Big Turk

He looked great against the Ravens in week 1. Where has that player gone?

Just have Hardman run deep and Allen throw the ball as far as he can and let him run under it. How hard can this be to try 2-3x a game? At least it will force the D to back off a little.

My issue they are sometimes maddeningly slow to change when things aren't working and it seems obvious to people watching from the outside. It's like they believe they just need some extra time...and sometimes they are right, but often they are not and at some point the player needs to show some improvement.

The dude that posted an all "0" stat line in one of the most WR friendly offenses in the NFL this past week? I mean right now he has 30 catches for 403 yards, which is basically Coleman level production. Coleman's week 1 stat line of 8 for 112 is the best for either of them this year.

But he is terrible at jump balls right now, which was a strength of his in college. That's the biggest issue. Essentially what he did at the college level very well has not translated almost AT ALL to the NFL level. YAC actually has probably been his best asset and we have seen that in multiple situations.

Agree, we have too many of the same player and there are only so many spots available for them at the same time. Kincaid, Shakir, Coleman, Samuel, Moore all fill the same role more or less. Palmer can be an outside guy but even he got a lot of production in the slot with the Chargers.

I mean there are ways to more effectively utilize him, but if we aren't going to do it, we need to put someone else on the field that can play that role better. I don't disagree. Beane tends to pick more high floor, lower ceiling players than those teams who aim for the blue chip, boom or bust type players more. Although I think Kincaid, Hairston, Bishop and Walker have the potential to be those players in time and Cook has turned into one.

You could say that about a lot of teams.

Then bench him and start working with different receiver packages. Reminds me of when we tried to force Kelvin Benjamin, Andre Holmes, etc and the other big body receivers that could never get open and as soon as we started putting Isaiah McKenzie, Robert Foster, etc on the field they started getting open. Why Beane keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again with trying to force big body receivers that simply aren't good enough is maddening.

Yes, the key is to balance them. I think they try to stagger contracts in a way that they have way to open up cap space when needed each year. Obviously it's an inexact science but overall I think they have managed that part pretty well. Now in terms of who they have chosen to give big dollar extensions to? That might be up for debate. Philly has a ton of void years hitting next year also, having 10 players totaling about $29 million...most are small, but Goedert is going to count $20.5 mil against the cap next year if they don't extend him. They've also got $43 million in Dead Cap Space next year.

Eagles have to have the worst offense based on who they have at the skill positions and with an elite offensive line and it's not even close. I know GB defense played well but this is kinda par for the course for the Eagles. It's almost criminal for them to be this bad this often.

Yes and it wouldn't be close.

Guess offenses can look like trash even with an all-star cast of skill position players.

Worthy is mostly a gadget receiver. Coleman would have had more yards than him his rookie year has he not missed a bunch of games.

Well some wanted Worthy or Legette, Coleman has more yards this year than both of them. Let's not pretend the other ones they could have picked are some kind of stars. McConkey was also never in play because they already had Shakir in the slot, so that's not really a valid argument.

Imagine getting rid of Diggs because you wouldn't do that only to try the same thing with a guy that has 1/10th his talent 2 years later.

I mean he made several impactful plays in the run game, so it wasn't all bad.

McDermott was extremely fidgety while answering that. Definitely a sign he was not giving the full answer that he wanted to give and was choosing his words very carefully. Similar to when Allen had a very long pause yesterday before answering that question in order to think of a way to phrase his answer properly.

A few weeks ago Alex Singleton from the Broncos was randomly drug tested and it detected abnormally high levels of something called hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin. This raised a red flag and after further medical evaluations, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had successful surgery to have it treated. They believe it was caught early enough that it should have minimal impact, with the doctors believing he should make a full recovery and will even be able to return to play later this season. So while NFL players might hate getting that visit at their locker after the game to go pee in a cup, it may just end up saving their life. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/denver-broncos-alex-singleton-cancer-surgery-nfl-drug-test/

Looks like an ugly weather day from the early forecasts... 48 degrees winds 10-20 mph with higher gusts. Chance of rain 80%. Always a chance the rain holds off or ends earlier as it's still 6 days out, but not looking pretty as of right now.

My Dad got a notice that Kaleida would no longer accept his UHC plan in 2026 for Medicare Advantage so I spent the weekend delving into things and got him set up on Univera today...only for him to receive a letter in the mail from Kaleida this morning that it reached an agreement with UHC and would continue accepting it next year. Went to medicare.gov and basically sorted thru all the options there. This sh!t should be illegal.

It looks like they could free up about 23 million next year by designating Samuel and Knox as post June-1st cuts and also cutting Rapp who is in the last year of his deal next year, but since they are already almost 4 million over the cap next year, we would only have about $19 million to work with. Assuming there would be some other restructures and/or moves involved. Have 5 void years hitting next year as well eating up cap space if we don't move to re-work those in Milano, Jones, Bosa, Epenesa, and McGovern. Would expect McGovern, Epenesa and Bosa to look to be extended... that would help lower those cap hits of roughly $15-16 million combined. Milano and Jones are likely not returning and we are going to have to eat the cap hits of about $15 million total on them. So we have some levers to pull but we will have to work around some things.

You can go to either Spotrac or OverTheCap and play around with things in there that will allow you to manage things and cut players, etc...

It's unreal how snakebit this team is with injuries this year...and really Buffalo teams in general...same thing is going on with Sabres.

A healthy Palmer and Kincaid at the same time would alleviate some of this problem. Looks like we won't have that for at least 2-3 more weeks now.