Old Coot

I agree. Bruce was great -- better than great -- but someone will come along and break his record. Some records that seemed unbreakable at the time: Unitas' record of passing for a TD in 47 straight games set in 1956-60 broken by Brees 50 years later and then by Brady. OJ's season russing yardage of 2003 yards set in 1973 and broken by Dickerson in 1984 (OJ is now 8th on the list but that's because there are 2-3 more games in a season). Brady's career passing mark of 89,214 yards broken by Josh Allen in 2043. The quick passing game existed when Bruce played -- the West Coast offense; the Run and Shoot.

This. Belichick would have the team practice hard counts every day until the Offside stopped.

Then the Del Vikings will sign him.

I think this was a simple disagreement over the utility of foreign exchange arbitrage as a hedging strategy.

I agree with this but how do we not have an adequate replacement for MLB. Some of the players are good against runs but not against the pass. Some are decent against the pass but not so good on runs. You'd think that Beane & McD would have had better proscpects to replace Edmunds.

Beanes not an unintelligent guy so how does he decide to go into this year without a good replacement for Edmunds? Don't get me wrong, Edmunds was not perfect but he was capable of occupying a good deal of space in the center of the field. We have no one who is close to being able to do waht Edmunds did in pass defense and that will significantly affect how the back 7 will play. So how does Beane get us into this mess at MLB?

Pass protection for a RB is a learned skill. It will take some time before he becomes proficient.

They miss Edmunds. There was a lot of gree grass over the middle of the field.

maybe but you can't see that from the 62 yd TD run. Poyer is pursuing laterally and he hesitates for a moment and that enables the RB to get by him on the outside. If he doesn't hesitate and contunues laterally the RB cuts back and takes it to the house behind Poyer.

That's Poyer; he doesn't giv up. He goes 100% on every play. Poyer may have lost a step but remember he's a safety and they don't have the speed of a DB.

Reminds me of when helmets and goalie masks became required equipment. Gump Worsley was the last NHL goalie to play mask-less (and helment-less) in 1974. Craig MacTavish was the last NHL player to play without a helmet. He retired in 1997.

I'll withhold judgment until I hear the Tuohys side of the story

At one time Frank Reich held the records for the greatest comebacks in both NCAA football and the NFL.

I'll bet the Germans even have a word for this: Backpfeifengesicht

They'll do an MRI to assess the problem. If its significant and requires surgery he's out for the year and maybe permanently. Hopefully it's not.

Jack Kemp Buffalo's QB through most of the 60s broke his hand and had the doc set it in the passing position.

This. Say what you will about Edmunds, he had the ability to clog up the middle on pass plays. Whoever plays MLB this year won't have that ability so the entire defense will need to adjust -- maybe with the nickle DB filling the hole on occasion & maybe one of the safeties rotating down to fill but that leaves a single high safety, which is dangerous to play in this league. Likely our D won't be as good as last year so the O will need to pick up the slack.

Here's hoping Kim gets off IR and returns to the active roster soon.

Have you considered having the old film converted to video? That old film stock doesn't last and when its gone, it's gone. Also you could post the videos to Youtube for all to see. I attended school with Lou Tomasetti's daughter back in the day.

Professional football was not the major sport it is today in 1949. Baseball was. In fact college football was much bigger than professional -- that's why professional football is played on Sunday -- it couldn't compete with Saturday college ball.

The last of the two-way (60 minute) men was I think Chuck Bednarik who played center & linebacker for the Eagles in the late 50s and early 60s. He was known as "Concrete Charlie" not for his stamina but for his hard hitting. As one player put it getting hit by Bednarik was like getting hit with a sack of concrete. The two way player was why the offensive tackle is called a "tackle". He doesn't tackle anyone (legally, that is). The defensice tackle was also the offensive tackle. Why was the defensive tackle called a "tackle"? Because defenses would clog up the middle so that off-tackle plays were quite common and the man playing the DT position made most of the tackles.

Apparently, he was also one of their linebackers... In those days the players played both offense and defense.

Buffalo's "other" championship game: https://goldenrankings.com/AAFCchampionshipGame1948.htm

I agree with you. The Patriot Way included focussed attention to detail as well as fundamentals, more so than other teams. It wasn't all Brady. I remember the Patriots' D making open field tackles when our guys would wiff on similar tackles and there D players always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. It was the Patriots, I think, who first practiced tackling and punching the ball out.

The white helmet recalls the Browns' Glory Years, The sported an all-white helmet when they dominated the old All-America Football League and then the NFL in the early 1950s.