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I'm not sure about that. Discuss.

Yeah, I've never heard a team say they were confident in exactly what every other team is going to do. "The draft fell our way and we just followed our board" is the line

Interesting. So much for developing Daniel Jones.

I doubt 255. On a Pat Mcafee podcast during the season, he said he was about 245 and his coaches wanted him at 242 for a playing weight.

No. Especially since the Op didn't like it enough to do as requested and fix the title.

FIFY

Correct, I forgot that one. Also when he was running.

Memory does not serve. He was injured while in the pocket his rookie season (elbow hit by helmet). He was injured rolling out of the pocket to the L - he tried to throw while being tackled and landed awkwardly on his L arm vs. Raiders. He was injured rolling out of the pocket to the R vs the 49ers - tried to break a Joey Bosa tackle and run. Foot injury, Bucs game, tackled while running

Psychopath (him not you)

I don't believe that there are "no bad dogs". I mean, a certain number of people are psycho, so why wouldn't there be psycho dogs and psycho horses? Wow, what a story. Is your dad OK? I do think that some people have bred pitbulls to have a screw loose, because having that screw loose makes them a better fighting dog.

Having had a ringside seat at a situation where a neighbor's chihuahua was fatally injured and had to be put to sleep after an encounter with a loving, sweet neighborhood dog who was in no way a "huge aggressive" dog (and not a pit bull), I would want to know if there is more to this story. Factors: 1) Toy breeds don't understand size IME. They will charge at and bark/snarl aggressively at another, much larger dog. But the same actions that larger dog might take, that to a golden retreiver would mean "knock it off", can deglove a toy (warning: if you don't know what a degloving injury is, you may not want to learn) 2) A number of dogs who are well-socialized with humans and pets have high prey drives, and will chase the hell out of bunnies and squirrels. Guess what kinda looks like a bunny to a high prey drive dog. Should a dog be outside a fence and off-lead in an urban area, No. So Jones by the link above is at fault for that. But let's not go down the "dog injured dog therefore is huge aggressive killer dog" wormhole. Edit: I'm not trying to argue "Pitbulls from fighting lines are really nice doggo's" thing. Akitas are the Japanese equivalent of a Pitbull as far as I can tell, and I actively tried to talk good friends out of getting one. I don't think Presa Canarios are necessarily nice dogs, either. Just making the point that from the incident described in the link, I can't go to "huge aggressive dog/completely irresponsible". Yeah, that's Sick.

In case you haven't noticed, this is not solely a BILLS football board. Other football topics are completely appropriate and are discussed here - other teams, players on other teams, other teams coaches. In case you haven't noticed, we do other discuss events and criminal cases involving football players and coaches here, too. Britt Reid was the linebackers coach for the AFCCG winning KC Chiefs at the time the events for which he is charged occurred

I'm gonna write a song. "We don't talk about Edmunds, No no no We don't talk about Edmunds But...." If only there was a catchy tune I could write it to

It's true that Baker's 1 year, $18.9 fully guaranteed contract is probably limiting his suitors more than anything. I'm sure Cleveland would like more than a 6th or 7th or even a 5th, but they probably aren't going to get it because of the salary and contract situation. Part of what Sharpe says is true. If Mayfield were seen as a "franchise altering QB", #1 Cleveland would not have sold the farm to bring in DeShaun Watson #2 when they did, other teams would be lighting up the phone to Cleveland OTOH Mayfield played hurt last season in Cleveland, and it does seem to me that he's getting smacked around for trying to be a team player there. It was pretty clear that Josh Allen was struggling to throw properly when he injured his non-throwing shoulder vs LVR in 2020 and wasn't "right" for the next 3-4 games. The pundits were all "see, I told you it was a flash in the pan, he's regressing to the mean" about his play in the first 4 games when he struggled against Tenn, KC, then only passed 18 attempts vs. NE. I seem to recall Terry Bradshaw after the KC game opinion that Allen would never be anything but a career 58% passer. Then of course Allen came out and threw for 418 yds, 82% completion against Seattle (just after Matt Hasselbeck went on the air explaining the injury Allen probably suffered and its progression "he's probably starting to feel pretty good about now") and I was like "well Bradshaw, that aged well, didn't it, Dufus?" (of course Bradshaw didn't take any accountability) Bottom line is Mayfield looked a lot closer to a franchise-altering QB in 2020 with 2 good shoulders. And I bet he transcribes Sharpe's words and reads them every morning to fire himself up.

