Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I don't know, couple things I read/heard was that he had some resentment towards some of the position coaches as the players tended to be more close with them, than him, which is kind of a natural thing to occur. Supposedly he wasn't happy when the players gave one of the position coaches a new truck?

Seems like the issue wasn't so much with the players as it was with his coaching staff??

Wasn't last year they did just one from each group? If so agree, with these as the choices

Toma is 95 YO so he obviously has old school habits and some of his comments were along the line of, don't try to help the grass so much, just let it work to grow. Maybe that's the problem here, they made it like landing a rocket on the moon when that much wasn't needed.

What I'd like to know is who are the guys who ranked Houston and Chicago #1? I've seen another poll that has us #2 behind the Ravens which to me is a bit surprising to see. But that sounds better than Houston

So I actually had started this thread and that was exactly my concern. I got back many responses of do you have close to 50 250 lb people running over your lawn. That was exactly my point, I don't and still had to be real careful to get it to take. So yeah, I'm with you, how exactly is this going to take root in two weeks? Wouldn't shock me to see the sod replaced a half dozen times this year. I guess the only saving grace is many other teams resod mid season, so there's always going to be a game played within about 2 weeks of laying the sod down.

Agree with you overall on Graham and also this not really being a hit piece that he favors. What worries me is I'd think the grounds crew should have noticed something wasn't right back in May or June as soon as the growing season started. For someone like me and probably 98% of the posters here, we'd have all said the field looks great and until pieces started flying up, would have thought everything was fine. But expert in sod management shouldn't need to see it flying apart to know that. They should have been able to run tests and know something wasn't right. And maybe they did and told the proper people and management decided lets just wait and see as felt it would have been too embarrassing to replace the sod already in June. Probably thought a couple months of summer temps will fix everything. As @Casual fan a couple pages back suggested, they should consult with the grounds keepers for soccer fields in England as according to him, they've figured it out.

I 've always said, it was too easy to get into the football FOF and too hard to get into the baseball HOF

Completely agree with you on the Graham, take. He never misses a chance to take a shot at the Bills when he can and when I first clicked on the article I expected this to be another one of those. But after reading the article and quoting some respected names like George Toma and certainly possible he cherry picked what Toma and others stated. But do think the Bills grounds keeping staff should have realized there were some series issues going on earlier than this and reacted to it. Like the one quote stated, they should have dumped a bunch of sand on the field and that no one figured this out until now is a bit worry some. Wouldn't surprise me if the Bills end up re-sodding after ever game or two games at most. And what concerns me is the sod was in place for around a year, and had these issues, how are they going to long term resolve this when the field at best has about 8 months of no usage. There were a couple of articles about the entire field sodding process and they interviewed the manager of the company in NJ where the sod came from. Sounded like he visited from time to time to evaluate progress. He never noticed any issues either??

Just curious, how much does Madden cost? May be worth people buying that to get the discount As soon as my new subscription starts every year, I always turn auto-renew off

Well this latest article in the Athletic makes it sound like they have a real mess in Buffalo. Basically the article says they likely did too much and may have too much technology under the field. It also mentions how the sod being grown somewhere think it was New Jersey in an open field is much different than when you get it inside a stadium where there is much more shade from the walls of the stadium and ironically all those panels that are there to cut down the wind, could be hurting the sod https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7561474/2026/09/04/bills-grass-surface-new-stadium-issues/ A couple of quotes from article: George Toma is known as The Sodfather. He’s the most revered groundskeeper in sports history, overseeing every Super Bowl field until three and a half years ago. What’s been happening at Highmark Stadium troubles him. “That hurts me,” Toma said. “That’s terrible to happen at all, but so soon? Somebody fell asleep.” “Yes, natural turf is safer in a perfect setting,” said Tony Dick, a sports management professor at Baldwin Wallace University and former Cleveland Browns assistant head groundskeeper. “But if you have the situation like you have in Buffalo — and I went back and watched the film — you cannot tell me that field was safer than the artificial turf they just left. “I’m never putting Josh Allen on a field in that condition.” Unless matters improve drastically, Dick had a more dire outlook for Highmark Stadium’s grass field. “You might have artificial turf back in there within three years,” Dick said, “just because it’s safer than whatever that was.”

I think it means he went to LSU

On the other end of the spectrum, saw a photo today of James cook standing next to Ed Oliver, man Cook looks tiny.

Here's my take on the Tyler Dunner article, it contained many just crazy unbelievable accusations. In my experience when someone states something so off the wall, it likely is much closer to the truth than most believe because if you're going to make up stuff, totally twist facts, you're going to come up with something that sounds very believable, not something that's hard to believe. This was too wild to maybe be not 100% true, but much closer to the truth than many realize. As to opening up the playbook point more this year, posters have been arguing for years, we need an offensive minded HC. I don't think that is really needed as long as the HC if from the defensive side is willing to give the OC full reign to do as he wishes. But I think it's very hard for a defensive coach to do that. He may say that day 1, but how long will it last. He wants his defense fresh and hard to do with many fast offensive possessions, whether it resulted in score or turn over on downs. So they will want a more ball controlled offense. Where the offensive minded coaches don't seem to care as much about the defense and are willing stay away. If the defense gives up a core, they will just score more. Seem to recall Brady stating Leonard is free to do as he wants. How long that will that last, we shall see, but don't think the offensive coach would ever try to over manage the offense as much as the defensive coach would.

I was reading about it too. Got to give him credit for coming up with these ideas, or someone in their organization. Maybe they had a department of cheating??