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Oh, Gawd, please reconsider the way you worded this. That's a horrible way to view a football player's serious injury, even if he plays for an opposing team. Buffalo should mind their own store and take care of their own business.

I believe that was his father (Zay Jones). Though perhaps you might say his father was a mutha?

Riiiiight. He had 12 (twelve) targets and 6 receptions vs. Philidelphia the previous week. 6 (six) targets and 2 receptions vs. Denver. Way to select metrics. And Hot Mama needs to chill down.

Yeah, I'm not sure Micah Parsons can be overpowered with pure emotion. Seems like foot speed and impeccable blocking technique might be needed, and getting the ball out decisively and fast would be good too. So this is an aside, but I looked up sack stats on Google. And not to take away from Parson who is indeed a one-man wrecking crew, but I'm a bit surprised by how many defenses with a pass rusher ahead of Parsons on the Sack list we've actually faced: Josh Allen with JAX, Maxx Crosby with LVR, Trey Hendrickson from Cincy. Of course, in 2 out of 3 of those cases, it didn't go so well. And hopefully, that's advice the Bills are taking to heart. One game at a time. Dallas is up, win against them first.

So I have a "rules" question about that play. First off, it was a thing of beauty. The Chiefs D had no idea that play was a possible choice there. Dawkins and Morse did a fantastic job giving Josh a hole with Spencer Brown out in front. Spencer Brown remained ahead of the pile, as the rest of the guys were pushing Josh he had his back to the goal line and it looked as though he was pulling. But as Josh approached the goal line, he stepped back and raised his arms in the universal "see refs, I'm an innocent man!" gesture. Why? Is there a rule about pulling your own player forward over the goal line?

Oh, Geesh. Kid gets to take over on a short week, too.

And this, of course. Shady McCoy took flak for it, but he called it correctly when the Kaepernick stuff first emerged. The amount of distraction or trouble a team will tolerate is directly proportional to their talent at their position, and the importance of that position. (It was a pretty firm Dis on Kaepernick's talent actually, since QB is arguably the most important position on the team) Who was that punter who was leading the league in punt length, but poor in directional control? Was it Bojorquez? He refused to re-sign with Buffalo because he wanted to play on the West Coast, felt he should be able to dictate his contract terms 'cuz, leading the league in punt length, signed with one of the Cali teams that already had a punter, and wound up getting traded to Green Bay?

Legally, that's not quite what this means. It's more like a "mutually assured destruction" tactic in civil suits where defending the defamation countersuit can drain the finances of the accuser who filed a civil suit because lawyers defending you demand payment up front (there's no chance they'll get paid by a settlement if they win, after all). So the accuser is maneuvered into a financial position to agree to drop the case. Florio had commentary about this legal strategy back when the accusations against DeShaun Watson first came out. Surprised it took this long once the defamation countersuit was filed. "He, She, or It" ???????? Well....it IS California

Happy for the kid. I think teams have been waiting for the matter to be completely settled on the Civil side to potentially give Araiza a look in the off-season, so hopefully that will happen now.

It's another example of the Chiefs living by the "we'll commit a foul or two on every play, they'll only call us on a few of them" mantra. Kelce (like Gronk before him) pushes off (OPI) A Lot. I haven't scrutinized, but I'm sure that's not the first pick play we've seen Limeaid, I got two words for ya if you have that problem again: Multiflora Rose The only animal that pushes through a multiflora rose thicket unscathed is a goat. They actually eat the stuff.

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Good stuff. Hope you're right on Von Miller. On the OL, question: are you sold on Spencer Brown? Also, Mitch Morse is 31. IMHO we need to be looking at RT and C. Re: Diggs, over Nov and this past game, Diggs has played 95%, 98%, 80%, 92%, and 79% of the snaps. In 2022, he played 74%, 92%, 66%, 78%, 73% in the same time period. So I think that may be an impression that he's asking for more breathers than ever before, and not reality (or he wouldn't be logging so many snaps)

Agree completely. I don't think there's a hand surgeon around who would think it would be positive or even neutral in terms of the long term prognosis, for Herbert to play anyway with a finger injury that requires surgery.

Yes - while his head is turned looking at the ball, not the ref. An example of "form over function" and "going through the motions".

