Buffalo Junction

It’s basically the same deal as the 09’ draft. They hit on Eric Wood, Byrd, and Levitre. Plus they nabbed Garrison Sanborn as a UDFA…. But…. Everyone will always remember selecting Maybin instead of Orakpo. However, if they had drafted Orakpo everyone would have been pissed they drafted Levitre instead of Shady McCoy. 🤷‍♂️

The best backup QBs are usually on bad teams. They usually have two marginal starters during it out for the starting position or a top rookie QB prospect and an aging vet or gap starter. With JA17 clearly entrenched as the franchise $55MM man this team doesn’t have the opportunities or the money to attract one of those guys. As a result Trubisky is essentially as good as it gets unless they hit on a draft and develop player like Matt Hasselbeck, Kirk Cousins, etc.

Yup. I roll a smoker year round, so all that’ll change is the day I start drinking at 6am. 😂

It still matters though. You get recognition from certain individuals, they get promoted and/ switch employers, then offer you higher pay, promotion, etc to move up with them. It’s earned nepotism, but still a result of who you know.

They’ve done this before…. Hire a former O or D coordinator to work with the opposing side and help prep the unit while assisting with the scout team they’re going against. It’s not the worst idea if ownership has the cash. Plus, LaFluer gives buddies - like Salah - soft landings.

People seem to forget that he got paid for a reason. I’m happy to hear that getting paid didn’t result in him slacking off, and he showed up ready to ball.

Plenty of options. Even internet security or VPN services…. Try to hack JA17’s computer and “Ger Dion’d”

And to top that off he’s been rather media savvy doing interviews on national shows, etc. As far as offensive linemen go Dawkins is pretty recognizable to all NFL fans. That said, real “superstars” tend to be known to people who aren’t fans of their particular sport. If we’re being honest - by that scale - the most well known name on this bills roster aside from Josh Allen is Damar Hamlin. There just aren’t many NFL players that the average American could pick out in a crowd. You generally need to be in a movie, national ad campaign, or get national news coverage.

They also need one to emerge on the defensive side of the ball. If we’re really lucky Bosa & Milano roll into the playoffs healthy, and one of these rookies proves to be a big game big moment guy.

That’s why youth matters along with scheme, etc. The Eagles were exceptionally lucky with injuries last year, and that’s often a common trait with SB participants.

I doubt they saw TJ Watt as a good fit for their scheme when he was coming out. It’s a big reason why teams pass on certain guysIn hindsight that was a bad choice, but hindsight is what allows us to know that Watt would have a HOF level career while White would have his career derailed from injuries. As a Bills fan I’m not mad at the choice they made. They drafted an all pro corner who got injured instead of a pass rusher who may not have fit the scheme… Now if I was a Packers fan… I’d be livid, especially since Watt went to UW, similar scheme to Pittsburgh and they traded the pick right before to Cleveland and drafted Kevin King.

Better than my liver on game days.

No. I didn’t play football into my late 20’s. Now, if you’d asked if I’d competed in a judo tournament two weeks out from a soft tissue injury to my back the answer would have been yes. To get back to my initial point… All combat sports - of which football is one - damage the body over time. Everyone’s physiology is unique, but there comes a point when the traumas don’t heal as fast, and they start stacking up. For most people that happens around thirty; sometimes it’s 28, and sometimes it’s 34, but it happens to us all. It’s definitely not a straight comparison. In my case it was a necessity, and I had the best possible outcome…. Pain free for about a decade afterwards, no complications, and to this day that injury just throbs when the weather shifts. That’s the exception and not the rule though.

When I was young and dumb I went full Gowron…. Never go full Gowron.

Not with the same level athletes, but kind of. I’ve spent two multi-month stints in ICU from car accidents, and spent 15 years doing judo around that and a blue collar job. I also played football until the first car crash. I have pins, plates, and screws in several limbs/joints along with having two vertebrae fused. I recovered well for a long time. However, around 32 the ability to recover from injuries was just too much, and I switched everything up…. I’m a tai chi in the park guy now. The injuries add up over time like dividends, and we all have a point where our ability to recover from repetitive trauma declines. Rasul likely hit that point.