I think some concepts in the CBA have already been agreed upon. I'm guessing that if one deal gets done before the other that the CBA will get done first. It's going to be a very interesting two weeks. |
I think the old days of the traditional hires in the NFL are coming to a close, |
I thought he was a good athlete who played quarterback. |
I will say one thing: it probably took us more time to discuss it (at preliminary competition committee meetings) and all the different aspects of it this year than any year I can remember in the past. But it is one that has drawn a lot of media attention, and I think the league and the teams have talked a lot about it. We certainly talked a lot about it, and then when we get to Orlando, we'll obviously tell you what our position was. But for now, I'll just say that it is one that's definitely sparked interest. |
I would say it's a disc. But if you get beyond that, I'm lost. |
I'm not going to say the offensive coaches voted it down. We'll be back at it. . . . I'm sure it will be back. |
I'm sure there are teams that have room and therefore will be active but I think there will be less activity. There are a lot of teams that won't have room. We'd love to front-load, back-load, do-whatever load but we can't begin to load. We don't have any place to put it. |
I'm sure there will be some light shed on that. And I think they're going to do that maybe Monday afternoon. So we'll see after that. |
If you have no opportunity to avoid, there's no penalty. But there are plays where we believe players are coming off a block, have an opportunity to avoid the low hit and do not, and we would like to see those called (a penalty). |
In Brady's case . . . the problem was it was bothering him even though it was assumed he was going to play. And then game day, it didn't feel any better. It felt worse. |
In looking at it today and talking to the doctors, the safe way to go is to shut Mike down, |
It addresses the bye issue, but then again it puts the No. 8 seed playing the No. 1 seed in Week 1 of the playoffs. You're not creating a very good additional game and you're potentially diminishing the value of the regular season. And that's the No. 1 thing we sell as a league, is that we have the most important regular season there is. |
It basically would end the communication. |
It got talked about a little bit and I think we'll spend more time on it (next month) in Naples. We didn't spend a lot of time on it here. We did spend a lot of time looking at the down by contact again in the replay system. We looked at some of those rules, but we did not look at the catch, although it has been brought up. |
It helps the defense in a sense - I don't want to accuse the offense of stealing signals, let's just assume they're borrowing the signals. We think it would be good to give the defense that ability. |