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Reply #879 dexa's post
wallawei...
abis study takde mood suda mau further study...... |
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Reply #881 hetrek's post
kadang2 ada yang ambil rest few years sebelum
continue dengan grad studies...
awak tak nak ambil ke? |
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huhu...takmo study lagi aa..
suda takda mood melihat buku..
aiyooh.. |
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nobody cares to open a new thread for ncbaa hoops tourney kah? |
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Reply #873 hetrek's post
hi hetrek. long time no see my friend. 
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Crowded agenda includes proposal to reseed playoffs
By John Clayton
March 27, 2008
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Despite their financial and on-the-field successes, NFL owners are at a crossroads.
They head to their annual owners meeting in West Palm Beach, Fla., with a very aggressive agenda. A forward thinker, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to push the envelope on some competitive things. He would like a reseeding of the playoffs to challenge lower-seeded division champs to play more starters in the final weeks. He wants to clean up spying and tampering problems that popped up over the past year.
Any proposal needs 24 of 32 owners' votes to be approved. Goodell can lobby but he does not have a vote.
From debating the length of players' hair to considering putting radio devices in defensive players' helmets, the NFL is moving forward on a lot of issues.
Where the owners are at a crossroads is how to handle the game as they face the possibility of future labor problems. In November, owners plan to break from the current collective bargaining agreement, creating an uncapped season in 2010, the last year of the current pact. That labor cloud will hang over these meetings and some of the decisions.
Here is a look ahead at the meeting, which starts over the weekend with committee reports and then begins in earnest on Monday.
1. Reseeding the playoffs:
Traditionalists like the idea of highlighting division races. Win your division and you get a playoff home game. What concerned the commissioner over the past couple of seasons is how division winners rested players in December after clinching.
Goodell is all for having a competitive 17-week season. After reviewing Goodell's idea, the competition committee voted 5-3 in favor of a reseeding plan. The plan still would reward the top two seeds with bye weeks and second-round home games. The change would involve seeds Nos. 3-6.
Under the proposal, a wild-card team can get a home game if it has a better record than the division winners. If a tie-breaker is needed, the division winner with a same record would get the nod over the wild-card. Twice in the past three years, the Jacksonville Jaguars had a better record than some AFC division winners but had to play on the road in the playoffs. There is no doubt that this change would create more competitive games in Weeks 16 and 17.
Playoff home games are critical and coaches won't have the luxury of resting players because they will be watching the scoreboard against good wild-card teams to try to finish the seasons with better records. This might be a hard plan to pass, though. Schedule is everything in the NFL, and a wild-card team with an easy schedule will have a distinct advantage over champions in tough divisions.
Take the NFC East, for example. Four teams finished with records of 8-8 or better, and the New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Based on last year's records, all the teams in the NFC East face .520 schedules or tougher in 2008. The teams in the NFC South have comparably have easy schedules, .469 or easier. The four teams in a tough division could form a voting block to stop change.
2. Increasing the roster from 80 to 86 players:
What seemed simple a year ago is now more complicated because of the potential for labor problems.
In past years, teams used NFL Europa roster exemptions to bring more than 85 players to training camp. Because it was losing $30 million a year and not developing as many players as hoped, NFL Europa folded last year. The current rules limit the number of signed players on rosters to 80.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers proposed increasing rosters to 90. Other teams have different numbers in mind and are leaving it to the meeting to continue the debate. The competition committee is pushing an idea to increase preseason rosters to a maximum of 86. Believe it or not, there is a decent block of owners who want to keep rosters at 80, thinking 80 players in enough. The committee is pitching the idea that the extra six players on a roster are necessary -- and they are -- because teams need to fill out eight-man practice squads during the fall and they need replacement players because of injuries.
Budget-minded owners are trying to save some dollars because of the crunch of the last collective bargaining extension. Here's where the owners could be pinching pennies a little too much. The worst fear in training camp is an injury. By keeping rosters at 80 with no exemptions, more veteran players will be asked to do more things during preseason games, risking them to further injury. Salaries for camp players are roughly $1,000 a week. For the savings of $6,000 a week, teams could be risking players worth $1 million or more to injury.
