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31 minutes ago, RochesterLifer said:
Yes, because as NFL history shows, once a player pulls a hammy, their career is finished. 😏
Haha, to be fair I never said that, nor did I say the sky was falling. All I'm saying is people cheering that it's "only" a hamstring...a hamstring injury might be something that needs to be accounted for the rest of one's career
I think it's the overall general idea where people might be cheering for something initially, but then in the long run it ends up being worse than the thing they were initially cheering against...like that as a general concept is kinda tickling my brain a bit...like from a Shakespearian/Greek tragedy/film noir perspective
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2 hours ago, Slippery Rubber Mats said:
Except it is about healing time. If he can let it heal fully, it is far less likely to happen "over and over"
Except a hamstring can never truly fully heal...my understanding is no muscle can after there is any form of tearing, which is what a pull or a "tweak" is, albeit small.
Kinda like when you get a cut and your skin doesn't grow back exactly the same (you get a scar)...obviously a very small tweak is better than a huge tear, but my understanding is the nature of the hamstring muscle makes it much easier to happen again once there is scar tissue...I'd be really happy to learn this isn't the case with very small hamstring pulls.
I'm not saying it's gonna be a big issue, but it's like people hearing someone had a minor meniscus injury that just needed a "clean up" and being like, phew, that's good news that it's not an acl...when over the long term an acl might be less impactful.
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8 hours ago, BigAl2526 said:
It's a matter of degree. A bad pull/tear can take months to recover from fully. From what Beane said, it sounds as if it is a pretty mild tweak. I don't think it is anything to worry about.
It's not about the healing time, it's about how after the first one they can start happening again over and over.
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A hamstring pull isn't ideal though...the fact it sounds like he's walking ok is good, maybe it really was a tiny pull that doesn't make future ones more likely
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1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
I wasn't factoring history because of course the Giants are way more successful of a franchise than the Jets and Browns. I was talking about present and future outlook. Nabers and Carter should be elite but it doesn't matter until they get their QB. Not a Jaxon Dart fan. It seems the Eagles and Redskins are the cream of the crop of that division for the next few years.
So it's Nabers eh? Lol, thanks for correcting me gently on that one 😅
So basically you're doing the in the moment QB Purgatory rankings...you think those are the top three (in a bad way) teams?
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6 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
They have the worst record of the three the last two years. Eating $22.1m in dead cap for Daniel Jones this year. Counting on Russell Wilson. Yikes.
They've recently enough won super bowls and they basically have had one qb somewhat bust after having Eli Manning for an entire generation.
The Jets and the Browns though...
The Giants are also going through an active rebuild and used their worst record two seasons ago to draft Neighbors who looks like he has the chance to be a hall of fame receiver.
The Jets and the Browns though...the Browns?!
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5 hours ago, dorquemada said:
Dude, that's like listening to incomprehensible jazz, and having some guy in a black beret and goatee tell you "you have to listen to the notes they're not playing"
This isn't 12th dimensional chess. He's not top 10, full stop.
Huh? That post is kinda incomprehensible tbh
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4 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
Poor Joe Schoen. It's why he should've traded Barkley as soon as he got there to another team with a terrible offensive line. Who has it worse? Jets, Giants, or Browns fans.
The Giants don't belong anywhere close to that list in my opinion
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On 5/25/2025 at 10:49 AM, H2o said:
Lists like this, for myself personally, help me to remember how quick an NFL career goes by, how quickly it seems the years end up behind us. I remember watching many of these guys in college, and talking about some of them when the draft was coming around. Now they're over 30, and most at or close to the tail end of their careers for the most part.
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I’m gettin’ older, too
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On 5/17/2025 at 8:40 AM, Just in Atlanta said:
Charlotte is unique in its genericness.
recently, someone showed me a very basic skyline and asked me if I knew what it was. My only thought was it looks so basic maybe Charlotte. I was correct.
