TheBrownBear

Have you seen the movie Companion?

Who amongst us isn't excited by the idea of pouring ourselves into other guys?

At least this is encouraging news.

Here's what I said on the day he was signed :

Congrats to Shavers! Always thought he had nice potential after seeing him in person at SDSU.

Same here. My HS bud and I reconnected one summer when we were home from college. Bought an old '69 VW bus for $350, rebuilt the engine and drove it around the country for 10 weeks. Knew nothing of GNP, but fell in love with the place the first night next to Lake McDonald. We ended up spending two full weeks in Glacier with plenty of backpacking. One of my most favorite places on Earth.

Most of this is just nothingburgers (Cook's hold-in was like a week and ended positively, Gabe Davis isn't even signed, preseason is just preseason and injuries happen), but I do agree that New England looks poised to push us. And I do slightly worry about the mindset of the team (McDermott imploring the vets to get it in gear during that one clip) and whether they aren't distracted by the Hard Knocks stuff. I can definitely see a slow start to the season where we are forced to play catch-up to push past the Pats (see 2023).

Right. Probably worried that the NFL will become the NBA where the players hold all the power.

I'm sure it's disappointing, but the dream isn't over for the kid. If the Bills liked him enough to draft him, there's a decent chance he might get a chance on the PS next season.

Hard to believe, but Davis is only 26 years old with potentially a lot of football left ahead of him. I wasn't sad to see him go, but given our current WR situation, I'd be happy to see him return as a 4th/5th receiver and fill-in for Coleman. I like Shavers too, but he's completely unproven at this point.

Burrow almost got himself killed too.

Nice start! Lol.

To be fair, we had a pop gun offense and desperately needed game breakers. And that was still the tail end of the era of the running back, where an elite back like Adrian Peterson could drag a team to the playoffs.

Oddly enough, even though crypto is considered a sort of rightwing or libertarian bro thing to be into, my woke AF activist BIPOC wife got us invested in ETH and BTC years ago. Only reason we were able to buy a house here in SoCal.

It's our time in the AFC. I expect to see one of either us or the Ravens in the Super Bowl this year against the Lions, Commanders or Eagles.

Guy had a random scapular fracture as a rook, but still played in 16 games, started 4, and started.pur playoff game against the Chiefs. He had no significant injury concerns in college. He's barely a year into his career. If he doesn't start and misses 5+ games this year, then you can label him a red flag. I expect him to show out as the season progresses.

I thought Coleman was having a great camp? Has something changed?

Yes, let's give up on our second round pick because of some minor injuries early in his career.

Cook always looks that way. That doesn't mean he is or ever has been stoned, but yes, it does look that way. I'm neutral on cannabis (have and still occasionally imbibe). It wouldn't work for me to go through life in that state constantly, but I know many true stoners that have absolutely excelled throughout their academic and professional careers (finance, law, engineering, etc.). At the end of the day, perform like 2024 James Cook and I really don't give a crap how high you are.

LET'S GO BOYS!!!!!

That one still stings. I was a sophomore at the time. I remember excitedly watching that one with my fraternity brothers, all discussing our plans to make the trip to the national title game only to watch James tear our hearts out. Have never been remotely close to a BCS championship again.

McDermott, in my opinion, has had one terrible moment (13 seconds) that hangs like an albatross around his neck. I think the other losses were understandable due to key injuries and/or a lack of player execution in key moments, or just frankly not catching a break that other teams seem to get at one point or another. Might be too much to ask, but I'd love to see us waltz into a playoff game against KC just once (not counting 2020 where they were just way damn better than us) where we were relatively strong and healthy on the defensive side of the ball (or didn't lose our best player (See Benford) in the first quarter).

My takeaway after watching that? Thank God we have boring old McDermott.

I know nothing about the guy except what the public sees on the field, interviews and social media, so I'm not going to cast aspersions, but it does seem like Beane and McDermott have never really gone out of their way to praise Cook as an important locker room guy or leader in any way, which makes me believe you're on to something.

Yep. And they were both canceled around the same time.