Mr. WEO
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On 5/29/2025 at 1:10 PM, RobbRiddick said:
Steve Tasker looked like a choir boy and he was a psychopath on the field
Cole Bishop "the psychopath on the field" isn't on the roster
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6 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:
He could've just as easily picked Henry Ruggs or Jalen Rheagor if he moved up that far. Josh needed a veteran #1 WR to develop as a passer. Diggs was a better WR than everybody in that draft class besides Justin Jefferson in 2020.
He tends to do that. That's why I'm not salivating over Elijah Moore or Josh Palmer right now. The majority of us were happy at the time.
Beane's draft day ineptitude drafting WRs, he probably would not have picked Jefferson.
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1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
Beane didn't get that message calling into WGR. LOL. I'll qualify. Dumbest take that's been repeated over and over again over a five year period. Lol. There always seems to be a "who won the trade" argument no matter the transaction but I can't remember such a win win trade
The dumbest take either on this board or the old board (don't remember) is someone said that Trent Edwards would've been just as successful as Brady in the Pats offensive system.
Look at the thread when he signed. People were ecstatic. Diggs fooled us all.
@BADOLBILZ nailed it:
Posted April 9, 2022
Literally, you can look at Diggs then existing contract and say there was no need to act..............not just "technically".
You can't keep everyone at their happiest as a GM.........sometimes players are going to want for things.
I think Beane did a pretty good job keeping Diggs at bay on an extension for a couple years.........but ultimately the objective should have been to get him to the offseason before his walk year and see where he stood going into his age 30 season.
Beane blew all of his gains by having him at 3/4 of the market by re-inking him at the top of the market, IMO.
People can disagree but I think this deal ends with 2-3 years left and a lot of dead money.
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1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
Beane didn't get that message calling into WGR. LOL. I'll qualify. Dumbest take that's been repeated over and over again over a five year period. Lol. There always seems to be a "who won the trade" argument no matter the transaction but I can't remember such a win win trade
The dumbest take either on this board or the old board (don't remember) is someone said that Trent Edwards would've been just as successful as Brady in the Pats offensive system.
Look at the thread when he signed. People were ecstatic. Diggs fooled us all.
No not all of us...
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37 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:
All this makes me wonder what Beane knew when he cut Diggs. Essentially paying him $31M to play on another team is a big decision and must have been based on considerations beyond the sideline antics.
the better question is what didn't Beane understand about Diggs before he traded for him?
Diggs's early end in Buffalo was completely predictable to many.......
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“Shady” picking me up after he tosses a few “minus 1s” off the party bus…
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19 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
I think that’s where you’re mistaken. Jason Botterill wasn’t fired due to his job performance. He was fired because he wasn’t willing to fire almost the entire hockey ops (assistant GMs, scouts, coaches in Buffalo and Rochester, etc.).Kevyn Adams was hired because:
- he was willing to fire all those people, run with a bare bones front office staff and field an NHL team well below the salary cap ceiling, and in his first couple/few years even at or below the salary cap floor. “Efficient and economic” like Pegula wanted.
- he was willing to give Terry + Kim a much bigger voice in hockey ops.
- he was someone Terry trusted.
I honestly think that’s about it.
Go back and listen to what Terry said during the press conference where they announced Adams would be the GM (without even interviewing a single other person).
it’s horrifying.
here’s a good summary from the Buffalo news (if you can read it w/o hitting a paywall…)
https://buffalonews.com/opinion/columnists/article_83182297-4504-5091-9a15-e4d889a82704.html
Maybe things have changed since that press conference. They are spending a bit more than they were back then. But I have little reason to believe that winning is their #1 priority until more evidence starts showing that it is. Hiring Jarmo is a nice first step if he’s actually going to be in Buffalo full time (not just someone Adams can call when he needs him) and actually have a voice.
I had read that--that Terry hired him so he could "be heard". Obviously that was a problematic reason to hire someone immediately, as it was already clear that Pegula's management of this team has been a total disaster since he bought it. Now he hires this guy to prop up the guy who was hired to listed to Pegula.
It is to laugh.....Terry should be barred from the building.
13 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:I guess I'm underwhelmed by this whole thing. At first I thought Terry was hiring the position and it would be advising Adams, NOT that Adams was hiring a gopher. Plus ya heard names like Ken Holland, Lou Lamarielio, Brendan Shanahan thrown around and they hire Jarmo Kekalainen. meh
I wonder if Lou even waited to hang up before he started laughing
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4 hours ago, dave mcbride said:
Hoecht can certainly read: https://brownbears.com/sports/football/roster/michael-hoecht/9698
no doubt--that only leaves that he's a liar in blaming someone else. But he's not a very good one. Brown couldn't teach him to be more clever it seems.
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21 hours ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:
66 is old for a CEO type position like this. Tagliabue was younger than Goodell is now when he retired.
How many team owners older than Goodell don't have a succession plan in place?
The NFL was no anything like the money maker it has become under Goodell. The TV contracts he helped negotiate were astronomical and keep getting bigger. Teams are typically sold or handed down to children, so comparison to NFL Commissioner succession makes no sense at all.
21 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:Is it really that difficult these days?
1. change rules to allow more points
2. send games to be played in foreign countries
3. Sell to streaming services
4. Get booed at NFL draft
5. Attend a few NFL games and kiss the a$s of whichever celebrity or politician is there
Goodell only does #4 and 5. the rest is the owners exclusively.
20 hours ago, RoscoeParrish said:His bosses are the owners, they can do whatever they want. Their age is irrelevant.
He works for them. They want some younger version waiting in the wings.
Are you trying to argue that a new commissioner would make as much as Goodell? Do you think Silver made as much as Stern did when he took over in the NBA?
