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Yeah fans of teams who feel they are negatively impacted by the current system want immediate changes but the reality is that this has to play itself out now. The NCAA and the big football factories let their greed get the best of them and lost control of it. Some of the plantations.....err "schools".....don't like it. But it's way better than the exploitation that was happening before. The product is some how just fine despite all of the portal movement and we are getting more meaningful games than ever. Win-win for college football fans.

An Oklahoma State fan complaining about money being used against them? You've got to be kidding me, T-Boone. Not a good recruiting state, not a destination for players from good recruiting states, not ideal TV exposure....... You just think you are a football school because that oil money made it work for a long time. All it takes is one big fish to come in and do it again. But talking about illegally capping what a player can earn off the field? That's not very USA of you. Once the amateur status was lifted......before the courts MADE them lift it........that horse was out of the barn and not coming back.

They looked at it. Nobody outside of the state of WV cares that Marshall opted out because of the disrupt related to the coaching change. It's highly unlikely to happen to a playoff team......especially to any of the ones who have a legitimate chance to win 3-4 playoff games. But if it ever does it's just more drama for the product. The only thing that REALLY harms a sport this popular is not playing the championship at all.

To make it impossible to double both edge rushers. Pass rush is second only to QB play in regard to impact on games. Ideally, everyone wants 2. It's why the Bills need a pass rusher opposite Rousseau even though Rousseau will get an extension or new contract well north of $20M aaa in the next 15 months. Additionally, the age gap between Crosby and Hutchinson is good because you don't need to overlap top of the market contracts to have a top DE combo for 5-6 years. Crosby will be getting the top dollar and then as his aav looks less than the best at the end of his deal, Hutchinson would be getting top aav. That is, if Hutchinson can prove to be as durable as Crosby or Garrett have been.

I hope Crosby doesn't end up available for trade because I think Detroit would have an inside track. Players of his quality and at this stage of career have a lot of say in where they get traded.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42971713/sources-raiders-crosby-likely-season-ending-surgery As a team in re-build with a new coaching staff(most likely) I can see this first sign of wear being a tipping point for the Raiders to seriously consider trading Crosby. Bills will certainly be back in the market for a difference making RDE. But Crosby is also a Michigan native and I expect the storyline to be about the Lions trading for him. The back of round one has always been a sneaky good spot for good teams to trade for difference makers. Like when Philly fleeced Buffalo of future HoF LT Jason Peters. Myles Garrett will also most likely be having offseason foot surgery which could more incline Cleveland to move him as well. It's a deep draft for DL ........but that's about the only position that's deep........so wouldn't be surprised to see a record for DL selected in rounds 1 and 2.

IMO the primary issue on defense is that the Bills are not willing to commit to being very opponent specific. It's nice to be great at a few things. That will get you in the playoff mix. But pushing your defense to be able to do more week-in-week-out is why Spags and Belichick defense's have won so many SB's in recent times. The Bills run into too many games where their inability to make complex adjustments gets them dissected. And that makes the talent look worse than it is.

A lot of players from that era put up crazy numbers. I was always a big Thomas fan it's just too bad he fell apart after age 29. I know he's considered a non-roid guy but I always thought he was and it probably caught up to him. I support his message about not letting your T get low. Soto is amazing at the plate except for one thing. He doesn't barrel up enough pitches. He will have a count worked and be right on a pitcher and then he will miss a pitch he shouldn't and make an out on weak contact. When you watch him over 162 you see it. It's why he doesn't hit .330 ever year. Not sure that's fixable, it might just be a function of him letting the ball travel so far before deciding what to do. But if he can improve that his numbers have room to expand even in this dead ball era. I just tend to think his lack of athleticism combined with his complicated hitting style might lead to a big drop-off like Thomas had around 30.

Kyle Tucker is getting traded to the Cubs for Paredes, Wesneski and the prospect they picked in round 1 last year. Cody Bellinger should be a Yankee shortly. Hopefully Tucker won't sign an extension. He could be available at the deadline and by then the Yanks prospects will hopefully have a lot more value.

But he's getting sued about it, reportedly. https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/former-nfl-star-intentionally-gave-incurable-std-to-multiple-women-specifically-targeting-buffalo-bills-fans-lawsuit/

Palm tree protests are out. Need something simpler and more sustainable. My idea is white sunscreen on the nose and leis. Like Spicoli said "Those guys are fans!"

The teams couldn't be much more different. Bills are QB driven offensively and schemed up on D. Lions schemed up on O and all about violence on D. And Detroit the city is like Beirut compared to Buffalo. Every time I go there I am still shocked by how bad it is. Not just run down or dated.......scary. I have empathy for their economic and civic problems and the Lions organization has been gracious letting the Bills play there during snowpocalypses......but we are not that alike. It's also a true 4 pro sport town with big college allegiances. Very different than Buffalo. Buffalo has more in common with Cleveland or even Pittsburgh.

