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What is the "real reckless" talk? Bc I didn't see anyone saying Drake Maye is better than Josh Allen. I don't think there's any question as to who the better QB is right now. But it's also not a fair comparison. Not only is Josh more physically gifted (and quite possibly the single most physically gifted QB of all time), Drake Maye is in only his second year. Josh Allen wasn't the guy we know now in Year 2. And Drake Maye in Year 2 is a better QB than Josh Allen was in Year 2. Does that mean he'll be better than Josh is in Year 8 when he's in Year 8? No. But we don't know for aure that he won't be either. Either way, this reads like cringe homer hyperbole. Stuff you yell out when you're leaving the stadium inebriated and yelling "hey-ay ay ay!". Like the Bills fans that say Lamar "sucks" or "can't hold Josh's jockstrap". The truth (like with Lamar) is that Josh may be better, but Drake Maye is still a VERY good Quarterback. If he couldn't "hold his jock" as you put it, we wouldn't have lost to them earlier in the year. We wouldn't have had to come from behind today. The Pats wouldn't be 11-3 and he wouldn't be considered an MVP candidate. Not being the #1 QB in Football doesn't mean you can't still be very, very good. And Maye is.

Loved seeing Hairston and his blazing speed let up on pursuit there.

Why the f-ck did Poyer jump?

Punting from the 41 now?! What in tge f-ck?!

Why have we pulled Cook?

Terrible coaching decisions from the word go (making Gabe a healthy scratch for Keon, deferring with our Defense and an Offense that doesn't play well from behind, missing a challenge, punting from the 44, and pulling Cook on 2nd Down). Losing at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. This is gonna be a long one.

He just got back from a mid-season knee surgery. Lately he's been playing out of position at DE on a number of snaps. He's played a grand sum total of 8 games and again, has dealt with a knee injury. He was the 41st pick in the Draft. Have a little patience. People act like all Rookies come out of the gate playing like veterans. For most, it's a learning curve that can take a year or two before things slow down. People were ready to cut bait with Cole Bishop not too long ago and look what he's turned into after a year and a half.

Cool. Oliver got hurt for 4 weeks. Is that worth "the message"? Can you not get across the message without physical punishment? That's kind of my whole point. Again, I'm speculating. I don't know this to be a fact. But we're *constantly* taking mid week injuries. More so than other teams. I can't help but wonder if things like "sending a message" (as you put it) and in general how he conducts the physicality in practice isn't more to blame than the board whipping boy of the Strength & Conditioning department.

I've mentioned this before but while everyone makes post after post bemoaning the strength and conditioning staff anytime an injury occurs - I've begun to wonder if McDermott isn't pushing the guys too hard in practice on a weekly basis. Obviously, this is just speculation on my part. As the media only sees the opening walkthroughs and no one knows what a McDermott in season practice looks like, besides the people there. But the thought popped in to my head the Wednesday following Week 1. Ed Oliver was doing a presser that day and he was asked about the difficulties of putting the pads on Wednesday following a grueling Monday Night Football game. He said something along the lines of 'we killed each other for 60+ minutes on a Monday night and we're here on a Wednesday morning going full go. But that's just what we do' (or something like that). Ironically, that was the practice he hurt his foot in. Again, no clue if it's true or not. But we've replaced strength and conditioning staffs at least once (maybe twice, I can't really recall). The results remain the same. And the number of injuries we incur outside of games seems to be more than others. The only thing I can think of is maybe McDermott goes full contact too much in the middle of the week.

Depends what you mean by ceiling. If you're talking about in the passing game, I think he's kind of hit his ceiling already. He's far too elite and important as a blocking Tight End (which is what we Drafted him for) to have him abandoning that for routes and/or designed pass plays much more than he already is doing. He's a better Lee Smith or Quintin Morris. A guy that's primarily going to pass and run block for you at a high level, but will sneak a route or come off a block and get open to catch the occasional pass. I wouldn't expect to see him be a primary part of the passing game.

