Richard Noggin

Also the most difficult sport to referee in real time, and it's not even close. Such a difficult job for so many reasons. The obviously bad calls after official REPLAY, however...zero excuses.

Typed in jest? The Ravens did give one up in the offseason numbers game. But not before he snapped one off against us in 2019...

Bit too close to SoCal weather for my taste. Rams will feel right at home (with the stands being empty and all).

I'm on Indy this week as well. Used Buffalo in week 1 and San Fran in week 2. All three weeks I've picked against the Jets, basically. So far, so good.

In retrospect, talented depth (or better yet, someone to push Wallace for playing time) behind our boundary corners sounds very appealing right about meow. So this begs the question: was there a solid CB prospect available at the Bills' 2nd round pick? (I honestly have no idea.)

The EFF he is. 6'6" 280 lbs. Google immediately showed me some questionable site called operations.nfl.com that list the average NFL DE at 6'4" 283 lbs back in 2013. Which, to be fair... ...sounds more like an average of 3-4 DEs (5-technique) AND 4-3 DEs (techniques typically outside of the 5-gap, and therefore less likely to reward size over speed). And even so Epenesa is in no way undersized. So for a 4-3 DE (who we imagine, ideally, some day, would also slide inside on passing downs) he's actually big. Do better.

NOTHING to do with tenacious defense by #39?! I agree that Williams should have caught the pass, but it's likely Wallace's play made that more difficult to do.

Tough to blame a WR for choosing a SB winning QB over a raw rookie + Nate Peterman. Try as I might.

No one gonna give our guy Levi some love for his clutch 4th down, goal line, man-to-man physical play on Preston Williams (a guy who worked him over last year in Buffalo--a BAD matchup for #39)? Play starts at 7:46 (tried to embed the vid starting with the goal line stand, but I'm digitally inept).

One might even say they ARE feminine hygiene products. (Not me, sincerely, but someone just might.)

And they had tried to get him the year he signed with Baltimore instead. They'd BEEN on Brown.

This... ...and this, too.

Let's be serious about Epenesa vs Watt: it's not even close. AJ might turn into a solid player, but JJ's athleticism is on a completely different level. It's not really reasonable to compare the two. If I was more savvy, or at least more diligent, I'd share their NFL Combine spider charts. It's just not comparable.

The network feed, the majority of post-game analysis, pretty much everyone who has seen the play minus two curmudgeons, etc. I'm certainly not running around screaming about this, but they got the call wrong. The kick was good. My vision isn't affected by my fandom. While I cannot PROVE it was good, that does not eliminate any validity of us discussing this issue, especially in light of the NFL very obviously covering up the evidence on the ALL-22. That's just blatant. I don't understand the contrarian thing going on here.

Why so dismissive of discussion of a call that was WIDELY agreed upon to be incorrect?

Sunday SAUCE -or- Gravy. Not both. Ma vaffanculo...

Agreed on the Dolphins generally having solid coaching (and excellent man-to-man corners). We might see some heavy pressure packages. I'd argue, however, that this isn't a MUST-win so much as it is an important divisional game against a seemingly inferior opponent (obviously). Not a lot of cupcakes on the Bills' 2020 schedule. But the Dolphins in their home opener coming off a divisional loss won't just roll over. Look what they did in Orchard Park last season, for example. Can we call the later matchup in Buffalo the MUST-win instead? And call this one an important divisional game? Agreed. Leave that to the Jets.

Tyranny comes from the state. Like in the NFL (a terribly example), it cannot come from players, but only from the league or from teams which are, essentially, the league. Calling someone an "agent of the state" is simply a precise way to identify one who is employed by a gov't. And it was also intended to divert us from some discussion of random street crime, which CANNOT, by definition, be tyranny. I'm no political ideologue. No manifestos here. I just love football and human dignity.

Well, if it was an agent of the state, then that sure seems like tyranny or at least violent oppression, innit?

Poor wittle oppressed guy. Get outta here with calling this tyranny. You wouldn't know tyranny if it shot your unarmed father or brother or son in the back.

We're all very surprised.

The read-option nature (defensive version) of that double-A gap pressure look is fascinating: it really mirrors what offenses have been doing, schematically. I'll bet it's similar to what the Bills do with their safeties, too. I remember Belichick praising their ability (Poyer and Hyde, specifically) to mask coverages by lining up out of position pre-snap, and then covering very different responsibilities post-snap. Many of us draw easy comparisons between Milano and Edmunds with the Bills now, and Thomas Davis and Luke Keuchly from the Panthers' glory years. It's a natural, if not optimistic, projection. But where we might be underselling the Bills current D, is when we don't COMBINE (and multiply) the potential of Milano and Edmunds WITH the proven mastery of Poyer and Hide.

Jesus, Florio. Picking the Jets AND the over?! That's the least-analytical take I've ever seen. He doesn't have a shred of support for these positions, minus emotional/intangible assumptions (which I don't even agree with on that level, either). Doesn't mean he's wrong. The Jets COULD catch the Bills by surprise. It's a divisional game; anything can happen. But...it's just arbitrary and probably even insincere. There's money for pundits/networks in broadcasting garbage takes.