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This new ESPN announcing team is an assault on my ears and an insult to anyone’s football intelligence. I can’t recall a worse crew in the history of televised football.

You gonna tell me that Whaley and Co. didn’t think they were one or two players away only to try applying band aid fixes for those areas (read QB). Those .500 seasons DIRECTLY lent itself to that mindset. And that self delusion is what prevented them from taking the bold steps necessary to get that QB and reshape a mediocre roster into a contender. It all begins with talent, but you need a bunch of other parts working in concert; from coaching to scouting support staff to turn into perennial contenders. Thanks for the history lesson though.

Yeah, but there’s no way ANY GM is gonna give up multiple number one picks for him. Again.

Great point about compromise and, I think Beane was willing to go there much more so than McDermott. But that missed bus before the Ravens preseason game last year and some subsequent tardiness for meetings stuck in his craw. And there were several games early on where Dareus just wasn’t putting forth effort. At all. That, coupled with his one strike status, made it easier for Beane to move on. Yeah, ok. So we’re good then.

I doubt that. But I understand given the nature of internet forums. I’ll just say when it comes to things like this, I’m not given to “believing what I want” but more in what I’ve been told. Directly.

No, it’s most definitely not a crock, I assure you.

10 yard punt? How is that possible?

Mack is a force. I almost feel sorry for that right tackle.

Kind of a moot point, though. Nobody ever denied he was a good player who could dominate at times and make it difficult for opposing offenses, but he lost interest in being here, wanted a fresh start, and we obliged. Why would they want to keep a malcontent when they were trying to establish something? Never mind. We beat this dead horse and then some after the deal went down, no sense in rehashing it now.

So tell me, oh wise QB guru, where does it “need to be?” The world awaits your sage insight.

No, it absolutely true. How long should we keep this up? He wanted out and Beane obliged. That simple. I know that for a fact.

Dareus made it ABUNDANTLY clear he didn’t want to be here any more. Why carry all that salary for a malcontent who only put forth effort when he felt like it last year? Should the Pegulas have fired the coach instead?

The curse of the perpetual .500 (or there about) team. Constantly treading water and deluding yourselves into thinking you’re just a player or two away when the reality is far different as we’ve seen.

Ah, google. The repository of all newspaper articles from 30 and 40 years ago. Since you didn’t read the sports pages back then, maybe you can find them on microfilm down at the library. The term has never been confined to hockey, either, so you can broaden your search perhaps. Regardless, it has become a trite reference in the last 15 years or so.

Minny loves that A gap pressure and I fully expect Groy, Ducasse, and Miller to need their brown football pants come next Sunday.

I disagree. And I’ll leave it at that. Except to say the Owens comparison is apt in terms of pure talent. But that’s where it ends for me. If Gordon ever shows an ounce of the same football character that Owens did, I’ll change my stance.

You’re right. There’s no case to be made for trying not to improve the WR situation. There is quite a case to be made for not seeking that improvement in certain players. We disagree on that. That simple. I don’t get it either. This is the last player I want trying to help Allen develop for all the reasons I would think are self evident. People can’t get past the eye candy I guess.

He needs to “learn” the game and he is certainly smart enough to do that. And continue to work on his lower body mechanics. In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy watching his progression as he makes this team his. I was very impressed with his leadership on the sideline yesterday and it speaks well that KW was, too.

Never mind.

Dude is strong. I didn’t realize how many steps he dragged Ingraham on his first INT.

Conjunction junction. That’s what junction.

No excuses. Only reasons. And if anyone at OBD is looking for the former vs. finding solutions to the latter, they need to pull a Vontae and clear out. Preferably BEFORE the game starts.

Has Preston Brown tweeted anything about the weird things that must be going on in Pittsburgh?

It’s an attack vs. read and react sort of thing.

I suspect Brown would still love playing for Buffalo is they offered him what he wanted. Funny how,love works.