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I see. I have a handful of place-holding epithets for such scenarios. For many years, "Yakov Shmirnoff" (or just one of those terms alone) was my go-to.

Signing Wood is a PR move? Yeesh. If that's someone's idea of a PR move, they need to be terminated themselves. I'm much more of a mind with t-web: Wood and Kyle are the sorts of players that McDermott wants other players to emulate. So they've been re-signed/extended. I can't get into a lather over that. jeff is also correct, though: It is unlikely that the Patriots would be extending Wood at this stage. Then again: We are not the Patriots. For a lot of reasons. And I agree, inky: The Bills are adrift a bit. But that may be, in essence, part of the plan for this season. It'll take some time to churn the roster (yet again). Also: I've just about lost hope that they'll move McCoy for picks.

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I'm unfamiliar with this use of "liger."

Also fair. Does PH as HC mean I'm going to see, hear, and read "Wimpley" and "hit 'em with your purse" references? I'm really hoping not.

Not so. Fair.

Whaley'd. Say it like waylaid. It works!

Never! (This is one of the best ones I've ever seen/heard.)

I think that's right. It does not matter at all whether your team wins its preseason games. It does, however and to varying degrees, matter how your starters look in their preseason games. Hahaha - damn. That's rough, even for someone (me) who has had some stuff to say on the subject. Hahaha Or maybe his partner. It's likely that Veach was not hired because the owners placed a premium value on having cohesion -- and McDermott wanted someone he knew, and knew he could work with. That may prove a mistake. We'll see.

Ain't gonna lie. I was like: Who?

Holy sh1tballs. Just trade McCoy already.

So great.

Champions League groups set: Groups B, C, and H look to be tough sledding - especially H. Spurs got a rough draw there. As a Liverpool fan, I think I have to be pleased that the Reds got matched with probably the weakest draws from both Pots 1 and 4. Sevilla is a good club, though.

Yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GebKBwqxaY

I'm sure many of them are. One visible Evertonian - Rog Bennett of Men in Blazers - hated the move when it was announced and has been only begrudgingly accepting of his good form thus far.

Are we among the lower counts in the league? Good to have flexibility, I guess. Also: Kris Baker‏ @SabresProspectsFollowing More Hearing many instances of teams having players drop weight this summer. Some as many as 15 pounds. All about speed. 8:36 AM - 24 Aug 2017

Nor was I, but I have to respect what he did internationally.

That quote above about how McDermott came into the situation only confirms for me that I would not have wanted the team to choose a QB until such time as they had their team assembled and had done their own due diligence. This is what I was speaking to. jeff has good content to offer. But I feel like I have to sift through unnecessary conjecture and narrative buttressing to get it.

It wasn't directed to you.

When a poster has good stuff to contribute, he/she should never let a desire to have all facts fit a narrative dilute or detract from the solid stuff that is being offered.

I'm encouraged by the talk of trading McCoy.

Max amount possible is a sort of funny way to phrase it, for a GM. Ah, quite so. JBOT just saying he wants him for 8 years.

Here's what Beane said: “To be in this league, whether its Tyrod or name the quarterback, you have to make plays consistently from the pocket. The quarterbacks that are succeeding year after year after year consistently make plays from the pocket. That’s what, whoever the franchise quarterback is going to be, that’s what he’ll have to do. Do you disagree with that assessment? I sure don't. I think there's a difference between wanting a "pocket passer" and wanting a QB who can and will consistently make plays from the pocket. That doesn't mean you don't want a QB who can get outside the pocket and make plays when the situation calls for it. What Beane seems to want sounds more like a mental aspect to a QB's game rather than a physical one. In any case, it strikes me as faulty reasoning to predict that a desire for a "pocket passer" would cause Beane's FO to select an underwhelming prospect because of that prospect's track record of pocket passing in college. We've elsewhere discussed how Beane being the GM represents part of the league's new wave -- where business asset managers are the GM, rather than old school foobaw types you prefer. If Beane is new school, he's apt to be open to the adaptability we've discussed.

I'm not entirely sure that this is what Beane/McDermott are doing, will be doing, but, overall, this is an incisive point. A couple years ago, a writer for CBS (?) did a piece where he had multiple FO types bemoaning the lack of proper training and readiness among the top college quarterbacks/prospects. I can't recall if it was in the same piece, or in a later rejoinder to it, where some other voices were heard to point out, in essence, "The college systems are what they are for a reason, and they aren't changing because of what the NFL wants. The QB prospects are not going to conform to what we want and need. So we have to adapt." I'll reserve judgment on whether our current administrators can or will follow that trend.

Good guidance here. 30 minutes is a good limit. And this is something other than napping. Unless you're a toddler. The fook you think you are - Sting?