The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

Muurloen_sl said:

Just FYI... The salary cap is going to probably boom in 2016.Him at $22m will probably look like peanuts compared to the rest of his peers with they become free agents. Iirc, Luck is hitting the market at the same time and will probably command and set the benchmark from where Eli will work his contact from.

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Pretty sure there is a team option for 2016 for luck. But I guarantee he will be signed before the 2016 starts, likely to an extension

Someone explain to me why in the world would any divisions need to be changed if the Rams move? The Rams are already in the NFC West, them moving to LA makes more geographical sense than it does now.

And if the Raiders move to St Louis? So what, they're in the AFC West. ST Louis was already in the NFC west, and if nothing else the Raiders are now closer to KC and Denver(divisional foes)

There will likely be no realignments, if possible. It creates geographic diversity in terms of games played. Miami will not move out of the AFC east because it gives fanbases that live out of their teams' region a chance to see their team locally at least once every few years.

Same for Dallas being in the NFL East and Indy in the AFC south. Add in the rotation of AFC v. NFC and you have a cycle where a team is bound to hit 24 nfl cities every 4 years. (Eg Dallas and Miami play in Miami this year, but the last couple of years they played preseason games swapping back and forth. Worst case is something like NFC East vs. AFC west, where you might not see your team but once every 8 years unless you travel).

Same reason why the owners continually vote for division winners to host playoff games. A 9-7 AFC west winner hosting an 11-5 wildcard guarantees that there is at least one playoff game in all parts of the country.

As for RG3/Sam Bradford, etc...yeah NFC East and AFC east are playing each other this year. Miami, Buffalo, and the Jets could all have top 10 D-lines. The Redskins play the Rams too.

Who is the best contender to move to LA?

Jacksonville? This market has been garbage for the NFL.

Oakland? Odd they only renewed their lease for the 2015 season

joeboo_sl said:

Someone explain to me why in the world would any divisions need to be changed if the Rams move? The Rams are already in the NFC West, them moving to LA makes more geographical sense than it does now.

And if the Raiders move to St Louis? So what, they're in the AFC West. ST Louis was already in the NFC west, and if nothing else the Raiders are now closer to KC and Denver(divisional foes)

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The article was about the Chargers and Raiders. Rams only change divisions if both those teams move to LA.

Out of all the sports only the NBA really comes close to their divisions actually making sense. For all that the NFL doesn't give a shit about their fans, they hold to rivalries like it was the last wish of their dying grandmother. "Don't you break up Dallas and Washington or I'll pull your inheritance."

moontayle_sl said:

Out of all the sports only the NBA really comes close to their divisions actually making sense. For all that the NFL doesn't give a shit about their fans, they hold to rivalries like it was the last wish of their dying grandmother. "Don't you break up Dallas and Washington or I'll pull your inheritance."

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Mostly true. Baltimore was an AFC East City. Not a complaint, talking shit to Pittsburgh fans has proven much better than the alternative.

Kedwyn_sl said:

Who is the best contender to move to LA?

Jacksonville? This market has been garbage for the NFL.

Oakland? Odd they only renewed their lease for the 2015 season

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The owner of Jacksonville is eyeing...London.

St. Louis is vomiting money at the Rams to stay, so that jury is out.

An Oakland/San Diego move currently looks like the option. The Chargers owner just told the city that all of their corporate welfare giveaways was insufficient.

STL, besides being a shithole, is a baseball town through and through. I doubt anyone would actually notice if they left.

Fadaar_sl said:

Here's how I think they should go. AFC South was an easy fix, swap out the Colts for Dolphins. NFC North and South were good as they were, as was the AFC West. Cowboys to the NFC West makes sense as well. AFC North got a new look however. The current division is fine geographically, but it's also the most logical landing point for the odball out of place teams like Indianapolis and St. Louis.

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I no world will they break up the Redskins vs Cowboys rivalry

moontayle_sl said:

STL, besides being a shithole, is a baseball town through and through. I doubt anyone would actually notice if they left.

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I would venture a guess that STL cares more about the Blues than the Rams.

PROBABLY...

on the brady situation.. next hearing is going on ...now

tweets from florio says brady & his team offered to take a game suspension for noncooperation and a fine.

nfl said "wells report" -ie brady says the report was right and that he knew.

I'm so fucking over this Brady story

Tenks_sl said:

I'm so fucking over this Brady story

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Ya...at this point I want Goodell fired and Brady to fuckin retire.

me too(not the brady retire bit), but guess what will probably dominate sports talk today....the hearing.

the issue was so overblown it is sad now.

we are talking about MAYBE 1 pumps of a good bicycle pump(if it was used to inflate the balls)

if i was the patriots and vindictive...i'd do all sorts of crazy shit to the balls just prior to the testing for games.

on a gameday late in the year where the temp is going to be ~30 or less....

deflate the balls completely, go into a sauna and inflate the balls to 12.5psi, submit to testing

on gameday in say miami
deflate the balls completely, then go into a walk in freezer and inflate the balls to 12.5psi then submit to testing

on a gameday just inflate the balls prior to testing while they are outside at ambient temp

in case 1 the balls at halftime should be noticably underinflated(~1.5psi), case two the balls at halftime should be higher than at at initial testing
case 3 the balls should pretty much be at the same inflation as testing.

note in each case the balls would be legal at testing. they just fiddled with the air that is going inside the balls-

frankly if i was in charge of the footballs i'd just prep them as normal, deflate just prior to testing, walk outside inflate the balls using the ambient temp to whatever -legal- psi the qb wanted and not really have to worry about the ideal gas law, etc. since if the balls were inflated using ambient temp, then the pressure change in 4hrs should be minimal(less than half a psi change)- unless the footballs get either 1- wet- or 2- are defective in some manner.

How have we not discussed Dez getting cold cocked by a Rams player yesterday?

Edko_sl said:

I would venture a guess that STL cares more about the Blues than the Rams.

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My personal experience is that this is true, however, there are some diehard Rams fans. What can I say, they really really liked Kurt Warner.