That's No Moon

That Jacksonville game is going to haunt us all year long. In the win column, in the tiebreaker race, you name it.

He ordered a pizza to practice IIRC.

But the year in the middle (his first with Chip Kelly and the last year in Philly his line was healthy) he led the league in rushing and had 5.1 yards per carry.... and the other two years he had 4.2 YPC while his replacement is getting 3.6 in the same offense this year. The Eagles used 7 different offensive line combinations with 10 different players during the year and all of their subs were terrible. The starting RT was suspended the 1st 4 weeks. He was also without Evan Mathis in weeks 2-8. In weeks 2-4 when both he AND Lane Johnson were out (amongst others in some of them) here's Shady's YPC 4.2, 1.2, 1.7. The 4 weeks after the RT came back? 3.4, 6.8, 4.2, 4.9. The starting RG (Todd Herremans) went out for the year starting in week 9, week 9's YPC? 1.6 Matt Tobin was RG that week and the next week when Shady averaged 3.8 YPC. They replaced Tobin with Andrew Gardner in week 10 because Tobin stunk. Shady's YPC the following two weeks with Gardner as the only replacement was 6.2 and 6.4. Jason Kelce the center, went out for the year in week 12, so again, with 2 starting O-lineman out YPC dropped from 6.2 and 6.4 to 2.9, 4.0, 4.0, and 5.8 to finish out the year. So, in terms of cherry picking stats to prove a point. If I chose week 4 last year vs. San Francisco when Shady carried the ball 10 times for 17 yards for a 1.7 average is that fair when, in that game, there were four backups starting on the O-Line? Only Jason Peters was where he belonged. Both guards and the center were backups and the normal RG was at RT. The games where Shady's YPC was the worst were the games where there was the most turmoil on the o-line. That's completely understandable. When things were somewhat stable he was great. I'm aware PFF graded the Eagles as the best run blocking line in the league last year. In their own write up they comment on how that was based on the strength of their starters and that ALL of their backups struggled when they had to play. They had to play a lot. It was a big issue. The line was bad to the point that the Eagles own website (usually the rah rah everything is awesome source of information) talked about how the line took a step back in 2014 and how they need to be better in 2015.

Running through Bryan Cox...good stinkin times.

Yet, when the league commented about the Patriots headset issues in advance of the Steelers game they were quick to say that they supplied all of the equipment for both teams so the Pats couldn't have been messing with it. When the Bills stuff doesn't work it's because we didn't charge the batteries. Huh?

Completed a couple VERY important balls in big spots. The throw to Sammy to get the first down and allow us to keep the ball at the end was clutch. He certainly missed a couple too but all in all I've seen MUCH worse performances by Bills QBs in night games.

I got a Troy-Bilt as a gift. For what I use it for it's fine and a truly good machine would be complete overkill. We get about 25" in an average winter. Sometimes more, sometimes none. It was nice to have the back to back years where we had about 80" but I never even ran it last season.

It's not the father.

I look at it more as controlling variables. The biggest variable in any game is the officiating. They can call holding basically any play. There is an illegal block of some sort on every kick it's just a matter of when it is called or not. Not taking the ball out eliminates penalties and turnovers entirely.

I watched on a Roku 3, the broadcast quality sucked. Screen was dim, nothing was sharply focused, occasional choppiness. Minus the chop it was like watching the game on an old TV. You sort of got used to it and convinced yourself it was decent...but then the 1:00 games came on and just blew it out of the water. The NFL also says they have the best officiating in sports...

The Jets already wear green so what are they doing? Are they turning up the volume on the green?

Last season the highest average yards gained per drive was just under 40 yards (AZ). The difference between the 15 and the 25 as a starting point is the difference between the opposing 35 (FG attempt) and the opposing 45 (punt).

and a bedazzled streaking buffalo on the side...with tassles.

When they wipe your face in their most recent marketing driven attempt to bilk you out of money while you're watching a game being played on a day in which it should not be played involving the scummiest of scumbag franchises? Yeah, it's not that big a leap.

Risk is starting inside the 10 because of a penalty or fumbling the ball away. The most KO returns for TD by one player in any season is 4. The career record for KO returns is 6. The best KO returner we've had in recent memory was Terrence McGee. He had 5 in his 7 year kick returning career. So if you have a really good return man, you might pop one per season. How many times will you screw yourself with field position? McGee also had 5 fumbles during his KO return career. Fortunately he only lost 1.

Pray for white pants.

I am really beginning to hate the NFL....

For as frequently as penalties are called on kick returns (even moreso against the Bills this year) you could make an argument against ever attempting to return a kick of any kind. Blocks in the back and holds are 10 yard penalties. Penalties on kicking plays are some of the most punitive because they negate any return in addition to penalizing distance. If the average return hovers around 10 yards, a block in the back or hold is then a net 20 yard penalty.

Season opener 2007 vs. Denver. Broncos have the ball on their own 34 with 2:13 to play 1 time out. They convert 2 4th downs including one after a 3rd and 23 and another after a 3rd and 13 then complete an 11 yard pass on 3rd and 10 to get into FG range. Denver runs out onto the field (with no TOs) and Elam makes a 42 yd FG as time expires. He'd missed 2 earlier in the day.

This is over and it's going to get ugly.

This team is the definition of "all hat and no cattle".

Track is clearly the priority. Football is paying the bills.

People with concussion symptoms really aren't supposed to do much of anything. No TV, no reading, no music, nothing. You're supposed to eliminate as much sensory input as possible. When you start reintroducing activity you're supposed to stop the instant you feel the least bit strange - headaches, dizziness, etc. You have to keep restarting a little at a time until your body stops reacting badly. It can take a really long time. I'd imagine these guys have baseline testing done so it makes the measurement a little easier. You have to get back to your pre-injury benchmark without feeling symptoms. For a person who is supposed to limit sensory input 5+ hours of airplane white noise +whatever else is going on, plus the motion of the plane (which makes some non concussed people nauseated), plus the car/bus ride to and from the airport, plus the rapid changes in atmospheric pressure, plus plus plus aren't really good for someone. Not to mention that if you get him there OK then he has some sort of major setback then you have to figure out the plane home. It's not like you can drive in an emergency.

So many missed kicks this year, of all lengths. The league clearly wants fewer made kicks and they exclusively control the kicking balls. Wonder if they made an adjustment there. Even within the legal parameters, balls with less air are a little more angular than a fully inflated ball and I'd think would tend to curve a little more when flying end over end. Plus kickers would have to swing harder adding to the likelihood of pulls and pushes. Or maybe I should buy a tin foil hat.

His error to down played ratio was pretty high for a guy they didn't cut.