Currently, five teams have 70 or more players on their rosters. If owners don't change this rule and add some extra offseason roster spots, teams will be releasing players after they start signing their draft choices.
3. Allowing defensive players to wear radio devices in their helmets:
Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 and the New England Patriots lost a 2008 first-round draft choice because a team videographer was caught taping the signals of defensive coaches during games. Technology comes to the rescue.
The NFL is ready to move ahead with a plan to put radio-receiving devices in the helmets of defensive players. Under the proposal, the competition committee is ready to push for a plan for teams to designate two defenders to have radio helmets, but only one will be allowed to be on the field on any given play. The number of designated helmets is a hot topic among coaches because of situation substitution and injury. Most coaches are pushing for at least three helmets to be "wired up."
After studying the topic, the committee felt more comfortable with two. What will be interesting is whether the coaches defeat this proposal because they don't feel as though they have enough defensive players wired. This is the third year the committee has tried to go ahead with speakers in defensive players' helmets, and this is the best chance for its passage.
4. Including specific field-goal attempt replays:
Call this the Phil Dawson rule.
In Baltimore last season, the Cleveland Browns kicker had a last-play of regulation, game-tying field goal attempt that bounced off the upright and hit inside the crossbar. The kick initially was ruled no good, but after a lengthy discussion among officials the decision was overturned and Dawson's boot counted. Either way, the referee didn't have the luxury of seeing a replay because field goals aren't considered a reviewable play.
Under this proposal, field goals can be reviewed on a limited basis. The new replay review would be of a kick that is no higher than top of the uprights and within the width of the goalposts. Some owners not wishing to expand replay any further might vote this proposal down.
John Clayton, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame writers' wing, is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
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nfl draft is getting closer, can't wait!
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Oops! Dolphins talking defense in draft
By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
April 17, 2008
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP)桺erhaps it was a slip of the tongue, or subterfuge scripted by Bill Parcells.
Or maybe Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland inadvertently tipped his hand regarding the team抯 plan with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.
At a news conference Thursday to discuss the draft, Ireland said he wouldn抰 talk about the Dolphins
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tak sangka..dah 2 tahun topik ini..hee....... |
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Top Draft Picks Can Bottom Out a Team's Payroll.
By Nancy Gay
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, April 20, 2008
ngay@sfchronicle.com
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(04-19) 15:50 PDT -- When Bill Parcells assumed control of football operations for the sad-sack Miami Dolphins, he knew the No. 1 overall draft pick the franchise earned following its 1-15 finish in 2007 was his to keep.
In other words, forget about trading out of it.
Sure, there is no shortage of NFL franchises eager to have unencumbered access to the 2008 draft's elite players - Michigan left tackle Jake Long, Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan, Arkansas running back Darren McFadden, Virginia defensive end Chris Long or LSU defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey.
But does anybody want to pay them? Or surrender the traditional bounty of later picks, only to be in position to pay an unproven player a guaranteed sum that likely will exceed $30 million?
Levi Brown, a tackle from Penn State.
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"Trades are a unique thing in the first round anymore because of the cost of the top-10 picks financially," Colts president Bill Polian said. "To take on that cost, then to give up something to do it, it is almost counterintuitive, and that's clearly not what the draft was designed to be."
The last top-five choice to change hands was in 2003, when the Jets swapped three picks, including the 13th and 22nd overall, to the Bears for the fourth overall selection. (We don't count the 2004 draft, when the Chargers opened the draft by selecting Eli Manning, with the Giants picking Philip Rivers fourth. The teams later swapped the two quarterbacks.)
The Jets drafted defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson.
Was that a value trade? Hardly. In five seasons Robertson - who remains on the trade block - has 14 1/2 sacks in 77 games. He's due to earn $9.8 million this season unless the Jets can dump him.
