mannc

Christ, what’s going to happen when he has to punt into the wind?

Guys are open

No first down run, please

Love Roberts, but that’s dumb

37-yard kick with a strong wind behind him. Nice

I hate first down runs

Fouts sux

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Got lucky there

So far, so good?

And they would have been better off sitting at 6 and taking JA. So it was an arrogant and wrong decision. They had no idea which of the QBs was going to be best. You don’t think the Jests could use those 3 second round picks right now?

Or maybe Darnold was never good to begin with... How was it a “great pre-emptive move” to give away three second round picks in order to chose Darnold, instead of staying where they were and taking Allen?

Chalk it up to BBFS.

That’s not a good thing

Without Hauschka, no playoffs in 2017.

Well, he is fast...

Pretty sure he’s putting most (if not all) kickoffs through the EZ lately, which makes me think it’s not a physical thing.

The receivers?

Either that or the least talented team to make playoffs.

Nah. Cowboys basically quit tonight. Which is crazy since they are in first place in their division.

All the insurance ads (especially the ones with Mahomes and Rodgers) and all pharmaceutical ads.

It will be interesting to see if the Bills defer if they win the toss. I think the Ravens lead the league in first possession TDs and I think it's important for the Bills not to get behind early. If I were McDermott, I'd want the ball first.

Yeah, I think Belichick is very uncomfortable with his kicking situation and knows it could cost them a game in what is becoming a tight race for the division and home field....

I love the Bills +5.5 (or better), although the more I read and hear about the Ravens the more I think this will be a very hard game for the Bills to win. They've won eight straight, including several blowout wins over very good teams. Their confidence has to be through the roof. I almost never bet the over/under. I just think it's a complete crapshoot, with too many factors to accurately assess.

Good stuff. The bolded is an understatement, by the way. A really good kicker like Gostkowski (as opposed to an average or below average one) is probably the difference in one or two games per year. How many other positions can you say that about? The fact that few kickers have been drafted early is not a reflection on the relative value of the position, but rather, as you point out, the fact that it's a huge crapshoot. There seems to be little correlation between where (or even whether) a kicker is drafted and how well he will perform in the NFL. It's strange, because you would think that a great college kicker (especially one from a major program who is used to kicking in front of 80,000 people) would almost automatically become a great NFL kicker. I mean, it's not like they have to adjust to playing against bigger, faster guys, like position players do...