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IMO Burrow deserves $310M/5yr then........and all guaranteed and up front from "Money Bags" Mike Brown. https://clutchpoints.com/bengals-news-cincinnati-owner-pact-joe-burrow-extension-negotiations Bills Mafia needs to support Bengals Whatever they are called to get their boy signed with just a $62M per year cap hit.

Turnovers........particularly in the run game.........are just not acceptable AT ALL in todays NFL. It surprises me that it's not discussed much but the average amount of turnovers per NFL game has basically HALVED since the late 1970's. In 1978 and 1979 when the schedule moved to 16 games the average team turned it over 40 times per year..........that number is now 22 in 17 game seasons of 2021 and 2022. Turning the ball over wasn't as rare in OJ's day.........and while TO differential has always been a great indicator of wins and losses, I don't think it was quite as much of a sin. In fact, in 1979 the two teams that lead the NFL in turnovers actually played each other in Super Bowl XIV (Steelers v Rams).

1. Great point that some don't want to acknowledge. 2. Not really. Barkley has just proven that he's very good(but not great) when healthy. He missed much of the 2 seasons prior to last due to injury and performed woefully when active. If anything he has proven that he isn't so good that giving him a long term contract is justified despite the risk of injury.

Yeah wide open spaces are pretty easy. If he was out in the ocean minding his own business free-floating on his jet ski and someone drove up out of nowhere and nailed him that would be astonishingly poor luck. Unfortunately most of the accidents happen in more congested areas or when multiple jet skis are riding with each other.........which is the circumstance at the beginning of many jet ski rides. People often don't fully realize what it means to not be able to stop a vehicle immediately in a short area because they are used to being able to stop in short distances with their bicycle/car/motorcycle.

Agree, @HOUSE is excellent. He was the top gif/meme guy for a long time as well. Always on point. I think maybe he got asked to use less by mods so refrains from them now in general. Our loss.

Well you are already wrong about the quality of offensive talent around each of those quarterbacks..........basically your rationale is already wrong. You can want him to be great but as I said........Nick Foles was great for a season under Chip Kelly and Carson Wentz was great for a season under Doug Pederson. The common denominator was that they had a big advantage.........in Foles' case it was an offense the league didn't know how to defend yet and in Wentz case it was having the best roster in the league. Hurts has the best roster in the league on paper and, in particular, the best combination of OL and skill talent on offense. We will see if Hurts can maintain his overall productivity while elevating his modest bulk passing production, which is NOT elite. Foles and Wentz looked entirely different when the talent around them and schematic advantage declined. Elite QB's do not fall apart like that.

Yeah a Jet-ski is not a canoe, @Beck Water. I have one that goes 70 mph with no brakes (unless you are moving at 2-3 mph). It's permitted to go in ONE direction(left turns like NASCAR) on the body of water I am on because otherwise people would continue to run into and kill each other. Nyheim's still happen though because people think they are just getting on an amusement park ride.

The statistical reality is that offense is lot easier to predict because it's the easier side of the football to maintain once built.. Defensive performance being less reliably predictable makes it the larger gamble to build around. In the current NFL..........that's all you need to know about how to build your team. I don't want to go all the way back to 1987 because defense was much easier to maintain until the mid 2010's.........a few years post the major rules interpretation changes for QB's and WR's. Be offense-centric......keep yourself competitive defensively(specifically thru coaching)............and you will get a lot more chances at the Lombardi.

40th anniversary today of that pine tar cheat George Brett hitting a HR that should have been disallowed.

Your attempt at a response is a good example of your agenda. You have no idea how to post on this board........you don't know how to type a response to something you quote.........you are just so compelled to talk about Beasley's opinion that you gotta' chime in and talk about it whenever his name is mentioned. Talk about football related topics? Nah, not you. My point is clear........being prone to delusions as he may be........CB's opinion was not the problem. The problem is that he's just an attention wh*re. And he made his team of coaches and support staff, who didn't make the rules, babysit him all season and drew negative attention to the squad. Getting attention is more important to him than football. Stefon Diggs is high maintenance but he's football first. That's what fans care about.

7-6 thru 13 games wasn't underachieving greatly? Along the way they lost to the worst team in the NFL and lost to 3 clearly inferior teams at home.........they were wildly inconsistent for a team that was expected to be a top 2 seed. I've said it before........because the Bills finished the season strong on offense people forget that their offense laid a bunch of eggs and it cost them. That team should have won 14 or 15 games with that schedule and won the SB. Instead they were on the road in the divisional playoffs and didn't reach a championship round.......just a "loud out" also ran.

That's what insurance policies are for Nyheim.........it's more than likely the contract he signed had language about dangerous off-field behavior. Motorcycle, atv, pwc........all the same.

