Rubes

Solid player. Sometimes it just requires a little patience for someone to come in and learn McD's defense well enough that he can become reliable and play with confidence. There's not a lot of patience in today's NFL with constantly churning coaching staffs and rosters, but one thing Beane and McD do well is stay patient and develop players with a long-term vision.

This came up a while back and this is my choice. I've said it for a few years now—Bills win the Super Bowl with Josh, this bad boy is going right on my shoulder.

[SHNOW NOISES]

I am laughing unreasonably hard at seeing this.

At the Dolphins game earlier this year, there was a Bills fan before the game who was completely hammered standing around with friends near one of the gate entrances, just being completely aggro and trying to pick fights with anyone wearing Dolphins gear. I mean, anyone, didn't matter who. He'd run over to people 30, 40 feet away just to get in their face and see if they'd take the bait. That guy was ready for a beat down. Not that it's related to this situation, but man, I would totally believe that there could have been one of those drunk aggro dudes at the Niners game doing insane crap to just about anyone for no reason.

@BringBackFergy doing his best @4merper4mer impression. Nice work, I can hardly tell the difference!

Well, he ain’t back yet…

I think it's debatable, but if you consider the return based on the investment in the position, I think you may be right.

Most likely one of either Jordan Phillips or Quinton Jefferson.

A friend was talking about how the big money in betting might have played a role. I don’t know. I can certainly see the incentive, but it just seems too improbable that both teams would put all the effort into positioning themselves to win in the final moments, only to throw it at the last second. Am I just too naive?

2 tickets in the lower bowl, Bills side. Section 133, row 35. Right at the 45-47 yard line, great seats! For a Bills fan, you can have them at face value. Would love to fill the seats with Bills fans! PM me if interested.

We all know the more Josh wins, the better Lamar's chances.

I just posted about this on the previous page. If SF loses to both the Packers and Bills, their playoff chances are less than 10%. If they win out the rest of the way, they can get it to about 50-60%.

49ers HC Kyle Shanahan Says Brock Purdy Might Not Play vs. the Bills 😮 Didn't really see in there where he says that, but still... FYI, weather for next Sunday currently looking like 25 degrees at kickoff with snow most of the day (and week), with winds around 10 mph. Fun times!

According to the NY Times simulator, the 49ers currently are looking at an 18% chance of making the playoffs. If they lose to the Packers, that drops to 7%. If they beat the Packers, it rises to about 30%. So this is a pretty big game for them. Not a great game to be missing your starting QB and your best defensive player. Their division is super tight right now, but the 49ers are 1-3 in the division, so their best path to the playoffs is winning their division, which means beating the Rams and Cardinals later this year. Beating the Bills is far less important to their chances. That said, if they lose to both the Packers and Bills these next two weeks, they would essentially have to win out the rest of the way. They can basically only lose 2 more games this season to even sniff the playoffs, so a loss to the Packers this week would really put their backs against the wall.

That '93 game was something else. Very impressive win, should have been followed up with a SB win. But alas...

Joe Marino had a discussion about this on yesterday's podcast with his guest. It's theoretically possible to resign all 5 of Groot, Bernard, Benford, Shakir, and Cook, but not very likely. Best case scenario is probably 4 of the 5, and Cook would be at the bottom of that list, despite how effective he has been this year. I have a buddy who bets a lot on games, and he bet on Cook to achieve some individual stats last game. He was bitching about Cook not being in the game that much against the Chiefs, and I tried to explain it's because the running lanes are clogged, the Chiefs are blitzing a lot, Cook has had some dropsies, and Ty Johnson (and even Ray Davis) is a much better blocker. He couldn't believe the Bills were keeping "their best player" off the field, thought the Bills deserved to lose, and the Bills coaches were terrible. Oh well.

I was kind of thinking Sam Bradford myself, but then your post reminded me...

As I've learned many many times over the years, there is always someone more stupid than anyone can imagine.

How many times total, or how many times today? Kinda lost count at this point. ***** love that clip. In fact, I'm going to go watch it right now, thank you very much.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to work under that owner, but if he thinks it's a good opportunity for his career, more power to him. I'll take those 3rd rounders for sure.

On the last interception by Mahomes to ice it, two things I noticed: Rousseau got both held and facemasked on the play, no call. Crazy, but not surprising. After the INT, Kelce did a little "golf clap"—not sure if that was a respectful clap, or a "hey, congrats on winning your Super Bowl" sarcastic clap. I kind of think it was the latter.

Well, technically it would probably be Taron, but I certainly wouldn't want to take him off the field for any reason.

Atlanta's not bad...

I didn't notice that but Marino on his podcast was talking about Van Demark's play and that he did well even with Jones lined up across from him a couple times.