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Change is inevitable. Deal with it. An extra game that actually counts for something beats the crap out of a meaningless pre-season game, so I'm good with an 18 week regular season.

Well said. It's especially ironic given that many of those same posters discounting Jackson's running ability lionize Allen for his. I think it's spelled H-0-M-E-R.

What "standards" are being eliminated by getting rid of the Wonderlic? The NFL doesn't have a minimum Wonderlic score to be eligible to be drafted. The Wonderlic measures academic test taking skills the potential draftees have already mastered. It doesn't measure much else. "Native intelligence" isn't measured by the Wonderlic test (or the SAT or IQ tests). Psychologists, scientists, and educators have been wrestling with the question of "what is intelligence?" since the late 19th and early 20th century, and they haven't really found a definitive answer. What is known is that simple standardized multiple choice tests pretty much measure only what the test creators value which might or might not coincide with what the test takers value.

We don't know how good Trubisky is as a backup because we haven't had to use him to play for Allen with a game on the line. Trubisky played well enough as a sophomore to make the Pro Bowl: 24 TDs, 12 INTs, 3223 yards in 14 games. His next two seasons were unimpressive but not horrible. He performed significantly better than any of the failed first round QBs whose names have been mentioned in this thread.

Why? I haven't seen anything in Jones' play that suggests he'd make a decent backup QB. I'm not a fan of bringing in failed first round QBs as backups. First round QBs get every opportunity to succeed, but they don't perform very well. That says to me that a failed first rounder is unlikely to improve significantly because he couldn't figure out the pro game.

It doesn't have to be in early in the draft, however. Totally agree. Even great QBs need protection and targets. Allen has targets but he hasn't always had protection. If the Bills had a better OL, the running game would be better even without better RBs, and that would afford Allen better protection when defenses have to be worried the run.

I disagree. DB is a position where teams regularly find talent in the mid and late rounds ... and sometimes even from the ranks of UDFAs. First and second rounders frequently start as rookies while DBs taken later in the draft may take a few years to become starters, but they can end up just as good. I think that other than QB, a team can find starters anywhere in the draft if they do a good job scouting college talent.

It's medical expenses and long-term care support which is worth tens of millions over the life of a 5-year-old child. It saves KC millions in legal fees and avoids the bad publicity from a civil lawsuit. For the little girl and her family, they get immediate support rather than having to wait years for a civil suit to wind through the courts. Best solution for an awful situation. BTW, Britt Reid is facing felony DWI charges so he's not "off the hook" for his actions.

Bull manure. The NFL has had its rules in place since the preseason. Rodgers chose not to get vaccinated and instead used some kind of "alternative" that obviously wasn't effective. It's not any kind of conspiracy on the part of the NFL but simply arrogant stupidity on Rodgers' part.

Wilson's situation somewhat parallels Allen's first year with the Bills in that he's a high pick from a somewhat lesser collegiate program who has been rushed into starting before he's really ready for the NFL. Allen improved markedly after his first season when he started working with Palmer and the Bills replaced QB David Culley with Ken Dorsey, so I think that hiring a mentor specifically for Wilson is a no brainer. For all the resources a team invests in drafting a high first round QB, stinting on coaching for that young QB (which I believe the Bills did in 2018) is proverbial "penny wise, pound foolish" thinking.

I think that the problem with Mahomes may be that because of his great early success on a team loaded with offensive talent he simply hasn't mastered many of the QB skills he needs for success now that there's less offensive talent around him. His own raw talent and the talent around him masked Mahomes' shortcomings, but now they are starting to surface. His problems seem to stem from recognizing coverages and decision making which are common problems from QBs much earlier in their careers as starters. He doesn't seem to be able to find alternatives to his first or second receiver choices nor to have the patience to throw underneath coverage -- he's always looking to make the big play even if it's not available.

Several commentators thought the same. They think that this was a "trap game" for the Bengals since it came on the heels of their big win over Baltimore and their showdowns in the next 2 weeks against the Browns and Steelers.

Not to mention the GOAT of backup QBs, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

My takes ... A divisional opponent on a six game losing streak that you butt whooped earlier in the season is an upset waiting to happen. This is just the way the NFL is. While all the pundits and fans were yapping about the Bills "laying a fifty burger" on the Carp, I was fearing exactly what happened in the first half: Miami would sell out to keep the game tight. Specifically for this past game, I think that the Miami turn over late in the first half when they looked to be driving for a TD to take the lead just before half time broke their spirit because it reminded the Miami players that their team isn't nearly as good as the Bills. It was a "here we go again" moment for the Carp players and fans when it seems that Fate or God or whatever is against them. How many times did Bills teams in the Drought years put up good fights early against NE only to fail to score on a drive deep in NE territory late in the first half ... and get spanked in the second half, sometimes mercilessly? Part of the problem with the OL in the game was because Spencer Brown was hurt and didn't play, necessitating switching some positions including moving Feliciano to the opposite side.

I had to ROTFLMAO at the whiney ignoramus who claimed that other teams and other QBs didn't/don't run up the score ... and used Brady, Brees and Mahomes as examples.

The NFL didn't "leak" the emails. Two newspapers, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, reported the content of the emails.

That's a very simplistic view. These emails are part of the larger investigation of Snyder and the WFT by the FBI and DEA, which suggests a criminal investigation. Documents related to an ongoing criminal investigation aren't going to be released until/unless the prosecutors have enough evidence to indict somebody, likely Snyder. Gruden wasn't being investigated, so his emails were tangential and wouldn't have been protected from FOIL requests. Then there's the real possibility that Snyder wasn't party to the Gruden emails since they were sent to somebody else in the Washington organization, which would have made them even more tangential.

