Mike Tanier: OTM

As far as I can tell, after watching several offensive series for the Bills, opponents are just doubling Lee Evans with a safety deep, rushing Losman from the edge, and asking the Bills what else they have. The Bills will win some games if Marshawn. Peerless, Roscoe or someone else steps up as the legit No. 2 target. Until then, Losman will drop back, look deep, shrug his shoulders and wish he was in some warmer city.

I think he threw to Price and Parrish a handful of times during the Steelers game, but yeah. that seems pretty otm.

Actually, Parrish had a decent game with Josh Reed out, but it's not as though this defensive manooooovruh is exactly what you'd call unexpected, so where's the answer?

(I'm looking at you, Marv Levy)

great moments in peerless price history

Peerless LeCross Price (born October 27, 1976) is an American football wide receiver in the NFL. His mother is said to have named him after a name on the side of a moving truck.

Atlanta Falcons (2003-2004)

(...)during his two year stint with in Atlanta, Price was unable to produce any breakthrough numbers, and was considered a great bust ... He was released during the 2005 offseason, coining the phrase, "I hate y'all".

Can you imagine Herm Edwards and Norv Turner playing "Stratego"?

Edwards: I've got a great Field Marshal. I'm gonna run him right up the middle. Right up the middle, between those two lakes, with no other pieces supporting him. Gonna do it 416 times, run him right over your army. Try to stop him. Just try to stop him.

Turner: Well, I've been using the same strategy for 15 years, since back when I had that special "Stratego" set in Dallas with three Field Marshals, four Generals, and five extra bombs to defend my flag. Everybody thought I was a genius then, so there's no reason for me to change now.

Edwards: Where are my Lieutenants? Where are they? I can't find them. How much time do I have to make my move? Oh no, timeout! Timeout!

Turner: My Miners don't really feel like defusing bombs today. No big deal. I'll let them make their own rules. I'm not worried. If I get fired, some terrible team will hire me as an "Uno" coordinator.

Edwards: A spy got my Marshal. Who's in charge of the army now? Here we go. You want to ask, so ask. We play to capture the flag. It's that simple. We play ... to capture ... the flag.

When Turner and Edwards square off again in Week 13, they won't be playing "Stratego". They'll be playing "Sorry."

Why in the holy hell you fire Schottenheimer after last season and hire anyone but Vince Lombardi is still beyond me. You can't lose in January if your season is over in December.

what's the point of losing in january or losing in december? the goal is to WIN in january and marty has a long history of not doing that. why they didn't fire him earlier is beyond me.

yeah, well, i guess you can't lose in january if you never get there in the first place. good point!

I like Herm Edwards too, despite teasing him in Rundown all the time. He’s just not a great “Xs and Os” guy. He’s a lot like Marty Schottenheimer, but with Larry David writing his press conferences. And of course I hate Norvilicious, and I haven’t seen this game because I am getting the Cardinals and Steelers, but my God, I cannot believe it is this bad. He is the worst coach ever to get a third chance to show his ineptitude.

norv is like that girl in your social circle who is sort of boring and makes you sort of worse, but everyone ends up hooking up with her at least once because she's good at a couple of things and your bros are like, "well maybe she'll work out for you, maybe it's worth it, she did this well". and then she doesn't do anything well and just gets more desperate and lame over time until she ends up a spinster cackling in some suburban apartment talking to her cats. norv turner is that girl.

that makes me really feel for Norv Turner, gear!

herm edwards is only good for stage managing nfl fashion shows, people.

well you do feel for the girl, but you still don't want to end up long-term with her!

footballoutsiders.com/2007/09/27/extra-points/5536/#comment-265465

Here’s the ManGenius call everyone will want to talk about: The Jets face fourth-and-1 from the four-yard line late in the game, down by seven, 3:32 to play. They line up in the shotgun and throw a fade to Laveranues Coles with Sheldon Brown defending. Brutally bad call. First of all, they only needed a half a yard and had been running well all day. Second … shotgun? Third … attack Sheldon Brown? They decided to attack the best player on the Eagles back seven after essentially telegraphing a pass play in a heavy running situation. It was pure Keep Chopping Wood material, and as an Eagles fan I will take it.

I love that this guy has his own substack now and I can just directly pay him for his content fwiw

Annnd he has achieved press credentials for the Super Bowl!

“Peyton Manning gracefully transitioned into a Grand Old Man of the Game, awards-show host and self-skewering pitchman. At least Coach Prime succeeds at the jobs he flits to while chasing his sons through life. Rodgers is a dangerous noodle-brain, but a genuine one capable of finding fresh, depressing new ways to remain newsworthy. Brady is devolving into a hyper-privileged, easily-distracted hobbyist who needs to matter so damn much that he keeps pointing spotlights at his inept quasi-relevance.”

“I don’t like college football coaches in general, nor self-promoting loudmouths who use religion as a criticism shield, nor helicopter daddies who call the principal over every B-plus and turn the Little League into a kangaroo court, nor powerful people who throw their influence around but act persecuted when things don’t go exactly their way.
But in Coach Prime’s specific case, I don’t like him for what he has done to his son, who has never been given the chance to be his own man, and will now have to wait one more day.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/miketanier/p/perfunctory-aaron-rodgers-flavored