That's No Moon

Also need to remember (everyone, not you) that the defense wasn't scheming to take advantage of Bobby Hart either e.g. taking away his help, trying to force him to block in space or against speed, etc. He's an NFL veteran, he has a skill set. Last Saturday lined up really well with what he is good at. Friday night may or may not do more of that. The staff has shown us repeatedly that any backup linemen need to be able to play multiple positions. Ford is gone because he is guard only (amongst other stuff). Hart showed he can play some tackle and some guard, hence he's here for now.

Cook looked really smooth the other day. Some guys are violent runners, some are more herky jerky, Cook was just gliding out there - like water off a duck. I'm excited to see more of him.

Water dispenser kept freezing up on the fridge. Slapped some adhesive pipe wrap on the back of the freezer door where the cold air would fall directly against the door and where I surmised the freezing was happening. Problem solved. $10 of pipe wrap (only used half the roll, but now I have extra) and a pair of scissors.

He also looks natural catching the ball which many backs are not. Given the way the Bills use their backs this is important. Maybe the most important pre-season stats for Blackshear are the KR and ST tackle stats.

Then played hurt a whole season, struggled because of it, and lost his job. The lesson? Go on IR and don't hurt your brand.

Funny, I was looking at Tampa's situation this morning and wondering if there might be a deal to be made there as well.

I see that and raise you Anthony Gray

It wouldn't be a pre-season if we didn't have a UDFA to drool over. Don't take that away from me.

The cities sure, but if you take Erie, Niagara, Monroe, and Onandaga Counties it's more like 2.3 million. If you add in reasonable counties in between like Orleans, Wyoming, Genesee, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Livingston you add another 360,000. There are plenty more people in Central NY beyond that that I didnt count. Then go ahead and remember you have another 100k people directly over the border in Fort Erie and Niagara Falls and a big swath of people reaching up to Toronto, many of which would be interested in watching a winning football team. You also have tons of ex-pats who come back to town just for that. I've been one of those lots of time when the team was crap. It's a lot more motivating to drop the coin now that they are good.

It's ok, I'm probably driving to CT that night for a hockey tournament on Friday in NH

I don't do that.

It's easy to get around the paywall tbh

Why don't he and Kingsbury just play Madden together?

What are they supposed to do? They are just running the ball at this point. It's not like they are out there running all kinds of silliness.

they need every rep they can get before week 1

Here's an example of the refs today. That dude running off the field right before the kneel down play. That's 12 men in the huddle which is a penalty. They let him run off. Throw the flag. The coach WANTS you to throw that flag.

He boxes out well

In his defense when guys are split out the ask the line judge if they are on and adjust if they aren't. Howard was clearly pointing and asking and didn't get the feedback to indicate he was off, the guy threw the flag though.

If I had to give James Cook an adjective it would be silky

line is opening holes. everyone is eating today.

I'm ok with that.

I just said this to the missus.

They had good coverage on the one where McCloud missed the tackle and also apparently took a katana to the face