I think you're getting it mixed here, Dr, with all due respect for all the at-work trainings you speak of in another post. The issue IMHO is that there are two definitions of "personal" at use here. You are using one of them, and myself and various others critiquing the Dunne article are using the other. There's a delineation between work life, and personal life, true. That's one definition of "personal". Dunne's article is not talking about "personal" in that sense, everything described happened at OBD or around the team, correct. We agree there. But there's also, at work, describing someone's behavior in a way that makes it PERSONAL, vs. describing the actual behavior and its effects or impact. In this definition, "making it personal" doesn't mean you're talking about how the guy treats his wife, kids, and dog or behaves at the Church Trivia Night. It means you're stepping from what someone actually said ("I pay you to coach those guys, not be friends with them" about Hall's truck), to inferences about WHY they said it, their inner life and psychological motivations ("He's insecure...he's jealous...he's physically, psychologically, and mentally incapable of having relationships with the players"). That's what's meant by "making it personal" in the context of on the job observations and feedback, and that's the meaning being used in my and others comments about the article. It went from describing actual incidents and observed behaviors at work, to making statements about McDermott's inner life and psychological motivations, which the source Dunne quotes can not directly observe and is likely not qualified to assess - they're not his therapist or a psychologist, they're his former employees. The problem I and a number of others here have with Dunne's article is that he quoted and gave voice to a number of anonymous sources who made it personal in this sense of the word, and thus took it beyond an expose' of various factual things McDermott said and did (some of which are bizarre or damning enough on their own) into a personal attack or character attack. And yes, Dr., there is plenty of on the job training and supervisor training that discusses how to avoid "making it personal' (by this definition) when dealing with co-workers and colleagues. It's not a unique or unusual usage of the word. I kind of felt like I'd said what I wanted to say about this and I was gonna shut up, but this seemed worthwhile to put out there.

Looks to me as though he looks at the ref and points before he's actually set, then looks away towards the ball before the ref has a chance to respond.

Get the name right. They're now the "Kansas City Beefs"

Kind of prophetic in hindsight, given that 2-8.

Goodness! When did Mara say that? I noted a week ago, Daboll threw the game ball to Wink Martindale to show they're "all good now". They showed the clip last night. Damn, I was disappointed that GB didn't pull it off but when you turn the ball over 3 times (2 deep in your opponents territory or in their red zone), the odds are gonna be against you. Or maybe they wouldn't. What's your explanation for the Giants going from 9-7-1 to a 2-8 start (had Jones through week 6)? In that stretch when I watched them, they just didn't look like a well-coached well-prepared team on either offense or defense and there's Daboll screaming at Wink Martindale on the sideline. Maybe winning COTY as a 1st year HC and being the darling of NY media kind of went to 'ol Daboll's head a 'lil bit?

Well, I can't argue with the dumb and lazy characterization on Toney. The Giants gave up on him and slung him out of town for a bag of used socks for a reason.

Mahomes had 3 more plays to get them in FG range or score (an extra 2nd down due to penalty). He failed to take advantage. Personally, I hope Allen takes note of the complete disrespect for him that Mahomes behavior implies. If that play had stood, the Bills would have had more than a minute and all 3 time outs. By acting as though that's a walk-off-win if that play stands, Mahomes and Reid are disrespecting Allen and the Bills Offense completely, as though it's "Given" they would do nothing with that.

In the same spirit as "Paddy Melt" and "Grim Weeper", can we start calling KC the "Kansas City Beefs"?

Paddy Mahomes? Paddy Melt? Is that you? The 'Grim Weaper' himself?

Yes, it is. I hope sincerely this is something the Bills are trying to address with the league behind the scenes. They have the ability to take video/photos and send a package to the league and say "this is happening to our player, please be on the watch for it". I know....what if we had a thing where selected board members were given extra powers, like a broom that could sweep out these pesky things? Yeah, I think they designed that. I think that was their version of a "Philly Special" that they were waiting for a key moment in a key game to unveil.

I may be too hopeful, but I'm actually hoping it goes the other way. That the refs are going to be "OK, so you're complaining that we AREN'T calling all of the penalties you actually commit, LETSGOOOOO!!!!!!!!! If the Pats benefit from 17 illegal formation and false start penalties on their RT and 7 Offside penalties on Toney it would not make me sad at all. Edit to add while you're at it, call the DH and DPI and hands to the face and so forth, and calling an occasional OPI for the picks would be fine.