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With big guys like Walker it's often about want-to. Jordan Phillips never wanted to get low to gain leverage and be able to take on double teams because that's strenuous for a big guy with a long legs. So he's been nothing but a journeyman who is easily steered out of the way in run defense. This 2025 class of DT's has a number of very good prospects for both DT1T and DT3T but with the weakness at so many other positions the obvious one's may all go before the Bills first second round pick. A potential alternative shot in the dark: Mazi Smith went 26th overall to Dallas in 2023 because he was a giant, super-athletic big man but he was unplayable as a rookie in 2023 and was not effective in 2024 either. He's 6'3" so his frame doesn't work against him for leverage like Walker/Phillips do but he was lousy in run D the first 2 years in the league. I could see Deion Sanders taking the Cowboys job and wanting man CB's.....the Bills taking a CB in round 1(The Athletic's Dane Brugler mocked ECU CB Shavon Revel to Buffalo recently).....and maybe the Bills line up for a post-draft Elam for Mazi bust-for-bust trade. Elam has been the more effective of the 2 but will be entering a walk year. Smith has 2 years of control and maybe he ends up on a Ted Washington trajectory where he comes on in year 3/4 after being a bust and that's how the Bills find their 1 tech. If not, Elam and Mazi probably aren't worth more than a 6th rounder in a trade so if Elam doesn't fit in the plans and Smith doesn't make the team........not a big loss. But I do think the Cowboys would have some attraction to Elam as his dad Abe was a favorite of Jerry Jones when Abe played for Dallas.

He doesn't plug though. That's not his game. Kinda' like a Jordan Phillips prospect. Shoots gaps, doesn't like to hold the point of attack. Probably the most upside in the DT class but not sure he will get there.

You are the one gaslighting if you are trying to tell people that officials don't have jobs. Vinovich is a longtime CPA. These guys are all well-paid professionals away from the field. Officiating is a decent paying gig but it's not like they are even making NFL veteran minimum doing it. The NFL appreciates your very unbridled passion about officiating though. Consumers(and voters) make decisions largely based on emotions so they love that you are so stirred. As long as there are people like you voting for the unnecessarily subjective system of officiating by showing additional interest in the league every time human error happens we will surely be subjected to more of the same.

Very deep draft class of running backs this spring.

Also, after extensive research, I've found that the 2024 Bills are only the 6th team in NFL history to lose 4 games or more in the regular season while winning just 13. Add in their lack of All Pro's and I guess they are arguably the worst 13 win team ever!

Well, it's a few weeks and change less than several months later(not sure why that would matter anyway) and the doctors have estimated a 7 month re-hab from the second procedure. Which is not "significantly longer" or anything like the 18 month timetable that @Low Positive suggests is likely.

So a 39 year old Aaron Rodgers could be healed in 4-6 months but 29 year old DeShaun Watson would need 18 months? I think you are confusing this with an ACL tear. Achilles injuries for QB are not a year and a half fix.

Yeah, as I said in the other thread, the insurance company isn't just going to roll over and pay off a lost season when he has almost a full year to recover and play *some* football at least. Aaron Rodgers tore his in the opener in 2023 and was damn near ready to go 4 months later. They will expect Watson to be ready by September.

Jason Peters injured his achilles in April of 2012 and then a month later he fell off a knee scooter and re-ruptured it in May. Peters missed the 2012 season but probably could have come back late in 2012 if really necessary. He came back and was a first team All-Pro at age 30 in 2013. I don't think the insurance company is just going to pay off that Watson money when he still has 9 months to re-hab plus 4 months of season.

Yeah and Polian, Telesco, and Dave Ziegler went to John Carroll together.......along with Josh McDaniels and Nic Caserio. There were other employees in the Bills organization in the 2000's that I knew who were at John Carroll at that time as well and were very tight with McDaniels. Always kinda' thought we'd see some combination of those guys in Buffalo. Remarkably none of them ended up with the Bills. The resentment for how Ralph did Polian and micromanaged Butler was pretty strong I think. There were 1-2 other guys from that St Francis crew though I thought.

