st pete gogolak

ESPN just released some predictions for 2024. Bills 7 - 10. Vikings #1 overall pick. In some alternate universe, I’m ok with this. Three picks in the 50, plus some cap space to play around with. Things could be worse.

Pro football is unique among the major sports in that injuries are so much more prevalent than in baseball, basketball and hockey. That’s one reason that no team has accomplished a Super Bowl three-peat. Look at the Chiefs. I don’t follow them very closely but they appear to have avoided major injuries in the last two Super Bowls. In the game against TB, they were missing both starting OT’s and got absolutely smoked.

I don’t watch a lot of college football so this is actually a serious question. Not talking 20/20 hindsight but why him over Mahones and Watson? His arm looks average. Same with accuracy. Some mobility but nothing special. Was it just the Bears screwing the pooch? If Bears didn’t take him would he have gone top 10? First round? Just curious.

Yeah! Drake Maye gets a full year of experience before we play the Pats! /s

A guy nicknamed House orders two entrees? Color me shocked!

Those are huge discrepancies between years. Any explanation? I presume caliber of competition is as good if not better in Big 10 as opposed to ACC. Offensive schemes run by Michigan State v. Florida State? Something else?

And yet, Tampa Bay passed on Tampa! Couldn’t believe it!

A punter?

Here’s something that I don’t understand. He doesn’t get separation but he has all these great times in the gauntlet. Separation doesn’t mean you run a fast 40. So what gives? Lack of quickness? Can “separation” be taught?

I don't follow the college game. Is anyone bummed that Green Bay took Bullard two picks before we took Bishop? Bullard's highlights looked kind of awesome. How do the two rate vis-a-vis each other?

Dave Keon had a pretty great career.

Putting aside the Chiefs for a second, this was a pretty good first day for the Bills from an AFC East standpoint. Pats don’t get Daniels (who I think is a whole lot more dangerous than Maye), Jets don’t get one of the Big 3 WR’s or the top TE and Dolphins draft Aaron Maybin Part Deux. Let’s make some solid picks today and move forward.

Your analysis by the way was spot on. What an awful draft.

Butler had checked out by 2000. He was basically on his way to SD. Should have traded back for the Michigan QB in 2000.

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.