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I think he may end up regretting that. I know I’m in the minority, but I just don’t think he’s destined for greatness as a left tackle.

Two main factors contributed to not being able to retain Woods: his desire to go home and play and, more importantly, his reluctance to play another year with TT at QB. We would have had to grossly overpay just for him to consider staying. Not saying he wouldn’t have turned down an inflated offer, but it would have put us in a worse cap situation than we were already in.

Because that same secondary finished 1st and 3rd in the most important pass defense statistics without that identifiable #2 CB. And since Wallace did nothing less than solidify the position once he was inserted into the lineup and I’m not sure the job isn’t his to lose currently, I might argue we do know who our 2CB is.

If the worst thing that happens to you on a given day is waiting a bit longer in line at the store, you’re having a damn good day. Have you ever irked the person behind you for taking extra time? I don’t think calling into question a list of top defensive secondaries compiled via half-assed research is irrational in the least. If consumers don’t hold content providers accountable, who does? Anyway, we’ve tossed this around long enough. Feel free to avoid my takes in the future if it’s like the counting out 87 cents.

Nobody’s “worked up” about anything. Except, apparently, you. If people voicing voicing their opinion on a shoddily assembled list of top five secondaries in the NFL while providing superior information to back those opinions up is too “weird” for you, perhaps you should decline to participate. This place must drive you nuts.

At the very least, it's encouraging to hear this kind of praise from around the league. If he can do any kind of reclamation project on Risto and, even more amazing, Scandella, we will improve. I'm confident he's gonna get the most out of our young wingers like he did in Edmonton.

I really appreciate the breakdown as it points to some weak areas on our team, particularly the ineptitude of our offense as they afforded teams too much opportunity to play with leads and have the luxury of running the ball more. But that's another discussion. But yeah, the run defense was weaker than it should have been. As to the pass defense stats, I think what I posted earlier bears repeating: passing yards given up is NOT the meaningful stat; ypa and QB passer rating against are the two that matter most. We finished tied for 1st in ypa against and finished 3rd in passer rating against (Bears, Ravens). Anybody analyzing the strength of passing defense needs to look at those numbers first and foremost. It says a lot about the authors of that FOX Sports poll that they didn't. Shoddy research. At best.

Op/Ed is journalism. Just like investigative, special features, politics, and everything else under that umbrella. Even a cursory examination of the pass defense stats suggests they were lazy in not mentioning the third best overall pass defense in the league last year. I could give two schits if any writer criticizes the Bills, warranted or not. But I have a low tolerance for laziness.

That would explain the low yards per game, but as I said above, they are elite in the ypa and passer rating allowed stats, too. We get any kind of pass rush to complement them, our secondary could be dominant.

Yards per game isn’t the most telling pass defense stat but, that said, the Bills were more than respectable in the two most key pass defense stats: yards per attempt and passer rating allowed. Tied for first in the league in the former and place third overall in the latter. It is journalistic dereliction of duty not to include the Bills in the top three over all, let alone top five. Just lazy work by FOX Sports.

Maybe she wanted Cersei to suffer at the sight of the total destruction of King’s Landing before zeroing in on the Red Keep? And she certainly got around to the Red Keep. And it’s not like this was the first time she chose fear over love.  As to what if the exits weren’t blocked and she and Jaime might have escaped otherwise? There is just no need to overthink it to that extent.

He would immediately upgrade the position. But he can go screw himself seven ways to Sunday.

Stands to reason in the science denial era we live in today. I wonder how many of that 56% are also flat Earthers.

And only one of them is ice and fire.

Haha. Good question. Guaranteed nobody knew who he was at the time. It would be nice to be one of those people to have that story to tell.

So Krueger is in town in April and covertly goes to various pubs to watch playoff hockey with fans and chats them up about the Sabres so he can get a sense of their passion for the team, etc. AFAIC, that is one helluva good first impression. On another note, JBotts should sign the goalie playing for Great Britain at the IIHF World tourney if he isn’t already by some other team. He’s phenomenal.

Was there any inkling this was coming? Any sign at all?

Lucky for them they were never in a game that lasted more than four hours.

If so, they better put a glove on that hand. God only knows where that hand has been.

Only one I knew of was on Main and Dewey

Nobody ever made me laugh more. RIP.

His burgers were a staple of my young boyhood. Helluva guy. RIP, Mr. Warlick.

Seems we lost another good one when good ones are needed the most. Rest easy, Ezra. Prayers for your loved ones.

Woody Allen once postulated that some alien civilizations could be as much as 20 seconds more advanced than us. Your living room TV might just be a portal into another dimension of the space/time continuum.

Won’t even come close.