HardyBoy

A hand held BAC thing, why exactly would that cost a ton? Also, you would need way less than 3,000 people to do a statistical analysis if you have a representative sample (pretty sure you can get statistical significance of a random sample of 30). My guess is they went to various backers bars of various teams and randomly picked people. I doubt they walked around tailgates at the stadium. Probably something where you got a free pint glass for blowing into a hand held thing. Also, you're taking this way too seriously, it's a light hearted stupid internet list.

I haven't read the article, but my guess is they used a breathalyzer to test that...

I dunno man, society is super weird. Just because a bunch of people are doing the same weird thing and suddenly label that weird thing as not weird, doesn't make it not weird. Like we're like hurling through space on this giant rock with asteroids swirling past us, nobody has any freaking clue what's going on, but we're too psychologically fragile as a species to acknowledge that. So we call people who don't fit into an arbitrary box that a bunch of sentient (probably semi sentient) hairless apes called "normal" yet if you look around the world it's all different in terms of what's normal, which means there is no normal. Plus if you really look at what normal is, it is just shorthand for we need to make people feel like they need to fit in so they buy stuff or prop up people in positions of power. Listen to some Alan Watts.

Do you ever see the bills transitioning to a 3-4 with these players?

Are they a 3-4 defense?

You're literally talking about someone's kid, what's wrong with you? She absolutely could be reading this board, depending on how old she is, or one of her classmates, or a parent of a classmate. Again, why on earth do you think it's OK to talk about someone's kid? Also, the irony of you calling me Edith, when you're acting like a real life Archie Bunker.

What's odd is you have an opinion about someone's child in any capacity. Not appropriate.

Just read an article about Carr being released by the Raiders. His stats and especially that of his defense in big games should probably give people pause on the screw defense, only offense approach so many are clamoring for.

You speak so confidently about Edmunds not meeting a first round grade as a player, offer no evidence, and people who have deep football knowledge disagree with that take. Dunning Krueger?

Like a record player?

I thought this was confirmed already right after the season? Did he get it checked again or something?

I was trying to troll the Pats fan...he didn't fall for it sadly, but still was fun hoping he'd take the bait!

Tom Brady is a system qb and was hugely overrated.

Hard to know the consistency without knowing what he was asked to do. I'm not even saying it's a situation where he does his job and someone else doesn't, it could be by design to limit the right play being called against a defense. Thinking something like he might be asked to penetrate and cause a running back to commit to a gap in a defense designed to take away a pass play the other team likes to call, in case the offense does run. The defense's play call might be something where they are conceding a five yard gain as long as Oliver forces the rb to hit that gap, but would give up a 25 yard+ run if Oliver isn't able to funnel the runner. I don't have the stats, but if you looked at % of plays where the opponent got behind the chains, Oliver would have a really large % of either being directly involved or the player closest to the offensive player when he cut and ran into the final defender.

So I largely agree with your point, but I do think there are bad gms out there who see the draft position like an I've heard of him type thing. Also, good gms might see a player and think they were playing out of scheme or were not being coached well and see the high pick physical traits and think they can get the value out of the player at a higher contract more in line with their draft position. It's not so much because of their draft position, but the traits that got them drafted that high in the first place. I know it was a trade, but kind of like Darius trade. Marone thought he could get the value from Darius at that contract...he was wrong because it sounded like Darius hit a finish line with that contract (I'm not judging him, everyone is driven by different things), but he had the ability skill wise to reach that contract, his priorities changed though.

Yes! That's the one!

I'm definitely thinking of someone else then!

Didn't he have a season with Tampa Bay where he flashed for a bit? Am I crazy for remembering that? Maybe it was a game or a few, but I thought he did well at one point for a hot minute?

Gabe Davis before Oliver I think and use the pick on a wr. I think Oliver is massively underrated though. That's why losing Hodgins was so frustrating to me at the time and now. You had at worst a 4th receiver type depth guy that was a high level red zone threat and that would not cost much to extend after next season. Could of been the bridge to your next crop of receivers at worst and it's looking a lot like he already raised the floor well above that to being a #3 at worst. I wouldn't trade Oliver for a 3rd though, they'll get that back in a couple of years with a comp pick and they should re-sign him imo. Players should be on the trading block though and they should do a mini rebuild. I think the decision at d cord will drive the decisions a lot based on scheme. What's a Milano trade look like for example and would you even consider that if they shift to more of a 4-3 base d?

When does the contract for Frazier expire? If he gets hired as a head coach, would they still get a comp pick?

Yes, those ones are my favorite!

Remember the 2nd dolphins game McDaniels when asked why they didn't keep running and he said something along the lines of you need to be careful falling into a trap of a defense getting you out of your identity by making things seem easy? Feels a bit like Allen fell into that trap yesterday. The dolphins knew the only real chance they had was blitz and not necessarily sack Allen, but hope he'd try and take deep shots and they could get lucky on a string of incompletions, which is what happened. Singletary likely has a 60 yard catch and run for a td if Allen looked off the first read there for a second.

I always say Go Bills to anyone wearing Pats gear and chuckle, going back about three years. Does that count?

I went to high school and college in Rochester. Crazy how much you don't really notice the lack of sun in high school (at least I didn't) compared to when you're on college. High school you're basically inside all day and then it's dark. College you have a bunch of free time and can just stare at how cloudy it is. Something about the structure of the days made it very different. Maybe it's that in high school there was always someone to talk to either in class or I'm the hallway or whatever. College you are alone a lot more even if you have a lot of friends. Also, if you go right by the lakes it tends to be a lot more sunny iirc. We used to go to Webster Park in Rochester a lot on Sunday mornings before Bills games to go sledding or walk on the trails/by the lake and it was always sunny and I don't think it was because we'd only go on sunny days. The warm air comes off the lake and it takes a few miles for it to cool down and turn into clouds. Anyway, I lived in Boston after college and it was pretty cloudy there too in the winter. Then I moved to Ft Lauderdale and if it was cloudy for two days straight I'd start getting depressed because that's how much sun you get there. Live in Raleigh now and it's pretty much the same...so much sunnier in the winter!

more than a few have said they wouldn’t let their kids play though.