MattM

Many thanks.

Why isn’t Beasley playing?

I just looked VDE. He turns 23 next month—more than two full years older than Edmunds. I suspect our guy will turn out to be the much better player, but time will tell.

Not sure—maybe because they are getting gashed in the running game. He didn’t play that last series—Sean Lee did. They showed poor forlorn Leighton on the sidelines several times that series.

VanderEsche benched

Roger Saffold, G, LA deMarcus Lawrence, DE, Cowboys Cole Beasley, WR, Cowboys

Tomlin deserves this loss for not taking his TO’s when the Raiders had first and goal. He would have had had 1:20 or so after the TD to march down and get a FG, instead of 15 seconds.

Off the top of my head, the Tuck Rule, the AFCCG vs the Colts that led to a new rule emphasis the following year, the 2007 Monday nighter against the Ravens where several suspect calls late in the 4th gave them the game (several Ravens got fined after that one for speaking their minds), a game around the same time vs Houston when Tommy Boy heaved a game ending pick, only to see a late flag even the announcers didn’t understand wipe it out, the Saints game 2-3 years ago they won on a last play TD throw in which Solder was clearly holding the Saints pass rusher, and on and on, not ev3n counting our games against them. i do recall them losing to the Panthers on a late iffy call 5-6 years ago, but not many others.....

New England* has historically won many, many, many more close games in which bad officiating appeared to help them than they have lost that way over the years, probably by a factor approaching 5 to 1.....

And they got 70 or so of those on their first drive

Coleman is a disgrace. When one ref screws one team over and over, the League should look into it. He usually saves it up for Bills-Pats* games.

Don’t know too much about McNair and his record on race relations, but do know that he sold a minority interest in the team to a friend of a college buddy of mine, who happens to be Hispanic and very rich—self-made rich, too (he set up and ran an energy trading company after playing football at Columbia and is a nice guy as best I know from my buddy and from meeting him a few times).

I like Leftwich, too. Forgot he was there. Wow—awful way to end a game.

Nice drive by Rosen. He did, however, seem to have lots of time on most plays.

Musee D’Orsay, all day and every day.....

Look at their rosters—those teams are stacked beyond the QB.

No, it’s $90m as per Spotrac. We’re 3rd in the League, but there are few good FA’s at positions of need. The draft remains our best bet, which means 2-3 more years of a rebuild.....

I really hope you’re right.

WTF? Vontae Davis?!

OTC also has that on some other tabs there. interesting to see that we can potentially be over $100m with a few cuts. Also interesting to see that the Pats* only have $21m next year and are losing a bunch of starters to FA next year. Of course, they have 6 picks in the top 105 or so (although 3 of those are likely in the 92-105 range). Miami oddly also looks to be in cap hell next year. 2019 is definitely the year McBean has circled on their calendar.

Yup—totally agree. His play has earned the chance. He also seems to have the intangibles, too—you can see how guys reacts positively to him and he always seems to be bucking up his teammates. Leadership counts at the QB position and he seems to have potential there.

I wonder how much of the bad O line play was Bodine making the O line calls rather than Groy, who started last week? They looked light years better vs Carolina when Groy started. Also remember Myles Garrett went 1 overall for a reason.

Here’s an article on the disparity of pot arrests in NYC—studies show roughly similar usage rates between blacks, Hispanics and whites, but show blacks and Hispanics getting arrested at much higher rates than whites. The police tried to explain it by the volume of calls on it in different neighborhoods, but the NYT debunked that explanation with their own study. https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/14/17353040/racial-disparity-marijuana-arrests-new-york-city-nypd

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. As a fan, that was probably the most disturbing thing about all of this. We need him to make steps forward and not back this year....:

Definitely. My dad grew up upstate and all his family were Giants fans, as was he until 1960. When the AFL came along he was all in, especially about the Bills. Some of my parents’ first dates were Bills games. My first game was at the Rockpile during its last year. (A loss to the Johnny U led Colts, 17-0–we got blanked by the same score the next game I went to, too. It took my 3rd game vs the Butkus Bears to see point and a W.) He passed away 2 years ago and is a big reason why I’ll be crying tears of joy for both of us when they eventually win it all.....