dave mcbride

Gary Marangi just re-checked his 1976 season stats (the only season he started games; he started 7) and demands an apology from you. 35.3 percent completion percentage, 16 picks, 12 fumbles, 1.8 adjusted yards per attempt, and a 30.8 rating on 232 pass attempts. Peterman's was 30.7 this year, but at least he didn't fumble 12 times!

Kiper mocked Mayfield to the Browns in subsequent mocks. Also, don't dis passionate amateurs. They're the people who make life interesting.

Don’t compare his situation to Peters, though. Peters was wa dominant player for the Bills and a lot better than Dawkins.

Um ... that wasn’t his final mock. He got 4 right. Given trades, it’s hard to predict a whole lot more than that. https://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/nfl-mock-draft-2018-picks-mel-kiper-mike-mayock-todd-mcshay-20180427.html

They're probably going to be better this season. Cano is a huge pickup, and he's still extremely good. Christ, he had an OPS+ of 136 last season - in line with his better years. If their staff stays healthy, it's among the best in MLB. https://www.amazinavenue.com/2019/2/7/18215693/pecota-2019-mets-baseball-prospectus-projections-89-wins

They made the WS in 2015 and the playoffs the next season. They also went 97-65 in 06 and just missed the WS, and they went in 2000 (the first year of the Bills' drought). I don't see how you can say they're more embarrassing than the Bills.

It didn't really occur to me how much a vet qb who is on the bench helps out the defense on a week-to-week basis.

No, read again - he's been terrible in the takeaways category historically. 4 of his defenses finished 32nd in takeaways forced and 2 others finished 31st. Basically, the Jets hired Captain Queeg. We've lived through it and know what he's like.

After reading this, it boggles the mind that the Bills went into the season with no veteran experience at QB. Even though Hoyer doesn't play in the actual games, he does so much for the Patriots that can't be quantified. https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/11/super-bowl-devin-jason-mccourty-brian-hoyer-patriots-rams Thank god Beane learned his lesson and signed up two guys with experience immediately after the season.

My issue with Williams - aside from being a thorough a-hole -- is that he is ridiculously overrated as a defensive coach. The results over 20 seasons: Yards allowed - finished in the top half 8 times, and in the bottom half 12 times. Mean finish: 15.5. Median finish: 17th. Points allowed - finished in the top half 12 times and in the bottom half 8 times. Mean finish: 16th. Median finish: 14.5. Takeaways forced: finished in the top half 8 times and the bottom half 12 times. Mean finish: 20th. Median Finish: 22.5. 4 last place (32nd) finishes and 2 second last place finishes (31st). Top ten finishes: Pts: 5 out of 20 seasons Yds: 7 out of 20 seasons Takeaways: 5 out of 20 seasons Bottom 10 finishes: Pts: 5 out of 20 seasons Yds: 6 out of 20 seasons Takeaways: 9 out of 20 seasons Basically, he's the very definition of mediocrity.

Wow—now this is a teardown plan, and he is clued into that franchise. https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article225952960.html Looks like we should be expecting the Bills to beat Miami twice next season. If we don’t, it’ll be a real failure.

Many people have long memories. I certainly do. I have vivid recollections of Bills playoff games from the early 1980s to this day.

Um ... they had never been to a SB at that point and wouldn't go for another ten years. They had a really good team that year that could have won the SB.

See above. Patriots fans (I know a few) felt it was basically karmic payback for Sugar Bear.

Trust me, most here know all of these plays. At the time the tuck rule event happened, many - myself included - felt it was karmic payback for arguably one of two the worst calls of the 1970s: referee Ben Dreith's roughing-the-passer call on Sugar Bear Hamilton in the 1975 Raiders/Pats playoff game. It was an unbelievably bad call, and it's actually legendary. It cost an extremely good Pats team the game. (It was 4th and 15 with less than a minute to go). The point is, all suffer from bad calls and get good calls. Let's not forget in our little narrative that the Pats were almost completely screwed by the refs in the KC game by the ref's failure to call blatant OPI on that 38 yard pass to Watkins that got them to the 2 with just over 2 minutes to go. (The other really awful call was when Rob Lytle was called down after clearly fumbling in the 1976 AFC championship game.)

Sorry about the name confusion. Andy-Albert; Breer-Benoit - I confuse them constantly.

I'm intrigued by what you're implying here. Care to elaborate? (I think I probably agree with you, btw.)

I'd take anything close to Tyler Lockett too, who is one of my favorite receivers in the league. A quickness/speed combo is so huge now given the passing game rules. The situation has changed greatly since Desmond Howard came into the league. Just curious - where did you stand on Tyler Lockett? I loved him coming out of college, but I didn't feel confident enough to know where he would/should be drafted. I think he's an elite player now.

Kirby: If what you're saying is true, why does he almost always lead the skill players in snaps for that team? I'm not saying he's super-talented - he obviously isn't - but in the NE system an ability to do multiple things and consistently (dare I say it) "do your job" from play to play is regarded as a huge asset. Belichick's basic view is that winning revolves around making fewer mistakes than the opponent, and the league is filled with coaches who are dumber than NE's coaches and players who are just one step above a box of rocks on the dumb scale. With regard to the Pats, I always go back to Michael Floyd (an idiot as a player): the Pats picked him up late in 2016 because he was super-talented, and then in his first or second game he ran a lazy route where he went to far and rounded it rather than running a crisp, short square in. The ball was picked, Brady was clearly pissed, and I don't think he ever saw another reception opportunity again after that play. Frankly, I think you overestimate high-physical talent guys vis-a-vis guys like Hogan. Ideally, you want guys who are physically talented AND smart-on-the-field players. There's a reason guys like Tyler Lockett excel despite not being nearly the physical speciman that Floyd was. Brains, discipline, and consistency matter so much in a game where mistake-proneness is the surest way to lose games. (Don't get me wrong; Lockett is definitely talented enough, but he is small.)

One of the things baseball HOF fame voters are supposed to focus on are five-year peaks as well as long-term counting stats. I think that the importance of five-year peaks is doubly important in football because if the injury issues.

Excellent analysis here. https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/06/super-bowl-lii-53-film-study-breakdown-patriots-rams-defenses-real-mvp-belichick-goff-mcvay

?? — I support Davis’ HOF status, but Sanders’ run from 1994-97 was a little more prolific than Davis. Sanders had 8,122 yards from scrimmage and 45 TDs. Davis had 7,594 yards from scrimmage and 61 TDs. As you know, td production is often a unction of the overall offense you’re in. Both had combined AVs over those four seasons of 69. Football ain’t like any other sport because of the extreme injury situation. 5-year stretches of greatness/dominance should be rewarded. Sandy Koufax is the model here.

https://www.nbcsports.com/video/who-better-julian-edelman-or-wes-welker?ls=pftvod Harold Baines also had 2,866 hits too. Huge numbers deriving from longevity can be deceiving.

True, but Brady has never had a serious arm injury. Kelly did - he ruptured the bursa sac in the elbow of his throwing arm 2/3 of the way through the 1992 season, and he was never the same afterward.