Thurman#1

No, it's not impossible. It's difficult, and bodybuilders don't generally even try to do it that way, but it's absolutely doable. You can't turn fat directly into muscle. But you can cause the body to break down fat for energy, depending on situation and circumstance, even enough energy to build muscle. Studies have shown this. Here's a couple, but there are a bunch: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28401638/ https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(02)00010-0/fulltext It isn't easy. If you try to do both, you will maximize neither. It's even harder for a guy who's already in great shape, but it is doable. More, it's extremely doable when you're talking about something like Davis did, gaining relatively small amounts of weight over several months. You could for example cut weight and lose fat over the first two months and then gain muscle for the next two or three months. He's had from January 24th to today. Take maybe three weeks of total vaca and you still have five months of time to do this. Very possible.

#5 in the NFL in catches in 1975 #2 in the NFL in catches in 1976 #2 in the NFL in catches in 1977 Tied for #2 in the NFL in receivingTDs in 1980 Tied for #3 in the NFL in receiving TDs in 1976 He was damn good.

Yup, there are multiple high-level QBs that have had horrible starts to post-season careers and then turned in terrific records. Remember Elway? Hell, Big Ben himself lost his first AFC championship. Nothing wrong with speculating and guessing. Plenty wrong with trying to already assign blame for catastrophes that have not yet happened and may never. It's poor thinking.

Saying something is step one in a long series of mishaps that has not yet happened ... again, simply poor thinking. Unless you can see the future with 100% clarity, of course. If you've got a working crystal ball, I take it all back. It could be step one in a long series of successive Super Bowl wins for all we know. Probably somewhere in the middle, but it's all guesswork until it happens.

If $25M is what he actually expects, and less would cause major disappointment, yeah, good luck with that. Might easily just be a warning shot off the bows or a first negotiating position, though. He and the Chiefs both say they want him in KC. I might be misunderstanding his meaning, but I thought me might mean that they could franchise him for a second time in a row, and I believe it would still cost less than the $22M that Spotrac is projecting for a second contract's AAV.

Deciding who is at fault for a problem which has not yet happened and may never happen, that's what you're doing here. And doing that is an absolute guarantee of baseless, poor thinking. As for your other point, Josh has yet to show for sure he's better than Ben, but yeah, it looks that way right now.

That ain't squatting, it's more like half-squatting. As he notes. Still pretty damn impressive. I'm hopeful for him, myself.

Oh my God, yes. Over and over and over and over.

If Bobby Chandler had played today he'd have been a ton better than he was then, and he was excellent then. The training and knowledge about training is vastly better now, as is the nutrition, the speed training, the facilities, etc. And Chandler was excellent then. If he played today, he probably wouldn't have had to spend the off-season getting his law degree so he could make enough money to support his family. He was under-estimated then and now. He didn't get two second team All-Pros by accident. And while he wasn't lightning fast, he wasn't slow, and he was quick as hell and knew how to get open. And today, with the training, he'd be faster than he was then. A few years ago, I probably had the same injury Chandler had with that hit he got as a Raider, arterial bleeding from the spleen. I fell about five feet onto the sharp edge of a concrete abutment. They stopped the bleeding and saved my life with what is now called pinhole surgery and is done by sliding the equipment through blood vessels to the scene. That's not how they did the surgery in Chandler's day. And I can guarantee you I wouldn't have been willing to play pro football six weeks after I got the injury.

Yup. You didn't win the Super Bowl so you're not elite is simply a dumb argument. Exactly.

Thanks for the chuckle. A wonderful example of just not getting it.

That Davis hasn't been wildly productive, fair enough. That he hasn't seized his opportunities? Not really. He got less opportunities. Much fewer opportunities last year than he himself had the year before (73% of snaps in 2020, which fell to 51%). And many fewer last year than Watkins has had for most of his career. Davis' yards per snap last year as compared to Watkins'? In Sammy's eight years in the league, he's only had three years where he managed more yards per snap than Davis got last year. None of those three years happened more recently than 2018. Compared to Watkins' career yards per target, Davis has been better in both 2020 and 2021. There's every reason to believe Davis'll see a ton more snaps this year than he has, and likely a lot more targets as well. You seem to think you're saying something interesting when you point out that he needs to be more productive this year. You're not. He's a guy going from his second to his third year expecting a larger role. Pretty much everyone at that juncture needs to be more productive. To your whole thesis here, the best answer would appear to be, "Duh, everyone already knows this." Of course he's still got a lot to prove. Same with most players that young picked where he was.

