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Eagles are in a great position to do that.

What I mean is that drafting blockers earlier would only address the problem for those specific teams that do it........not the league as a whole. And it hasn't really proven to be a winning strategy........ask the Colts and the Cowboys about how far first round interior OL......and getting good play from them......... took them in the SB hunt. I don't see where using early picks on OL will make more of them appear. It's not like they don't get paid well in UFA. They do. There is just likely to be the same amount of OL talent entering the league either way. It's not like the QB or WR positions......or a lot of the defensive positions........where those guys might be making a business decision between playing different positions in football or different sports altogether like baseball or basketball. Money has drawn those type of athletes to the big $ positions in football. OL don't have those options. It's like RB.......there aren't a lot of other sporting opportunities in the US for 5'7" 210# dudes who run a 4.6 40.

There was a pretty substantial period of time........about a decade.........when Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees were playing at a level miles above everyone else.

Has nothing to do with drafting. If it did then there would still be have's and have not's with regard to OL play..........and there aren't any have's. It's a practice and continuity issue.

Yes there are a lot of food vendors on Abbott Road.

Pitching and out homering teams is how you win in the playoffs. It's more predictive than turnovers in football. What the Yankees need to change is the little tap dance they like to do around an imaginary salary cap with their payroll. There is no salary cap........and when you win for 30 straight seasons like they have then you never benefit from the spoils of the parity machine. Even if you draft and develop well you need to keep spending to beat the system. It's an ugly game but they are losing in the playoffs because they don't have better pitching or better lineups........because they are making a lot of unnecessary business decisions to try to fill certain spots on the cheap. Some team is ALWAYS going to be at a point in their development where they don't have many weaknesses..........so you gotta' match that. Their last dynasty was BUILT on prospects drafted/acquired during their late 80's and early 90's stretch of losing and only sustained by spending. You aren't building a new "core 4" plus when drafting 25th-30th every year. But when you make money like the Yankees you CAN spend more every year though. No reason why they shouldn't have a $350M payroll at this point in time. Bryce Harper should be on the team. Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander should have finished their careers as Yankees. Giancarlo Stanton should have never been acquired........that was a half measure to acquire a run producer on a cheaper contract than the pending free agents in coming offseasons. They had payrolls comparable to this past season 15 years ago. They've basically repeated the mistakes of the 1980's when George and his fellow owners colluded against the players so George refused to bid on certain star players(Jack Morris repeatedly, in particular) to tamp league salaries down. Time for Hal to wake up......stop counting sunk costs..........and spend the money in the offseason..........instead of making believe that there is a salary cap and then trading prospects for rentals in July as if the Yankees championship drive isn't a going concern. ESPECIALLY now because they are effectively being charged a "Yankee tax" in trades. Stop being a p*ssy Hal. The other option is to tear it down and tank. Which is now not really an option because Cohen is on the other side of town and willing to LOSE money to win.

I said it last year when New England beat the Bills in Buffalo...........the best part was that win will give the Bills a chance to beat them in the playoffs and become 1-0 all time versus NE in the postseason. That win was extraordinarily more satisfying than a regular season sweep. I said the same thing after the loss in Miami this year. That loss presents a similar possibility. And if current seeding were to line up accordingly.......it seems very possible, if not likely, Miami would be heading to #1 seed Buffalo for the divisional round. Blasting them in a rubber match to avenge that flukey early season comedy of errors would be far more satisfying than beating anyone else on that board aside from the Chiefs. Then.........Chiefs the next week.

Yeah Jeudy is from Deerfield Beach. Traitor who went to Alabama instead of The U. Dolphins could use another boundary WR.........Waddel and Hill are actually both best suited to the slot, IMO. As feeble as Tuna looked last night I'd say they should keep stacking playmakers up around him. Steelers dropped 4-5 gift wrapped INT's last night.

Well Bradley Chubb is not an option for the cap strapped Bills.........just like Tremaine Edmunds he is playing on a huge base salary because he's playing on the 5th year option.......so his remaining cap hit would be over $7M. Jerry Jeudy........his remaining cap hit will be just over $1M.

