That Aud Smell

Calling a 3rd round pick a bust? Brayton Wilson needs to calm down.

^^ That's a mostly unhelpful way of reporting what Prescott has been offered and what he is demanding. It's all about guaranteed money in the NFL. "AAV," or whatever, doesn't mean a blessed thing in NFL contract talk. What did Carson Wentz get when he signed? IIRC, his guaranteed money was, as a practical matter, more than $100M.

"redneck JaMarcus Russell." So good.

He has a history of them, right? Also, I saw a Tweet that the pass-pro was awful without him in there.

As noted here and elsewhere upthread, that's what I saw on the Tweeter: There was a uniquely, weirdly low morale under this guy's leadership. In a short amount of time. Haha - that is awesome. Not for nothing: I think some guy recently got a big ol' ugly ticket from the DEC for having his large dog catch, take down, and kill (!!!) a white tail at a park in Tonawanda.

I saw a Tweet - can't track it down now - to the effect that "things" were just bad within the organization - something about dark clouds looming over the locker room, etc.

holy sh1tballs do i love that .gif - respect @SDS!!

It looks like he was 2 of 6 in his career, fwiw. One conversion came in the playoffs. I have a buddy who used to joke that Ric Seiling would take a penalty shot by attempting a feckless wrap-around.

If a QB looks lost and awful during training camp and/or preseason action, that’s significant. I understand your point about apparent competence during camp or preseason action. Hell, we all saw Peterman look good this time of year in 2018.

I don’t think I visited it. Also, they’re a bit of apple-orange.

Interesting. That said, the article is fairly non-specific.

The local paper has a prominent headline posted online about Allen's solid performance during the 3rd down drills at today's camp. I think this may be about where I get off the bus. It's too much. Admittedly, I was guilty of feeding into this earlier this year when Allen had good reports out of OTAs, and I was all "YASS, KING." It must be that it's late July. I don't want real-time updates on my local football team's QB at this point in time. I just don't.

This says "no." https://www.capfriendly.com/players/evan-rodrigues

My fake internet birthday (the one I give out to the sites that require it) gives me a choice between Steve Larmer and Rick Nash. I think I'm going with Larmer there? My fake internet birth year gives me Grant Fuhr. Or would it be Andy Moog? They sorta platooned at that time. Too much uncertainty to stake my life on any of this.

That'll do nicely. And he's gonna be massively motivated. Tom Golisano may hate those damn geese, but he's gotta love the one-year nature of this deal!

Talking about Hossa there, right?

Yeah, I'll take The L on that one. I heard a regional accent, and I guess she just had the look an SEC network content-creator (which, ironically enough, she was for several years leading up to this gig). Listening again, she would not have been out of place on the old Da Bears sketch on SNL.

A thought I had: I don’t think royal blue would go well with the “true gold” they’re going for. I think a darker blue is a much better fit for that style of gold. Is it on account of all the hockey?

It appears that they went ahead and tried to "pull off" the colour gold on a uniform. Historically tricky, that. Also: That's a lot of stripes. I guess it's 5 stripes for 5 decades?

She sounds like she's originally from SEC country. Good luck to her. At least Russ Brandon's not around to prey on her. Edit: Her Twitter bio says she's from Chicago. My bad. Second edit: But her C.V. has lotsa recent SEC credits.

that thing is all over the Twitter right now apparently screen grabbed from an online adidas store (?)

What is.

I do think there's a fair amount of talking-past-each-other going on here. It's all good.

I appreciate the feedback. I'd effing love for this kid to defy my uninformed, instinctive response to his signing-day photo.