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I always quote the Al with his thoughts on the trade: ”We don’t throw long because we got Lamonica, we got Lamonica because we throw long.”

The very first throw that gave me a “sit up and notice” on what was to come was a deep over to McCloud that Allen stepped into, and put right past a LB’s ear hole before he could react and absolutely pasted itself into Ray-Ray’s center mass. Just ridiculous.

i got a full five one-thousand on that one.

As with every Bills loss in 2021 save the Colts game, the Bills did only what they needed to do to lose the game, no more and no less. We used to call this being Billsy, and it surprised me as usually that reflects most on coaching and McD was the antithesis of Billsy in his first-year run to the playoffs with Tie Rod.

Who was in that GDT?

It’s not just the Bills, many teams fans have the Final Countdown stuck in their heads. For example, here is what Jets fans are hearing: Edit: @Draconator beats me to it.

Is there a place for him? Is he enough better than Kumerow at receiver than Kumerow is better at special teams, to justify that? He doesn’t beat out: Diggs, Davis, McKenzie, Shakir, probably Crowder. Can he make it as 7 now that Stevenson is down?

He’d be the most apply named UFA, where Reggie Corner would be the most aptly named draft pick.

Oh THAT friggin' guy. Was it Chris Villarial? There was another retread from Chicago that was even less capable of blocking anyone that came later, that became a measuring stick for incapable guard play: the infamous Vlad Ducasse. At least he was FA and they didn't spend a high pick on him, like they did on Kouandjio. Speaking of other flameouts at guard... Derrick Dockery. Ugh.

He was one of those "measurables" types like Trey Junkin, who was a LB with great speed and no instincts who had a friggin' 20!!! year career somehow after hooking on elsewhere and getting a position change to TE. You gotta wonder how the current regime is (mostly) succeeding with those types of players where they previously failed. Were the coaches bad? Were the players not committed, or just dummies? Anyway, a couple more of those types: "Jumping" John Wendling, a DB whose gimmick was leaping over the OL to block kicks. (Same guy? this is a slightly bigger leap) "Planet Theory" (i.e. only a few guys on the planet can do stuff like this) Mike Jasper who never even had a year to make us wonder about anything except why isn't he in the WWF. Perry Tuttle, great speed, great routes, waffle irons for hands. First rounder who flamed out once teams figured that it didn't matter if you threw it to him, he wasn't catching it. Real-life Featherstone, ever more so than Bucky Brooks.

The original Miller #40, Terry, had > 1000 scrimmage yards as a rookie and never got close to that again. The best example I can think of is Brandon Spoon, made a bunch of impact plays as a rookie LB. Then started tearing muscles and washed out of the league.

Yeah the magic of Kay Stephenson to lose pretty much everything from this point forward. There was fun stuff this game tho: The original FWB Mike Moseley Steve Freeman with the Hyde Joe Cribbs making Bob Crable look like a traffic cone Eugene Marve filling holes Ferguson did throw a pretty ball The guy picked two spots ahead of Jim Kelly (Tony Hunter)

Trading up or back to align your draft value chart to the position you are looking to draft is a much more viable strategy than selecting the next guy on your position list when the guy you really wanted gets snagged before your pick. See: Travaris Tillman after Carolina nabbed Deon Grant. I think Belichick also did it once to the prior FO but I forget the player.

Burroughs career was cut short (I think still on his rookie deal) with a neck injury that revealed cervical stenosis after he had some temporary paralysis on a hit… If that had happened to Rice, people probably wouldn’t remember him as the goat either.

Robb Riddick 9th Roland Hooks 10th Bob Chandler 7th Daryle Lamonica 24th !!! On trade charts of the day a 24th round pick was probably worth somewhere around a Mallo Cup nickel, a page of S&H green stamps, or a Canadian Tire dollar.

Wasn’t Warfield a running back that got converted to WR in the pros?

How is that his take, it’s Romo’s take. I watched more than once and recall Romo saying that.

She might have gotten pregnant by watching it. Hint: not Kiko’s.

So the league is imposing the Sloter rule here, right?

Deadling? Sounds seriously serious.

To me, it’s when McD can form a plan and implement it that he is superior. But in real-time, game situations and quickly processing and making the correct decisions, he’s been less effective. Think first/second year Josh. Some of this is tactical - which goal to defend in a gale shouldn’t be rocket science. Some of it is when he’s flailing like during 13 seconds. His timeouts gave KC the chance to examine the D and come up with two perfect calls. I LOATHE timeouts on D unless there’s a specific reason like 10 guys out there or saving the clock. Chaos and compressed situations intrinsically favor defenses. Deny the offense time to think about what and how to execute, the lack of time and decision space is an advantage to defense. I don’t know if McDermott will ever grasp that nuance, his effectiveness as a control freak reinforces him to eschew embracing chaos as an ally - he wants to control the situation. Maybe as he builds experience he can summon prior situation solutions more quickly than having to spend time thinking about it, or just trusting your D to execute based on the offensive formation rather than calling them back to coach them. I think it’s more a psychological handicap to him as a game manager that I’d be surprised if he overcomes. Maybe that’s reading too much it but it’s my current hot take.

Not unexpected to see Cook getting run with the wideouts, that was the scoop on him, his routes and hands catching away from his frame are very translatable. Just occurred to be watching Shakir that he kind of reminds me of Josh Reed, hopefully without the hand yips.

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