Richard Noggin

Didn't Kelce throw a sideline tantrum due to poor execution by his teammates, and THEN muff an absolutely crucial goal line catch into a devastating INT? Mmm that's delicious.

You think Andreesen leaps past Williams, Milano's obvious understudy, who already replaced Milano on the field last week? Instead the Bills will field 2 MLBs against a team that likes to get defensive 2nd levels on the move laterally and then attack the gaps and windows between and behind those downhill-minded defenders?

That might be a formidable Chargers defense? Or at least was until the end of the 1st Q tonight?

So does Napoleon McCallum

Can he/is he still this superior athlete? I can still see some build-up speed at times, but he seems a little heavier-footed and less flexible than back in his Angry Runs early days.

Definitely sounds sick tonight.

This is always a fascinating give-and-take debate: where to sit? Sitting in first two rows feels special in that you're so close to the speed and violence and sounds and personalities, but it definitely limits one's perspective, as you described. 100% agree that sitting (or honestly, these days means standing for ~97% of snaps) a little higher up in the lower bowl is ideal. Bills side, for sure. Between the 20s if you can afford it. We're at the goal line now, but high enough that our view is mostly solid. Next year we're sliding over to the 20 yard line and dropping down nearly 10 rows to ~row 20. Uncovered, so hopefully it's still an enthusiastic crowd in our immediate vicinity. Our section (and that general quadrant of the stadium from what we can tell) in recent years has a special, positive energy, culminating in absolute bedlam week one. Not much infiltration from visiting fans. Mostly consistent attendance. I'll really miss it after this year. (Sorry to hijack) *No offense to 200 or 300 folks. I have sat nearly everywhere since the 80s. Just really fancy the juice in the lower bowl.

I get the spirit of the rule in that it's rarely gonna be a hip drop situation, but rather more often a rusher bending the edge or bull rushing a blocker back into the QB might only muster a passing fistful of jersey up high and then yank the QB in whatever direction. Less explicitly dangerous? (Nothing like that shite Roy Williams pulled on several occasions resulting in real injuries.)

Keep the defense gassed and/or force them to take one...

Not a horse collar in the pocket?

Couple STs non-calls, maybe? I dunno

Majority of the guys with better separation also have lower DoT. In fact, only THREE-ish guys have better separation AND depth? (6-ish have better separation but lesser depth.) That's promising, especially considering we've already played Baltimore and New Jersey, so Coleman has exclusively faced CBs who can COVER.

And also because of teams falling into the trap of wedging positional need into the pick calculus rather than just picking the best players. (Of course there will be some circumstantial exceptions to a zealous BPA approach...where it would be unwise to double-up early on the same position or to do so in multiple years, etc.) Upon first reading your list of busts here, I'm curious if any of those picks were possibly the result of overvaluing positional need?

Prove him wrong, though.

STRONGLY agree that being more multiple and interchangeable on the 2nd and 3rd levels could help refresh and disguise this stale/predictable defense without dramatically overhauling the fundamental schema.

Was Al-Shaair just shaking/convulsing on the turf? Kinda looked bad for a brief glimpse...ooorrrrrrr I completely misinterpreted.

If he can practice "fully" then there is no cause to list him. He's been banged up a ton in his career but not always disclosed via injury reports. Don't want to officially label bountygate targets on his body (as though teams don't know)

That IS a spicy meatball, ming Nah, Williams plays with violence. Edmunds did not/does not have the same passion for contact.

This is an interesting take, and one that crossed my mind as soon as I saw Hawes motion into the backfield and play more as an H-back a couple snaps (if memory serves). However, the argument against this is Gilliam's STs value and his relatively low cap number. Knox, on the other hand, doesn't really play STs (right or no?) and has an absurd/inflated cap number next season. So I tend to agree (or maybe just HOPE) that Knox is the player we want to replace (or somehow get down to a MUCH lower cap number without adding much term).

To be fair, Kancey is NOT an "edge rusher." He's a "DE" but it's on an odd-man front. He lines up anywhere from the 3 to the 5 technique most often.

Doubling up on the cliches, impressive. "walking injury" + "injury waiting to happen" = "walking injury waiting to happen" Solid alliteration, nice rhythm, a little more menacing or inevitable than either phrase alone. And, of course, we've all seen his battle with availability.

There was no question among our immediate section that we needed a turnover to truly have a chance. Behold: Ed Oliver forcing the fumble from Derrick Henry. Just mugging him in the backfield, really. Stealing his lunch money. Felt live like they might have failed to recover the fumble, tbh, but that was the moment that we KNEW this was mathematically in motion.

Rousseau as part of a Parsons trade package makes plenty of sense, except for all the deal money he'd incur. But on the field, sure. I've grown disillusioned with Groot. Hopefully he proves me wrong starting this week. The problem with that trade package is that the "+2 picks" would be at least the next 2 1sts, which hurts (major loss of cap-controlled talent). Unless you want to be super cynical about Beane's 1st round drafting, in which case, then I guess an argument can be made.

Because production is different than opportunity. Derrick Henry did VERY well to sprint through those gaping holes and cutback lanes and 2nd and 3rd level defenders taking abysmal angles and just being physically outmatched (by what a beast Henry is, no doubt). But I'm guessing Hall did more with LESS, according to the evaluators. Simple, really. For the most part, Henry was kept clean through the line the way we wish Bernard, on the other side, could be. I googled Henry's yards BEFORE contact in week 1 to see about that, and here's AI's summary (which is mathematically incoherent...because that many avg yards before contact on 18 carries equals over 250 yards rushing before contact in total...so I'm just lost):

Of course the limitations of his QB1 were also "found out." Maybe not unlike Kliff's experience in ARZ...