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Gronkowski limped off the field during a practice with the Bears. He was definitely in pain. From the description, he just pulled up lame. There has been no description of contact prior to the incident. And a picture I saw showed him holding his leg just above his knee. Almost sounds like a possible ACL.
 
NFL will suspend Al Jazeera 4 if they don’t give interviews


Although the NFL’s investigation into allegations that four players used performance-enhancing drugs has cooled down, it may soon heat up again.

The four players — Packers linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, Steelers linebacker James Harrison and free agent defensive end Mike Neal — will be suspended if they don’t give interviews to league investigators by August 25, the NFL informed the NFL Players Association. The league told the union of its stance in a letter that was obtained by PFT and multiple other media outlets.

The letter indicates that the players would be suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the league, rather than simply suspended four games for a first violation of the league’s PED policy.

“The suspension for each such player will begin on Friday, August 26 and will continue until he has fully participated in an interview with league investigators, after which the Commissioner will determine whether and when the suspension should be lifted,” the letter states.

An Al Jazeera documentary named the four players as having received performance-enhancing drugs. That documentary also named Peyton Manning, but the NFL has already announced that Manning cooperated with the league’s investigation and that there was no credible evidence that he used or possessed PEDs.

The other four players and the NFLPA insist that they are not required to participate in any NFL investigation unless the league has “credible evidence” that they used PEDs. The league says that the purpose of the investigation is to determine whether there’s “credible evidence,” and that the players should participate. Unless the four players have a change of heart and agree to give interviews to NFL investigators, this appears to be shaping up as another battle between the league and the union.
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The Cowboys continue to be barraged with problems. It is revealed that their solid #2 TE behind Whitten, who was on the PUP list with a bone bruise, after multiple opinions will be undergoing knee surgery. If he is not placed on IR, he will be placed on reserve PUP, not making his availabllity before Oct 30.
 
Raven WR Breshad Perriman suffered a partially torn ACL in his left knee in OTAs. He is trying to come back without surgery. This is the same player who missed his rookie season with a partially torn PCL in his right knee that he tried to initially rehab before returning to practice and rupturing it.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Raven WR Breshad Perriman suffered a partially torn ACL in his left knee in OTAs. He is trying to come back without surgery. This is the same player who missed his rookie season with a partially torn PCL in his right knee that he tried to initially rehab before returning to practice and rupturing it.
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Has the Texans medical staff been hired as consultants to the Ravens?
 
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The Cowboys keep on racking up the injuries. Lost tackle Cameron Bradfield almost as soon as they signed him. He suffered a significant knee injury and has been placed on IR. Chris Brown suffered a broken foot and will be out for an undetermined amount of time, most likely a Jones fracture (ala, Dez Bryant)
 
With Kapernick hurting and Lewis broken, and Blaine Gabbert being Blaine Gabbert, the 49ers signed up Christian Ponder for a 1 year contract.
 
Bruce Arians was hospitalized for severe "stomach pains" just before a joint practice yesterday. No further information concerning the "illness" has been release. However, I remember Arians from way back in the early '80s while coaching in college was also hospitalized several times for what were initially believed to be stroke symtoms but were ultimately diagnosed as job stressed-related migraines and ulcers. And then a similar emergency hospitalization for ulcers occurred during a Colts-Ravens playoff game in 2012 after he subbed Pagano (cancer absence). I wish him a quick and healthy recovery. Arians has always been the type of coach that wants to do it all.. But he may have to consider some destressing life style changes, including designating more coaching responsibilities to others .............because stress does kill.
 
John Elway: We have a good enough team around QBs

The Broncos haven’t named a starting quarterback for the second preseason game, so the date of their announcement of a starting quarterback for the first week of the regular season remains unknown.

Coach Gary Kubiak said Tuesday that the competition between Mark Sanchez and Trevor Siemian has “been very close” to this point in the summer and General Manager John Elway says the team is planning to wait through the third week of the preseason to “see if somebody jumps out at you.” While Elway hopes that happens to make for an easy decision, it doesn’t sound like the ultimate choice will have much effect on the team’s approach to the 2016 season.

