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I'm going to guess slow and washed.

Saw it coming from a mile away. Dorsey runs the ball WAY too much on second and long. This. Nobody's going to win turning the ball over four times. Nobody. The arm punt was excusable. The other two and the fumble . . . not so much.

If Isabella is the complaint, then that's nuts. There's a good chance we'll roll with five active receivers. He probably wouldn't be one of them were he on the 53. And, if he was primed immediately contribute, it would seem that there's be a chance that he'd be on a 53 somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I like Isabella, too. But at this point he's a priority practice squad player until injuries/proven otherwise.

Too big. I don't disagree there.

I'll summarize. Functional versatility. Totally worth the roster spot.

It’s not. It’s athletics. Might want to be in shape to continue to perform at a high level as one ages. Control the things you can, such as diet, and sleep, and exercise, and focus. This guy has a problem on the intake front that could well impair his performance this year and that likely will shorten his career.

I was sort of half paying attention last night and I caught it, too. Totally right. Taylor was fidgeting with his feet a lot on pass plays, too.

Talk is cheap. He has a sloppy physique that is unlikely to improve. I hope he proves me wrong.

When did he practice? Not much, and when he did he was only splitting reps with the 1s. The reality is that Dodson had the chance to run away with the job and he blew it. Spector and Klein, too, could have been in the mix, but they apparently were worse than Dodson. I hope Bernard seizes the job and plays great. Based on the samples with him—he didn’t deserve to make the team coming out of camp last year—I have my doubts. So I have a hard time seeing how he affirmatively won that job—in camp, throughout the offseason as a whole, or otherwise.

The guess here is that McD is going to heat up the opposing QB this year. No more Frazier Tampa 2 standing around and hoping someone else makes an unforced error. McD learned that the way to win offensively is to be aggressive. Time to match the defensive philosophy with the offensive approach—especially because we have the octane offensively to absorb a big play against us here and there.

He played slow last year and, like you, I fear that he’s going to get run over. It shows how little they think of Dodson.

I don’t know what the appropriate idiom is here. Maybe he’s the one-eyed king in the land of the blind. Maybe he’s the lesser of the evils. I don’t know. But it’s clear to me that he did not, by any objective measure, win the MLB competition. Dodson, Klein, and Spector lost it.

He's a .250 hitter in baseball without exceptional power.

He was impeached, but not convicted. Apparently for technical, non-merits reasons. So I typically would agree with your very well reasoned point, but not in this context.

Also your focus. Which is pretty important to some people. Who cares about commercials? That’s a minimal amount of time and typically an off-season thing. Bigger issues are perpetually taking care of the body, putting in the study, and grinding during the season. Agreed commercials have nothing to do with any of this.

And yet the Bills kicked the tires on this guy after having seen Kyle for the entirety of the offseason and in camp. You’re making my point for me. They’re so worried about Kyle’s play that the explored employing a raw, unknown quantity in Kyle’s place.

You may be on to something. This move might have more to do with Jonathan/Cline/holistic roster construction (may need someone to play STs, for instance, depending on what LBs and RBs look like) than Boogie’s relative uselessness or Von’s return.

Just like Boogie. What’s his special trait? I have no clue. Overager in the draft. Short arms. No bend. Not heavy enough to effectively play tackle in our scheme. Maybe he’s a 3-4 DE. I don’t know. I never got this one.

Zay (busted here), Cody Ford, Boogie, Epenesa. So . . . Yeah. We may plop Elam on the discard list pretty soon, too.

It depends how bad Kyle Allen is behind the scenes. We don't know what we don't see with him. And it might be bad.

Who cares if we get bluffed? The only way it would matter is if the capital demanded by Houston to maintain our third round compensatory (and the FA(s) we signed and would have to cut to get the comp pick back) and improve our backup QB situation could have been used to obtain a superior backup QB option. If that’s the case, then it’s good news -

Reading the tea leaves I tend to agree. Beane is too smart not to have called Houston to see what they're thinking on Keenum. If Keenum was a cut candidate, then I doubt that Beane would have offered draft capital for Lance (assuming the reporting is accurate) given the possibility that he might have to soon tender additional draft capital (and, perhaps, a roster spot) for Keenum to maintain the Day 2 pick that's coming for Edmunds.

Hoax.

What about his questionnaire?

Hoax. Maybe he's too busing boning up on the Constitution. After all, he is our resident constitutional law expert here. (And yes, that is a tremendous hoax.)