2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

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Gravel

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...bylaw-changes/

Proposed rule changes

1. A play that would have been automatically reviewed by instant replay will still be reviewed even if a coach throws his challenge flag. Any coach who challenges a play that he?s not permitted to challenge would be charged a timeout, and wouldn?t get his timeout back even if he wins the challenge, or would lose 15 yards if his team is out of timeouts. But the play itself will still be reviewed. Call this the Jim Schwartz Rule. The league will also consider reviewing incomplete passes that are ruled a fumble all the way through the fumble ? if a play is ruled on the field to be incomplete and overturned on replay as a fumble, the replay can consider everything that happens after that fumble.

2. Player safety: On field goals and extra points, restrictions are added to what rush teams can do. No more than six defensive players would be permitted to align on either side of the snapper, defensive players can?t push their teammates across the line, and the long snapper is considered a defenseless player.

3. Eliminate the tuck rule.

4. Allow tight ends and H-backs to wear 40-49.

5. Player safety: Offensive players will not be allowed to block low when going toward their own end lines in the tackle box. Can?t go low when peeling back anywhere on the field.

6. Player safety: Initiating contact with the crown of the helmet is a foul if the runner or tackler delivers a forceable blow against his opponent when both players are outside the tackle box.

Proposed bylaw changes

1. The waiver period will be such that a team that claims a player only needs to keep him for one day, not two days.

2. Adjust the physically unable to perform status to allow players on PUP to practice for any three-week period from Week Six through Week 11.

3. Move the final roster cutdown date one day earlier.

New points of emphasis

1. Mandatory thigh and knee pads. This isn?t a new rule but the officials will start actively enforcing the rule, rather than just urging players to wear the pads as they did last year. A player who refuses to comply with the rule won?t be allowed on the field.

2. Fields must be maintained up to NFL standards, and the league can require clubs to maintain their fields up to the league?s high standards, at the club?s expense.
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Alex

Alex

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The league will also consider reviewing incomplete passes that are ruled a fumble all the way through the fumble - if a play is ruled on the field to be incomplete and overturned on replay as a fumble, the replay can consider everything that happens after that fumble.
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This is a terrible suggestion. Throws "play until you hear the whistle" rule right out the window.
 
Agenor

Agenor

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More Dumervil lulz.


Andrew Siciliano ?@AndrewSiciliano

Dumervil reportedly was trying to do his part of the deal from a Kinko's in Miami...seriously.
 
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Man0warr

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Jozu_sl said:
Not saying he is better than average. (well technically he is, but for the sake of this argument he isnt) Just pointing out that he isnt the sole reason the team isnt getting to, or winnng in the playoffs. If you threw in another "average QB" with that same Dallas roster (say, Sam Bradford or Josh Freeman) would they fair any better? I would wager they wouldnt.

People just point to his fumbled hold (why the fuck was he holding for the kicker anyway?) or his 5 pick games and everyone usually just nods in approval and piles in. Except that defense is fucking horrible and Ryan got fired for a reason. Then you factor in how bad Jason Garrett is at coaching and you have yourself a bad team.
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It's more about the O-line than anything. Cowboys have drafted exactly 1 O-linemen in the first round in the last 20 some years (Tyron Smith). A lot of his "choking" in big games is more him getting chased out of the pocket 3 downs in a row on every series (Giants, Redskins games in the last 2 Week 17s), 95% of the time Romo makes some miracle magic shit happen or throws it away, the other 5% he tries to force it like Favre and gets picked. So why can't Romo just not throw those? If he doesn't take chances the Cowboys have absolute zero chance of winning most games vs similar or better opponents - the defense and special teams aren't going to do shit. People forget all the big games he came up huge in - OT win vs 49ers with punctured lung, or the 4 wins they reeled off vs AFC North opponents last year just make it so that Week 17 vs the Redskins even mattered. He still fucked up and threw those INTs under duress but I don't think he gets to play with a full deck like most the QBs ahead of him.

