BRH

These grades cannot be accurate because too many people on this board lost their ***** over the deal.

This.

Oh well, Jason Taylor was this guy's DL coach so he must be a good pass rusher

Minnesota gave up that much to move up seven spots for that guy?

Minnesota just traded into 17

Bigger point is, they didn't clue Cousins in at all. I mean, not that they had to. How much of his contract is guaranteed, anyway?

McCarthy and Darnold both have the same Lego person face. And now they're teammates.

That doesn't make sense because it suggests the Jets actually did something right

This is good.

They're doing it right now

Oh this gets interesting now

I actually think the prospect of that would be a big motivator for Beane to get him at 9.

*****

Now they trade down to 28!

Yes let's go

I remember not too long ago people were saying that about Mac Jones.

Let's be honest, he's way better than Mac Jones ever was. That's a low bar though.

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I imagine the NFLPA would have a mutiny on its hands if it agreed to that. This isn't like the NBA where the exceptions aren't position-specific. Imagine the union coming back to the players and saying, guess what, the quarterback can make as much money as he wants but the rest of you schlubs have to share a finite amount. Especially when quarterbacks generally have longer careers than anyone else because they're so protected. I do agree 100% with you that players should have the opportunity to maximize their earnings and I will never hate on a guy who does that. Football careers are way too short. The guys I have no use for are the ones who clearly just don't want to be in Buffalo.

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I’m almost 55. OJ Simpson was the first sports name I ever knew. I became a Bills fan before I became a sports fan, because my dad watched football on Sundays and I wanted to be with him. Just watch number 32, he’d say. That’s OJ. I bet a lot of you around my age will say the same. I was a first-year law student at UB when the verdict was announced. It happened during our Criminal Law class, ironically enough. And I feel pretty safe in saying that the reaction was a lot more mixed there than it was in any other 1L crim law class in the country that day, only because a good many of us - it’s still a very local school - had grown up with him as our first sports hero. And though deep down we all knew he was guilty, we also desperately wanted that not to be true - but we wouldn’t admit that to anyone who wasn’t one of us. As the years have gone by, of course, I’ve only become more convinced of his guilt, and come to terms with it. So when I heard the news of his death, I felt…pretty much nothing. The OJ I idolized as a child died for me 30 years ago.

I was just thinking about that this morning. His HOF candidacy will now turn on whatever he's able to do in Houston and/or wherever he goes after next year. If he lasts another five years and doesn't win anything, he'll probably get in as a compiler after having to wait awhile. He has had exactly one memorable positive playoff moment (and it wasn't in Buffalo), and it was a single play. Andre is seen as a compiler and had to wait a long time; he had seven Pro Bowls to Diggs' four, nine postseason TD catches to Diggs' four, at one point he had more Super Bowl receptions than any other WR, plus he had that three-TD second-half performance in the Comeback. Diggs gotta do some work if he wants to be seen on that level.

I know *I* felt relief, not that anyone cares. It's going to be interesting to see whether the national media scrutinizes Diggs' actions as closely in Houston as they did here. Anyway, my guess is the convo went like this: BEANE: Josh, we're thinking of trading Stef. Just wanted to let you know. ALLEN: <pause> BEANE: Josh? ALLEN: You sure? BEANE: That's all I needed to hear.

Everyone saying “don’t trade up in a WR-heavy class” was probably also saying we shouldn’t have traded up to pick a QB in Josh’s year. There may be a bunch of first-round talents. But not all of them will pan out and not all of them will fit here, in Buffalo, in this offense, with this QB. I think Beane knows who he wants for this team. If you’ve identified the guy you have to have, go get him. Don’t worry about what it costs.

He’s someone else’s problem now.