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We've heard that Babich has "a lot of energy". That typically translates to a guy who is very fiery and worked up and who might get a bit "extra" on the sideline to the detriment of calmly dialing up the next play.

How much have you seen? Because I haven't heard much about DT rotations. Functionally, it really doesn't matter if he's 2nd team or 3rd though. It's a question of we'll likely only keep 4 DTs We aren't likely to cut our 3rd round draft pick Carter (though if he totally isn't 'getting it' he might develop a lingering injury that forces him onto IR). Oliver and DaQuan Jones are locks. I haven't heard a lot about Austin Johnson, but the Bills have a $4.7M dead cap hit if they cut him because they signed him with a $1.8M bonus vs Williams, who received a $15k signing bonus and is on a VSB contract. So Johnson has to be considered ahead of Williams for that 4th slot. Functionally, Williams is fighting to stay on the team, or at least be brought into training camp. So yeah, he's trying to get noticed and make a name for himself, and sometimes that leads to trying too hard. He was out with the ACL last season. Josh commented about him being extra sweaty with the ST work he's doing so I guess he's trying.

There's hard, and then there's "Guido Torpedo" hard. There's no reason to deliver a rib-cracking hit to your own guys. Take a bit off.

I think I have a pretty good stack of receipts on this: No, I do not think they've done enough to provide weapons to Josh Allen. I think they should have been drafting WR higher long before they did.

Love how Josh holds the dog and it just relaxes and goes with it. I don't like the sound of this. In OTAs, McGovern was talking about how Josh liked the ball snapped and delivering it that way. Now Josh is changing what he's used to for McGovern? I'd like to better understand what this means. I know the QB (sometimes the center) calls protections for the OL that are appropriate for the play that's been called and what the defense is showing them. If McGovern tells Josh "No" does that mean he's rejecting the called play?

I think the question was more about, did the civil defense sirens go off (we call them "tornado sirens" here in Missouri)? Were there emergency warning text messages sent out to subscribers? Is there a gov't emergency warning text message service and do people sign up for it? As tornados go, it looks kinda mild, but I still wouldn't want to be standing on the sidewalk with the roof heading towards me.

This is Beane's last several years in a nutshell. At the time he re-signed Tre White, it looked like a no brainer and a fair deal. Then, just when it looked as though White might be himself, another serious injury. Von Miller looked like an exciting "splash" FA signing that might get us over the top. He looked the part, then bam, injury. Milano, we were thrilled to re-sign him - again, major injury. Injuries are pretty random, in my (and I think most people's) opinions and I believe White and Miller were both NCIs, Diggs is the real mystery - did his performance fall off that much? Was his behavior in the locker room toxic? Did he and Allen need a divorce? I think Beane has done pretty well with the hand he's been dealt, but he has gotten some bad hands.

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Look it up. No, regular season. 130 with Buffalo. He started a game for Chicago

I think you might have it!

However many tickets they sell, all sold

I keep telling y'all - Nathan Peterman is like Catnip for Coaches. When you put him at the whiteboard or set him watching film, he's gotta be like Stacy's Mom - he's "Got it Going On". And coaches figure that since he's got it going on between his ears, it's GOT to translate to the playing field sometime. There's probably value to having him in the QB room. Just don't count on him to play. Bears did that at the end of 2022, I will say he didn't throw an INT, but he threw like for 114 yds on 19 attempts. I looked it up. At this point, according to Spotrac, Peterman has career earnings of $7.4M, not counting his contract from the Saints. $7.4 for 7 years work. He's got 160 passing attempts, that's like $46k per pass attempt

Why are you so overly emotional and offended by the notion that people are offended? I'm exhausted by your exhaustion here, Ya Digg? In this case, seemed pretty clear that Doc was telling her to "shut up" in the humorous way it's said between work buds or friends when one brings up something that may be true, but you really don't want to think about just then or it's embarrassing or something. She wasn't disparaging Josh at all and no one was reacting to that.

I started running before work when I had my first full time job, in my early 20's. I was not at all athletic, so it was a challenge to me and I had to work up to any endurance. I came in one day, all proud of myself, and exclaimed that I'd just run 3 miles. Coworker looked at me and asked, "who was chasing you?" Josh is prevaricating, of course. He's said about his mediocre combine time "I run faster when there are guys who want to hit me chasing after me". But he's also acknowledged he "needs a little contact". Beane has said "he enjoys it, it gets him lathered up". Mitch Morse said "we're begging that ***** to slide once in a while" and "he's a little sick in the head because he likes it". So yeah, technically he's answering Kay's question correctly that he doesn't like to run for fitness or training or whatever, but make no mistake, when there are guys chasing him, he loves it.

Well, of course one question is gonna be "how well can he block?" and "can he block in-line as well as downfield?" Tall slender and 6'7 doesn't say "great blocker" to me but of course technique and want to go for a lot. You're right that Morris was not a great blocker to start with, and especially in-line. He was a converted WR and it took him a minute. He runs a pretty route though and his blocking has improved. The other question is gonna be ST. Morris has become a ST stalwart. Josh did put in a word for how Davidson is working on ST. Morris converted from being a WR to being a TE sometime during his college career, so he kind of came to the Bills sort of sketchy on the blocking, especially inline.

He did turn into a decent player for the Lions, and was signed off a couple of different practice squads to regular rosters during his rookie year after the injury bug bit (then cut again). But it was still 2 years before he took the handoff for his first NFL regular season carry To hear TBD tell it, we couldn't possibly cut him because he'd be signed immediately to another team's regular roster. He's just one example that came to mind, but it seems to me it was a regular feature fur us to be agonizing about the UDFA or late round draftees on our then-mediocre or bad team who would immediately be grabbed up and signed by other teams Yes. Yes, we have.

You are right. I just watched it 5 times.

He makes the team every year because he's exactly the football equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife. He plays ST. He can play nickel, safety, and CB. He plays none of these roles at a starting level, but then, he's not a starter. Show me a backup who plays consistently at a starter level and I'll show you a guy starting on another team.

Truth, I had forgotten that. Going for the ball instead of trying to knock it away is at least something DBs are coached to do in most circumstances. Roughing the punter, Never Ever Ever They're mixing it up, sounds like

Strange how the Bills coaches, who watch every snap, seem to think he's taking the right angle, making the tackles, and making the hits. The major miscue that gives Bills fans PTSD about him was the 2022 Vikings game where he allowed Justin Jefferson to make a 32 yd catch on 4th and 18, starting a series of miscues that led to an OT loss. It appears that he WENT FOR THE BALL to try to intercept, when he should have been playing to knock it down.

So Burgess is apparently exceeding expectations? Full quote not as interesting: Josh Allen post-practice

You could follow one of the Bears DBs on NBC

I don't miss them.