All things off season 2015.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Dallas Cowboys LB Rolando McClain facing a four-game fine for violating substance abuse policy - ESPN Dallas

This guy is such a dumb f$@k

It is only a fine and not a suspension so I guess he still gets to play. That said, you are right, he's a dumb fuck.

[SirLK26]

Redskins make important change to DeAngelo Hall's contract | Comcast SportsNet Washington

[Meks]

AJ Smith is gone.

[donofriose]

The Great Analytics Rankings

Interesting article about how the Redskins are one of the worst teams in the NFL when it comes to using analytics for football operations. Has always been that way under Snyder.

"The Redskins were named by source after source as the NFL team with the least interest in using analytics in football operations. Despite Washington's massive operation on the business side, there is no analytics chief on the football side.

That wasn't true for seven weeks in 2006, when the Redskins hired Jeff Dominitz to produce statistical analysis. But then-coach Joe Gibbs indicated his disdain for analytics, saying, "We're still about people here." Soon Dominitz was gone.

The recent five-year GM tenure of Bruce Allen was likewise not an era of analytics for Washington, and there are no signs that will change anytime soon with Allen as team president. New GM Scot McCloughan comes from San Francisco, a team close to the front edge of analytics usage in the NFL, but he has a scouting background and has given no indications of an analytics-friendly approach.

With Daniel Snyder as owner since 1999, Washington has become known for inefficient spending, consistently handing out some of the worst contrasts in the NFL. The Skins are so disengaged from the advanced stats movement that even local legend Tony Kornheiser, no stathead himself, recently pleaded with them to try analytics to turn around a franchise that's gone 7-25 the past two seasons."

As compared to the Patriots...

"One NFL analytics professional called the Patriots a "big black hole" when it comes to revealing any secrets, which of course applies to most everything they do under coach Bill Belichick. But some evidence of the implementation of analytics has escaped the Patriots' gravitational field, and it suggests that the Patriots are one of the most innovative teams in the NFL.

Owner Robert Kraft worked with a former colleague in the 1990s to create statistical models for player valuation. And for the past 15 years, Belichick has relied heavily on his football research director, Ernie Adams, a former Wall Street trader who collaborates with the coach to develop a variety of cutting-edge approaches to team building and game play.

Belichick recently told The Boston Globe: "Ernie's really a great sounding board for me personally and other members of our staff. Particularly coaching staff. Strategy, rules, decisions. Ernie's very, very smart.''

One major strategy employed by the Patriots has been an arbitrage system in personnel, whether multiplying draft picks via draft day trades or moving their veteran players (such as defensive tackle Richard Seymour in 2009, receiver Randy Moss in 2010 and offensive lineman Logan Mankins in 2014) before they lose value. Based in part on such moves, the Patriots have had unmatched success in the Belichick era, with four Super Bowl rings and counting.

On the field, Belichick's approach appears less consistent. His failed fourth-down gambit against the Colts in 2009 was decried by fans but cheered by analysts who recommend that teams play more aggressively. But in other cases, he has coached rather conservatively, defying his reputation.

Regardless, there is little doubt that the Patriots invest time and energy looking for every edge, and their commitment to ruthlessly outsmarting the competition is a Belichick trademark."

[Evilgrin]

Analytics isn't going to make a bad front office good or a good front office bad. A good team will use it right, a bad team will muck it up.

[Alvin Walton]

NFL Concept Helmets - Album on Imgur

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by Evilgrin

Analytics isn't going to make a bad front office good or a good front office bad. A good team will use it right, a bad team will muck it up.

My feeling is its a tool that we should be using and frankly surprised we dont have a couple folks who its in part of their job description. Data can do nothing but help in making strategic decisions. We are certainly behind the curve....

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

NFL Concept Helmets - Album on Imgur

The Green Bay one disturbed me.

[TheSmurfs22]

Originally Posted by donofriose

The Green Bay one disturbed me.

Yeah not a fan of the Green Bay one. It looks cheesy Sorry I couldn't resist

Ours is meh. The placement of the feathers reminds me of the Eagles and the wings which is not cool.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by donofriose

The Green Bay one disturbed me.

Some of these are really cool, like the Raiders and the Patriots' helmets, but the Eagles helmet looks like it has gills, and I don't like the concept for the Redskins' helmet. I liked the earlier concept with the yellow and present chief head logo.

[calia]

I actually like a number of these. The Vikings one isn't great -- looks like a beanie with pigtails. And the Steelers logo being all yellow seems like a step backwards. The lines on the Rams helmet seem a little odd to me -- not sure what is inspiring that, and I could say the same about the triangles on the Chiefls helmet, although I think it looks cool. I think the Giants helmet with the city skyline is pretty cool. The Raiders helmet is a real upgrade.

[SirLK26]

The Jets one is horrible.



Ugggh.

[calia]

Originally Posted by SirLK26

The Jets one is horrible.



Ugggh.

Yes, and in this case, the look matches the quality on the field.

[KI Skins Fan]

I've lived in Pittsburgh and Baltimore and i think those industrial-looking helmets would go over well with the fans there. Personally, I really like the Ravens version.

The Raiders helmet is a home run. I love it.

As for the Jets helmet, well at least they tried. When a team has the official colors of baby poop green and diaper white, it's hard to do anything appealing.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Meks

AJ Smith is gone.

In the offseason decisions we made, we essentially ejected Smith in favor of McC. Let's hope we made the right choice.