In my eyes... I thought that he looked completely disengaged while playing for the Packers last year. What's even worse, though, is that his last few playoff appearances have been almost unbelievably bad.
If it's that obvious... and it results directly in the QB being able to get the ball out... it should be called. If they called an obvious hold on every play... the people doing the holding would be out of the game real fast.
I'm not minimizing or trivializing what may or may not have happened here... if the posted story is factual then it's a truly horrible thing. I'm just wondering, why is Araiza being confronted with a civil lawsuit... rather than with criminal charges?
I've no argument against putting Butch Byrd onto the Bills' Wall of Fame... but I also remember Booker Edgerson being a much better player than what's being suggested here...
My first memory was an exhibition game during the 1969 preseason... OJ Simpson's rookie year. Though I can remember OJ playing at USC fairly clearly, I don't think that he played very much at all during my first Bills game... most of the carries went to Mini Max Anderson and Bill "Earthquake" Enyart. Jack Kemp was still the starting quarterback at that time... but I think that James Harris took most of the snaps in this one.