HardyBoy

Beane might be anticipating a non zero chance that the wheels fall off this season (with the dline injuries they might have already) and 2026 might be the highest they're drafting in a while and for the foreseeable future...not saying they won't trade that pick, but Miami was probably valuing it at the very end of the draft and they would get much much more value when it's a known pick if it's in the mid or even upper 20s.

Ah Hancock and yes I knew that somewhere in my brain do you think his issue was more run defense and getting confidence there allowed him to start just playing on passing downs and not think as much on those downs? I guess, how does Poyer playing help Bishop on clear passing downs when Poyer is not in the game typically?

He's playing well when Lewis subs in for Poyer too though... I'm not saying Poyer definitely isn't the reason, but shouldn't his play drop significantly on passing downs when Lewis comes in then? Could it be just that something clicked for him and coincided when Poyer started playing, or maybe more that Rapp was the issue and brining in any replacement level player would have facilitated Bishop's ability to only have to think about his role and not covering for Rapp?

He might have adhd

Yeah, can you imagine the reads Bishop and Hairston would get from Coleman's film study!

They don't celebrate anything... the military pays for all of it. It's not a genuine salute to anything other than making money and recruitment efforts...tax money something something

I feel like beane has chased the draft picks he traded away and it impacted the draft a lot...also, it adds a ton of uncertainty to the draft prep process...they know they are likely going to trade down to get a third back, but I have to imagine that makes all the prep prior to the draft, all the mock drafts and scenarios completely hypothetical. Yeah there's a ton of uncertainty in the draft as it is, but essentially going in not knowing where you're picking at all because your plan is to get more picks early...I think there is a plus side to this in terms of certainty if you do nothing and trade wise, and they don't have to do anything trade wise to chase picks

Some might need a decoder ring, not us...we just need Draconator and a six pack!

He ended up going to the Rams and iirc made the team...his path to making the team was likely better somewhere else. The only way you could possibly know that the bills weren't interested is if he wasn't signed as an undrafted free agent on any team at all, which wasn't the case.

How do you know they didn't?

I think he got a concussion against the Pats

Yeah, I saw that...I watched the Falcons game at a bar at a networking event without volume (except for me thinking Palmer tore everything on the initial play and then when they stepped out at the half yard line to end the half)... I'm sure they mentioned it on the broadcast, but I didn't hear it obviously

Haha, I dont know what a bunch of people here are thinking, let alone the players

What in the world?! Penix had 233 yards and a yards per attempt of 6.9 which is below his career average...and they scored 24 points, including three in the second half...seven of which came on an 80 yard run on the first play of the drive... Dan Marino...seriously?! It really has gotten to the point where I'm almost rooting for wins more to keep people from going crazy than for the actual wins...almost

Missed tackles could absolutely be a factor of a player getting to a spot a fraction faster because they are fresh...that's not an excuse

Why isn't this being talked about more??? They looked like a team coming off their bye and the Bills defense especially started playing way better in the second half after they adjusted to what I'm sure some wrinkles they were able to add during the bye and two weeks to prepare for the Bills. Feels like massively important context

Maybe she's trying to mirror your energy or repeating things you've said in the past cause she wanted to connect with you? Cause otherwise, I'm not sure I really am going to take the opinion of someone who barely watches the team more than five minutes at a time...that said, my own wife does have a pretty good understanding of football, she grew up having to watch it, but she doesn't anymore all that much, but I do value her opinion when she watches... so yeah, I'm flip flopping a bit, lol

I feel like trading a 3rd during the season causes Beane to chase the pick in the draft somehow...like there is some sunk cost fallacy or something going on

Lol, nicely done and go bills

Do you understand what the term contributing factor means? I'm not saying he did that because of CTE... I'm saying it could he something he was dealing with and as a coping mechanism he could have went down a path of self soothing with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately could have resulted in him doing that... Like if someone hurts their back and then gets prescribed pain pills and then gets addicted even when using them as prescribed and then loses their job as a result and then gets foreclosed on and then has to live on the street and then gets arrested for robbing someone...and I say I wonder if them hurting their back was a contributing factor and then you saying "you can't be serious"...you know ridiculous and lacking humility or understanding your comment would have or lacking the understanding of how incredibly close any one of us is to that reality no matter how much you want to tell yourself you're different and somehow better than reality...well, same thing here in terms of how silly that comment is

My first thought too...at least as a contributing factor

Because you're more likely to have 48 out or 53 healthy players...if one team has 53 healthy enough players to play and the other team has only 49 healthy players to play, that's a disadvantage...this makes it more likely to be even...that's how I've always understood it

I think that's a fair perspective

Unfortunately it would be an incredible landing spot for Joe Brady...

Maybe a team was trying to claim him?