NFL.com just doesn't care about credibility at all.

[borg]

Apparently....BB must be a miracle worker patching together the rags he gives himself each year. Bill needs to get Bucky on the horn to learn how to get more blue chippers.
Regarding the NFL Network..........I just don't bother. Beyond the occasional peak at highlights during the season, what's the point. Every player is awesome, every team can win it......it is a 24 hour propaganda device....that should be ignored. I even rate ESPN a notch above the NFLN......and my contempt for ESPN, Home of Lebron and As the Favre Turns, is ginormous.

 

[Soul_Survivor88]

LOL, holy ****, did you make that?

 

[Mack Herron]

They say the fish dies from the head down.

 

[DC_Patriot]

And they just won the Super Bowl with one of the youngest rosters around. Aside from Brady, Ninkovich and Gostkowski, there isn't anybody on the roster with 10 years of experience or more...

I'm pretty sure we were the youngest (on average) Super Bowl winning team in NFL history

 

[Rawky77]

I'm starting to realize that NFL.com contributors are basically the equivalent of moderators for video game forums. Picked on in high school, they now wield their power and authority to get revenge.



This has been around awhile. I'm temped to play around in photoshop and change it to

"Weak?
Nerdy?
Lost to the Patriots in the Superbowl?

Then why not become an internet sports-writer?

The NEW way to feel power of thrashing the Patriots without them thrashing YOU on the field"

My Photoshop idea would be to change the Photo to Goodell and change the career to BECOMING NFL* COMMISSIONER

 

[Rob0729]

Bucky Brooks has a long history of being a moron. I don't know if I blame NFL.com for this article. I blame them for hiring Brooks, but not this particular article. Brooks sucked when he wrote for CBS sports too.

 

[Buchanty]

I added Bucky Brooks to my list of "fabricators", "hypocrites, and "dissemblers". Drafted by the Bills, he managed to play 5 seasons for 5 different teams, ending up as a scout for Seahawks in '99 and then the SB losing Panthers in 2003.

He is the one who compiled the top 10 QB's recently, awarding TB 5th place with an asterisk. "Brady's standing on this list is a reflection of the stench emanating from the Deflategate scandal (hence the asterisk).

Talk about purple prose - "the stench" REALLY? The odor he smells, emanates exclusively from the NFL offices in Park Avenue.

Time to lobby for the NFL HQ to be moved permanently to Akron, Ohio and cleanse the league's corridors of the putrefaction of dead minds and souls seeking contrived revenge.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

The NFL has become a more corrupt version of FIFA.

Pioneers and true leaders like Paul Brown, Lamar Hunt, and Paul Tagliabue have been gradually replaced by lawyer-wannabe corrupt and IQ-deficient lying Jets fans.

 

[dales804]

The NFL has become a more corrupt version of FIFA.

Pioneers and true leaders like Paul Brown, Lamar Hunt, and Paul Tagliabue have been gradually replaced by lawyer-wannabe corrupt and IQ-deficient lying Jets fans.

Which just had nine (9!) officials and five executives indicted for racketeering conspiracy and corruption. Not good company to be in.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Which just had nine (9!) officials and five executives indicted for racketeering conspiracy and corruption. Not good company to be in.

Consider how many of the NFL owners have been sued/arrested/indicted/convicted for DWI, drug possession, fraud it might be an apt comparison...

 

[Tunescribe]

After this off-season I'll never look at the NFL the same way again. It's like being happily married for decades then suddenly your spouse becomes vindictive and untrustworthy.

 

[Spiral]

Man I can't wait until they rate coaching staffs excluding head coach!

Or maybe the QB position, excluding the starters.