“The good thing is we’ve got a good enough team around them,” Elway said, via USA Today. “We’ll be able to run the ball, and we won’t throw them out there and say, ‘You guys have to go win this.’ Do your job, make good decisions and keep the team in position to win. And that’s really all we’re asking of that position right now.”

Elway doesn’t mention the defense, but that’s the other significant part of the plan in Denver for the coming season. While they drafted Paxton Lynch in the first round in hopes that he’ll ultimately be a quarterback who can win games for them, the short-term plan looks more like the defense-heavy one that carried them to the Super Bowl last season and the right quarterback will be the one that does the least to damage that effort.
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Can't help but have flash backs to the Texans' previous QB tumultuous situation.
 
Interesting story about a Browns player who was suspended for not showing up for a game. He had a previously acknowledged injury which he said he reinjured. The Browns didn't take his explanation and suspended him.

Cleveland Browns: The odd K’Waun Williams suspension
by Joel W. Cade 5 hours ago



Then this just comes out:

Ian Rapoport Verified account ‏@RapSheet


After his second opinion on his ankle, #Browns CB K'Waun Williams was informed by the doc he needs surgery to remove bone spurs, source said
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But we all know that bone spurs don't create any problems, don't we?:thinking:
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Interesting story about a Browns player who was suspended for not showing up for a game. He had a previously acknowledged injury which he said he reinjured. The Browns didn't take his explanation and suspended him.

Cleveland Browns: The odd K’Waun Williams suspension
by Joel W. Cade 5 hours ago



Then this just comes out:




But we all know that bone spurs don't create any problems, don't we?:thinking:
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You mean there's a worse medical staff in the league than ours??
Well, maybe nobody bats 1.000
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Can't help but have flash backs to the Texans' previous QB tumultuous situation.
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I keep having flash forwards to our present QB situation and I try to tamp down whispers I hear from Football Seasons Past. Then I think Newton will re-injure soon, Watt and CLowney go IR and Brown ...

Then I sit, cross my legs and hum..
 
badboy said:
I keep having flash forwards to our present QB situation and I try to tamp down whispers I hear from Football Seasons Past. Then I think Newton will re-injure soon, Watt and CLowney go IR and Brown ...

Then I sit, cross my legs and hum..
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Maybe you're reading and absorbing too many of my injury posts..............and have developed a newly well-documented compensatory brain injury............

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Very interesting read about current era QBs, specifically Carr and Bortles (to an extent)

Derek Carr: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2016/derek-carr-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics

In the case of Carr, Oakland is clearly not winning yet, hence the 10-22 (.313) record since 2014. As for his stats, we have to continuously adjust what "good" means as the game changes. As Chase Stuart recently pointed out, the league's 2016 average touchdown-to-interception ratio is likely to eclipse Joe Montana's career average of 1.96, which was the highest in NFL history when he retired after the 1994 season. Now Montana's number would be below average! This is why we do opponent and era adjustments. Given how many future Hall of Fame quarterbacks and other accomplished players there are in the NFL right now, Carr's numbers must be compared to a higher modern standard.

Back in the day, a second-year Pro Bowl quarterback with 32 touchdown passes would have been on his way to superstar status. The first three quarterbacks to do that were Dan Marino (1984), Kurt Warner (1999), and Daunte Culpepper (2000). Marino and Warner were both league MVPs who got to the Super Bowl, while Culpepper was in the NFC Championship Game with Minnesota. The only other second-year player to even throw at least 28 touchdowns was Jeff Garcia (2000), who like Warner, got a late start to his NFL career and took advantage of a soft NFC West schedule.

Last season, Blake Bortles (35) and Carr (32) joined that list, but they had nowhere near the overall success of Marino, Warner, and Culpepper. Carr's Pro Bowl berth was one of the highlights of his resume held aloft by his supporters. Fine, but just remember he was one of 11 quarterbacks to get a Pro Bowl selection. That includes injury and Super Bowl replacements, and not the snubbed Kirk Cousins, who had a better year than most of the replacements.

The Pro Bowl does not have the same meaning it used to, but neither do the touchdown passes these days. Here's another list that Bortles and Carr headline: when you look at the lowest seasons in ESPN's QBR for quarterbacks with at least 30 touchdown passes since 2006, Bortles (46.4) and Carr (49.2) are the only two players under 50.0, which is the benchmark for average. The next lowest seasons belong to 2010 Eli Manning (56.4) and 2013 Andy Dalton (56.8).

