jkeerie

Arians looked like the old geezer yelling at you to get off his lawn.

Meanwhile, I'm watching the high school game on ESPN 2.

He's looking at past performance. The Pats are 8 and 11 at Miami. (Saw that on the NFL network crawler.) I'd be shocked if they went 8 and 12.

I know you were referring to the TYPE of team, notwithstanding market size. I just don't think the powers that be at the NFL cares about that. You'd like to think they did, but watching how the league has played out, particularly over the past 20 years, I don't see it. I don't think they see things from the fan perspective.

Excellent article. Very well written.

I like your post, but I disagree with the final statement. The NFL is a business. The commissioner's job is at the pleasure of the owners. Larger markets are favored over small for revenue's sake. The most influential owners are in the larger markets (e.g. Kraft, Jones) I think the fans and many of the coaches and players would like to see a team that does things the right way, the way you describe, but not the powers that be in the NFL. If the NFL were smart, they would want to encourage and reward what you describe. Could you imagine, on the 100th anniversary a Green Bay v KC Super Bowl? That would have the fans watching and enjoying, no matter what market you were in...with the exception of New England.

Did that a lot when he kicked for Penn State, especially his first year. That was after the whole Sandusky incident, and they could attract zero players. Fickens was a walk-on. He wasn't too bad by his senior year.

Goes to show how good our pass rush was. Darnold had little time to look beyond 5 yards.

Ancient history. Water under the bridge. I'm concerned with our current team, its management and its players.

The Men in Green feasted on turnovers and the mistakes of the young bucks across the field for two and a half quarters. As the frenzied crowd cheered wildly and loudly, the young bucks suddenly arose and with steeled resolve mounted a challenge. Their young leader strode under center and stared the Men in Green down. Behind five horsemen, he and his brigade marched forward together with one goal. One resolve. To the surprise of the Men in Green and the crowd, soon they were within sight of the game's lead. The young leader turned to his defensemen and said, "Get me the ball one more time and we'll win this game." With grins on their faces, they nodded, "We will." Scant moments later, the young leader was once again on the field of battle. A dart here, a laser there, one after another he fired at will. One final shot and the crowd gasped in disbelief and fell silent. For the young bucks, victory was theirs. As they left the battlefield together, they grinned, confident that no matter the odds, no matter the battle, they would always have a chance at victory.

This is the kind of football I love...two flawed teams, duking it out for 60 minutes. Effort. Drama. Fantastic finish! The robotic excellence and fortune of the Pat's, and the apparent inevitability of another Super Bowl appearance lingers, though, to ruin my bliss.

Poetic justice!

Why would you let anyone purposefully do that to you?????? So much could go wrong. Like with the first gal. Bet she was sore after that.

Looked like something out of the WWF.

Ain't that the truth! I used to like Collinsworth, but the dripping love for the Pats is beyond sickening.

Makes you wonder if there isn't some sort of favoritism or bias going on.

I felt the same way about him. Makes you wonder if the Bills, in their evaluations, saw that and didn't see him as a fit for the team...albeit they didn't have the opportunity to draft him anyway.

Thank you. I forgot about Darryl Johnson. Must have been him since I think Taron was already out of the game by then.

Totally agree!

I thought I saw him in on one play late in the 4th. I know I saw a jersey with Johnson on it.

Hey...I hate Darnold. I think he's going to be a good QB once he gels with Gase's offence. I really hope your defense stays aggressive and especially beats up Tom Brady this year.

I wasn't correcting you for the sake of correcting you. I was just pointing out that Fred simply joined an "old" Bills show. Had you ever watched the previous one? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on old versus new.

This isn't a new show. Just a new cast. It used to have Mike Catalano as the host with Ruben Brown as the player analyst. They replaced both with Maddy Glab and Fred Jackson respectively. After just one viewing, I liked it better with Catalano and Ruben, but we'll see if the new team gels.

He didn't have to. As a scoring play it was automatically reviewed.

Got it.