HardyBoy

I feel like trading a 3rd during the season causes Beane to chase the pick in the draft somehow...like there is some sunk cost fallacy or something going on

Lol, nicely done and go bills

Do you understand what the term contributing factor means? I'm not saying he did that because of CTE... I'm saying it could he something he was dealing with and as a coping mechanism he could have went down a path of self soothing with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately could have resulted in him doing that... Like if someone hurts their back and then gets prescribed pain pills and then gets addicted even when using them as prescribed and then loses their job as a result and then gets foreclosed on and then has to live on the street and then gets arrested for robbing someone...and I say I wonder if them hurting their back was a contributing factor and then you saying "you can't be serious"...you know ridiculous and lacking humility or understanding your comment would have or lacking the understanding of how incredibly close any one of us is to that reality no matter how much you want to tell yourself you're different and somehow better than reality...well, same thing here in terms of how silly that comment is

My first thought too...at least as a contributing factor

Because you're more likely to have 48 out or 53 healthy players...if one team has 53 healthy enough players to play and the other team has only 49 healthy players to play, that's a disadvantage...this makes it more likely to be even...that's how I've always understood it

I think that's a fair perspective

Unfortunately it would be an incredible landing spot for Joe Brady...

Maybe a team was trying to claim him?

He doesn't have the lateral quickness to be an NBA point guard and he's not big enough or explosive enough to be a small forward...which no knock on Allen, just it's insanely hard to make it to the NBA, much harder than the nfl and obviously the nfl is insanely hard to get to. Not sure if this has been said yet, but the answer is lacrosse hands down...he could be the best lacrosse player ever...he would be absolutely incredible as at long stick or midfield...he wouldnt even need to be that good with the stick to be a short stick d midfielder...but just thinking about him coming around on a sweep from midfield, getting half a step on the defender and boxing him out with his body and unleashing a shot, as hard as he can throw, him with a lax stick...oh man

The reason the USA is not better at soccer is because it's pay to play and insanely expensive...it actually probably is the default sport in a lot of ways...it's just crazy expensive to play at the level needed to develop elite soccer players. Look at it this way...Josh Allen was basically almost completely missed as a prospect...he didn't go to a ton of football camps, which cost a crap ton of money and travel to attend...now imagine the entire system is designed so essentially only afluent kids can afford to play a sport (soccer) and the whole basis of the system is to make money per player. In Europe and other places, clubs that identify an elite player and develop them, are then able to either keep that player within their organization or they transfer that player to a different club and get a huge transfer fee that allows them to continue developing other players...to make money, in the usa the goal is to get players in the door...in other countries it is find unidentified players with elite potential and get them to be elite...the players identified as having that potential do not have to pay in other countries

Yeah, you forgot he had a 100% fumble rate at one point

Thank you! Didn't realize he was elevated for week 1!

Didn't he kick in game 1? Maybe they have to be on the roster at the start of week 1 and he signed that Thursday after the week started? It would make sense they waited to avoid the guarantee, but he played week 1...

Isn't Prater's contract fully guaranteed (he was on the roster week 1) with offset language...he could legit turn down any offers and come back on the bills practice squad and the only thing that changes is he wouldn't be actually kicking...now if you needed to go back to prater, then you either cut bass and get hit with all that dead cap and you likely lose him to waivers since it would be post trade deadline, but you could also elevate prater in the playoffs... Let me know if I have anything confused on how that stuff works

Ticketmaster and ticket brokers...the bills sell them tickets directly, I can almost guarantee that...they definitely get tickets to concerts directly