While 32 to 35 touchdown passes used to indicate strong play at the position, Bortles and Carr showed otherwise last year, and it is reflected in their teams' losing records. Among the 74 seasons in NFL history where a quarterback had at least 32 touchdown passes, 66 of them (89.2 percent) resulted in at least a .500 record. From 1920 to 2014, there were three seasons in NFL history where a quarterback threw at least 32 touchdowns and had a losing record as a starter. Vinny Testaverde did it for the 1996 Ravens, FO's favorite 4-12 team given how out of whack they were with the defensive approach that was to come in Baltimore. Drew Brees did it twice in defenseless New Orleans (2012 and 2014).

Last season, a whopping five quarterbacks did this, including Carr (7-9), Bortles (5-11), Eli Manning (6-10), Matthew Stafford (7-9) and Brees (7-8) again. In most of these cases, a lack of rushing touchdowns helped inflate the passing total. Jacksonville only scored five rushing touchdowns, and Bortles even had two of those. Since 2014, Oakland's 11 rushing touchdowns are the second-fewest in the league, and Jacksonville's 14 are the third-fewest. (San Diego has a league-low 10 rushing scores.)

While Carr's red zone passing has actually been exceptional through two years, his offense does not score many points overall and he gets a high share of the few touchdowns they do produce. This is great for fantasy football, but in real football, you want an offense that can score a lot regardless of how the ball is actually getting into the end zone. Oakland went from 31st (1.24) in points per drive in 2014 to 20th (1.89) last year -- an improvement, but still below average.

A lack of context is why Carr's money stat -- ranking second in touchdown passes (53) through two seasons in NFL history behind only Dan Marino (68) -- bugs me. The stat is true, but how meaningful is it when Carr is only the eighth quarterback to start 32 games in his first two years, and he has the second-most pass attempts (1,172)? Carr threw one more touchdown in his first two years than Peyton Manning on 64 more attempts, and one more touchdown than Russell Wilson on 372 more attempts. Carr's touchdown percentage (4.5 percent) is identical to what Andy Dalton had through two seasons.

If it was not clear enough already, the 2014 and 2015 seasons featured the most touchdown passes in NFL history and the two highest touchdown passing rates since the 1970 merger. I'll give credit to Carr for earning a Week 1 rookie starting job and having the durability to go 32 consecutive starts, but 14 NFL teams have thrown 53 touchdown passes since 2014, with four more sitting on 51. When Manning threw 52 touchdowns in 1998-99, only six teams had more. If you throw a touchdown pass on 4.5 percent of your passes in 2014-15 like Carr, that doesn't make you good. That just means you're average.

So when people say Carr's stats are good, it really is a simplified fantasy football outlook of focusing on volume. He starts every game, he throws the ball a lot, and he does get a high percentage of his team's touchdowns. But the lack of more efficient play overall is not helping Oakland win more games, and Carr's second-half slump in 2015 would have disappointed even fantasy owners. After starting the season with four 300-yard passing games and four games with three-plus touchdown passes though Week 9, Carr hit that yardage only twice and that touchdown benchmark just once in his final eight games. While year-to-year defensive correlation makes predicting schedule strength trickly, Carr may even stumble again in 2016's second half given that the Raiders will play Denver twice, Kansas City, Carolina, and Houston after Week 8.

When you get past the touchdown total that had decreased real football value last year, it is hard to see where this idea that Carr has arrived as a franchise quarterback comes from. He is not as rough around the edges as Bortles, but they are similarly inconsistent players through two seasons.
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That defensive secondary with Polamalu and Reed would have been a thing of beauty. (More details about the picks in the link)


PFF All-Decade Team: The Best of 2006–2015
https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-pff-all-decade-team/

Offense
Quarterback: Aaron Rodgers (Packers)
Second team: Drew Brees (Saints)

Running back: Marshawn Lynch (Seahawks)
Second team: Adrian Peterson (Vikings)

Fullback: Ovie Mughelli (Ravens and Falcons)
Second team: Greg Jones II (Jaguars)