More importantly, do you think Deputy Commissioners make even close to a 10th that the commissioners make? They would take less because it would still be a considerable pay raise from their current offer. Goodells successor isn’t holding out because they are only gonna pay them $30MWaiting in the wings for what? Goodell could stay another 15 years. Why would the next guy accept less than Goodell makes now? Same job.
20 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:66. Father time is undefeated.
It is for this job. And his bosses arent working real jobs. The best owners are the least involved. Theyre more investors than anything. They want someone younger and able to keep innovating into the future to be doing all the work.
How did you conclude that 66 is "too old" to be Commissioner. There is only overwhelming evidence that this is completely untrue. What you got?
And Who has done this better than Goodell--and why would youth be more innovative? Goodell is printing money for these owners for decades. Why would they be looking to someone else right now? These owners should know any of the NFL Corp staff and who might be a good fit next without Goodell telling them who it is.
19 hours ago, Augie said:Because he, and all of us, are just one lightning bolt or heart attack away from not being here any more. Not having a solid plan for succession would be stupid. Period.
So is every next Commissioner, FO person, player or owner. So what?
Does anyone think these owners are going to put the league in the hands of a chump like Dean Blandino (a replay ref)?? Goodell knows everybody there is to know in the NFL universe--most importantly the broadcasters and advertisers. Imagine these people seeing Dean Blandino across the bargaining table instead of Goodell? They would be licking their chops as the owners watched billions fall off the table.
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Why not fire Adams. He was hired to turn things around. It’s been years and he hasn’t moved the needle.
Oegula should just sell this team to an owner with more savvy. He killed this franchise.
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46 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:
Probably worried he’ll get taken out like the UHC CEO was.by whom?
17 minutes ago, DabillsDaBillsDaBills said:I agree with how successful he's been, but he's 66 years old. He only has so many good years left and should really have an heir apparent by this point.
10 minutes ago, RoscoeParrish said:Because he’s 66 and they can play a younger guy likely less.
66 isn't old fellas. More of his bosses are over 80 than are under 65.
Why would a younger guy take less money? Didn't Goodell "set the market"?
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Why would they even look for his successor--he's the most successful Commish in modern sports history. Look at MLB, the NBA and NHL.
A lot of owners' total net worth is essentially the worth of their franchise. This happened with Goodell taking all the face shots for the Jerrys and Terrys.
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20 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:
Hoecht said he put his faith in someone who didn't have his best interest at heart. What if that's a true statement? What's the problem with articulating that? He also said (multiple times) that it was his mistake.
Without evidence to the contrary, I chose to take him at his word.
I agree about Tucker, though. He looks small.
Then he's the dumbest guy in the NFL and shouldn't be on the roster for that reason.
Everyone who has gotten caught the past 10 years has claimed this. For this reason, it's just not a credible defense. No player would simply take something some trainer or what not handed him and said, "don't worry, it's ok". Most of these guys can read, so, if they were really not sure what was in the drugs they were given, they could easily find out. Why would they leave their fate in the hands of some pusher? Accepting responsibility isn't accomplished by blaming someone else (who is this person he's blaming anyway?).
It's just not believable he didn't know what he put in his body. Zero point zero chance.
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55 minutes ago, MJS said:
Based on what evidence? People say this all the time but just say "trust me, bro". It isn't the 80s and 90s anymore. These guys get busted and suspended today for a huge list of random substances.
There's no significant penalty--most of these guess only miss games at the beginning of the season and then are allowed to play in the playoffs (not so in MLB). No one cares. Players union and owners are incentivized to break these rules or look the other way.
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45 minutes ago, Fleezoid said:
Ross Tucker always sounds drunk to me.
all i hear is this man...
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1 hour ago, dorquemada said:
Yeah the media pressure and the usual suspects will make it impossible to do anything else. Then when he utterly flames out because he's a slow decision maker in a league full of lightning fast defenses, the blame will go everywhere except on our friend LEGENDARY
the "usual suspects" will be the other trash QBs in the room....
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lol real hard hitting softball session there. Tucker asks him a single question about the PEDs: why did you tell the Bills ahead of the signing....,when you didn't have to?
As they all do the kid immediately goes on to blame "someone else" for his positive test (multiple times). Tucker just nods and smiles like a simp.
Speaking of which, Ross looks to clock in at about 165lbs sitting there after he got off the juice...
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1 hour ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Who knows how's what caused him to go off the rails. As another poster said, all he had to do was keep it together here in Buffalo.
he was a head case in Minny. same guy showed up to Buffalo. Shocking.
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"autonomy based fertilizer"?
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15 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Sure. But when someone is clearly the best Quarterback on the roster not having them play is never the right decision.
He'll be starting by week 2
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looks like he had 3 in the pink....
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I’ve never seen a man with 4 beards before…
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In the current theme of Buffalo Bills creating new NFL kudos, Bosa is pushing for the “Lyle Alzado Award”…
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Had it existed then, I can imagine Joe Thomas winning ever year.....as every QB he ever played with racked up countless sacks and hits.
Diggs' Drama
in The Stadium Wall
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Oh Diggs was a "sure thing" all right lol!
If Roseman had not also put together a roster that played in 2 of the last 3 SBs, destroying a 15 win Chiefs team, you might have a point. They could shrug of a bad decision at WR. He quickly rebounded by drafting Smith and then traded for AJ Brown. Beane brought in his usual minibus load of week old bread bin guys who end their careers in Buffalo soon after their 1 year paper expires....
Diggs never moved the needle for the Bills--zero impact: with or without Diggs, Bills win the division, lose to the Chiefs in the playoffs. It cost a potential top rookie WR on a 5 year contract and 31 million in dead cap, plus all the predictable immaturity/headaches.