Mr. WEO

I don’t watch. I get why some do. I don’t get why so many are surprised or disappointed when they inevitably crash and burn. I’d rather watch 2019 Bills-Texans (it’s on FUBU now!)

Only the original USFL kind of competed with the NFL. Everything that followed was flies on an elephant. If they fold, some other celeb with too much money and ego and too few brains will give it another go--that's been proven over and over. A fool and his money are soon parted.

What if there's like, no swipe---then it just becomes "smell my finger"? The guy who "scores" could have all the O-linemen line up and smell his fingers. I think this is a solid challenge to this new rule and hopefully someone does it in preseason to establish precedent.

Not a jet--it's a Kingair twin turboprop

How would this league afford to pay for 4 more rosters? There's no money. It will fold after this year, as they all do.

Re-sign 2 guys you let go and no one else wants? I can see it…

that’s how Beane would do it

I think that's the other daughter.

If Pegula had any feelings for Sabres fans, he would have a drawing to allow any one of them chosen to coach the team to the end of the season.

he also chooses the Sabres GM's and HC's!

Billy Barty could easily step over that bar....

that's why Terry and Jerry pay him so much

It's amazing that so many still get this wrong. Goodell appoints the members of the Competition ("Rules") committee. He does not write the rules. Why isn't everyone instead blaming the guys who came up with this (including Sean McD) and those who passed it (at least 24 owners)? Go yell at Sean and Terry. This is their doing. Goodell is clearly underpaid for the heat he takes for the owners.

Another off season lombardy

It will feature Chevy Chase who tells his entire extended family that the Bills are comping 4 PSLs but instead it turns out to be a gift card for avacado toast of the month club at Pegulas other daughter’s shuttered health food stall. Uncle Eddie is later found face down in the mud of the new stadium crater and a chipmunk causes a house fire that incinerates McD’s jaunty gifted holiday toupee

I'll agree to disagree. Schoen had the opportunity to lock Jones up for a 5th year because they didn't wan t to pay him the 22 million it would cost--mind you had had not played a complete season, missing 10 games due to injury in 3 years. The Giants then made the playoffs despite winning only 3 of their last 9 games, despite Jones being one of the least productive starters in the NFL that year. Then the FO fell over themselves and paid him an insane 40 million. This was a predictable error (injury prone mediocre at best QB), as he immediately was injured again and when he played, he was even worse than he was prior to the re-signing. There's no deep thought to this on their part--they didn't want to pay a pittance (22 million) to option the 5th year for a "franchise" QB, yet they doubled that per year after first assing into and then getting blown out of the playoffs. Mara does not publicly seem to be Jerry Jones or Haslam level involvement. It's difficult for me to imagine that an owner wouldn't pay modest money for a 5th year on their franchise QB under contract, but then would commit (on paper) 160 million over 4 years after 1 playoff win. In that playoff year he threw 3200 yards , 15 TDs and 5 picks. It's very easy to believe Daboll thought he could mold Jones into something better than he was after his 3rd year. Had he said, let's get the 5th year, I can't imagine MAra would put up a big fight. The best part is that Schoen referenced Darnold and the Panthers as a cautionary tale. We all know how it went for Darnold once he joined a competent organization. It got even better when he referenced Watson and the Browns..

his holdout destroyed his career, or at least proved he wasn't going to maintain what was only 3 seasons of top running.

He's admitted as much there. As he was agreeable to moving up the draft to get his replacement. There's no chance that Shoen and Daboll were not 100% on board with that resigning Jones. Also if they wanted him out I think there's no chance a guy like Mara would force their hand. Daboll feels he create Josh Allen, he could recreate Danny Dimes. Turns out that Daboll was a figment of Josh Allen's greatness and Schoen was fancying himself as equi-Beane. To zeros.

this is a good comp.

in 2023, Kincaid averaged 42 YPG. Before he went out after week 10, he was averaging 35.6 in 2024. His catch % was 80 in 2023 and dropped to 57% before he went out last year. The decline was already happening. The difference between 1 and zero is infinity. Then there is 5 SB appearances in 6 seasons with 3 wins. we don't have a feature TE. Knox was wildly overpaid (no on pays a TE to block for that kind of money). His YPC is meaningless because he only had 22 all season. He is the definition of mediocre. He's disappeared since he got that contract. Huge contract then they use a 1st round pick in a reach for Kincaid. Remember when everyone was drooling over the 2 TE sets we would be seeing with these 2? Where is it? And you are grouping the Bills use of TEs with the Chiefs and NE? No one else is, that's for sure.

I couldn't find anything to support that.

obviously this strategy has worked out infinitely better for the Chiefs than the Bills...

they did it with his blessing