Wide receivers: Calvin Johnson (Lions) and Larry Fitzgerald (Cardinals)
Second team: Andre Johnson (Texans) and Antonio Brown (Steelers)

Tight end: Rob Gronkowski (Patriots)
Second team: Jason Witten (Cowboys)

Left tackle: Joe Thomas (Browns)
Second Team: Andrew Whitworth (Bengals)

Left guard: Logan Mankins (Patriots)
Second team: Evan Mathis (Bengals, Eagles, and Broncos)

Center: Nick Mangold (Jets)
Second team: Jeff Saturday (Colts)

Right guard: Marshal Yanda (Ravens)
Second team: Josh Sitton (Packers)

Right tackle: Damien Woody (Jets)
Second team: David Stewart (Titans)


Defense
Edge rushers: Von Miller (Broncos) and James Harrison (Steelers)
Second team: DeMarcus Ware (Cowboys/Broncos) and Cameron Wake (Dolphins)

Defensive interior: J.J. Watt (Texans) and Justin Smith (49ers)
Second team: Kevin Williams (Vikings) and Geno Atkins (Bengals)

Nose tackle: Vince Wilfork (Patriots)
Second team: Pat Williams (Vikings)

Linebackers: Patrick Willis (49ers), Luke Kuechly (Panthers)
Second team: Derrick Johnson (Chiefs) and Darryl Smith (Jaguars)

Cornerbacks: Darrelle Revis (Jets/Buccaneers/Patriots), Richard Sherman (Seahawks)
Second team: Champ Bailey (Broncos) and Charles Tillman (Bears)

Slot cornerback: Antoine Winfield (Vikings)
Second team: Chris Harris, Jr. (Broncos)

Safeties: SS Troy Polamalu (Steelers), FS Ed Reed (Ravens)
Second team: Eric Weddle (Chargers) and Devin McCourty (Patriots)







 
For those that lamented Doctson not being the Texans pick, he's still not on the field after his spring Achilles injury. Last week, he was predicted to be back by next week. But now from what I'm hearing from Gruden in his interviews, I would bet that Docston has a good chance of not making it off of PUP reserve to the active roster before the season opener. That would mean at best he would be placed on PUP active, not to be seen before October..........a terrible fate for a rookie WR.

From my post of June 1:

CloakNNNdagger said:
Doctson, after being held out last week with an Achilles "tweak" that he had suffered ~ 2 weeks ago in mini-camp..........now is still on the sideline. Once an Achilles strain occurs, only extended rest (not just a couple of weeks) will allow it to properly heal. I wouldn't be surprised for this to be a nagging problem this season for the young man, as once this happens, it can easily become a recurrent, chronic and progressive problem. If not taken seriously, an overt rupture can occur sometime down the line. I would not want to be hearing anything about any of our young Texans WRs starting out their careers with even a "tweak" of their Achilles. Going with Fuller could end up being a very fortunate choice for the Texans before it's all over.
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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/d...fl-bending-its-own-rules-again-221628229.html
Dolphins' naming-rights deal has NFL bending its own rules, again
Shutdown Corner
Shalise Manza Young 17 hours ago
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The newly-renamed Hard Rock Stadium (Hard Rock Stadium/Twitter)
The NFL is at it again.

Last year, it pressured Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo to pull out of a fantasy football convention he was part of, which ultimately led to the event being canceled. The NFL was unhappy because the event was being held at a convention center in Las Vegas, and the convention center is connected to a casino.


At the time, a league spokesman told Fox Sports, “Players and NFL personnel may not participate in promotional activities or other appearances at or in connection with events that are held or sponsored by casinos.”

If that’s the case, why then is the stadium the Miami Dolphins play in now called Hard Rock Stadium?

Oh, wait … might it be because Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is making $250 million off the deal? Money that he doesn’t have to share with the other league owners? Money that will help him recoup the estimated $400 million he is spending to update the facility (money that had to be spent if they ever wanted to see another Super Bowl in South Florida, by the way)?

