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Like I said, it’s the level of criticism that precedes any level of analysis. Pro or con. I think this concept of “sides” misses the issue completely as it relates to competitive team sports.

Criticism isn’t the issue. It’s the level of analysis that precedes it. The stance that Schopp and others take are often myopic at best.

His coaches and teammates have a part in it, too.

Pro Football Hall of Famers. Or ushers at an upscale Hollywood movie theater. Brown keeps up his current trajectory, he’ll end up closer to the latter when it’s all said and done. Bull crap. Oh, and he’s a loser.

Can’t speak for anyone else who thinks he’s a loser, but my reason has ABSOFRICKENLUTELY NOTHING to do with anything about the Buffalo Bills. It has EVERYTHiNG to do with him and the Steelers. Period. So buy AB’s Phathead poster, get an AB bobble head to worship in your AB shrine, and root for the Raiders ‘til your heart’s content, but stop projecting your reasons for loving him onto Bills fans around here.

Antonio Brown quit on his teammates, coaches, and fans during the most important week of the season while also finding time to rip a teammate because that teammate was voted team MVP by his peers on the team and not him (Antonio). That alone makes him a loser. What do you call that kind of player; a winner?

Don’t know if he can play a lick on the OL, but I’m already betting on him to win any strong man competition he enters.

No coke, pepsi!

Why, thank you. Thank you very much.

Might as well just come out and say he’s made the team and will be my starting TE on opening day.

Just because a team has more than adequate cap space to make a deal, it doesn’t mean that they’re automatically willing to agree to whatever salary demands a targeted player makes. I suspect that Brown, assuming he would ever deign to play here in the first place, would ask for the moon as a premium to do so. And if a player will only play for you under certain financial conditions, it’s smart to tell him to go pound sand if he doesn’t value anything else about your organization. Especially if he’s a loser like Antonio Brown.

Are you under the misguided impression that deals are made simply because teams have the cap space to accommodate them?

Comparisons to Christian Okoye’s entrance to the league are odd. He was a second round pick for crissake. And a physical freak and a great all around athlete to boot. Never mind that he played college ball. Wade’s path couldn’t be more disparate.

It’s a fact.

Too much emphasis is being placed on Wade’s two big plays in the two exhibition games. As spectacular as those plays were, they don’t inform the coaches anywhere near as much as every rep he’s taken from OTAs, to mini-camp, to now. Each rep has been captured on video and broken down in the class room in every respect to determine Wade’s improvement or not in every aspect of the game. While the two plays are nice, they are just not as useful as an evaluation tool as the full body of work to date.

Not credible.

I agree with all of that. And I’ll reiterate that Robert James was the best CB to ever lace them up for the Bills. He shut out the best receivers in the game; many of them now in the HOF. Pro Bowl nods his last three seasons, including the last two as 1st team All Pro. And he was just in his prime, too. If not for the injury that ended his career at 28, he would have been a first ballot HOFer. He was that good.

Robert James is the best CB we’ve ever had. He was a shut down corner before the phrase was invented.

Absolutely. We’ve seen that manifest throughout camp and in the two preseason games.

Ah, there it is. What part of, “Now before anyone goes off, I’m not saying either is as good as Gronk; far from it,” was hard to understand? My post was offered in a far larger context than a mere comparison between the talent levels of Gronk and anyone on our roster. It was about Daboll more than anything else.

With practices closed to the general public, I am just so grateful that journalistic titans like Thad Brown are there to give us the real scoop.

Daboll has his Gronk and Hernandez to create matchup problems and dictate pace to exploit favorable sub packages. Now before anyone goes off, I’m not saying either is as good as Gronk; far from it. Just saying Daboll is discovering two new tools in his box, he has seen up close how those tools may be used, and I won’t be the least bit surprised to see him utilize certain schemes as a result.

Petermanesque! Regular season Petermanesque that is.

Very well said.

I enjoyed the BN article this morning where we learned that Allen insisted on taking the ball rather than deferring if we won the opening coin toss. Said he wanted to establish the offense early and get into a rhythm. Great sign of maturity there and I’m glad the coaches indulged his request. He seemed much calmer and more in command to start the game vs. last week when he was over amped. Sure looked like it, anyway.