Rocky Landing

so, you're saying we should have run the ball less? Because you cant have it both ways.

I didn't realize Holmes was a scrub.

Comic relief. In the Maclin thread, it was food. In this thread it's this guy.

This is just how it goes when you're a farm team for the Patriots*.

Starting offense is almost the same, though. At least, so far.

This is one guy who was probably pretty (quietly) happy that Maclin went elsewhere.

What kind of food does he like?

If someone could pull out all of the recipes from this thread and put them into a "Jeremy Maclin Cookbook," maybe throw in a recipe that included sour grapes, or something, it would be much appreciated.

i bought a propane grill and was disappointed with the temperature. I want my grill to go to 11, and it only went up to about 8 1/2. So, I took out the heat plates, laid in a steel mesh, and covered it in lava rocks. Now that SOB goes to about 15. Another unintended upside to that was that the lava rocks collect all the grease, and fat, and crap that falls off the food, and it cooks better with age. As I understand it, the Ravens have too thin a cap space to comfortably afford Maclin, right?I'd be pretty happy if we signed him or Decker. But, I think maybe there is instant team chemistry with Maclin.

If TJ Yates gets cut, I would take that as an indication that McD is comfortable with how well his system gets implemented, and that would be good news. And, if Cardale is showing any signs that he is losing his inconsistency, we should keep him, IMO.

I wonder if we will ever see TT effectively throw up the middle. We almost never see TT climb up in the pocket, and until he starts to do that consistently, I think he'll continue to have issues up the middle. I hope Zay can have better success in that part of the field than Clay has.

I was pretty amazed to see a commercial for opioid-induced constipation meds during the last Super Bowl. Opioid addiction has hit the mainstream, I suppose? But, I was appalled a couple years before when I was watching Sunday afternoon football with my young daughter, and they showed an ad for some cop-drama TV show that featured a close-up of a severed human foot.

Out of curiosity, did you think he was done when he was originally cut? I didn't, although, I did think he was about to play his last season. His last play as a Bill, albeit in preseason, was fantastic, and included an awesome stiff-arm against a worthy opponent, iirc.

BTW- who told Neil Greenberg that Jones was second on the depth chart?

There are quite a few head scratchers on this list. Describing someone like Matt Schaub as "not ready for prime time," for example. Ryan Fitzpatrick 29th-- 13 spots behind Geno Smith? Was recent history not considered in this list???

For what it's worth (which is, of course, damned little), Fred Jackson my all-time, favorite player. That, probably, says everything this board needs to know about me. All that being said. I have very mixed feelings about this.

I did.

Then it's an obvious move to cut him. Seems unlikely another team will claim him. And then the Bills get a speedster in their back pocket that may recover down the road. Zero-risk move. Who's our fastest WR, now, btw?

I love Gronk. It's the Pats* I hate. And, no, I don't think that is a contradiction.

Fred Jackson. I understood the move. He was at the end of his career (although he did go and have some fun in Seattle his next, and last season). The Bills wanted to move on. I get that. I just hated the way it went down. One of my top favorite players of all time.

I didn't realize that replacing the coaching staff after two years was "a new way of doing things."

I'm sorry, but Jimmy Garoppolo was on that list. Gonna "shape the NFL season," is he?

This would be a heartbreaking move. Then again: What could we get with three first round picks in 2018?

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Some worthy off-season discussion: Yesterday, I had the pleasure of working on a PSA for an organization called the Gridiron Cannabis Foundation. We interviewed eight former NFL players, all of whom advocate for (and unapologetically use) medical marijuana, including Eben Britton, Chris Kluwe, Kyle Turley, Mark Restelli, Boo Williams, Ricky Williams, and Jim McMahon. Jim McMahon is an especially vocal advocate. He suffers from significant nerve damage (he found out later in life that he had played for a period of time with a broken neck!). At one point, while we were taping him in front of a teleprompter, his legs began shaking so badly, he almost fell over. I talked at length with Eben Britton about Seantrel Henderson's situation. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that shows that cannabis is one of the most effective treatments for many of the symptoms of Crohn's disease, with few side effects. Henderson is, perhaps, one of the best examples of the need for cannabis reform. The biggest point these guys had to make is that many players are compelled to use medications such as opioids, and others, many of which have lasting side effects such as liver, and kidney damage. Eben Britton relayed a story to me of a player he knows, who was faced with a choice between a literal handful of daily pills, versus marijuana use-- and for him there was no contest. It seems to me that the NFL could be out in front of this issue, and helping to inspire a national discussion that could help a lot of people. Instead, they are handing people suffering from disease, like Seantrel Henderson, ten game suspensions, and significant fines, and loss of income. Thoughts?