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He's played for that $1.7M level the past 2 seasons and he's made around $120M in his career. But you think that he is still playing for the money? You even used to complain about his durability. Never has anyone been as wrong about a player on TSW as you have been about Peters. You were throwing dirt on him over a decade ago. He's a gamer. If he is committed to playing another year at age 41 there is very little difference in preparation between signing two weeks ago or waiting until after the last preseason game and then assessing the field.

Peters is considered a great teammate. Kinda' guy who would literally stays after practice all the time to work with young OL.........even in his prime when he was an All Pro. When your best offensive lineman does that.......that's the kind of stuff that helps you maintain a winning culture while changing HC's. Imagine Dion Dawkins being like that. Yeah right.......it's a stretch of the imagination for sure. He can't even get himself in shape. But fans have loved Dion until now because he kisses their asss on social media and because the Bills front office wisely doesn't try to get over on their players contractually or negotiate thru the media when they do it. That makes even the lazy underachievers like Dion fan favorites to the dim-witted amongst the fanbase.

Also were good Yankees. Nobody is stopping the Mess fans from starting an annual thread, btw.

Any phrases that illustrate a lack of self accountability

With the competitive part of the season over here is a nice look at a tremendous group of Yankees prospects in rookie ball this year: https://www.pinstripealley.com/2023/8/23/23840991/yankees-prospects-minors-rookie-league-fcl-lombard-delgado-arias-tejeda-montero-serna-cruz-lalane Also Baseball America ranks 7 Yankees prospects in their most recent update of top 100 prospects: https://elitesportsny.com/2023/08/11/these-7-yankees-prospects-made-baseball-america-top-100/ Overall pretty good season for the Yankees farm system. A lot of lefty and/or switch hitters close to the majors.......the lack of which is by far their biggest weakness. The Yankees have beaten up left handed starting pitching(were 14-4 last I checked) but most teams just avoid using LHP against them knowing that their only real lefty bats are Quad-A players like Bauers and McKinnie. Not a coincidence that they broke their losing streak against a LHP.

Aaron Judge hits 3 HR as Yanks end streak https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38248021/aaron-judge-first-3-homer-game-helps-yankees-avoid-worst-losing-streak-1913 https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-has-first-career-three-homer-game

@wppete still logs in on June 1st to see all the big names get cut.

So you are saying Peters signed in mid-July, mid-August and is contemplating another return here on August 21.............and you think that his intention was to be available for the entire offseason and OTA's? Are you really that f*cking daft or back on the denial train like you were about Peters being a future HOF'er? Suh will return at some point this year and that will be two years of starting his season in-season........with no camp at all. Did I say they've been doing this for 10 years or something? Try to keep up, really.

You are very observant..........it's almost as if this scenario has transpired this offseason with Saquon Barkley already and now has been unfolding with Taylor for months and you've considered the possibilities before.

Still gotta' step up in that pocket if you are an NFL QB. He has 5+ yards of space to step up with nobody in front and get the ball out. Diggs was running a short route and just needed a split second to get wide open. It's pre-season.......Allen doesn't need practice scrambling right.

I know these kids nowadays play on teams of their choosing almost all the way up...........especially in football..........but I suspect the majority of people on TSW we're accustomed to being assigned to teams at each level of team sports thru HS and being all-in on that team.

And Suh decided to wait until midseason to join a SB contender last year. And says he has turned down the 49ers this offseason but is contemplating another mid-season return. These guys haven't been desperate to sign on the dotted line in the offseason for years.

No you apparently really don't know how this works. Why would you presume that Peters wants to re-sign with the team he played for that season and then go thru offseason activities and training camp? Not only does he have no interest in offseason team activities or training camp he knows that if he signs a contract and then doesn't show up at the team facility he's setting a bad example.........and his reputation is as a great teammate who goes out of his way to mentor younger players. Those actions don't align. What guys like Peters and Suh are doing is well documented and not new practice for veterans in the NFL. They don't want to commit to playing again every offseason until all they have to do is show up and play games..........and then they pick and choose the best fit for them where there is mutual interest AT THAT TIME.

Yeah to me he's like Howie Roseman's version of Jerry Jones' Barry Switzer.

Whether he's capable or not isn't the concern at this point.........we haven't gotten to the point where we are wondering if he's broken or not adaptive or gotten exposed or whatever..........he's just been putting a lot of "wtf" moments on tape where Diggs in particular is wide open and Allen seems to not be seeing that part of the field or anticipating at an elite QB level. If he knows what that route is he has to trust Diggs to run a great route and put that ball where only he can get it. It wasn't a slant or something it was an out route........unless he leaves it to the insider it's not getting picked.

