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  1. 15 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    It's the same Head Coach. But two different OCs, both of whom parlayed it into HC jobs. I do think Hurts is underrated. #2 is rich for my blood but he is darn good. People talk about the stacked Eagles team in 2024 and that's true. But their 2023 defense was bottom 4 in the NFL and they won 11 games. You don't do that without a really good QB.

    It's not important but he played for Doug Pederson too.  He benched Hurts in the last game of the 2020 season that was likely the final straw that got Pederson fired.  

  2. I'd rank Mahomes #1, Hurts #2.   

     

    Say what you want about Hurts but he gets the job done in the big moments.  He's got two SB appearances in his five seasons of play with two different coaching staffs, and he played lights out in both of those games.

     

    I think Hurts being able to perform at a high level under two different head coaches and *multiple* offensive coordinators has him in the conversation for being the best quarterback in the NFL.

  3. Heat.  Michael Mann's Opus - A perfect movie IMO.  

    Die Hard With a Vengeance.  Best movie in the Die Hard series.  

    To Live and Die in LA.  Casting unknowns at the time added to the suspense, excellent story and movie making.

    Aliens.  Best movie in the Aliens series, and expanded the Aliens universe.

    2010.  The more watchable of the two films in the series. 

     

    Honorable Mention:  Hard Target.  It's stupid but every single actor in it chews the scenery.  If there's such thing as peak Lance Henriksen, this is his movie.

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  4. What a delightful case study on the consequences of arrogance.

     

    Steelers can't tank a season and accept a lousy season, clear some bad contracts via trades, get some promising players some game time, and get into position to draft a franchise QB.

     

    Aaron Rodgers can't accept both his love of the game and his body announced their retirements after the conclusion of the 2023 season.  

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  5. If he doesn't report to training camp on time, I suspect there goes the remote chance the Bills offer him another contract. 

     

    IMO, I don't think the Bills have a desire to offer *any* running back a second multi-year "big" contract.  I just don't think that's in their business model of allocating $$$ to positions, regardless of how good the running back is as a player.  

  6. Linebacker.  It's their most fragile unit on the team, and the Bills defense relies on this unit a lot.  

     

    You have to assume one or more of the top three backers - Bernard, Milano, Williams - will be dinged up coming out of training camp.  It's a unit that's never 100% strength for very long it seems.  

     

    While Williams filled in great for Milano, the Bills don't have that Plan 1B yet for Bernard.  

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  7. Whichever team selects Sanders should take a patient approach: let him sit, observe for a year, absorb the game, and tune out the noise coming from Pops.

     

    He's talented but the CU approach to generating offense (a billion passes every game, let's not run the football...at all) isn't a winner in the NFL.

     

     

     

      

  8. I like a whole lot of Gene Hackman movies.  It'd be challenging to pick a Top 10.

     

    A movie of his that always comes to mind is the Quick and the Dead.  He hammed it up as the bad guy in that movie and had some great lines.

     

     

  9. Don't have to ban it but I'd make offenses declare that's the play, so the defense can design plays to stop it.  

     

    I don't think it's fair that the defense can't commit to stopping the play because it's got to try to stop multiple possible plays.  

     

    I'd also allow the defense to push players towards the pile.  (I'm not sure if the defense can do that or not.)

  10. I see fault in two places.

     

    One, employees need to understand it hasn't been cool to sexually harass in the American workplace since the 70s.  It can get you fired and your employer sued.  

     

    Two, it's on the employer to provide the mandatorily attended, annual class on what sexual harassment is, and its consequences, so you can discipline anyone who doesn't get the message going forward.   

     

     

  11. 5 hours ago, RkFast said:

     

    I hate how cramped the CRJs are and the fact that the carriers are pushing them on longer flights, but they are defintely fleet workhorses. 

     

    The pro is that we no longer have to fly slow, noisy props like the Beechcraft 1900s.  Hated the prop planes.

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  12. He overthinks the first round picks.  Last year was a great example.  There was overwhelming broad consensus that Ladd McConkey had elite route running skills that reliably gets open.  Every draft profile says the same thing.  Just make the pick.  

     

    For 2025, I'd like for him to get some gigantic, mean defensive tackles and some athletic corners that understand man and zone defense.  I'd love for the defense in 2025 to flow through the Defensive Tackle position.    

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  13. Yes.  His roster spot is valuable.  A young player can take that roster spot.

     

    I think Von Miller retires.  I know he needs just five sacks to get in the Top 20 for all time sacks, but that's very likely another full season of work.  

  14. I wouldn't re-sign or sign any player who is 29 or older.  Bills need to get out of that business.  

     

    I wouldn't extend any of the extension-eligible players this year.  That's just repeating the Ed Oliver mistake for Rousseau and Benford - paying great money for good production, and you can't do that too many times.  As for Cook, there is no reason to extend his contract - the Bills are getting the value right now.    

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  15. In recent years, I've taken an extended break from the NFL after the Bills have been eliminated.  I don't watch any NFL coverage.  I treat "Bills season" like I do a holiday - it has a defined beginning and end.  It always concludes.  I lower the bad food and booze intake, and fill the weekends with projects or other activities. I try to keep my mind focused on spring and 1-2 things I want to accomplish this year.  Key is always have something to look forward to.  

     

    I struggle with the depths of the winter season and finding new hobbies and new things to do now that all of my children are grown, so taking a break from football is part of the life "improvements" plan.  

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