Richard Noggin

Appreciate you sticking to your guns here. The word "glaring" is likely too emphatic. But I'd argue that last season showed us that the lack of at least a threat of an explosive/effective running attack can eventually be exploited by DCs with enough time and talent (like those in the playoffs). So maybe it's less about the individual RBs, and more about the overall running game. Still, it matters. And we've seen examples of that repeatedly. The threat of balance is needed to keep defenses honest and off-balance just enough.

To be fair, Thurm, this thread headline was written (as a question) back in March of 2020. The cupboards were even less stocked then. Difficult to argue that. I've got no issue with the RB committee approach (which we assume would include Moss, Singletary, and either Breida or Williams or whomever), but I don't think this staff favors keeping more than 2 ACTUAL RBs active most gamedays (because Taiwan Jones). Maybe that changes. If we transition to a more zone-heavy scheme, as we saw happen a bit last season, maybe Breida becomes a more valued contributor? Who necromanced this thread again anyways? Because I don't even think the premise still holds water going into the 2021 season. Would a more dynamic player help the offense? Of course. Is it a glaring need? No. Obviously.

Thinner, sure. A little. But has that guy EVER lifted weights or actually trained in the offseason? There's a reason he can't move or throw anymore. And it ain't the weight he allegedly shed.

According to a chyron/crawl stat in that clip, the Bills defense had the 10th highest QB pressure rate last season? Wild.

Who's Kwame?

Underrated wit in this post.

Just busting beef. My sense of humor isn't always...uplifting.

Question: what/who are "DV people"? (I do understand the abbreviation to mean domestic violence, mind you.) Odd phrasing to my ear/eye. Just first responders/social workers/law enforcement types? Or, like...fans of it?

Thank you. I do love analytics. (I actually wish, if I could have a superpower, that it would be the ability to instantly produce analytics on ANY facet of my life to date, no matter how quotidian. And I'm in the Humanities. For example, how many minutes have I spent doing everything I've done the last year? Or decade? Or lifetime? At work, how many more times have I performed a certain task compared to colleagues? At home, especially, how many more minutes have I logged doing household chores compared to cohabitants? No agenda there, of course...) But, being that this drinking game was played in an on-campus suite of six sophomores with moderately diverse backgrounds and academic interests, I'm thinking we counted the utterances at least once. I'd like to know if I imbibed more fluid ounces than my counterparts no matter which team I was assigned to...

This gets an exaggerated eye-roll (I know...devastating) unless you provide details. Why would you mention it and NOT be more specific? Your insight could (and I'm truly not being entirely facetious here) greatly help the team.

Tell me this is a Rick Sanchez reference...

Okay, here goes (it's VERY complicated, so make sure you have something to write with): Divide your drinking party in half. One half will be assigned "red light," and the other...wait for it, will be assigned "Roxanne." Play the song. Every time you hear your assigned word/phrase, drink. I suggest nothing heavier than sessionable beer, as due to Sting's (and pop music in the 80's, in general) reliance on extreme repetition of the chorus (HELLO Bruce Springsteen, among others!), you will consume between 12 and 36 ounces of beverage in a fairly short period of time (depending upon multiple factors like age, weight, constitution, etc.). There goes.

The drinking game, anyways. You're aware of the drinking game, right?

And...I'll be watching you. (I'll be deeply disappointed and culturally freaked out if I'm the first to grab this low-hanging fruit. Also, thank you for growing it.)

I want this on my tombstone

This is why I am VERY critical of a few of the Bills most beloved figures. They are (or at least were) demonstrably bad people. OJ is the obvious frontrunner, and broadly agreed upon. But there are others that many Bills fans refuse to judge. Which, I guess, is their right. I just have more difficulty turning a blind eye to the malfeasance of privileged athletes. I'm certainly not perfect, either, for the record.

That's the spirit.

Kelly's delivery could not be much more different than Allen's current motion. Kelly and Moon had similar throwing styles to my eye: TONS of arc from really high, traditional, over-the-top throwing motions. Look at the way the ball explodes upward out of Kelly's hand, compared to the more direct rockets Allen throws. That really old school throwing motion was great for getting the ball over the top of a defense. Really great for having guys run underneath dimes. Allen's motion is more about laser beams for the modern spread game, and from a boggling variety of platforms (not quite Mahomes or Rodgers level, but not far off at all).

Those are rookie numbers

Like "Florida Room" information? Is that the dressed up version of "screened-in porch (hyphen added)" information?

Are an intriguingly large number of highlights in the first embedded video from the Colts playoff game? Did Allen (and his receivers, I guess) just create enough offense out of nothing to win us a playoff game? I'm interrogating my own memory of the divisional round.

OF COURSE an upper-echelon CB entering the last--and least lucrative--year of his contract wants more guaranteed money before he steps on the field again. And especially of course if the CB in question is on the wrong side of 30. He's no dummy: he knows his current boss is historically (and probably correctly) objective and disloyal with respect to past production. Belichick will trade or cut or simply force you to play out your contract. And really, we all know Gilmore doesn't want to play under the pressure and risk of a "prove it" season (with the Pats or anyone else). He wants guarantees. He's already proven it enough to likely get some team to pay him, he figures. Time to get that last lump sum. Or, eff it. He's already rich.

Pretty please run the numbers and share the infographic! Pretty please!

Agree heartily. It IS worth noting WHY fans wanted to celebrate Kiko, though: impact plays. Fans love them some defenders who cause or recover turnovers (there are other kinds of more nuanced impact defensive plays for front-7 guys, including TFLs and pressures and penetrations, which are maybe overvalued to simplify our amateur scouting evaluations). But reliance on such metrics and splashes can lead us to overvaluing guys like Alonso, and like Jairus Byrd. It's obvious Alonso had a Jairus Byrd-like season, simply being frequently in the right place at the right time (and making a few athletic plays along the way). Turnovers are sexy. Obviously.

Mekhi Becton, at 6'7" 363 lbs, is NOT an obviously innate fit for the Shanahan-based stretch/outside zone running scheme the Jets will be implementing under OC LaFleur. I've heard a Jets radio guy recently suggest he's too massive, at first glance, to regularly "pull" off the stretch responsibilities that lighter, rangier LTs are asked to perform in a San Fran or LA Ram zone blocking scheme. Although, to be fair, his draft profile RAS and early NFL performances suggests Becton is probably, actually athletic enough to transcend his elite size (which alone leads many lazy pundits to declare him a better fit for power/man blocking schemes), and be a beast in the new. movement-based offensive blocking system. So, in short: you're not wrong. Even the rebuilding NY Jets field a leveled-up boss at LT. There is some discussion about his ideal "fit" in the new blocking scheme, but I don't think I'd discount his capacity to dominate in any system. It might not happen immediately and consistently, on the field, of course. Zone schemes require synchronicity.