billsfan89

Young kid said something stupid on social media and deleted it but this isn't a one off situation for this kid. He got a DUI in season and had a lot of other issues on top of that. He needs to get his mental health in order before he can become a productive NFL player. It is hard to do any job if your mental health isn't in order. So playing in the NFL which is extraordinarily difficult if you are in full health physically and mentally is going to be nearly impossible if you aren't in the best shape mentally. Overall I just hope this kid gets some help mentally and the Titans see that he needs their support if he is going to turn things around.

It was also one of the best pass blocking lines in the league and I do put the blame in terms of the poor run blocking more so on a variety of factors. The first being the line shuffling around a lot, Mongo, Mitch, and Ford were shuffled around the lineup and Ike wasn't a consistent part of the line for half the season. The second as you mentioned being the scheme. The last being the success of the passing game leading to a lack of grinding down of defensive lines. It is a passing league and if I can retain Mongo for a deal similar to Spain (5-6 million aav) or just a tid bit more and Williams for 9-10 million aav I do it. I am willing to "overpay" a bit for Williams as I think he was arguably the best O-line player, is in his prime for his position (he will be 29 in 2021 and O-line players tend to play well into their early 30's) but I get the injury concern although he has been fairly healthy 3 out of the last 4 seasons, so I think that is overstated a bit. I think given your limited draft resources and the win now window it would be a mistake to draft a rookie up high for what could be a possible downgrade (certainly very risky given learning curve of O-line play in the league the past 10ish years) in play at a critical position. I am not saying you massively overpay for either but I give them each a good offer as I don't want to create holes for an O-line unit that was very good at protecting Josh and I think can be good at creating holes if they stay fairly healthy and adjust their scheme/game calling.

I hope once the general population has access to vaccinations hopefully by May (or at worst June/July) that enough of the US population actually takes the vaccine to prevent run away variants and actually achieve herd immunity. Not looking to make this political but it would be great to go see a Bills game or any game in person this year and we need a population willing to take the vaccine to accomplish that!

Hoping the Bills can retain Mongo and D.Williams and return the O-line. I would like to see the team draft O-line but in the mid to late rounds for depth. I also am not a fan of going corner that high but I don't hate it. Ideally if somehow the Bills can work cap magic and retain most of their critical free agents (would love to retain Mongo, D.Williams, Milano, Roberts, Ty, T.Jones and Barkley) and add a prime time edge rusher like Yannick and then add a TE via the first two rounds and just spend the rest of the draft adding talent and depth.

To free up 22 million in space to simply restructure Diggs, Tre and Dawkins would be amazing. Then you have Lee Smith who is an easy 2.25 million saved and then another two cuts in Vernon Butler(6.8 million saved 1 million dead cap) and Quinton Jefferson (6.5 million saved 1.5 million dead cap) which is another 24.3 million saved. Although I think they will attempt to restructure either Butler or Jefferson to a new deal taking a pay cut that puts one of them in the 4-5 million range. There also exists opportunities to cut John Brown (7.9 million saved) and restructuring the rather large contracts of Mitch, Addision, and Hughes. Overall if the Bills can somehow retain most of the key free agents and add a big time pass rusher and some depth/youth via the draft they will be in a very good position going forward.

I also didn't realize that Wentz has zero dead cap after 2021. I figured since he was on a huge extension he had some dead money in 2022. But no, the Eagles structured that contract in such a fantastic way. They basically had two years of huge dead money and then nothing.

The NBA's is not a young black person's sport it is mostly a younger person's sport in 2020, 45% of the NBA's audience was white unchanged from 2019 and in line with the overall trend. The issue for the NBA's ratings decline is complicated. First off their vastly younger audience is less likely to watch games on traditional TV as many people under 40 are cord cutters, secondly the pandemic impacted a lot of TV ratings but sports especially since people couldn't go to bars to watch games and apparently Neilson counts that as part of the ratings somehow. In addition the lack of fans and the bubble playing at an odd time of year was really not good. for the product. The NBA's ratings are recovering this year up 8% adjusted and growing. The NBA's issue is that their younger audience doesn't watch traditional TV. The social justice stuff might have had a small impact but I think their larger issue is how their audience consumes games. The NBA on the other hand has tremendous popularity internationally which is unmatched by any North American sport. Basketball is popular in China, Europe, Brazil and several other key markets worldwide. Whereas the NFL has inroads in Mexico and the UK but that's it. Despite outreach efforts in Europe and other areas the NFL is so limited to its insane popularity in the USA as its main source of revenue. While I don't see the NFL's popularity in the USA going anywhere short term all it takes is one less generation less interested in the US for that sport to decline massive popularity. Whereas the NBA and MLB (to a lesser extent as they are popular in Latin America, the Caribbean, Japan and South Korea) have other markets they can expand into.

