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    If you had the chance to work for the Bills, would you choose to be a player, coach or front office?

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    I voted Front Office but I'd really liked to have been a player but then I don't want to be a physical wreck by age 40.

     

    Those guys really do sacrifice their bodies. Remember Eral Campbell, the Oilers' monster running back? He ran over not around people.

     

    I don't think he was ever seriously injured in his playing days but by age 45 he was a physical wreck. He uses a wheelchair now.

     

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    Roman Gabriel R.I.P.

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    Thanks for the Year of the Rams video. It brings back memories. I was a Colts fan (Baltimore, that is) and those Colts-Rams games were titanic.

     

    The Rams had the best D line in the league: The "Fearsome Foursome": Roger Brown, Lamar Lundy, Merlin Olsen (HOF), and Deacon Jones (HOF).

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    Could Elam be packaged in a trade up?

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    On 4/11/2024 at 4:55 AM, Ayjent said:

    It was all there if you watched the games. He played well against a couple of good WRs and teams fell in love with what he could be instead of what he was.  Terrible tackler, inconsistent in coverage, capable of getting completely lost in scheme.  I thought he was being overvalued a lot in pre draft and was absolutely shocked when Bills took him. I watch all UF games and I wasn’t a fan of his game.  I had hope that maybe it was just Mullen’s terrible staff that was the issue and talked myself into the pick trusting Beane.  He played decent in yr 1 at times, but the chance he develops is slim at this point.  Maybe it was hubris with the Bills staff and FO.  There just isn’t much of a place for him other than outside CB and the Bills don’t trust him there. 

    This makes it even more puzzling as to why the Bills would make him a first round draft pick. I admit that I'm a McDermott homie but I'll bet Beane would not have drafted him in the 1st without strong McD support.

    OJ Simpson dead at 76

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    A hell of a running back but a deeply flawed human being.

     

    He's number 8 on the list of most rushing yards in a season but all the guys above him did it in 16 games. He ran for 2003 yards in 14 games.

     

    For comparison, Eric Dickerson holds the rushing title at 2105 yards in 16 games. That's an average of about 130 yards per game. Very good but OJ's average was 143 yards per game. And he did it on a mediocre team when the D knew they'd hand the ball to him.

     

    Props to his O line -- the Electric Company -- because they would turn on the Juice:

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Company_(football)

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    Could Elam be packaged in a trade up?

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    The guy does well in straight man coverage but he screws up in zone and when he has to make adjustments.

     

    Maybe he'll eventually learn but at this point he'd only have value to a team that plays straight man as a base D.

     

    This is the NFL so I doubt there are any teams that do that.

     

    He wasn't a first round pick. What mystifies me is why his shortcomings weren't apparent from film or scouting.  Any thoughts?

     

     

    Per NFL Rumors, Wilks fired

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    Wilks had KC's number in the first half: KC scored zero points.

     

    Maybe the firing is related to the fact that Wilks' called D on the last play did not account for KC's Corndog / Tom & Jerry play. KC had shown thta play earlier in the game & the 49ers defensed it well.

    KC's final TD Play: Tom and Jerry

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    The thing that makes the back and forth motion effective is that the motion man is ofren "hidden" behind the bunch or in the case of Shakir he's hidden behind Josh when he makes his turn so the man cover loses Shakir in the crowd. That and the bunch receivers are in a position to get in the way of the man or zone cover man.

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    KC's final TD Play: Tom and Jerry

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    Interesting analysis of the play in which KC scored its winning TD.

     

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/anatomy-of-a-play-how-the-chiefs-won-super-bowl-lviii-with-tom-and-jerry/ar-BB1iampP

     

    The play originally was called "Corndog" and later "Tom & Jerry" KC scored 2 TDs in a previous Super Bowl win and the winning TD on Sunday with the play concept.

     

    If you look at the links to the three plays in the above link here's what you see:

     

    The WR who eventually gets the ball starts from the outside of a bunch. Here moves laterally to ward the center of the formation for about three steps and then does a quick 180 degree turn and moves laterally in the opposite direction to until he gets to the bunch at which point the ball is hiked. Kelsey (who is in the bunch) takes his man inside or up into the end zone. The man in motion runs to the flat and is wide open.

     

    An excellent example of Reid scheming a guy open.

     

    This is an interesting concept and one that the Bills should incorporate in their Red Zone offense.

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