Low Positive

One thing to note is that the disclaimer at the bottom notes that the survey was in the field from August 26th to November 16th. So all those positive responses from Miami came before the December collapse when they were boat racing teams. The B- about Stefansky came before the Joe Flacco-led surge. But also interesting is that McDermott's "A" came BEFORE the Dunne article. I guess he never lost the locker room.

I went and looked her up on Insta. She Thicc.

I don't know. Losing the Stanley Cup on home ice in triple OT on a goal that shouldn't have counted when the Sabres hit one off the crossbar in the 2nd OT was pretty hard too.

And to think RB was the most important player on the team just a decade ago.

He probably thought that he had an autopay set up and didn't. That happened to me more than once.

They cannot and do not manipulate the cap because Mike Brown doesn't have the cash on hand to do that. They are a cash-to-the-cap team that has their own internal salary cap which remains the same as the NFL's cap keeps going up. My prediction is that they will play this year with over 20 million in available cap space. The Bengals are, from a financial standpoint, the drought-era BIlls who happened to hit on a QB and WR combo in the draft.

@GunnerBillis trying to tell you all something and you're not listening. It doesn't matter how much cap space the Bengals have. They always have a lot of cap space. The issue here in Cincinnati is cash. Mike Brown's only valuable asset is a small-market NFL team. Most NFL owners, in an attempt to win, are kicking in some of their own money to help pay player bonuses to circumvent the cap. Mike Brown doesn't have that kind of cash on hand. The Bengals went into the year as a contending team and they played with 10 million in cap space. So, this being the case, tagging Higgins is a pretty dumb move that was made to appease Joe Burrow and the fans. This will backfire this year because it will further weaken an already bad defense. I know people here think that the Bengals have a good defense (and DC) because for some reason they have our number. But they had one of the worst defenses in the NFL last year (Ranked 31 out of 32 in total defense). They went from 3rd in points allowed in 2022 to 22nd in 2023. That was because they lost both safeties in FA. They very much had the cap space to sign all-pro Jessie Bates, but they didn't. Why? BECAUSE MIKE BROWN DOESN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO EVEN SPEND TO THE CAP. This year, DJ Reeder is a FA and they'll lose him even though they have the space (but not the money) to sign him and he wants to stay. They also spent too much of their limited cash on Orlando Brown, but that's another story.

10 pages in 6 hours about a punter. We need some news.

He was an older rookie. He redshirted and then played all 4 years at OSU.

And it's worse than that. The two best QBs in the XFL last season (AJ McCarron and Ben DiNucci) both got signed to NFL practice squads and are therefore not playing in the UFL this season. So, in a world with a dearth of QB talent, you have the 64 guys that are on NFL 53-man rosters along with the 32 guys on PS. The best QB in the UFL will be the 96th-best guy in the world. BTW, the San Antonio Brahmas have Joe Flacco's little brother as their QB.

I used to like the sitcom Grounded for Life a lot. It did run for 5 seasons, but then it just seemed to disappear.

This would be a pretty big challenge. He's already had Darnold and Mike White. He could sign Josh Rosen tomorrow if he wanted. Besides the heavy lift of getting Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, he would have to get Kyle Lauetta, Luke Falk, and Tanner Lee out of retirement. Then there is Danny Etling, who is in the UFL, and Alex McGough and Logan Whiteside who are on the Packers' and Falcons' practice squads, respectively. That leaves good 'ole Mason Rudolph.

I wonder if Bob Kraft woke up feeling dangerous today?

I think you have Jimmy confused with Gardner Minshew. Jimmy’s got a Bentley. Josh had a Ford F150 King Ranch. Tom Brady has a driver.

He was prescribed something that is on the NFL's list of banned substances. In order to take it, he would have had to get permission from the league. He didn't do that.

Remember when he had off-season surgery but then recovered faster than expected? Well, now we know how he did that.

Too bad he screwed the Jets over all those years ago because you just described them to a T.

He didn't play week 18.

Most of the top guys won't do the drills. They'll come, get interviewed, maybe bench and jump, and then leave. For instance, there is no way that Caleb Williams will actually throw. What I want to see is some of the WRs run.

He might get a similar situation if he went to Atlanta. They have weapons everywhere and they will run that Shanahan/McVey system. He wouldn't have to be the "franchise guy" there. Just get the ball to Pitts, London, and Robinson in space and let them do their thing.

This reminds me of all the posters on TBD that wanted to take Roquon Smith at 12 and then wait for Mason Rudolph in the second to address the QB position. In retrospect, that would have been a monumentally stupid move but it would have looked savvy on draft night.

We are going to spend all summer analyzing an overtime game between two great teams, looking for absolute reasons that one team won and absolute reasons that the other team lost. Really, it was a punt bouncing off of a heal and a missed PAT. But that doesn't make analysts sound savvy, so into the analytics we dive.

I'm just reposting this so that people who are just jumping to the end of the thread to complain that the Bills don't run plays like this can see that we ran pretty much THIS EXACT SAME PLAY against the Chiefs 3 1/2 weeks ago to pick up a 4th down.

How many cryptic "fire McDermott" threads can we have on the TBD front page at one time?

I think Mason Rudolph will be the starter in Pittsburgh next year. I also think that someone will try to revive Mac Jones' career. Atlanta? He's better than anyone they currently have on the roster at QB. The OC they just hired is from the Shanahan coaching tree via McVey. I think Mac Jones could do the Tua/Purdy thing. The Pats tried to insert Mac into the Brady offense. That was never going to work. But he could be a point guard. I like this idea the more that I think about it.