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The story from P-Ham was that E-Rod was not going to play anyways (they wanted Thompson to get some time), so he asked if he could go home for the baby.

Here's what I think really happened: They wanted a better QB. Ok, understandable. I liked TT, but you don't think he's the answer long haul, I get it. They knew before the 2017 draft that they were going to be drafting a guy the next year though, thats why they traded down (instead of just drafting Mahomes...but thats a different story) So Beane comes in after the draft, he and McD look at the roster and think "hmm, this might just be a decent enough team to get us in trouble, lets do something about it". So they trade away Darby, trade away Watkins, and think they're a lock for a top 10 pick AT WORST, plus then having the KC pick should easily move them into the top-5, probably top-2. They'll have their man, or at least their second choice. But then: disaster. The team is...kind of OK? They're 5-2, 1-0 in the division, and...now what? We have to actually go for it now? They trade for Benjamin and some how squeeze into the playoffs and 9-7. And thats where they ran out of ideas. They thought they'd be able to get Allen with barely having to move, but instead have to spend a lot of assets to get up to pick him. They looked at their WR's and thought "meh, that's fine" with ZJ and KB, despite Jones' rough offseason and Benjamin never living up to his potential. They didn't know what to do at QB, so they brought in McCarron hoping he'd just win the job, but he looked exactly like he's always looked. Wood and Incognito leave and they're dead up the middle. Now they're trying to convince us and themselves that its all part of the plan, next year they'll have all these draft picks and all this cap space. But good players don't move to bad teams in free agency, especially not WRs, and especially when you have very suspect QB play. At best this team is what, 3 years out from being decent? Thats assuming they hit on their picks. Meanwhile they're wasting a defense who actually knows how to play football. Kyle is 35, Lo is 35, and Jerry is 30, what happens when they disappear, too.

Ok, I went a little far, but I don't think I'm THAT far off. If they had plans at QB, WR, and O-line they were so irredeemably bad that they might as well have not had one. If the plan was to BE this bad, then why not go grab a decent vet QB to sit in front of your QB, who EVERYONE knows needs some time to grow, to take the hits that he's GOING to take because a) your wideouts will never be open and b) your offensive line is a sieve. Why trade Tyrod at all? The year to tank was last year before you take a QB. Now that you're in "we have to pick a QB now" mode, why not keep him in there, and let Allen site comfortably behind a guy who doesn't take hits and doesn't throw picks? Its just insanity. I can't imagine what they think the path forward is from here.

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There's no approach. There's no plan. There's no process. These guys have no idea what they're doing.

Tyrell Pryor

Listen, what if Risto and Dahlin are actually, like, good together?

McCabe is a gametime decision

If I make a /u/Unidan joke here, will anyone get it?

Guy on the far left that I don't recognize is a domino. Dahlin (far right) is Frozone. Middle dude (which I think was labeled as skinner somewhere) is Mr. Beane? Thats all I got.

How has NJ only played 8 games?

Sorry about that, I got this sh!t show started

Well its nice to have a legacy

I do wonder if some of it could have been avoided by giving Jack the C while ROR was still here. I think he puts a lot of ***** on his shoulders, and handing that off officially to someone else might have helped.

I'm generally with you on this sort of thing, hence the first part of my post, but it wasn't just one quote. Dude was ALWAYS just playing up the bad side in his interviews and being generally down on himself.

Bumping this up so we can have a regular Dahlin discussion thread. Here's my 2 cents: He's really good. EDIT: After reviewing the actual topic by PA, and that its just about his interviewing skills maybe this isn't the place for it, the title just caught me in my forum search. He's been sharp on the ice and off.

I also was not a Lehner hater when he was here, but seeing a real goalie has flipped the script for me. Even with Hutton's not so hot night there would have been at least 2 more goals for Montreal if Lehner was in net.

So I'm still not 100% on the ROR trade, dude has skills and there's no denying that he's a great center, but last year when they go down two different times there's no way they come back from it. This game they looked unphased. I'm sure there's a variety of reasons for that, including just having more skill, and having more confidence because they KNOW they have more skill. But it does make me wonder if that negativity from O'Reilly really did have a true negative effect on them.

This was my biggest takeaway. A Sabres goalie had an off night, but actually got goal support.

Sabres crushed the Have that period. Hutton lost the puck on that goal, he should have been there to save it

Just got tickets for this game from my boss, so that's pretty sweet. Just have to convince the wife that this would be more fun than picking out flooring for her new home office.

Same reason the save button is a 3.5" floppy.

I'd argue a couple of playoff goals is something.