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Why? The one constant during Brady's career as an OC has been the success of his WRs. The jury is still out on his use of TEs.

Moore and Robbie Anderson were both great. That receiving corps was better than the Bills' current one and Samuel was their third option. He should be the Bills' 4th option behind Kincaid, Shakir, and Coleman. The big difference between that Carolina team and this Bills team is the tight ends.

I would say he didn't want to. They needed to right the ship after that 6-6 start, so they threw the ol' curve ball at the defenses. They relied heavily on their running game and unproven receivers, who defenses weren't focused on, and it worked out. They can't do that this year, obviously. These unproven receivers are now proven, and also don't have the proven guys taking attention off of them. McD will still want Brady to emphasize the running game in order to play complimentary football. As long as the running game is successful, the intermediate routes should still be open. This off-season, they acquired receiving targets specifically for Brady's offense. They may be a poor man's version of what Brady had at Carolina and LSU, but Brady still knows exactly how to use them in order to be successful. The big question mark for Brady is the TEs, which have never been an emphasis of his offense. Dalton Kincaid did just fine last year, which is a good sign.

That's the Allen effect, not Davis's talent. The year Samuel had Brady as his OC, he had a better statistical year than Davis has ever had...and that was with Teddy Bridgewater as his QB.

They definitely need some real investors who are interested in owning the teams. I keep seeing people say college athletes can make more money now, but that only seems true for the top tier. I'm talking about lower tier guys. If my dream is to play football and I'm not a scholarship guy, I'd much rather make football my sole focus and get paid while learning from pro coaches, then go to college later. It's probably a pipe dream, but these spring leagues need to somehow tap into the college talent pool. It would require some deeper pockets. Other than that, they need to somehow work it out with the NFL to allow their backups and practice-squaders to play spring football. The UFL talent pool just isn't interesting enough.

Not as interesting as the Kiko jersey exchange story.....

Reid has already subbed in for an injured Butler before, so it's already a skill he has and is a natural line of thinking for Andy. However, I doubt there will be many other examples of this, if any. Bubble players who are struggling to make the team are going to focus on their positional skills. They're not going to focus on kicking the ball. Yeah, at first I thought McD was gonna hold an open tryout.

There was considerably more NFL attention to this league than the past iterations. Idk if it will help get more UFL players signed, but it seems that both sides are more accepting of this idea of a pseudo-farm system. I still say, if I'm a college player who's just sitting on the bench, I'd rather sign with a UFL team to get developed by some pro coaches and possibly get noticed by the NFL. If this league stays, I'd love to see stories like that.

Over for sure. Kincaid is going to have a heavy workload. I think Knox still spends most of his time inline, but he has to be a receiving weapon. It's a fail on Brady's part if he doesn't recognize what Knox does for setting the physical tone of the offense. Design some early short catches for him where he can run over a defender. However, we have to remember that Brady really has no history of ever using a top flight TE, let alone two. This is new territory for him.

Cook is extremely underrated. Dude was only #6 in yards from scrimmage last year. No big deal. That alone disqualifies the whole list.

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Absolutely. This is not a social thing, as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems this is supposed to be a competitive league. It's the National Gay Flag Football League. As far as I know, they already have national competitive leagues that are open to everyone. Since that's the case, the rest of your post, while being a totally valid point, is not relevant to this conversation.

Thanks for sharing. It's obviously a point of contention, but there's no real barrier. Like when leagues were racially segregated back in the day. There was a literal barrier that caused the need to create a black league and black universities. When segregation ended, there was still contention, but that went away over the years. That's the path I thought the contention with LGBTQ players was taking as well. There's no barrier here that justifies a need to create a separate league. They need to coexist in order to move forward. Creating a separate league is going backwards.

It's being so normalized and accepted throughout lower level sports (and high level womens sports) that it's just kind of hard to believe it was needed in something like flag football. Maybe it's just the football crowd, but especially the mens leagues, where it's a bigger hurdle. Women's leagues, like the WNBA I mentioned before, are very welcoming and upfront about it.

The Republicans had a good, young candidate in Ramaswamy. They totally shot themselves in the foot. We're screwed for the next 4 years.

Are these the real reasons this league was created? Honest question. Because as far as I know, LGBTQ people have been able to play flag football without issue.

Hakeem Butler hasn't signed anywhere yet?

Was Heidi like a hawt bar maid or something?

I keep seeing this thread title and thinking "Not Gonna Freaking Lie"

Hell, just go to a WNBA game Wowzer I kid, I kid ... Those games are actually pretty fun. Unlike an NBA game, I can just walk on down to the end of the court and hang out with a floor view

This paragraph discredits your whole argument. You think the Vikings have been just as good as the Bills. I think so. They've been disappointing at the end of every season.

This league will give a whole new meaning to the term "butt fumble"

It's your thread that you started. I'm just looking for any actual reasons or facts from you to justify your theory. All I see are unsupported opinions and generalities. The fact is that they broke the playoff drought, with what everyone considered a poor QB, while playing average, bend-don't-break defense and having the number 4 running back. After drafting their guy and having another year to build around him, they get back to the playoffs in his 2nd year. Allen was still developing then. He was an above average QB in his 2nd year. But with no reasons given, you think if they got Kirk Cousins (an above average QB) they would be even worse. Reality has shown us that there is clearly a winning process under this regime no matter who the QB is. With an above average QB like Cousins, they would be just fine.

All you say is "I don't think we would do that" Okay, sounds good! 👍