Simon

I've been thinking that knocking Carey Price out of this tournament is going to be a very serious problem.

If he slows down he's not going to get there and he knows it; the timing on the whole play couldn't possibly have been any worse. I don't think it was dirty because he checked him at high speed. But I do think following through with that chicken wing ended up making it dirty.

If he tries to dive at that speed he's going to break his neck on the dasher. A diving play was not an option.

He seems like kind of an ass but he only averages like 20 PiMs a year so I doubt if he has much of a rep as a dirtbag.

He's not going to dive into the endboards at that speed but a poke check might have been possible. But if he misses the poke, it's game over. He was definitely looking to bury him but I thought it was more to prevent the goal than an intent to injure. Although seeing the replay now and watching that arm follow through high makes it look a lot dirtier than it did in real time.

If they deal the pick then does the rule not apply? Or can they not even be eligible to win the lottery again regardless of where they end up picking?

I happened to be watching it live and had a tough time deciding if it was really dirty or not. There's some additional context here that nobody is mentioning and that is that the reason Scheifele was driving that hard was because it was the only way he was going to get there in time to prevent the goal that ended the game. I'm not sure I'm convinced he was headhunting, he was just trying to get back as fast as he possibly could to get to Evans before he tucked in the deciding goal. The only thing I thought was dirty about it was that he got that chicken wing up there and followed through with it. If he had kept that arm tucked in it would have just been him digging hard to get back and catching Evans in a vulnerable position while he was trying to save the game.

Thank you for picking up the the slack for all us cynical dummies with such outstanding intellectual contributions.

Because he's half-stepping in sleep shorts with Mitch Trubisky ? - )

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I'm going to go ahead and lock this before the poster currently known as Teddy gets thrown out of here yet again for his inability to control his creepy Tyrod obsession.

Nobody is going to drop Doug Whaley's name here? If you're making a list of all-pros you can throw Curtis Martin, Shady McCoy and Hugh Green in there too. Before Florida and Texas caught up, lil' ol' Western Pennsylvania was arguably the greatest hotbed of football talent in the US.

I toss them out onto a sidewalk near a store entrance for kids to find.

You know how you throw out pennies because they're useless clutter? A few days ago I tossed a couple nickels out the truck window and wondered if that was going to become a norm going forward.

A huge part of that is because he can actually see the ball. Being able to play with your head up and maintain that peripheral vision in the midst of combat is a vastly underrated ability that doesn't come naturally to a lot of guys and isn't particularly coachable. That combination of vision and length should enable this guy to close fast on the ball and finish a lot of plays that other guys wouldn't. Excellent decision from the Bills braintrust to use the #30 on this kid.

Another QB?

My brain had the same issue at one point

Are you Surtain?

Shut yo' mouth!

I agree they have serious problems up front, but some guys are just born to be Stillers and Harris strikes me as one of them.

It's a perfect fit for them