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Not too sure a GM who took a team's offense from 10th in scoring to 30th in scoring should really be taking shots at another GM, whether directly or indirectly.

And it was his idea to trade Glenn? and demand RI to take a pay cut? and not bring in anyone but below average players through FA'cy? and wait until the end of the 5th round to draft anyone? Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Castillo and I'm not saying he wasn't part of the problem, but to try and use him as the root of the problems for the OL is...just plain incorrect. Lack of talent was by far the biggest problem on the OL and a new OL coach isn't going to change that. I'll go back to the paraphrased words of Mouse McNally, possibly the best OL coach of his era, back in 2006. "You know, I'm not a magician, most of what I do is based on the talent I'm given." If people think this is going to be simple "addition by subtraction"...well, the biggest addition will be talent influx. But based on 2 years...who they've gotten rid of, who they brought in, the priorities in drafting, the amount spent and the end result, their track record isn't good. Its actually very bad. So, I'm not as excited as others about firing an Oline coach. Not when the bigger problem still exists. I know, I know, the tired phrase, "let's see what happens" comes in right about this time. Well, I really don't have a choice but to see what happens. But in the end, its not for me to wait and see, its really up to them to improve the product.

Well, it was. The sad thing was, they inherited the best running game in the NFL. They led the league in yards, YPC, TD's and blew nearly every other team away in runs of 20+ yards and yards before contact (especially from the left hand side). In 2017, they decided to change the playbook, in one of the more baffling decisions I've seen. Then they decided to go cheap, getting rid of Glenn and his contract, and having Incognito take less. It was then the lowest paid Oline in the league..and it showed. I really think they believed, "we can just hand off to Shady and it will work". Well it doesn't. I can only hope..that like their decision to eliminate speed from the WR corps, they've figured out the error of their ways. Its only a hope..and not really based on anything.

Oh, they most certainly did when Dennison took the best run blocking team in the NFL and decided to run the stretch play 80% of the time. I don't mind that he's fired...Baltimore seemed happy to rid themselves of him. I just don't want Beane saying something like "let's see how these guys do with a different coach" or something as ridiculous. Its a bad thing that either Mcdermott or Beane are in charge of finding 4 new OL. better?

He was part of the problem, but the far larger problem was the lack of talent. Guys like Vlad, Newhouse and Bodine were bad before they ever got here. That's on McBeane.

If it instills the right attitude in the OL, I'll risk the penalty. A long time ago, in 1980, Conrad Dobler aka the Dirtiest Man in Football (he really wasn't) came to Buffalo. They still had Reggie McKenzie at the time, and a couple of talented young tackles in Ken Jones and Joe Devlin. People talked about the "dirtiest player" persona, but he brought attitude. He let the other linemen know that they were there to protect Fergy and they were going to do so at all costs. And he meant...at all costs. They gave up 16 sacks that year and led the NFL in 3rd down percentage. If occasionally going after a guy who cheap shots his QB draws a penalty, I can live with that, if it kindles the attitude.

Nah, you get 2 star linemen by saying "we can get them in later rounds". I'd be more for a Greedy Williams if someone could show where all these first round Db's have gotten us in past 20 years (almost).

Arrested yesterday, domestic battery, suspended from the team (for now). http://www2.ljworld.com/news/public-safety/2018/dec/07/ku-football-player-pooka-williams-arrested-on-suspicion-of-domestic-battery/

I have a Peter Griffin thermostat. Its a nightly occurence...my wife turns it up before bed, I turn it back down 5 minutes later.

A short list of those not already mentioned... -Married With Children, "Its a Bundyful Life" with Sam Kinison playing Clarence the Angel. -Pee Wee's Christmas Special..Or How Many B-list celebrities can you put in a one hour show? For the serious Xmas movies...Joyeux Noel, based (loosely) on the Christmas Truce of 1914. And one I didn't know existed until last night... The Addams Family Christmas. I found it on the Roku Channel. ***************SPOILER ALERT********************************** Seeing Lurch AND Cousin Itt as Santa is something that must be seen.

