lot of possibilities either at right tackle replacing massey or even slipping into the spot leno is playing in. this in turn, saves us a high draft pick at that position although i do NOT want to see him become a mediocre tackle and diminish his so far great career potential at center or guard. so this is going to be an interesting offseason in how our offensive line shapes up.

1. this is the way fox and MOST coaches in the nfl operate. it's not new, it's not unique. should he come out and say... "Our season is over and we really suck. We only play every week because it's in our contract. I am hoping we lose the rest of the games to get better players in a higher spot in the draft to replace the chumps we now field anyway. Cutler is garbage and we are dumping him at season end and I hope he never finds another job. oh, by the way Jay, thanks for taking a beating for us the last 8 years. Also, here is a list of all the players on our roster who have injuries and how severe they are along with each players physical and mental limitations on game day. Since we are obviously not going to the Superbowl and want better draft picks we hope you can use this information to confirm your game plan to scheme against us." 2. me personally? i couldn't care less whether the media likes fox, cutler, or anybody else. in fact if the media does dislike someone because they don't kiss their arses it's a plus in my book. in many cases if there is not a story for these faux news outlets they will start one by themselves. many times it's not reporting the news, it's making up a story, reporting a 'rumour' or writing something obviously unknown to them and then reporting on it to gain the market share and put them on top of the 'news' cycle. so screw them and the horse they rode in on. if anyone believes all they hear in the media any more than they believe all the the nonsense the coaches speak in press conferences i'd like to sell them a swamp. and on a final note: SCREW the cheating thief tom brady!

it's his job to misdirect the competition to try and help WIN games not to placate the media, it's fans or tank games for draft position. even if everyone knows what the score is it still instills some doubt no matter how small. i also heard that this information could have been because cutler wanted to see if his shoulder would heal enough to at least showcase himself for the offseason for other teams as he probably will be cut loose. this would be a favor from the coaching staff to a guy who gave it all on the field. i see no problem with this coaching staff doing this stuff. that cheating scum from new england does it all the time and yet everyone loves him for it. go figure.

i see absolutely no reason to start barkley unless he looks 100% better in practice than he did on the field. unless we believe he can progress into at least an average qb with work he has no business being on the field. our young talent gets no chance to learn much of anything from this guy. it helps us not at all in determining whether our other offensive players are keepers or whether we should be looking to the draft or free agency to fill these spots with a cannon fodder qb. if shaw were healthy it would be a different story. he at least looked like he had something to contribute in preseason.

'supposedly' this was not a football operations evaluation according to hub arkush on the score this morning. if true that puts to rest the hot seat rumors for that side of the franchise for now. if this is true it's a PR nightmare created by themselves by not making a statement to the press SAYING it was not a football operations evaluation after the rumors in the media took flight. whether they wanted to keep under wraps the content of the consultation would have been easy with a no comment after assuring the press it had nothing to do with pace or fox. it just makes you wonder how detached the owners are from reality that they didn't even see that firestorm coming and show a vote of confidence to their F.O. staff.