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i have to say that it is always fun to be debating over our 6th or 7th wide receivers. This time of year is great!

point well taken. But I still come back to the main sticking point of some arguing that the team would keep Austin over Crowder. Austin is the ultimate flier. I just don’t see him giving them any meaningful production.

I actually don’t think crowder is competing with Austin. I can’t see the Bills signing Austin as a legit option as a WR. Maybe as purely a ST player. But as a WR, the guy hasn’t ever had a season as good as Crowder’s average season. I also don’t think it is fair to knock Crowder as being injury prone. Yeah, the guy has missed a few games each season here and there, but that’s not injury prone. Odds are he plays 12-15 games. I would take that.

Agreed. They would be nuts rolling the dice on Austin to cut Crowder.

haha—someone has a David Nelson Bills jersey?! That is great.

yeah, he is not making the team as a blocker. If he keeps dropping balls and not getting open, he will be cut. That said, count me in the minority who likes Sweeney and thinks he can still turn it around. Still a young guy, and missed an entire season.

Sounding like OJ Howard is regressing to how he used to play for my fantasy teams.

Haha— that is not going to stick.

Sounds from his wiki page that he was diagnosed with liver cancer only two months ago. He was great on an iconic show! RIP.

This is great news. The more they stick with him, the less they are a threat. I expect Mac to get better, but is his ceiling anything more than a prime Matt Schaub or prime Chad Pennington?

Called today, and got it for free. No haggling. I think this is 3 out of the last 4 years of getting it totally free. going to miss DTV!

beane said “cracked some ribs.”

if you just look at his fumbles, it actually understates how bad he has been. He misplays a ton of balls too, which had led to near “touches” and muffs. It’s less of a fumbling issue with him, and more of a decision making problem.

maybe some pseudo-media connections? Seems like Cover One was represented, and so I wonder if some of these podcasts and local website writers had some reserved tickets?

I don’t have all the rules in front of me, but I doubt that Austin is PS eligible. I think he has too many accrued seasons.

i remember going to the Bills/Steelers joint TC practices a few years ago. It was so disorienting watching all the different groups at the same time. I always wondered how if you streamed any of it, whether anyone would even know what is going on half the time.

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I refuse to play such a dangerous jinx game. You guys pretty much have learned nothing from the last 30 years of bad juju.

Same here. I feel guilty sometimes, but I actually steer my kids away from playing youth sports. My elementary school boys play basketball, but nothing else. I don’t really have the time to chauffeur them all around or kill our evenings and summers on youth sports. I figure they can mess around playing in gym, neighborhood sorts of games, and then if they really get into something later on, can see about getting them involved in a reasonable way. maybe this is old fashioned, but when I was kid, I didn’t do all these organized sports. I played pickup bball, pickup football, tennis in the park, backyard baseball. I did little league for a few years when older and some rec bball in middle school. i just don’t get the travel league youth sports starting from age 6. Seems like a waste of time.

hey, that’s why we are debating this! I would argue that Smith’s success was directly related to his stud oline (not to mention a pretty powerful passing game). Bettis played behind some decent lines, but nothing like the cowboys. And he spent his prime with Mike Tomzak and Kordell as his QB’s.

He isn’t getting the full 230 guaranteed? Sucker!

I agree that he plodded forward most of the time. I don’t think that made Emmett “special.” He was good and running downhill and through open holes. He was just a solid back, in my book. Not special in any way. Re those 90s backs, I would take Sanders, Thurman, Allen, Faulk, T Davis, and Bettis all over Emmitt.

Spot on. You just watched Smith, and he literally did nothing special. His vision was okay, speed okay, burst and strength okay. The guy just played a lot of years behind an elite line.

I think people forget that play. That was really JP’s coming out party.

well said. You hit the nail on the head. It was like David landing a mortal first blow on Goliath’s forehead. That HR was everything.