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[pbmax]

Is it just stupidity or mercilessness? Gase really needs to get some sleep. I wouldn't hire him to wash my car.

Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
The #Jets gave Sam Darnold all the reps with the starters last week, leaving Luke Falk in a tough spot once again, this time against the #Eagles.

[pbmax]

I say this with all sincerity: please Mike McCarthy, don't go coach in Washington. No one deserves that.

Jay Gruden is out as Washington's head coach. I am sure this will fix things. Rumor was that Danny is very fond of Dwayne Haskins and did not want Colt McCoy (and possibly not Case Keenum) starting. You see, Haskins went to Danny's high school alma mater.

Bill Callahan is the interim coach. When he gets fired next year (if he is lucky) he should get hired by a team as he is a great O line coach.

[pbmax]

On of the Bleacher Report's better guys has a list of players that should be traded from each team. This guy caught my eye

Cleveland Browns: LB Genard Avery

Anyone know about him? Not saying he is available, but curious.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2857150-one-player-who-should-be-traded-from-every-nfl-team#slide8

Its a year early perhaps, but the article also points out the poor fit for Josh Jackson in this defense. He's been Hyded in reverse. Hyde needed to be a safety, Jackson needs to be a zone corner.

[pbmax]

There is a technical term for slop, the amount of gaps there are in a sequence of machinery that can cause problems for its function. But that term escapes me at the moment.

However, I think I have found that slop elucidated by one of the NFL's former league officials. Mike Pereira, from the Thursday night game, suggested what the officials are looking for in pass interference reviews:

After Allen finished, Pereira continued. “And, really, what they’re doing, Joe, is they’re looking back to the championship game in New Orleans, and they’re looking for it to be for that level—it has to rise to a level in replay to have them actually make the call from New York.”

Which would be fine except "blindingly obvious" is hard to define at its bottom range, somewhere among "I think that was incorrect". Not every replay is going to be last year's non-interference in the NFC Championship game. But the real problem is that there is one version of this rule in practice and a completely DIFFERENT rule in the rule book:

A decision on the field will only be reversed based on clear and obvious visual evidence that the ruling was incorrect, the same standard for all reviews.

Which is why everyone is confused.

https://deadspin.com/as-expected-the-nfls-pass-interference-replay-rule-has-1838976188

[Patler]

There is a technical term for slop, the amount of gaps there are in a sequence of machinery that can cause problems for its function. But that term escapes me at the moment.

Stack-up is the term used for the accumulated variations of tolerance ranges.

[pbmax]

Stack-up is the term used for the accumulated variations of tolerance ranges.

I believe you. Wasn't what I had in mind, but that might be more technically accurate.

[mraynrand]

Which is why everyone is confused.

https://deadspin.com/as-expected-the...has-1838976188

The NFL ultimately put this review mechanism in place because they wanted to avoid a repeat of the kind of embarrassment they suffered from a horrible blown call in the NFCC game, nothing more. But what they don't get is that they don't decide what's embarrassing. If there's a blown call, even if it's 'close' but that someone on a network, radio show, podcast, or an internet meme catches onto/focuses on and it goes viral, they lose again. The process is limited by the challenge flags - if coaches want to challenge they should be able to do so and to get a fair result. The NFL, in it's insane lack of wisdom, decided to create a standard not in the rule book, thinking they could eliminate further embarrassment by forcing coaches not to challenge and now they are getting burned by it. Because everyone can see that it is essentially lawless. Scorning, prideful morons.

[pbmax]

The NFL ultimately put this review mechanism in place because they wanted to avoid a repeat of the kind of embarrassment they suffered from a horrible blown call in the NFCC game, nothing more. But what they don't get is that they don't decide what's embarrassing. If there's a blown call, even if it's 'close' but that someone on a network, radio show, podcast, or an internet meme catches onto/focuses on and it goes viral, they lose again. The process is limited by the challenge flags - if coaches want to challenge they should be able to do so and to get a fair result. The NFL, in it's insane lack of wisdom, decided to create a standard not in the rule book, thinking they could eliminate further embarrassment by forcing coaches not to challenge and now they are getting burned by it. Because everyone can see that it is essentially lawless. Scorning, prideful morons.

Right. The moment the replay shows something, its fodder for the next couple of days. Its also why efforts to reduce calls to just what the officials can see live ultimately fail, even though such an effort if laudable.

As soon as you have 4 different slo mo angles, the frame of reference has changed.

I'd love to review just the outrageously blown calls, but its not going to happen unless you severely truncate the system. Or dispose of replay altogether.

[hoosier]

I'm not as intrigued by NFL football as I used to be, but as bad as the new replay look is, it could be worse: they could have John O'Neill looking at the tablet.

[Joemailman]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...r-1st-rounders

Jaguars trade Jalen Ramsey to Rams for 2020 and 2021 1st round picks plus a 4th round pick.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...ters-to-ravens

Rams trade Marcus Peters to Ravens for LB Kenny Young

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[pbmax]

Quite a haul for Ramsey.

[George Cumby]

Anyone else think this smells of desperation?

[pbmax]

Anyone else think this smells of desperation?

Yes, for the Rams. Highway robbery and I am not sure that one great CB fixes their defense.

[run pMc]

Wow. Good trades for JAX and BAL.
Getting a pair of R1s for a malcontent like Ramsey is pretty good. The Rams picks will likely be in the 20's but that gives JAX a lot of ammo.

Marcus Peters is a good CB if/when his head is on right. Never heard of Kenny Young but I don't think LAR needs another LB so they basically gave Peters away which makes me think he was causing headaches in the locker room.

It does feel like desperation. They traded a bunch of picks to go from a good CB to a great CB. I agree with pb that one CB won't fix their issues. The trade should help them give up less points but I also think they have problems on offense.

[SudsMcBucky]

Yes, for the Rams. Highway robbery and I am not sure that one great CB fixes their defense.

No doubt. JAX made out like bandits in this deal.