I get some people's reservations about side effects from a vaccine, maybe if you are able to work from home and can limit your exposure you can wait a few months to see if there are side effects to the general population, but hospital workers not taking the vaccine is just baffling.

I think it will be between the 190 and 195 range, which is good for the Bills.

The fairness doctrine which was in effect until 1987 literally mandated an opposing viewpoint for every viewpoint expressed. So the idea that 95% of political talk radio was left leaning literally would have been against the law.

Your initial post said that before Rush talk radio was all liberal just like the media today. When in reality it was mandated by law to be 50/50.

Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ben Shaprio I can go on. The Fairness Doctrine prior to 1987 mandated that each radio and TV station give equal time to both sides of the political spectrum. That resulted in stations having to by law give as much time to liberals as they did conservatives. They basically had to present an opposing view either liberal or conservative which made things hard for syndication nationally. It isn't a coincidence that Rush's rise in popularity coincided with the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

The Dems also fail to seize their opportunities (The GOP is far worse definitely the worse of two evils). The Obama era stimulus deal (and the first two years of the Obama era in general) was a big opportunity to actually push massive infrastructure programs forward. I think 40% of the stimulus was tax cuts as an example. America needs a New New Deal badly. Without bold and proper government infrastructure programs the can really can't be kicked down the road any longer.

You are completely wrong. Before the late 80's talk radio was by law split 50/50 between liberal and conservative pundits. Look up the fairness doctrine.

The USA turning its back on the New Deal Era policies since the early 80's has really screwed this county over. One of the reasons for the post WWII boom was the fact the USA had been spending the previous 10 years prior to entering the war building hospitals, roads, trails for national and local parks, dams, power and phone lines and various other types of infrastructure.

7th grade though high school. Never got an offer or played in college.

The War in Iraq will end up costing the US 5 trillion dollars, thousands of American lives and possibly a million Iraqi lives. It is by far one of the biggest blunders in American history.

There's a lot of teams who could use a backup. Not that outlandish.

Wind energy produces 20% of Texas's energy. This is just sad stupid propaganda for people who want to believe everything good is from the Republicans. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/ "Wind turbines — like natural gas plants — can be “winterized,” or modified to operate during very low temperatures. Experts say that many of Texas’ power generators have not made those investments necessary to prevent disruptions to equipment since the state does not regularly experience extreme winter storms." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wind-power-turbine-texas-power-outage-winter-storm-electrical-grid/ "Experts say traditional energy sources, including coal and natural gas, performed below expectations, while wind power actually performed above expectations."

I think they attempt to restructure Mitch. He is still one of the top pass blocking centers in the league and a decent run blocker. Mitch also anchors the communication and does the little leadership things a center is expected to do. Mongo as center is not tragic but I think while there is a gain in run blocking there is a significant loss in pass blocking and leadership. Plus if you cut Mitch and move Mongo over you have a hole at one of the guard positions. I agree you have to attempt to rework Mitch's contract as his cap number is not manageable but he still has value to the team and at a lower cap number is worth the risk of injury.

Norman was very critical to winning that Raiders game and made a few plays here and there, at least he produced something of value. Now you can argue that he didn't produce enough for the money he got but the team got some quality play for that signing. If Norman wants to come back at or near the vet minimum I would bring him into camp.

Norman was a big part in helping win the Vegas game and made a few other plays as a role player. Not a bust of a signing.

It's a solid move, 4.4 million for a top kicker is more than a fair price. Although it is the right move to retain talent it does chip down the amount of cap space they do have to play with to only keep a player and not add one.

I would try and restructure Jefferson's contract, I think he is a nice rotational player but at 8 million on the cap he isn't worth it, I think . I also would outright cut Butler and ask Addison to restructure his contract.

Wouldn't hate a one year cheap deal. Could use him as a DT5 in camp and maybe he finds his old form?