dave mcbride

The NFL is completely lax on testing for HGH because they know if they were strict about it and players stopped taking it, a very large number of players on every team would be listed as "out/doubtful" every week. HGH quickly heals soft muscle tears, which players at this level get ALL of the time given how fast, big, and violent the people lining up against them are.

My daughter went to Geneseo!

I saw calf injury and immediately thought, thar's an achilles tear a-brewin', mateys.

I'm upset for entirely superstitious reasons.

If you call yourself a Bills fan but aren't superstitious after all these decades, then I hold your Bills fandom in suspicion!

Good post. More importantly, we now have ~24 years of evidence, and being on Hard Knocks appears to correlate with a 99 percent plus rate of stasis/mediocrity/decline. The Bills agreeing to this is flabbergasting to me.

Yeah, it's boring though because it always succeeds. That's why you can go to the fridge.

Does the play remaining legal help the Bills? Of course it does. The Bills are only second to the Eagles in using it, and are almost as effective as them at the play. It gives the Bills an advantage, so I am all for keeping it. The reason people want it banned isn't because it's not a football play or leads to more injuries (it doesn't); it's because it's basically unstoppable if you have the personnel. A play should be able to be schemed against, and the Eagles' version of the play is basically unschemable, defensively. It can't be stopped. That's why it's problematic. There should always be a defensive answer to a particular type of play.

He actually has gotten over 1,000 yards five times in six seasons, and the one time he didn't he missed 3+ games due to injury (he still finished with nearly 900 yards). But I take your point about "elite" debates.

If you look at AJ Brown's stats with the Eagles, in what world is Drake London more productive than him? He put up nearly 1500 yards in both 2022 and 2023, and last year was skewed by the fact that the Eagles had a 2,000 yard running back and had the fewest pass attempts in the league. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowAJ00.htm

This is not true. Forget his 40 time at the combine after an injury plagued career at Maryland. He literally was one of the fastest players measured in an actual game in the past decade. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/who-10-fastest-players-nfl-next-gen-stats-era

Anyone who thinks AJ Brown isn’t elite doesn’t watch much football.

Wow, this is a great breakdown by Steve Smith. Love it. He’s clearly on the same wavelength as @Kirby Jackson and @GunnerBill! “Street Route” Coleman!

I remember that hit Boldin took - I watched it live. It was BRUTAL: I have long said that if Boldin was the target instead of Lee Evans on that fateful play vs the Pats in the 2011-season afc championship game, there was no way that leigh bodden was gonna knock it out of his hands. Boldin is a first ballot HOFer in my book and was arguably the MVP of the Ravens-Niners SB..

Nope. Roland Hooks has him beat with these two catches.

As they should. Lost yardage due to sacks IS part of the passing game yardage. You can’t factor that out and call yourself honest.

The cheap shot on Coleman is the reason the Bills won that game in regulation. And again, that hit helped the Bills win.

They were 4-7 with Johnson, though.

He is literally saying this about the MVP who quarterbacked his team to a victory over a great Baltimore team (the team that drafted him!) in the playoffs--a game in which Allen threw no picks. Why do people have an issue with this?

Clowney was very good from 2016-2018. He put up extremely high TFL stats in those years (16, 21, 16) and was an all-pro in 2016. He had 9.5 sacks in 2023 for the Ravens too.

I don't know about that. Flute was flat-out better than Johnson. He's not even in the same league as Allen. Flutie played extremely well in 2000, going 4-1. That was his third season with the Bills, but Johnson was handed the job that year on the order of Wilson. He was 22-9 overall as a Bills starter.

Flutie, and it's not even close. Fitz would be second and Tyrod third.

Damn. Looks like this might have to be my near future: This is how it can work for you:

I still can't believe he dropped that pass. It's OK for a first rounder drafted for his great hands to drop that in the second quarter of an early October game vs. the Arizona Cardinals, but not against KC with two minutes to go on a gotta-have-it play and with a SB appearance on the line.

Bills-Ravens in 1999 (13-10 win). Flutie played terribly all game long against a Ravens D that was FAR better than everyone knew (the year before perhaps the best defensive season in league history) and somehow pulled it out with a couple of circus-act plays on the final drive. Worth watching the last 2 minutes and 40 seconds — start at around the 1:55:10 mark: That was vs Jax!