Low Positive

Every mock that I have looked at since 6:00 on Sunday (I have a football problem) has him being picked before us in the first. I think they assume a rise due to an electric 40 time at the combine.

Beane would have to trade up for that.

I don’t know who to target in the draft or FA, but this team needs an injection of nastiness. We have a team of what Larry Bird used to call “milk drinkers.” They let guys like Eli Apple and Jaire Alexander get under their skin. This has to change.

The only time I know for sure that he took over defensive play calling was the second half in week 2 in 2018.

First of all, that’s a perfect description of my moods at this exact times. Second of all, that’s every sports fan of a team that has even moderate success.

Well, Zach Taylor was Goff’s QB coach with McVey and got promoted right to HC and that seems to have worked. Callahan fits the mold of Offensive Genius. Young guy with good hair who never played in college.

AJ Brown and DK Metcalf were taken after Cody Ford in that draft. But a lot of teams messed that up, including the Chiefs.

He said that last year and then went out and signed Von Miller.

I'm sure that's the case. If he's staying, we'll hear about an extension in the next week or so because they have to start scouting for the draft.

Frazier's contract is up after this season. If something "happens" it would be retaining him by signing a new contract. If nothing happens, he's out.

QB, #1 and #2 WRs are all on rookie deals. I think he's trying to say its like when David Robinson got hurt and the Spurs got to draft Tim Duncan because they were bad for one year. Then they had twin towers for a title run.

Callahan doesn't call the plays. In fact, I'm not quite sure what he does.

What malpractice by the Packers front office to let Rodgers talk them into that massive deal and having to take a massive cap his just one season later.

The cost to the Packers from a cap standpoint would be huge https://overthecap.com/looking-ahead-to-the-packers-options-with-aaron-rodgers

I just looked it up. The dead cap hit from trading Rodgers is MASSIVE so I get the demand for high draft compensation.

He's going to the Jets. It completes the Brett Favre circle.

That's what the Bengals did. At the beginning of the year, Burrow was holding the ball waiting for Chase or Higgins to get downfield and was getting sacked at a high rate. He was sacked 5 times by the Browns on Halloween night. They shifted to the quick game that we all saw on Sunday and they feel unstoppable. It was a wholesale shift in offensive philosophy made midseason to mitigate poor OL play.

I give Sean McDermott a lot of credit of turning this franchise around. My main complaint is that McDermott's teams lack a physical dimension that you need to win in the playoffs. The Bengals just came into our house and punched the Bills and the whole city of Buffalo in the mouth. The team needs some more guys that play with an edge and push the rules right up to the limit, and I'm afraid that McDermott's emphasis on culture will not allow this need to be addressed. As much as we all hate him, a Christian Wilkins type of player would go a long way, but he wouldn't fit the "process."

I realize that this is a complain about Frazier, but I find it interesting that Kyle Shanahan found Mike McDaniel so important that he didn't even bother to replace him and just took over the nominal title of OC himself.

Except they called PI and holding on the Bills in this game in some pretty key spots. I get that the Bills played badly enough that complaining about the refs seems futile, but the fact that their backups on OL didn't have a single offensive holding call defies belief.

Eli Apple is a UFA after this year. The Bills could sign him, because I'm sure that the Bengals won't. He is not a good CB. But I do agree with you about the Bills needing some nastiness on their team. Too many of what Larry Bird termed "milk drinkers."

I don’t even agree with myself anymore…

This had to come from the coaching staff. The Bengals were in a post-Hamlin funk like the Bills. They manufactured outrage about being wronged by the league and the Bills to get their killer instinct back. It worked so well that the whole city is frothing at the mouth.

And we had a Bengals fan in here saying that they are just a bunch of good dudes that love to play ball.

Apple is doing this because he knows that his trash talk caused this response from Stef. Diggs need to work with a sport’s psychological this off-season to learn how to deal with the taunting and trash talk. Jaire Alexander taught the league that Diggs and Davis have thin skin.