It’s cynical, but it’s probably for all of those reasons.
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PapaL said:
Very interesting read about current era QBs, specifically Carr and Bortles (to an extent)

Derek Carr: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2016/derek-carr-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics

While 32 to 35 touchdown passes used to indicate strong play at the position, Bortles and Carr showed otherwise last year, and it is reflected in their teams' losing records.
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I've got nothing against Carr or Bortles. I generally root for everyone to succeed, regardless what team they play for. I'm a Houston Texans fan, but I'm also a big NFL fan. So I want them to succeed. I don't believe Bortles being successful in Jacksonville prevents Houston from being successful. It may make it harder, but that works out even better for our team, imo.

But yeah... until they put up those numbers in a winning season, color me unimpressed.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
For those that lamented Doctson not being the Texans pick, he's still not on the field after his spring Achilles injury. Last week, he was predicted to be back by next week. But now from what I'm hearing from Gruden in his interviews, I would bet that Docston has a good chance of not making it off of PUP reserve to the active roster before the season opener. That would mean at best he would be placed on PUP active, not to be seen before October..........a terrible fate for a rookie WR.
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It may be the same outcome for those who wanted to see the Texans sign Ladarius Green:
Green is currently on the PUP list with what the team is calling an ankle injury (he had surgery in January), but Pro Football Talk reported last week that Green is dealing with recurring headaches related to his concussion history, which could force him into retirement.
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Hopefully the retirement talk is premature or out and out wrong.
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/15/1...n-injury-fantasy-football-steelers-tight-ends
 
The Bills also released Karlos Williams. Terrell Davis (on NFLN) said Karlos weighed in at 260 lbs.
 
This is a head scratcher for trying to make the case for consistent NFL discipline.

Josh Brown situation still has plenty of unanswered questions


Faced with increasing questions and scrutiny over the one-game suspension imposed on Giants kicker Josh Brown for a domestic-violence arrest that led to claims from his ex-wife of 20 prior violent encounters, the NFL issued a Friday afternoon statement aimed at dousing a quickly-spreading conflagration.

The answers provided lead only to more questions.

For starters, the statement made no effort to explain how or why the NFL opted to deviate from its baseline punishment of a six-game suspension for first-offense domestic violence. Presumably, the mild extent of the injuries and the lack of criminal charges mitigated the discipline, which became final after a hearing held during the week of August 1, before Harold Henderson. But the claims made by Brown’s ex-wife should have been regarded as aggravating factors, which arguably minimum should have balanced out the mitigating factors, leaving the punishment at the standard suspension of six games.

Whatever the reasoning for opting for one game instead of six, the NFL hasn’t articulated it, bolstering the lingering perception of a seat-of-the-pants, case-by-case, do-what-we-want approach to violations of the Personal Conduct Policy.

The deeper problem comes from the response to the refusal of Brown’s ex-wife to be interviewed and the decision of law enforcement to not cooperate. Whatever the reasons for their positions, reaching an apparent dead end, shrugging, turning around, and applying minimal discipline is the same mindset that nearly brought down a Commissioner in September 2014. Two years ago this month, only a few weeks before the Ray Rice elevator video emerged, a claim from Jay Glazer that the league had never seen the video sparked a heated debate between yours truly and a high-level league-office employee regarding the league’s belief that there was no way to get the video and my explanation of how the video could have been obtained. (Put simply: “Ray, your lawyer has the video and your lawyer works for you. Until you get the video from him and give it to us, you can’t work for us.”)

As to Brown, who apparently cooperated with the league (then again, if his cooperation consisted of repeatedly professing his innocence, so what?), there were other ways to get to the truth, up to and including telling Brown that he will not be permitted to suit up and play until he and/or his lawyers persuade his ex-wife and the authorities to cooperate?

Is that harsh? Well, it’s no harsher than forcing players to give interviews in response to already-discredited PED allegations under a threat of indefinite unpaid suspension. Besides, the outcome of Brown’s case provides a blueprint for players accused of domestic violence in the future; if you can get the victim and the cops to not cooperate, you’ll get less of a suspension than you otherwise deserve.

Apart from the substantive concerns, the Brown case continues to have a troubling lack of transparency. The Giants and the NFL concealed the situation, even though the arrest was a matter of public record, for more than a year. And the Giants re-signed Brown, even though they knew about the arrest.