I think you're hearing more than he's saying. He's just talking about how as he looks back he feels he didn't know much, and that Davis does. And while some of that can be said to be down to the team, a ton of it is down to the player and how well he listens and takes it in. How well he goes beyond what's asked. How early in the workout he thinks he's done enough and can start to dog it a bit. How much of a dog he is. Fair enough that Sammy didn't really know much about how to get it done. Bobby Trees did on the same team.

Palmer has been saying this for a couple of years now. I think he's right.

Way. Not that I'm saying it will happen, but it's far within the range of possibilities.

Why would they? Um, no, wrong question. Actually, it's the opposite of the right question, which is why wouldn't they consider a draftee when you're evaluating a draft class? Duh. That's the whole point. Evaluating a draft class is precisely evaluating who was drafted. As mentioned by other above, that trading Teller was a bad move is very arguable. But that's an entirely different event than drafting him. Which showed excellent judgment.

Nonsense. Yeah, there are indeed a ton of threads debating this, but that says more about the judgement of the fans who don't quite get it and the consistent need for people to designate a whipping boy and bellyache about him, sensible or not. And more about the fact that he's been so good that if he goes for his full market value that he'll get an awful lot of money, and that the Bills have several guys on the roster they desperately want to keep who may prove too expensive in total to keep all of. Taron Johnson, "a decent CB3"? Ridiculous. Good grief, he's one of the best slot corners in the league if not the single best. EDIT: I took out the stuff about Neal, as Kirby's math above addressed it far better and more simply that I had. "Plays 2/3 snaps" you say? Good lord! For a 5th, Neal was good value. This was a terrific draft class, terrific.

Best wishes to her for a fast and complete recovery. Get better soon, Kim. Ten Bostons!! She is awesome! Best to her and you. But we should all stop the baseless speculation.

Wow!!! Great memories!! So many familiar names. And I love the old-fashioned slo-mo highlights.

Yup. Great player to watch. My suspicion is that if given the chance he'd have been another Tyrod at QB. But maybe more. Maybe better. Hard to say, since he never got a long-term chance. But man, was he fun to watch at WR. So so quick and smooth. Butler, maybe. I was thinking the young Sanders, but Briscoe was maybe as good in the short to intermediate range but was more of a deep threat.

He's a good man, but not a good enough QB that I ever wanted him on the team. Best of luck to him in all endeavors. I live in Japan. Have for 30 years. Hopefully you were being sarcastic there, because you're right about falling birth rates (and that's equally true in pretty much every developed economy in the world) but the rest of it is nonsense. Of the "utter" variety.

What trade value could Ford have? A 7th, maybe. A 6th maybe. Maybe not, but maybe. He's a strong guy, a good run blocker. Appears heavy-footed, though. Probably not starting quality on many teams but likely backup quality on quite a few, and very possibly the Bills will be included in that group. I just disagree about Moss. And will continue to do so unless he starts looking bad in camp. Moss is indeed an excellent pass blocker, but he's also showed himself to be a good runner. But inconsistently. I think Moss could probably draw interest. But that he's simply more valuable to the Bills than to any other team.

Yeah, and he had a lot of good carries as a rookie too. Nobody should be saying he's never looked good. But it's fair enough to say he hasn't looked good recently. It'll depend how he looks this coming year and my guess is he looks good. But that's a guess.

I absolutely hope they do extend him. I guess they don't due to cap issues. But he's consistently underestimated here. He's really good, or at least he sure played that way after they finally got the OL figured out. The other day Cover 2 had him as the 10th - 12th best RB in the league last year ... after they put Bates in. Hearing them say that I felt, "at last, someone else seems to see what seems obvious to me." I can't see them paying him his market value, for cap reasons, but I'm still holding onto hope that they can work out a contract with a hometown discount. But I'd certainly understand if Singletary wasn't interested. For RBs, that 2nd contract is absolutely huge for their lifelong financial health.

Wildly unlikely, I think. One gone, of Moss and Singletary? A much better chance, at the end of the season as you're saying. But both? Really doubtful is my guess.