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Not sure a guy who is assumed to be the other half of a starting rotation can be under the radar..............but if he turns into a star that would be value far in excess of his low end starter money.........which has still been almost entirely elusive for Beane in free agency. Every multi-year deal that has panned out at all for Beane........basically only Morse, Beasley, John Brown and Addison.......has been handsomely paid for. It's pretty weird how the free agency value faucet slowed to a drip completely after the Hyde and Poyer signings. Even that limbo period between lame duck Whaley and hired Beane was more efficient than Beane. Whaley is much maligned........but people forget that he was the Bills pro personnel director before he got elevated to GM. Nobody is perfect but evaluating pro personnel was a strength of his. This much heralded front office has done a lot of things right but free agency has been a struggle for them. I believe Beane will get better at it with experience.........I do believe in their growth mindset........maybe this is the class that begins to change their fortunes in UFA.

Yeah, @Stank_Nasty thinks Pizza Hut is the best pizza and assumes everyone is just lying when they say greasy pan pizza isn't the way. Blue cheese is awesome. Better on wings, better on burgers, better on pizza.

You are forgetting the largest area.........squarely within the radar. That's where Jones falls. $7M per for a DT1T who will play just 45% of the snaps is legit good bucks. Under the radar would be like when they signed nobodies like Tyrod, Lorenzo Alexander and Zach Brown for peanuts and got big production. Daryl Williams is about the only success who may qualify as one from Beane.......but that was really a "prove it" deal success. He'd been an All Pro a few years earlier and was still young. All the under the radar free agents Beane signs have figuratively crashed and burned so far.

I knew immediately what Rex was up to when he over-staffed. He had one foot in retirement after he got out of the wringer in NY. The Bills just offered too much money for him to walk away from so he just hired a bunch of people to do all the work and planned to show up on game days. Beware of coaches who over-delegate and hire too many assistants. Not a profession where more is better.

You get or create a job in media where you can essentially provide 3rd party advertising space for player agents. In my own business experience.......people who want to be paid for information will seek you out. So I'd assume that is generally how a guy like LaCanfora finds a scout or front office person who can give them dirt for a few bucks.

Nah it was just a lie to manipulate salary cap ignorant members of the fan base like yourself.........and it worked because it played on the need for accountability that fans wanted after all of the underachieving under Rex. The McD Bills went into the 2017 offseason more than $30M under the salary cap with almost no commitments for 2018 and beyond. They merely wanted a completely clean slate........not anymore complicated than that.

Well, as the other tweet lauding his firing noted.........what do you expect? He IS a Red Sox fan.

Bigger staffs are also harder to manage and accountability can become a real issue. See the Buffalo Bills under Rex Ryan. Probably the most coaches an NFL team has ever had on one staff.

Yeah, I certainly get that. I am from WNY but traveled a lot as a kid and while I was often amazed by stuff I saw in NYC or southern CA..........pretty much everywhere else was pretty lame compared to WNY back then. Southern cities like Charlotte and Atlanta that so many Bills fans make home now were far behind the style and interests of a northeastern kid in the 80's. Even Toronto perplexed me with it's gawky awkwardness in the early to mid-80's. That's all changed. Those metro areas have experienced massive growth and are seen as culturally superior to WNY because of it now...........but as you said, for the most part, any idea or style that's new is new everywhere now. The look of WNY is as much an aesthetic now as anything. Nobody wants to see Danny's or Big Tree torn down and relocated into pieces of modern art with perfectly curbed new parking lots. It doesn't mean the people are classless bums. A lot of the little towns intentionally resist frivolous architectural change. Some of the people sitting on those boards don't want their towns and cities ending up looking like where their vacation homes are.

Yeah that money is there for the foreseeable future........if he doesn't get cancelled for saying or doing something offensive like Gruden. But in effect McVay has probably hardly worked a day in his adult life. He's always done professionally a job that he probably would have done for free if he didn't need food and shelter. Now he's wealthy. Most people grind thru work life day-to-day and crave the freedom of getting away from having to work. Guys like McVay and McDermott haven't lived that life.

I mean.........that's part of the charm of central and WNY. Sometimes it's just not necessary to replace everything old with something new. I own a home in SW FL where almost every building within a 50 mile radius was built in the past 30 years. Everything is new. It's not run down but it also has very little character or history. That's often the trade-off. @blacklabel is dogging Binghamton..........has he ever seen the neighborhoods around the Bills stadium? Ain't no new McMansions on that side of town. Danny's? The Big Tree? These are like historical sites to Bills fans and they all look like something from a half century or more ago.

He says it was his heart that made the decision. His haircut says he wanted to retire a Raider but I guess we will have to take his word for it.

Calling it a drug just implies a lack of control..........which I don't think necessarily/accurately portrays his situation.