He's much better than "average", he's easily top 10. His stats blow every non-elite QB out of the water from 2007-2012:

2:1 TD:INT ratio, over 4000 yards/season in the 4 of 7 seasons he started all 16 games, career 95.6 passer rating (4th or 5th all time?), 18 4th Quarter Comebacks (only Eli has more in that time frame), 19 Game Winning Drives.

If you tell me Cutler, Rivers, Vick, Schaub, Stafford, Newton, Dalton, etc are better you are crazy.

He and the Cowboys have come up small in the big games in the final week/postseason, no doubt about that. But he hasn't had the benefit of a competent coach the entire time he's been a starter, or a competent front office to surround him with good players. He has some great skill position players, but it never matters because their O-line has been trash except his first year as a starter in 2007. If I was Romo I'd play the season out without signing an extension and leave Cowboy's puragtory, and collect $17-20mil/year from any of 4 to 7 teams in 2014.
 
moontayle

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Romo is a good QB. He elevates his receivers (hi2u Laurant Robinson) and is capable of some next level heroics, but the team put him in a position to do that way too often. Of course it was going to backfire. 2007 was the only year he had something resembling a complete team, and even then he had to essentially shoulder the team in the playoff game because everyone else kept fucking up (hi2u Patrick Crayton). You can't rely on one guy to do it all. That was basically the story of the Colts the entire time Peyton was there. The only year they managed to win a Super Bowl was the year the entire team showed up. Put too much on one guy and yes, it's going to fall apart eventually. Broncos did the same exact shit. You all saw what happened. Peyton threw a pass he yells at other QBs in his training camps not to make. Cross body, cross field. Don't do it, it only ends badly. Well, he did it. It ended badly. That's pretty much where Romo is right now. Forced to do shit he shouldn't need to do because if he doesn't, the team can't win.

I hope he does walk, but he probably won't.

I'm starting the bandwagon for them to tank in 2014 so they can draft Manziel.
 
Itlan

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I've been hoping they'd run Romo out of town. He's the best QB they've had in quite sometime, and always fucking does these miracle run around plays that drive me fucking insane. Much like idiot Giant fans, Cowboys fans won't appreciate Romo until he's gone.
 
Burnem Wizfyre

Burnem Wizfyre

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Itlan_sl said:
I've been hoping they'd run Romo out of town. He's the best QB they've had in quite sometime, and always fucking does these miracle run around plays that drive me fucking insane. Much like idiot Giant fans, Cowboys fans won't appreciate Romo until he's gone.
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I most certainly do, I remember all to well the days Carter, Hutchinson, Testaverde, Leaf, Wright, Henson. It's no Dolphins list of a string of absolutely shit QB's since Marino but it sucks the same, just not for as long.
 
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Robert Baratheon_sl

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Hard to believe that the Dumervil situation is actually a laughable case of incompetence. The NFL is a 9 billion dollar a year business, surely the people on the business end are aware of Docusign and actually do not stand around next to a fax machine with time sensitive documents in play. RIGHT, NFL?

If I had to guess it was the agent, maybe at the last second he felt like they could get a better FA deal or was actually dumb enough to think they could pull a fast one on the Broncos and let the fully guaranteed year kick in.
 
Famm

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Agenor_sl said:
What's your opinion on Ellerbe? Outside of the playoffs, I really didn't see many Raven games last season. Had Boldin on my fantasy team, but traded him away after a slow start so they were really off my radar.
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Ellerbee is great, but we've kind of run him into the ground the past couple seasons. I'd be more wary of him being injury prone than his play. He has a nose for the ball, good tackler, he's a playmaker. We really didn't use him enough in his earlier years due to combination of Ray Lewis hogging snaps and being in Harbaugh's doghouse after being a showboat in a preseason pick six. Check this shit out though:

 
Famm

Famm

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Marcus Spears to the Ravens. Looks like Ozzie isn't going to go for bolstering the D line in the draft, or only in the draft, as expected. Also would seem he is hell bent on returning our D to a run stopping unit after becoming fucking miserable at it over the past two season. Stopping the run was the primary focus of everything defensive in Baltimore for many years, its been weird seeing them get gashed by just about any running back in the league lately.
 
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