dave mcbride

I agree.

I don't have the time to read 22 pages, but has anyone discussed why a good organization - KC - may have cut him? I have heard that he has a chronic bum ankle, and that the ankle problem may never go away.

Yup.

Not to be a jerk, but the level of analysis in this thread is depressing - a lot of "this is what I see" and "the qb has x wins" sorts of takes. This board was always a million times better than the BBMB, and I fear that it's sinking. Kirby, Yolo, etc. do a great job of reeling it back in, but my god, the know-nothing hot takers appear to be out in force now. Everyone: pro-football-reference.com is your friend. Scroll down to advanced qb stats. 100 is average. Wilson lead the NFL in 2015 with 131. He has never been below 100. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WilsRu00.htm Also, for the critics out there: I suggest doing a deep dive into the talent level on the seahawks' o-line the last two seasons. Seriously.

This should have ende the thread.

Not really true. The line was actually good from 2012-2014. Injuries and departures killed them afterward. Trading Max Unger for Jimmy Graham after the 2014 season was definitely a mixed result. Sweezy, McQuistan, and Okung are all gone too. They were all decent to solid players, and Unger was (and is) really good.

Their offensive line talent the last two seasons has been TERRIBLE. It pretty much explains everything.

This all may be true, but it's a dumb way to look at things (not you; the Seahawks defensive players if they actually think this way). The Seahawks o-line over the last two seasons has been among the 2 or 3 worst in the league, and it's not because of a lack of effort. It's because the talent is incredibly poor. The defense has good talent. Demanding excellence from no-talent players is a fool's errand. Wilson is an amazing player who makes that offense look competent despite such terrible talent in front of him.

I have brought this up elsewhere, but has anyone looked at Blount's ypc in the final five games of the regular season and also the playoffs? It was terrible.

Wilcots was solid.

Are you familiar with tobacco industry-funded studies of the alleged links between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s-1980s? There's no harm in admitting that playing NFL football is terrible for one's health and brain. Same goes for boxing. It wasn't safe to be a gladiator either. They're bloodsports. Just admit it.

Saying CTE isn't related to football is whistling past the graveyard. Of course it is. I think people deny it because they don't like admitting that they love such a brutal sport, but they should face up to facts. I fully admit that given my NFL fandom, I probably would have been cheering at the gladiator fights in imperial Rome. But at least I like to think that I would have been of the folks who instinctively put my thumb up when it came time to vote on the fate of the loser. Also, saying what you say about global warming probably means that we can't have a productive conversation about anything like this.

Yep - 1000 meter fall while prepping for one of the most difficult ascent routes on Everest.

To be fair to football, it's not the only dangerous sport. Check this out - a death rate of 25 percent among aspiring climbers! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/sports/polish-climbers-to-scale-deadly-k2-peak-in-winter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Well, Buoniconti played 15 years in the NFL, so in his case it's certainly the case that most of the hits he took -- and certainly the most impactful ones -- occurred in the NFL. Pee wee football is in no way comparable to the NFL, by the way.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/05/08/nick-buoniconti-dolphins-cognitive-decline-nfl-head-trauma-concussions 'Some of Buoniconti’s Dolphins teammates, meanwhile, are crumbling. Quarterback Earl Morrall, the supersub so key to the Perfect Season, died at 79, in 2014, with Stage 4 CTE. Running back Jim Kiick, 70, lived in squalor until he was placed in an assisted living facility last summer with dementia/early onset Alzheimer’s. Bill Stanfill, a defensive end who long suffered from dementia, died in November at 69. His brain and spine were sent to the CTE center at Boston University, where the disease has been found in 96% of players’ brains studied. (Granted, that’s 96% of a group whose medical or playing history already suggests some sort of brain disease.)'

Given the stakes, I'm going to vote for this game as the most exciting Bills victory ever in the last minute: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1981/12/28/interception-in-last-seconds-saves-bills-from-jets-31-27/6034622f-5ce7-41c3-b70a-0373a7edad3d/?utm_term=.0c8c5eca6258 Having said this, it was also on the verge of being the biggest choke job in Bills history.

I listened to that Pats-Bills game on the radio - Van Miller went nuts on the Hooks catches.

Yes he did, ultimately. And he took a LOT of heat here from people saying he was clueless.

I think his game is much more like Rich Gannon - fast-paced, rhythmic - and not really like Edwards's game at all (he has a much better arm too). We shall see. I don't buy eye test arguments given such consistent improvement in efficiency over time.

I agree with you about Bridgewater but I also think that Bradford is on the cusp of being a good qb. He played well last year in a bad situation (no running game whatsoever and a terrible line). Granted, he throws a lot of short passes, but a 71.6 percent completion rate is a 71.6 completion rate -- i.e., pretty remarkable. He had a 20/5 TD-INT ratio too. His completion pct has gotten better and better every season too. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BradSa00.htm Bottom line: because he was drafted #1 overall, disappointment is the usual response, but he really is playing like prime-era Rich Gannon now. Give him a better line and a better RB (and Dalvin Cook is gonna be good), and he may surprise you. Christ - they were 32nd in both rushing yards and rushing ypa last season. That's tough on a qb.

It sounds like there was excellent medical screening, and it also sounds like one team decided to discount it.

Not really. Speaking for myself, I hate when I see Bills players do this sort of thing. It's dirty and there's no need for it. The sport is violent enough already and has far, far too many injuries. I think these plays should result in 2-game suspensions. That's the only thing that will end them.

That was a horrible situation - one that preceded and continued after he left. The fish rots from the head, and in the case of Cleveland, it is Haslam. He was pretty high up in Cleveland in the early 1990s and also with the Raiders in the late 1990s/early 200s. IIRC, he was involved in bringing in Gannon, who was most definitely not an Al Davis prototype.

If you read the piece, Skurski doesn't predict what the Bills will do. He simply lays out what has happened since this rule came into effect. It is useful, interesting information. Are we really going to bash TBN over a piece like this? Sheesh.