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Broncos in serious talks with Wes Welker.

 

Cuz we need more Manning-Brady storylines!

And white WR's in Denver

 

And then New England gets Stokley.

 

 

 

(It'll probably be Amendola)

 

Called it.

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Cliff Avril to Seattle is huge for them. And again, the contract was surpringly weak. 2/15 is all he could get, with plenty of teams having tons of cap space? The players union screwed themselves again, the money being spent so far has been surprisingly low.
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Cliff Avril to Seattle is huge for them. And again, the contract was surpringly weak. 2/15 is all he could get, with plenty of teams having tons of cap space? The players union screwed themselves again, the money being spent so far has been surprisingly low.

 

PFF hates Avril. He topped their most overvalued Lions list.

 

Cliff Avril, Defensive End

 

Avril’s play this season should be a case study on the importance of sacks. Avril had 10 sacks. That’s more than Brian Robison, Michael Bennett, and Derrick Morgan. Avril’s Pass Rushing Productivity, on the other hand, was a mediocre 7.4, the 29th-best mark among 4-3 ends. If he was average in run defense he would have had some good value given his 708 snaps. He was well below average, however, with the fourth-worst run defense grade and the fourth-worst Run Stop Percentage among 4-3 ends. Avril still has value as a spot pass rusher, but he has had only one season with a positive run defense grade in his career (2009).

 

Cap Hit: $10.6m

Performance Based Value: $947k

Value Differential: -$9.7m

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Cliff Avril to Seattle is huge for them. And again, the contract was surpringly weak. 2/15 is all he could get, with plenty of teams having tons of cap space? The players union screwed themselves again, the money being spent so far has been surprisingly low.

 

PFF hates Avril. He topped their most overvalued Lions list.

 

Cliff Avril, Defensive End

 

Avril’s play this season should be a case study on the importance of sacks. Avril had 10 sacks. That’s more than Brian Robison, Michael Bennett, and Derrick Morgan. Avril’s Pass Rushing Productivity, on the other hand, was a mediocre 7.4, the 29th-best mark among 4-3 ends. If he was average in run defense he would have had some good value given his 708 snaps. He was well below average, however, with the fourth-worst run defense grade and the fourth-worst Run Stop Percentage among 4-3 ends. Avril still has value as a spot pass rusher, but he has had only one season with a positive run defense grade in his career (2009).

 

Cap Hit: $10.6m

Performance Based Value: $947k

Value Differential: -$9.7m

to be fair, he was actually a consistently good-to-great pass rusher until last season and they supported that notion

 

he turned down a 3/30 extension with us (before the season i think) and ended up settling for 2/15...oops

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he turned down a 3/30 extension with us (before the season i think) and ended up settling for 2/15...oops

 

Could be he was willing to take less to get out of Detroit.

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This is a really awful idea.

 

The NFL’s Competition Committee has proposed a rule that would penalize runners for lowering their heads to initiate contact with defenders.

 

All the other ideas, including the elimination of the tuck rule, look good, though.

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This is a really awful idea.

 

The NFL’s Competition Committee has proposed a rule that would penalize runners for lowering their heads to initiate contact with defenders.

I don't like that either. That's almost more of an instinct thing than actually trying to cause injury. Maybe 5-10% of the time a guy lowers his shoulder/head is he doing it to intentionally initiate contact. Most of the time, imo, it's instinct, if you have a guy running at you while you are running at him it's natural to get lower in anticipation of contact. It's not a natural instinct to try and stay running straight up, there is just as much risk of an injury in that case (if not more) imo. Plus you put refs in a situation where they have to interpret something and get into grey areas, definitely isn't a rule that's black or white.

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Looks like the Jake Long market never materialized the way he thought. He's back in negotiations with Miami.

 

I'd bet it has less to do with market than it does ability to adequately pass a physical.

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