4BillsintheBurgh

Nice to see you back, it's been awhile.

Don't we need a replacement for Klein too?

The kids call it a hall pass, mainly for celebrities, right?

I'm still thinking DL in the first round. We'll need an intervention soon.

We WILL stop the run this year!

This front office has a hoarding problem...

What they should do is put plaques in the troughs at the ralph. Just imagine the fun! A name and a few words about the person.

Yeah, seems like we're getting a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Hopefully Dorsey can mold them into one voice.

I will be. They generally use the draft to help their team win the next year. There were even some rumblings when they took Rudolph. That's just the way they operate. Maybe with Colbert in his final draft he will get a little crazy like what Ozzie Newsome did, but I doubt it will happen. They could really use an inside lb, Bush has been a miss so far and they don't have much other than that.

Harry out? We haven't dumped Star yet...

The only thing is the Giants know him well and need decent oline. Luckily they also have cap issues, but they might take a stab at him here. I'm sure Beane has a plan if we lose him, it will be how many dips we take into the Kromer's kronies bucket to get a replacement.

I think the Steelers have seen enough of Rudolph to know he isn't taking the team anywhere. My only concern is that the money is less from the Steelers, but hopeful it still makes it to the third round comp pick level. Maybe we can get this to happen again this year, rehab a semi-young qb who's had a rough go of it and turn it into a pick.

She's a wonderful asset manager too.

I went to one of the early public camp practices and he looked shaky there, feet moving constantly and he had trouble settling under the ball. Hopefully he will put some quality time in this offseason with the jugs machine. Looked to me like he ran a little high and I was worried about him fumbling although I don't remember him fumbling. Some competition needs to be added to the roster anyway, maybe a vet and a rook. Seems like there's plenty of Stevenson clones in the draft this year.

Thinking smokescreen to get someone to trade above them, increasing their chances of getting a guy they want?

So - there's a roster position up for grabs - will it revert to rb or maybe get allocated somewhere else? TE?

Does he have ties to Kromer? Gotta think we're bringing in at least one guy who Kromer is comfortable with.

I don't think he's physical enough for this defense.

I will say this, you continue to prove yourself a wizard!

I guess I'm not most. I can't quantify it for you, but to me it's less likely that Farwell didn't make some attempt to tell Bass to squibb/pooch it. Especially with the 2 point conversion going on and the extra time that was there. Farwell being gone was probably not just one screwup, although this failure was probably the topper.

That's really where we have an advantage now as opposed to the drought years, there is an expectation to win now. There will be pressure from the other players on him, and I for one am glad that he was able to drop some weight because it would tell me if he's focused he can get it done. So as a coach I'm having the captains of the team demand excellence from him. I think he can add a dimension to this defense and will be someone who makes the players around him better, assuming he wants to put the work in. I especially like the idea of him batting balls down, it will be tough for any qb to throw over him.

I understand. It's highly unlikely to me that Bass' position coach didn't make him aware of the plan for that kick.

One other possibility for the execution is that Bass may have reacted to something on the field. I thought I saw Hill out there in the clip that cover1 had where some of our guys were looking at the sideline after the ball went out of the endzone. It's a possibility bass had been instructed before the game to knock the ball out of the endzone if he saw any shenanigans. Bass could have decided to override the instructions he had gotten.

Not unexpected. He will be re-signed to a reasonable deal and we'll go from there.

If we go into the season with a day 3 qb backing Josh up the whole locker room will have a problem because of the chance they would be taking. We saw this year how a game or two mattered at the end of the year and to not have a qb capable of winning games would be a huge issue. We don't play for draft position or to get a young player experience anymore, we play for championships now.