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  1. I say: you're a terrible person because you're an "aussie".

     

    That's a bit strange, given the topic being discussed.

     

    Still, I'd say EA is happy for the moment at WR and RB. :TU:

     

    Thanks for the feedback though, I'm going to go and do something terrible to the cat now.

  2. I'd agree that probabilty dictates that Barber is due for an injury. I hope it never happens and his durabilty remains as good as it is.

     

    On the other hand I'd say that Jacobs IS going to get a shot at being the primary back if and when Barber hangs up his boots. I'd say that Barber just like Marshall Faulk will go into the 3rd down role later in his career and stay with the Giants his entire career.

     

    As soon as Jacobs takes the starting role we need to address this area. Either because Jacobs doesn't do the business or simply because you need a back up to the starter in this area. That will not happen for 1 or 2 years barring inury. I'd expect EA to get a RB in the draft, but not very high and concentrate on other areas for the moment.

  3. and what exactly is cash over the cap???

    sounds like a BS way of cheating...

     

    "cahs over the cap", endorsment deals? Gifts?? what the hell is that!!!!!

     

    Please explain...

     

    As I said Team have to be under the cap at the start of the league year. 1st of March usually. Once that date passed then they don't have to be under the cap. Hence cash over cap. Read up about the CBA negotiations and it is explained better than I can.

  4. Thanks for the reply gmenroc.

     

    I'd say we are certainly looking at DT and LB in the draft. CB and Safety seem to have been adderssed using FA.

     

    That gives us Madison, Webster, Delotch, Walker, McQuarters and maybe Peterson at CB.

     

    Wilson, Harris and Butler at Safety. Top 3 picks go on LB's and a DT plus later rounds for another Safety and a CB if needed.

  5. And as I found out reading about the CBA negotiations there is a substantial amount of "Cash over Cap" money used by teams with heaps of cash.

     

    As long as they are under the cap on the 1st of March each year then after that date they can go back over it to a certain degree.

     

    That was why the big money teams seem to be able to continue signing people. What happns though is they go on a Cut Bing just before the 1st of March. It is not very stable for the team but it works.

  6. I don't agree with that. You don't need the rest of the defense to remain the same in order to observe the absence of a player, especially when the player's absence and a defensive decline are statistical correlates. I mean, if you watched the games and knew what you were watching, then you don't need statsitics to illustrate that losing Joseph was a big blow.

     

    As I mentioned in a previous post, I checked the rankings of oppossing offenses, and their was not substantial difference

     

    Good to know the offences were rated about the same. I'll take your word on it.

     

    In my opinion loosing Joseph was a blow, I want to say that right now.

     

    However he was only one of many players to be lost from the starting line up in the various games. You have to admit that all those stats are affected by losing 3 LB's plus Grierson being injured and still playing? No?

     

    For me Joseph is about a 30% proportion of the over impact you mentioned, with Pierce being about another 40%, plus Tobor and Emmons another 30% between them.

     

    If you could name the starting line-ups along with those matches you mention then you get a better overall picture. Can you do that easily?

     

    Again, Joseph was playing well and was a important lose to the D.

     

    But number one was Pierce, number two was the collective lose of the whole LB core and number 3 was Joseph. If we had the starting D line-ups we would have a better idea. Maybe I am wrong.

     

    Also, props for doing the analysis in the first place, I wish I had some more time to talk about this and do what I asked myself.

  7. I hate to piss on the parade but the only way this analysis works Money is if the rest of the players on defence are exactly the same. And I don't think they were.

     

    The only way to give a true reflection of losing Joseph is to factor in all the other injuries that hit the defence. If you do that then he will become an even smaller proportion of the overall number decline.

     

    Equally you would have to check how the opposition offences were ranked.

  8. If I'm EA, I smoke a cigarette, tell a Bert Jones story, adjust my wig, and go sign La'Roi Glover or Trevor Pryce....

     

    I just fucking love that!!

     

    And that is exactly what I would do. I'd even wait longer. There will be even more DT on the market on Monday.

     

    Clancy needs to realise that this year is not a leverage year for players that perform well in a certain system. Which he is in my opinion. If he was not in a "rotation" team for DT then he would get hammered over the length of a season. He's quick...really quick, but he is not a "BIG" DT....if he asks for even 5 bucks too much then I'd ask him to join the FA pool of DT's. ...then have a straight scotch and what the blood in the streets for a few days.

  9. Ok guys so we are a day further along and FA has been delayed until Monday.

     

    This is getting very interesting.

     

    Echo,

     

    You really don't seem to like owners hey :P

     

    I personally think the NFL is much better than Baseball and the NBL. I stopped watching the NBL because of the whole labour striking and lack of cap.

     

    As for baseball, well you have no real competition due to the economics of the situation...and ECONOMICS should not be preventing competition...it is after all a SPORT not a goddamn Pty/Ltd internationally listed company.

     

    I'm not saying that these sports aren't a business, BUT I am saying these sports shoud govern themselves to the extent that economics don't determine the outcome before a ball is even on the field.

