nonprophet

Allen cannot be allowed to take that kind of punishment?

I can; it's easier for a QB to develop when there's no pressure on him. When your team is already down 40+ points and there's only a half left to play when you take the field there is no pressure on you.

Part of the problem is that the wide receivers and tight ends just aren't hungry enough; the training staff should starve them and only give them a portion of food in exchange for a caught ball.

Exactly. Trick them into playing their backups in the second half and chain the lockerroom door shut so that their starters can't get back onto the field when the Bills start playing like an NFL team.

Relax; this is all just the Bills' ploy to lull the Ravens into a false sense of confidence.

Based on what he did to Tre'Davious White, I'm guessing he's going to work for the WWE.

Draft defensive players in the high rounds and run an option offense next season with two good running QB/RBs drafted in the lower rounds. Daboll said you have to be able to run even when they expect you to so the Bills offense can just do that 80% of the time and having two QBs in the backfield all of the time should keep opposing defenses guessing. Hold them to a low score and keep hammering the rock at them until they can't tackle anymore.

Thank you! Not relevant, but funny.

Rex agrees with you: it's all about the bas[e].

Here's to hoping that trend continues!

The league didn't strip them of their Superbowl trophy, though. Tonya Harding was stripped of her national championship medal.

Schwartz's D was great against all of the NFC North teams. Minnesota is an NFC North team, New England is not. Yeah, the Patriots videotaped all of the Rams' practices, decoded their visual defensive calls (because the QB of the offense got a radio but the QB of the defense didn't back then) and then used that knowledge to change the offensive play invisibly, over the radio, once they knew what the Rams would do defensively. Is that about right?

The technology exists to detect what happened on a play to a far greater degree of accuracy than any group of human referees can ever hope to achieve. If the NFL put sensors on the ball, the players and embedded in the field most calls could be made automatically by a bank of redundant, dispassionate computers that independently funnel all that collected data into a decision tree based on the NFL rule book and the decision that the majority of the computers agree on would be the call. The referees would just exist as a backup in the case of technical problems and a sanity check on the computed call. Each computer's software could be implemented differently so that hacking enough of them to influence the majority decision would be a lot harder to pull off.

There's a simple reason for that: there are too many teams for the number of talented players available to play on them. Most football programs lose money but the colleges keep pursuing it regardless.

What's the average track record of USC quarterbacks taken in the first round? I'm leery of Darnold personally; he's been surrounded with top-flight talent at USC and they may make him look better than he actually is. I'd rather the Bills draft a QB who hasn't had the greatest supporting cast and made them look better than they actually are.

Q: Why is a dollar bill better than Sam Bradford? A: You can get four quarters from a dollar bill.

I've heard they do excellent soft tissue work in Amsterdam's red light district.

You can't be serious. Given the sensor technology available today it would be inexcusable to remove checks against human error. Look at what they've done with tennis where sensors have replaced line judges; the NFL should do the same thing. There should be sensors in the ball so that it can be known for certain if it touched the ground before the receiver caught it. There should be sensors in a player's uniform to detect if there was contact with an opposing player or that their knee was down before the ball popped out. The problem is not that the officials are trying to determine the truth, it's that they're trying to do it after the event has taken place based on insufficient information and possibly questionable human judgement. Use sensors to record the what and when, computers to make objective judgements automatically based on those measurements and keep human referees around only as a fallback when technical problems occur.

+1

Not if he's running behind Ducasse.

The Bills hired a defense specialist for their last head coach when it was the same as their strength. How did that turn out?

So, given the location of his hairline, this guy appears to be a bigger fan of Riddell Sports than he is of the Patriots.

I was at that game, van Pelt was our QB and we lost 30-0 I think. My girlfriend and I were walking back to my rental car from Candlestick in our Bills jerseys and two Niner fans behind us were openly debating whether or not they should assault us. Stay classy, San Francisco.

His record demonstrates his willingness to give 100 when he sees a hole.

I heard the Bills are sending Kyle Williams to Japan so that he can learn to eat like a sumo wrestler.