Sierra Foothills

Yup. He reduced the number of unnecessary hits and yet still put himself in harm's way. True... if it's the playoffs I give him more latitude to carry the ball but not in week 2. Cook actually started playing better (more physically) AFTER Murray and Harris started getting carries. It seemed that the competition for touches lit a bit of a fire under him.

Who asked you to feel bad for him? And your insistence in mentioning his wealth shows that you're missing the point. You know, people want to bash (or ignore) Tim Graham but I'm pretty sure he's not a liar and if other former members of the organization have mentioned shoddy treatment it's probably true. So, you know for a fact that he didn't talk to anyone from the Bills? Do you also know if there was someone assigned to his suite? If not there should have been. If so shouldn't they have been asking him how everything was? When he decided to leave early do you think anyone asked if there was anything wrong? See you don't know what happened but you choose to cast aspersions on Spikes. By the way, accommoded is an interesting Freudian slip. The word is accommodations. Here are two things that haven't yet been mentioned in this thread: 1) Look carefully at the picture of Spikes in the "suite." He couldn't possibly sit any lower or closer to the glass than he was shown. It doesn't even look like a comfortable seat he's sitting in. He's trying to maximize what he can see from this... "suite." He's sitting their trying to minimize the obstruction. 2) Why is this "suite" available to the Bills for their use? Is it possibly because NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER SPEND A PENNY ON IT? Thank you. Yes, the disrespect and carelessness is very minor league. I'll forever be grateful to the Pegulas for being the White Knights that kept this team in Buffalo but the evidence is pretty overwhelming that in the Pegula's case, having money and having class are mutually exclusive. They've literally done one thing right (actually two) since taking over the Bills and Sabres... hiring Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane. Nice crusade... the "suite" was free so he shouldn't complain. I've worked in a few different industries but never in one where you place a guest of honor in bush league accommodations. Did they put him up at the Motel 6? Well it was free so he shouldn't complain. Got it.

Bernard. 🙂 Yeah, I believe the word I used was "unconcerned." I'm still unconcerned and hoping to stay that way.

“That means in the upper quartile of winners were in the top quartile of that upper quartile.” Jim Irsay

Same 4 players as last week.

Jimmy? Is that you?

The most recent example is new Ravens OC Todd Monken not wanting Lamar Jackson to wear a wristband this year.

The most impressive thing to me about Dalton Kincaid are his football instincts. He has great awareness of everything that's going on around him and he always seems to make great decisions, whether instinctively or thoughtfully... when to fight for more yardage, when to go down, when to accelerate out of the catch, when to stop on the catch, when to turn upfield, when to flatten his path, when to look for the ball, his ability to track the ball... His measurables are very good and he's an excellent athlete but the thing that separates him from comparable athletes are his football instincts.

Was Linda Holliday involved in this situation? Yep. Another epically inaccurate take by a third string troll.

Jack Campbell didn't start and didn't appear until the second half. He then made a real nice pass defensed iin a zone drop and played maybe one more series and that was it. I'd have liked to see a bit more of him.

The Bills have 2 no-nonsense running backs now that can play that type of game. Chandler Jones is saying he doesn't want to play for the Raiders ever again.

The NBC crew didn't bring it up until the 2nd half... it had been going on all game. Where was McCauley until just now?

Not crazy about the Detroit 3rd down play calling.

He hasn't been on the field yet... unless you count the sidelines.

He reminds me a bit of Antoine Winfield... sturdy cornerback.

At this rate he's gonna come out of the tunnel for the 2nd half in uniform.

Another good looking drive!

Mark Brunnell in '96 possibly

No team has spent more draft capital on OL than the Dallas Cowboys.

I just checked the Lions website... Jack Campbell is 2nd string.

At least Jack Campbell won't have to worry about Travis Kelce tonight. It certainly improves his chances of looking good tonight. But I still can't believe he wasn't mentioned until the end of page 5.

I'm actually shocked... 5 pages in the context of a raging debate about the Bills MLB situation... and not a single mention of Detroit's 1st round pick (18th overall) Jack Campbell.

Just for a bit more perspective, the average American male in his 20s weighs 200 pounds. Let's say for the sake of discussion that Dion's "natural football weight" is 330 pounds. Him dropping from 370 to 330 pounds is roughly equivalent to one of us bloating up to 225 pounds and dropping to 200 pounds. Inexact science I know but we're not talking about an average-sized guy here.

From the piece: "Still, Dawkins can’t block out all the heat he sees the team taking when the season ends in a disappointing way. “We’re human man,” he said. “Of course, you hear it. Everybody sucks. We need a whole new team. I’m a respectful guy. Some people are full of it. We put our all in this. I’m starving in the offseason for myself and for y’all. So the fact you’ve got anything negative to say about anybody is horrible. But it’s cool. I’m going to just do better.” Also some interesting testimony: "He is nimble and powerful. Every once in awhile, he can be seen doing a cartwheel at practice, definitely an uncommon sight for a 330-pounder. “Everybody knows he’s a freak athlete,” said Bills right tackle Spencer Brown. “It’s hard to explain how athletic he is. I’ve never seen such a big man be able to move and be explosive and fast-twitch as he is. ... He will stand on his head before practice. I’m like, I don’t know how much you weigh, dude, but that’s a big body doing that.”

Made me think of Ted the Lorax. Wonder what he's up to these days. The Tre White who was an All-American and 1st Team All-SEC in college? The first round draft pick who is a 2-time All Pro and 2-time Pro Bowler? That Tre White? Though both played on special teams I thought Dodson was a "core four" special teamer whereas Klein was not. If I'm right this would probably explain why Dodson is still with us and Klein is not. Alex Van Pelt went about 220 so things haven't changed too much in that regard.