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You guys are wrong
I say knock knock knocking on sevens door

 

From, PFT...

 

I think he would fare better in the AFF than he did in the CFL. Can he stay out of trouble? That's the real question. Wonder what that violation was, though it sounds like it was intentional. Manziel is likely an upgrade talent-wise for all 8 teams.

 

Coaches’ subcommittee recommends video official...

The Competition Committee has made plenty of headlines this week regarding whether and to what extent the replay review process will, or won’t, change in the aftermath of last month’s NFC championship game. There’s one specific angle that the Competition Committee has yet to publicly or privately acknowledge in conjunction with the commencement of the official preparations for the 2019 league meetings.

It’s the video official. Specifically, an extra official who would monitor the available camera angles and who would be available to correct egregious errors in real time — not as part of a second look but as part of the first look, but with the unique perspective of seeing what we all see when watching the game on TV.

Per multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, the NFL coaches’ subcommittee has recommended a video official to the Competition Committee. The Competition Committee initially didn’t react to it with enthusiasm, but as one source observed there’s no good argument against it. While some will wring hands and gnash teeth regarding the possibility of unintended consequences or a parade of horribles involving the video official not knowing the the seven officials on the field have, for example, opted to issue a warning instead of throwing a flag for defensive holding, there’s a way to craft this approach in a manner that will provide an umbrella of protection to the officials, ensuring that mistakes are avoided before the they become final and official and unavoidable, making the officials look incompetent and the league look inept.

Surely, that’s not what the league wants. And if that’s what the league gets, eventually the Commissioner will get an invitation to appear before Congress to explain why the NFL isn’t doing more to ensure that hard-earned money wagered legally by American citizens is being placed at risk not by the skills and abilities of players and coaches but by the correctable-but-uncorrected blunders of the folks in black and white stripes.

This isn’t the time to circle the wagons or to hunker down or to adopt and us-against-them mentality. This is the time to learn from a glitch that marred the NFC title game and prevent it from happening again. Whether the Competition Committee and/or the owners realize and embrace this will be one of the biggest questions confronted by the league over the next month. (PFT)

 

Video ref sounds great

 

This was my favorite part of the AAF — video official makes so much sense and they get to test run it for a season and the NFL can learn from their mistakes along the way. The video official makes a ton of sense. They shouldn’t get involved all that often but they can fix blatant bad calls or missed calls before the league has to acknowledge them later in the week.

 

I mean what the hell... its 2019, we have the technology, might as well use it and get the shit right. Its about time to.

 

Earl Thomas could be out of Cowboys’ price range...



Earl Thomas wants to become the highest-paid safety in the NFL, with a deal worth more than the $13 million annual contract of Chiefs safety Eric Berry, Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. That’s not good news for Cowboys fans, who had their hearts set on their team signing Thomas.

If the Seahawks’ safety, who played high school and college football in Texas, won’t give the Cowboys a “hometown discount,” as Hill reports, then Thomas will be out of the Cowboys’ price range.

Thomas will get more money to sign elsewhere.

The Cowboys have big contracts with their own players to get done. (PFT)
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You get what you pay for, but I don't think its necessary to pay that kind of cash for a safety... just an opinion.

 

@LAOJoe where the hell you been? We need you around here, you've been missed!!!

 

Question is, will ANYONE give him that kind of money? He'll be 30 before the season starts, and has missed 19 games the last three years (although with what I'd consider "non-chronic" injuries). Still would love to have him on Dallas, though...but probably not at that price. Not with looming big-ticket contracts for Tank Lawrence, Dak Prescott, Zeke Elliott, Amari Cooper, and Byron Jones.

 

I'm calling foul. Pretty sure I commented on his injuries awhile back and you downplayed them. Just going off memory though.

 

Knew you'd be jumping in.

I personally am down-playing them. I believe I just said that I don't consider them "chronic," right?

 

seems like he made the wrong move going on the cody parkey thread and was chased out of town.

 

I don't remember the exact conversation but I thought he was a bad idea for the Cowboys and used his age + injuries as the reason why. You seem to be doing the same thing as to why he shouldn't be the highest paid safety.

 

Last I heard he was packing to go to a maple syrup festival.

 

I don't recall our conversation entailing him being the highest paid safety. I didn't think it was a bad idea to deal for him - Kam Chancellor and Eric Berry were similarly 29 years old, and (again), I don't see his injuries as being chronic.

 

Stop with the dramatics. Get over yourself.

 

Especially one with the injury history. He said he wants to play for the Cowboys, so maybe he's saying that to the other 31 teams so if he doesn't get the location he wants, he'll at least get the compensation.