That's No Moon
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"You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!!!" - Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
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It's pretty amazing that they shut that down and all they did was issue a cease and desist and a citation for selling liquor without a license (a misdemeanor). They raided an illegal bar/strip club and didn't find anyone underage inside, they didn't find any evidence of prostitution, they didn't find any illegal narcotics or paraphernalia to that effect, the proprietor did not have any outstanding warrants, nobody was even illegally parked.
Either that was the most upstanding speakeasy in the history of speakeasies or the cops chose to ignore some stuff.
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Damn good reporting there. I wonder what the crane operator's going to say at his media briefing.
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I'd like the NFL to do a study on whether or not they should stop #@$%ing around with the rules of football before they completely ruin it.
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Quite unjustifiably so. Unless you're ok with unions driving out competitive marketplace forces at the expense of lower prices and better service.
That cabbies had to pay governments thousands of dollars, in many cases hundreds of thousands of dollars for the badges that allowed them to operate when Uber drivers don't have to do a thing gives the cabbies a bit of a beef. That and Uber's (amongst others) willfill destruction of the current employer employee relationship is enough to make me not use the service, convenient though it may be.
For example, in Philadelphia, a new cab medallion costs 350 thousand dollars. For one.
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You realize it's just a sport and the players are simply entertainers, right?
Do you break stuff when a movie you're watching takes an unexpected twist?
Didn't say I was proud of it, just said it happened.
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"Just give it to them."
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I will never forgive him for the Pittsburgh game. Or the Jets game.
I powerbombed an ottoman in half that day.
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The cornerback was facing inside with his hips facing towards the goalpost when Sammy made his break. There is no human alive who can run in the opposite direction of their hips. The only player that could have made that play was the linebacker in front who was was also shading inside. There was no safety on the play since he moved to cover the overload.
The CB responsibility was the deep route and his technique was towards covering over the top. It wasn't a trail since it's cover-3. The Linebacker was the flat. The comeback intermediate was open, which is where Sammy went.
The play was designed for Hogan and Taylor made the easy read and throw. To the primary receiver. But Watkins was also open.
Unlike Madden, it isn't about where the Defender is located, but how their body is positioned. A player that is 5yds away facing a receiver can get there faster than one turned around 1yd away. Brady, Rogers, (Kyle Orton) makes those throws. Watch their games.
You're absolutely correct. Since Taylor was facing to the right there was no physical way for him to throw it to the left and thus no reason for the CB to react and alter his drop.
Brady's made a nice living throwing the ball to the right places rather than locking into one receiver and forcing it in. On that play, Hogan was the right place to throw whether or not you like Chris Hogan as a football player or not.
Take your patronizing tone somewhere else and learn what you're talking about before you bring it out again.
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Personally, I would have gone for Watkins because he had his CB completely turned around. It's a risky throw over the flat defender but could be a TD if he makes his already confused CB over-run the comeback tackle. (Watkins was open no matter what defense the Patriots decided to run there.)
The CB on Watkins was doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing and wasn't turned or "confused" around at all. He's looking directly at the QB in that situation and the second Taylor turns left he comes out of his bail and closes on Watkins. There are no other receivers on that side of the field and everything is happening right in front of him - Taylor turns left = ball to Watkins. The LB did a really good job of getting into the flat and he would have kept going had Taylor turned. Watkins was also on the short side of the field which makes the flat LBs job easier. Is the throw possible? Probably. Is it a ton riskier? You bet. 2 minutes left in the half in a 3-3 game at midfield you take the easy completion get your 9 yards and move on.
When you run an overload against a zone you almost always (barring a complete dropped coverage) throw to the overload side because the other side will have a bunch of guys who only have to focus in one place. The purpose of the overload is to give the defenders too many places to be so you open up a seam in the zone - which they did. Woods threatened the deep corner which prevented him from immediately closing on Hogan to the outside, the TE threatened the flat LB right in front of him which looked juicy when Taylor cocked his arm - hence the reaction. Space = cleared. The other side of the zone was pristine. The OLB had Sammy short outside, the ILB had Sammy short inside, the CB had him outside intermediate to deep and the safety was on that side deep as well.
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It would matter to me if the OL had been consistantly holding up during the game......because I really want that longer pass that required the extra second.
That is a touchdown.
No it's not, the corner doesn't break off his deep coverage until Taylor has already committed to throw the comeback in front of him. Pause the video at 1:15 and look. Taylor is in mid delivery and the CB hasn't yet put his foot in the ground to stop and come back. Meaning that if Taylor had held the ball the corner would have continued his deep coverage - which was his primary responsibility. The corner also had outside leverage which would have kept the receiver inside the numbers - which is where the corner's help is coming from. Not only is that not a touchdown, it's throwing into double coverage.
On that play there was only one easy throw and Taylor made it. The TE was choice #2 and the flat LB would have killed him. Throwing to Sammy would have been a difficult throw over the LB and in front of the corner and getting there before Sammy went out of bounds. They also had the deep safety shaded to that side of the field and if you notice the RCB was about 3 yards shallower than the LCB - he had more immediate deep help and could afford to be closer to Sammy. The LCB had 3 receivers on his side of the field and his help was further away. Given that his main job in that coverage is to not get beat deep he naturally will be further off - which he was. If Taylor had pivoted left the LB wold have continued to bail into the flat and the CB - who had no other threats on that side - was already pretty close to Sammy and would have been able to be able to react aggressively to the play knowing that if it was a double move the safety had his back over the top.
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If we have the cap space to do this and the Ravens are really going to release him there is no reason not to send them a low draft pick to prevent them from releasing him to the market where he can sign with New England for 50 cents a year.