Yeah, he was......that's what I was implying.......he is from Buffalo, went to HS and college with Polian's son Brian and was an intern with the Bills during the SB era.

He picked the Bills to win it in that annual pre-playoff prediction article in 2022. Clearly underestimated Josh's girlfriend's capacity for drama.

Another one of Polian's Buffalo guys gets canned. Was he the last one standing or am I forgetting somebody still active?

New Orleans was a dysfunctional, middling franchise without a franchise QB coming off a disastrous season with questions about whether they'd even be able to remain in New Orleans after Katrina. San Antonio, anyone? Absolutely not a bad job? GTFOH. I'm not even sure there is a comparison in recent memory of a WORSE job. He rode a last place schedule to 10 wins in year 1 but they were sub .500 the next two years. He and Brees made chicken salad out of that mess.

There are a lot of Dabollievers still. They forget that his 2018 offense was the lowest scoring offense thru half of an NFL season since the merger, and that he couldn't run the ball and that his results would be wildly inconsistent. That mid-season swoon in 2021 was for real......a 6-3 loss to a winless Jags team.......and more inexcusable staggering down the stretch but because he went out with 2 high scoring playoff games that's all some remember. Rookie OC Dorsey did more with less in 2022(including a gaudy 5.2 yards per carry) and Brady has taken their efficiency up to another level.

Daboll isn't a front-of-the-house guy. Just doesn't get along with process oriented football coach types. Saban clearly hated him. Either that or he was asking where his mother was from 10 times a game on the sideline. The story about Saban not even knowing Daboll had taken the Bills OC job was classic. It was inevitable his douchebaggery would rub McD the wrong way. Belichick liked him though because he could run a broom. 8 years as the TE coach.

Payton wasn't really on par with what Johnson/Brady are right now. Certainly not Johnson, at least. And even this year there are jobs that look better than what Payton took over in NOLA. If I recall correctly, proximity to Texas(for family reasons) was a key reason for taking the Saints job. Wasn't because it was a great gig. In hindsight we don't remember Drew Brees being damaged goods but that's what he was when the Saints acquired him. On the surface that was a sh!t job. His success there was surprising. Prior to his time in Dallas, Payton had been an OC with the Giants but Jim Tressell took the play calling away from him during that 2000 season where the Ravens wiped the floor with them in the SB then he got canned after 2002. I guess you could compare that to Brady getting fired in Carolina but Brady also had the historic LSU run. Payton had really just been a QB coach prior to NYG.

As @davefan66 said, I would recommend zicam. It's zinc. It shortens the duration of the cold. I use the nose swabs. That's something I think everyone should just have on hand all the time. If you are around people with a cold or even start feeling symptoms just start using it. I have avoided many a cold that my wife and/or kids have brought home using that stuff and greatly shortened the colds I have gotten before it gets in the lungs and turns into a nagging cough etc..

Just when you thought DodoTheRobot had gone extinct.

Definitely heavily influenced by the boy band era.

White guys who rock the douchey 90's crew neck and chain look are a minority group. They should be worth at least two 3rd round picks, IMO.

Well, this isn't the comment section for that site is it? I am in favor of more people posting their opinions but today you started this AND a thread to tell us that Tyler Bass intentionally missed an extra point Sunday. That kind of pointless rabble-rousing nonsense encourages more moderation. Literally nothing productive comes from those threads. We get it, you are hyped up but maybe understand that you aren't in your right mind when you are that way.

Dude, pull yourself together. It's Tuesday of wildcard week and you are already hyperventilating and have worked your way to the fan-shaming stage of grief.

I think all of Grable, VanDemark, SVPG and Anderson could also be serviceable in 2025. I'm definitely not implying that he's Cody Ford but the standard on the OL is entirely different now.

Grable or SVPG could push for jobs on the inside. "Cybo" hasn't been exceptional, he could end up being the odd man out. I could see Grable at LG being prepped for LT work and maybe Edwards or McGovern moving to RG.