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Stevie Thompson is an assistant on Oregon state and his son, Ethan, is their leading scorer? How did I not know they? Stevie is in my top-5 favorite Syracuse bball Players of all time!

I look forward to another year of, “can we activate Christian Wade?” Posts.

There are some “dust in my eye” moments every time I watch Castaway (which is a movie I will stop and watch any time I see it in TV).

my girl is a tear jerker— both the movie and the book.

I remember Rian Lindell saying this about kickers and the same holds true about punters. There are only 32 spots in the league. So most guys aren’t rolling the dice and bouncing from team to team if they don’t have to. There’s a lot more risk in testing the market, and Bojo is probably finding this out the hard way.

one thing KC and Buffalo fans can mostly agree on is what a waste of Watkins was. That the chiefs didn’t even seem to offer him the same pretty measly deal that Baltimore gave him shows Me too it wasn’t really about money. To your point, a rookie or bargain vet at the WR 2 spot is perfect. You already have Kelce and Hill as basically your 1/2, Hardiman for a few other targets, and can you use your backs well in the passing game. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to invest more money in your O skill players.

Agreed re Quincy. All I am reading is how Houston’s “best offense is a missed shot.” Quincy is going to have to kill it down low for us to win this game. Everyone really needs to crash the boards. I am really hoping Griffin has a breakout performance. He’s due.

same here— had no idea she was still alive. Lots of classic books. I distinctly remember “Dear Mr. Henshaw” as a kid— that book stuck with me for years. Been cool reading her Ramona books now with my 9-year old.

I said this earlier, but a pretty huge fall from grace. This contract value basically means that the chiefs would rather have anyone else as their WR3 than Watkins. It’s not even the money. He eats up a roster space and often an active game day spot, as when he does play, he is often hobbled/less than 100%.

it’s worse than that. He didn’t even make it that far. Slipped on his way to sign the contract and out (week to week).

Next thread: Brandon Powell released by the Bills....

What has to hurt about this too for him is that the chiefs easily could have re-signed him to that sort of contract, but didn’t even want him as their #2 or #3.

Seems about right. Since they don’t throw the ball, they won’t miss him much when he is on IR.

Agreed. Such a weird feeling. How about that nervous/scared feeling when you know you are losing all your best players in free agency?

very happy about this. Had a feeling they wouldn't go into the season with McKittrick as the lead return guy. Powell seems decent and sure-handed. Probably can fill in in a pinch a little better at receiver than Roberts. I also think he use to get some snaps at RB in college.

you know the team better than me. But Terrell Pryor was arguably the most hyped future NFL superstar recruit out of High School in my lifetime. He had some great passing seasons at Ohio State too under Tressell. And even guys like JT Barrett had 3,000 yard passing seasons. I do think back when those earlier dual threat players were coming out (Smith and Pryor), the NFL was much different. If Pryor came out today, you wonder if he would have been developed into a very good/great NFL QB.

I find it so weird that NFL teams seem to place so little value on 1st round picks. Teams just giving them away like nothing.

Fair point. But you have to admit that it is awfully weird that one very elite school has had so many NFL misses. It's not like these other schools recruit as well or have as highly touted and highly performing college QB's as Ohio State. Haskens, Fields, Troy Smith, Cardale Jones, Pryor, Braxton Miller, even Kenny Guiton. These guys all kill it in college, and then many of them are rated as very good pro prospects, and none panned out. It's very odd to me.

I will do a major mea culpa on Fields if he pans out-- but right now, there have been zero successful OSU QB's in the NFL.

Smart move by the Fins. It buys them another year or two with Tua to see if he is the guy. The risk though is if these future 1st rounders are not top-10 picks--then they've missed their chance on a legit franchise QB draft position.

I seriously want to buy and wear that badge.

Well said. If I had to guess, there was no market for him, beyond this sort of same 1-year deal. For like the last 10 years, it seems like Tampa Bay has basically had a bunch of interchangable, decent RB's of all roughly the same average caliber-- they all blend together in my mind. LeGarret Blount, Doug Martin, Mike James, Peyton Barber, Ronald Jones, etc. Fournette fits that same profile-- pretty good runner at times, will miss some games, but not much to write home about.

Huh? Fromm? When did he commit like 10 off-field incidents, including multiple drug and domestic violence offenses? In any event, you have to follow the team enough to know that Beane wouldn't go near Smith.

High risk is right. Aldon Smith is exactly the kind of character guy that the Bills try to avoid. I would expect that if he were to show up and agree to play for free, they still wouldn't want him within a mile of their facility.