That's No Moon

I realize Miller was playing hurt quite a bit but I was very underwhelmed by his pass blocking all season. He was unable to pick up a stunt correctly all year and late blitzers ran through his gap with abandon. If it were strictly a mobility issue I'd be less worried given the ankle issues but I didn't see a man with his head on a swivel looking for that second player to block.

It doesn't matter how talented Harvin is, if he's not on the field he's useless. He's shown no ability to stay on the field throughout his career. There is significant risk in taking on Harvin as well, in that, you put yourself in a position where you have to rely on his availability. He'll be healthyish to start the season and he'll be #2. You'll plan on that and craft an offense around that but it's a mirage and by the time you come around to needing to lean on him he'll be gone. I'd rather see the resources spent on players who will be on the field. Hate Woods and Hogan but they both played through significant injuries this year and took criticism for lack of production.

I think we'll take a run at Demario Davis. There seems to be a number of high profile OLBs who should pull down big money which is good because it eats up the available pool of funds for LBs in general. ILBs get the short stick. I also wouldn't be surprised to see them go after Mark Barron. He disappointed strictly at safety and the Rams moved him into a hybrid role and then moved him to OLB altogether when Alec Ogletree got hurt and did pretty well there. He's not great in man coverage but he's an interesting option for a nickel defense as a guy who's better than a typical LB in coverage but is also fairly sturdy against the run and is good at blitzing. Basically, I see him as the sort of player that offers a lot of versatility and who likes to come up and hit in the run game.

Planned Parenthood convention...

To me "managing the cap" doesn't necessarily mean staying under it. It means using it and it's rules to your maximum benefit on a consistent basis. From that standpoint we've been terrible with the cap for a long time. Good teams are usually right up close to the cap every year and have the means and acumen to juggle what needs to be juggled, move money around in the cap shell game, and stay competitive. It's a rare team that is truly competitive AND a ton under the cap on a regular basis. The Eagles did it for years but frankly if they'd used a little more of their cap space they might have gotten themselves over the hump to a SB title. They were always lacking in at least one area when they had the means to fix it, just not the will.

and the year before we had him the Rams fired him and their ST were absolutely brutal. We played them that year and our ST ran roughshod over them, huge returns, turnovers, etc. Mike Martz called his team's ST performance the worst thing he'd ever seen.

Either that or the Bills are sick of the leaks themselves and were on a mole hunt. As was noted, there would only be a couple people in those meetings who would know what was said exactly. Not to hard to put some false stuff out there to your leak suspects and to see what comes out the other side knowing that it takes zero effort to have Pegula issue an official denial (via text no less) to kill the issue while the people who actually matter already know what was and wasn't said. Pay attention to any administrative staff changes in the near future.

I feel bad for whoever loses their team, really, but I cannot express how nice it is not to have the Bills involved in any of this discussion whatsoever.

There are good RBs late in the draft every single year, just hafta find them.

His dopamine receptors, his dealer, his bookie, and the mob guy who controls them. Pettine can be passing game coordinator but his run schemes sucked and sucked in Cleveland too.

That's funny, Marrone has been in charge of housing visiting defensive lines in Jacksonville's backfield all season long. (51 sacks allowed)

Sweet Christ no.

I wonder a couple things. #1 - how much will Chad Kelly's personality issues at Clemson hurt him #2 - would the bridge with Ryan be burnt via Dabo Swinney #3 - could Uncle Jim really keep a leash on him if he had to sit and learn again.

Either they're nuts or they think Brown is their Billy Beane and they are going to go find their Theo Epstein to be the GM. Honestly, if you're going to go whole hog into the analytics thing it sort of has to be this way. Brown is the analytics minded guy who is charged with finding a coach who can deal with that. When they have the coach and their scheme they go find the GM who meshes with both of them to shop for the groceries. It's a little backwards, but only if the GM candidates you want to talk to are all connected to playoff teams and your coaches aren't. For example, Chip Kelly's an analytics guy and if you wait until February he'll be gone. Get him in the fold and then find a GM everyone can work with.

Kinda wish I knew who Sammy was talking about, it's hard to argue with that sentiment though. Do your job or GTFO.

This was the biggest waste of talent in the history of the team. Dick Jauron went 7-9 with far less talented teams

Didn't O'Leary long snap at FSU?

That it's almost the off-season so I can be optimistic again.

Rather than watching the WWE shitshow that the NFL has turned itself into I'm taking my kids to a college hockey game on Sunday at 1:00pm. A couple years ago that would have been unfathomable.

They did. What it should scream out loud to you is that the Rams are moving to LA in 2016. San Diego will get saved at the last minute and the Raiders will go to LA as well. One AFC and one NFC team. Everyone is happy, except Raider fans in Oakland and Ram fans in St. Louis but lets be honest, the league doesn't give a **** about them anyway.

Or the roughing the punter call they missed? Or the facemask they picked up? Or the face guarding on Sammy? Or the DPI on Hogan? All huge penalties in huge spots. What accountability? The league profits more from New England winning, staying undefeated and preserving the "our Super Bowl was completely untainted and legitimate" narrative.

Because people keep putting folks like Shannon Sharpe on television.

Gargamel finally got them.

Doesn't this happen on a weekly basis now? Not the refs screwing up, that happens way more frequently. I mean them actually admitting that they hosed somebody. I think that when coaches correctly challenge a call they should be given the option to either get their timeout back or to punch all the officials in the balls. Line them up and just whale each one in the crotch. ESPN could make up a stat to track coaches ball punching efficiency, call it BPR (Ball Puncher Rating). The NFL is constantly looking to keep viewer interest, there is no way I'm changing the channel or walking away from my TV set during a review if there's a decent chance of that outcome. https://youtu.be/WQBc8yxjdSs?t=10 Or this outcome...

Ryan Mathews is now injured...again. Chip Kelly is also so enamored with DeMarco Murray that he chose to pass on 2nd and goal from the 9 down 1 point with 4:30 to play. To his credit he did give Murray the ball on first down...from the 8. Murray, Mathews, and Sproles combined for 79 yards on 33 carries yesterday. 2.4 YPC. But hey, Alonso made 4 tackles so that went well. If you're keeping count at home that makes 12 for the season along with 0 sacks, 0 tackles for loss, 0 forced fumbles, 0 fumble recoveries, 1 pass defensed and 1 INT (the same pass BTW). He's played in 4 games and is 25 y/o with 2 ACL reconstructions on the same knee, a third procedure on that knee this year to "clean it out", and tendinitis in that same knee in pre-season. There are different kinds of high mileage. Kiko is definitely one of them.