dave mcbride

Damn. Looks like this might have to be my near future: This is how it can work for you:

I still can't believe he dropped that pass. It's OK for a first rounder drafted for his great hands to drop that in the second quarter of an early October game vs. the Arizona Cardinals, but not against KC with two minutes to go on a gotta-have-it play and with a SB appearance on the line.

Bills-Ravens in 1999 (13-10 win). Flutie played terribly all game long against a Ravens D that was FAR better than everyone knew (the year before perhaps the best defensive season in league history) and somehow pulled it out with a couple of circus-act plays on the final drive. Worth watching the last 2 minutes and 40 seconds — start at around the 1:55:10 mark: That was vs Jax!

It’s really clear to me from this that Namath had a great arm.

The Coen Brothers' version of True Grit is a masterpiece, in my opinion, and she was the highlight (alongside a great Jeff Bridges). There's a reason she got an Oscar nomination for it.

The Browns offer is fully guaranteed, I think, given the nature of the rule. So I'd definitely take that over an offer that's less and probably not fully guaranteed (assuming it's $2.5 million; offers that low tend not to be fully guaranteed).

Samuel was very good under Brady in Carolina. He was hurt most of last season but played a lot better at the end. I have some hope for him. He’s a weapon when healthy.

42.4 according to PFF, and for a fast guy with some quicks, he was 94th out of 98 receivers in YAC. https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/elijah-moore/84302

A lot of elite WRs when they reach this part of their careers essentially fall off a cliff, morphing from studs into possession receivers who hang around for a couple/few seasons and bounce from team to team: Andre Johnson, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, AJ Green. It starts at around year 30-31, and Cooper will be 31 in June.

Also, perhaps the fact that he had no TDs at Ole Miss is because of who he had to compete with for the ball!

Can't you say that about every big time program at this point? The whole institution of NCAA football is wildly corrupt and frankly disgusting. But it's what we have. And sure, they failed, but they were a really good team whose three losses were by a combined 13 points. Again, I don't put much stock in making the college football playoff as a proper measure of success. Plus I don't actually care who wins championships in college ball.

I thought he had his best season last year even if the receiving numbers weren't there. The only WRs from the 2019 draft who came after him and who had more catches are Hunter Renfro (out of the league last year) and Darius Slayton. No TE drafted after him (96 overall) is even close to him in terms of production. The only TEs drafted ahead of him with better receiving production are TJ Hockenson (8th overall) and Noah Fant (20th overall).

Knox is a pretty good player, though, and he's lived up to his draft status. He's not all world but he's a credible longtime NFL starting-quality TE. So many late third round picks never do anything.

My take: you can take a person/family out of the Jets organization, but you can't take the Jets organization out of the person/family (thinking of Woody's admirable children here too).

Don't know about that. In the last four seasons, they've gone 10-3, 11-2, 8-5, and 10-3 in a brutal conference and have finished ranked 9th once and 11th twice. They also had the number 2 defense in all of college football this past season (in terms of points allowed). 5 of their 11 defensive starters were drafted this past weekend too: guys in the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth rounds. They also had a QB go in round one and a WR in round 2. Their 3 losses in 2024 were by the scores of 20-17, 29-26, and 24-17 (all one-score games). They also beat a stacked Georgia team, 28-10. I don't view national championships or college playoff appearances as proper gauges of good seasons. There are too many teams for one, and secondly it's tough to get past OSU, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, and to a lesser extent LSU and Oregon giving their recruiting prowess.