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19 minutes ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

I don't think Hunt or Veach can keep Mahomes from playing basketball if Mahomes just ignored them. I think it was more a situation where Veach talked to Mahomes agent, said hey, this is probably a bad idea, his agent agreed and talked to Mahomes, and Mahomes begrudgingly decided to play it safe. I don't think anyone is or can ban him from doing it. He's just going along in good faith.

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Boatload of picks, draft smart.

Dallas new ownership had a double problem.  They had just fired one of the legends of football, Tom Landry. And they were bereft of talent.

They did have Herschel Walker.

Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson spotted a little detail in the collective bargaining agreement. 

They made a list.

The Vikings nibbled.

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1 hour ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

For how much they’re about to pay him, yes.

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3 hours ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

no. But considering the Chiefs are toast without MVP Pat it's probably smart to do anything in their power to convince him not to do it.

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8 hours ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

As long as the GM determines who gets paid and who doesn't, yes.

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8 hours ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

It's likely in their contracts (that Patrick is currently under) that the team CAN tell them to avoid activities.

Granted, as we saw with the Luck snowboarding injury, a team isn't likely to take much action and risk alienating their franchise pillar, even if they did get injured. But their are within their rights for a player under contact to tell him not to.

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18 hours ago, Chiefer said:

Mahomes played a pickup gane, full court basketball,at a rec league, and the GM shut him down citing injury concerns.

Should a GM be allowed to do this? A guy like Deion played a whole other professional sport in the offseason.

 

Mahomes is about to get paid 200 million dollars. I hope that answers your question.

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On 2/8/2019 at 11:52 PM, goldfishwars said:

LMAO this new Jets staff is a car pile up already 

 

Blake Williams sounds quite a character. Kyle Shanahan will forever be the exception to this rule, but there's something pathetic about dudes in their 30s whose employment is entirely dependent on their dads landing coordinator gigs. There's a whole bunch of them floating around the NFL. 

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/peyton-manning-play-small-role-helping-patriots-beat-rams-165047819.html

Interesting (short) read about the Superbowl this year with some very real 49ers connections with Hoyer 

Good to see the media finally getting behind the idea mcvay is part of Kyle's coaching tree.

The fact that Hoyer knew the Rams playbook, having never played for McVay, speaks volumes 

This is a prime example of why no team wants to be on hardknocks… you can learn so much from all that behind the scenes stuff.

 

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On 2/10/2019 at 5:09 AM, goldfishwars said:

Blake Williams sounds quite a character. Kyle Shanahan will forever be the exception to this rule, but there's something pathetic about dudes in their 30s whose employment is entirely dependent on their dads landing coordinator gigs. There's a whole bunch of them floating around the NFL. 

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You can just see he's a *****.

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In retrospect, the 2014 quarterback draft class was really interesting. It had a group of five notable guys at the top that all excelled at different things and had (or will have) varying levels of NFL success. You had:

  • Blake Bortles, UCF's well-rounded passer with NFL intangibles and pocket awareness
  • Johnny Manziel, the playground wonder with marginal decision-making qualities and even worse intangibles
  • Teddy Bridgewater, who NFL.com lauded as "rarely making mistakes" and being an NFL-ready decision-maker 
  • Derek Carr, Fresno State's big-armed, accurate, and athletic star
  • and Jimmy Garoppolo, the FCS product with "the fastest release since Dan Marino," according to his Eastern Illinois coach

I decided to go back and take a look at which quarterbacks hit the thresholds I've laid out for franchise quarterbacks: above-average decision-making, average accuracy, above-average leadership, average mobility, above-average pocket awareness, and above-average release quickness. Obviously it's not a perfect way to go about it, because hindsight is 20-20, but I used the NFL.com Scouting Reports to try to remove as much bias as possible. They each hit these many thresholds:

  • Bortles: 4 (Accuracy, Leadership, Mobility, and Pocket Awareness)
  • Manziel: 1 (Mobility)
  • Bridgewater: 4 (Decision-Making, Accuracy, Leadership, Release)
  • Carr: All 6 (Decision-Making, Accuracy, Leadership, Mobility, Pocket Awareness, and Release)
  • Garoppolo: 6

 

Of course the Browns chose Manziel.

 

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