HardyBoy

Wouldn't paying for the loans taken out to buy the teams count as debt? Assuming they didn't pay for it outright.

No false start jokes yet? I don't know nearly enough about guard play to have a real opinion.

Something based on gender or race? Maybe as a dumb teenager or in their early 20s with very minimal life experience, but as an adult? Might want to reevaluate that "everyone" and change it to some people or a few people. Now, I mean have I done things outside of work that potentially could have gotten me in trouble at work if it went viral...sure, I'm 100% with you there, but non satirical off color jokes about race or gender...nah, probably not the norm honestly.

I don't see the front office or this coaching staff doing that in this case...if this wasn't satire, which I've expressed my thohghts on already, this is a teachable moment (I guess I'm assuming this was a joke at worst if not satire, and not his true underlying belief system, but even then he's what, 22...not excusing racism in 22 y/o, just they really arent their own person yet). Even then, this is a really good opportunity for the team to come together and help someone grow.

Again, difference in a joke vs satire. Agree, not a tasteful joke...if it is satire used as a metaphor to show general things through a single example taken to an extreme...and proving a point very clearly that charging so much for supressors that essentially only elite white people are able to get them, and that is largely what is happening with say a college education, where the vaaaast majority of people graduate with student debt...it's a pretty solid satirical sarcastic comment...that said, I have no idea if that's what he was doing.

If he was saying that fully sarcastically as an example of the outome of systemic racismand income inequality that shouldn't be a problem (and I don't believe it would be a problem). Issue is, it's so easy to not get that context in a text...this is a situation where you would need to see other texts and comments, especially because that is pretty right on in terms of satire that aligns with what truly needs to change systemically.

Not from first hand experience, but pretty sure the move is to put a Pam in as a Pat...you're doing it wrong

Trolling? Calling a d1 punter terrible...lol, ok. Also, the nfl is not good at developing kickers and punters. https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/11/22/20976974/nfl-kicking-regression

I mean there are only 32 spots available. Even the worst punter in the league is an insanely amazing punter.

Lol was thinking the same thing with oj...well done!

Mario Williams

Except this is the first act still, and likely midway through the first act...population density and air travel have changed a lot since 1957. Also, people need to stop judging this just soley on deaths. They are finding long term damage, possibly permanent, in multiple organ systems in people getting sick. The US military is banning people who were hospitalised with covid19 for life, and initially that was just being diagnosed prevented you from enlisting, but was rolled back. That's a huge policy for something likely to infect 70% of the population...there has to be a reason for that.

There is a HUGE difference between basic and simple. The Bills offense is basic, but not simple, which imo is what you want. You make things complex by combining basic pieces together is creative ways. People who are hoping for a monolithic offensive system where there is no artistry or improve within a structure are confusing me. JA is going to thrive when he can be creative within a framework that he truly understands and can combine basic pieces quickly into super unique creative things on the fly at the line. I'm not sure why people are so hoping we have a simple elementary offense that puts artificial ceilings on players. You can be overly complex too though where people have to think instead of react, but usually that happens more on defense (see Rex Ryan or Al Golden at University of Miami)

Do you keep the ball where you end up, or if you make it does it go back to the 25? If it goes back to the 25 I'm much more ok with it than if you can score a td, especially since you can't advance an onside kick. That said, make it the 40, since a kick has to go 10 (or 15 yards now) before it is a live ball. The only thing is that a kickoff is a live ball so you could theoretically get possession wherever on the field if the team doesn't touch it. All that said, the idea of a free hail mary that you can score on by saying "onside kick attempt" is not right.

I am hoping a lot of the long ball stuff is overblown (no pun intended...you'll see). Basically every home game to end the season starting with that Eagles game was crazy crazy windy, and I'm sure that played a huge part in not reverting back to the mean at least a bit, because the start of the year was bad for sure deep ball wise. A lot of the deep shots seemed like they happened at the end of progressions last year (could be wrong here), which might be why he couldn't put as much air under the ball. This article makes me think he will be able to better recognize a saftey can't possibly get to a spot on the field, so he can throw it earlier and therefore higher so it can take longer to get to the spot.

I mean yes, but you really think that wasn't in the play design the last two years? You basing this on evidence or a hunch (genuine question)? Cause I'm going with hunch:

I think this has as much to do with the analytics on what is better for those individual games as it does for ensuring you get a more likely chance at as nice a schedule as possible. Not being difficult with specific needs makes it a heck of a lot more likely that you get fewer teams coming off byes, etc. Their goal is to balance all that stuff out when they build the schedule...start adding stipulations and it's such a complicated thing that you start having to play multiple teams off byes potentially to accomodate the other stuff...i mean that's an assumption, but I'll stand by it big time.

Yeah, it's actually kind of crazy that the cap is tied to a single year revenue. I mean I guess it is stop gap for something like this, but you'd think they'd smooth it over over the last few years with future anticipated revenue built in too. The problem you are going to run into is cashflow though...the fans are a consistent revenue stream, especially season ticket holders. They'll get loans, but remember that whole cash to cap thing? Maybe not the worst idea after all, but assuming that included future ticket revenue anticipated in the coming season. Might be a good number of teams up for sale, because I don't care who you are, not many people have 150m in cash burning a hole in their pocket and a lot of investments are down and it might make a lot more sense to sell an nfl team at a profit than a bunch of investments at an astronomical loss...they should sell guaranteed team bonds.

