Dez Bryant controls own message, says he won’t show without deal

In case there was any confusion as to whether Dez Bryant did or did not issue an ultimatum to the Cowboys, he took to Twitter to clear it up this afternoon.
“As much as I love football…on my beautiful babies.. I apologize #cowboynation but I will not be there if no deal #fact,” he wrote moments ago.
This came after ESPN’s Ed Werder reported that Bryant called Cowboys executive Stephen Jones to say he wasn’t showing up without a new deal by Wednesday’s deadline for a long-term deal, then reported that Jones denied that was the case.
So Bryant took to the one medium he can control to say he wasn’t showing up without a long-term deal.
Unless he didn’t, I suppose, in which case he can say he was hacked.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Darin Gantt
Photo: UPI, Ian Halperin

Week 13 Football ERA Cumulative Results

Weekly 2014 Cumulative Football ERA Formula results are published below with the usual cautionary disclaimer that these are NOT Power Rankings. To analyze these results, we primarily have to look at how teams change within the Rankings rather than looking at the Rankings as raw stand-alone data. Position is neither the best nor the sole criteria of analyzing the list as much as is observing change in the list (first derivative). In other words, how teams rise and fall from week to week during the long season is more of a primary criteria for evaluating performance.
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Den	…	22241
Sea	…	21449
Ind	…	21159
Bal	…	19660
Phi	…	18558
Pitt	…	17756
Det	…	16038
SF	…	15971
Mia	…	15920
NO	…	15799
Dall	…	15750
NYJ	…	15607
NE	…	14728
KC	…	14494
Hou	…	14044
Cleve	…	13112
Was	…	12119
Chi	…	11417
Cinn	…	11230
Buff	…	11221
GB	…	10987
NYG	…	9779
Arz	…	9650
SD	…	9076
Car	…	8567
StL	…	8142
Atl	…	7170
Minn	…	6869
Jax	…	5259
TB	…	438

Photo: UPI, Ian Halperin

Week Four Football ERA Composite Scores

The Football ERA Formula outputs a result that runs on a scale from approximately 5000 points to -5000 with losing teams that are dominated getting pushed into the negative numbers by their victors.  Defensive Elements of the Formula contribute to this negative score in games constituting blowouts.  A few years back, RealFootballAnalysis.com developed a formula that translates the Final Game Results of The Football ERA into Composite Scores that resemble football scores as much as possible.  Here are this week's Composite Scores:
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Ind	…	36
Tenn	…	8
KC	…	34
NE	…	9
SF	…	34
Phi	…	11
NYG	…	33
Was	…	11
Chi	…	32
GB	…	9
Mia	…	30
Oak	…	13
Minn	…	29
Atl	…	15
Dall	…	29
NO	…	15
Bal	…	28
Car	…	13
Hou	…	24
Buff	…	22
Pitt	…	24
TB	…	20
NYJ	…	24
Det	…	21
Jax	…	23
SD	…	19

Photo Credit:  UPI, Ian Halperin