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Ah, OK I see what you mean. Yes, in chronological age he would normally be a 2nd contract guy. Some people do seem to feel that playing time matters for an RB's "football age" though. And even though Davis spent 5 seasons in college playing for 3 teams, he really didn't get a lot of playing time - 4 games in his 2nd season for Temple, 3 games before injury his 1st season for Vandy. Played all of his 2nd Vandy season and his lone KY season.

I understand how sources work. There's an old movie, "Sweet Liberty" I think, where a film director taps a Revolutionary War Recreation Group (RWRG) as extras to help him film a battle scene. Alan Alda plays the lead if I recall. A plot line is that the director totally revises what actually happened in the battle and tells the RWRG to do it his way. Led by Alda, the RWRG revolt and do exactly what happened. The director smiles at Alda and says "I have film from 20 different angles. I can edit and cut what I filmed to look Any Way I Want" The applicability to a feature article in which the journalist has interviewed 50 anonymous sources may or may not be apparent. It always puzzles me (on this board, and in many avenues) what people like yourself gain from attributing any critique or criticism to "hate" I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but I have zero hate for Dunne. I think he's a very good writer. I think he has a profit motive and somewhat of an agenda.

He was drafted in 2024. He's 26 years old. What's "older" to you? I don't usually think of 2 years in the league as "older" It is a valid point that if he can't get on the field, he can't show what he's capable of He did look as though he'd lost a lot of burst last year.

New England signed him to a 3 year, $63M contract before the 2025 season. He was definitely released (cut)

What did CJ say, since I blinked and missed it?

You're an evil man @PoundingDog you sick bastard. I read your title and said "Dean Marlowe? What the F***!? What are they thinking?" .....as a coach Oh, well, that's OK then Often the players who were not the most physically gifted make the best coaches because they had to use their football smarts and their in-depth understanding make up for their lack of "freakazoid" gifts

Fair enough, although he has learned to throw short passes with more touch and some arc.

This wouldn't apply to visiting stadiums but I seem to recall Jim Kelly talking about deep throws and saying in the Bills stadium, it didn't work to throw balls with a high arc they had to be thrown lower or the wind would take them, even when there wasn't much wind outside the stadium.

Yeah, you're right. But if he'd only had 3 it'd be OK https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202101240gnb.htm (actually I had a problem with the officiating of that game, and said at the time that when the QB throws 3 picks you shouldn't be moving on)

I actually think McDermott game planned very well. He'd get up there during the week and talk about how what Mike McDaniel was doing with the Dolphins offense was "revolutionary" and then he'd go out there and shut it down. The fatal flaw (IMO) was that his 'no superstars' D depended upon everyone knowing and doing their 1/11 - making the right choices as the play developed, giving the right body language signals to the other players, other players reading the body language correctly. I suppose all modern D's have that dependence but many of the top Ds also have a couple "freakazoids" who can singlehandedly wreck the game. McD's D could stand to lose 1 or 2 starters, but when you got down 3 or 4, the wheels fell off.

As far as fun, or inspiring, music I can think of dozens of songs that would be better. But Brannigan's "Gloria" was the song the team chose, and they rode that damned song from the worst record in the league and firing their head coach, all the way to the Stanley Cup. Team likes Mr Brightside: Deal With It, peeps! Exactly. People hear: [Verse] mutter mutter, mutter mutter [Pre-chorus] mutter mutter [Chorus] Destiny is calling me Open up my eager eyes 'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside

I don't think they focus on that aspect of it. I think they focus on the "coming out of my cage" the "take people's clothes off" and the "I want it all" and "destiny is calling me" aspect. Not to mention the upbeat tune and rhythm. I mean, no one has to love the song or think it's a great song, but if the players choose it, it gets played. It's like the 2019 St Louis Blues. They chose "Gloria" as their post-game Win song after a group of players heard it in a bar watching the NFL Eagles-Bears playoff game. It played repeatedly, the bar erupted every time, the players said "OK we're taking that song". It became the team's 'theme song'. 1982 Laura Brannigan, really? It seems to be about a gold digger of questionable mental stability (she hears voices in her head) But it worked for the 2019 Blues so deal. When they won the Stanley cup, you could hear it blaring into the street in our neighborhood.

He told the parole board "“Not a minute goes by where I don’t think of the pain I caused her family, her friends and the Las Vegas community. I’m a religious person and pray for her family daily.” Great, Ruggs, you pray for her family daily. And her family lives without her daily. And they'll never get her back. And her family, as well as the bystander who tried to help, has to live with thought of her and her dog being burned alive. Ruggs has served less than 5 years for killing her. He was working at the Governor's mansion and living in minimum security transitional housing; he got moved to medium security due to "rules violations". I hope he's denied parole.

I took it as, fans will say all kinds of things about a player, that they wouldn't say to a player's face - especially if they were live in pads and able to get hit Seems a bit different than Sammy Watkin comment about little jobs. He's not saying we all have little jobs, he's just saying we're not going to face any accountability for whatever we say. Unlike, say, the story about a young Jerry Sullivan, who was a talented writer at the time, dissing off Darryl Talley as having "finally improved to achieve mediocrity". At the time the Bills played a yearly charity basketball game against the WNY press corps. The story goes that Talley got Kent Hull to pick Sullivan multiple times during the game, throwing a healthy elbow every time.

Fair. I think it's also fair to point out that the top-tier QB spent 1 year on the bench (so SB in year 3). Also fair point that Mahomes was handed the keys to a team that had been 11-5, 12-4, and 10-6 the 3 previous years under a "good not great" QB and had been in the playoffs 4 of the previous 5 years - a successful, winning team that was looking for an upgrade, not a perennially mediocre team with a 17 year playoff drought that was ended the previous year by another team's fluky reception. I still remember some sports pundit (I thought it was Lovie Smith) opining on the air in 2016 or 17: "The Kansas City Chiefs may win a Superbowl, but they're not going to do it with Andy Reid as their coach" Aged poorly.