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This is absolute crap.

Somebody mentioned weight. It's not just an equipment issue, but it also includes body weight. These guys are getting bigger, faster, and stronger every year. Also strength and explosion, which the NFL is predicated on both. The stronger and more explosive a player is the tighter he is. The faster he gets the tighter he gets. Strong athletes are tight by nature, it's the tightness that creates elasticity, the promotes what they do best. So as athletes get better the more injury prone they will be, if that makes sense. I worked with a pretty good S&C coach with at the Oly training center who used to work with MLB picthers and Jenny Finch in their offseason. He said he'd do very little if any stretching or working on their pitching arm. Had to stay tight to keep up the velocity. All he could do was keep the body in balance, and enough work on the pitching side to prevent injury. Note that this is pretty simplified when it comes to physiology, but the premise is absolutely true. I also think that there is some PED issues here. The body is getting bigger, faster, and stronger at a rate to quick to maintain performance, so it fails. You see it a lot in high end athletes with poor developmental coaching, who then find a coach who knows what they are doing, then they explode. That is in any sport. I have said it a few times, the NFL is NOT hiring the best physiologists. They just aren't. Football is a game of physiological freaks who get by with doing more work not the right work. Watch these guys clean or deadlift sometime. It's pretty terrible. It's accompied by a salaried S&C coach asking for more weight and more reps. Explosiveness is not really trainable. I have a few friends who work for the highest paid international sports in the world. Many of whom have met or worked in the NFL. All claim that most NFL trainers are flat out bad at their jobs and could never ever work for places like the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) US Ski, or the German Sports University. All of whome are the best in the world at sports physiology, and considered the leaders of the study in the world. (Note: US Ski/Snowboarding is one of the most difficult places to get work in in the USA for sport science. You have to be extremely accredited and one of the best at what you do in the world)

Surprised, an hour + into practice, no report on first team QB reps Edit: Literally an update as I posted

There is no other side. He knocked a woman (whom he professes to love) out cold. Unless she had a gun, knife, or baseball bat, there is no reason. Another poster keeps referencing reading up on men who abuse women. I'm pretty fluent in it, I have men in my family who were never much man at all, and abused women. It isn't an accident, it isn't isolated. It's sick. My point is, if he was really working a program working on his DV, he never ever would have allowed his wife to apologize. Even if that was pre-"rehabilitation", he would apologize for allowing her to do that. The two sides to this story you reference are: 1. Ray Rice punched his wife in the face 2. Ray Rice is a terrible human being who doesn't deserve a good woman in his life. Whether he should be able to seek employment in the NFL is a separate conversation. But those points aren't debatable.

In an attempt to not hijack the thread I'll say my peace and won't address it again. Marriage or not, he allowed his fiancé/wife/girlfriend to attend a press conference and publicly apologize for her role in the incident. That's not the act of a man who feels remorse or understands the severity of what he did. A man who understands his actions in that situtiation, never allows for the woman to apologize for getting knocked out. Let alone has her do it sitting right next to him at a nationally televised press conference. Probably has, and probably continues to abuse her both physically and emotionally. If it weren't for her apology, I may be on your bandwagon of reform. I believe in second chances as much as anybody, but that whole circus was a disaster.

I absolutely hate the guy....but we are pretty depleted at the RB position right now. Get him in then get him out.

Semantics bro/s

This is talked about ad naseum but I don't think its TT. Cassel at this point.

But what if 789. Why can't that happen. You're EJ bias is really getting in the way of thinking clearly here.

It's not going to happen. He might be 3rd on the depth chart, but he won't be outright cut. Possibly traded, but not cut. I don't think he starts, but I also don't see a ton from the other 2. I think he sticks around and it is another open QB competition next year. Whoever starts won't play well enough to be named the outright starter next year. If he isn't named the starter next year anything could happen.

Love them! Just coming back this weekend from an 8 week work trip. I have work in St. Kitts all week too. I'm hoping to God I am home in time for this. Similarly, every moe. Show in Buffalo, I seem to be stuck in something I totally can't get out of. Not sure what the deal is.

I bet there a bunch of players that do this. Shady is the only one posting it on Instagram. Is it any different than a bunch of these guys paying hookers and pton stars?