  10. It good to see EA say this on BBI.

     

    "We don't know the cap count," Accorsi said. "We're preparing for every possibility. I'm preparing for the worst case. We have a plan for every number in one-half a percentage point increments. We know what we'll do if it's $92 (million), we know if we know if it's $92.5 (million), all the way up. We've been prepared all along."

     

    That is very comforting.

  11. Good stuff guy!!

     

    So we are a day closer and talks have broken off again!!!

     

    I expect there now will be no CBA. That means this year (Friday morning at 12.01) there will be a low cap 94.5 mill and then 2007 will be NO CAP. It is a plar opposite thing we are facing.

     

    As everyone is saying...the players need to tell Upshaw to sign. They have the most to lose out of all of this. I don't see why they don't get it. No Cap, no insurance (can you imaging the insurance premiums on these guys...and they will have to do it themselves!!), 6 years before you are a free agent....I mean surely this has to sink in!!

     

    Keep in mind...Upshaw is not the bible on Player representaion. When there is no CBA then where does that leave him in the scheme of things...NO WHERE. He has no position as he curerntly knows it. There are no players to represent...and more importantly ANYONE else is free to represent groups of players. As he said himself the NFLPA will be decertified.

     

    Echo you are dead right. The quality of DT that will be available by tomrorow will be MUCH better than Clancy!! EA needs to take a chill pill and watch the blood flow.

     

    It is going to be a hell of a wake up tomorrow!!

  12. So the slashing begins.

     

    All these players I beleive would not havebeen let go if the CBA was already redone.

     

    Bronco's

     

    Anderson

    Pryce

    Putzier

     

    Bills:

     

    S Adams

    L Milloy

    M Campbell

     

    Panthers:

     

    Buckner

     

    There have been more cuts of course but these guys seem to have taken the bullet because of the lack of CBA renewal.

     

    I hope we are in a position to take advantage of the up coming carnage. We could drop Luke and get a better and cheaper Left Tackle.

     

    tick, tick, tick this bomb is going to blow us all away. I can't wait to see the carnage in Washington!!

  13. That's not how it worked.

    Before free agency, you had "Plan A" players and "Plan B" players. The plan A guys were protected; you couldn't get them no matter what. But each team could only protect something like 30 players.

     

    Plan B guys were essentially free agents, where other teams could make offers to them. But the team itself chose which guys were Plan A or Plan B.

     

    The teams had a lot more leverage as to player salaries because the players couldn't go anywhere. Once you were with a team, if you wanted to leave and they wanted you to stay, the best you could hope for was to hold out and force a trade.

     

    No salary cap WILL NOT make the game more like the 80's. It will make it more like baseball, where you pay 7 million bucks for your third string backup OG.

     

     

    AND THAT IS JUST WHAT I THOUGHT!!!

     

    And that is why without plan A and B systems in place this game is as good as fucked!! If the cat gets out of the bag!!

  14. Auss, not sure where we disagree.

     

    a cap is fine because is helps keep everyone competititive and keeps the onus on the team not the invididuals, like NE Pats. Which i thought made for better SBs than the crap we were getting used to seeing.

     

    But the cap should be adjusted EVERY year. Thsi way players and teams can immediatley benefit from the added revenue.

     

    But i am not so worried, footbal is run by a bunch of republicans, players and owners, so their will be a deal.

     

    I think you're right. We don't disagree.

     

    yes the total cap should be adjusted every year as you said. That would prevent this from happening again. The cap is adjusted every year but the "new money" which was not covered by the wording was not included. There needs to be more generic wording to include all of it.

     

    "But i am not so worried, footbal is run by a bunch of republicans, players and owners, so their will be a deal."

     

    And that my friend, I hope is absolutely true!! Go the Republicans!!! GO YOU GOOD THING!!!

  15. I have certainly read that the 80's was when teams had OL's together for years.

     

    The teams could groom players for 5 years even, and then they would step right in and play exceptionally well in the system designed by the team.

     

    Player movement was minimal. Teams had depth out the window. That would certainly be good in general. Still I am not sure how that would work now.

     

    I thought there had to be an ageement in place by tomorrow? Is that right? If it is the case then it is getting fucking close dude. :)

  16. Well I'm not so sure about that Nats.

     

    The cap did work. You had to be under by March 1st. For example the deferment that Snyder has been doing will kill that team this week. With or without the CBA extended Washington is going to be a shell of a team by this Friday it is just a question of to which degree.

     

    To me it is time for a correction. Since the last CBA teams have been generating more revenue and the NFL has been generating more revenue. That needs to be put on the table, counted up and re allocated to keep in the spirit of the sharing of revenue. Some teams don't seemed to want to give that up. I can see their point but their efforts over the last 10 years should help everyone. As long as team can show they are making prefessional attempts at maximizing their revenue's then the fact that some are better placed to make money should not disadvantage the rest of league as a whole.

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