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come to think of it, i can't think of a single position that i am worried about.

 

i'm not even worried about OT. we've got something we didn't have last year...competition.

it eventually did fine last year without him once they and the DTs realized he wasn't coming back and guys had to step up more.

 

it will be the same story this year. everyone on that line knows that they have to step up and they will.

 

i'm not at all worried about that front 7. i wish DE deeper, but what we have is still among the best DL in the league and the best front 7 in the whole NFL.

LOL at all the Pats rage in here. 

 

I hate them too, but can we be realistic? They aren't going to get any lifetime bans or even suspensions.

They will lose a mid to late round draft pick and that will be the end of it.

i'm pissed because they always do it and they always get away with it with just a slap on the wrist.

 

had this been another team, there would be someone banned for a year at least.

 

and every time they do this, it's like reaggravating an old injury. just when you think you've gotten over it they do it again and remind you that the lombardi could have been ours.

patriots cheat and get away with it. it's what they do and it's the only way that they can get their lombardis.

 

what's amazing to me is the number of people in here siding with the patriots and either minimalizing what they did or defending them against the big bad nfl.

 

they robbed us of a superbowl win by cheating and they cheated to get themselves back to another one. they've probably been doing this kind of thing for a long time just like they were doing the videotaping. i would be shocked if there weren't other ways they had been cheating.

 

it's a culture thing there. win and do it in any way you can, whether it's within the rules or ethical or not. the thing that gets me is the number of people who will likely see that as an admirable trait.

fwiw, i told someone we had our own twin peaks in carolina now.

smash & dash?

shake & bake?

razzle & dazzle?

double trouble?

 

sorry...having a flashback.

Probably Cedric Ogbuhi. That one Michigan receiver/TE (name slips the mind atm) is also worth a look.

 

 

No to Strong and No to Funchess.

We need more speed at the WR position. We already have our big WR in Kelvin now give me a guy like Devin Smith or Phillip Dorsett or even Jamison Crowder in the late rounds. You see guys like TY Hilton, Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham tearing it up each week because they all have that second gear.

As for the 1st round pick, I'd love a OT but that seems unrealistic now considering where we are picking so give me Shaq Thompson!

impressive. both guys got it, even while disagreeing.

I'm thinking:

KB

Funchess

Ginn

Cotchery

Boykin

Brown

 

i think that this is the WR corps heading into the season. bersin will be a numbers casualty. boykin being a legit STs guy is what will help him get a spot over bersin.

i don't care about him making the WR corps. the dude did what he was called on to do very well in that regard.

 

it's that whole ST thing that i want him far away from.

 

with ginn back, i don't think we have to worry there.

I just hate the pick. We traded our fuging second, third, and sixth and passed on Strong for a worse, much worse version of KB.

Thus dude is slow, struggles to get separation (sound familiar??), and HAS A DROP PERCENTAGE OF 9 OVER THE LAST TWO SEASONS.

LOL... A 9% drop rate and a 4.7 40... Ya'll can have this draft. I've never been more disgusted with our draft through two rounds. And before you say we finally got a WR... FUNCHESS is not a WR, he's a slow ass TE with unreliable hands. He gave up all those picks, after saying we won't reach for ANY player... Then you move up to trade for HIM? We need speed... And yet, gettleman exposes his size fetishist again. We just don't see football the same.

For you gettleman fanboys' enjoyment, I'm gonna refrain from posting for a few hours because I really have nothing good to say.

 

probably a good idea. even aceboogie is more rational than you are being.

They're not that stupid to be serious about it and let it leak

 

you must be new to the falcon way of doing things.

 

this is the team that hired a coaching staff before they hired a head coach.

 

they are building their new stadium to resemble a sphincter and then name waste management as a primary sponsor.

 

you can't make this poo up.

 He may have been better off going Ray Rice on her and taking his medicine.

 

just going to leave this here.

oh no. he'll be facing us after missing 25 games?

 

and just when is he allowed to work out with the team?

 

i'm sorry, hardy is a threat....but after all that time off and with so limited amount to work with the team (i guess), i'm just not all that worried about him.

those poor guys.

There is exactly 0% chance a new thread isn't started if Jennings signs here, so changing this thread title is pointless.

And I'm not being hyperbolic to make a point. 0% chance.

 

i expect no less than 3 new threads with a 3rd four hours later and then another 2 days later wondering why there are no threads on it even though there are 2 others right there on the front page.

 

just so you know, teams can (and are) skype with potential draft picks and it won't count as an official "meeting" with the prospect.