As I said in another post.......McDermott isn't punching a clock somewhere like some Joe Sixpack in your human performance data. He's the boss and he is doing something he really enjoys. Fulfilling a dream. It isn't necessarily about whether each moment spent is as valuable as one spent in practice or with his staff etc.. And yeah, for an NFL HC putting in enough time to learn and recognize more about the competition can be very impactful. See SB XLIX where Belichick had actually run the game winning defensive call that lead to the interception by Butler at the end of practice on Friday in anticipation of the Seahawks running it. An obscure detail that snatched a SB win from the jaws of near certain defeat. It's often pretty obvious when you see teams haven't put in offseason work to prepare for the Bills(and likewise in the past at least, I'm sure). Many times a Bills team would have clear personnel weaknesses and a yet an opponent that knew they would be playing the Bills since the end of the prior season acted like they had no prior knowledge of the Bills personnel. Then you would hear something like "well they only had a week to prepare for an unfamiliar opponent".

It sounds better to say it can be intoxicating. It's something a lot of people do when they are enjoying what they do professionally. I used to put in lot's of 18 hour days and sometimes would work every day for months on end when I was younger. Helped me become successful and make a lot of money and demoralize and eliminate competitors, get sweet revenge......lot's of really fun stuff......working long hours can be fun. Sean McDermott isn't punching a clock filling out TPS reports........he's at the top of the mountain he had been climbing for a couple decades........he's enjoying it.

He's a better player than that traffic cone Star Lotulelei...........but it's a bit rich having a player sign for a very surprisingly large sum and then have him act like this was just a passion project. Dude played on 1 year $4M contract in Carolina last year........had a lesser performing season than he had in 2020.........and then got a 2 year deal for $14M with $10M+ gtd. There wasn't any hometown or ring chasing discount........he is in Buffalo because he got PAID more in Buffalo than he was likely to be paid anywhere else.

This is different from Buffalo how? Or Rochester or Erie or St Catherines/Hamilton or anywhere in Bills country.

After Ralph sent word down to cut Langston Walker to save some money...........as was his MO after watching preseason........in this case realizing that the Trent Edwards no-huddle offense was a complete f*cking joke.......the thought was, "well at least Brad Butler is a returning starter at tackle". He immediately gets injured. Enter Chambers. What an abomination.

They had an impressive run of titles won in a mostly tiny 4 team division. It's not often cited though because it's relevance in major league sports history isn't that significant. Not all sports have such tiny subsets of teams. Winning divisions in football doesn't even always require a winning record. By contrast, the Yankees once won the AL pennant(equivalent of reaching the SB) by having the best record in their league 26 times in the process of having a winning record every year for 39 seasons from 1926-1964. As for the Pats still being good..........you simply didn't respect Belichick. He's the greatest head coach in NFL history. His methods are often questionable........he WILL cheat and do whatever it takes to win........but he's worth 3-5 wins for that team every year.........there isn't a comparable head coach in sports.

They actually had a lot of "Left Tackle Luck" in that Donahoe period too. In the last Dwight Adams draft(Donahoe's first) they drafted Jonas Jennings and he was a really talented player..........I believe his rookie season he started at RT and didn't allow a sack. He was every bit the blocker that Dion Dawkins is today(and probably even better in pass pro) but he was constantly leaving the field injured. Then they had a chance to select McKinnie.........who was considered a slam dunk pick to the Bills.......even in the fall prior to that draft. SHOUT! magazine had an issue that fall with McKinnie on the cover LOL. Hard to emphasize enough how OBVIOUS it was that he be the Bills first draft pick. But even after the Williams pick blunder, Jennings moved to LT and played well. But after they struck gold with Peters in UDFA they couldn't justify re-signing the too-oft-injured Jennings once Peters emerged. Having 3 talented LT's like that should have been a blessing but by 2009 the Bills were LT-bankrupt and starting "Da'Mattress" Bell. That 2009 OL might have been an all-time low point for Bills OL play. I believe there was a stat presented during the opener that the Bills OL had the least combined starts of any opening day OL to play in the NFL since the merger.

Always suspected Szabo might have gotten fired for suspicion of sharing Carolina draft info with the Bills. It was weird that he got let go in Carolina in 2019......he had recently been promoted and seemed to be on the way up in an organization he had spent nearly 2 decades with and where there seemed to be a lot more potential for upward mobility than within the Bills organization. He ended up with a lateral(perhaps a bit of a demotion even) move to the Bills.

Yes.......because hair serves to trap and intensify the natural odor of the genitalia. And without question, Hairy brings maximum stank every time he sets up behind the plate. And every time a ball skips past him as he carelessly tries to backhand it the announcers point out that it's not that he doesn't put in the physical work to get better..........which only emphasizes the fact that the cerebral aspect of the catching position is somehow still lost on him 14 years into playing the position at the pro level. Having a bad defensive catcher who is also egregiously bad at framing pitches was a big problem for the Yankees in recent seasons. Trevino and Higgy are lesser career hitters but they are doing wonders with a staff that was held back by the league-worst kinda' defense by Sanchez in recent seasons.

Even though he's tripled washed.....and then some at this point..........he probably has a shot at being a year-long practice squad player with the league keeping them expanded again. Not a $6M man any longer but maybe a $200K man still. And the Bills are no longer one of the deeper receiver groups in the NFL anymore. It's Diggs, Davis and a bunch of slots and ST's only's. So his competition might be an unavailability expert like Isaiah Hodgins.