So for every team without a top-10 pick that dreams of having McFadden in the backfield, Polian says the price may not be worth it.
And for those struggling franchises that hold a top-five pick and hope to rebuild with it, the cost could be crippling.
"Now you face the proposition of saying if I'm after the first pick and I have to pay $30 million for it, how much do I want to give up in addition to that?" Polian said. "And if you fail with that pick, your franchise is saddled with an albatross that you can't get rid of for who knows how long.
"It's completely changed because of the cost of those picks. And in my view, that's wrong. It should change. That's bad for the game. It isn't about money, it's about the integrity of the game on the field."
The Raiders know this all too well, being among seven teams in the past five drafts to have made multiple investments in top-five draft picks. Both times, in 2004 when the Raiders had the second overall selection, and in 2007, when they had the No. 1 pick, the franchise waited for the phone to ring and trade offers to come.
Defensive lineman Gaines Adams
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Nothing.
"Nobody wanted them. We never got any action on (those picks)," said Michael Lombardi, a former personnel executive who was fired after the '07 draft by Raiders owner Al Davis. "Those top-five picks are like a hot potato. And they're not a guarantee of success."
In the last five drafts, beginning in 2003, 12 of the 18 teams that have had a top-five overall draft pick have not won a playoff game, and 10 of those teams - including the Raiders and the 49ers - failed to post a winning record in 2007.
Seven teams have made expensive investments in two top-five picks - the Raiders, Lions, Browns, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Texans and Jets. The Jets are the only franchise to have a playoff victory to show for it.
Everyone crows about the Raiders' rotten luck with the No. 2 overall pick in 2004, offensive linemen Robert Gallery, who has become synonymous with bust. But Detroit's selection with the No. 2 overall pick in 2003, wide receiver Charles Rogers, no longer plays in the NFL.
"To be honest with you, if somebody really wants the player and they feel that the quality is there, they might make a play and come up with a (trade) package," Lombardi said. "But with the economics involved now, and the risk factor being so high, it's like buying a home - if nobody wants to buy it, you're not going to get market price."
Even a top-10 pick is essentially radioactive. Since 2005 there have been only three trades for picks in that tier.
The problem - the skyrocketing guaranteed money paid to a top-10 draft pick often makes them the best compensated players on an NFL roster, even before they step onto the field for training camp.
Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell, picked No. 1 in '07, didn't sign until after camp concluded and received $29 million guaranteed, along with another $3 million attainable if certain playing time incentives are reached.
Even Gallery has more guaranteed money coming his way, $18.5 million from his rookie contract, than the player who owns the franchise record for most sacks in a single season, two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Derrick Burgess, who signed a five-year, $15 million free agent contract with Oakland before the 2005 season.
"Now (Ohio State's) Vernon Gholston is going to make three times what Derrick Burgess makes, and Burgess is trapped in his contract," said Lombardi, who said he tried to convince Raiders owner Al Davis to renegotiate the Burgess contract to bring it in line for what a two-time Pro Bowler should earn.
Many team executives, Polian chief among them, are furious about how the escalating rookie contracts - fueled by aggressive agents eager to earn a quick 3 percent commission and a big dog reputation off a blockbuster top-five contract - have skewed teams' payrolls.
The prospect of implementing an NBA-style rookie cap, which would allow for shorter contracts that include team options, has been discussed. But the agents don't answer to either the NFL or the NFL Players Association.
NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw believes NFL veterans should be able to negotiate for bigger deals based on what the top-five rookies are commanding.
"Because if the top guy in the draft just got paid $35 million in guarantees and he hasn't even proven himself, and if your contract is up as a veteran, I think it has an effect on what you're going to get. You think Peyton Manning isn't looking at JaMarcus Russell's contract? Of course he is," Upshaw said.
All the same, he said the union already has done its part by agreeing to a cap that limits how much each team can spend on its pool of rookie selections each season. On the other hand, a rookie wage scale, Upshaw said, is out of the question.
