I always look forward to and thoroughly read the "in no particular order" post. Always balanced well organized and insightful. A must read. Get well soon.
Would interesting to see what Fitz would do with sammy Watkins. For all his faults and limitations Fitz is great at feeding his #1 and if he doesn't have a #1 he will make one. He turned Stevie into a 1 who then slipped into obscurity when Fitz keft. then goes to Tennessee and makes Kendall wright a number 1 who slips back into obscurity when Fitz leaves. Then he makes Deondre Hopkins a 1 in Houston. Now he's resurrecting Brandon Marshalls # 1 stature. Fitz would be feeding sammy 10 plus times without sammy saying a word.
Wade typically has huge initial successes wherever he goes them it wears ôff. He gives the players more freedom and they respond to it well but then they begin to forget the fundamentals.
Collinsworth has always annoyed me and was an absolute weasel with his call of the Malcolm Butler Super Bowl play. Where does he get off telling everyone he cannot believe the call. Totally disrespectful and denigrating the soaring greatness of Butlers play on the ball. Can't believe the call? Teams have been passing on the 1 yard line for decades in critical situations. It was not more risky than running it. A hat on the ball would have been more likely than butler making the play. Procedure/offsides/bobbled snap the balls in the 5. Butler breaking up the pass would have been a great play. Actually snaring it was unreal. But all we heard from collinsworth was that it was a bad call by the coach.
The 5.5 career yds/Rush is just ridiculous. I say he gets in if he hangs it up now with only 7200 yards. Could walk around the rest of his life as the guy that averaged 5.5 yds/rush.
And yes I was as shocked just like anyone when there was no flag on the Dareus Gilmore play. I waited 30 seconds. When graham made the great play to seal the win earlier I breathed a sigh of relief when there was no flag after five seconds. Then the flag came anyway.
Just look at Houston and Detroit this year to see the suffering that can occur when you are weak at the DT position. You cannot compete. We have one of the best in the game locked up long term. A great DT can single handedly keep you in many games. Well worth the 100 Mill.
Look up the 1990 season, the best Bills team ever. Got blown out at Miami week two. Were pushed around all over the field weeks 4 and 5 against Denver and Oakland but somehow won those games. But then started thinking they were as good as their record and started playing up to their record. Wining games you may have deserved to lose are the best wins you can have.
I still don't understand why NFL Europe has not returned. US fans want to watch their teams' players and extra football. Europe messes it. The league needs it to develop QBs refs and better play in general. And the league is filthy rich. What are they saving by not having it, a few hundred $million?
It's good our pass rush is still respected even though the stats are bad. The offense has to pay some kind of price for having to pass quick. Doesn't press coverage work in this situation?
Yeah. If only Preston, Nigel, Cordy, Robert played to their rookie promise we would have won easily.
There it is, leads the whole league in passes defensed
http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/defense/sort/passesDefended