dave mcbride

Yep, Baseball Heaven, and right: no helmet. Freak accident, of course.

My son was at a tournament in eastern Long Island when he was about 15-16 and one of the coaches for one of the many teams there died during pre-game batting practice because of a line drive to the chest. Cardiac arrest. Whoops - edit: it was a hit to the head: https://nypost.com/2014/09/21/dad-dies-after-getting-hit-with-baseball-before-sons-game/

That's actually a really good solution that has the added benefit of making another fanbase happy. No one loses!

Honestly, they really can't reschedule the playoffs. The league makes its money off of tv contracts, and all of that space was bought and paid for months ago. It's literally hundreds of millions of dollars (three playoff rounds) that would need rearranging and renegotiating. It's far, far easier to simply say the game didn't happen and move on. It'll likely come down to winning percentage. They had a contingency plan for games being canceled because of covid in 2020, so there is precedent.

"Cheat" is actually used all the time with regard to safeties creeping up, getting 8 in the box, etc. Mixon is right to say that the Bengals are a difficult team to cheat on. They aren't, say, the Jets or the Titans minus AJ Brown. The receiving corps and QB are just too good and will make you pay.

I've said for a couple of years that he's a poor man's Josh Allen but I also think he has the ability to be a top 15 QB. He has a pretty good arm, good size, and puts up rushing stats similar to Allen -- 705 yards this year with 7 TDs. You could do a lot worse.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/03/damar-hamlin-family-spokesperson-says-hes-fighting/ Jordon Rooney, a marketing representative for Bills safety Damar Hamlin and a spokesperson for the Hamlin family, appeared earlier today on ABC’s Good Morning America. “I can’t speak specifically on his medical condition,” Rooney told Robin Roberts. “I will say that he’s fighting, he’s a fighter. . . . The family is in good spirits. We’re honestly just taking it minute by minute, hour by hour.”

There is no way that the Bills will be forced to take a forfeit because one of their players nearly died on the field (and we still have no idea of ultimate outcome yet).

It’s a small matter in the grand scheme of things, but the Bills simply CANNOT be punished in the W-L column because one of their players might actually die.

100 percent. Eff the league if they don’t call this.

Roquan Smith is fantastic. Without question one of the best LBs in the league.

Did you actually read the piece? I recommend reading the piece if you haven’t yet. It deals with this issue.

‘What approach will Anarumo take against Allen? He’s not spilling the game plan, of course, but he didn’t need to say much to explain the conundrum to his unit this week. He turned on the tape. “The last play of the first Jets game, he throws the ball like 72 yards in the air, hits the guy right in the numbers, on the run,” Anarumo said. Attention acquired. “Crazy,” DJ Reader said. “Ball traveled crazy yards in the air to get there and hit the receiver in the face mask. He’s electrifying.”‘ Man, the Bengals have a ton of respect for Allen: https://theathletic.com/4044707/2022/12/30/josh-allen-bengals-defense-bills/

Tell that to the 49ers!

I guess, but he has talking about Zack Wilson’s failings a LOT on PFT videos and is basically owning it. Your own favorite guy, Shanahan (and I agree that Shanahan is good), seems like he may well have a major whiff on his record with Trey Lance. Purdy might actually turn out to be better than him, although the jury is still obviously out. So far, though, Lance doesn’t look to be very good. Early days, I know.

Name me one NFL gm who hasn’t gotten a qb completely wrong, whether via overestimation or underestimation. Every one has made major mistakes.

I am a little surprised that this piece hasn’t generated a thread, so here goes: https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/inside-the-bills-a-remarkable-advanced-stat-shows-tremaine-edmunds-growth-this-season/article_817e855c-88ab-11ed-8c2e-77dd12191e72.html. Lots of interesting stuff in here.

Wilson had actually elite athletic traits coming out too: very live arm, good legs, good size. People *loved* him because of how the athletic traits he possessed projected in the pros. It’s basically as @BADOLBILZ says it was. Do you have a link to the coachability issues in college regarding Wilson? Because I ain’t finding them. The draft profiles of him were pretty sky high across the board, with the one cautionary factor being the one-year wonder track record. Otherwise, the scouting community loved him due to the extremely strong arm and accuracy.

Are you watching the games? He was a step slow on virtually every pass directed his way vs the Jets. He was slow on the deep completion in the Bears game, not getting into good double coverage position because he was chugging down the field at a 4.8 clip. He still anticipates well and has great instincts, but in man against better receivers — and Chase is as good as Hill — he is a liability. They have to mask him right now through zone coverage. They used to let him be their one man guy, but he’s not up to it at the moment. But don’t take it from me — White essentially said so himself. Yes. He held all game vs Miami and got away with it.

We are a matchup zone team (where zone morphs into man) that occasionally plays man. Elam showed vs George Pickens that he’s not ready to play man against top-end receivers (yet). The Bengals have very, very good receivers. The Bears currently have the worst receiving corps the league given the injuries. Keep in mind that zone results in a lot of easy completions, especially for highly accurate qbs with multiple good options. That’s Burrow for you. Lael Collins going down is huge given that it gives Rousseau an advantage.

It’s less about him being a starting-caliber player than about him being currently too slow to play man against the Jamar Chases of the world. He is not 100 percent. He has said so himself.

In a windstorm game against a bad throwing qb with no receivers. Watch his actual play: he is a step slower and it is OBVIOUS. He gave up a TD to Tyreek Hill!

Tre is s-l-o-w right now, and it’s visible. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s running a 4.7 40 at the moment. He definitely makes up for some of it with instinct and strong knowledge, but it’s a problem.

Davis is nearly broke, relatively speaking vis a via other owners. The money usually doesn’t matter for owners, but in the case of the Raiders, it does. Yup.

He is a decent starting qb and the jets have decent offensive talent. The D is elite, which is something the Raiders have never had.