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My yard. Bizarre.
passive.unionists.octagonal
anytime.live.salad
I kid you not, the square where the bathroom is on the house I grew up in.
thrones.discoveries.dads
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Wait wasn't Hogan a street free agent?
He was when we got him, then he wasn't. He was also a UDFA. a man of many FA hats
I always thought 'street FAs' were players without a team for a long period of time, hah
I'd say the cut-off for when an unsigned FA becomes a street FA is the start of camp, provided there are no franchise tags, etc. If you are cut mid year you are automatically a street FA. not that it matters to anything but semantics, but that's what we do here.
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While true, while a guy's draft position is no indicator of his success (shall we post all the high picks who did turn out, though?), that's not really a rebuttal to his point which was to upend BillsVet's (predictably) bogus claim that they were all UDFAs or street agents.
But I guess we're just referring to all FA's as "street agents" now so we can prove how dysfunctional our personnel department is...
No, guys who are signed as free agents who were released by their previous team (rather than whose contract expired) have been referred to as street free agents for a while. It is 100% correct to categorize Hankerson, Little, and Salas as street FAs.
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Gruden said last night that Lawson wouldn't have managed to get a sack against Stanley if they played a doubleheader. That comment has taken on a life of its own, but it's actually bulls**t. In that game, Lawson had 7 tackles and 3.5 stops for a loss. No sacks though!
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/1983523/shaq-lawson
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/gamelog/_/id/2977679/type/college/shaq-lawson
When are we going to realize that the slants are determined in pre-production meetings well before the Draft even starts. They have to pick selections to hate in order to have an edge and drive interest, none of that is spontaneous. You didn't think it was odd that they had all the negative Shaq Lawson stuff queued up and ready to go? Particularly when they specifically chose the plays that made him look the worst and excluded the ones that didn't fit that narrative v. Stanley? One of two things happened pre-production. They either decided that they were going to hate Shaq Lawson virtually regardless of where he was chosen, or they decided to hate whoever Buffalo picked. I think it's more likely that they decided to hate Lawson because it's simpler to prepare for that. If he went early it was a reach, if he went where he was supposed to he was overrated, if he dropped he dropped because of the secret shoulder issue and poor secret coaches tape v. good players. They had their copy written and slanted video all set to go.
Meanwhile, Myles Jack is selected by a Jacksonville team after a HUGE slide and it's lauded as value and the positive tape rolled. They JUST as easily could have found a group of plays where Jack was overpowered at the point of attack and chosen to emphasize the knee problem.
The NFL Draft is scripted show, not a documentary of authentic spontaneous reactions.
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McLovin had problems tracking the ball. This could be the new curse....the curse of McLovin. We need a new stadium.
JD Williams did too back in the day. Zero depth perception, had a procedure done to fix it IIRC. It didn't help.
When I was in 3rd grade I told my Mom I couldn't see the blackboard. They got me glasses. Kevon Seymour isn't smarter than a 3rd grader?
I needed glasses in 6th grade. I could still see the board. I played baseball and could hit, etc. When I got glasses I realized exactly how much I wasn't seeing. It was a revelation. The change was really gradual and I just didn't notice that it was as bad as it was.
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Now you know.
And knowing is half the battle...
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Thanks. I hope more folks feel this way. I beleive Buffalo Bills have a been a class act over this matter btw.
Question., What if a rookie wanted to wear his college # and it happened to be 32.
How would you guys respond?
What if his name happened to be Simpson?
After reading all of this I can't decide what the best option is. It does make me smile that we can reach a consensus that Tim Graham sucks though.
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She's a pouty thing when she has to drop back.
The sheet on this one has a little less in the way of measurables but the previous owner commented about its high motor.
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About time!
Ralph, for whatever reason, was reluctant to retire numbers.
So glad to see that the new regime does the right thing.
It's risky honoring living people. See also Simpson, Orenthal
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Has anybody looked at a bison lately? They're basically a bigger, angrier, humpbacked cow.
That being said, the throwback logo is one of the ten best logos in sports, in my biased opinion.
Cows are girls.
The old logo has it's man junk out.
And FWIW, a bigger, angrier, stronger, faster, humpbacked version of a steer is a pretty impressive thing.
Cow
Bull
Bison
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Still cant believe Kujo was such a whiff.
You'd think burning a 2nd rounder at RT would get you somebody at least mediocre.
Cordy was a great 2nd round grab, but i'm sure Whaley is pissed at himself and/or staff for gambling on Kujo.
Imagine our offense if he was a stud. How it would help Miller learn, add to our running game, Tyrod's development as a pocket passer, etc.
Ok i'm over it. Every GM has a handful of picks that haunt them. Hope we get that side fixed somehow.
Kuondijio was supposed to be a #1 pick, he slipped because of concerns re: his knee. Also, when we are speaking of him we need to remember that, though he's entering his 3rd year, he's only have just turned 23 when camp opens. For perspective he's only slightly more than a year older than rookie Laremy Tunsil.
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Vince Ferragamo and Bruce Mathison are not nearly low enough. Joe Dufek is last and will always be last until the Bills start an actual dead person at QB. How about Brian McClure, are we not counting strike scabs? Dennis Shaw was Offensive ROY in 1970 so that automatically puts him ahead of a bunch of guys.
Lamonica absolutely positively did not suck. My grandmother would tell you until the day she died about how pissed off she was when they traded him to Oakland.
Others missing:
Matt Cassel
Leo Hart
Dan Darragh
James Harris
Kay Stephenson
Tom Flores
Warren Rabb
Al Dorow
Johnny Green
MC Reynolds
Tommy O"Connell
Bob Brodhead
and Richie Lucas (our 1st ever draft choice)
Today I learned.....
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TIL that there is at least one person on Earth who would kill to go TO Scranton - even if it's only for a weekend.