 

[Mack Herron]

Florio today raises the spectre of FIFA for the NFL:

During his recent appearing on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, former federal prosecutor turned NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith pointed out the difference in treatment experienced by players who get in trouble and by owners who get in trouble.”You have the cases of Mr. Irsay, where somebody unfortunately overdosed to death in his house, you have the case involving the owner in Cleveland where the business that he was connected with was found to be in violation of federal law, and you have the case of the [Wilfs] where a state court judge ruled that the owners of the Minnesota Vikings engaged in fraud,” Smith said. “One one hand you have a Commissioner who was overturned three times” in disciplining Saints players for the bounty scandal, Ray Rice, and Adrian Peterson, “and on the other hand you have a Commissioner who has looked the other way three times.”In recent years, Congress has become the political body most commonly mentioned as potentially inclined to not look the other way when an NFL controversy goes mainstream. But the work of Congress typically occurs in public. Privately, prosecutors can scratch the surface and peel the onion and systematically compile the evidence that may or may not ever lead to an affirmative attack on what has become a very large American target.Again, there’s no specific reason to believe that the NFL or anyone connected to it currently is doing anything that would attract a full-blown federal prosecution. But the FIFA case should serve as a warning to all sports leagues that the smoke of perceived incompetence could result in someone with subpoena power choosing to search for the fire of actual corruption.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...arning-to-other-sports-leagues-including-nfl/

 

[Huckleberry1]

I think to many here are minimizing Brooks credibility, he was a scout and author two excellent books as well as the articles he writes for NFL.COM. For anyone who hasn't read them The NEW YORK JETS: 45 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE (but no Lombardi's) is a fantastic read on the 1970 to 2014 NJJ, it is primarily a tome on the Kensil Era in New Jersey and how the focus on winning in american culture has diminished all of their accomplishments

Brooks also wrote the prize winning HOW TO WIN EVERY OFFSEASON AND NEVER WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP: Why Winning It All Doesn't Matter!-------which is a masterpiece and must read for everyone who someday hopes to work for an NFL team. Brooks takes the
"Winning is the only thing" philosophy of Neanderthals like Lombardi, Walsh and Belichick and literally sheds it to pieces as he outlines how in reality everyone is a winnet because they got to play. Brooks makes a compelling argument that if the league didn't skimp on one Lombardi Trophy and instead made a couple thousand little ones the league could replace the Super Bowl with a 3 day field day that would comprise the best of The NFL Combine and American Ninja Warrior and pass out the mini Lombardi's to everyone. (Sponsored by the folks at PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS) It really is hard to argue with his conclusion that 3 days where everyone wins would make all football fans much happier than one winner take all game that as created such I'll will to the before franchises that horde Lombardi's and cause such resentment. He even recommended Mike Mamula and Vernon Gholston host the event ( he does however fail to mention his personal bias as they were the two players with his highest draft grades of all n time. And he also take the time in his last chapter to outline the future of football and Pro Football Focus as the guiding force for his vision of the game going forward. All in all a brilliant read.

So don't kill the messenger folks.

 

[GaryfromTO]

Bahh. The Patriots were done after the Kansas City game. I know this is true because the media said so.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Florio today raises the spectre of FIFA for the NFL:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...arning-to-other-sports-leagues-including-nfl/

With the new United States Attorney General going after corruption in FIFIA, maybe she'll go after the NFL next.....
http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/fifa-indictment-lynch-soccer-world-cup-052715


If the NFL is as corrupt as we believe, there is no way they ever want Brady's case to get filed or have to deal with the discovery process that could open Pandora's box...

I can dream, can't I...Then I realized that she was a native New Yorker..She's probably a Giants fan....
I base that on the fact that she can read and is intelligent which precludes her from being a Jets fan......
(Giants fans don't hate us...hell they want to see us in the Super Bowl versus them...ouch but true)

 

[patsinthesnow]

So Brady is the 5th best QB in the NFL despite winning a superbowl with a team without top 10 talent?

 

[Patriot Missile]

Bucky Brooks should be suspended 8 years for his his useless drivel.

 

[eom]

That's journalism 101 on how to get clicks

Ever see a circus without clowns?

 

[realtime]

Well, it's his theory that only "blue chip" players (on offense or defense) matter, QBs aside. OK, then who would be a "blue chip" on the Pats?

I hope nobody would argue against:

• Gronk
• Edelman
• Vollmer
• McCourty

The other main candidates, in some order, are Solder, Jones, Ninkovich and the three LBs. Stork and Butler can be his "on the rise" guys. Hopefully the first-round DTs will join the discussion soon.

Don't forget, Dan Bailey is a blue chipper in this guy's mind. So add Ghost to your list. Based on his apparent approach, Collins and Slater should definitely be on the blue chip list as well and Develin would be among the "on the rise" guys.