North Davidson (NoDa) area of Charlotte is amazing and very much not generic...but agree overall it's a pretty generic city. They also have pretty solid public transportation and there's a lot to do...if we hadn't moved to raleigh, Charlotte would have been a very likely option, and back in 2015 or so we came very close from moving from Ft Lauderdale to Charlotte and would have lived in NoDa, but I ended up getting a good job in FtL and ended up moving out of Florida in 2020 so we could actually see family up in NYS
Long way of me saying NoDa is amazing and I just learned recently that you can take a $29 one way amtrak from raleigh to Charlotte and kids under 12 ride half price
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4 hours ago, HappyDays said:
He wasn't seen as a raw prospect though. Not at all. His skill set was supposed to translate pretty quickly to the NFL... It just hasn't been as advertised. His biggest strengths coming out were supposed to be natural movement skills, hands, and cerebral route spacing. Of those only the movement skills have translated.
TE has traditionally been a tough position to translate to the NFL because they have to learn pass blocking and pass catching. Not so with Kincaid. He has been treated more like a slot WR and those players either adapt to the pros early or they never do. See: Skyy Moore, Elijah Moore, Ladd McConkey. You figure out pretty early on if slot WRs have what it takes. Shakir didn't have it his first year but in year two he had obviously figured it out. Kincaid in year two went backwards... He has to take a HUGE step this year to be worth his draft pick.
Have you seen Kincaid's separation/win rate stats and his % of catchable ball rate stats?
They don't tell a story of him taking a step back, let alone a huge step back, and most certainly not a HUGE step back.
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19 hours ago, RyanC883 said:
D pole?I guess, but I live in Raleigh and usually go to a game or two of Duke and UNC lax once a year...I played high school lacrosse and high level D1 is truly just a different game...it's so fast and physical, it's insane...but yeah, I mean I could see someone being like 6'5" and 240 being insane at lacrosse (Josh Allen size) and then being able to pack on an additional 60lbs of weight by eating a lot. Maybe not a midi, but yeah long stick even d mid or playing attack and just bull dodging or inverting and good luck stopping them on a sweep...the more I think about it the more I can see it, but it still feels unexpected, but just goes to show that you can be really good at lacrosse in so many different ways, it's crazy
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1 hour ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Went to High School in Syracuse and committed to Syracuse for Lacrosse, but then chose Football and switched to Nebraska. Played for Nebraska from 2018-2021. Then transferred to Oregon for 2022-2023. So it seems he spent 6 years in College.
Undrafted Free Agent last year. Signed to the Giants Practice Squad. Activated to their 53 man roster on 12/7/24, then released and signed back to their Practice Squad on 12/24.
Ultimately, just a camp body. But there must be something there that's interesting to be promoted to the 53, albeit briefly, as an Undrafted Rookie and then to be claimed off of Waivers by us.
Wait, he was going to play lacrosse at Syracuse and then ended up playing football as a DT?!
Was he going to play goalie or something...otherwise I'm having a hard time with the logistics of this
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JP Losman and I will die on this hill...he was incredibly mismanaged and is a very similar player to Allen in terms of physical ability (not saying he's on Allen's level, but similar) and from all accounts he's incredibly smart and understands the game at a super high level (this is what caused him to be viewed as negative instead of what he was which was curious and passionate).
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10 hours ago, chris heff said:
I would drop more than $4 bills at any bar to see a few games. It is cheaper and more comfortable to watch from the comfort of my home. That and before Sunday Ticket I used to go to a place a couple of blocks away, called Boston’s on the Beach. It got so bad with the cheap Pats fans, that the management made me sit alone in the back to watch.
Delray Beach? That place is really cool... I've never watched sports there, but have seen Crazy Fingers (a grateful dead tribute band) there a good number of times.
Delray is really cool (I lived in ft lauderdale for 8 years, in raleigh NC now). Man now I'm thinking about DADA and how cool that restaurant is and how we had some really nice times with friends there a bunch of times.
Packy's on Sample is a pretty freaking cool bills backers bar (I moved away in 2020 fwiw)
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6 minutes ago, JFKjr said:
So when you said if he goes undrafted it was collusion to teach him a lesson, and 'something fishy' you were really just channeling Deion's and Shedeur's thoughts, not your own?
Dude, it seems weird he hasn't been drafted yet... you provided a potential explanation based on your logic...it was a potential one.
There were also a lot of draft people who were saying he would be a high pick and those people would be more incentived by clicks if they said Sanders wasn't good and a crap ton of them don't need or want access to players.