A few might still not know the story of the turnaround he performed at Kansas State. It bears repeating. When he took the job in 1989, SI published an article referring to it as "Futility U". It was branded the worst DI football program in college history. https://www.si.com/vault/1989/09/04/120464/futility-u-kansas-state-winless-since-1986-has-one-claim-to-fame-it-is-americas-most-hapless-team When he took over, they had lost 27 straight games. They had a whopping 4 winning seasons in over 40 years. He was their 4th coach in 5 years. And the 27 game win streak was worse than it sounds. They'd lose regularly by 50 to Oklahoma and Nebraska, and even then, those teams would put their underclassmen in by the 3rd Q. He had a good tenure as an OC at Iowa and to this day, taking the Kansas State job looks foolish. His slogan for the turnaround was a pretty unimaginative "Why not Us?" Recruiting in Kansas or anywhere else was pretty impossible. As Barry Switzer once said, "My job's easy, I recruit for Oklahoma. We won a national championship. He has to recruit for Kansas State. How do you get kids to want to play there?". Since getting kids out of high school was nearly impossible, he pioneered scouring JUCO rosters. Within 3 years, they not only started winning games, but had their 1st winning record in ...forever. Within another 2 years, he began a streak of 11 straight bowl games. -His coaching tree has produced several who went on to win the Frank Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year and a few National Coach of the year awards. -Though the read option is often credited to Urban Meyer, he actually learned it from Snyder at a coaching clinic in the 1990s. -His job at Kansas State is generally regarded as the greatest turnaround in CFB history. -He might be the only person who has both a stadium and highway named after him while still alive.

If he's faster, it isn't by much. At the combine, Edmunds ran a 4.5 as compared to LVE's 4.6 That was one of the things that was the buzz of the combine, how well he was testing. 40" vertical 10' broad jump. 4.0 shuttle sub 7 second cone drill Those numbers are very good for any LB and are outstanding for an 6'5" 250+lb linebacker. The only thing that hurt him, if it did, was the rumor that several teams failed him medically. The rumor was denied. I think both have tremendous upside, LVE just might be getting to his quicker.

I got what I wanted in the 1st 4 rounds. Banogu is worth a shot at the bottom of the 4th. 8: R1P8 OT JONAH WILLIAMS ALABAMA 40: R2P8 WR KELVIN HARMON NC STATE 71: R3P7 WR DEEBO SAMUEL SOUTH CAROLINA 110: R4P8 G BOBBY EVANS OKLAHOMA 133: R4P31 EDGE BEN BANOGU TEXAS CHRISTIAN 147: R5P8 DL DONTAVIUS RUSSELL AUBURN 168: R5P29 TE MITCHELL WILCOX SOUTH FLORIDA 183: R6P8 RB TRAVIS HOMER MIAMI (FL) 224: R7P8 S JORDAN FULLER OHIO ST 239: R7P23 C SEAN KREPSZ NEVADA

Yeah, I knew about him, but that's only because I live in Jayhawk country. He was their big signing last year. The story was that LSU made a big recruiting push for him after his high school playoffs, but he said he'd already verbally committed to Kansas. I like that. He's lived up to the preseason hype he got here. PS. He's missing all of the toes of his right foot. Don't ask me how he runs like that.

Best Concert - Large Venue - The Who, Rich Stadium 1982. The sound was great and it was the concert where it started raining during Love Reign O'er Me. -Small Venue - George Thorogood, a small bar in Albany in the '80s. Not for everyone, but the energy was incredible. -Mid Venue - BB King, early 2000's. Seats about 10 rows from the stage. No dancing, no lasers, no smoke, no stage show. It was all about the music. And if you're a fan of the blues....it was perfect. Like he was playing in your living room. *side note, I missed an opportunity to meet him. I had a client at the time who was sound manager at the PAC. Between acts, we were walking around and I saw him on stage. I was going to say hi, but he looked busy. A few weeks later, I mentioned that I saw him setting up. He said, "I wish you would have said something to me, I could have gotten you backstage to meet him afterward". Sigh. He said that for every person brought to meet him, he treated like gold. Worst There's a few, but no need to dwell. Concert Missed Ralph Macchio going toe to toe with Steve Vai in a contest over the Karate Kid's soul. Bucket List It'll happen when I die (which kind of takes it out of the category). Heaven I'm sure will have a hell of a band.

