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Come in DeMeco... Do you read me?
No, that isn't an open ended question to see if our Pro Bowl linebacker reads Battle Red Blog -- but rather what DeMeco can expect to hear come gameday next year.   NFL owners voted 25-7 to give one defensive player the ability to hear plays called in from the sideline.  Yep, just like the quarterbacks .   Long gone are the days of the hand signals and flash cards that led to  ...
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What’s that, Lassie? I haven’t posted anything substantive in a long time?!
DGDB&D: a Texans blog. — ... ***Finally, in generic NFL news, the league approved a number of rule changes for next year.  A couple are common sense stuff–FGs are now reviewable, teams can defer after winning a coin toss–but three could have some actual impact.  First, one defensive player is allowed to have a radio in his helmet (aka The Spygate Rule).  SOLIS already covered this one.  Second, force outs have been eliminated, meaning that player has to land in-bounds for a ball to be complete, regardless of whether he was pushed out by the DB or not.  This could be ...

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