Hapless Bills Fan

🤦‍♂️ because watching a "Reality Show" about one of the worst franchises during training camp and the season on your TV, really gives a person accurate insight into every aspect of a successful organization's workings during player evaluation/predraft/FA I don't think he's starting for the Titans. He played 1% of the snaps against the Colts. But he did play at LT for about 2/3 of the game where the Thumbtacks stuck it to the Chiefs.

The latter warning is boilerplate. And if our guys get $14k just for masking, why do their guys get a discount?

Welp Then. With those texts and those pictures, Good Luck getting a jury to buy the "Cook is a victim of domestic abuse and extortion" idea.

No they didn't, The $14k was for attending the Halloween party, which violates the "not supposed to gather with more than 3 players outside the facility". They should get another $14k each for the masking violations.

Well Played, Sir. Well Played.

I think it's a double standard that they noted I'm salty. They fine our guys for an instance or two, they need to fine Lazard and Rodgers for that, too.

Welp, That didn't Go Well This is the story from Dalvin Cooks agent, Zach Hiller, per the link above: Is this the same incident with the same woman, or different woman/different incident? What are we dealing with here?

I think it's a problem that I'm not even sure what game between what teams you're talking about here That's sadly, a valid take. It's not the change I was expecting, either. Dammit, it does seem as though we can't manage to get it together on both sides of the football in the same season.

From the Raiders, it was one of these "you can't fire me, I quit" things I believe - he asked for his release because he was "on the bubble" and hoped, by being on the market a couple days before final cuts, to be factored into another team's roster plans. Didn't work out that way. He wasn't cut from the 49ers practice squad, but I also think he didn't need to 'ask for his release'; practice squad players are FA who are free to talk to any team and free to sign with any team, any time He just signed to the Panthers practice squad. As a guy who has estimated $31M career earnings, let's hope he has no need to sell anything anywhere unless he wants to.

I think he entered it when The Jets shipped him to Carolina for a 2nd round pick. I heard that Twilight Zone du-da-du-do du-da-du-do when that news broke. But this is definitely a big step further into the Zone. I don't think they're going to let go of him that quickly, but Rhule's comments don't bode well for Sam. They may not bode well for Rhule, either, depending upon what scope and seriousness of conversation he had with Sam before making it public.

No problem. Put your cursor on the part you want to split, and hit <return> twice, fairly rapidly about like double-clicking a mouse. Sometimes have to fiddle with it a bit (save the post then edit it)

Believe me, I'm not amused

A few corrections to your corrections. The point is: Teller didn't look "awful" here under Bobby Johnson then "great" once he was traded. He never played a regular season game for Bobby Johnson. You find the preseason evaluations of Teller from 2019? That's not a correction, since I didn't say anything about Morse prior career, just that Johnson coached Dawkins, Morse, rookie Ford, and otherwise "just guys" into a serviceable 2019 OL. Addition maybe Are you talking to me? I didn't say anything about Johnson "turning Spain into" a good player so again, that's not a correction. Spain was in fact not great in 2018. He was playing for the Titans, he played OK not great and they wanted an upgrade, which is why he was available to is in FA. He had a "prove it" deal in 2019 and played well; he came into camp fat and played sloppy after signing an extension in 2020 and got benched after the 2nd game. This is what I said about Spain: "I grant it as a valid point that Spain improved after moving to Cincinnati, but the improvement wasn't immediate - he didn't look so great last season and was a delayed signing to a 1 year vet minimum deal - not what you offer a "pro bowl caliber player". He's playing well now - but he's also playing for a new contract, as he did in 2019." None of the OL looked great in 2018, before Bobby Johnson got here. The general consensus I remember is that Dawkins had "regressed" in his 2nd season or at least failed to take a step forward from his promising rookie season; part of this may have been playing next to Vlad Ducasse instead of Richie Incognito

The whole OL was miserable in Teller's rookie season (2018). He looked better than Vlad Ducasse, whom he replaced, but that's a pretty low bar. If Spain was "good here", why was he benched after the 2nd game (Miami) when he damned near got Allen killed with a whiff? He played well in 2019, got paid, and became Mr. Gold Rolex Attitude. He didn't exactly light the field on fire for Cincy in the rest of 2019 either, since they signed him to a 1 yr minimum deal a month into FA.

It's not photoshopped. It represents an error in the protections - either in the called protections, in the execution of those protections or (IMO) in the failure of the OL to properly adjust and pick up a stunt or a delayed rusher. Poor coaching may certainly contribute to all of the above, and good coaching may help eliminate all of the above, but at the end of the day it's on the "Jimmies and Joes" to execute. At a guess, the guy heading for Allen may have started out on the L side and stunted around, or he may have pretended to drop into coverage and then rushed once all the blockers were committed elsewhere, and that Jaguar with 3 blockers on him is probably holding with both fists and his teeth I'm going to vote for Option 3: Beane and his pro personnel evaluation team watch every snap of every Bills game and make an evaluation on players. Bobby Johnson and his assistants also watch every snap of every Bills game and make an evaluation of players. Then they get together and discuss their evaluations. I can't tell you how they resolve differences. Possibly they go back and watch certain critical plays again. Either that, or they play Rock, Paper, Scissors - with or without Lizard, Spock Why do people like to make everything so binary? Real life is messy.

This is valid, but the point is they kept Long, Bates and Boettger on the roster ahead of Teller. But Teller is signing a 2nd contract, while Bates can't crack the lineup and Boettger is not looking fit to carry Teller's jock. It's not like the choice was "give him the keys/trade him"; the choice was keep him on the roster as a developmental player, or keep these other guys on the roster - Long as the backup center, which was a good move, and Bates and Boettger as backup OL. I don't follow this question since I didn't say anything about Brown being "benched" in week 1? Brown played 1 snap for Dawkins (lost his shoe or something) and 3 snaps as an extra blocker I believe. Similar Week 2, played a couple snaps for Dawkins and a handful as an extra blocker.

You need reminding? I would take this assessment of Mark Gaughan over PFF grades: https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/analysis-a-closer-look-at-the-blocking-blitzing-problems-for-bills-offense/article_49276a0a-40b0-11ec-975d-6f3aa9dba1e1.html

Little Ray of Sunshine about the Place, Aintcha?

I think the notion is that if he provided a steadying influence to young Josh, perhaps he will provide a steadying influence to young Sam.

Probably fall-out of having Tanner Gentry go on the Covid list last Tuesday. My guess would be the backup guys pal around together on and off field. I'm expecting the NFL to change some of its Covid protocol policies Real Soon Now, but it would be nice to see the Bills get out in front of the curve. We do have to fill his ST role, 65% of the snaps.

Matt Rhule sounds pretty ticked at Darnold: https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/gm-report/sam-darnold-to-undergo-mri-on-right-shoulder That's a 9 on a Boss-man Richter Scale for "You ***** Up, Boy"

Thought we have 5 wins.

Could well be, I lack knowledge of the inner nuts-n-bolts workings to understand how titles correspond to roles and responsibilities

Methinks we got a little outbreak going on. Expect more

Little Reminder that unless the info is disclosed, we don't know if a guy went on the list for a positive test, an active infection, or as a close contact. So Tues Nov 2: Tanner Gentry, Jake Fromm Sat Nov 6: Mitch Trubisky Tues Nov 9: Jake Kumerow I would say off hand we got a little outbreak going on