fergie's ire

I prefer an umlaut over the O. Otherwise it sounds like oven.

Oh.....but you do (or will). Never mind.

Crayonz?

They step out on the field and hold them up when TV is in commercial. Put them down and step off to signal that TV is back covering the game.

Can an anus fall out? Invert maybe, but fall out? Can't see it....and don't want to.

I think Sean McVay killed the need to play in games to "get the rust off" or for sync purposes. His first year as head coach he played NOBODY in the preseason...was really the first to do that. Everybody was mocking the idea saying that his players would be more likely to be health and fresh but they would NOT be ready for that first game. It would take a few games in a new system to make it work. They won their first game 46-9 and the "I'm not playing my starters in the preseason" movement was launched.

I agree with all of this in a general sense, but did you watch that video? MAN!!! He pretty much chucks Nelson into Matt Ryan.

I don't know. It would be a surprise...and one pre-season game is not a great sample...but he has skills that would make it tempting to keep him. He looked great on returns. His route running and catch skills also make him a good Cook replacement should we need one. That would seem to be the Duke Johnson role. Keeping him might also mean needing to cut Moss. Coaches may want a power runner...and Moss looked good in that role yesterday...but Blackshear seems to be more of the kind of back they want in this offense. If he and Shakir can man return duties that would also be another issue taken care of. It's going to be interesting who they keep.

Or nobodies who see the field only to throw 5 interceptions in a half?

I love linguistics so, yeah, pretty much.

It is a real word unless words only count as real if used by DWEMs. From Oxford Languages: dweeb /dwēb/ noun DEROGATORY•INFORM a boring, studious, or socially inept person.

Hey dweeb, I think you forgot one.

Yeah. Somebody should have mentioned it.

What I think is interesting is his take on Allen's progress. It's clear that, unlike many in the media, he has actually seen him play over the years. He doesn't say "didn't know how to throw the ball accurately but then miraculously learned." Instead says "saw flashes" but also saw the mistakes and when he cleaned up the mistakes and the flashes became consistent play he was a different quarterback.

I agree that accuracy was his main issue. He could not reliably place the ball in a small window. He worked really hard and developed a work around which was to be careful and just throw to open receivers where ballpark accuracy was good enough. He could run around to allow those windows to open up. The problem was not that he was not clutch or was padding but that when he played better teams those windows were tighter and pass rush was quicker so he didn't have those open receivers to hit. Essentially he had college level accuracy but found a way to make it work in the NFL which is really impressive, but what became clear to McDermott et al. is that wouldn't be good enough to make the team more than a borderline playoff team.

In regards to Allen as a power runner, I remember someone trying to bring him down (think it was Joey Bosa) in the backfield and Josh was dragging him before going down. A flag came out and though it was on the Bills, the tackler immediately thought it was on him for something like a horse collar. He looks at the ref and yells, "What the hell am I supposed to do, the guys HUGE!!" His power is as impressive as his speed.

Or, his specialty, checked down. Ahhh....makes me reminiscent

Looks like maybe Tuel Time was erased from your memory.

Doesn't deserve its own thread...and wasn't sure where to post this but a discussion about young players that might get cut seems like the best option. I keep seeing a really annoying headline posted different places that says "Bills release Devin Singletary hype video" so of course every damn time I read the part that says "Bills release Singletary" and wonder what the hell happened. They might as well link the headline to that picture of Peter Pan.

I can't remember who it was but I remember somebody who played with Elway saying exactly the same thing. It didn't matter if it was ping pong or dominoes or whatever. He was super competitive to the point where he would be pissed when he lost.

Slow eyes? I know them well.

Yeah, this is a bit different than that situation, though. Ferguson and Roberts were cut when they had to get down to 53 because they had players they could put on IR and bring back later, as long as they were on the original 53. So, they cut Ferguson and Roberts, got down to 53, then put the players on IR and then re-signed these players. Because they were vets they didn't have to clear waivers and they had a gentleman's agreement to re-sign once the spots opened up. As another poster mentioned this one probably has something to do with number of years and/or what percentage is signing bonus.

Yeah, and the reason he did that is he was getting advice from his father who was a great quarterback for a terrible Saints team/organization.

He's angry because this guy just up and quit when the Bills were counting on him to be the linchpin of the line for the next 10 to 15 years. That's why they drafted in him in the....wait...what? Where did they draft him? What's his name again?

I think McDermot really wants a return guy he can trust which is why he went to Hyde at the end of the year. The message seems to be, "fair catch, take a knew, don't return for a single yard ever and it's fine. Just don't F it up. With our offense, I think I agree. We can make up the yards as long as we don't turn it over. With Austin's experience I could see him providing the sure hands that McDermott wanted with the added bonus of actually being able to gain some return yards.