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I would have rather seen Addison as well. I'm guessing they think Addison is still a better pass rusher than Daryl and that they can more easily replace his ST efforts with maybe Taiwan or Krumerow. Obada, I like that guy. I'm on the Obada train as I think they will be able to use his versatility as part of the pressure packages they will be employing this year.

What am I missing here? Last report I heard was that it wasn’t viewed as a serious injury. Is there another report saying otherwise?

Baldy likes both Basham and Rousseau.

He’s certainly a keeper. Good special framer and can come in and do a serviceable job if called upon to play LB.

Me too, I was hoping we would get him. He definitely would have been competing to beat out Levi, even though Levi always seems to beat out his competition.

Remember when half the board were crying about how the Bills traded away Sammy Watkins and Dareus and cut the legendary JAG Jonathan Williams. And then drafting of Josh Allen? Good times

Pretty close! This is a great deal for the Bills. The raise doesn't begin until the 2023 season, which by then the cap is expected to begin to explode again. A few years from now there will be quite a few QB's with larger contracted sizes than his.

DT and DB are the most pressing need. One more veteran disruptive DT and another DB. Dane Jackson is getting beat too much for my liking and I'd like to see another DB in there at a shot a starting over Wallace.

I completely agree. The reports show that he is more explosive, put more muscle on and more decisive. I expect him to have a really good year.

Love to see it! Also, I never thought for one moment that Gabe Davis would beat out Sanders as the #2 WR on the team. Even though Sanders may have lost a step he still has a lot of gas in the tank, and I think some people underestimate how good of a physical route runner he really is. He is a true technician with good speed. Barring injury, I would expect him to have a really good year with the Bills this year, like a 60+ reception and 800+ yard year.

This is a signing I want done. I think we could use a quality veteran DT to go along with what we have.

His numbers could slightly regress if things play out in a certain way but in regards to his quality level, he will in my view be a better QB. Sometimes being better doesn't necessarily translate in the numbers, even though I do expect him to have really good numbers again.

As someone previously mentioned, it shouldn't even be news this day and age, but of course on the other hand it should as he is the first openly gay active football player in the NFL. As much as I believe this is one of the first steps of acceptance of gay players in the NFL among their peers, unfortunately I don't think it will be smooth sailing for him. I can't help but think that there will be unconscious behavioral differences on how some of his teammates will comport. He'll sense them, I'm sure. I imagine there will be some derogatory comments made towards him from fans and probably by some ignorant football players on the opposing team. It was a brave thing that he did and I applaud him for it.

You don’t have to debate it, but there is one taking place now and my guess is that there are a lot of players contacting the NFLPA about these dictates/guidelines looking to have it amended/revised.

They are aware.

We will never reach global herd immunity or at least not for a very long time. There is more immigration in flow from varying countries in the U.S than any other country in the world. With that said, COVID is most likely going to stay with us for most of our life times, it will most likely become a seasonal issue. Sounds scary, but most likely won't have a large overall affect because of all the protections that are available to the vulnerable population. I think for us here in the U.S, COVID is on the decline and is now becoming a low risk threat. What concerns me more are other potential viruses and the measures that we can take that are under our control to make sure that these viruses are not exposed to the public.

Yes, but they are grown adults. They have access to the vaccine and they have been informed and educated on the efficacy of the vaccine. The ones who have decided to not take the virus are at a statistically very low odds of dying. There were nearly 300 known positive cases from active NFL players and to my knowledge none of them died. The point is, they have the choice to take the vaccine, if they contract it and have medical complications then that is their own fault. We aren't in the same place we were months ago, things now have changed dramatically and the risks of having complications from COVID are declining precipitously week over week and the options to protect ourselves are increasing. We all make decisions every day that has some sort of risk ramifications to them, there is always a risk cost - benefit analysis in the decisions we make. To get back to the crux of it all, the dictates/guidelines are too draconian and should be revised and amended.

Right, but we now know the immunity lasts considerably longer than that. With that said, I am a big believer in data and the data conclusively shows that vaccines saves lives so even though someone had previously contracted COVID, if they decided to get the vaccine, I'm cool with that. I don't believe it's necessary because of all the things that I had previously mentioned but there are some studies that show that it gives an additional boost of protection. We are at the stage now that everything in my view should go back to normal with some adjustments. The vaccine is available to virtually everyone who is vulnerable to the virus, so if anyone who catches the virus now and happens to have a bad outcome, they had the choice to take the vaccine. In other words, the argument that "You are putting other people at risk" loses it's edge because the people who contract it, had the option to get the vaccine and they decided not to.

Right, but that’s the point. There were many more restrictions for children than there ever was with fears from the flu. Of course because it was a novel virus had a lot to do with it but even after it was very clear of the negligible risks to children many of the restrictions were still in place and are to this day. The point which I mentioned earlier is that there should be a more appropriate cost- benefit outcome than what the NFL and NFLPA have come up with. And I think what Cole has done is brought more attention to it. I would venture to guess that There are many players reaching out to the union demanding change. And rightfully so. I’m not saying everything on that list of guidelines should be changed but definitely some of them serve negligible substantive protections.

For children it is.

A couple points, if you are worried about getting the virus, take the vaccine. It's available to virtually everybody who is vulnerable to it here in the U.S. Also, in regards to risk, we have to determine how much risk we are willing to take and how many civil liberties we are going to restrict in order to take that risk. Because it's not a zero sum game, if it were, we would never allow kids to be exposed to other kids because they could catch the flu. We know that the flu is more dangerous for school age children than COVID, yet we allowed kids to expose themselves with no mandated safeguards against the flu. I think what Beasley is saying is that the new protocols/dictates/guidelines by the NFL and NFLPA are too draconian and should be amended to something that is less draconian.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by natural immunity, but previous COVID infection does offer natural immunity. The only question is for how long? We know it's for at least up to close to a year and possibly a lifetime. This doesn't even take into account all the t cell immunities that are provided by natural immunity which is seen to be very effective against variants.

For purely selfish reasons, I'd like for him to just take the damn vaccine and play ball. With that said, I am 99% sure that if it weren't for these utterly draconian dictates/guidelines that he wouldn't be speaking out. Personally, I've seen enough evidence to determine that the vaccines are highly effective in stopping the spread of the virus and thwarting it's risks that it could impose on those that are most vulnerable. However, there is plenty of vaccine availability to anyone who wants the vaccine and the only people who don't have access to it are children, who we know statistically speaking are at less risk of COVID than the common flu. In other words, if you are worried about COVID, take the vaccine. What I'm hoping that happens here is that Beasley has now drawn a lot of attention to these proposed dictates/guidelines and that they revise/amend them to something that is more appropriate. I know that the NFL and NFLPA are trying to lay down the gauntlet to get the players to take the vaccine and for some players it will induce them to take the vaccine because of the lifestyle changes that they would have to obey. But it's too much, some of them are illogical and frankly for the reasons I mentioned above they are more performative than substantive. Hopefully, this will serve as a spearhead to continue dialogue between the NFLPA and NFL. I would have to imagine there are a lot of NFL players that are backing Beasley and are now reaching out to the union.

Most likely the majority of those funds is to lock up Josh.