Well now that we are into the last quarter of the season it's back. With the extra week this year I think they said it's the first time that no one had clinched a playoff spot by week 14.
To get 4 AFC North teams in, I think a Cleveland and Pittsburgh tie pretty much needs to happen so as to give both of them an edge over any 9-8 team. Looking at the simulator there has to a pretty insane amount of Black Swan type outcomes for this to happen, but it could.
I managed to get a scenario where 6 AFC Teams finish with a 9-8 record and finish behind a Browns team that's 9-7-1 and a Steelers team that's 9-6-2. Ony the Jets, Jags, and Texans would finish with a losing record in that one. I sort of hope it plays out that way as it would be wild.
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Patriots QB Tom Brady
An autopsy revealed unusually severe brain disease in the frontal lobe of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina before killing himself in April, authorities announced Tuesday.
It's stories like this that reinforce why football, hockey, and all other contact sports need to abolish hits to the head.
More specifically, with a shorter QB, I think you need your Center and Guards in particular to be able to hold that point of attack so if he does need to step up he has extra space to see, and be able to keep those guys from getting their hands up to bat balls down. Him being a more mobile guy edge rushers won't be attempting to run around the tackles as much since they need to keep contain.
This. This is exactly how the Saints OL was built in Brees' prime due to his height. You had All Pro calibre OGs in Jahri Evans and Carl Nicks, and a strong C. The OTs were the weaker links and it worked fine, especially for someone like Brees with such good pocket awareness, who simply stepped up in the pocket when the ends got flanked.
In his final years, Brees' OL was built more the traditional way, with Pro Bowl OTs in Armstead & Ramczyk, and the weak points at OG. And Minnesota exploited it in the playoffs both times, targeting the OGs & getting to Brees.
Completely agreed about Murray, I had the same thoughts watching him over the weekend deal with batted balls like Brees dealt with. And while he's clearly more athletic, he just doesn't have the pocket awareness Brees had. Something he's going to have to learn (and AZ needs to build their OL from the inside out).
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"You're always going to have some form of drama. I've learned that the NFL is just more drama in general than college, no matter where you're at," Lawrence said Wednesday. "But you're right. There's been a lot. To your point, I do think that has to change and that's something that we need to work on for sure.
"So you can't always be in the headlines. You just got to go play football and that's where we're trying to get and I have no doubt we'll get there, but for sure [it has to change]."
But it doesn't look like it will any time soon.
Just hours after Lawrence made that comment in his weekly news conference, a report surfaced from the Tampa Bay Times in which former Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo alleged that coach Urban Meyer kicked him in the leg while stretching in warm-ups before a practice during the week of the final preseason game.
Lambo said Meyer told him, "Hey Dips---, make your f---ing kicks!" and then kicked him in the leg. Lambo characterized the kick as a five out of 10 and then told the Tampa Bay Times he told Meyer: "Don't you ever f---ing kick me again!" Lambo said Meyer told him, "I'm the head ball coach. I'll kick you whenever the f--- I want."
NFL set out its “home” countries that teams could create marketing and advertising plans to, and, play games at some point in the next decade.
Teams had to bid for the rights. Seattle and the Vikings unsurprisingly (Buffalo and Detroit also have Canada as a home country because they are with 75 miles of the border) bid as Canada as their home country.
Lot of teams want to try and leverage Mexico, and only Kroenke is dipping his toe in Chinese (and Aussie) waters.
Brazil and the Dolphins? Spain and the Bears? No team going to test the Japanese market?
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The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired head coach Urban Meyer, ending a tumultuous tenure with the franchise after only 13 games.
The announcement came roughly nine hours after the latest embarrassment for owner Shad Khan: a report in the Tampa Bay Times in which former kicker Josh Lambo alleged that Meyer kicked him in the leg while he was stretching in warm-ups before a practice during the week of the final preseason game. That was apparently the breaking point for Khan.
