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Really rooting for the kid. I thought he made some good plays while filling in a couple years ago and had more upside - maybe not enough to be a long term starter on this team, but possibly enough to have a full NFL career with starting reps somewhere.

looks to be $10M/4

Is $90 a bargain for that?

Rome Odunze goes 5 picks later and loses $13M on his deal. Crazy.

But was Stefon Diggs there?

Yea, i think it's just a different terminology thing. I usually refer to proofing once it's been shaped. I guess in the case of a cold ferment this could take place during or after the the fridge ferment. I've been letting my dough sit at room temp 4-6 hours once balled and in that time it'll rise a decent bit - I consider that proofing, but I guess some may not if it isn't stretched. Once it's stretched though, it just sits long enough to wait for its turn in the oven. That place is a godsend.

Tossing it high in the air is mostly for show. You can achieve the same effect rotating it quickly on the tops of your hands or a variety of other methods. Not very mainly styles roll it out flat from what I've seen.

You proof all those kinds of dough too, just that most people do it in the fridge for a couple days. When you take it out of the fridge you then let it come up to room temp for 4-6 hours and it rises again in that stage.

I glossed over that part. The one in East Aurora has definitely been a top 3-4 place for me every time I've gone. @hondo in seattle definitely give the East Aurora location a go if you can.

Desi's Pizzeria is criminally underrated, and they have some of the best subs and calzones in the country. Maybe you went on a bad day, which does happen there. From my experience living in seattle, nothing came remotely close to wings from Buffalo, but then again, I haven't been to those places in Bellingham. Nine-eleven tavern is the gold standard for me. If I'm going to a pizza shop for wings, I actually love La Nova, as touristy as that may seem.

Hope this helps.

I brought this up in my postalready. McDermott really had very little hand in us reaching the playoffs in 2017. In the two years before he got here, Taylor went 7-6 and 7-8. In 2017 Taylor went 8-6. We finished 9-7 which wasn't any better than Marrone did with Kyle Orton. Cincinnati deserves more credit for getting us into the playoffs. If you want to celebrate the second 9-7 season in 4 years as evidence that McDermott is great, go ahead, but I won't. This is my plan for us to win a Super Bowl. Ideally Burrow is out of the picture too in whatever way possible. Also not sure we'd match up to SF, but at least that isn't proven.

Except when the things that almost happened later do in fact happen. Just because you don't get burned every single time, doesn't mean you aren't screwing up. We had the Hail Murray, and then allowed the exact same situation the very next week against San Diego that just happened to not burn them. They collapsed against Tampa Bay last year and were a pass interference call away from being knocked out of playoff contention. We get annual reminders ever year when we play KC or Cincinnati exactly who Sean McDermott is, and some people insist on ignoring all of his miscues because of regular season win totals and just throw on a surprised face when we melt in the game's biggest moments.

It's only head scratching if you absolutely must find the rosiest possible result in the worst of situations. There are 20 year olds who are never the same after an ACL tear and he was already on the last leg of his career. I think there's a very realistic chance he never even plays again. If he comes into camp looking like he did last season, he should just hang it up, because he wasn't a practice-squad level talent last year. It would be an historic comeback that people would talk about for years if he put up 10 sacks this year, considering he wasn't putting up that many more in his long lost prime.

Hardly. Tyrod Taylor was a better QB than Cassel and when Taylor went to the playoffs, he won just won more game than he did in either of the previous two seasons. So, with that in mind, he had a typicaly Tyrod Taylor season. McD didn't elevate him at all. Interestingly, the game that got us in the playoffs that year - a win against the lowly Miami Dolphins, was another near-colossal collapse by a McDermott team where after holding them scoreless for 42 minutes, we needed a last minute interception to stop the march of David Fales and Kenny Stills from continuing our playoff drought. Lazy counter response and non-existent argument.

I'm not trying to prove he's a bad coach though. I don't think Dick Jauron was a "bad" coach. I think they're both extremely mid, with McDermott being a little better.

Your career win percentage stats are completely irrelevant, because the overwhelming majority of McD's stats are with Josh Allen at the Helm. He has one full season and another 5 games that he played without Josh Allen. He was 10-11 over that span with one playoff appearance that was a loss. Obviously it's not a horrible percentage, but it's highly volatile with numbers that small. A couple games in either direction have massive percentage point swings. What makes McDermott like Jauron is his general philosophy that high level execution is the most important factor in winning football games, while at the same time being unable to get his team to execute at a high level with consistency. The difference is that talent, namely Allen, has won this team a ton of football games even when they aren't executing. Jauron didn't have that luxury. I think when you look at our various defensive collapses over McDermott's tenure, where Allen is not able to bail him out, or you look at our penalties against, you can see evidence of our team not doing the one thing that's supposed to be McDermott's forte. Couple that with his poor time management and poor challenge judgement (admittedly less important) and I just don't see a coach who executes at a high level when that's supossed to be his thing. Of course, many coaches like Belichick, Shanahan, Reid, have all had teams with very high levels of execution over the years, especially Belichick, but each of those coaches also bring a tremendous knowledge of the game paired with a strategic vision and tactical plan that put their team in the best position to win possible.

If Super Bowl victories are your only metric for caliber of coaching, that's your problem.

What exactly do you think you proved with all this? You realize that when you take away Josh Allen, these stats don't line up like this, right?

Bill Belichick went 11-5 with matt Cassel, He dragged Mac Jones tot he playoffs kicking and screaming. Kyle Shanahan has people thinking Jimmy Garoppolo might be the next elite QB in the NFL for a minute and now he's doing the same with Brock Purdy. We all know how Jimmy turned out. Great coaches get the best out of their players, but you can't get gold from *****. Bad counter argument.

I don't really expect him to improve at all. How many coaches have significant improvement after 7 years on the job with no prior signs of growth? I haven't seen anything the last couple of years that tells me he's meaningfully improved year over year. Unless you have a coach that's at the forefront of innovation, I think it's hard to just consistently get better.

Take away Josh Allen and McDermott is just Dick Jauron: The Next Generation.

That whole family sucks, elite play notwithstanding.

Makes me glad to roam the high seas

You've clearly never played Madden.