BADOLBILZ

Ok so we can expect "Put me down as a solid NO!" on all veteran free agents who might say they are coming to Buffalo because they "want to win". Will be looking forward to your disclaimer for every such free agent............not just the obvious guys with deep local ties, huge production in 2021 but also with HOF credentials and a handful of SB rings types.

You are thinking of "End Racism". "Stop Hate" is a much broader message about the divisiveness caused by indulging hate. Here is a local success story who most of us are old enough to be a parent to who had one isolated incident 5 years ago where nobody was hurt and he paid the price for it and apologized and we have people here who are glorifying hating him like it's a badge of honor. If the debate is whether Gronkowski can still play or if any TE is worth $7M-$9M is........then that's one thing............but dredging up a play that resulted in no harm from years ago and insisting that your team should never acquire anyone from a certain other team(as many have) is obviously placing foolhardy limits on team management in a highly competitive league.

Hatefulness and being unforgiving is just "a point of view"? That's the kind of take that has brought us to have to see these messages on Sunday's now.

They should be able to create $20M-$35M with cuts and re-structures if they want to. Gronk is projected at $7M next year by spotrac. The easiest thing would be to cut Beasley.......save $6.1M........sign Gronk for one year $7M but put $1M-$3M of that figure into the 2023 using a "voidable year" like they did with Emmanuel Sanders and Mario Addison last season.

Why? In what world is it healthy or a good character trait to not be able to forgive someone for such a minor transgression in the big picture 5 years later? Is this real life or a bunch of online Tony Soprano wanna-be's? Virtue signaling on Gronk while embracing your own inner azzhol is apparently OK because HE did it first.

All these blazin' times! The value of the #25 pick is skyrocketing.........just think of the quality of injured RB that the Bills can trade it for now!

What say Muppy and Rocky?

Well those weren't the terms of his suspension Bongo........you can't re-litigate it now.........there was nothing about prohibiting him from ever playing for his hometown team and Beane already attempted to sign him last winter..........so they already went to your "fair enough" point last offseason. People are free to be all up in their feels about it.........didn't say they weren't..........there is just nothing to gain whatsoever from holding onto it............but like I said, it's been amusing.

Anyone who understands that he's a RB who has been lousy the past 2 seasons and will consume 8 digits of salary cap space every year while also costing them a potential inexpensive franchise building block(after they already squandered a #1 on a RB in 2020)? It would be insanely stupid.............would love to see the Chiefs do it............only downside is that it would make it easier for the Chargers to make their move when it blows up in KC's face.

"You can't blame them" is almost without exception a pre-cursor to justify some stupid decision that someone made. I'm not immune to emotion wrt players.........I've openly expressed my "hate" for Matthew Judon on TSW.............IMO he's been the dirtiest player in the league since he was drafted and in Josh Allen's first game as a pro he cheap shotted him several times with plays that were much more likely to cause Allen to miss time with injury than the Gronkowski flop. But unlike some of our emo's on this board, I know the value of not letting those emotions control me. Judon gets no real estate in my mind, even when he plays the Bills. There is nothing to gain from that other than looking weak, stupid and victimized...........and if you let your feels beat you like that in business, well then you are REALLY f*cked. So, yeah, you CAN blame people for the state they choose to put themselves in. The hate for Gronk is for a heat of the moment incident that is entirely inconsistent with his entire, distinguished HOF career.........and it's something that happened 4 and a half years ago and was addressed with both an apology and the loss of the player to the team for a game and the player losing a $300K game check. What more do you want for something that resulted in no injury? Being perpetually mad about something that happened to someone else and resulted in no harm is ridiculous to me...........but I get a lot of laughs out of ridiculous stuff like that. People who can't keep their sh*t together can be very entertaining if nothing else.

He's a PENDING free agent..........how many free agents-in-wait do you see talking openly about what "other" team they would prefer to play for in the 2-3 week period before they hit the market?(when agents and teams are covertly, but secretly to no one in the league, setting up deals that will be characterized as thrown together quickly just minutes into free agency). This is almost as nonsensical as Happless calling out Tim Graham for not citing the team or agent source for his rumor about the Bills having interest in Gronk when the team would be subject to fines and a loss of draft picks and the agent fined and sanctioned for openly discussing "not free yet" agents weeks prior to them actually being "free". Every day further into the offseason we get the more many fans forget how things actually work.

