Sisyphean Bills

I don't know about what's "best". It's pretty amusing that Reps are coming out of the woodwork with a hundred sales pitches an hour for their guy. I mean, didn't Trump !@#$ing win the election?

It's not "anarchist" to use one's right to freedom of speech or peaceful assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution And there is/was a group using the main body of protesters as cover to vandalize and terrorize indiscriminately, but let's paint with wide brushes.

As others have said up thread, it is not true that hitting a kicker's leg is a penalty. If a defensive player touches the ball then the kicker (and either or both of his legs) are fair game. I recall an NFL game where a punt was blocked, the player who blocked the kick continued and ran through and over the punter, and drove him so hard into the ground that his helmet spun around on his head. Not only did the punter limp off the field, he broke his nose. It's football.

Most of the post-game talking faces said there was not a whistle.

One of the sacks came right up the middle. Olé! Tyrod needs to play on Monday Night more often.

He told Salters that he likes to chew gum. Outrageous!

The thing I'm wondering is if any of the officials bothered to blow his whistle or not. If not, why not? There was a clear unabated rusher and that means they should blow the whistle, killing the play, before someone is seriously hurt. "We're all about safety."

Does anyone playing the Browns not look All Pro?

It's a catchy slogan. "At least we don't suck!"

You can never have too many Sergios.

I disagree with this. The situation in the current NFL is that there is free agency. That means that a team doesn't necessarily keep the players it drafts. They sign their second contract with someone else. Also the NFL CBA has limited the number of draft picks, so there are no longer 12 or 16 or more rounds. The value of draft capital has risen. Teams can't draft a Johnny Unitas in the 9th or a Roger Staubach in the 10th round. Furthermore there is far less stability in the coaching ranks. A coaching staff that starts to develop a project QB could be fired years before the project shows anything. So given the Bills situation, where the coach is on a hot seat (at least in many fans view) and the incumbent starting QB is mediocre, it doesn't help your team in the "hot pocket" era to draft a guy who is considered "years away, if ever." Even if he "gets it" and develops quicker than expected, he may only start getting on the field in the final year of his first deal. And then a team can be faced with the Brock Osweiler decision. Some other team may inflate the price to keep a guy who is still a suspect and a project and who no one knows is for real or not. But not every situation is the same. A team with some stability and that already has a Hall-of-Famer starting (Brady, Favre, Peyton, etc.) can — and should — draft development QBs. It's smart to have Aaron Rodgers developing right behind Brett Favre when you know Favre isn't going to play forever. And we've all seen the Rams situation, which is reminiscent of the Bills the year they drafted EJM. They have a veteran QB who looks good in practice (apparently) and not so much in games — and both are former UH QBs. (Though for the Bills, the terrible KK tripped on a rubber mat and disappeared.) They got a 1st round rookie and an unknown guy, and some people say they like the unknown guy more. (Thad Lewis had a higher QB rating than EJM; we're set!)

So what you are really saying is Chan knows how to get CJ to space.

Byrd actually made a few good plays on Sunday.

He tried to but he was really winded.

I won't say that train has left the station, but it has been dismantled and used for spare parts.

I won't be surprised to see Collins' play and stock free fall like he stepped into an empty elevator shaft.

What cannot be denied is that they drafted the one post-season wunderkind in Jones.

I prefer to think of it that we had no chance to get a good QB.

Nice call.

The Bills brass went all in on the idea that the NFL was becoming identical to the college game. If it doesn't work out, recruit some new hamburger the next year and schedule more Youngstown States.

As a pure hypothetical, we can speculate, but no one will ever know. EJM wasn't drafted in the first round by a team that could afford to let him sit around indefinitely. And there is a case to be made that letting young QBs drafted that high sit on a bench through most of their first contract just isn't the way the NFL operates any longer (though before free agency, it was fairly common). Also, it's worth noting that sometimes one can flip the switch back and forth with at much frequency, vigor, and astonishment as one can dredge up, and it just doesn't change the fact that the light isn't going to go on. Tim Graham got vilified on these boards for his quick determination that EJM might just be as shiny as a string of dead Xmas bulbs, if anyone remembers. Time's passed, and nothing has really changed as far as the equation.

Try to tone down your positivity, dude. Sheesh.

There should be an antiskillz competition to determine whether Blake Bortles or Brock Os sucks more.

That sucks.

Yes. But he did make Marshawn Lynch expendable.