So definitely non-football injury and probably more of an insurance matter than the Bills being on the hook for any of his salary and yes, they can probably......and should.......go after the bonus for cap space.

With Sherfield, Shakir and Shorter........he has to be Sharty.

Because by the time they needed to throw the ball underneath more they were: 1) Using James Cook more in that role and getting 5.7 yards per carry 2) Allen was struggling with more with short throw accuracy than long throws due to his elbow injury The only RB in the NFL who might be as good as an actual starting slot WR running routes is McCaffrey. And even then we aren't talking exceptional in that regard. Otherwise these guys gotta' run the ball to warrant receiver looks. They aren't the equivalent of slot WR's regardless of the hyperbole people want to attach to their games.

The criteria is individuals or topics that significantly impacted the experience on TSW during the offseason. Nobody created any content that you found of exceptional quality or thought provoking or funny or useful? I get if you feel like you aren't in some perceived clique and are offended by those circle jerks.........I got half those people blocked and they don't really provide much football content anyway, IMO..........but this is a pretty limited timeframe of performance.......not a lifetime achievement award where @Royale with Cheese would definitely double pink-eye due to PDA's with @teef.

Yeah this @tomur67 clown keeps popping up just to whine about Beasley being a victim. Beasley is just a wannabe influencer whose talents hadn't garnered him the attention he craved........the situation gave him a platform........and he put that ahead of team goals. Which is all fans ultimately care about. Gabe Davis had the same stance and nobody cares(or in most cases even remembers) because he didn't make a spectacle of himself, run up $100K+ in protocol fines, subsequently perform well below expectations as he raged and just appeared to be an obvious distraction to a team that underachieved greatly.

This isn't that kind of award show.

But, I mean, he got Ohtani for free. Ohtani chose them. They didn't even have to use a draft pick on him or even pay him a big bonus or salary. He's just now qualifying for free agency. That's the ineptitude of the Angels organization.........they were handed Shohei Ohtani at a time when they already had the then-best player in baseball in Mike Trout on their roster and 5 years later they haven't fielded a good enough team to make the playoffs.

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You mean what is the award for a realist fan of the greatest MLB franchise(by a lot) that actually plays in the state where he lives and pays taxes? None necessary. Most Bills fans that follow MLB are naturally Yankees fans. Common sense really. But you do deserve a nod...... "Bad take specialist who randomly roots for an MLB team in a different state and where Buffalonians absolutely hate the NFL team"........... @4merper4mer Congratulations you've unseated the recently re-closeted and take-improved Boston pro sports team fan @Nextmanup by crowing about your Missouri Cardinals organization as they sit like 15 games below .500. Damn that balanced schedule! Side note.........there are a lot of self involved, narcissistic people we have posting in this thread. The objective here is to give props to the people who have made an impact this offseason. Preferably for good reasons. Stop asking to be called out for bad behavior. For shame. Tisk risk. 'Tis better to give.......

Yeah they don't have cap room for a $7M receiver so trading for him is a no go..........and they have starting money(Sharty) and a 1st round pick invested in the slot so adding an another injury flyer/bounceback guy to the mix doesn't really add up. Now if Sharty pulls a hammy in camp or preseason and Kincaid doesn't look ready and then Renfrow cleared waivers.........

No none of Allen, Mahomes or Burrow has as much combined OL and receiving talent as Hurts. That's not even particularly debatable. Bills and Chiefs have mediocre weapons(around 20th best in the NFL) and the Bengals have had bad offensive lines every year under Burrow. Hurts is set up.........but 14th in TD passes and 10th in passing yardage doesn't "eyeball test" as elite to me. Brock Purdy was set up to put up huge efficiency numbers with the leagues best overall group of playmakers and an excellent offensive line too. I don't think Purdy is elite either, do you? Did he pass the eyeball test to you because he had more yards per attempt, a higher QB rating and a higher QBR than Hurts all in a pretty good portion of a full season? If it only being one season causes you pause remember that Jalen Hurts was not very good his first two seasons in the NFL.

Irrelevant. I don't have a bias against any of the teams that Hurts played for or against in a big game. I look at players thru the lens of how they would project to the NFL. If you have a point to make, say it. Nothing I've said about him is untrue. I'm sure you probably thought Jake was going to be a good QB because you are a Georgia homer but my team had similar game manager QB's winning championships and I never thought those guys would be any good in the NFL. I'm not sucked into that homerism.

Rushing TD's are much less indicative of QB quality than passing. In 2015 + 2017 Tyrod Taylor combined for more TD's and far less turnovers than Matt Ryan. Sandwiched between there 2016 Matt Ryan won the NFL MVP. But there was never really any question who was the better QUATERBACK over those 3 years, was there? The Eagles offensive roster and system are more conducive to production on the ground than the Bills. Much more. Running TD's are generally indicative of a system choice or a big roster advantage.