GunnerBill

I felt the Bills defended that drive pretty well fundamentally. But the two big pass plays are Lamar getting guys to come up thinking he will run and then taking advantage behind. You have to almost fight your instincts there. Gotta respond on offense.

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I agree to a degree. The rule book should just be simplified. That would fix a lot of the issues.

Ha no he was on Sky's NFL coverage. EDIT: and sadly the BBC doesn't have F1 anymore.

True perfection has to be imperfect muppy. I know that that sounds foolish but it's true.

I've been quite calm all week. I have been nervous as hell today.

With respect I think you are conflating two things. We need to separate whether it was clearly objectively not roughing the passer from whether the ref's subsequent explanation of why he threw the flag after the game was predicated on an objective falsehood. I'm all for replay assist getting involved in facemask calls and I believe I have seen that happen this year where a flag is thrown for a facemask and they have picked it up and said "after involvement of replay assist there is no penalty." Last night was NOT a facemask call. It was roughing the passer. That is what they called. Now I know the ref said after the game he called it because he "had forcible contact to the facemask." When you see the replay slowed down from a couple of angles it is clear that you don't have such contact and most of the forcible contact is to the shoulder. However, that does not mean that the roughing the passer call was objectively wrong. The actual text of the rule says that: Roughing will be called if, in the Referee’s judgment, a pass rusher clearly should have known that the ball had already left the passer’s hand before contact was made. That is pretty clear that the call is at the discretion of the referee and it give him pretty wide discretion. Further in giving example of things a referee can look for in deciding whether to call roughing the passer it states: (1) forcibly hitting the passer’s head or neck area with the helmet or facemask, even if the initial contact of the defender’s helmet or facemask is lower than the passer’s neck, and regardless of whether the defensive player also uses his arms to tackle the passer by encircling or grasping him; or (2) lowering the head and making forcible contact with any part of the helmet against any part of the passer’s body. While in this case we clearly didn't have element #1 there is a slight dipping of the head from Anderson and then there is forcible contact with a part of the helment against Mahomes's shoulder. So even in a world where we had no challenges but replay assist could buzz down and overrule a ref's call on any single play, I'm not sure it would have got involved there. It was a subjective, judgment call on roughing the passer. The reason the ref though it was in the end was flawed, but I'm not sure an official watching replay assist would look at the play and say definitively than an objective mistake had been made to call roughing.

McDermott is SOLD. Does he have a notebook?

I wasn't high on Elam either. I though there were 8 corners that year with day 1 or day 2 grades and I had Elam ranked 7th of 8. Revel would make sense but I don't know if this regime has ever taken a guy coming off a serious injury like an ACL. Revel got hurt in October I think. The chances of him full go for camp are slim.

The point is not whether it is a challenge or not a challenge. The point is whether it is a foul or not a foul and those subjective calls are never going to be perfect whether you have 10 refs or two. The best thing they could do IMO is really simplify the rule book.

And if Quarterbacks can play at a decent level to 38 to 40. There are only about 8 or 9 guys max I'd take ahead of him. He didn't play well last night but as you say he took a huge hit. Upgrading Goff is darn difficult.

He lines up illegally on almost every play.

Yea the refs were adament that they had warned him. I am not sure Reid is being honest

The reason it isn't normally a flag is because the refs warn the coach, warn the player and only then do they call a flag. Reid and Toney were both warned. It was a penalty. 100% correct flag.

Interestingly the one McDermott run draft - 2017 - the Bills made six picks. All six: White, Jones, Dawkins, Milano, Peterman, Vallejo; were seniors. And that White, Dawkins, Milano class is one of the best drafts in Bills history. They all played as rookies and by their 2nd year were mainstays of the team.

A switch back to the "at least 30 starts" rule of Parcells!

I think Cook only has one year left. He was the same draft as James Cook. I remember 'cos in the embedded when Beane tells the admin guys to "get Cook on the phone" they ask "which one?" and Beane has to confirm "James". But the Chiefs had actually taken Bryan anyway in the few picks after we'd made the 2nd trade back.

What it might do is change the general bias there has been against older "maxed out" QBs in recent years for toolsy prospect types.

He can play both spots I think. I liked him more long term as a SS which is Reid's spot. But he can be a FS too.

Yea I liked Hicks a lot. I had him slightly above Bishop as my S3.

Ben Johnson is wholly responsible for the playcalling. His Head Coach gives him carte blanche and maybe could have tried to dial him back but I think you go with what got you there to an extent.

It is certainly possible in this class. It depends a lot I think on what teams make of Mykel Williams and Shermar Stewart. They are definitiely more all around ends but they don't have anything like the pass rush upside Green has. I still think he ends up final 3rd of round 1 or early round 2. But I wouldn't be shocked if you were right and he goes top 20.

The trick play was unnecessary there but I think getting away from Gibbs was the bigger failure.

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