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IAteYourMother said:
Hey if you think that they only barely overpaid, then I'm sure it's a good signing to you. #2 is the same as #3. But regarding #3/4, you don't pay a guy that much money for depth/knowledge about opposing teams. You pay that much for a quality starter, and it remains to be seen if he can be that guy.
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Not that my opinion means shit, but yes - I think he's a quality starter at this point in his career. May not be an every down player, but definitely worth more than the likes of Aaron Maybin and such.

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Head coach Chan Gailey
(on what he sees from Anderson)
"He’s got some speed and quickness off the edge which is hard to find. He has savvy about his play. You could see him continue to get better this past year and he was tough to block for us, so that was one of the things that we saw. And I think sometimes guys get labeled as certain kinds of guys and you try to take labels off of guys. He’s not just a pass rusher. He’s a guy that can play all three downs, so that was another thing that I think really interested us that he wasn’t a specialty player. He’s got the capabilities of being an every-down player which is something that we like."
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Saints deserved the punishment. Aside from the ethical questions over paying players to intentionally send opposing players to the hospital, it undermines the legitimacy of the game.

A bounty system is just as bad as throwing games. Instead of your motivation being purely to score points and win the game, you are introducing a motivation to injure others and collect money, regardless of score. Anyone participating in such a scheme should be Pete Rose'd.
 
SunnyD said:
Not that my opinion means shit, but yes - I think he's a quality starter at this point in his career. May not be an every down player, but definitely worth more than the likes of Aaron Maybin and such.

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Sure, it's possible, but I'm going to remain skeptical until he actually does it, seeing as he has a total of 6 starts in the last 6 years. I don't think it's unreasonable that he can be a starter, and Chan Gailey knows infinitely more than I do. Just seems like he could be more Tully Banta Cain than you'd want for that money.


EDIT: Is he stout against the run?
 
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I guess you can't dismiss the possibilty that the Bears might trade Forte for a need now, but I'm assuming this was mostly holdout protection.
 
Via said:
He hasn't signed the tag.
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Cause he's pissed and asked them not to - they did it anyways. He's worth more than the $7mm the tag will give him this year - Bears choice to burn the bridge or whatever. Bush is not Forte ...
 
To be fair though - the franchise tag was collectively bargained. You can't fault the Bear for using it. If they use it twice on him he gets, what, around 20 mil for two years? That's not bad.

I could see them allowing him to try and make a deal with someone else and then working out a trade. Ideally you want Forte and Bush in the same backfield 100% commited, but if Forte's going to turn into Desean Jackson he could torpedo the season.
 
Via said:
To be fair though - the franchise tag was collectively bargained. You can't fault the Bear for using it. If they use it twice on him he gets, what, around 20 mil for two years? That's not bad.

I could see them allowing him to try and make a deal with someone else and then working out a trade. Ideally you want Forte and Bush in the same backfield 100% commited, but if Forte's going to turn into Desean Jackson he could torpedo the season.
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Franchise tag is abused though, as it is almost a completely one-sided bargain. Don't get me wrong, it was in the CBA but Forte was completely willing to deal w/ them.
 
I think they did offer him a 3 year deal worth around 25 mil+, 14-15 mil guaranteed before last season. I'd have to search for it to be sure.
 
49ers resigned Ginn and picked up Josh Johnson (QB from TB) today, as well as officially inking Manningham.

Not a bad day.

Our only needs going into the draft is OG and some depth.

MotionMan
 
hclarkjr said:
http://www.redskins.com/news-and-ev...ookie-QB/7e1cdfd8-bbdc-46d4-acc3-9da2c7c9a3d5
http://www.postsmile.com/
please mike shanahan, NO!!!!!
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RG3 is gonna learn how to unleash the dragon.

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new overtime rules for next season - http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...format-adjusted-at-NFL-owners-meetings-032812


The NFL's traditional “sudden death” overtime format died a sudden death Wednesday at the league’s annual owners meeting in Palm Beach, Fla.
NFL owners voted to adopt the same overtime rules for the regular season that are used for the postseason.
The team that loses the overtime coin toss is now guaranteed a possession provided the club that won the toss doesn’t score a touchdown on its opening drive.
The NFL instituted the postseason overtime rule during the 2010 offseason following the 2009 NFC Championship Game between the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints. The Saints won the overtime coin toss and drove for the game-winning field goal on their first possession.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and members of the NFL’s competition committee believed too many teams were enjoying an unfair competitive advantage by winning the overtime coin toss and proceeding to score without the coin-toss loser receiving at least one possession.


