Big Turk

Well, that's about as good as they could have hoped for...looked far worse as he was rolling around screaming on the ground last night. https://www.si.com/nfl/packers/jordan-love-update-no-acl-tear-01j76j5ym3gf

NFL has been hesitant to go into Canada due to the CFL

That's true but the difference between the 25 and 30 is likely very small.

squib kick it into the endzone...if the team takes a TB they only get it at the 20.

Neither did kicking touchbacks last year...nothing is going to develop...teams are going to randomly try it until they get burnt once and say F that, it isn't worth it and continue kicking TBs. Just like they did with kicking short at times last year strategically. The NFL did it to themselves by not either increasing the penalty for TBs or moving the kickoff back so it would be harder to kick TBs. IMO, they don't want kickoffs and did all these changes for the "illusion" that they want to bring them back but they really don't.

The strategy is to kick the ball out of the endzone and take the known versus the unknown, as multiple coaches and ST coaches have said.

Wiser than potentially giving up long returns to save 5 yards.

I watched the Bills preseason game against Carolina in Rotterdam 😂

There is almost no penalty for teams kicking touchbacks. If they really wanted to prevent touchbacks they either needed to move the kickoff back to the 20 like it used to be or up the penalty so it would be teams starting at the 35 or 40 instead of the 30. There is virtually no reason for a team to not kick the ball thru the endzone right now, especially since they have no idea how kick coverage will be on these plays over a large sample size during the season. An extra 5 yards, wow...big deal. The NFL made all these changes but were almost pointless due to not really penalizing the team for TBs or moving the ball father back on kickoff so that a TB would be much harder, which IMO is exactly what they wanted...give the "illusion" they were bringing kickoffs back into play but leave it so that kicking a TB is still going to be far and away the most likely outcome. Which is no surprise since that's what they do with lots of things...give the illusion they care for public image, but really don't...player safety, retired players, concussions, field playing surfaces, etc...

a shot or a cup of tea?

No, it's whoever will be purchasing that minority stake in the team's money which will be financing it.

No rain in the forecast at all now definitely helps

Dude is going to be an All-Pro sooner rather than later I think.

But teams still use it from time to time and it is still effective when it's used.

They all said options, wildcat, spread formations, etc wouldn't work in the NFL...until they actually started using them and they did work...and in large part have changed how the game is played.

That was pretty much the only big play of the game for them and the Fins scored 21 points, including one TD where the drive started inside the Bills 10 yard line due to a strip/sack/fumble on Allen. Bills did not lose because of the defense that day.

How long before someone in the NFL adopts this play and runs it in a game? Absolutely brilliant...and would be very hard to stop if they didn't know it was coming... Essentially the punter acts like he is punting, but instead underhand throws the ball down field in a high arc that actually looks like a punt. His player then catches it like 30-40 yard down field for a first down. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/high-school-punter-really-threw-165610695.html

Will it? Last time we played them early in the year we had 3/4 of the secondary out heading into the game then Benford went down in the 1st or 2nd series and we rolled out UDFA PS callup Ja'Marcus Ingram as a rookie who played almost the whole game as the other starting CB. Literally the whole secondary was out that game. Tua had something like 150 yards passing that game and the Fins had under 250 for the game.

Every time I hear Space Oddity I think about the helicopter ride 😂

that movie was freaking hilarious tho...wonder if Cecil was lurking in the background filming this to leak it...

latest weather report updating to say showers ending in the morning and then partly cloudy in afternoon.

Bills 34 Cards 20 Still remember the Camarillo punt game back in the days where his punts went for like 5 yards because they got caught up in the wind and blown backwards 😂

It's never a bonus when you have Josh Allen at QB. It's expected.

Diggs wasn't a superstar in Minnesota. He was just a good WR who hadn't yet become a super and likely never would have if he stayed there.

Giving players ownership is never a bad thing. That makes them 100% accountable not only to the coaches but also to each other. Plenty of success can be had with this method. Thinking you "have to do something a certain way or it won't work" is in the box thinking. Out of the box thinking works as well if not better many times and is far more flexible. People think Belichick was an "in the box thinker" but he has LOTS of "out of the box" things that he did where he utilized "gray areas" or was innovative in doing something not many others were doing because he saw clear mismatches or advantages to it. At the end of the day, execution ALWAYS is more important than play calls and if you are giving players an opportunity to give feedback on what they believe they can execute well and put the onus on them to then do it, I don't see how that's a bad thing.