st pete gogolak

I remember Jimmy Johnson being a big believer in accumulating draft picks. Cowboys hit on quite a few but had their fair share of misses. I also recall his thoughts on kickers - “kickers are fungible”.

Anyone outraged by Blacks’ reaction to the verdict needs to look at American history. How would you feel if you had witnessed whites being acquitted of murder by all-white juries hundreds, if not thousands of times - Emmett Till, Medger Evers, the list goes on and on - when obviously guilty. The OJ trial didn’t expose the American system of justice. It just exposed it to a different set of people.

Not Princess Bride. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Not really if you put numbers on it. Preponderance of the evidence you need 50.1% for verdict. Beyond reasonable doubt? No one puts a number on it but assume it’s around 90% - 95% sure person is guilty. So not guilty in criminal case but guilty in civil case, juries believed defendant was between 50.1% and 90% - 95% guilty. Kind of crazy but that’s the system.

Do you mean “you have to create a seal HERE and a seal HERE and run up the alley”?

I’ve been thinking along the same lines. Line him up in traditional FB spot. Lead blocker on running plays, move to the line in 12 personnel, slot, whatever. Could lead to some interesting formations.

I wish I could remember who posted it, but a poster insightfully pointed out that Diggs’ 2022 and 2023 seasons were pretty much the same - great first half, lousy second half. So what the heck is going on? I certainly don’t buy the age thing. Thirty year old receivers don’t fall off a cliff. So again, why the dramatic drop off in consecutive years?

You know what’s crazy? The Draft Fairy went to Beane the night before the Diggs trade and told him that Jefferson would be available when it was the Bills’ turn to pick and that SOB still went ahead with the trade!

We passed on him, presumably because we had Dareus and Kyle Williams. Does that sound right? That’s incredibly bad luck. If only we had needed a DT that year (assuming we don’t trade up for a WR and give away next year’s #1).

It’s interesting that Curtis Samuel is a poor man’s Deebo Samuel.

Someone pointed out that Diggs’ 2023 was a rerun of his 2022. Fantastic first half and miserable second half. No idea what to make of this other than it’s going to be interesting watching him in 2024.

Given my avatar, it’s no shock I’m partial to the 1965 AFL Topps series. It’s oversized cards. Each team has a different color background. Bills are pink of all things. Most valuable card in the series is the Joe Namath rookie card. I have it, but it’s a little beat up. My wife gave me the OJ rookie card a couple of months before the murders. At the time, we lived a couple of blocks away from Nicole Brown’s condo.

Strictly as a hypothetical, could Bengals and Chiefs do a straight up swap of Higgins and Sneed or would franchise tag rules prohibit that?

That’s not a real name is it? It’s more like Mike Hunt or Dick Hurts, right?

Alec Anderson was very impressive last preseason. I believe that they will give him a shot at starting. I’m guessing McGovern is the backup plan. Plus they will certainly use a mid-round draft choice on an interior OL.

Bills eventually recovered from Black Thursday (granted it took 20 years 🥲). Sabres still looking to recover from the day they lost Drury and Briere.

Sorry, young’n. Best CB was Robert James. He’d be in the HOF if not for a devastating knee injury in a meaningless preseason game.

Williams owned everybody. Maybe the best “unknown” lineman of all time. He physically destroyed a pretty good player in Phil Hansen in the Super Bowl rematch.

We’re entering the most ridiculously over-hyped period of the entire NFL calendar (and no, it’s not because I’m bitter that the Bills have zero money to spend on free agents). So, when has signing a FA worked to get a team a Super Bowl championship? Clearly, it’s happened. Reggie White in Green Bay. Brady in Tampa Bay. It took a couple of years but Brees in NO. Who am I missing?

True, but I also think that they do like Anderson.

Not quite true. Tampa Bay picked him before our original pick was up. On the other hand, trading up for a HOF receiver would have been worth trading next year’s one. Truly a monumental FU by the front office. Make the trade and pick Mack or Evans. Stay put and pick Beckham or Donald. Rest of our draft that year was crap as well.

I’m not a cap guru, so I’m trying to figure out how the Bills got to where they are. Allen, obviously. Miller, Diggs and to a lesser extent Knox? I find it hard to second guess Diggs deal. Miller has at least some bad luck attached to his deal, although counter is you just don’t give that kind of deal to a 33 year old. Can a couple of bad deals put you in cap hell? What am I missing?

Forget for a second who KC selected with the pick. I’m not a draft guru but it seems like we didn’t get a whole lot for dropping from #10 to #27. What would it cost us to move to #10 this draft? It cost us next year’s #1 to move from #8 to #4 to draft Sammy Watkins. Note: bad teams should NEVER trade next year’s #1, right Carolina?

Not trying to obsess about Kansas City but as a football fan, I’m genuinely curious as to whether Spagnuolo made adjustments at half time of various games and if so, what those adjustments were. Not going to go through the entire season, just the two Bills games and the Super Bowl. Also, not going to look at Miami, which was never going to be a threat against anyone in zero degree weather. Baltimore was an anomaly. Even though it only scored three points, its offense was markedly better in the second half. But in the two games against the Bills and the game against the 49ers, the stats are striking. Bills regular season - 14 first half points and 208 yards. Second half - 6 points and 119 yards. Playoff game - 17 first half points and 225 yards. Second half - 7 points and 143 yards. Super Bowl - 10 first half points and 204 yards. Second half - 9 and 112. Has anyone come across any expert analysis as to what KC changed up, if anything, at the half of any of these games?

JFC, the Bills didn't "jump the gun". He was accused of gang raping a 17 year old. Bills had two choices. Cut him or keep him on the roster. Bills were Super Bowl favorites going into that season. Keeping him on the roster would have been an insane distraction. None of it was fair to Azaria. He was accused, not convicted. But to argue that the Bills has a choice here is disingenuous at best.