Yeah and I made that defense/excuse at the time as well.........it was a very complicated system to throw Josh into and it was risky to go sink or swim with him. Especially when Daboll had been so terrible at his prior NFL stops. At the same time, when you just inherit a lot of talent sometimes it's hard to tell how good the OC is. The Packers are finding that out with LaFleur now that they don't have an abundance of skill any longer. I don't think Daboll impressed upon me that he was extraordinary and had it all figured out from the get-go, he was also a work in progress and he left a lot of meat on the bone last year in particular. I think he got a lot better with experience in Buffalo though. Personally, I prefer what we have seen from Dorsey so far. I know Daboll set the table for him but I think they are better now even though they aren't as deep/efficient in the receiving corps.

That is for damn sure. As discussed earlier in the week..........Dennison took the same OL/QB/TE/RB that lead the NFL in rushing and big plays and was the 7th highest scoring team in the NFL thru 16 weeks(prior to the tank week)........and he turned them into a unit that couldn't run the ball. Daboll wasn't particularly sharp his first year either.........they were challenging NFL all-time SB era lows in offensive production thru the first half of the 2018 season.......but he got it righted.

Same with Quessenberry. Still learning. I think if Tannehill was his QB Brown would have given up 11 sacks last year like Quessenberry too. Next step for Spencer is to learn how to prepare himself so he stays healthy and THEN he can get his pass protection down. His ceiling is as an Andrew Whitworth type OL if he can figure out how to stay on the field. Whitworth came into the league much older than Brown, he was a 25 year old rookie, and it took him a couple years to become good and then a couple more to become a Pro Bowl type OL. Hopefully Spencer learns how to keep his body prepared and properly armored up by age 25 and starts that kind of ascent.

The overwhelming majority of comments are condolences......but whatever, Jets fan.........don't worry about it.........he's just a RB. I promise you that the Jets aren't going anywhere on the crutch of being run first in the AFC with all of the stud young QB's in the conference. Carter is plenty good enough of a RB to win with.........now maybe they challenge Wilson and see if he's going to make a jump and turn into a franchise QB.

Nah........the Mets owned NYC for about 3-4 years in the 80's. The Yankees won the most games in all of MLB in the decade of the 1980's............they were far from a doormat at the time.

Not sure how he's done on KOR today because I am watching on redzone channel and they don't show kicking plays generally, but Blackshear has averaged 28 yards per KOR on 8 returns entering this game.

Carolina Panthers RB's Deonte Foreman and Chuba Duba Doo Hubbard just put up 77 yards on 2 plays to score another TD. Does that make them "unstoppable" without Christian McCaffrey? I thought it was McCaffrey that could make an offense unstoppable?

That's high praise. I get that people want to compare him to power ends who didn't use a lot of bend to get to the QB.......but otherwise I don't think he's that much like either of those guys. They did it with brute strength. As I said in the draft process it's almost impossible to find a comp for him. His game is unique. The super long first stride........the Wilt Chamberlin-esque wingspan and hands that allow him to collect tackles that are out of range for other DL........and that elite GPS for finding the QB. It's an unusual combination that I don't think we've ever seen in another player. Certainly not in similarly built DL like Calais Campbell or Carlos Dunlap or Alfred Williams......for example. I'm not saying he will end up in the all-time category like Bruce or Reggie or even Strahan...........but he has some traits that really lend themselves to making a high volume of plays. And because he isn't hurdling blockers taking the corner at impossibly low angles like Bruce once did he does it kinda' quietly.

I'd say not enough was made of the impact of Rousseau last season. He tied for the NFL lead in run stops by a defensive lineman. As a rookie. Playing in a rotational system. He hit a rookie wall as a pass rusher but he was quite impactful rushing the passer and in general against the pass early in the season........including the interception of Mahomes(he almost had another INT versus Mahomes this year in a game that was FULL of repeats of big plays that had happened in prior Bills/Chiefs meetings).

He didn't have to get out of bounds..........it wasn't 3rd down.........just get low and dive down for what you can get so Allen can spike it. And yes, they were going to attempt a field goal because they didn't need 6 points to win it! You don't throw a Hail Mary there. How dense can you be to even think that? The Chiefs attempted a similar distance field goal and made it last week. Teams with big legged kickers kick the ball there. But regardless, Lil' Dummy ran out the clock because he either didn't know what down it was or he thought he was going to outrun a bunch of fast guys to the sideline. Just dumb. Dorsey's reaction said it all.

