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Yeah, Gruden is an overrated, egotistical blowhard who has duped many casual fans into thinking he's a good football coach... IMO. There's tons of context to the Super Bowl that Gruden "won." This includes but is not restricted to simply outsmarting his former O-line coach, Bill Callahan who became the Raiders coach after Gruden's departure. It also includes Callahan deciding to change the gameplan the Friday before the Super Bowl, to the shock and horror of the Raiders players and coaching staff... which is what caused the Barrett Robbins meltdown... and of course the fact that Callahan didn't change any of the audibles that were used when Gruden was the coach and the Tampa Bay players had a really good idea of what play was gonna be run before the ball was snapped. You wanna talk about a Super Bowl victory that was gift-wrapped...

That's weird... I remember Humber as being small but fast. My memory can be pretty bad though.

Love Dawkins, disagree with your take that it wasn't a cheap shot.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/_/position/rb/sort/start_year/dir/desc Some of the RBs who signed new contracts in 2024: Name Years Average Total Guaranted Josh Jacobs 4 $12 million $12 million Christian McCaffrey 2 $19 million $24 million Saquon Barkley 3 $12.6 million $26 million Ramondre Stevenson 4 $9 million $17 million Chuba Hubbard 4 $8.3 million $16.5 million Joe Mixon 3 $8.5 million $16 million Alvin Kamara 2 $12.25 million $19.2 million DeAndre Swift 3 $8 million $15.3 million Tony Pollard 3 $7.25 million $10.5 million James Connor 2 $9.5 million $8.25 million David Montgomery 2 $9.125 million $10.5 million Also Derrick Henry: 2 years, $8 million average, total guaranteed $9 million If you click on the link, the columns are sortable.

Could not agree more... defensive player is already engaged with 2 blockers, doesn't see the Dawkins who blindsides him. I know how I'd feel if the same thing was done against a Bills player. Beautiful?

But what do you make of him saying "Just keep doing what your doing and let the bag in a few weeks speak for itself."

Well there is a thing called a cell phone... 😛

IMO the valuation of a RB who is a home run hitter is different than someone who's only a sledgehammer.

FWIW, the top 3 vote getters were Myles Garrett, Tre Hendrickson, and Max Crosby. Also at Defensive End, "Danielle Hunter, who made a Pro Bowl last season with the Vikings but was boxed out in Houston. It's mind-bending. Hunter leads the NFL with 90 QB pressures, five more than No. 2, Trey Hendrickson. Hunter's 19.3% QB pressure rate is tied for No. 1 with Micah Parsons (minimum of 300 pass-rush snaps). Hunter's omission might have been less head-scratching if he had been putting up pressure and not generating any sacks -- some voters surely still cling to that metric. But Hunter has 12 sacks, two behind the NFL co-leaders (Myles Garrett, Hendrickson)." (NFL.com)

I'm not sure who "they" are but both McDermott and Josh have spoken about attaining goals and I'm not sure that team goals take a back seat to individual goals either. Thanks for posting this. It's really the best way of predicting who they're going to elevate. In addition to reducing the snaps for the WRs, I believe Hamler could also be used as a return man to reduce the snaps/exposure for Brandon Codrington and Ty Johnson.

His groin or someone else's?

I've heard of him!!! After waiving him less than 2 months ago?

So what do you make of Dalvin Cook's tweet?

I never questioned that Tampa Bay is a good team. I'm asking how "they're going to shock the world." What specifically do people envision them doing?

If KC beats the Broncos, they'll do it with Carson Wentz at QB. How are they going to do that?

Thanks for posting. I don't know, you'd have to ask Von. Probably so. Based on the spreadsheet that was linked, this probably happens hundreds of times each season across the NFL. Somewhere in the history of this repeated occurrence it's not hard to believe that there were some cases that were negotiated. Sounds like you know Von pretty well. Especially being a big name player with a big name agent, my gut feeling is that this matter has already been agreed upon by both sides. JMO. https://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/content/about-us You're not gonna get off that easy... "And playing the part of Mark Gastineau..." I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but maybe Von gives a crap.

Bills fans reasonably don't want to see the Patriots with a big windfall of draft picks to accelerate their team building as outlined below by @gjv: I heard that he has a faster 40 time than Keon Coleman.

"It really does not matter" is easy for us to say... but for the players, there is pride and recognition involved. There can also be contractual bonuses tied up to Pro Bowl recognition. Yes, arguably the biggest part of the story is the exclusion of Patrick Mahomes. Regardless of whether it's deserving or not, it's big news. Yeah, Cook is more deserving than Mixon IMO. Cook has only 58 fewer total yards in 46 fewer touches. Cook averages 5.41 yards per touch compared to Mixon's 4.71. Cook has 17 TDs to Mixon's 11. Corner is tough. As others have pointed out, ballhawking gets more votes than shutting down. Also Stingley and Surtain have name recognition as Stingley is the grandson of Darryl Stingley and Surtain's father had a great career as a cornerback in the NFL. In spite of being a great player, Benford is a virtual unknown... appreciated mostly by people who closely follow the Bills. He even went to a non-football school and had no national reputation as a 6th round pick.

You'll likely get your wish, however I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to the question. You want one of those TDs to be a reception so that the Bills break the NFL record for most players with a receiving TD in one season. I believe James Cook was named 2nd team Pro Bowl and IMO he deserved to be 1st Team. He finished behind Derrick Henry, Jonathan Taylor, and Joe Mixon. No way he should be behind Mixon. IMO Cook is an elite player and I hope you're wrong about him not getting paid by the Bills.

It appears that they've both gotten over the dry, raspy coughs they acquired during that time.

To my knowledge Kenny does not post here but he told me (back in 2012) that he reads here regularly. He also knew many of the posters by their content.

Yeah I expect Miami to win but this does add to the suspense a bit.

You're wrong. I don't want to get pissy with you but it's like playing wack a mole around here... the number of times I have to correct people about this. Tremaine doesn't turn 19 until May 2nd. (if there's a next time it'll be all capitalized)

Buffalo Joe.

Carson Wentz is starting for the Chiefs. Tyler Huntley is starting for the Dolphins. It should be interesting.