Excellent post! Back in the Stone Age when I was in junior high (I graduated from college almost 50 years ago ), the general rule was to never commit to paper what you wouldn't want your mother to read. In the modern world with emails and social media tweets and posts stored out in the ether, that rule is a thousand times more important. What you put out there, even if it's "personal", never disappears even after you hit the delete button ... and the more incriminating it is, the more likely it is that somebody will save it/forward it/publish it somewhere and that at some point in the future it will come back around and bite the originator in arse. Ask all the teenagers who have had their sexting material become public. People have always been held accountable for their opinions, including opinions that were once acceptable/popular that are no longer respectable. During the Great Depression, thousands of intellectuals and disillusioned young people joined socialist or Communist organizations. In the 1950s, many of those older and wiser people found themselves out of their jobs and unable to get new ones. Finally, there is no excuse for bigotry. It is hateful whether it's based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or place of origin. Most of us struggle with aspects of it because we live in a diverse, rapidly changing world in which what decent people of our parents' generation believed/accepted/tolerated isn't what decent people of our own age believe/accept/tolerate or what decent people today want their children to believe/accept/tolerate. Individuals frequently embrace bigotry in order to have somebody to blame for their own personal failures and insecurities. Bigotry certainly is not a political belief although some unscrupulous politicians and political talking heads use it to further their agendas.

Andrew Luck will be eligible for the HOF in 2024. In his first three seasons, he looked like a "lock for the HOF": he made the Pro Bowl every one of those first three seasons. He led the Colts to the playoffs in each of those seasons. He threw 83 TDs in his first three seasons, including 40 to lead the league in 2014. Then the injuries started, and limited his effectiveness. He played only 7 games in 2015, struggled in 2016 while playing hurt, and missed the entire 2017 season. He came back in 2018 to play a full season, take the Colts to the playoffs, and make another Pro-Bowl, but he retired before the start of the 2019 season. Will Andrew Luck ever be inducted into the HOF? He sure looked like he would be but manure happens. Nobody knows the future.

Maybe he is ... but maybe Spencer Brown is better.

OP, find something else to complain about. To anybody who remembers even a small part of the zero-for-the-seventies, squishing the fish always is reason to celebrate. Butt stomping them 35-0 in their own house ... worth a trip to the airport. 👍

The Labrador Retriever Club apparently thinks that somebody slipped in a mixed bred puppy or puppies into the registry but they couldn't prove it in the 1980s, so they had to register the dogs. It might not have even been the first breeder to have a silver lab puppy but somebody who registered a mixed bred ancestor. It's also possible that the dilute gene that causes the "silver" color was just a random mutation. Prior to DNA testing, registering non-purebreds as purebreds if they looked like purebreds was uncommon but not as rare we'd like to think. This was always done for economic gain: a purebred animal, ie, registered animal, has much more monetary potential than a non-registered one. The purpose of registering animals is to record their lineage, and the purpose of breed competitions in conformation or performance is to improve the breed. Silver labs can't be shown in AKC conformation classes, so breeders who deliberately breed them aren't interested in improving their dogs, but putting money in their pockets. This kind of unscrupulous behavior in slipping non-purebreds into registries with false parentage happened frequently not only in dog breeding but also in horse breeding, especially in breeds like Quarter Horses where excessive body white or Appaloosa coloring weren't allowed. DNA testing can weed out puppies or foals with a non-purebred parent but it can't point to which ancestor was non-purebred. If the parents are the parents, then the puppy or foal has to be registered. The breed club/registry doesn't have to allowed that animal to compete in any or all breed events, however. That's the status of silver labs.

Silver labs aren't considered legitimate Labrador Retrievers. They can be registered and compete in AKC events like obedience or field trials but they can't be shown in the breeding conformation classes. They were only allowed to be registered as chocolate labs because the earliest dogs with this color were presented for registration with the AKC before the advent of DNA parentage testing, so there was no proof that the dogs weren't purebred. See the statement from the Labrador Retriever Club here: Silver Labs. Josh Allen went to Wyoming not Montana.

There is no such thing as a "silver backed" Lab. It looks like a Weimaraner puppy (they come in tan and silvery gray commonly called "blue"), hence the name "Sky" I would assume. Many breed characteristics aren't well defined in young puppies, so you often go by color especially when the color is unique to only certain breeds. The vet identified my cattledog (Blue Heeler)/Aussie shepherd mix as an Aussie shepherd at 8 weeks old because of his blue merle coloring. As he grew, his cattledog characteristics emerged. His size, color, and hair are about the only Aussie Shepherd traits. Otherwise he looks and acts like a large cattledog.

Logan Thomas was a fourth round pick by the Cardinals. He was active for 2 games as a rookie in 2014, and then didn't play in another NFL game until 2017 with the Bills at a time when the Bills didn't really have an NFL-caliber offense, both players and coaches. Daboll was a new hire in 2018 and was the only offensive hold-over among the offensive coaches going into 2019 IIRC. Josh Allen was a rookie QB who was more notable for his running and "hero ball" play rather than his his passing skills. Thomas then went on to Detroit where he didn't light up the league, either. Finally, in his seventh season as a pro, Thomas had a decent season with Washington. That's 1 decent season in a 7 year career with 4 different teams in which he started all of 23 games, 15 just last season. How, exactly, can anybody consider Thomas "a miss" by the Bills ... or the Cards or the Lions???