Billy Claude

I saw Jerry Jones is calling for huge fines and draft choices if the team broke protocol but they would need a player to confirm. I assume any player confirming will be blackballed if he is found out. In any case the coaches that were appealing their fine for not wearing their mask can pretty much forget about winning that appeal.

Wow, the man really sounds like he has lost all hope. It makes me feel sorry for him I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to get fired.

Would definitely be the greatest induction speech ever.

One does wonder if those two cheap shots the Jets took on Allen was the result of some encouragement from Gregg. Its hard to believe that Tom Donohoe was so easily fooled by this tough guy act.

It really doesn't seem that hard to do. I assume nothing will happen until a call like this decides a Super Bowl or at least a Cowboys game.

You could argue that Murray was cheating but Murray weight 205 at his pro day and Russell Wilson weighted 204 at his pro day so if Russell Wilson is not small neither is Kyler Murray.

I don't think there is much evidence for smaller guys being more injury prone. I don't remember Doug Flutie being very injury prone nor is Russell Wilson injury prone.

Hopefully it was all first game jitters and he'll be fine but I don't understand why people are trying to make all these excuses for him. For example -- it was claimed he did fine because he made "6 out of 7" kicks. However, all the kicks he actually made were extra points or essentially old time extra points (17 and 22 yard fg) I don't think that McDermott is panicking but I am pretty sure he is concerned. Otherwise he wouldn't have kicked the last FG just to give Bass some confidence. Hauschka must have looked really bad in camp. I was surprised that they did not decide to at least keep him on the practice squad.

Mostly agree with what you say here but I think Whaley did try to draft and get players to fit Rex's style. The stories at the time indicated Rex had a lot of say in the drafts. That was one of Whaley's issues.

I wonder why they didn't isolate Davis Webb instead. I presume you could learn more at the actual practice and meeting room than as a part of a Zoom call.

That is probably true though it also didn`t help that the gm who drafted him got fired before camp started. It looks like he made the Rams 53 this season.

Not quite as bad as Jachai Polite who was drafted at the top of the 3rd round by the jets last year and released in training camp.

Ok. Makes sense. Thanks.

Just curious, what is the point of releasing names one by one? I've never really understood that -- why do teams not just release all the names at the deadline?

It does seem like a stretch to void a contract due to a one game suspension from two seasons ago. I guess the Jags feel their reputation among the players can't get any worse so why not give it a try.

Jags voided the contract. Fournette has filed a grievance to get the money.

Also if you had to have a mediocre QB as your starter, Tyrod was the perfect QB for the season the Bills broke the drought. The Bills won a lot of close games that season. If Fitz was QB, there would be too many late game turnovers for the Bills to make the playoff that year.

In games decided by 7 or less Tyrod has a better record (9W 10L) as a Bill ithan Fitz (9W 12L). Obviously I understand this is not the best measure of how close the game but it is relatively easy to get. Fitz was more fun to watch because he was always throwing the 50/50 or 40/60 ball. I remember all these passes just going right thru mutliple defenders' hand in his magic half season, especially in the big win against the Pats. I think anybody outside of Bills fans and Buddy Nix could see it was not going to last but it sure was fun. Of course Fitz's sense of humor and underdog story (only in the NFL is being from Harvard a disadvantage) made him a hit with the fans. Tyrod was also fun to watch his first season. The problem was once the league figured out they didn't need to defend the middle of the field it was all over. As a fan, you spend most of the time watching him run around the back field with zero plan and the last two seasons were painful to watch.

It appears Nate Peterman is still king of training camp: https://www.raidersbeat.com/raiders-have-a-quarterback-competition-just-not-the-one-everybody-expected/

Everybody must have different rules. The Jets beat reporters tweets' from yesterday's scrimmage seem have been live and a lot more detailed.

True. Probably not that unusual then but to announce it this early would be.

The Bears have already announced that they intend to keep two kickers. https://www.chicagobears.com/news/bears-intend-to-keep-two-kickers-this-season Of course, I don't think anyone has ever kept two punters.

I don't think the Pegulas are the kind of owners who think they know more than anyone else. However, with the flat management structure they are forced to intervene pretty much any time there is a dispute between the coach and GM. Luckily for the Pegulas, Beane and McDermott are pretty much on the same page. I am sure there are disagreements but nothing that they can't settle among themselves. I think they are trying to reproduce the Bills' situation in the Sabres, essentially allowing Krueger a large say in who is the new GM just like McDermott did. I am sure they hope that the Sabres runs smoothly enough that they can take a step back and not be so involved.

His defenses have been pretty good. Otherwise he would have to be assistant linebacker coach like Rob Ryan.

I don't see Marvin Lewis in McDermott. The Bengals were always regarded as an undisciplined, out of control team who were always willing to take a flyer on players with known major character issues. This does not seem to be the team that McDermott/Beane is building (Antonio Brown not withstanding). Also a lot of the blame for the Bengals not making progress has to go to the front office and ownership who were never willing to spend the money they needed to take the next step. Even then everything may have been different if not for the crucial injury to Carson Palmer.