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“Ben Baby”

I believe the main culprit in this is McDermott. He wants pressure coming from the middle and the DEs to compress the pocket so QBs can't escape. As such, we get a bunch of big, compressions style DEs and lots of penetrating 3 tech DTs. It's how McD wants to play. He wants the DTs to penetrate and cause havoc in the backfield, not the DEs. The problem is, this rarely happens so we get gashed with the run and very little pass rush from anywhere. The DEs are tasked with maintaining their lanes more so than getting after the QB. That's their 1/11th. If they can get to the QB great, but it's not their number 1 job. It's to compress. Just look at Bosa, dude was getting pressure in the first half of the season, but he was abdicating his other responsibilities to do it. Consequently we were getting gashed by outside runs, read options and QB scrambles to his side of the field. It was maddening because he was freelancing and nobody was prepared to pick up his missed assignment. Did he get pressure? Yep. Was he an overall positive to the D? No, because the D isn't set up to do what he was doing. Thankfully he's been much better doing his job in the past few games - probably due to his injury limiting him. I'm fairly certain if Groot just freelanced to get pressure he could do the same or similar. His pressure numbers during his career aren't bad considering what he's tasked with doing. I'm also fairly certain Groot is one of the defenders McD is happiest with because dude does his job more consistently than just about anybody else. He's not flashy, but he's where he's supposed to be, doing what he's supposed to do on most plays. Now, I do think Groot can be a better pass rusher even tasked with doing it in this very specific way. He doesn't use his length to disengage as well as you'd hope. If I had to rank him as an overall DE I'd put him around 15th-20th. He's not nearly as bad as frustrated Bills' fans make him out to be. They're targeting their frustrations at the wrong thing, it's the D philosophy mixed with the inability to get players to make that philosophy work that's maddening.

Hysterical

OK, I'll admit it. I had watched (well, speed watched, wearing out the FF button) the 2 Chiefs themed movies last year. My wife and daughter like Hallmark Christmas movies. Kind of comfort food for the holidays for them, so I've seen bits and pieces of a lot of them. Based on my embarrassing familiarity with the genre, here's my Graded on a Curve, genre-specific scores: 1. Chiefs LIFETIME (not Hallmark) movie: 7 our of 10. They didn't have access to Chiefs regalia or Chiefs player cameos, etc. Lifetime seems a little racier than Hallmark. They're definitely doing more than a final kiss. Pretty decent for the genre. Not eyerolling Chiefs worship. 2. Bills movie: 4. Pretty cringe at times, but still kept the pace going. Player cameos fun for Bills fans, pretty innocuous for non-Bills female audiences as far as I can tell. Wife and daughter sat through this one with me. If it hadn't been Bills, they might not have sat it out, but still, o.k. 3. Chiefs Hallmark movie: 0. Awful. This is the one with Travis Kelce's mom, which alone is enough to drop it a couple points. Awful plot - they didn't want it to get uncomfortably close to real life Travis loves Taylor, so the love interest is ... a Chiefs office worker? What? That's gonna get the female viewers all hot and bothered? Just unwatchable for anyone but a hardcore Chiefs fan, or your hardcore Hallmark movie reviewer (I watch so you don't have to). Disgusting Chiefs hagiography; basically a Chiefs fanfic, but by a really untalented screenwriter. Avoid at all costs. You're welcome.

Forever, and ever with this HCs "scheme" Playing scared

Shaq Lawson incoming......him and Shaq Thompson will be a:

Beane's expensive moonshots on older stars and vets wouldn't be as necessary with a better hit rate on high round picks.

No palm trees

Having thought through some of the details financially, it is not super surprising a guy n Slay's shoes could make this decision. He has made $120,000,000 in the NFL so he has generational wealth. This past year he signed a one year $10,000,000 with the Steelers. At this point there is only $348,000 left to earn or roughly 3.5%. In order to earn that 3.5% he will have to move his family or just himself during the holidays. What he is giving up financially is not much, it would be $3500 for a more common person making $100,000. Would you pick up and move for that if you had some other priorities? Also understand there s risk in my trying to earn that $348,000 at 34 years old, if he tears an ACL his career is likely done while if he goes and hangs with the family, gets to the offseason he can probably get another 3-5M to play somewhere next year. You could argue some kind of moral obligation or something but I will just say I can see why in this situation he can sleep ok doing what he is doing.

If we go zone, Burrow will pick at our carcass all day long.

You really believe that BB put in a claim for Slay with the intention of waiving Ingram without running the scenario by McD?

He thought the 2020 election was stolen. Draw your own conclusions https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/suspect-dc-pipe-bomb-case-152014364.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

It's getting near dawn When lights close their tired eyes I'll soon be with you, my love Give you my dawn surprise I'll be with you, darling, soon I'll be with you when the stars start falling I've been waiting so long To be where I'm going In the sunshine of your love

Taxes n' palm trees Kevyn Adams was right 😱

38 Bills - 30 Bungles

Bills 24 Bengals 19

Losing Ingram hurts. It doesn't seem as if the Bills have any leverage in dealing with Slay. The CBs on the PS don't thrill me. Dane Jackson is a low ceiling CB. TeCory Couch combines lack of size with his pedestrian speed and Codrington isn't even that valuable as a returner it seems. The free agent market has mostly leftovers. If I'm Beane, I'm looking through the practice squads of other teams to see if there are some athletic guys with upside. There's got to be some young guys looking for a chance to be on a 53 man roster.

We live in an era where words get redefined all the time. Your attempt to redefine “extraordinary” is one of the weakest attempts I’ve seen. Rather embarrassing. It’s ok though. You can’t help yourself. Because of Donald TRUMP. regards, AM

Never thought I would go from trusting Beane fully to being indifferent to him being fired this quickly. This is embarrassing.

not until next March

No the trade deadline has passed

That makes it even MORE interesting that the Biden FBI had all those info on him and failed to use it!