Preseason - Around the League

[syhuang]

 

 

[DCOrange]

14 minutes ago, syhuang said:

 

 

Baker in particular was a draft crush for many including myself.

[JohnBonhamRocks]

Would love Baker on the PS.

[Gregg]

Tommy "Cutlets" a Pat

 

https://apnews.com/article/tommy-devito-patriots-giants-11c3a358c9c6aafaf2bb19b57f304702

[JerseyBills]

Great testament to this culture ..

 

One of, if not the best in the game,  starts with 17 and McBeane 

 

[R.O.]

No one is talking about this?

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46088159/patriots-claim-qb-tommy-devito-release-wr-kendrick-bourne

 

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots bolstered their quarterback depth chart by claiming former New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito on waivers Wednesday.

To make room for DeVito, the Patriots released veteran wide receiver Kendrick Bourne after talks to trade him didn't come to fruition.

[billsfan89]

16 hours ago, JerseyBills said:

Great testament to this culture ..

 

One of, if not the best in the game,  starts with 17 and McBeane 

 

 

Hard Knocks kind of reinforces how much the players love being here. You can see there's just a different atmosphere around the team than with other organizations. There's a reason why so many players are very eager to come back. 

[JerseyBills]

30 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

 

Hard Knocks kind of reinforces how much the players love being here. You can see there's just a different atmosphere around the team than with other organizations. There's a reason why so many players are very eager to come back. 

yea I agree

It's more of a family vibe and McDermott and Beane deserve so much praise for creating that , look at the sh1tshow they walked into, 17 year playoff drought and compare that to now, it's remarkable 

[stevewin]

1 hour ago, billsfan89 said:

 

Hard Knocks kind of reinforces how much the players love being here. You can see there's just a different atmosphere around the team than with other organizations. There's a reason why so many players are very eager to come back. 

I actually thought there's be more stuff showing the bonding off the field - Catan battles at TC etc - but I think the team has told them to turn the cameras off after a certain time.  I did love at McGovern's pizza party his wife was frustrated "he's back for one day and Josh is already texting everyone to come over to his house" 😆

[Bockeye]

2 hours ago, JerseyBills said:

yea I agree

It's more of a family vibe and McDermott and Beane deserve so much praise for creating that , look at the sh1tshow they walked into, 17 year playoff drought and compare that to now, it's remarkable 

Great point.  If only they can do it with the Sabres now. 

[boyst]

not sure who to quote here but it's a paradox.

 

while it is great for the players to have a family atmosphere and have such a high standing calibre of teammates it is also about building a football team.

 

that football team is not always going to be boy scouts. you will rasheed rice, ray lewis, and others.

 

this is not a complaint, per se, as i cheer for the laundry while i appreciate some players for who they are and what they offer the community. anyone being anything more than not a bad guy is good enough.

[billsfan89]

1 hour ago, stevewin said:

I actually thought there's be more stuff showing the bonding off the field - Catan battles at TC etc - but I think the team has told them to turn the cameras off after a certain time.  I did love at McGovern's pizza party his wife was frustrated "he's back for one day and Josh is already texting everyone to come over to his house" 😆

 

They probably don't want to be too intrusive for the players from a personal perspective. But just the way they interact and talk with each other and how they talk about the experience really does comport with how the players present and former talk about the organization/city/team.

[RoyBatty is alive]

Dolphins linebacker coach arrested on Domestic Violence.

 

Dolphins are going to be a massive sheiotshow this year.

Edited Friday at 06:04 PM by RoyBatty is alive

[Buffalo716]

On 8/28/2025 at 4:55 PM, boyst said:

not sure who to quote here but it's a paradox.

 

while it is great for the players to have a family atmosphere and have such a high standing calibre of teammates it is also about building a football team.

 

that football team is not always going to be boy scouts. you will rasheed rice, ray lewis, and others.

 

this is not a complaint, per se, as i cheer for the laundry while i appreciate some players for who they are and what they offer the community. anyone being anything more than not a bad guy is good enough.

The bills are not full of boy scouts tho lol

Edited Saturday at 02:45 AM by Buffalo716

[boyst]

9 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

The bills are not full of boy scouts tho lol

They're better than average. 

[Long Suffering Fan]

11 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

The bills are not full of boy scouts tho lol

 

1 hour ago, boyst said:

They're better than average. 

 

Both of these are true and both of these are good things.

 

Another benefit of a strong culture is that you can take in some talented players, who are maybe not the highest character players, and the culture carries them so that you can get the benefit of all their talent.  The players police themselves, as it were.  If you have too many of them, things unravel.  It is like back in the day when people like Kelly used to talk about the over/under on the number of players you could have from the U.  They were good players, so you wanted some of them, but you didn't want too many.

[RobbRiddick]

20 hours ago, RoyBatty is alive said:

Dolphins linebacker coach arrested on Domestic Violence.

 

Dolphins are going to be a massive sheiotshow this year.

I think it depends on how they start. If they get a few good wins early it could lead to one of those "no one believed in us" things where they start feeding off the momentum and it brings them together. If things go south early they could completely fall apart, then you'll have guys like Hill making even more of an a$s of himself talking trash on social media and trying to engineer a trade. For all Tua's faults they are a much better offense when he plays because he's so good with the timing and quick throws, so any chance they have to even be in playoff contention is dependant on him not missing time, which is a big if.

[DrDawkinstein]

43 minutes ago, RobbRiddick said:

I think it depends on how they start. If they get a few good wins early it could lead to one of those "no one believed in us" things where they start feeding off the momentum and it brings them together. If things go south early they could completely fall apart, then you'll have guys like Hill making even more of an a$s of himself talking trash on social media and trying to engineer a trade. For all Tua's faults they are a much better offense when he plays because he's so good with the timing and quick throws, so any chance they have to even be in playoff contention is dependant on him not missing time, which is a big if.

 

Ehh, I predict it will go the same as the last few years. They start out ok as "kings of September", but then once that crisp October air hits they freeze up and go back to their south beach jacuzzis and fall apart through the rest of the season.

 

So, strong start, but that momentum will quickly crumble.

[Sojourner]

2 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Ehh, I predict it will go the same as the last few years. They start out ok as "kings of September", but then once that crisp October air hits they freeze up and go back to their south beach jacuzzis and fall apart through the rest of the season.

 

So, strong start, but that momentum will quickly crumble.

They best start strong given 3 of their first 4 games are all divisional opponents lol

 

 

[DrDawkinstein]

56 minutes ago, Sojourner said:

They best start strong given 3 of their first 4 games are all divisional opponents lol

 

 

 

They should be able to beat the Jets. The Pats will be tough, where is that game? No shot against the Bills.