You see this is why I think many of the Edmunds defenders just have a vague grasp of the other players at ILB/MLB. Devin White had another very good season.........he's better than Edmunds, no doubt.........you are thinking about the other off-ball high selection LB named Devin.........Devin Bush, who struggled returning from injury. David is not a WLB.........he plays in a 3-4 not a 4-3........his responsibilities are different than either Edmunds or Milano but he is absolutely an ILB. Demario Davis has been good for a number of years now..........he wasn't the All Pro that he is now early in his career but that was a LONG time ago. Campbell had a tremendous year..........1st team All Pro in a league where there is a fairly obvious group of studs at the position.........none of which are Tremaine Edmunds.

It's laughable the lengths people go to be mad at Gronk. Dude had no choice where he was drafted..........he got passed on by his hometown/favorite team in the draft...........did his job at a high level.........didn't treat Buffalo worse than any other opponent(though he probably had cause to for passing on him).........and yet people are ultimately mad/jealous because he did his job well elsewhere and that some of that involved beating an uncompetitive Buffalo team for the better part of a decade. The whole Tre White thing is just nonsense...........heat of the moment mistake.........he apologized(which most of them didn't even know about)...........and his explanation of the situation is consistent with the idea that he didn't enjoy playing for Belichick and why he would soon prematurely retire........but our emo's can't run with THAT they gotta' make it about his disdain for Buffalo or Tre or some other nonsense.

So a guy from southern CA thinks that a player whose family lives in Buffalo and operates their family business here would choose cap-strapped Buffalo to be the town where he came to steal one last fat pay check? Some of the takes from you emotional decision makers in this thread are utter nonsense..........but many of them are entertainingly stupid. And what would be your proof of the latter?

Yeah if the position WASN'T different how do you suppose the uninstinctive Edmunds would look playing it? The only part of his game ANYONE thinks is extraordinary is his mystical presence in pass coverage(despite his approx 110 combined passer rating against the past 2 seasons). The reality is that most of the people who think Edmunds is a top of the league ILB/MLB do it because they just don't even know who most of the players are who man the positions around the league. You can't even begin a list of top ILB's without both Lavonte David and Devin Smith of Tampa. DeVondre Campbell was first team All Pro..........you don't think he's better than Edmunds right now? Demario Davis also an All Pro......and he ain't a new addition to the list of top ILB's. Beyond the vets and the 3 guys from Edmunds own draft class that have left him in the dust..........he's also got passed by a number of instinctive, young LB's the past couple of seasons..........he's been stuck in neutral...........and that's steadily decreased the impact he makes as teams exploit his weaknesses.........if you aren't getting better you are getting worse.

I'll start performing for you when you start throwing me treats. Wipe my slate clean or acknowledge that I am the all-time scoring leader in TSW history. Blah Blah Blah...........that's a lot of yapping to avoid making a simple, ordered list.

I should HOPE that a punter picked in the 3rd round is still in the league..........even if he's with his 4th or 5th team. Just an utterly idiotic series of draft picks............picking a punter in the 3rd round is effectively punting that pick.

Yeah we all heard that after the game in 2017. It's 2022. That isn't a quote supporting your insistence that Gronkowski said he didn't regret hitting Tre White, or felt White deserved it or anything of the sort. Just take the L.

Fact The idea that adding Rob Gronkowski might make you feel conflicted about your Bills fandom........and hopefully send you back to one of the other teams you used to root for..........makes it an even BETTER idea, IMO.

Like I said.......NOTHING in there about not regretting the act......which he had already apologized for..........just being glad that he was disciplined for it. If your reading comprehension is that poor..........maybe you just can't do words.

Inaction causes bedsores. What you got was something different. 😉 When Ted Washington was making the Patriots run defense impenetrable or when Stephon Gilmore was the NFLDPOY do you think Patriots fans were conflicted by their presence, being former opponents?

He doesn't.........he just made it up........that's why I mocked him in response. Gronk never said he didn't regret cheap-shotting White..........he said he was glad for the suspension part of it because he was so beat up from the season that he didn't even mind losing $300K to get a week away from a very unenjoyable season.

But then he later said that he was just joking when he said he didn't regret it and was just happy to get suspended because then he had a nice break.

Buffalo selecting non-football player TJ Graham 69th overall and Jacksonville selecting punter Bryan Anger 70th...........with Russell Wilson still on the board(he went 75th).........might be the dumbest consecutive draft picks in NFL history.

How did he say it though? Did he look sincere?