Billy Claude

How is the bond for attempted murder charges only $10,000? That seems crazy low.

This lends credance to the rumors that he was just waiting to sign so he didn't have to answer questions about why he didn't show up to OTAs.

Is this true? Not whether Allen does or does not have supreme world ethic but whether that Allen is known around the NFL as an incredibly hard worker. Outside of the lock-down year when he was 24/7 with Palmer, I don't remember a large number of stories from the national media about how hard he works. I do remember stories about how competitive he is but that is not necessarily the same as working hard at it. The only stories that I recall (post-lockdown) are the ones where he said he doesn't watch too much film and some talking head comments that he relies too much on his talent and not enough in preparation. Again, I am not questioning whether he works and prepares hard but whether that is his image around the NFL.

FWIW, there were a lot of whispers (though denied by Pickett) that he did not behave professionally when he was benched by the Steelers: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2024/01/02/steelers-kenny-pickett-blasts-rumors-he-refused-to-dress-as-backup/72085492007/

Yeah, I can't believe I missed out on my shot with Hailee either.

The Browns clearly thought Gabriel was going to go early in the 4th round, otherwise they wouldn't have picked him at the end of the third. I doubt they would be willing to risk losing their investment so quickly unless he looks absolutely awful in training camp.

I don't think that they will risk trying to sneak a third round draft choice through waivers. Unless they have a fortuitous IR situation I think they will trade one of the QBs before cutdown for whatever they can get, most likely Pickett. If they lose Gabriel to a waiver claim the Amari Cooper for Dillon Gabriel would be the most lose/lose trade since Sammy Watkins for Justin Gilbert and Johnny Manziel.

What about Dillon Gabriel? The Browns used the 3rd round pick they got from the Bills for him. My guess is that they will try to trade Pickett for whatever they could get for him and go with Flacco, Gabriel, and Sanders. They won't risk putting Gabriel and Sanders through waivers where chances are pretty good someone will pick them up.

There seems to be a disconnect between great hands in college and the NFL. Josh Reed and Zay Jones were also suppose to have great hands coming out of the college but neither displayed that in the pros. I don't remember any great catches by Kincaid either.

Certainly a possibility, the first testimonial on the MyLand website is from a pistachio farmer. Also I found it interesting that Tuel was working with the cannibis industry before joining MyLand: "A graduate of Washington State University, Tuel holds a degree in Communication and a minor in Business Development and is a former player for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. Tuel made his mark on both the cannabis and autonomy-based fertilizer industries before joining MyLand.."

People see the 34-31 score in the 2022 Bills-Dolphins playoff game and think the offense was great and the defense was awful but it was actually the other way around. After the first quarter and a half the offense and special teams did their best to give the game away (two ints, a fumble returned for a TD, and a 50 yard punt return). The Miami scoring drives in that game were 38 yds (FG), 18 yds (FG), 8 yds (FG), 18 yds (TD), fumble return (TD), and 75 yds (TD). The defense also set up two of the Bills' TDs via interceptions (23 yds and 33 yds TD drives).

But that was mainly because Liverpool didn't try the last four games after clinching.

Why have a rule at all about when you can do an offside kick? With the present percentages, no team in the lead will ever do it, and even teams trailing would not do it until late in the 4th quarter.

Almost all teams that are on Hard Knocks was forced to do so. The only clear exception was 2020 when the Rams and Chargers were trying increase their profile due to the move to LA. They were the only teams since 2011 that were on Hard Knocks that were not on the list of teams that could be forced to do so. In previous years, the Bills were not on Hard Knocks because either (1) nobody cared about the Bills (pre-2018) or (2) the Bills could not be forced since they had been in the playoffs either of the previous two seasons. This season the NFL lifted the restriction regarding playoff teams so that 20 teams could be forced to be on the training camp Hard Knocks. This was partly because the expansion of the playoffs meant only three teams in 2024 (Bears, Broncos, Saints) and four in 2023 (Jets, Bears, Saints, Commanders) could be forced. https://www.si.com/nfl/nfl-teams-eligible-for-2025-hard-knocks-new-criteria It looks like the teams were able to convince Goodell to eliminate the off-season Hard Knocks after the embarassment to the Giants'.

It can also be because he wasn't where the QB thought he should be. Bills fans have said the same thing about Gabe Davis and Jet fans (and presumably Brown fans) have said the same thing about Elijah Moore to explain the higher percentage of uncatchable passes to those receivers.

That one was still better than Bills 5 Bengals 0 in 1978. Attendance was listed as 45,000 but seem more like 25,000.

This. What the Bills do is probably not out of line with the rest of the NFL. This is an old article from 2015 and talks about the top 350 players that CBSSports rated as draftable rather than those actually drafted but they found that 149 out of 327 draft prospects were team captains with the remaining 23 from teams that only had game captains. So basically about 4 out of every 9 drafted player is a team captain. So having 3 team captains in a draft is pretty much par for the course.

Maybe, but Moore was 4th in yards per catch among Brown receivers with at least 20 receptions last season (Jeudy 13.7, Tillman 11.7, and Cooper (CLE only) 10.4). He was even behind one of their tight ends, Jordan Atkins at 9.4. If Moore was going deep he wasn't catching very many of them. Plus there's still the issue that he's an entitled primadonna like Diggs without the production to justify it.

61 receptions on 102 targets (59.8% reception rate) and you can't argue the low catch percentage was because he was going deep since he only got 538 yards for 8.8 ypc.

There's always a chance and the Bills don't have a lot of options but my guess is this will end the same way the Claypoole experiment did.

Moore's been a headcase at both New York, Cleveland, and even Ole Miss. It is basically a Chase Claypoole roll of the dice except that Claypoole at least had one productive season in the pros. https://www.si.com/nfl/jets/news/new-details-emerge-elijah-moore-profane-outburst-jets-trade-request-mike-lafleur https://sports.yahoo.com/elijah-moore-sidelined-vs-bengals-135039804.html https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28189413/ole-miss-wr-elijah-moore-apologize-urinating-dog-celebration

I would definitely be in favor if they did this instead of adding an 18th game but definitely not if they do this and add an 18th game.

For what its worth, several Jets have came out and said that Rodgers was a good influence in the locker room though it is interesting that it has been mainly defensive players saying this.

Right, the story is trying make it sound like Jackson's trying to do something ridiculous when it is something pretty standard. But like you said, however, it's more fun to make fun of Jackson.

Lamar Jackson isn't trying to trademark the number 8, Jackson (or more likely his lawyers) was contesting a particular form that Earnhardt was trying to trademark. In fact, Earnhardt said that it was a backup that they submitted in case they couldn't get the form of 8 they wanted. Since Earnhardt got the trademark for the 8 he wanted, he has already withdrawn his second submission. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/dale-earnhardt-jr-explains-why-he-gave-up-trademark-to-lamar-jackson-so-quickly/ar-AA1CCCw2 This stuff happens all the time.