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As Carolina tries to trade for Watson I think many logically (myself included) are thinking they are trying to trade CMC for draft picks to up their ability to pony up more draft capital for Watson. I think it makes sense that teams in a win now situation with less than great RB's such as the Bills are being included in rumors. However the Bills simply don't have the cap space or the luxury of being able to trade pick 30 and a possible future pick for CMC. As great as CMC would fit on this team I just see the cap and draft resources being directed elsewhere. I think if McBeane is trading pick 30 and other draft resources he is going to do so for a player on a more affordable contract.

I don't see the O-line coaching as being an issue. This was one of the best pass blocking O-lines in the league last season for an offense that excelled highly at passing the ball and was overall one of the best offenses in the league. That was despite a lot of lineup shuffling early in the season. Mongo was hurt, Spain went AWOL, Ford was shuffled around and then got hurt, and Mitch missed a few games. Now could a lot be adjusted to get the ground game going? Of course, I think scheme, consistency in lineup and play calling in certain situations could improve the running game. But there is no need to take apart the O-line coaching because the ground game on one of the best offenses in the league wasn't consistent despite fantastic pass blocking. PFF has flaws but their O-line and D-line metrics are one of the most useful things they provide.

I think it depends if Carolina can flip McCaffery for serious draft compensation. Let's say they can get a pair of firsts for CMC which given how teams are throwing around firsts is totally possible. If Indy gives the Panthers pick 21 and a 2022 first I can see the Panthers giving up the following type deal. Picks 8, 21 (via the Colts for CMC), 39 and their 5th rounder in 2021. Carolina's 1st and Indy's 1st (Via CMC trade) in 2022. Bridgewater as a throw in if they want him or another player on their roster if they like I think that's not too shabby for the Texans to get 4 first round picks, a high 2nd round pick, a decent stop gap QB and something else on the roster they like.

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It all depends on what his expectations are in my opinion. If he wants 4 years at a 12-14 million aav and all he is getting is 9.5 million aav then a one year 8.5 million dollar offer from Buffalo still affords him a massive pay raise and puts him in a situation where he can be on himself and get a bite on a bigger contract much closer in line with what he wants. If he is expecting 10-11 million aav and he gets a 9.5 million aav offer he might just take it and not fret over being 5-9% away from what he wants.

I think him walking while a bit of a setback isn't devastating. Drafting or signing a replacement hopefully won't be too difficult. AJ Klein is already on the roster and provides a third linebacker and depth a pass rusher in certain situations. But I don't think it is a foregone conclusion he is walking. If there is a cap crunch (Which will happen if the cap is set between 180-190 million to varying degrees) the longer term deal he wants may not be out there and he might be be willing to take a one year 7-8 million dollar deal from the Bills and stay in a system that makes him look good (and one where you can win which is a plus) and hope to get a bigger deal in 2022 when he will still be young enough and productive enough to get his longer term big money deal.

He nearly got ran out of the league twice due to his mental health issues, he was able to overcome them but he could have been a lot better of a player had he gotten the mental health help he needed.

I would love to see a small trade back. trading back from 30 to 37ish and picking up a 3rd for a 5th swap along with a 6th seems like a good accrual of draft picks. Getting that extra pick allows you more flexibility in moving around in the mid rounds or just allows you to draft an extra player while swapping a 3rd for a 5th gets you better position to get more impact players for a team that will likely have depth and holes to fill come the draft. Moving up big time to get a prime pass rusher isn't a terrible idea but that is putting all or most of your draft capital and possibly future capital on the line for one player (that isn't a QB) which is a risky move.

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.