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Number of "starters" on an NFL team (since most people don't think of ST specialists as starters): 22 Avg career length by draft round of NFL players: 1st: 3.7 2nd: 3.3 3rd: 2.8 The majority of long term starters come out of these 3 rounds. That means that by and large teams overhaul their starters about every fourth year on average, given that these numbers work out to a little over 3 collectively. Divide 22 by 4 to determine how many starters a team on average needs to acquire or replace each year and you actually come out with 5.5. Now we see why almost every team has lower round or UDFA talent finding a way into a starting role, sometimes as an obviously weak stopgap, sometimes better. Every player who is a solid starter for more than 4 seasons worth of games (this calculation removed games lost to injury to get it's numbers) is contributing to this equation to a greater than expected degree. Every flop makes these numbers worse for his team. Good teams do indeed need to get 3-4 starters out of every draft, because the numbers show that when you do worse than this, you are forced to start players who haven't really earned it, but you have to put somebody on the field. Not naming any names. Dennis Daley. Michael Scofield. Trent Scott. Greg Little. Matt Kalil. Chris Clark. And that's just at left tackle.

As long as my bank is insured by FDIC, I'm good. I didn't authorize the withdrawl, I'm not liable for it, and it's the bank's problem, not mine, because it was their mistake. The lawsuit I file will ensure that I'm compensated for the inconvenience, but I'll let my lawyer worry about that part. Scenarios like this btw are why I would never trust a major bank *cough* Wells Fargo *cough* to begin with. I'm very happy with my credit union and the offshore entity that handle my finances.

You compared my sports team to my attitude about my bank, Amazon etc. It's not that I expect you to care about my emotions, but rather I was pointing out why your lumping them in together isn't valid. There is a qualitative difference. I expected you to get that. Apparently I was wrong and you just decided to go on an irrelevant jag about how little anyone cares about my emotions, missing the entire point.

I'm not emotionally invested in my bank, actors, or the history of the local store I shop at. Certainly not Amazon Wal Mart and Target. I am emotionally invested in my sports teams, and therefore to me the character of the people who run them matters to me. YMMV.

What's tempting about this deal is the probability that the Rams may be a dumpster fire by the time those picks hit. They sold out hard to get that SB win, and now they're mortgaging their future to keep that window open if at all possible. Odds are very high that leads to a hard crash in a couple years. Tempting. Very tempting.

I don't speak a lick of Spanish and I will take Spanish radio calls over English every time. Some things transcend language, and these guys know how to put their heart and soul into their work. Good stuff.

Here is the fundamental issue I take with asking questions like this: If playoff winning teams don't have a pronounced tendency to have big WR's on the roster vs the rest of the league, I find the notion that they contribute to winning when it counts tenous at best. As a fan who wants to win, I think we should be looking at SB winners and conference championship participants and asking what these teams seem to have more or better of than the rest of the league. Fantasy football imo has led to an overemphasis by fans on WR's and RB's because they generate fantasy points and thus garner attention. This creates a false perception of how important they are to winning football. It is a passing league, and you need solid play from your receivers to win, but like running back, I believe the evidence that having big or elite WR play leads to playoff success is scant on the ground. QB play, OL play, pass rushing and secondary play are the position groups that both matter to winning, and where true talent is rare. Does having big WR's have it's obvious advantages? Of course. Do these advantages correlate to a high degree with playoff wins? Doubtful.

My wallet has scan protection and will work cheaper than Brown. I await an offer from the team.

I remember a young Donte being pulled aside by Captain Munnerlyn and another secondary vet and given a pretty intense talking to about his attitude. In some sense, he has grown up and become a leader on the team, but I wonder if this isn't a lingering issue that he thinks no one notices so he keeps on doing it.

Here's a novel idea: Many many running backs running behind a solid offensive line with an even halfway credible threat throwing the ball at QB can be solidly productive in this league. There just is not some huge dropoff between most starting RB's and most of their backups. Even more importantly, there are plenty of guys on practice squads or sitting at home after being cut that can do it. It's by far one of the most easily replaceable positions in football. It's just most people don't factor in how much of a team game it is and how much O line matters. It's fun to run for first downs when everyone in front of you has been knocked on their arse.

Just even mentally picturing someone this size getting blindsided by a Julius Peppers or a Chandler Jones makes you wonder how they would avoid winding up in traction.

You know considering what it takes to build a team and how much having a good young QB on a rookie deal matters to the talent you can put around him, I'd say 5th year option is arguably a non trivial consideration on your SB window with something like this. Assuming of course he turns out to be good, which is a huge if.

No one ever "wants" to stay in Detroit. Ever. The mayor would trade you his place for a 2 bedroom in Cleveland straight up. That's right, there is actually a place that Cleveland is a step up from. TJ is praying to Barry Sanders and Megatron that some team gets him the hell out of there, he'd even go to the Je... Wait, the JETS are 5-2? Who let this poo happen?

You weren't putting in the work. We need you to give 110%

Why would you legitimize LaVar Ball by verbing him?

I doubt playing under a coach you don't like causes an NFL quarterback to make bad throwing decisions and be inaccurate when he does throw the ball, but I can see how it can impact the effort given by players at other positions where effort is as important as skill. QB isn't as much about how hard you try as it is about your skill in doing so, so the morale boost of discarding a disliked coach for a popular one seems less like it would matter there. You are right about the bizarre perceptions of fans regarding players they don't know personally.

"That's how much the New York Yankees think of you Dave. They're paying you 8 million dollars not to play for them."

Because dumb?

Stupid is as stupid does.

Crazy.

Because of the example it sets for non vets who need those OTA's. Also given Robbie's performance, vet or not, he needed them too.

If you hate not losing that much, you don't skip OTA's and engage in antics that work against building a team. I liked the dude initially, but his performance and behavior have soured me.

I actually listen to ASMR vids every night to get to sleep, but people squeezing pimples is ugh... you're right tho, to each his own. There are ASMR stimuli I don't like at all, and others that will knock me right out. I personally don't get how any human being who's not starving to death could look at a snail and go "You know what, I want to eat that." There are some things even drowning in butter doesn't make appealing. Also anyone who claims to like gin isn't a real human being. They're an alien trying to blend in. Real humans don't drink gin. Voluntarily.

Only if you think the GOAT's accomplishments as a player can truly be dismissed by some analmuffin in a cowboy hat verbal vomiting into a microphone to a crowd full of mouth breathers.

Elrond doesn't like them.