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The playoff overtime rule came into play for the first time in last season’s first-round game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos. Because the Broncos scored a touchdown on their opening possession, Pittsburgh’s offense never got to take the field in OT.
The NFL also voted to make review of turnovers by the instant replay booth automatic rather than requiring head coaches to use one of their two challenges. Reviewable plays include interceptions, fumbles, backward passes recovered by an opponent or those that travel out of bounds through an opponent’s end zone, and muffed scrimmage kicks recovered by the kicking team.
A rule proposal advocating that all challenged calls get reviewed by the replay booth rather than the on-field referee didn’t pass. Horse-collar tackles on quarterbacks in the pocket are also still permitted. NFL competition committee chairman Rich McKay pointed to the fact such plays are rare and might not be preventable considering the unpredictable nature of tackling that happens during a pass rush.
“We just didn’t think this had an impact on player safety,” McKay said Wednesday morning after the vote was announced.

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Other proposed rules changes that passed after receiving votes from at least 24 of 32 NFL owners:
• The banning of “crack-back” blocks on defensive players aligned more than two yards laterally outside an offensive tackle at the snap. This was aimed at improving player safety.
• Being caught with more than 11 players on the field before the snap becoming a dead-ball foul rather than a five-yard penalty that would be enforced after the play was run and time taken off the clock. This is to fill a rules loophole that was exposed during Super Bowl XLVI, when the New York Giants fielded 12 defensive players during a last-minute New England Patriots drive. There was a concern that coaches would begin illegally fielding extra defensive players to preserve a lead if there were no ramifications on the game clock.
• Illegally kicking a loose football becoming a loss-of-down penalty.
Proposed rules changes tabled for further discussion until the NFL’s spring meeting in May in Buckhead, Ga.:


• The addition of a game-by-game roster exemption for one player who has suffered a concussion and is not cleared to play. This would allow greater flexibility for clubs to sign short-term replacements without adversely affecting the roster. It also may lessen pressure on concussed players to return to the field prematurely.
• The ability to bring one designated player off injured reserve during the season after a minimum eight-week recovery period. All players currently placed on injured reserve are prevented from returning for that team during the season.
• The rescheduling of the NFL trade deadline from six to eight weeks into the regular season. The extension was designed to give teams greater flexibility to swing deals, especially those in playoff contention seeking to replace injured players or upgrade their rosters. Clubs that are out of the playoff race also might be more likely to begin early housecleaning before the offseason begins.
• The expansion of training-camp rosters from 80 to 90 players. Although the regular-season roster will remain at 53 players, one of the rule’s intents is to allow teams to better scout reserve talent that could serve as in-season injury replacements. Starters and key backups also would potentially receive less preseason wear-and-tear if more substitutes were available during practice.
 
Some interesting changes. I did not expect the playoff OT rules to become the standard, at least not so quickly. And statistically, the new OT rules do less to balance the game than the new kickoff location 5 yards closer to the opponent's end zone - starting OT with a touchback puts the receiving team at much less of an advantage than if they are given a chance to return the kickoff.

I'm not opposed to an expansion of reviews, since the officials have a really tough job and I am willing to sit through a couple extra minutes per game to know that the game was called correctly.

Good move on changing the 12-men penalty. I doubt the Giants exploited that rule purposely in the Super Bowl, but you just know that other teams WOULD start to exploit it after it got the attention that it did.

Extending the trade deadline should make things more interesting as well.

Overall I'm happy with the rule changes.
 
Imported said:
Don't know if I'm a big fan of the signing. If the contract details work out so he can be cut with nothing owed (like with Moss), great. I'm still hoping they draft a RB in the 2nd or 3rd that'll be Gore's replacement in a couple years.
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He is basically going to take over what Dixon was suppose to be for us last year: Short yardage bulldozer.

If I played fantasy football, after this signing, I would not draft Gore or Akers.

MotionMan
 
I'm surprised Goodell is not pushing for a College Football type of OT since he is so afraid of players getting hurt during kickoff returns.
 
The only change those idiots should have made to the overtime rules was to scrape that stupid shit they started for the playoffs only. Bunch of stupid fucking pansie assed bastards.
 
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