Moulds is far better than our top two WR now, and they aren't slouches. But Watkins and Harvin are way better than Evans ever was. It's a tough choice. I think I side with 2015 there. You give a lot of credit to the 2004 DL, but not one of those guys would start on this line. They are hands down better. It's not close.

I was never a fan of the hire. Nor did I blink when he left. But....my ex's aunt worked for DM at SU. They got along great. Offered her a job in Buffalo. She refused. He used to give the ex and I tickets on the reg. Purely anecdotal. I want to believe the rumors about being a prick to secrararies are true because I really dislike the man. But it never existed in this case.

W NNNNNNNNNNNNN BC

Has Doug Marrone been to the playoffs let alone a conference championship game? Speaking solely in the roles we are judging, Hc v. Hc

Carucci has been wrong pretty regularly for some time now. We just notice it more because he only reports on Buffalo.

What's the angle here Beerball?/s

That's incredible to me. If it's like the Naval Academy then he needs a congressional letter of recommendation. It's insane to me that he was able to get one. He's a sociopath and stuff like that is apparent at a pretty young age.

My aunt married a Boston guy. He knows TB12* cheated. His only hope was that there was no smoking gun so he hoped (but he knows unlikely) that could help side step a suspension My Aunt and grandmother (both buffalonians) think that Tommy boy is a saint and such a stand up guy that could never lie. I think I might disown those two from my family/life. They deserve it.

Absolutely. I am not sure of the rate of decrease though, and yes I saw the stats posted. I think that any rate of change on game day is of lesser concern to the league than the conscious effort to willing break the rules and procedures. An institutionalized protocol to hide breaking the rules is of greater significance to the game. It means any form of cheating could be possible with the right amount of planning and bribery. This is closer to fixing/throwing games than it is any form of generalized cheating I've seen in sports in my lifetime.

I totally agree with this. I am just expanding on it. Taking the "could be wins" where we get the lucky bounce/call or two, then things are great. But you could also count the bad breaks and go the other way too is all I all I am saying. If we can say we were a JJ Watt interception away from another win, Chicago was also a Kyle Williams interception away from another win. Or we were a PI call away against Carolina from getting another loss. I am just saying we are what we are currently. A middling team that is hopefully on the rise. So until we prove otherwise it is tough to discredit pundits from considering us anything less or more than that.

That's not true. Trained elite (aerobic) athletes use significantly higher levels of fat as a fuel source than carbohydrates. Their bodies are trained to do so. It is actually preferred, producing better long term results. The only time fat isn't used as a fuel source among athletes is anaerobic work. Without (ample)oxygen in the blood stream the body cannot process fats. Hence the Darby arguement. Fats are also an important part of recovery. It is one of the largest reasons a higher body fat percentage is necassary in aerobic based sports. Without a higher fat content athletes can't recover fast enough while performing regularly at an elite level, to get through a world championship cycle or Olympic quadrennial. 2% (if that actually exists) would absolutely be enough to get through a marathon, not arguing that. All I am saying is it wouldn't be enough to get through even the taper weeks leading up to the marathon, while still producing an optimal individual result. Cannot train as an elite level aerobic athlete at 2%. I am not arguing whether or not Darby is actually at 2%. I agree that such a low reading is probably inaccurate. There was speculation as to whether or not it was a healthy or even plausible place to be and perform at a healthy/high level, so I accepted measurement and rationalized that football is an acceptable sport to have such a low body fat percentage. Because football is almost entirely anaerobic, and anaerobic activity burns little fat (reason stated above), 2% is ok.

To play Devils advocate. We were also a full game worth of starters vs. the Pats** to being 8-8 as well. The Bills have been middling for years now. That means a couple of bounces one way or another we could have been a disaster or very good. Until we prove otherwise we are what we are. I am high on this roster but also accept the prior statement.

This is my problem as well. I don't care all that much about the competitive advantage of deflating footballs. I don't think it's all that large, and each QB has a certain level of customization of them. But the lieing, stealing, bribing are a HUUUGE issue. The 100% knowledge and understanding that what they were doing was against the rules, so much so they had to sneak around and lie. It's borderline incredible.