That’s the most amazing aspect of this story. The Giants knew Brown had been arrested for domestic violence, but instead of finding another kicker elsewhere, the signed the free agent to a new contract.

“Domestic violence is something that we’re all cracking down on in this league,” Giants coach Ben McAdoo said in January, after getting the job. “That’s something that’s important to us as an organization, important to me as a man, and important to me as a coach.”

The Giants had a chance to walk that walk in March, and they didn’t. Now, with one of the most proud (some would say arrogant) organizations in all of sports under fire, don’t hold your breath for a personnel decision that could be perceived as bowing to the will of the unwashed masses.

Broadening the lens back to the league at large, the Brown case represents another example of the very real connection between P.R. and NFL justice. The less anyone knows or cares about a given player’s legal issues, the less likely the NFL will be to make a big deal about it. In this case, with the situation arising from the misconduct of a kicker whose arrest remained completely unknown until the suspension was announced, the lack of prior attention and scrutiny coupled with the league’s acceptance of non-cooperation by the victim and the police resulted in an outcome that seems to conflict with the NFL’s supposedly heightened interest in eradicating domestic violence.
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CloakNNNdagger said:
I don't believe I ever said that. He was pulled out of OTAs due to his Achilles. The "lamenting" I was referring to exhibited by some was in the period after the Draft
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The period after the draft and before his achilles had become a concern ... that period? Cause it sounds like saying 'ya see, we shouldn't have drafted that guy that's injured now who was not injured then'. But maybe that's not what you're saying and I'm mistaken. I've been so plenty before.
 
Mollywhopper said:
The period after the draft and before his achilles had become a concern ... that period? Cause it sounds like saying 'ya see, we shouldn't have drafted that guy that's injured now who was not injured then'. But maybe that's not what you're saying and I'm mistaken. I've been so plenty before.
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I think you just need to go back and read my post carefully and put it in context. It simply means that for those who wanted Doctson instead of who we picked, looking at it now, it would not have worked out so well. No "ya see" to it, just a statement of present status.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I think you just need to go back and read my post carefully and put it in context. It simply means that for those who wanted Doctson instead of who we picked, looking at it now, it would not have worked out so well. No "ya see" to it, just a statement of present status.
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But why bring up those who lamented when their informed decision shouldn't affected in hindsight by dumb luck after the fact?
 
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But why bring up those who lamented when their informed decision shouldn't affected in hindsight by dumb luck after the fact?
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If you believe it was really dumb luck. Maybe the docs at the combine found something wrong with Doctson.

Or maybe the Texans medical staff found something wrong with him. (Not likely)
 
steelbtexan said:
If you believe it was really dumb luck. Maybe the docs at the combine found something wrong with Doctson.

Or maybe the Texans medical staff found something wrong with him. (Not likely)
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If we become aware of the Texans passing because they had some good intel, then great, and I'll be the first to sing their praises. Until then it's all undisclosed, and conjecture at that, and rather irrelevant to anyone who lamented the selection post-draft.
 
PapaL said:
Honestly what do they have to lose by starting the rookie? Sanchez sucks. Seimian is probably a bigger project than Lynch. We all know Kubes limits the QBs options so why not?
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Think if they still had Oz there would be any question?

Lol
 
The University of Texas at Austin made more money than 25 NFL teams. Wow! The Steelers at $54M really surprised me because of their huge fan base.

NCAA Football Teams Made More Money Than Many NFL Teams in 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
https://www.ucribs.com/blog-post/nc...oney-than-many-nfl-teams-in-2015-infographic/

Raking in the most money of any NCAA team, the Texas Longhorns football team earned a staggering $121 million in revenue and $91 million in profit for the 2014-15 season.

Not only did that put them nearly $25 million ahead of the second-best NCAA team (University of Alabama, by earnings), but it also put them ahead of nearly every NFL team when comparing the profits earned by Texas versus the operating income of the professional teams. (Note: These are not perfect comparisons, but were the closest figures we could find publicly available for all teams.) Only 7 professional teams had a higher operating income than UT’s football profits.

Given UT’s 99-man football team roster, they made almost $1,000,000 in profit for every player on the team. ($924,925.58 per player, to be exact.)
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