Hapless Bills Fan

I think the problem with Wentz (from various reports) has been maybe too much support? - Howie Roseman had a life-size picture of Carson Wentz on his office wall which reflected how Wentz was treated in the organization - Roseman and Lurie gave him influence in the draft, FA, and coaching decisions even though he actually hadn't achieved that much - Wentz didn’t always "take" to hard coaching or show personal accountability for mistakes - Wentz would "kill" plays called by Pederson out of "personal dislike" for the play - Wentz unwillingness to accept blame for his mistakes hurt him in the locker room So here's the nutshell: The question is whether watching the whole experience in Philly unfold will serve as a "gut check" for Wentz. Will he listen and accept the "hard coaching" under Reich and his OC Marcus Brady, who is going to be a first-year OC? Or will he keep on as he is said to have done in Philly? Unless it affects the Bills, I'd actually like to see Wentz become a redemption story. But habits are hard to break.

I love to remember that we all (me included) used to say some variant of this stuff.

Well, if you run into or think of it LMK. Like I said, I'm not doubting that you heard it. I know it's true that zone blocking predominated on the Bills rush attempts last year. I don't doubt the lack of foot speed either. I'm just puzzled about this as a main reason to move on from Spain. I mean, does Feliciano have the foot speed to excel in a zone scheme? Does Cody Ford? Boettger? Did Winters? The Bills run game continued (with rare game-based exceptions) to be abominable without Spain. Add that the Bills run/pass breakdown was 2/3 pass at that point (finished 596 to 411), and it just seems like a strange driver to the change.

I'm not doubting you, but at the same time, I had understood he was benched because he had a bad game in pass protection and they wanted to try Cody Ford at LG. Was there something that came out at the time that indicated zone run blocking was the issue? The Mia and LAR games, we were about 60% pass, 40% run so it would seem that pass protection needed to be the OL focus.

For all you know, he has. But it's not 100%, which is why the NFL wants a certain % of players and staff to get vaxxed in order to relax protocols.

He did really use the word "envenoms".

You mean like this?

Coach Sal had more recent video

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Doesn’t he get fined like, $100,000 if he misses mandatory minicamp? Pretty sure he could charter a private jet flight there and back for less.

They still need someone IMO. Last year they had Wallace and Norman and Jackson still got a chance to see game action because of injuries. Need at least 1 more guy who can play, unless they think Cam Lewis or Rachad Wildgoose is that guy. They are! So is Addison.

Which one?

Kicker Joey Slye https://www.panthers.com/team/players-roster/

I expect that a lot of the DL vets are looking at the extended season with an extra game and wanting to nibble things short on the other end. It's a valid point about the voluntary ingestion/injection of far less tested therapies. I know for a fact a lot of these football players are hip-deep in alternative therapies that have little to no investigation of or data about 1) possible harms, including long term harms 2) effectiveness. Cryotherapy (not ice baths, but liquid nitrogen); Ozone therapy; IV therapy from the more proven (Myer's Cocktail) to the more esoteric (glutathione, lipostat etc). Then we move to platelet-enriched plasma injections and on from there. My personal "take" on all that is they may help, and if not, the placebo effect is very real - if a guy believes in it and thinks it will make him better, chances are it will. But I think a corollary is it makes the guys distrustful of mainstream medical expertise (that might tell them these things don't work) and more prone to believe all kinds of other stuff. You're right, though, it's bizarre that a guy who is willing to have all kinds of stuff injected into his body or dripped into his veins without any kind of studies much less of "long term effects" suddenly seems to have a wholly different standard of proof for a vaccination.

They go wild for Mahomes no-look passes, just wait 'til they see my no-look FGA!

1) As a fan of a Bills player, even the 3rd string QB with his moniker and image as your screen name and avatar, what is this "outsider" BS? You're one of us now. Don't pretend detachment. 2) As someone who has posted on the forum ~ a dozen days in the last 30 days, sometimes to make multiple posts...your definition of "occasional" is non-standard 3) As your posts include the following gems: "It just means if Cam can't go, Jones will come in and torch the Bills defense" (another hurdle JA must jump over) "1 year wonder hurdle" (local hotel) "I would make sure to do a bed bug check" .....please feel free to be so DEEPLY disturbed that it moves you either Elsewhere....... or to silence!

And this, is the first time I have ever wholeheartedly endorsed the "Vomit" emoji as the perfect reaction - not to your post but to her garb and moniker.

She pales before the individual who needs 12 debit card transactions by June 25th to earn interest on her checking account, and is buying 12 cans of cat food - each rung up as individual debit card transactions. At 5:30 pm with a long line backing up.

We don't get a "do-over" so I guess we'll never know...the Bengals did re-up him, but only a 1 year "vet salary benefit" deal (vet minimum for an experienced player that counts as less against the cap), so I'm not sure they hold a similar opinion that he's the "best guard on their team". In hindsight, cutting Spain, pushing Ford into the lineup injured, and then starting Boettger and Winters at guard unquestionably made the line worse. Lamp is a 1 year rental along with Jamil Douglas

To your latter point, from Cover 1's excellent breakdown "Glaring Run Game Issues": 2020: In contrast, 2019 mixed it up a lot more: As far as Quinton Spain, I think he was pretty well jettisoned after the Miami game, and I don't think it had to do with a change in the run blocking. I'm curious though, if you could comment a bit, what do you see in the new OL personnel that leads you to say we're sticking with Zone? Thanks!

Both of those would be highly unprofessional on the part of the training staff, if true.

I'm not a professional working with HS and college athletes, so I don't want to dispute with experts. It's a good point that no one wakes up and loses 20 lbs overnight. On the other hand, seems to me they (Frazier?) mentioned asking AJ to "change his body composition". Now I don't know how that usually goes, but one strategy a friend's pro athlete daughter was asked to try was to lose body fat while trying to gain muscle. Since the latter is (I gather) a slower process than the former, the initial result for her was a fairly rapid weight loss followed by a slow weight gain. Frazier alluded to "he couldn't move the needle". I can't imagine that the Bills trainers weren't working remotely with AJ last spring (that was allowed) so I would have to assume that they were aware of how much weight he was losing but just expected some other aspect of the process to go differently, like they expected him to build muscle on the program they gave him but he didn't? Does that seem plausible?

These are on Britt's Instagram story BrittWilll as of ~19 hrs ago, and I'm sure the pup does have a name, but we don't know what it is (yet). Pretty sure better stalkers than I will find this out in a heartbeat. Edit: Pup is named "Sky".