That's No Moon

I agree with many already stated, let's throw some new ones into the mix Brock Samson Jim Brockmire Dr. Rick Sanchez

I'm having a little trouble understanding why people don't like Mayfield. Worked himself from a walk-on (TWICE) to the Heisman Trophy winner. Nobody will ever question his compete level. He was a 3 star recruit. Nobody ever handed him anything. He started as a true freshman walk-on at Texas Tech when the starter got hurt and went 5-0 before he got hurt himself. They didn't give him the job back when he was healthy and they also signed another QB to a scholarship which in reality would have put him minimally 3rd on the depth chart as a non-scholarship player. If it was my kid, and he played that well and they did that I advise him to leave too. Especially if another program was willing to give him a real chance. He bet on himself. Again. I like it. I'm not sure I get the uproar over planting the flag at the Shoe. That feels like a faux controversy for me. Ditto grabbing himself and shouting F you at a Kansas team that refused to shake his hand in the pregame and cheap shotted him during the game? Does he need to reign it in a little? Yeah probably. Do I particularly want a shrinking violet at QB? No. Is it particularly fair to Mayfield that the camera was focused on him and we got no perspective of what the Kansas players were doing and saying? A little. I don't know, I'm not beating the drum to get him, I'm worried about his height but the other stuff for me just seems minor and not really an issue. Even the arrest. I saw the video. We have no trouble honoring players who have done far far far more egregious things than that. I'm willing to wager that most of the people on this board have done more egregious things than that, we just managed to avoid an arrest out of dumb luck or a cops generosity.

Hopefully part of the conversation included not hanging out with Johnny Manziel anymore. Ever. Don't know if he was there or not, I know they are friends, I know Manziel was in San Diego shortly thereafter, and Johnny felt the need to open his mouth to vouch for Zay (as though that helped, at all). When balls that hit you in the hands are essentially uncatchable then yeah your uncatchable pass percentage will be pretty near 100%. How many passes in a season can forcibly wedge themselves into your facemask or crotch?

There are a bunch of quality DBs still out there. Wow.

I remember them thinking Elvis Grbac was an upgrade from Dilfer, and paying him handsomely to boot. 5 years 30 million. A nice deal at the time.

Not only do I think they don't trade up, I wouldn't be shocked if they trade down from 21 and collect more picks.

We are likely drafting a back this year at some point. He's never really stayed healthy anywhere and he's never really produced anything anywhere. You don't pay a player like this the vet minimum, you find a rookie to do what he did and save the cap space.

If I'm truly going all in on anyone it's Jimmy G. 2 1st round picks be damned. Suit him up and enjoy the trip to Foxboro for the next decade.

I'd never met my wife. I was still an undergraduate. I had no kids. I still technically lived with my parents. My grandfather was still alive. I drove a maroon 1989 Pontiac Grand Am. My sister was still in high school. NONE of the students I've taught in the last 5 years had been born yet. Jack Eichel was 3 years old. You could still send a telegram. Nobody knew what a hanging chad was. Nobody knew who Osama bin Laden was. Renting videos was still a thing. HDTV was brand new.

Let me rephrase, this has never happened anywhere on Earth in the history of man. Realize the game is rigged to keep the top at the top. It resets every now and again when someone sets the game board on fire but it eventually resorts itself with a different group at the top for awhile. Nobody gives a **** what "the people" say until the people start showing up with guillotines.

This doesn't happen anywhere on Earth. Why should football be different?

There are referees in WWE matches too.

Obvi Bills need to win. Also need either Cincinnati to win OR Jacksonville and Oakland both to win. All of those games are now on simultaneously at 4:25. Something Billsy will happen, don't worry.

Until the league and the network wants you to be marketable you aren't doing squat.

Anybody else see the commercial for the NFL playoffs last night? The one that was done like a theatrical trailer and listed "the Seattle Seahawks" as one of the stars? Seahawks haven't made the playoffs yet. Not only do they need to win next week, they need Carolina to also win. Anybody wanna bet they will?

I was using the idea of easy access to Toronto AND Rochester as the binding factors. Meaning it can't be too far from the 90 and not too far from either the Peace Bidge or the Lewiston-Queenston bridge. A place like Batavia while east of Buffalo is certainly too far from the border to be considered easy access for Toronto. UB is technically "east" of Buffalo as is Cheektowaga, as is Orchard Park if you are creative enough. To have the retail he was discussing almost necessitates that it be near SOME center of population. Putting it at (or adjacent to) UB also makes sense in reference to the discussed light rail extension to UB which would then effectively link the Pegula empire together. UB is also the sort of place that can absorb a big parking lot without it looking out of place when it's not a football day. Beaver Stadium, for example, is on the edge of campus and has acres of parking which are just used for other purposes the rest of the non-football year. The current Boulevard Mall (whose parent company is struggling mightily I might add) also might offer a large enough footprint of land in an already commerical area that is on the planned light rail extension, in between 2 exits of the 290, bracketed on all sides by existing 4 lane roads and essentially at the end of the 990. I'm hoping they don't park it way out in the boonies where there will only be 1 primary access road. If they put it much further out than Transit Rd. then the 90 becomes the main road for almost everyone. Obviously there are other routes, just like there are other routes to NEF but NEF has 2 highways in immediate proximity and a 4 lane and largely empty rt 5 to serve it. Of course they will be coy with exact locations for awhile so as not to bid up of the price of the real estate they want to buy.

Yeah, I'm sorry I was distracted by the part where the receiver caught it to notice that part.

While that is true you also need to understand that it's only relevant if the QBs in question make decisions at the same pace. Often a stronger armed QB will hold the ball longer or throw the ball into a smaller place because they grew up being able to do so while the player with the lesser arm had to learn to anticipate the throw because they couldn't just stick it in there. When you have a player with a strong arm AND a quick mind you have a HoF player. With just the strong arm you have JaMarcus Russell or Jay Cutler. With just the decision making you have Ty Detmer. You need an alchemist's combination of both. I don't know whether Peterman has that or not. I'm pretty sure I know that Taylor doesn't. At least not given the offense he was asked to run this season. Taylor is an amazing athlete but anticipatory throws have never been his forte and he has said as much himself. His propensity to protect the ball (good) and his reticence to throw a ball unless he can physically see the player open (bad) makes your passing game limited. Also, not to quibble about small parts of time, but aerodynamic drag is not a constant. The football traveling at 60MPH experiences more frictional drag than a ball traveling at 50MPH

The defenseless receiver rule has completely changed the game and made it nearly impossible to defend the middle of the field against big players. In the past, you couldn't run someone like Rob Gronkowski down the seam in the middle and lob a high pass for him to outreach the DB for because he would get killed by someone like Steve Atwater or Dennis Smith or Ronnie Lott or Leonard Smith or Chuck Cecil, etc etc etc. You just wouldn't throw the ball there out of respect for your own player. Now, you can't hit the receiver high and you can't hit the receiver low, so all you can do is defend the ball but you better not touch the receiver at all when you're doing that or it's DPI. It changes the way you call a game as an offense because you have no fear of getting your star players murdered by throwing a ball into a place you shouldn't be throwing a ball. When's the last time you saw a receiver "alligator arm" a ball over the middle? There's no reason to be afraid because nobody is going to hit you for being there anymore. Is there still contact in football? Yeah. Is the game wildly different because if the rules? Yeah. I've said this before. Go watch a Bills game from 90-94 and count how many penalties there would be if that same game were played today. It's an absolutely massive number.

Think there's a correlation between the increase of boxing and MMA fans and the decrease of hitting and violent contact in professional and college football?

Christ, we could pay off the national debt with that fund.