dave mcbride

Any reputable news organization is actually going to dig and cross-check, and that takes more than a couple of hours. Let it play out. No one knows what happened -- yet.

I have zero idea what happened, but looking closely, the two people look like the same person.

The NFL really doesn't care very much if players juice.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/index.ssf/2016/02/list_of_lesean_mccoys_off-field_incidents_grows_amid_philadelphia_police_investi.html Always a lotta smoke surrounding Shady. That can't be denied.

I'm not sure who was the home team in the January 1993 Super Bowl, but I was there and it doesn't get much worse than that. NINE freaking turnovers (which is hard to even if you try!), and Dallas should have had 59 if not for Don Beebe.

Benjamin is running a 4.9 40 these days. He is not very good overall and only does one thing well (highpointing and muscling for jump balls). I would not be surprised if Charles Clay is faster than him now, bum knee and all.

I always find it better to engage the point than to reply with snark. Most of the posters here who are not harsh critics of Taylor occupy a middle ground with regard to his performance, so your series of posts here that imply that they're TT worshipers amounts to a straw-man argument.

Best part of that one was the grade school-play version of billy buffalo (guy in front, guy in back under the costume) rushing the field at the end of the game. That used to be on youtube, but the nfl in its great wisdom appears to have scrubbed it from the site. Too bad — it’s a lotta laffs.

The bills d mostly stunk. It's receiving corps mostly stunk, and in the half-plus season or so when it didn't, he had a 100+ qb rating. He is not below average. He's average. Watch other teams and you'll see why. Also, the run game was above average in large part because of him. That's part of his job too.

This train of events was not predictable at all. About as unpredictable as Robby Cano's suspension.

Quick question because I don't know - does he include Taylor's rushing TDs? Because if he doesn't, the whole argument is flawed. Also, the biggest problems with sacks is that they cause a ton of fumbles by the QB. Taylor hardly ever fumbled. So the analysis is pretty shaky overall despite making a number of valid points. Mind you, I don't think Taylor is elite or the answer. He's average, but reading this tweetstorm would never lead you to believe that. Leaves out stuff that makes him look good and focuses only on the negative. When I say he's average, I mean it: the team was over .500 when he started despite fielding pretty lousy defenses most of the time he was here.

He missed six games plus all of preseason and camp. The result was that he was bad in his first season (no sugar-coating that), and the Bills lost 20-25 percent of their investment (depending on whether they pick up his fifth year option, which I think is highly unlikely at this point) right off the top. I think they knew he was hurt, but assumed it wouldn't be a problem. They were laughably wrong given how quickly they announced that he was gonna have to have surgery. A bum shoulder is not a good problem for a DE either. I do agree that with you that they didn't lie; they just completely effed up in their judgment.

Moulds was never the same player after he tore his hamstring in game 5 of the 2003 season. He was off to a blazing start that year and that injury appeared to cost him .25 seconds off his 40 time for the rest of his career.

Note that the edge is in the west!

I'm late to this. This is really crazy. Why would Graham do something like this? It's a little pathological.

That and a dollar will get a DE a cup of coffee in today's NFL. If you can't effectively rush the passer from the DE position, you are basically worthless - a low-end rotational guy who bounces from team to team over 6-7 year career.

I disagree with the first part - a great many sportswriters (especially of the ex-jock variety) are pretty clueless about matters beyond sports and the hometown they live in, and the new breed of data hounds would have subjected us to a five-part series on his accuracy throwing screens, square-ins, deep outs, and bombs. And they would have interviewed 16 QB camp coaches to reinforce whatever point they were trying to make.

I completely misread this post on page 3, not noting the date. Apologies. Perhaps it was about Vic after all.

What's the Godwin's Law equivalent for comparisons to the Kim family?

I am calling BS on your line of argument here. This is an objectively good piece by a sportswriter, one that the Sal Capaccios of the world are incapable of writing because they either don't know jack about water politics in California or aren't curious enough to connect it to the player. http://buffalonews.com/2018/05/19/you-bloom-where-youre-planted-the-cultivation-of-josh-allen-part-1/ As for their being a ton of TV shows, what's your point? Is the world somehow just as a good a place if the shows all suck? Quality is a good thing in life. Regardless, I wouldn't be surprised if these Allen pieces were an audition for a bigger and better job at an outlet that isn't currently self-imploding and in fact already went through it's personnel crisis (i.e., ESPN). It may be the case, of course, that the Carucci thing made him persona non grata there too. (And there may be a story behind that as well related to the other guys who are gone.)

I think it's very bad that the paper is destroying itself, but the timing of this and the Vic Carucci-related tweet are pretty suspicious. I mean, christ, Graham just did a huge suite of stories on Josh freaking Allen, the QB of the future, a guy who is going to be the centerpiece of Buffalo sports reporting for the next half decade. It certainly didn't look like he was being eased out. It may be the case, however, that the newsroom was poisonous (not surprising given the layoffs) and he grabbed the new ESPN gig as soon as it became available to get out. Unlike JS and BG, he may actually have chosen to leave.

Enforce a true ban on HGH and watch what happens to team injury reports. Methinks that no one will like the results.

Just speculating here, but Graham is friends with JS and BG, and given recent events there perhaps some bad blood exists there over that. Always remember that Vic did a stint at nfl.com too, and that's a place with some corporate shill-ish/propaganda-ish tendencies. Regardless, I don't dislike Carucci as a reporter and think Graham was definitely out of line. But there's a decent chance that recent workplace layoff misery has generated some backbiting and taking of names. Note also that unlike Graham, Carucci had no positive tweets about his two longtime colleagues who were forced to resign.

If you didn't watch this embedded tweet, do it now!