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15 minutes ago, Bear Hands said:

It's been pretty bad since around 2016.  Unsure how that lines up with a lot of changes there but outside of Duggar, Wise, think it can be argued it's one of the worst in the league.  Mac Jones and their punter the only pro bowlers since 2016.  Jury is still out on Strange, he's up and down.  Thuney (and maybe Shaq Mason) are their only draft hits on the OL in over 10 years.

And Mac Jones sucks. Everyone just got caught up in him being a super processor Tom Brady heir. Nope.

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5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

And Mac Jones sucks. Everyone just got caught up in him being a super processor Tom Brady heir. Nope.

Oh he definitely does.  The pro bowl fillers after guys decline got some 1 year wonders to find their way in.  

Maybe another year without a full contact game will help change the tide.  

But yeah, Jones is terrible.

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Just now, Mr. Scot said:

Weird story of the week...

She's since released this statement...

A colleague of hers stated she was talking about something that happened years ago, not now. Greg Olsen also spoke in support of her.

Kinda hard to think there won't be some fallout from this though...

Why in the world would someone in that position ever admit that openly? Just mind-boggling.

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2 minutes ago, KSpan said:

Why in the world would someone in that position ever admit that openly? Just mind-boggling.

She said she's talked about it before and it's never been a big deal. Someone else also indicated it was something that happened in years past, not currently.

Still, this was...unwise 😕

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Just now, Mr. Scot said:

Has been for a while now...

I expect rule tweaks to hamper the pass rush and help the OL soon. The NFL wants consistent high scoring games and they'll keep tweaking the rules until they get it. Physical DB play was the big hurdle 20 years ago. They addressed that and it led to more and more pass happy offenses and now the OLs being outmatched by superior athlete pass rushers is the new hurdle. They'll address that soon. They're already edging that way being very liberal with false start penalties. If you watch closely, most OTs are taking off just a hair early on most obvious passing snaps. The KC RT just took it to an absolute extreme in week one.

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1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I expect rule tweaks to hamper the pass rush and help the OL soon.  

NFL Rules Committee leaked report:

Excerpt from super secret meeting held at an undisclosed Applebees in Jersey:  “Proposed Rule for Defensive Players Rushing the Passer- Rule #15436B.2.1-All defensive players must now count to 3 Mississippi before they can rush the passer, except on obvious passing downs, on which, they must count to 5 Mississippi.

Violation of Rule #15436B.2.1 will be assessed 15 yards and the offending player must tie his shoestrings together for the remainder of the game”

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