Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SI: The 50 highest-earning athletes
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Read More...When welterweight Floyd Mayweather was No. 1 on Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 last year—knocking out Tiger Woods, who had been No. 1 every year since SI started producing the list in 2004—it looked like a fluke, the result of the $85 million he received for his fights with Victor Ortiz and Miguel Cotto. Now Mayweather is proving that he belongs at the top. From just two bouts this year, one earlier this month and the other scheduled for September, he will earn at least $90 million, ...
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Last ›I agree. As players get bigger, faster, and stronger, every aspect of the game favors defenses. People love to complain about how the rules today "favor the offense", but if they hadn't evolved to this point, we'd be seeing mostly 10-6 games.
Yep.
Edit: Four days ago he said "it truly is a "significant" concussion" and now he's saying it never was. Which is it Mike?
Harvey's did you have breakfast with Bob McGinn this morning?
OL not important anymore
ha. nope.
but the packers and bears are 14-5 between them and their offensive lines are bad.
In re: to offensive line play, seems to me the best teams still got it. To my untrained eye all of the AFC title contenders have very good o-line play.
Year OL DL Top 102012 4 10 1 - 0
2011 8 12 1 - 2
2010 6 9 2 - 3
2009 6 6 3 - 2
Just from eyeballing the first round drafts, might have screwed up some POS abbreviations, not including TEs and I don't know how that translates to the NFL. I'd have to think the salaries are better for DL in general as well. All I could find was Top 10 salaries by position, and using "average salary" (which I'm assuming is AAV, I don't pay attention to football anymore because of Bills):
Average of Top 10 highest salaries:
C $4,870,867OG $6,536,867
OT $9,487,857
DE $12,080,535
DT $9,089,968
So yeah, if you're a huge, athletic guy why wouldn't you be a DL?
If you're capable of playing either line, and you're at all interested in 1) fame, 2) money, you play defense. In the NFL, defensive lines attack, rush the passer, make plays, and generally are the better players. Offensive lines try to defend the QB in the pocket while the skill positions attack the secondary.
With what offense? They don't throw the ball enough to score, particularly vertically.
I haven't really kept up but I think it would be if they settled too late to have a regular season but early enough to have a playoff:
30 team single-elimination playoffs, 7 games each.
Stanley cup winner and best regular season record get byes.
Would be fun, no?
I think of this in connection with the ball-control-and-defense type head coaches ("ground and pound" or whatever the silliness is called) like Rex Ryan. Between the rules changes and the intensified focus on headhunt and protecting the QBs/receivers, the passing game is heavily favored right now, and teams more than ever need to pass early, often, and deep to consistently win. (Admittedly, this thesis is a guess on my part, but I think it's true.)
I'm off the Cowboys' bandwagon. They were under .500 coming in, and then had to struggle to beat the Browns. That is not good.
Not well. But the sides are meeting tonight at 7pm. Which is better than the proposed two week moratorium that Bettman offered a couple days ago. There are rumors that the Flyers' owner is unhappy, and wants this over, which may mean something towards real progress. The players aren't likely to break this time.
We can only assume the Cowboys' resurgence is nigh.
LOL at ever being on it. Their consistency in never living up to the hype is to be applauded.
Do they? They have theoretical talent, but I'm not sure they have actual talent. Romo's a decent QB. I can't remember who they have running for them from week to week. Dez Bryant is the new Randy Moss, but before Chris Carter smacked him around and taught him how to actually play the position in the NFL. Which is to say, what? Andre Rison?
Some. Witten is excellent, Romo is good and Bryant is talented but a head case, after that... Austin isn't the player he was and they have nothing else to throw to, the running backs aren't anything special. Their offensive line is and has been awful, on top of that Wade Phillips and now Jason Garret aren't good head coaches, until this year their secondary was horrible and outside of DeMarcus Ware they have no pass rus. But they're the Dallas Cowboys, so they get a bump by the media.
Since 2010 they are 19-23, similar to the Bengals (18-24), Seahawks and Buccaneers (20-22) and nobody has thought they're Super Bowl material.
Ogletree?
Uh, no. After 8 catches for 114 yards and 2 TD in Week 1, he has 17 catches for 240 yards and 1 TD since then. He has 3 games with 0 catches and two with 1 catch. He is a special teamer who had a really nice game once.
So how good do people think the Patsies are? I know that the uneven scheduling makes point differential problematic generally, but they do lead the NFL in point differential and points scored, and their points allowed seem to be decent.
They've lost 3 games by a combined total of 4 points and they have Brady.
Thoughts?
So long as Gronkowski is back for the playoffs they will be Super Bowl contenders. I think the Broncos are better but that's why they play the games.
I think passer rating only tells you so much, after all Alex Smith is 3rd, but it's another data point that Eli is ridiculously overrated.
I think it's just me, but the Cowboys' season so far has seemed completely random, and my consequent impression is that the NFL is random this year. Perhaps it's just the vagaries of following a mediocre team, but it seems the Cowboys play good teams and bad ones, and most of the time the result is close and might as well be a coin toss. Who's really, really good this year? Houston, possibly. Who's really, really bad, aside from Kansas City, obviously. I have a feeling that the Patriots will play in the Super Bowl against the Giants because class and coaching will tell, but it could be Atlanta/Houston or some arbitrary matchup just because, what the hey.
That said, the Patriots are the Patriots so I think have a very good chance to win the Super Bowl. They have earned the benefit of the doubt.
Smith has played well but Kaepernick has the much higher upside.
The two are mutually exclusive. It has been a weird year, but the Cowboys just aren't good, and haven't been for years.
Passer rating should be renamed "team passing efficiency." It's a better reflection of a team than it is the player. In today's NFL, passer rating vs passer rating allowed is as good a simple statistical indicator as any.
This is funny since Smith is a former overall number one pick, and Kaepernick is well, not.
Kaepernick is a freak athlete. He put a 4.53 forty time and has a rocket arm. He put huge numbers in college. Now, that doesn't mean anything if you can't read defenses. I have been impressed in what little he has played and I have faith that Harbaugh et al. must have saw something in him that makes them think he can read defenses. They used a second round pick on him.
I'm starting to think Alex Smith might get the rest of the season off.
True, but if Kaepernick keeps this up the whole game, I suspect Alex Smith's recovery will take at least one more week.
If he keeps it up he's earned another start, absolutely.
Also, Alex Smith is having a pretty nice year himself.
Absolutely. QB rating isn't the perfect statistic but he's over 100. He's been very good. That said, there's a lot of talent on the offensive side of the football and they are built for a more vertical passing game than they use when he is in the game.
Leads the league in completion percentage and AY/A, so it's not just dink and dunk stuff. It helps to have better talent too in Manningham and Moss. Last year their third leading receiver had 20 catches. Manningham already has 29.
I do actually feel for Smith. He's had absolutely zero stability as a 49ers. He never even had the same coordinator for 2 straight seasons. Last year, he was quarterback for a team that won 13 games and they tried to replace him in the offseason. This year, he has by far the most talented group of receivers he has ever had and now he might have a QB controversy.
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