If you never saw him in college, this is what a Texas Tech game looked like. Last O on the field wins.

He took time off after the firing, Then his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he took care of her. A few years later he eventually became OC at Iowa St. for a year or two, but I don't think his heart was in it. When he took the job, he made the comment that "my wife wants me out of the house for a while". There were small murmurs about him before MIles was hired..."could he?" "would he?". He tweeted a week ago, something like, "thanks for the support, but I'm not coming back to KU, I've moved on, everyone else should." There are also very small murmurs about him taking over as successor to Bill Snyder at Kansas St. He made his bones there in the 90's, as a Snyder assistant. I don't see that happening though.

yeah, he did, with a potentially racist comment thrown in during one of his practice tirades. The real reason, I think, was that the AD never liked him (a guy that ended up getting fired a year or two later for some ticket selling scandal). It was no secret that he drove his players hard and had the social skills of Lee Emery in Full Metal Jacket mode. On the other hand, when he was hired, Kansas wasn't much above a club level program. He was literally going around the campus asking people to join the squad. A few years later, he had an 11-1 team that won an Orange Bowl. He was the Coach of the Year by...everyone. Since he left, they've been a bit above club level again.

Eh, you lost me with the beta/feminist remark. The couple that my son used to go with...the wife was the one who would usually get the first buck. And in her physical condition, she could barely make it to her tree stand. I never really saw it as an alpha activity (and I hunted a bit in my younger days). It is what it is. I have 0 problem with responsible hunting, especially since it really is used for population control. I'm not as big on hunting just for the sake of a trophy. When my son got his first buck, I had to learn how to make venison. The hamburger is extremely lean. The rest is..if you take the right steps, it comes out really good.

Exactly. The Chargers were 4-12 and 5-11 in the previous 2 years before he took over. In 2016, they were towards the bottom of the NFL in D, and that was with a good pass rush. He did in LA what he did with the Bills' O in 2016. He built on what he had and improved on some things. I was really surprised how well he handled himself after taking over as OC in Buffalo, happily surprised. When you look at HIS process, I'm not surprised he's doing well.

eh, Kansas has been looking for a HC ever since they fired Mark Mangino. Up and comer Turner Gill The name recognition of Charlie Weis another up and comer in Beatty Their back to the name. People actually thought Turner Gill was going to be an improvement over Mangino. I still laugh about that.

This is why I don't see him as a "reach", no matter where our pick ends up. There might be people that downgrade him because he's not 6'8" and 330lbs, but I don't see him getting dropped on his butt or being rocked back very often. His technique and his footwork are..rare. Many positives, few things to work on, and the positives are things that many OL will never get, no matter the amount of experience they have. If he tests out in the draft process like he plays, he's going to be coveted. Problems with OL coming out of college these days are well documented. The chances are pretty slim of finding one in later rounds this good. This is why they become a premium for teams wanting a bona fide offense. I know people are clamoring how stacked the defensive players are in this draft. Well that may be, but that doesn't mean the offensive side is completely devoid of talent. Its just not as plentiful. Which means, if you wait, you're probably going to see a pretty big drop off in talent. In Williams case, as I said before, if he tests like he plays, this wouldn't be taking a player who is a drop off in talent from other players similarly situated in the draft. In fact, we'd be lucky if he was there when we picked.

That's the way it usually is though..the big boards usually stack the top 20 or so with defensive players. As someone else said, its not the way the draft often goes. take a look at their 2017 Big board. https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/02/22/nfl-draft-2017-big-board-prospects-player-rankings Only 3 players from offense in their top 10. By draft time, 6 of the top 10 picks were on the O. If I was gm, I'd be thrilled to see a board like that...or more importantly, for the teams ahead of me pick like that. I'd know I'd have the pick of the offensive players.

and the banjo!