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Dude is as tough as a $2 steak. Buy the jersey and never look back!

Just please no Achilles... When Rodgers went to the Jets he had calf issues all offseason and then his Achilles blew up 4 plays into the season. Probably not a real concern but first thing I thought of. It would never work in the NFL but Bosa is a great candidate for load management, like he plays a handful on snaps all season long just to stay fresh until the playoffs. But football players want to play football, which makes sense, and want to be out there battling with their teammates, not watching from the sideline when they feel they could contribute.

NFC South owners were like "come on, if this passes we'll never host a playoff game!"

the thing I don't like about flag football is it doesn't feel like football. The field is smaller and shorter. Use an actual sized field and have more players on each side if that's what it takes. Have first downs, the whole nine yards, but just flags instead of tackling. It's too hard to follow and not any fun to watch IMO. At least football but with flags would still be recognizable. In gym class we used to play a game that I think the gym teacher invented, but it was a lot of fun. You played on a soccer field with a soccer ball, but if the ball was airborne you could catch it and run with it until someone on the other team tagged you. Then you had to drop it on the ground and play it like soccer. You could also pass the ball forward to a teammate by throwing it if you were running with it, but whenever it hit the ground it had to be played like soccer until someone kicked it up in the air and then it was fair game to catch it and run with it. To score, you could throw the ball into the soccer goal (1 point) or kick it (2 points) or head it (3 points). If the goalie made a save they could throw or kick the ball out to restart play. It was a lot of fun, but calling it "soccer" or "rugby" or even "football" would all be misnomers. It was a different (way more fun) game that used a soccer ball and some elements of soccer but had different rules. To me, that's what flag football feels like. It is not the same sport.

I think all of us want Kincaid to be great. I don't think he's been bad or anything, but he's been nothing special. If he truly needs to get bigger and isn't then that is on him and his training. I don't pretend to know enough about ideal player size (unless it's 340+ pound DTs)!

I remember draft night all the pundits acted like we just drafted the second coming of Travis Kelce. One guy (can't remember who) actually said "anyone who lets the Bills get Kincaid to pair with Allen deserves what they get!" (or words to that effect). Now, I watch basically zero college football and admittedly know little about it. I'll be watching NC this year just for the show. But all of a sudden everyone is gushing about this TE that I just heard of for the first time 5 minutes before and I admit... I was pumped! We got a superstar level TE possibly. That probably has colored my view of Kincaid's career. He has not even been good, let alone scary.

I remember when the Raiders were poor... then they moved to LV and now Davis has boatloads of cash

Eagles/Bills week 17 game could end up replacing the Giants or Raiders on SNF that week

It's going to happen one of these years. They have been close multiple times, and I think this year it's Baltimore vs Buffalo in the AFC Title Game.

Derek Carr has shown some serious flashes of talent... Remember early last season when the Saints came out and dropped 45+ points on the first 2 opponents? Now one was Carolina but the other was Dallas, in Dalls, and they won 44-19. Carr's stats in those games weren't as flashy as you would think given the scores, but he played some good ball in New Orleans and also obviously for the Raiders at times. Injuries did him in. It seemed like he was always getting hurt, the trying to play through injuries, and it cost him in terms of consistency.

Remove the powdered coffee creamer from the cafeteria. And piss off another star player. We will not not be labelled cheap!

This scenario is at least plausible, if not 30% chance: Bills host AFC Title Game in last game in current stadium Bills host TNF opener as SB champs and raise the banner in first game in new stadium. It's perfect.

back in the day I made two create a teams in Madden: one with Dunkin Donuts colors (pink, orange, white) and one Starbucks (green and white). And here we are...

Gabe's heart was always here. Time to bring him home! Gabe's issue is that he only shows up and has 200+ yard games in the playoffs. Oh wait, is that an issue?

I swear, if they do this to my man Deone Walker...

the good news? Pittsburgh is allergic to passing offense anyway.

Deion is probably already looking at homes in the Cleveland area. He'll be the coach in about 8 months, so that gives some time. Deion has said he would only want to go to the NFL to coach his son, and the Browns could think it's the way to get payoff for having Sanders there at QB, although it wasn't a huge investment. Deion sells tickets and builds hype and hope. Stefanski has been on thin ice for a while there.

rumor has it that the AFC Championship game at Highmark will be the late game this January, so we'll know who we will face in the Super Bowl before kickoff!

I've noticed that Beane has a different demeanor on the national shows than WGR. Probably, there's a little bit of "you guys are small potatoes AND you're going to criticize me?" going on. There's been some criticism nationally as well about asking Allen to do too much, but those guys have way bigger platforms and frankly mean more in the national sports conversation. National guys are also more measured and less repetitive about it. I will say McDermott seems the same everywhere. He's exactly the same person whether he is on local media, national media, or you bump into him at Wegmans. That's not a criticism of Beane. I think I would be annoyed at the amateur hour level of questions he gets from WGR too. It's one thing to politely go on and put up with being asked unimaginative NFL 100 level questions, but it would be another entirely to have to listen to constant criticism from the same people whose idea of a probing question is "so, did you think of drafting a WR?" I think it honestly comes from the reality that a lot of local guys on radio have a schtick. They play a character to stand out. Everyone has a personality, that's not what I mean. I mean a persona that they seem to artificially cultivate or lean into, instead of just being a guy or gal on the radio who talks sports and has something interesting to say OR at the very least acts like a professional broadcaster.

I watched and immediately noticed the difference between the types of question MacAfee and company asked Beane and the amateur hour clown show that is WGR

Hey good for the two of them. They are obviously each getting something out of the relationship and seem happy with it.

Benford was the late round pick the year Elam was drafted and was better almost right away. What is we just drafted 2 more Benford level players at CB? That's huge for the defense going forward.

I was surprised to hear there were so many prank calls

We drafted a 340 pound DT and the words "slim down" did not come out of Beane's mouth. For that, he deserves nothing but thanks and praise! Chances are quite good, given this staff's track record with DBs, that one or more of the CBs drafted will turn out to be very good. That is huge, because you have cost control for a few years at a premium position. Beane would be annoyed with me as a host because the entire segment would be a hype session for the big DT! LOL

These hosts are so bad... I almost never listen but tuned in this morning to hear what they had to say about the draft. The questions are so generic and unimaginative. You have Brandon Beane on the line! How about: "Brandon, my favorite pick was Deone Walker from Kentucky. What do you say to critics who are worried about his center of gravity and ability to create leverage?"