That's No Moon

Sometimes I forget how old this board is.

Yup. I know I always get excited when the league tells us all they want to call more penalties on passing plays. Makes for great football.

I don't want him in the game anyway so the sooner he's out the better.

OK, Josh can sit down now

Quentin Morris is getting time with the 1s

Maybe someone on the D-line can win their matchup once.

Appropriate. Spurs get "Spursy" in big games and lose. The Bills have gotten "Billsy" for a long time. 13 seconds is one of the Billsier things they done in awhile. Why shouldn't Spurs and the Bills have clone stadia?

With Buffalo's history of renderings not coming to fruition maybe this time we dont see any renderings and it actually gets built.

It's hard to have a "security protocol" when the fans are on the field and held back by less than a rope. What security?

Taron Johnson in the slot sticky, grabby, holdy, illegal contacty

That rule changed this year I think

Either way, he can still go onto IR. He'd count against the current 85 man limit but you still wouldn't have to cut anyone that mattered.

I teach middle school. You have no idea.

In a related story, the Raiders also released Canisius High School graduate Tyrone Wheatley Jr. who apparently was trying to make himself a tackle after being a TE at Michigan.

Well, part of the benefit of signing him now is he could go onto the PUP list. He would count against the current 85 man limit but would NOT count against the final 53 man. He could stay there until after week 4, then the team has 21 days to decide to activate him, put him on IR, or release him. Since the NFL now allows teams to bring as many as 8 players back from IR they could put him on IR from the PUP and have to wait another 4 weeks at minimum to activate him. All of this time he's not counting against the roster limit. Sign him today, put him on the PUP list he's out until after week 4, then the team can either IR him immediately and be out until after week 8 or, if they think he'd be ready to play sooner than that they could bring him back after week 5, 6, or 7 from the PUP list. If they know he will be out past week 8 anyway that long they can stick him on IR whenever they want to now knowing they can bring him back when he's ready and not mess around with the complications, but the complications give flexibility. The benefit of bringing him into the fold earlier in the year is you can get him going on the playbook and monitor his injury rehab. edit: the point of this was that it doesn't force the Bills to cut anyone they don't want to cut to make space for OBJ until he's ready to play and by that point there's a pretty high likelihood that someone else will be put onto IR to swap spots and you'll also have 8-10+ more weeks to evaluate the bottom of the roster. You also have the ability to release him from PUP if rehab isn't going well or if it's not working out, etc. Again, he wouldn't count against the 53 during that time. He basically doesn't exist until he's ready to play.

Joshing around?

I think the OP is under the impression that signing OBJ would be prohibitively expensive.

I think most of this speculation works on the assumption that OBJ would be willing to play on a low dollar 1 year deal to prove he's healthy, have a shot at another ring, and then take another bite at the apple next off-season. I don't think much of anyone is looking to throw money or term at OBJ as he currently sits.

30 years ago was 1992 so that picture basically had to be taken on film. The is zero motion blur on the jet that was stated to be flying. Now, it could be a Harrier so it's possible that it could have been hovering but it is EXTREMELY unlikely that they would do that in front of an unknown vehicle, plus the plane appears to be banking left. The unknown craft was stated to be hovering in the air. There was no motion blur on the background or foreground to indicate the photographer was panning with the moving objects and since one object was stationary and the other was moving at likely several hundred miles per hour at what appears to be a close proximity to the photographer I find it unlikely that there would be no blur on the jet. Example, take a picture of a baseball flying past a hitter from a side angle. The hitter is not moving, the ball is moving at 90-100mph. There will be some motion blur unless you are using really good equipment. Take a look at this picture. It's a modern photo taken with a really really good professional camera, off at least a monopod. The bat and the ball show blur and the batter and catcher don't. In a picture like the disputed one you'd expect the UFO to be clear and crisp and the jet to have some level of blur. Likely a lot because it would be moving 5 or 6 times faster than the ball in the baseball picture I linked. Also, this was reportedly taken by "hikers" so no tripod set up and probably not a super expensive camera either because who takes a hugely expensive, relatively fragile, camera hiking? Unless you are there specifically to shoot landscapes and nature shots you wouldn't lug all of that crap around. It's heavy and in 1992 it was heavier. Looking at the cloud cover and flat light that day it seems unlikely that someone just happened to be hiking up a mountain with thousands of dollars worth of heavy camera gear to take pictures so at best you're talking about a 35mm camera that fits in your pocket or a small backpack. Those don't do a lot. You're also limited to the film. Let's assume they just loaded a new roll. They get 24 shots. Maybe 36. Burst mode isn't a thing, especially in a camera like that, and shutter speeds are limited.

It's a developmental league so not really. Lots of different ways to craft a job like that and the league could set up coaching time/clinics with Palmer basically at league expense rather than trying to have guys who don't make a lot of money try to pay him themselves.

The xfl won't exist very long so I don't think it's an issue.

I remember when lots of teams did this and bad snaps on kicks were somewhat common. Balls over people's heads, balls wide of the holder, balls at the punter's feet, etc. When is the last time you can remember a terrible snap on a kick? Long snapping isn't remotely the same thing as normal snapping or shotgun snapping. If you're going to have a guy like Taiwan Jones whose only job on the team is to run down field and attempt to make a tackle on kicks, it kinda makes sense to make very very sure that all of your kicking snaps are spot on given that they directly cost you points when they are bad for held kicks and are hugely terrible plays that almost always lead to points against you when you screw them up for punts. That doesn't even get into how having a good long snapper helps placekicker accuracy because the timing is consistent when the snap is the same speed in the same location every single time. For Christ's sake we are seriously scrutinizing about how the holder HOLDS THE BALL at this point. IMO, it's a ton easier to find a guy who can run reasonably fast and who is willing to sacrifice his body to make tackles than it is to find a guy who can make clean long snaps in all weather conditions.