 

just because we haven't called him in doesn't mean that we haven't been talking to him.

Hands down the best show I've seen was Govt Mule opening for Primus.  I went to see Mule and left a huge Primus fan.  Les was getting ready to hit an encore and he said "do you want beavers or puppies?"  Right then some idiot threw a shoe and hit him in the face which prompted Les to leave the stage. I saw the shoe thrower get his ass kicked. I've never seen a show live that sucked by any band with a big name.  I did borrow a pixies live dvd that was the worst crap I've ever seen/heard.  I thought I liked them, I was wrong.

i forgot about gov't mule and primus. seen each band twice and loved it. primus sucks, btw.

 

 

i also forgot about rush. seen them a couple times as well. fantastic show. one of the times i saw primus was when they were opening up for rush. as a bass player, it was hard to top that night.

 

 

i get along with both my side of the family and my wife's side. both sides are only an hour away from each other so the only bad part is that we have to run from one family thing to the other and usually have to eat one big meal just a couple hours after the other. both sides have young kids so my kids have kids to play with while the dad's either watch sports on tv (my wife's family) or go out fishing/hunting/walking around the woods/sitting around the fire (my side of the family). when we're with my family around christmas, we will often stay up late and play cards or board games (though we're kind of getting too old to stay up very late).

 

all that might sound boring, but it's always been a nice break from real life. in fact in my younger days, my home was always where friends from college would come to recuperate from the stresses of school life.

 

now it's pretty much just family that comes around, but there's a lot of us. there are some good friends that come over as well from time to time and hang out after they get done doing their family things.

 

most of us live fairly close to each other, but get too busy to see each other very often so holidays are a good excuse to get together. they are far from sucking. in fact they've always been great in my book and since i have had kids it's become even better. i think that's the way it's supposed to be and i'm glad to be part of a situation like that and hope it continues that way the rest of my life.

not day one.

 

not even day two.

...

Best (not necessarily ion order)

Tedeschi Trucks Band (midnight in harlem was one of the most incredible musical experiences in my life)

Allman Bros

Robert Plant's Band of Joy (not ony a huge fan of zepplin and plant, but a big fan of darrell scott, patty griffin, and byron house who all were with him in the band)

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (not in the last 5-6 years, tho.)

Leftover Salmon (pre-mark vann dying). i saw them probably more than anyone. quite a few times i was right there at the stage and would look at the set list and it was always funny that they would stick to it for the first 2-3 songs and then just totally wander off  the list. you never knew what to expect (because they never knew what to expect) from show to show.

Iron Maiden

Def Leppard Hysteria tour (don't judge me. i was 18 and i have never seen so many girls in spandex in my life. it was amazing.)

 

worst

great white. i saw them twice in 2 years because of other bands they were with (whitesnake...another great show, and tesla). i didn't like them anyway and thought they were a band of hacks and never saw any redeeming qualities in them, but live they were worse. i wish they were boring. they were just bad. the absolute worst thing was i know that a lot of these big bands create a set list and stick to it so by the time you see it they've done the exact same show dozens or even hundreds of times, jokes/stories and all...but the stories that the singer told were so bad they were burned and scarred into my memory and i was amazed that he didn't change a thing in two years.

 

 

some teams are going to look at that and see that the price for pumping in crowd noise isn't all that bad and feel it's worth the advantage.

This can let us draft a more risky tackle in the draft. Like in the first or second and if he isn't healthy at the beginning of the season.

 

totally agree. also gives us the freedom to choose a long term prospect guy instead of a guy we have to count on starting from day one. this gives us the ability to develop someone long term (that is if one or both of these two guys isn't a long term solution).

 

Texting durring games?

Whats the big deal with that?

you were told wrong.

With that important piece of business done, commissioner Roger Goodell plans on turning his attention toward the Browns.

Specifically, he will “focus on” the illegal texting from Cleveland general manager Ray Farmer to coaches on the sideline during several 2014 games.

Electronic communication is banned from 90 minutes prior to kickoff until the end of the game.

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2015/03/26/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-says-nfl-ttreating-browns-game-texting-serious-offense/

part f the reason kyle shannahan left the browns was supposedly because he felt uncomfortable with the GM and other members of the personnel dept. sending texts to the field. one of the big issues is that they were sending the texts from the press box. from what i understand, the texts were more opinions and suggestions rather than orders or something as nefarious as communicating with the other teams. they seems to have been pretty harmless and more just annoying to the coaching staff having the GM and guys from personnel meddling.

but rules are rules. you can't use those devices on the sidelines. communication is limited to the headsets and that one phone line to the booth.