Utah John

Thuney is a lot better than Ford ever was, at least while he was with the Bills. Ford is a slow-footed road grader, and the Bills offense involves a lot of pulling linemen.

He had those great stats playing behind the Eagles' ferocious D line. It makes all the difference when the QB has the extra half second or so to find open receivers. The Bills' amazingly bad work on building a D line is what's kept them from the Super Bowl. Patching a hole in the defensive secondary with an expensive Band-Aid when we're still relying on losers like Epenesa and Oliver to get to the passer is not the solution.

Thanks. I missed that comment from the announcer, who by the way was Curt Gowdy. Gowdy was by far the leading play by play man in NFL games in the 60s and going into the 70s. Little known fact -- Gowdy was from Wyoming (as I found out when I went to grad school at the University of Wyoming -- before Josh was even born). There were so few celebrities from Wyoming back then that they named a state park after Gowdy.

Elbert Dubenion didn't get a mention. Was he injured? That was a great defense, particularly on the line, but really at all levels.

This is not the solution. The referees are still going to eyeball the place where the ball is spotted at the end of a play. So there will be a very precise measurement of a much less precise position. This would not have saved the Bills in any of the several egregious plays, where the Bills player clearly crossed the line to gain but had the ball spotted behind it.

Once the 2024 season started and it was clear how bad the Browns were, I actually posted here that the Browns would be better off if they traded Garrett, and that the Bills should try to get him. People said no way, we'd have to give up two first rounders. Well here we are, not making the SB largely because our pass rush is so bad. And the Browns have a lousy record anyway. And we're talking about sending them two first rounders. A year wasted where we could have had Garrett and who knows how that would have turned out.

More and more the past two years, I've seen ball carriers getting assists 10 yards downfield, when they're pretty much stopped and then some lineman comes barreling into the pile. I don't like that.

It's not like McDermott to call out a player publicly. If he's tried privately to convey that message to Coleman and it hasn't gotten through, then it's a particularly bad sign that he's resorted to a public comment like that.

Coleman was drafted to be a long-term WR2, never the WR1 we all thought (and think) we need. Drafting at the end of the first round, the options were limited. I think the Bills made a mistake by undervaluing Xavier Worthy, who turned out to be far better than many expected. So yeah, it was a mistake not to grab Worthy when they had the chance. But as for Coleman, maybe he does need to show more dedication to physical training, to tape study, to understanding the offense, and to better two-way communication with Josh. The fact remains that Worthy is a small guy and Coleman is not. You'd think it would be Worthy who was more likely to be injured, but a wrist is a vulnerable point for everyone. It could still turn out that Worthy gets broken in two by some throwback safety, and that Coleman becomes a productive and reliable weapon. Time will tell. All that said, it wasn't Coleman or any other receiver that kept the Bills out of the SB. It was the lack of depth and capability among the DBs. And THAT was due to Beane trying to play whackamole with all the gaps that appeared in his roster a year ago. He patched together what might have been an adequate secondary, but when a couple of starters went down, the weakness appeared.

Way too expensive, both in what it would cost to trade for him, and what his salary would be. ********************************************************************** Trading Stafford makes no sense from the Rams perspective. They were nearly in the SB last year, and will return a very good team even without Kupp. Nacua is the real deal. So they should be looking to win, now, not in a few years when someone new figures out how to play QB. Stafford is still a very good QB.

My brother and I had jobs as vendors when the stadium opened. It was our job to carry trays of beverages up and down the stairs, selling as we went. The first year I was 17 so I could only sell pop (boy it's good to call it that and not get sneered at), but the next couple of years I could sell beer since the drinking age was 18. I think I was there for every game the first three years the stadium was open. The comeback game against the Raiders, when Ahmad Rashad caught the winning TD, after OJ got hurt and wasn't available and after Braxton fumbled to give the Raiders the lead back -- probably the most amazing end of a game I was ever in the stands for. I also was in the stands behind the Minnesota bench in a late season game in the snow, when both OJ and Chuck Foreman were chasing the lead for rushing TDs. Someone behind me threw the snowball that hit one of the Vikings (Foreman, I think) in the eye. It was a great job for a college kid. I could make pretty good money and watch the Bills and OJ for free. I only gave up the job because I transferred from UB to Albany to pursue a major not offered in Buffalo. Probably not 1972. The stadium opened in 1973. I did get to see Namath play there, but his knees were shot by then and he couldn't do much.

Long fingers! Should play the piano.

Getting drafted by the wrong team, when all you'll be is training camp fodder or a placeholder while their starter gets over an injury, is a killer for many promising players. Going undrafted lets you have a voice in where you sign, and lets you see the lay of the land about where you have a chance to stick.

A lot of those four and five star players aren't out the yin yang, they're out the door through the portal when they realize they're not going to get onto the field for 2 or 3 years, if at all, because of all the OTHER four and five star players at the SEC school. There's a lot to be said for getting the opportunity to play for several years.

Maybe he flies under the radar for the NFL, and the local team is the only one that gives him a shot. It could work out. The combine isn't the goal -- making a team's 53 is the goal.