No just in regard to holding the ball too long and trying to extend plays too often...........with a bad OL being the excuse. But people forget though that Rob Johnson wasn't unproductive when the Bills had a good team..........he averaged a whopping 8.5 yards per pass attempt and had a passer rating close to 110 over the 1998-1999 seasons. He was a big play machine and numbers were elite when he was actually on the field and not concussed or otherwise injured for those teams. For reference, Josh Allen averaged 7.6 yards per attempt with a 96 passer rating last season while Mahomes averaged 8.1 with a 109 last season.

It was chaos, that's for sure. Daquon goes to the outside shoulder of his blocker.........Oliver to the outside of his blocker.............and nothing in front of Pickett but a wide open view of the field and 10-15 yards of real estate to scramble left in front of him. I understand that they aren't game planning but........maybe a little communication is still in order? There was another play where Oliver went wide and wiped out Rousseau like he thought they had a stunt planned and Rousseau didn't know it? If they were trying to look unprepared they succeeded.

While I understand the criticism we judge the pass pro at a different standard than most teams because our QB holds the ball longer than anyone. Most teams have to get the ball out when receivers aren't yet open and trust their playmakers. But that's who Josh Allen is at this point..........which is why so many of us were quite adamant about the need to add options in the passing game that Allen would trust to get open or at least not have to see college-open in order to throw it to them. I know you were a fan of the idea of adding Hopkins because of that..........but if Kincaid doesn't fill that role it may be another season of Allen getting further ingrained in the bad habit of holding the ball until the receiver comes open and Josh evoking memories of Rob Johnson evacuating "NFL clean" pockets hoping to buy time for Gabe Davis.

Yeah Eric Wood was a very scheme specific player. He was pretty athletic but he was beyond overmatched against power........to the extent that a big DT literally snapped his leg when Wood tried to engage in a test of strength with him. He eventually learned how to stop trying to out-physical opponents after numerous injuries as a result of over-estimating his ability..........and just block the edges of defenders...........and that made him effective in systems where he could be put on the move later in his career.

The resident Jason Peters haters used to scoff when I told them that not only was Peters great and played a more important position but that despite being in his 6th year when Wood was a rookie that Peters would be in the league well after Wood was gone. @PromoTheRobot used to keep us constantly updated with ANY negative press about Peters until well past the point that he was a HOF'er. Of course he used to do that about Bryant McKinnie as well.........in support of the decision to draft "Big Mike" Williams instead.

Dallas and Chicago didn't release Peters..........they had no control over Peters..........he signed one year deals and became a free agent as soon as the season ended. You understand how this works, right? He and Ndamukong Suh are two freaks of nature that are much older than anyone else at their positions but have continually proven they can step in WHENEVER and play good football. They just have no interest in spending the offseason required to attend team activities or training camp. They have both just been picking and choosing when they want to play and whether they want to play with the interested teams.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Most teams don't have 2 good tackles so why would any of them have more than 4 playable OT's and just release one?

It's a fight..........work the body and soften up the defense and then that creates time for the big punches. They throwing too many haymakers and making it easy to defend and some of that is definitely on Josh. Not stepping up in the pocket. Not putting the ball where it should be(like on the play where somehow Diggs got a pass knocked away by OLB Highsmith). Josh may be the most dynamic guy at the most important position.........but he still has a lot of room to improve as a QB.

McGovern performed "well". Seumalo performed GREAT. Still perplexed about how that UFA went down. Seumalo was probably the best pass blocking guard in the NFL by the end of last season and gets just a few shillings more than the relatively unproven McGovern. No doubt, the Steelers had a sneaky great offseason on the heels of a very impactful draft in 2022.

Yeah Brown got torched on that play. Otherwise he was solid. Guys are getting 8 figure aav contract extensions at RT for playing at that level. It's not a premium position and I'm not going to get too worked about losing a rep to a crafty vet like Markus Golden when he's holding his own against the best pass rusher in the entire league in TJ Watt. I have concerns about Brown but they are mostly injury related. Lane Johnson is a LT quality RT for Philadelphia but otherwise most good teams have big stiffs like Brown at RT. Some even used earlier picks on them. It's not going to look great if they play that "bombs away" style........they need the short passing game to work.