Kendall traded...

[Wild Card]

Then too, although you can't argue with the success of the old school "shut up and just play football" approach, I can't help but wonder whether teams who adhere to this aren't likely to become dinosaurs W&L-wise with regard to the proper care and feeding of modern day football players.

Just thought it worthwhile to open this up for debate.

Jeff:

I think "shut up and play" stopped being an effective management technique in football with the advent of free agency. If a guy's performed at a high level at any time in his career, absent some catastrophic injury or old age, there'll always be some other team that'll show him the money, no matter how big a malcontent he's been elsewhere.

WC

 

[Jasper]

Curt Marsh had 30 surguries including a leg amputation.

Jim Otto had 40 surguries and 28 knee operations. I think he also lost a leg because he didn't have any knees left, they were all artificial now.

Earl Campbell in confined to a wheelchair.

All of these athletes had severe arthritist in their later years.

I just don't think the body is designed to handle the loads.
If you weigh 250 - 300 pounds, jumping around and running around I think the terminator's robotic knees would fail. A knee is just a joint held together by muscle and tissue. Not gears or hydraulics. Look at your car's ball joints. They are made of teflon and steel, coated with grease. They wear out and have to be replaced after a few years.

I think some players are unnaturally overweight because they have to be or the coaches would cut them if they are lightweight especially lineman. One cannot naturally weight 300lbs unless one were to be at least 7' tall.

 

[Stout]

Curt Marsh had 30 surguries including a leg amputation.

Jim Otto had 40 surguries and 28 knee operations. I think he also lost a leg because he didn't have any knees left, they were all artificial now.

Earl Campbell in confined to a wheelchair.

All of these athletes had severe arthritist in their later years.

I just don't think the body is designed to handle the loads.
If you weigh 250 - 300 pounds, jumping around and running around I think the terminator's robotic knees would fail. A knee is just a joint held together by muscle and tissue. Not gears or hydraulics. Look at your car's ball joints. They are made of teflon and steel, coated with grease. They wear out and have to be replaced after a few years.

I think some players are unnaturally overweight because they have to be or the coaches would cut them if they are lightweight especially lineman. One cannot naturally weight 300lbs unless one were to be at least 7' tall.

Now that is simply not so. That is a fallacy of our modern society, how we have been conditioned to think.

 

[cardsfanmd]

The coolest part of all is that one of my best buds, Jake Bender is now competing for a starting spot. A fifth-rounder who was supposed to be a long term project is kicking@$$ up there in NY. GGGGGOOOOO BBBBBBEEEEEENNNNNNDDDDDDDEEEEEEERRRRRRR.

 

[joeshmo]

Seattle tried to trade him because they didnt like his attitude.
We cut him outright becuase we didnt like his attitude.
Jets cut him becuase his attitude stunk.
Redskins will soon realize the same thing when Gibbs works him out to hard, or they start losing and Gibbs is on his way out.

Kendall is a locker room lawyer of the worst kind and I have thought as much since the day I found out we were looking at him in free agency.