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6 hours ago, US Egg said:
Gretzky was not flawless….um, okay?
That said, Orr is the only player in the argument with Gretzky for who’s the greatest.
Mario Lemieux is very very much in that conversation
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10 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:
At a minimum there's a chip in the ball that should be able to determine whether the ball ever crossed the first down line. Unfortunately that doesn't help wrt whether a knee was down before the ball crossed the line.
I'm skeptical that there will ever be a fool proof system, more skeptical that relying on the refs is a good idea and most skeptical that the NFL even cares. Controversial plays/games dates back to the Immaculate Reception (and probably before) and has never negatively affected the bottom line.
But if there is replay that shows precisely the frame the knee hits the ground, or the whistle blows for forward progress...the refs could click a button during a review on the moment the play was stopped and they could see the precise location and orientation of the ball against the first down line and see if it was across or not.
Sure that might impact spotting the ball automatically, but more than 95% of the spots are fine and it's not a big deal if it's 3rd and 1, they get 3 yards, but they spot them half a yard short (in almost all situations)...the problem happens with challenges on plays where fractions of on inch might matter, there are bodies in the way, or the camera angle isn't right on the line.
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I haven't read any of the thread, but this is comp pick wizardry!
They weren't gonna cut him though right?! What is the benefit to Millano for doing this?
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5 hours ago, FireChans said:
Covid only happened in Orchard Park?
How many other teams were in an opening super bowl window that had just paid their qb and were maneuvering to plan for an ongoing transition of the roster to keep that window while keeping it open over the next three years while staying super bowl contenders?
https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/latest-on-bills-salary-cap-issues
Also, Star opted out of the 2020 season and that caused his contract to stay frozen for the year and I'm guessing he was planning on cutting Star after either the 2020 or 2021 season, and that totally screwed that (if he was cut after 2021, which is possible, there would have been a much bigger dead cap hit). Also, I know he extended or restructured Star somewhat confusingly, just can't remember if that was right before or right after covid, but obviously whatever plan he had with that contract totally got screwed by covid.
Beane has talked extensively about how the cap dropping in 2021 significantly impacted them specifically because of where they were in the team building window. It caused them to have to restructure contracts on players they would have likely cut or worked out lower contracts with had they not had to push the cap hit out into future years.
Following the 2021 season and 13 seconds, you would expect Beane to have been super aggressive in getting top players...the drop in the cap started a sequence of events and contract decisions that were forced as a result of the cap drop and derailed a whole bunch of stuff...Beane has talked about it (maybe not in those specifics, but he did), I'm not making it up.
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The cap dropping because of the covid season is the answer...picking low doesn't help, but that was already baked into the plan years and years out...the cap dropping caused all sorts of issues that finally they are able to get past.
Covid also is the only reason they had a shot at getting Rousseau also, so...
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1 hour ago, Brand J said:
I got the feeling the two sides aren’t all that close. I expect an infusion of youth and speed in the secondary during the draft, let’s hope the newcomers can play.
And drafting and having a season where hopefully it is someone they could see wanting to extend and doing it after year 3.
Benford not signing yet makes me think he's going to want to risk not signing and playing the year and cashing in if it goes well. I'm not sure the Bills can afford it, but if beane is saying it's a cap issue and they're planning on getting it done when the cap lets it happen, I could see it happening next season at market value or halfway through when it's impossible for some of the incentives from being possible...maybe even earlier with two players facing a six game suspension
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40 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:
The Bills still eat the cap impact even though the players do not get paid.
Wait, this is for sure legit the case?!
I got $17 to donate to the league fine charity if that means the bills can keep some cap space.
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Also, anyone one how this impacts the comp pick calculations?
Like everyone saying this is embarrassing needs to reevaluate why they feel so confident talking so confidently with such limited information... I'm not judging your first post btw, my initial reaction was why can't we have anything nice ever, but they're so much we don't know and beane has a plan. Larry O kinda feels like a jet ski to the knee type situation though.
Also, speaking of confidence, I'm about to walk into an open mic night with my guitar and I'm feeling...um yeah confident is the word for how I feel for sure, definitely...
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