Long Suffering Fan

I'm with Gunner on this. As much as I love draft picks, a 5th or a 6th? I would much rather have Cook for another year. As much as some people pooh, pooh culture, this might be a spot where it helps. The family culture and the bond at least *seems* so strong on this team that it is hard to believe that this will get that ugly. Anything can happen, but I would expect that he will be back and play out the year. Meanwhile, I have no hard feelings towards Cook that is trying to use what leverage he has in order to get paid.

I'm largely in agreement with this. I might go farther. I was in the same spot as Jeremy when they drafted Allen. I believed the national articles about him. I can't be too critical of Jeremy for it because I did the same thing. The hosts end up talking sports for 20 hours of programming each week...even during the off season. Any host is going to make some bad calls. That is not unique to our market. National guys are often brutally wrong. But Brown and Tasker are homers! Sure, but I can't criticize them for being homers and then criticize the afternoon show for their everybody snacks snark. The fact is that WGR neither sucks nor is awesome. Personal taste will mean that I might like some people more than others, but Pete nailed it - it is still like oxygen.

It was a tough catch because Kincaid didn't adjust well to the ball in the air. His movement to adjust is so last second that it ramped up the degree of difficulty. It is an underrated skill. I hate to say it, but it is one of the reasons tyreek hill is so good downfield.

Something similar happened to his dad. Back in the day, I remember saying that Deon was the 2nd most exciting rookie named Sanders. Barry was the most exciting.

No! It's too perilous.

I love the pacing. I had a hard time keeping up with her quips. 👍

I'm putting another vote in for both Ty and McGovern. I don't watch/understand line play enough to diagram the difference, but his move to center contributed to the line getting much better. Ty....he is just amazing at what he does. He is a back up running back, might be the fastest guy on the team, and might have the best hands on the team. Fun Fact: The Buffalo Bills website still lists Amari Cooper as second string behind Mack Hollins. Not sure what is going on there.

At this point, I consider him a powerplay specialist. Imagine a forward that only played 5-6 minutes a night, but was on the first line powerplay unit. His total stat numbers will never compare to your best first liners. He is not out there enough so the total stats will look bad and the contract will look bad, but a guy that scores on the powerplay can win you a playoff series. If we win the Superbowl and Von has 3 sacks and a bunch of pressures in the playoffs while playing 15 snaps a game...he'll be a great signing.

The "S" in SEIZE stands for Seize....

I remember it as a bit of a fluke. A reporter was giving a report and there was practice going on in the background. Apparently the Bills ran a shuttle run play and they had never done that all year. Johnson saw it and prepared his defense for it. If I remember right, that was the Thurman fumble play, but to connect the fumble to that preparation seems like a stretch.

Agreed. OP, think of a saint bernard. What position would that dog play? That is a LB dog, for sure. Of course, now maybe you'll get saint and Christian mixed up. 😀 I'm with you OP. Although better than the alternative, its terrible getting old. Youth is wasted on the young.

This. Their philosophy is the right one, but you need to counter punch against those that are running so well that it is almost like passing. Instead they seem to stubbornly stick to what is not working in those situations. It was like the NE wind game that we lost where it was obvious that NE did not want to throw.

Since I'm about a decade younger than you, there is something from the first video that took me by surprise: "The sheer speed of (Merlin) Olson" is not a sentence that I ever imagined being spoken. I guess we all had glory days.

Shaw has a good point in that stats can be deceiving and manufactured by situation, but I am with Royale and eball for two reasons: 1. His stats are stupid high. The comparison to Edelman and Welker's stats reveal that. Some of his stats might be manufactured by usage, but it is hard to explain all of it considering how high they are. 2. He passes the eye test. Who doesn't like watching him with the ball? He is exciting in a way that few Bills receivers ever have been.

I'm not watching tape on him, but he was once awesome. At this point, I want him only if Beane wants him. If we get him, it will signal to me that Beane and McD see that there is something still there that could help us. I absolutely will not question them if they let him pass.