Richard Noggin

I'm here for this kind of analysis.

It is necessary to hate all of these things. Whether it's fashionable or not is moot.

No way Barrett is cheaper. The others could oddly be comparable, due to age.

You are free to eat and drink as you please. And I am free to judge the heck out of how you eat and drink, if I am made aware of it. You don't need to care what I think. But if you tell me you use ranch, or overpower expensive whiskey with carbonated corn syrup, then I'm going to comment. That's just how it is.

They're both right. Leave me alone, AND eff your terrible taste.

It's a tough sport to play only casually/occasionally. So many moving parts. And frustrating as heck when you're rusty or just not all that good. But once you get a taste of what real hitting feels like... I'm not good most of the time. But usually around September or October I catch fleeting glimpses of what decent tennis feels like.

Anyone in WNY need a hitting partner? I have only one friend who plays, and he's breaking down (we're in our early 40s). Despite my age and lack of a 2nd serve, I know I've got a solid game in me if only I could get out there more. Any decent opportunities for affordable lessons or singles play? I've never enjoyed doubles much, unfortunately (probably my sometimes erratic service game; gets a little hairy with a partner at the net).

Like the 2019 (or 2020) Bills?

Network would be wise to take note of the Buffalo TV market's potential when there's a local connection (or of course just regular hockey or football on). Throw the new WNY (and probably SE Florida) viewers a bone by doing a little more homework. That's just diligent broadcast production and growing the product.

Appreciate the play-by-play as I'm finishing up my 15-hour work day. Thanks, gang.

It says they were vulnerable against balanced offensive attacks. Teams who could effectively run and play-action, but also go decisive, 3-step rhythm passing on early downs...they give a defense like the Bills trouble. Hence the VERY different results against Indy and Baltimore in the playoffs, for example.

He had some intriguing length (35.25" arms) and straight-line speed (90+ percentiles at the combine for the 40 and his splits) and explosion (solid vert and broad jumps). But his 3-cone, bench, and body weight (at the combine) were abysmal (29th, 43rd, and 12th percentiles among DEs) and his shuttle wasn't very good either (66%). https://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?i=8287 So he was a lean, twitchy tweener with very tight hips and not a lot of tape. As they said in the youtube clip provided: possibly just a one-down pass rusher. Such a forced, need-based reach. I think we (not exactly me, but a number of you) now know definitively (with respect to testing) which numbers tend to translate best to EDGE success in the NFL. And it ain't just sprinting and jumping in shorts. Pretty sure 3-cone and shuttle are high on the list. Who among you can share that particular grading scale with us? I know some of you know what I'm talking about... Not sure how this helps further the discussion of scouting prospects in 2021. Shrug.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article242124326.html Young man looks to have lost some serious mass since he retired. Which suggests he's not planning a comeback anytime soon. So many football players work really hard year round to keep their weight UP. Look at and listen to Eric Wood on this subject. Think about what Gronk looked like not too long after "retiring." It's not natural, or comfortable, for many guys to maintain such bulked up build.

I touched on this a little last night, I think: Many fans fail to acknowledge or appreciate the mathematically impressive variability of the NFL. So many compounding layers of interdependent variables influencing every outcome. It really...complicates things.

Are you suggesting that perhaps we don't? If you are, then by all means, state your case. We've got time to discuss it before Allen is back on the field. But nobody's got time for ambiguity (best case) or trollish teasers (worst case).

A reasonable counter to that perspective is to remember how our offense looked without Brown throughout this season. One could argue that they struggled to adjust to his absence early on (and struggled a bit for other reasons as well for a few games there), but then hit their absolute stride without John Brown in the lineup. 1. Diggs and Beasley are and should be the top two targets. 2. Defenses can try to specifically take away up to two passing options on a given play, as we've seen in the playoffs. 3. So when things get so matchup specific, the other targets need to be able to win against man coverage. Obviously it's a lot more complex than that, but then again, we've watched it essentially boil down to these kinds of isolated matchups. I have a few too many recollections of John Brown NOT winning his one-on-one opportunities when it really mattered most (against Baltimore in 2019 and in the playoffs both seasons). Love the guy. But I think Buffalo maximized his production in 2019, and he's no longer worth his contract given the reality of 2021's salary cap.

Haven't played in over a dozen years. Growing up is lame. I wonder how the gameplay is these days?

Still available at 30 right now are Owusu-Koramoah, Collins, and Bolton at LB and Toney at WR, Barmore at DT, etc... No trades draft (guess one has to be a Premium subscriber to unlock trades) netted crazy haul: Owusu-Koramoah Landon Dickerson Patrick Jones II Chubba Hubbard Tedarrell Slaton After the 5th round something glitched, but...that's a 5-round haul, no?

Consistently mocked in the 6th or 7th round. I'm at least interested at that price. Bills have five picks in the final three rounds, and realistically they need to find at least one or two eventual contributors (not sure how that desired and loosely defined "hit"-rate (40%) compares to NFL averages for Day Three picks).

Just now was the first time I ever actually looked at Spotrac.com. I've known about it second hand for a while, but finally followed the link myself. Thanks for linking it yet again. What an effing site. This list/spreadsheet alone is so comprehensive and analytic...it triggers that long dormant Madden Franchise Mode GM in me. On Madden 2005, when I was a grad student, I built a very long term Bills franchise, but I would simulate entire season schedules to skip ahead to the part I preferred: the offseason team-building stuff. Scouting and drafting and signing players and then developing them (and eventually flipping them for draft capital in the final years of their contracts). The two-year FA player comps for Romeo Okwara (DET FA) are especially interesting because the short list includes both Shaq Lawson and Jordan Phillips in their two years before leaving the Bills in free agency. Phillips tellingly grades out poorly overall compared to his similarly valued peers. His .31 hurry per game is abysmal. Okwara's hurries-per-game REALLY jump out (2.17) against that list (which also includes Harry Anderson and Carl Nassib).

Oh...they're a "thing" all right.

Tight End, silly

Yeah, define "close"

He's throwing his guys under the bus that he's driving, is what the saying implies. And I'm enjoying the ride!

I mean, life, amiright