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[roadman]

100mph and a DUI to boot.

Luckily, he didn't hit anyone, man.

Suspension? Second time in two months for Fairley.

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ

I'm tired of every goddamn Lions news story outside of what Megatron does is some stupid **** they got in trouble for.

Yeah, before I even saw the link I had a feeling it was about a Lion

[SPTO]

It seems that organization has serious discipline issues from the coach on down. It's almost as if they think they can get away with anything and not pay the consequences.

They have the potential to be a very good team with the personnel they have but if they're that unruly on and off the field than it'll blow up any kind of potential they have. I have a feeling we're going to look back at the Lions 5-6 years from now and going "what if?"

[kingkilla56]

Should have never given Fairly the time of day. Has always been a numskull.

[TheShizNo1]

Hey, the more headlines you get about good players being dumb, the further you get from 0-16.

[ABR173rd]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThePPL

The expectations for Peyton is still very high. The Broncos gave him a 5-year $96 million contract. The Redskins wouldn't have given up two 1st and one 2nd round pick for RG3 if it meant that they could acquire Peyton Manning. Many people believe Peyton is still a top 10 quarterback. But they understand he has a short shelf life, yet would be tremendously valuable for a team that can win now (like the 49ers). When Alex Smith used Cam Newton as an example, it was really more of a diss to the Panthers defense last year. The Panthers defense was always giving up so many points last year. So the only they could catch up with their opponent was to force Newton to throw a lot, which would increase the Panthers' chance of creating a turnover. I watched the video once on NFL Network and most of his response is in this video (http://www.49ers.com/media-gallery/v...0-c0a73b10b995). He was simply giving his honest answer and acted calm when doing so. These were Smith's quotes: "I don't know the league stat is, but check the win/loss ratio on 300 yard passing games. I think it has gotten better as of late, but tradionally if you threw for 300 yards, your chances of winning went down. As a quarterback you have to distribute the football and make your decisions and I think those areas is where you make your money. You make your money on third down and you make your money in the red zone and you got to be good there. This is the honest truth. I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat. Because if you're losing games in the second half, guess what? You're like the Carolina Panthers and you're going no-huddle the entire second half and, yeah, Cam Newton threw for a lot of 300-yard games, that's great. You're not winning, though."

54% of teams that have thrown for over 300 yards in a game have won. Alex smith also had the worst Red Zone percentage of all starting QB's with 40% last season. Instead of "dissing" the panthers defense he should have gave credit to his defense and special teams which is the main reason they won game last year. There was no reason to throw out Cam Newton's name and as the statistics have shown historically team's are more likely to win a game when throwing for over 300 yards then losing.

[RJTurneR]

Quote:

Hey, the more headlines you get about good players being dumb, the further you get from 0-16.

For some very strange reason that makes me feel much better about the situation.

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by ABR173rd

54% of teams that have thrown for over 300 yards in a game have won. Alex smith also had the worst Red Zone percentage of all starting QB's with 40% last season. Instead of "dissing" the panthers defense he should have gave credit to his defense and special teams which is the main reason they won game last year. There was no reason to throw out Cam Newton's name and as the statistics have shown historically team's are more likely to win a game when throwing for over 300 yards then losing.

It's also funny that a guy who, for the first time in his career, was involved with a team that could be called good wants to get so defensive about the questions surrounding his play. Even before Peyton left the Colts the 49ers tried as hard as they could to find someone to replace him and drafted a quarterback in the 2nd round with the goal of replacing him.