But their owner meddles like crazy. .... that's a good thing now, right?

And he was AFC Defensive Player of the Week last week

***** - Benford has looked ELITE the past two weeks!

Sliding Ja'Marr Chase inside to match up with Cam Lewis is nasty work.

What is up with James holding on to the Football lately? F-ck.

That's the 2nd time Ty Johnson has been running the screen route a different way than Josh was expecting. Odd.

The OL can't stop the Bengals DL? I know we're down Spencer Brown - but Jesus...

Same as it ever was. If we're facing a passing game that lacks the ability to get up quick and are able to rely completely on the run game - we're fine. If we're playing from behind and need the pass game to stay in it - it's over.

Brady sucks. But he had nothing to do with Dawkins getting owned. What has happened to him of late?

This feels like a shot at Darius Slay and/or Drew Rosenhaus, by Darnell Savage's agent 😂

There absolutely is a reason to keep him on the list besides spite... When you claim a player on waivers, you take on the contract of the team that waived him (in this case, the Steelers). Had Slay not been claimed, he would then become a Free Agent and that contract would remain on the Steelers books. But since we claimed him, The Steelers are now free and clear of contractual obligations. It works the same way for us. If we waive him and he goes unclaimed, we are stuck paying him the remainder of that contract for the rest of the year. Considering the Bills and the Eagles were the only teams to put in a claim originally before all this mess - there's no way any team claims him if we waive him. Every other team in the league knows he won't report to any team but the Eagles (and weren't interested before all this, so why would they be now?). And bc of that, the Eagles know that they don't need to put in a claim. They can just sign him and pay week to week vet minimum, after he undoubtedly clears waivers. If we cut him, we would be stuck still paying for him for the rest of the season. Literally the only way to prevent that is to put him on that list and keep him there, unless he reports. Also, by putting him on that list and keeping him there, we could recoup a 5 game prorated amount from his 8.9m signing bonus. So not only could we not have to pay the contract we're currently on the hook for, we could stand to make money out of him being on that list, that we could then use to pay for other players. So we'd actually stand to gain something out of this mess. Long story short, this is the only move. It's not spite. It's the only logical move to make from a business standpoint. We'd actually be pretty stupid to waive him. Even if Howie Roseman called Brandon and swore he'd claim him, thus clearing us of our financial obligation - we'd have to do it on blind faith that he'd stay true to his word, when he doesn't have to.

I feel like we get one of these a day just with different worded titles. At this rate there should just a be a "B word about Brandon Beane and/or Sean McDermott here" pinned thread.

Take back some of Slay's signing bonus (which they can do since he didn't report - even though Washington paid it, we own the contract now) and pay Gilmore. Or if Slay doesn't want to pay it back, than he has to report.

He's a Safety? That's a confusing move. We lose Ja'Marcus Ingram and are now down to just 3 Boundary CB's, and are one injury away from Dane Jackson - and they fill that spot with a player at a different position. Odd. Glad to see that they put Slay on the "Did Not Report" list. Let him rot there. I kinda hope they go after his bonus money too (and they can).

The problem there is that when you claim a player on Waivers - you take on the responsibility of the contract signed by the team that waived them. So if we just waived him ourselves and he went unclaimed - that contract stays on our books. So we'd be taking on his contract for the year and have lost Ingram for nothing. And it's likely he would go unclaimed. As just us and the Eagles claimed him. Now teams know he won't play for anyone but the Eagles - including the Eagles. So why would they put in another claim and take the responsibility of the contract off our hands when they don't have to? The move is simple. He plays for us or we put him on the "Did Not Report" list. With that, not only are we off the hook for his contract - we could even look to recoup some of his signing bonus if we wanted to. I don't see how putting him on the "Did Not Report" list would hurt our reputation or why we should hurt ourselves further than we already have to help out someone who screwed us over.