So to me this is part of the team building continuum when you have a qb on their rookie deal. First you sign a bunch of value free agents to one year deals to build depth. Then you turn some of those players into picks...basically turning cap space into draft capital in the early late rounds (5th and 6th rounds). Then, you use those picks initially to move up to get players that you have a significant higher value for you because of system fit or identifying an elite skill others are missing, but drop to say the third round because moneyball. Then, you stop trading up and using those picks to find high value depth (where a lot of teams are still plugging in needs for starters). You're still signing one year free agents, but that really needs to stop once you need to start signing players, but by then you have a steady stream of rookies going from year 3 to year 4, and those are basically your one year free agent deals, but now you actually get comp picks when they leave and instead of using free agents to trade for mid round capital to keep this rolling, you start trading down. Don't know if I'm right (directionally I think I'm on the right track for sure though), but by the time I got done typing that out, I'm pretty sure I was describing the Pats.

So my wife had a friend from high school that booked a flight in very early March to come visit us in south Florida mid-march. If the flight had been the next day I would have said heck no, she needs to cancel, but seeing it was a bit less than three weeks away, I just let it ride and things took care of themselves in terms of people not flying. This will be the same way...lol at thinking there will be 70k screaming people in stadiums...screaming and spitting on all the people in the rows below them. I mean it's not impossible I guess, but I think setting your slim hopes on any season at all would be a better use of your time...lol and at the start of flu season where the beds are going to fill up from that already...(I know I may come across like I think this is funny, it's not, it really sucks...I have a 4 month old that I'm concerned that a lot of my family basically halfway across the country in rochester that I'm not sure when he will see them...genuinely could be years...unless we move north a ways, which is looking very likely). Wait, I'm not taking my advice and just letting it ride...yeah we'll see, hopefully they let people drink, but whatever, I don't usually drink inside sporting events too much, because it makes me miss too much of the game.

Very interesting on the pensions...that is not a good sign after a ten year stock market streak to have to cut pensions I have a strong feeling we are going to be hearing about a lot more of pension cuts in the near term, and this is an organization that brings in a ton of very regular and steady profit...same cannot be said about many local municipalities and states.

I'll just leave this here, cause that left hand is nasty good (the solo is pretty unreal):

Maybe, but unfortunately they are seeing potential long term, maybe permanent damage outside of just the lungs. This also has the potential to damage T cells kind of like hiv does (though not permanent leading to aids). It is way, way too early to say that even a super minor case of this is no big deal, let alone a typical "mild" case that knocks you down with a 103+ fever for a week and just the craziness of all the other symptoms...we have no idea if there are long term impacts, though it really is starting to look like there are, amd how much impact those are going to have for the rest of a person's life. Plus, it's very much looking like you aren't going to have a lot of antibodies to this if you don't get really sick potentially. That means no herd immunity. Also, could mean if you only have a little bit of antibodies, you could experience Antibody Dependent Enhancement, which is where the antibodies actually make the infection a lot worse (that's why they need to be so careful with the vaccine). You flat out do not want to catch this if you can avoid it. That said, I understand the awful situation a lot of people are facing where that sounds great, but they can't put food on their family's table without working, or work in an essential role that can't be done remote, or have lost their job because of this...it's crazy, but let's not minimize the potential very significant dangers of this virus that can happen when we look outside of just survived vs dead, and more and more research is showing that this isn't just being careful of the unknown, this is a potentially very damaging virus...even if the death rate comes in sub 1% it could very well cause significant and permanent injury to many many more people (check the line from the second article below about 1 in 5 people and heart damage). T cells: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0304-7 Long term damage and not just to lungs: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241953691.html An initial study found that as many as 1 in 5 coronavirus patients who show no respiratory distress suffer cardiac damage, leading to heart failure and even death, Kaiser Health reported. Initial research suggests that coronavirus can directly infect the heart muscle, attaching to receptors in the lungs that are also found in the heart, according to the outlet.

Wrong question...what 5th, 6th, 7th round picks and ufas that this regime has drafted are legit nfl players? A good number and they're really good at finding value there. I totally hear what you're saying, they're at a point where going for one premium is better than extra above avereage, but I think sustained success comes from having the middle of the roster being cheap quality depth. Building your depth through the draft by getting players who either are highly interchangeable within the various aspects of your overall scheme or have a skill that allows them to be used very specifically within a specific piece of that scheme that allows them to be almost elite because they are great at the things you are needing them to do.

Ah, hadn't read all way to end of thread...basically what the poster directly above this post said: But they would upgrade the practice squad assuming different teams didn't pick them up after they got cut. This front office has been great at finding gems in later rounds and developing them. I hear you on the trade up, but they can still improve the team with those later picks, even if they end up on the practice squad. Remember, Beane views the ps as a true place for player development.