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I'm intrigued by him, but also want the Bills to pick up a TE in the 2nd round, and also see mild upside in Croom... so all of these guys would give us 4 TEs, which I think might be 1 too many in today's NFL. But if it were a smaller deal, maybe 2 years, $5-7M, it might be worth the experiment. Mightbe a little more valuable in total vs Croom's receiving-only upside.

In my opinion, this might not really be the case. It's football, signing a guy coming off an injury/surgery is very common (Bills just did it last year with Trent), so I'm sure the doctors have modified their physicals to a guy healing from a surgery, to take into consideration his progress healing/rehabbing, and the management would take their calculated risk of signing the guy who may be on the road to being healthy, vs leaving a guy on the market to be signed by someone else. The feeling I get by Ansah's situation is that both teams don't like the progress he is making healing from surgery, or Ansah wants "I'm healthy right now" money vs a "damaged goods" discount contract value.

They touched on the Miami stuff somewhat, but didn't go into the post-career incidents. Eric is his friend, not Gayle King digging for a scoop.

Ugh, I do not miss that clown move, that was so embarassing... going into a game with someone like Kroy Biermann as some sort of honorary captain.

I listened to the first half of this episode but kinda lost interest. I will give more upcoming episodes a listen, but this one didn't reallydo a lot for me. Not super interested in Richie's beasting workouts and post-playing career financial investments.

Right. I still think they add someone in the draft. And if someone outside of those 6 reallu impresses in camp, I think Zay might be the first one traded/cut.

Guys-guys-guys, let's not fight... they can ALL be fired.

Is there news about an edge rusher that I missed? Or are you just anticipating possibly signing Ansah?

I don't mind the comp picks, and I don't know what the big scandal is about the patriots getting them. They had 2 players walk that got in the low teens of millions per year, and that value is dictated by supply and demand. They lost good players, as their contracts they signed when they left proved, and replace them with picks at the end of the 3rd round. It's against the odds for those players picked at the ends of rounds 3-7 will turn into $10M+/year free agents, so it's not like it's an endless loop. Goodon NE for being able to find guys later in the draft to have such good value. I would love for buffalo to get to the point where they can get a system in place where they annually have 10 picks due to them, and sign a handful of vet FAs that are free reguarding the comp pick formula because they were cut from their previous teams, to fill in holes.

I am REALLY intrigued by the idea of drafting him in the 1st, but I am wary that we might pull a Sammy Watkins again and, at a position of very high depth in the draft, select the top guy at a very premium position, vs utilizing the depth of the position and getting a guy who is still a very skilled player where it is a better value a little bit later. If they drop back to 15 or so and add a 2nd rounder, I am crazy for the pick because we ended up getting a star TE and a starting guard or tackle with that extra pick. If we feel we need the best guy at the deepest position, the Bills talent evaluators had better be certain he is indisputably head and shoulders above the 2nd best TE in this draft, instead of how the Watkins, OBJ etc draft turned out to be.

He never "made a football move", so I count 0 catches. Sorry.

Brady must have coached that clerk on the flop he took, there.

I'm not sure about that. Based on how popular he has become as an analyst, that style would be copied by everyone else if they were capable. They're not.

As far as the pure math of it goes, than yes, averaging 10 yards per completion and completing 30 throws per game is a good number. However, if you're inaccurate at 20 yards downfield, which everyone is more inaccurate on a 20 yard throw vs a 5 yard throw, as I see it, it does 2 things: 1. Much higher chance of interceptions, inaccurately throwing the ball that deep into the secondary. You can have your 30 completion, 300 yard game, but if you add 3 INTs to that game, you won't win more that 30% of those games. 2. Having short-to-midrange accuracy in the passing game is incredibly effective in wearing out a defense, vs all of the shots being taken 20+ yards downfield. If you are going somewhat deep every time, eventually you will run into a defense that will be able to stop most of those passes, and you will be ending the 1st half 6-17 for 48 yards, which is what we did on offense for almost the whole 2/3 of this season. If teams know they have to defend shallow routes with the same veracity that they have to defend deep routes, than both the running game and the deep passing game open up, but most importantly, the team keeps clicking off 1st downs, and stays on the field. I don't know exactly what the league standard number is, or what Allen's current number is, but I feel like if Allen can get his completion percentage on passes 5-15 yards from the LoS to be >65%, maybe even 70%, just on those throws in particular, I know we have a keeper. All of the 4th quarter comebacks, all of the yards/game, that will all come, if he can execute at this rate, I feel.

The way I remember it, he wasnt really fired because he was a bad coach, or had bad players, he was fired as part of both a housecleaning after Rex, and also because of that incident where he and his son beat up some guys for trying to steal their chairs in their back yard... something like that... didn't come across as good on their part. He had good players during his time here, though- probably one of the best OLs in the last 20 years. Glenn was a good LT, Incognito and Wood were Pro Bowl level, Miller had his best year under him, and even Mills... uhm... well, the other 4 guys were good!

I've heard good things about that Rams OL coach... oh wait, the Bills fired him 2 years ago. Damn. Well, I believe the Chiefs and Rams both have high profile OL FAs this year, one a guard and 1 a center... if you ask me, I say we overpay and throw a combined $17M- $20M at these two guys, re-sign Mills and draft a RT with our 2nd rounder, and we still have approx $70M to spend on skill positions and 9 more draft picks to find another 5-6 starters. I wish Madden came out at the end of the super bowl, I would love to get the game right now, I would love to get a copy and build this team myself. This offseason is looking exciting.

Woof... I forgot about that. I'm an optimist, and even I thought that was a bad buy at the time.

Uhm...

I say, make it untimed, so there's no "running out the clock" element, and guarantee each team 2 posessions. At the end of those 2 possessions, if there is STILL a tie, put the ball at the 50 and you have 4 downs to score somehow, and whoever outscores the other guy after each round wins.

While I am excited by what happened on Sunday, I refuse to fully get my hopes up until it is repeated. I won't fall for another Fitz-matic, Trentative, EJ-vs-Carolina moment. Show me his skills are there past the league adjusting to him, and I will start believing we're looking at someone long-term, here.

I will try to avoid getting caught up in this being the biggest win since 1999... the win vs the Pats in... I think... 2011... was bigger. The win vs Atlanta last year was way bigger than people remember. They were coming off the super bowl the previous season.

I came on here just now to find out this very thing... I feel bad for that guy, he knew he was out $5,000 for the last 2 1/2 hours... haha

Stupid play for 1st down, the ball is still alive after he gets a 1st down, but if it crosses the endzone, it's dead, doesn't matter of its knocked loose. Great play.

QB arm strength is at a premium in the elements. I know Peterman has improved in this metric this offseason, but still to a level of just barely passable by NFL standards. However, on a slick ball, accuracy actually is pretty vital, too, to out it exactly where the receiver can bring it in, instead of having to make a circus catch, which they won't bring in, with the wet ball. I feel Peterman is more accurate than Flacco, but obviously has worse arm strength. I think Flacco wins out.

I'm not really that worried about the weather honestly, except for maybe a cold rain storm for 3+ hours in early December. Everything else I'm fine with. Thanks for the recommendation. So you prefer the 300s to the 200s? Do you recommend the 300s to the 200s? How do you get into the club's? I think the section I'm really interested in, the Pepsi Club, has ZERO tickets available for this game... which I just find hard to believe. Probably like 7,000 seats there, if I had to guess. Does availability for vacancy open up in these club areas open up at later date, closer to the game? I imagine the Jets game would be able to be grabbed up as both teams could stink in early December.