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In that one year 1967 there was so much output there was stuff that fell between the cracks that in any other year, might have been revelatory...

Got on a max obscurity tangent for 1967...

What a tragedy that Odessey & Oracle didn't get traction until well after the band had broken up. Too much ahead of it's time. Although eventually it did hit. More so than one of the 60's other real innovators - Arthur Lee, who was once described as a southern American black blues singer sounding like a northern English white blues singer trying to sound like a southern American black blues singer...

I watched every snap as well. Safe to say my opinion diverges from PFF on this player, and citing this year's edition of Mancz doesn't move my opinion needle either.

He did enough off the field and laying down preseason tape where the Bills had to carry him on the 53 for the entire season. That's not nothing. He would never clear waivers and Beane knew it.

You guys might be surprised if the center is already here and it's not McGovern. Beane wouldn't have moved off both Bates and Morse if he didn't think so. I'd look for if a project C slides into the 4th or 5th with big athletic upside, like Tortellini or whatever.

The Bills don't have to actually be better to finish better. Win the games you're supposed to.

The tape on Anderson and his RAS were, for me, a huge disconnect. I didn't see an unathletic plug like for instance Tenuda where the low RAS matched the on-field performance. There has to be a reason for why the RAS was what it was, but to me, just not seeing that. He had no issues getting to the second level and finishing with some nasty - there's a lot of Spencer Brown tendencies there. But what Anderson showed that was superior is core strength. He anchors and turns his man using his core. More than a few snaps last preseason he was stymie with his guy on the line while the other 4 were getting pushed back. I was also suprised at how high-level his snaps and shotgun snaps in particular were, everything right into the chest and consistent. It tends to go unnoticed for a center until you stick someone like Van Roten or Winters in there and snaps are sailing and bouncing. The scouting you saw, is what I saw, and all I'm saying is it just doesn't look like the player I see on film. Either he's done a helluva lot work in 2 years to transform himself or there was something off during the gathering of his metrics. I was really intrigued by him last year to the point where I was saying, "Bills better not cut this guy, he's a 10-year NFL player" in one of the preseason GDT's or film breakdowns.

I thought I was alone on that island. What side of the island are you staying on?

So an 8th rounder comp?

You can't stop him, you can't even hope to contain him.

The Bills burned the bridge when they dumped him over that random accusation - but mainly pressure from media that knew even less of the situation than the Bills did, and even the Bills knew it didn't add up.

As honorary chairman of TBD it is my privilege to extend to Beane a laurel, and hardy handshake.

Everyone needs to calm their breasticles and watch some C reps from Anderson.

"Can't" Hacck is the reason Araiza was drafted. Hate it with the intensity of 1,000 suns.

That would be a reason to release him.

So you're cut, Captain. And we all move up in rank. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2aeb094d-b5fd-4ecd-9c8a-420da05b849c

Personally I think it'll be Anderson and I'm good with that. The one position on line that was a bit light in the ass was Morse at C. Anderson fits the physical mode the Bills have been building their line with.

Anderson would be more of a candidate to be the next Teller than Bates.

Everyone is forgetting Anderson’s tape in preseason last year was so good the Bills had to carry him on the roster the entire year since there was no chance he’d clear waivers and Beane knew it. He never got in because everyone stayed freakishly healthy, but he was mauling 1T’s and turning them out of holes. If he shows out in preseason again he’s the C of the future, period.

I gotta give at least rudimentary props to a band Jello Biafra refers to as "the most violent band in the world," even beyond inventing a language to sing in. I'll generally give a platter a few spins to try to digest it, and if it's too dense I quite. Many Magmas are on that inaccessible side of the knife edge but others like Üdü Ẁüdü focused in. Yeah, weird as af band. Gong, I arrived from the other direction, starting with their most fully-formed psychedic opus "You" (got it on 8-track from that one warehouse on Harlem Rd... think it was 10 cents). Being an essential, top-tier prog album of the ages is a thing; Daevid Allen reined in his goofballness and Gilli's cringe to embrace the tourniquet tightness of the band and especially Moerlen and Howlett, not to minimize Hillage and Malherbe with some crushing riff interludes, particularly side 2 (once I got the platter). It was like Hawkwind with something other than 4/4 rhythm and guys who weren't so tripping that they could actually play at the absolute highest level. That album I'll always have fond memories of being out in the fields with the 8-track blasting from the car, climbing trees and picking cherries (no metaphor, that actually happened). Edit: Continuing the story because I'm as drunk as bored. @DrW just skip to 33:20 I came to learn this was third of a trilogy, and the next I was to acquire was the first - Radio Gnome Invisible. I was... taken aback by how absolutely freakin' weird it was, yet somehow captivated. Years went by and I saw at some obscure store (probably Home Of The Hits) Angel's Egg. The missing piece, the holy grail. And in my recollection it did NOT disappoint. It was the most agressive and grabby in my view. Although these guys were still freakin mutants. (is it normal to not blink for that long?) A weird progression to be sure, and with the curse of way too much listened to, the Gong trilogy seems to track most closely (IMO) with the Foxx Ultravox epoch going from most accessible, to most aggressive, to most accomplished.

I do enjoy when the cover version adds something significant to the original.