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jake long has not even set foot in the nfl yet, but he's got $30 mil in guarantee money from the dolphins and can earn up to $58 mil for the next 5 years. another instant millionaire, even though he's not proven if he could play in the nfl (hopefully he'll play beyond his expected potential for number of years)
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Dolphins Sign Long, Will Select OT No. 1 Overall
By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
April 22, 2008
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP)桱ake Long seemed at ease in his new role as the NFL抯 No. 1 draft pick, leaning into a news conference microphone to talk about his mean streak while his mother sat in the corner, nodding as she smiled.
The Miami Dolphins were grinning Tuesday, too. They signed the Michigan left tackle to a five-year contract with $30 million guaranteed, and they抣l select him with the top pick in the draft Saturday.
The deal allows the Dolphins and Long to avoid a possible holdout.
揑t抯 really important for us to know Jake is going to be on the field for us on time when training camp begins in July,
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Reply #891 oobi's post
sejarah ryan leaf mungkin berualng  |
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Reply #892 ai#eru's post
possible, but i don't think you can put playing offensive line to playing quarterback on the same breath. it's much more harder to play quarterback in the nfl than playing tackle.
i think jake long can be successful in the nfl because he's much more polish than ryan leaf was when he was drafted by the chargers. however, people will expect a lot more from him than just be successful. people expect him to play like a future hall of famer. otherwise, he's a bust
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with the addition of jared allen to two pro bowl tackles that vikings already have (pat williams and kevin williams - not related), their front four is going to be fun to watch this coming season. if kenechi udeze can fight his leukemia and erasmus james can live up to his first round potential after coming off his third knee injury, barring any major injury, this line is going to make lots of quarterbacks and offensive lines losing lots of sleep, especially in nfc north.
by the way, what was the bengals thinking? declining two first round picks from the redskins for their disgruntle wideout, chad johnson? i guess, that's why the bengals are the bengals.
NFL Update - Jared Allen Status |
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By DOUG TUCKER
AP Sports Writer
47 minutes ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)桺ro Bowl defensive end Jared Allen was traded from Kansas City to the Minnesota Vikings in a blockbuster deal, making the Chiefs one of the major players in this weekend抯 NFL draft.
Kansas City gets Minnesota抯 first-round pick, No. 17 overall, and both of the Vikings
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2008 NFL Draft Order
First Round
7. New England Patriots (from 49ers) |
17. Kansas City Chiefs (from Vikings) |
22. Dallas Cowboys (from Browns) |
29. San Francisco 49ers (from Colts) |
31. New England Patriots (forfeited - spygate scandal) |
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Reply #893 oobi's post
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i don't like the idea of paying big to rookies when it's not proven they can fair well in nfl yet, why not spending the money to senior players who has contributed year after year to team, kids should not be paid too much or they'll end up being a spoiled young jerk like ryan leaf. |
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Reply #897 ai#eru's post
i agreed. that's why i'm relieved when 49ers won't be drafted high this year; they traded their 7th pick to patriots.
based on history, not many high draft picks become pro bowl players. for me, most important rounds are 2-5. first round is overrated, most of the time. nfl should follow nba when paying unproven drafted players - set a fix salary scale based on where they were picked. this way, agents won't be able to hold clubs by their throats and rookies will sure be in training camp in time, instead of holding out for more money.
at the same time, clubs can pay those deserved veterans to stay put; instead of letting them go to free agency. this way, high draft picks will have more values (we see less major trade involving top 5 picks nowadays because club executives don't want to mortgage the future for unproven comodities - success at college level don't always translate to pro level) and veterans will have more chances to stay with one club until they retire, just like before salary cap era (i love that era because it produced many dynasties).
well, it's easier said than done. we'll see what happen in the next cba meeting as it's up for negotiation soon.
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as expected, howie's son, chris, went to the rams and al davis just loves speed; raiders took mcfadden at fourth.
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usc trojans had the most players taken on the first day of 2008 nfl draft, 7; 4 went in the first and 3 in the second.
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