That's No Moon

Can we sign Julie and let the Eagles keep Zach? I read this and thought, "Yeah isn't he like retired by now?" Then I realized it was his kid. I will now go back to my rocking chair and resume yelling at neighborhood children.

I owned at least 3 things on that page...

Fun fact. Josh Allen's longest completion for this season was 55 yards. Philip Rivers longest completion for this season was 55 yards. IDK where this perception comes from that he's hucking bombs all over the place. Josh does his best work in the intermediate lengths.

No argument here. That hire smacked of Texas desperation as much as anything else.

He's only allotted one phone call....

The union should be in favor of it because it keeps more people employed, the coaches will be in favor of it because it gives them more toys, GMs will be in favor of it because it allows them to hoard players and talent, and the owners will be against it because it drives up costs.

I think it's obvious they aren't signing him. They are bringing him in to go through film and ask questions. FTR I'm fine with that and it's a good idea. Any tidbit you can find is a worthwhile tidbit and every minute you can make the other team spend changing something that otherwise wouldn't need to be changed is worthwhile as well.

How many breaks can one person expect to receive? This would be far more than #1.

One game at a time, but the goal is to have four games.

exactly. when you bench Fitz the first time you are saying it's about the future but then he got himself stuck on the fence. The Bills sort of did that the year they broke the drought. It was about the future when they put Peterman in but he was a dumpster fire and then got hurt so they had to put Tyrod back in and they won more than they thought they would and got in the playoffs. I don't think ANYONE thought Peterman was the actual future thought so jerking him around didn't really matter. Fitz would have been in this game before halftime today which begs the question, if that's what you are gonna do why didn't he just start?

The equivalent seems to still be working for Josh McDaniels.

He was looking for a bench to sit on but there was nobody else to come in.

He missed the playoffs by getting trounced by backups AND jerked his rookie QB around in the process. Coach of the Year tho, amirite? Media clowns....

Which is another rule change that I forgot to mention. QB helmet radios weren't a thing. Which matters. A lot.

They called timeouts with 8 minutes left to get the ball back and they called another one before the 2 minute warning trying to get the ball back again. You wanna do that then you need to defend the field. No sympathy. It's not like they were running the ball trying to grind out the game either. Tua threw the ball 20 times in the 4th quarter. Calling off the dogs is a mutual deal. They didn't so we didn't.

I was gonna ask for proof, but uhm, nevermind....

I agree to an extent but he earned himself a longer look I think. Maybe not in the playoffs mind you, but I'm interested in seeing what else he can do. Moss has been stealing carries from Singletary as the year has worn on (post fumble in SF aside) but neither of them have really claimed the job. While I'd like another homerun hitter in a perfect world, a beefy guy who can punish teams for playing a small lineup against us has value too.

Addendum to my post above. The following play was from 2001. Not a penalty. This would be an immediate no brainer 15 yard penalty and a borderline ejection today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OTH0pddv4&ab_channel=lteru This is a bunch of clips produced by the league itself and spliced together by someone. Almost none of this was illegal. BTW, look behind B-Dawk at 2:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcifUHmxLY&ab_channel=BucsArchivewithLiamMitchell I don't share these things because I think the league should go back to this because that isn't going to happen. I show this to those of you who are too young to remember so you have proper respect for offensive players who played in this era and before and didn't put up the video game stats players are putting up today. The NFL is a VERY different place now and players and styles that are very successful now would have had a much different experience back then. There is a REASON QBs didn't run around. There is a REASON why there weren't smurfy little slot receivers. There is a REASON why tight tends didn't maraud over the middle of the field all day long. It's not because nobody thought of doing it, it's because you would get killed. You had two safeties. Your free safety was your ballhawk most of the time and your strong safety was an absolute assassin. Their literal job was to kill people coming across the middle of the field and make them not come there anymore. Every team had one and they all did that, some better than others. The Bills' assassin was Leonard Smith and he would knock a fool out ZFG. This is Chuck Cecil. Chuck Cecil was crazy. Chuck Cecil did stuff like this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxeo7ZUMzo&ab_channel=SavageBrickArchive

Only one way to fix it. 4 more rivers to cross. Even then there will be some that call it a fluke.

Which was my main reason for not being on board currently. The inconsistency. Take 10 off the 70's and add 10 to everything else and I'm better.

Knox is as good as McKellar was. We don't have anyone that blocks like Metzelaars though.

I'm going to sound INCREDIBLY old right now but all of these comparisons need to remember and take into account the myriad of rule changes that have happened since 1990-91. You can't bludgeon people over the middle, you can't hit the QB high, you can't hit the QB low, you can't hit the QB even remotely late, you can hold basically every down on offense, DBs get called for WAY more holding and illegal contact now than before, a defenseless receiver was something to murder not to avoid, there was no sliding like WRs do now to avoid contact. If you slid like that in front of Steve Atwater you'd lose your head. If you read this and think I sound like a boomer go watch a game from 90 or 91 on YouTube and tell me what you think. The games are there. Go watch them and count the number of things that would be obvious and blatant penalties today that not only weren't penalties they were lauded as good plays at the time. The Bills have an excellent offense for the time period they are in. Kelly in today's league wouldn't retire at 36 from getting beaten to a pulp. Andre Reed would be uncoverable over the middle because you couldn't manhandle him. A player like Pete Metzelaars would be extremely difficult to defend because he was 6'8" and you can't hit receivers over the middle any more. You basically have to let them catch the ball and then try to pull it out. Gronkowski in 1990 would be a dead man walking with the routes that Brady had him run and the throws he hung up in the air for him. The player that would probably look close to the same would be Thomas IMO mostly because players like him were ahead of their time. FWIW, Dan Marino would be absolutely ungodly in the modern NFL. You'd never lay a hand on him. He threw for 5k yards when 3k was an excellent season. Williams seems to be a little more point and shoot. Moss has a little more wiggle. Not sure who is faster but Williams seemed like a load to tackle. Not that Moss doesn't run hard but Williams seemed to have that little bit more mass that made DBs not want to stick their nose in there quite so hard. Reminded me a little of another Williams we had not so long ago. Kinda the same style of runner.

6 punts from inside his own 20. 6 out of 41 punts total so 15ish percent. The yards per return are unaffected by the shanked punt. The other team is still averaging 15 yards a return in those situations. Your criticism is fair though so I tried to find out exactly what happened on all 6 of those punts. Punt from 9, 45 yards, 10 yard return. 35 net Score 17-13 Late 3rd quarter Punt from 13, 57 yards, 40 yard return. 17 net. Score 7-7 1st quarter Punt from 10, 71 yards, 0 yards on return, 71 net. Score 10-14 late 2nd quarter Punt from 12, 40 yards, 15 yard return, 25 net. Score 14-6 mid 3rd quarter Punt from 18, 12 yards, out of bounds, 12 net. Score 19-16 mid 3rd quarter Punt from 20, 68 yards, 16 yard return, 52 net. Score 34-17 late 4th quarter The one with the long return seemed to have good hang time but it was right in the middle of the field and the coverage was nowhere to be found. Oddly he had 2 of his worst games in domes. Vegas and Arizona. Worst as in he had multiple touchbacks in Vegas and the horrid shank in Arizona.

I went to the Anchor in Frederick, MD. I found it to be very meh. I needed a fix so it was tolerable but I've had better wings at BWW so long as you are very specific about how they cook them.