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Good stuff. Like Pegula, Collins dealt with health issues that limited her career. She suffered from crippling endometriosis for years before having corrective surgery last year. She would have frequent bouts of terrible spinal pain that limited her performance and caused her to drop out of tournaments. Like Pegula, she has a limited upside but a lot of grit. She’ll probably be a fixture in the top 20 for the next several years if she stays healthy.

She had a lot of injuries early in her career that kept her from progressing. She has changed coaches and trainers. Most players would have given up in her situation. Her physical abilities limit her upper end possibilities. Plus, her style of play doesn’t afford her a very large margin of error on shots (limited topspin). Add to that a mediocre serve. She’s lucky that the string of great players have all but left the tour (Williams sisters, Sharapova, Barty). Her wealth allowed her to keep playing without significant sponsorship. If she can stay healthy, she’ll be a consistent quarter finalist in majors but unlikely to ever win one. Of course, strange things happen. Last year 2 nobodies played in the U.S. Open finals because they never had to play any seeded players along the way. The seeds were all upset early.

Interesting tweet shows the travel miles and time zone crossings of each team. The Bills are in the top 3rd for fewest miles. It’s crazy that Pittsburgh never leaves the Eastern time zone all season.

What an intimidating environment for a college kid. He seems to knock it put of the park with his professionalism and thoroughness. He seems to be dedicated to improving.

Not enough for Punt God

OK, high end physically (speed, size, etc.) with one of the highest grades at his position against the best teams in college football. Sounds like he’s dedicated to improving and looks to Tre as an example. Now add in: great scheme in Buffalo for his position great coaches on the team for his position teamed up with one of the best CBs in the league and the best safety duo in the league Has Von Miller as an example of how to be a pro gets to practice against one of the best QBs and best receiving corps every day in camp That looks like a recipe for success to me! I think I’ll be pretty surprised if this kid isn’t a great starter in Buffalo for years to come.

Cool review! Outside the top 10 picks, I think mock drafts are pretty unreliable because each pick and/or trade throws a monkey wrench 🙈 🔧 into the analysis. This part of the article would be interesting to track against from a betting perspective: Most popular positions for Bills in 2022 mock drafts (first round) CB/DB – 64 times WR – 21 times IOL – 15 times I haven’t followed the “depth” of each of these positions in the draft. All that being equal, CB2 is obviously the biggest need. I’ll go SS because I think this is Poyer’s last year in Buffalo. My 2 cents 🪙🪙

Wow, I guess they know their audience but the lack of knowledge shown here is a bit stunning. Why does everyone who is against public funding of sports focus all of their attention on how rich the owners are? They are rich for a reason and longtime NFL owners are largely responsible for the league's popularity and the revenue generation from TV, etc. The Pegula's paid $1B+ for the team that Ralph started with money from a shoebox. The players aren't 50 times better than they were 30 years ago but the league has been run so successfully over that period that players make 30x more now. Sorry, the players aren't responsible for the league's success, the owners are. Insert "Buffalo Philharmonic" instead of "Buffalo Bills" and these people would have the opposite opinion. Local Sports teams are a "public good", just like the arts, parks, etc. Some are privately owned and some are publicly owned and managed. The only fact you really have to know here is the there are enough citizens in the county and state that want an NFL team in Buffalo and are willing to have their tax dollars fund a portion of it. It has "value" to the citizens that they receive when they watch the games, read news articles, watch the draft and read inane opinions on TBD. None of that "value" the citizens/fans receive would be possible if they became the Austin Bats. Citizens of NY think spending 0.4% of one year's state budget is worth keeping the team.

Pete Carroll’s granddaughter

Laughing through the tears 😭

Strangely, I think a Chiefs’ fan could have written this exact same post if they didn’t pull off that 13 second drive.

This encapsulates my takeaway from last night…feeling great about where the Bills are headed with JA:

Nice to see another homie who made it big and still connects with back home and the Bills. I loved her in The Big Bang theory. Hilarious! And now I find out shea Bills’ fan 👍😁

They should go with the D.C. Generals and call their new stadium “The Little Big Horn” where they’ll continue to get massacred every week!

And he doesn’t realize it…

I'm not sure a that many of the teams above the Bills in that draft can actually regret not picking JA. The fact is that Allen was a "project" QB of sorts. He had all the physical talent but lacked refinement. The key to the Bills' success with Allen was both his own internal drive to be better (off-season work on mechanics, etc.) and the team's willingness to help him grow and build an offense around his skills. That takes the right GM, the right coaches (McD, Daboll and others), the right scheme, the right complementary pieces and patience. I'm wholly unconvinced that almost any of the teams above the Bills in that draft had the leadership to succeed with Josh. Would Josh fail in bigger city with more unrelenting media? Would he have succeeded with the coaches on the other teams over the last several years? Would they make a change at OC to help better develop their potential Franchise QB? Besides limited physical skills, one of the reasons Mayfield has not excelled is franchise instability and poor coaching. Darnold suffered a worse fate and so would have Josh if drafted by the Jets. I'd say the same about the Broncos. Lots of things had to be architected for Josh to become the player he has, and the franchise deserves a lot of credit for that. That's ownership, coaching and management. Plus, an awesome football town that made JA feel right at home. My 2 cents.

Although a placeholder design, I like the flying awning style roof that covers everyone except those in field level seats. A throwback design from the original Roman Colosseum:

As I tell my wife, I don't gamble...I play poker for money. 😉

First and foremost, the Bills weren't playing so all I had was a "rooting interest" in several games. Simply, I wanted teams above the Bills in the conference standing to lose. Unfortunately, that meant I had to root for the Patriots and the Buccaneers! My ultimate fan nightmare. I wanted to the Pats to win because the Bills have two games coming up with them and our ability to win the division is entirely in our hands. So, even a Pats win that keeps them ahead of us in the standings doesn't really matter with those two head-to-head matchups left. We really wanted the Titans to lose because they are ahead of us and hold the tiebreaker. But crap! The Patriots won. 🤮 I wanted Tom Brady and the Bucs to win because Indy has the tiebreaker with us and we have to have a 1 game lead over them to be seeded first. Ugh, Tom Brady had a good game the Bucs won. 🤮 I wanted Cleveland to beat Baltimore as they currently lead Buffalo as well. This one didn't go as we wanted and it's the game I was least conflicted about as a Bills fan. 🤮 As a fan, you can't "win" on some Sundays. 😧

Does throwing a bunch get you automatically ejected now? If so, I agree. If you miss the ball and hit the player, you’re history. He then should have been ejected. By just flagging him for 15, the refs seemed to be measuring “intent”, which I don’t agree with.

Ugh. Fixed.

“Punching out” the ball is a key strategy for today’s NFL defenses. TJ Watt took it to another level last night. How many hands do you have to throw at a ball carrier before it’s “unsportsmanlike” or just plain assault?

Nothing stops this strategy but... On a lot of deep throws in college, the receivers are "college open" so these deep throws are not contested. On plays with better coverage, like the NFL, the DBs try to make a play on the ball to avoid the penalty and potentially make an INT. So, only the situations where the receiver has a couple of steps on the DB are when that strategy would be typically employed. So, the situation doesn't actually come up as often as you might think, IMHO.

Not that I'm upset about it but...the Hail Mary play at the end of the Chiefs-Chargers game was some of the worst officiating I've seen when it comes to pass interference. The Chiefs' players were being completely mugged as the ball came down with no attempt to play the ball on the play.