To paraphrase John Madden............if you have 2 teams you have none. Football, in particular, is a sport where you gotta' own one team because every game is largely about physically beating the opponent into submission. There are always a few deliberate attempts to injure, regardless of rhetoric to the contrary. If there aren't your team is soft.

Yeah teams just weren't sold on him 10 years ago. I'm sure the average college recruiting process has changed a bit now but it was a time when coaches saw you had the opportunity to do all this football all year round...........so if you weren't doing it it likely served as a simple way to grade out certain players.

What I don't like is that the biggest problem IS the team stuff not the glory plays. He's been bad against the run this season. That's effort and execution that he's typically able to turn into results in run D. Ed Oliver tries hard in games but that effort might not be backed up with the right strength and conditioning this year. It's my contention is that me might not have put in the work in the offseason like he should have. When you try to get in shape in season.......sometimes you get injuries early and then can never get to the baselines that made him dynamic.

Yes, but again, that's not why he was a zero star QB. We're not talking about him being 5'7" 160. There was a 5 star QB last year who was 6'1". I think people just get too caught up in the idea that he was not considered even physically capable of becoming a good college QB. Every year when the story gets told his HS self gets a little smaller though. Here is the story from 2019: "At the time, Josh was about 6-foot-3 and 180 pounds. He hadn't attended the elite quarterback camps and wasn't a widely known prospect. His high school team didn't participate in many 7-on-7 camps because Josh and many of his teammates were busy playing baseball and other sports. He was the leading scorer on his basketball team and also pitched on the baseball team, reaching 90 mph with his fastball." Like I said, Allen simply didn't follow the same path as most QB recruits do. He didn't transfer to a school where competition was better, he didn't go to all the camps and play 7 on 7 football year round etc..

The topic isn't how he went from zero star to one of the greatest NFL QB specimens ever though.........it's how was he a total zero-star non-recruit in HS. The very slightly below average height doesn't explain that. I think it's easier for Allen to always bring that size up rather than explain over and over that his father didn't think he needed to drag him to every camp and participate in 7 on 7 teams etc.. That would kinda' sounds like he's blaming his old man because other families were going to those lengths. But that extra exposure and perhaps the perceived proof of determination to succeed that playing football year round provides is very important to "earning" rank and getting recruited.

True but I think this part gets overplayed a bit. If you look at the top 80 or so QB recruits in the 2024 class 10 of them were listed at UNDER 6 feet tall. And a bunch hovering at just 6' or 6'1". These are all 3 star and up types. Not being 6'5" played a part but I think it was way more the lack of exposure and competition. Clearly he had athleticism and a strong arm from the tape we see from time to time.

Fried is an ace so it's a big "baseball" signing. I had the displeasure of watching him dismantle the Yanks in person back on June 23rd in the Bronx. And when I think of him in the playoffs I just remember him putting away the Astros to win the WS in 2021. It was, on some levels, a historically dominant performance. Fried may just seem like a random good player to the casual baseball fan but this is also another strategic move in the Yankees/Mets battle for hearts and $$$ in NYC baseball. Just in time for the holidays!

Yeah if they go 3-1 against that schedule you gotta' tip your hat. They would have earned the 2 seed.

Yeah exposure is obviously a big part of it. Spencer Brown was also a zero-star and then athletically tested like a HOF'er at the combine. In he and Allen's cases they played in small, rural communities without much exposure or a lot of high level competition.

I guess we will see. NIL extends to HS in a lot of states now and will be all states soon enough. I think you might underestimate how much of the shrink in HS sports is about kids pursuing opportunities to earn money. That's the biggest problem in a lot of areas. Everyone's hiring and kid's want money. It's not just apathy.

Well the Eagles pulled the plug on Reid after 14 seasons. Those 14 years were full of home playoff losses and frustration. That SB he lost to Belichick was like a fever dream nightmare. THEN he blew a 28 point lead in the playoffs to the Colts and lost a playoff game at home to Mike Mularkey. 😂 Even with Mahomes he blew another huge halftime lead at home to the Bengals in the AFCCG in 2022. With Belichick washing out and then being fired the bar has gotten so much lower. He was in a class by himself for a very, very long time. There aren't any Joe Gibbs versus Bill Parcells matchups. Let alone a Bill Walsh. It's the oft-failed Reid and clever schemers with sketchy, inconsistent records like McVay and Shanahan or consistent culture guys like Tomlin, the Harbaugh bros.........and McD. I'm sure there is someone out there who would be better than McD but I am even more sure there are a lot more who would be worse.