Sam Monson admitted on Twitter that nobody at PFF really believed that Duck Hodges was better. The strong implication is it was just something they said to "stir the *****" and rile up Bills mafia

And finally we learn why he was on the show https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-isaiah-mckenzie-auditions-for-americas-got-talent-with-nfl-player-choir/article_f2272096-c4b3-11ec-98bb-57b58ab0ef5f.html

A few years ago teams could waive the fines. When AB was pitching his fit at the Raiders, some here were arguing t'was the team's fault because they were fining him vs. waiving the fines. Has that changed?

Agree. Hopes were high, but when he got his opportunities, he couldn't do the things I thought he could do much less the things where we all thought he needed to improve. One certainly can't blame him, but his struggles certainly contributed to the Jax loss where he got 87% of the offensive snaps, and it was notable that the run game improved when the Bills started making him inactive (week 14 on) and giving Tommy Doyle some snaps as a 6th OL. TE was a huge weakness behind Knox. I think so too, and that seems justified given that OJ Howard has had his struggles with injuries and right now our TE room is Knox and a cliff.

https://ktvo.com/news/local/britt-reids-dui-trial-date-postponed-until-september-01-28-2022

Neither does Beane. If we recall our Beane draft history, in 2018 he managed to move up from 21 to 7 to draft Josh Allen - without giving up our 2019 first round pick. He traded up from 22 to 16 for Tremaine Edmunds - again, without giving up a 2019 first round pick. And of course we traded down and gained a 1st round pick in 2017 when we drafted Tre White If you won't do it for your franchise QB, your franchise CB, or the LB you hope will anchor your defense, why would you do it now? For whom?

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People were asking about Schedule Release date

There was more to it and I didn't hear it as quite so stark or negative. Edit: from a Sal C article: So I think it's a good observation that as a 31 yr old safety, even an all-pro 31 yr old safety, Poyer is not in the same category of "must sign" to Beane as Josh Allen, or Diggs, or Tre White, or Von Miller. I don't think it follows that he's "done here", but I do think Beane is going to wait for the draft to get serious about contract negotiations, and I think it's possible that in the first discussions, the Bills and Rosenhaus are far enough off that if he stays there, it won't get done. I also think there's a good chance he won't stay there. Poyer is a fine player there is no doubt, and has all my respect on the field. He can Ball, and he's been under-rated much of his career (possibly the drinking had an effect). But of the 12 safeties who have signed contracts with higher AAV than Poyer has right now, only 1 was 30 or over when they signed (Harrison Smith, 32). 8 were 25 or under; 2 are 27; 1 is 29. To me, that implies that Poyer's leverage may be limited. Being "all-pro Po" this year was great, but does it give him the clout, at his age, to be able to hold out a year and get the big bucks somewhere else? Maybe, or maybe it means he'll lower his drama-to-talent ratio to the point where he'll limit his market. If he plays and has a great year, he could get Harrison Smith money in 2023, or he could get injured and have to take a prove-it deal. So I think after the draft, there's probably going to be some room for compromise. I think that Rachel Bush probably will lobby for "no compromise" and I think she has strong influence in their relationship, but at the end of the day I don't think she has Poyer's balls in her purse for professional matters, and both of them will see that holding out to the tune of $353k/week may not increase his value in the league, and there may be value in staking a claim to more guaranteed money, now. Or maybe I'm wrong, dunno

Don't forget Tyrod Taylor AND AJ McCarron