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I think they will go back to wearing shoes off the field this season, and they will probably go back to eating soup. They'll still hate those soul-stealing little cats, though.

🤔... who? 🤔... Brendan? 🤔... is this Case Keenum punking me?

If he doesn’t show, I can already hear the media narrative. First Cook, now Allen… Bills are doooooooomed!!

Before the OP's height of offseason TBD "gift", I guess I never really saw Cole Bishop's face before... dude is going to have a harder time finally growing a beard than Allen did. What a baby face... let's hope it's the baby face of an assassin.

🤔... is it possible such a drinking game already exists?

It’s Cardi B… Diggs was probably trolling for a little distraction for the both of them… 🤷‍♂️

Yes... but what I really want to know is... is Vrabel concerned.

In fairness, the tent had it coming.

With everyone hating on Tyreek, I've decided to take the high road and say something nice. I find his sense of style in shirts to be authentic... despite its obvious redundancy.

Now you're just ####### with people... I don't know whether to interpret this as Keon looks great, or whether it means our cadre of slot receivers as a whole looks like ####.

Is there a metric that tracks impact of man-games lost due to reckless play? Between injuries to Rasul Douglas, Taron Johnson, and himself due to his carelessness, you have to wonder whether his "reasonable productiveness" is offset by drop off in skill when backups are covering for the damage he inflicts.

Ultimately, my gripe with it comes down to the fact the league can’t follow the “ain’t broke, don’t fix it” when it tinkers with its rules, I think. I don’t really care about increasing the likelihood of an onside kick working as an individual play at the end of a game… it was a low percentage play before the rule changes, and it’s a low percentage play now. And having to declare it doesn’t change the end of the game, everyone knows when a team has no choice but to do it. However, it changes the strategy in a game like the Bills-Detroit game last season. Campbell, with a banged up defense that couldn’t stop a toddler, was right to go for one when he did to try to steal a possession, and in 2023 it may have worked. And if he was able to do it to open the second half, he probably would have. In 2024 there’s almost no chance of it working. I dislike the impact of that rule change on those situations, and I feel like keeping it as part of the game as it is is kind of pointless, especially if the league cares about player safety as they claim to, which we know they don’t. I agree about the current kickoff rules. It gives a very minor league feel to the whole thing. It’s like the NHL ending a game with a shootout… all these seasons later it still leaves me flat and unsatisfied.

I love that Deone Walker licked the top of the blue cheese container... I don't feel so alone in the world anymore.

Yes, there is definitely a distinction to be made between good timing and Bawstonwagon... 🤔... Bawstenwagon... 🤔... Bawstinwagon... 🤔... bandwagon, that's it... bandwagon fandom.

I always thought that the only reason the blue cheese was there was to make the carrots and celery less healthy... Flats are great if they're big and they're done right, but they're easier to screw up in my opinion. Nothing more disappointing than getting to the end of an order of wings only to find that a dried out little pigeon flat is the finale.

Surprise onsides kicks were often the most effective, though. Think of the Saints-Colts SB. Payton's surprise onside kick to start the second half turned the tide of that game. It was a high-risk strategy that paid off. Under the current rules it is no longer part of the game. I find that to be unfortunate. Do you think it is less dangerous now that it has to be declared ahead of time? It's something that used to be somewhat suspenseful and meaningful previously that is absolutely useless in it's current iteration, which is why I think they should either fix it or get rid of it.

Whatever the disconnect, he looked so tentative and unsure of himself in that KC playoff game that he might as well have been playing in mud.

It's probably because the alignment for the kicking team is now different between a standard KO and an onsides KO. For a standard KO the coverage team is now 25 yards in front of the kicker, and if the kick doesn't reach the "landing zone" it might as well have been kicked out of bounds, 'cuz the receiving team get's it at the 40, which is presumably where they'd be trying to land it for an onsides kick if they tried one in the standard KO alignment as a surprise. They've basically made an onsides kick untenable. Either they have to modify it to make it work, or do away with it.

Having to declare it before a trailing team uses it relegates it to nothing more than a desperation play, like a Hail Mary. They need to find a way of making it useable again without restriction, or eliminate it altogether. It used to be part of the game strategy, now it's a perfunctory thing to do in a 1 score game before the trailing team ultimately loses.

The only person who would have given a #### enough to watch is Mel Kiper. Browns fans don't even like their team anymore.

Vince Young

The Reggie Bush theme song...

Who are you to question their competence... Mel Kiper gave their draft an A+

I heard he thinks of shoes as foot prisons…

I finally figured out who Shadeur reminds me of…