Again.........the Yankees used to spend upwards of 80% of their revenue on payroll.........BY FAR the most in the league. More recently they spend about 30% of their revenue on payroll..........sure it's still top 5 every year...........but the nature of having to buy top talent to dodge the parity machine is that the longer you rely on free agency to do that.....the more empty, toothless back-end-of-contract dollars that are going to pad your payroll figure and give a false impression of your degree of commitment to winning. They are by far the highest revenue generating team in MLB.........hundreds of millions more than the Dodgers and yet still close to $40M LESS in payroll expenditures in 2022. And the Yankees also own their own TV network to boot. They should never NOT be the highest spending team in MLB.

No the simplest explanation is that you aren't even going to find an available offensive guard with the obvious upside......and therefore potential impact because it's a premium position.........of a receiver like Jerry Jeudy.

Like I said.........it's not a philosophical discussion, Mrs. Norwood. I isolated 4 specific drive-decisive plays where a McKenzie failure LITERALLY ended the Bills chances to score points on those drives. It's accepted that some moments are bigger/higher leverage situations than others...........if you want to rationalize how a mistake in the first quarter was as impactful as a mistake that runs out the clock at the end of the game.........that is a purely philosophical discussion because there is no telling how things change over such a broad set of plays thereafter. If McKenzie doesn't kill the clock in Miami.....we know what happens........they spike the ball and the next play is a potential game winning field goal attempt. It's that simple. There weren't a number of variables left. Even then I didn't say he absolutely cost them the game........but he did cost them a chance at a game deciding kick. It's different, for instance, than the McKenzie wide-open drop early in the Bills first TD drive in KC when they were backed up into their end zone. There were still downs left in that series and like 70 more overall plays left to change the outcome in the game.

Yep. But baseball has a very different dynamic with their customers...........it can survive and thrive with economic disparities because it provides games everyday. And it's the more naturally competitive sport. There aren't the naturally huge winning % disparities between the best and the worst that there are in football. The few of the very best MLB teams average 10-6 every 16 games...........and the worst go 6-10. There were years where 10-6 didn't even get teams into the playoff field at all in the NFL. But if those kind of spending disparities existed in the 17 game per year NFL the level of competition would be a joke. And then there would only be enough interest to support the very largest markets. The decrease in every kind of revenue stream would be exponential. Football simply doesn't make enough product to survive doing it any other way and Pete Rozelle knew that and their system of sharing the largest revenue streams is how he elevated the NFL up to the level of baseball and beyond when they hadn't even been in the same stratosphere of interest in the first half of the 20th century. MLB also does have the basic parity system of drafting at the top when you lose just like the NFL........but additionally teams often have 10 years or even more of player control over signees(6 once at the MLB level) so that gives teams time to develop talent from within and build just that doesn't exist in the NFL. They also have a rule where you have to put 5th year minor leaguers......sometimes still raw 20 year olds........on your protected big league 40 man roster or expose them to other teams in a supplemental draft in December that also serves to undermine the depth of winning organizations and reward teams that are bad at scouting, drafting and developing by handing them free and seasoned prospects. That system sorta' works like a reverse "comp pick" situation where you take mid-late round picks away from winning teams. And baseball also has long had a system where you lose your first round pick if you sign a player in unrestricted free agency who has been given a qualifying offer by his past team. That team then got a free pick in between rounds 1 and 2. So baseball HAS competitive balance procedures in place that significantly impact how big markets do business. The aforementioned Orioles have been terrible for a long time and subsequently have drafted at the very top and now have a relatively strong nucleus of young talent. So they should win with a low payroll for 3-5 years before they have to decide if they want to spend like the mid-large market team they've actually always been. That's the dream for teams..........to win on the cheap and pocket big money for a few seasons before they have to decide how all-in they are. Teams like the Cubs and Astros have used tanking to re-set their talent level and win titles in the last decade and then chosen to go opposite directions with regard to spending/committment to winning.