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So you thought that NYS was going to give tax money to NJ...........but then realized that made no sense and pivoted to this take? NYC area has an incredible amount of professional stadiums and arenas and the state has kicked in a fortune on those projects............and this was before the gambling tax revenue. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/stadiums-arenas-funding-nyc.html

Yeah not really sure anyone said to sign the Draft Kings tax checks over to the cement company. The point being that the argument that the state or it's citizens don't significantly benefit financially from sports arena's kinda' goes out the window when legalized sports gambling starts bringing in billions per year for the state. And yeah, it will be billions annually within the next few. This is

It only takes one team but Campbell had 1.5 sacks and 12 QB hits in almost a full season of play last year..........he's a solid player but not a playmaker anymore........hard to envision him getting anything close to $10M. Much closer to league minimum if he wants to go to a team like Buffalo or KC who is a Vegas favorite.

Well you put a hat on that straw bale when you jumped to Milano being seen as elite............nobody had said THAT in their criticism of Edmunds. Yeah he's borderline top 15 Mike right now........league average...........that's down from top 10 last year and as you would say "can you pay $11(pipe dream) or $15M(likely with rising cap) aav for that when you have a franchise QB and a $17M CB and two $10M safeties etc..." If he's the foundation of this defense then it's a house of cards. I haven't seen that to be the case when he's been out but granted he hasn't missed a lot of games. It's all well and good to be excellent against bad and mediocre offenses............but when you can't adjust how you play your back 7 or 8 because your MLB is a robot designed for one system..........then you can't adjust to your high quality opponent the way KC did in the AFCCG against Buffalo last season.......or how Cinci did in the second half against KC this year.

LA fans are much more serious about the results of deep rooted teams like the Lakers and Dodgers than they are all the carpetbaggers.

Milano is not an elite LB. But talking up Edmunds like he is.........that is pure fiction. He showed some flashes of improvement this year in the games against much weaker opponents.............but that never materialized into improvement on the whole.........and really he hasn't shown nearly enough progress since his rookie season.............and this year a minor influx of young ILB's and some others improving pushed him down the ranks around the league. If they could deal away Edmunds and sign DeVondre Campbell for $6M-$7M aav I'd be all over that and the average football fan doesn't even know who that dude is.

Didn't Ralph once sell a horse that went on to win the Derby?

So just go out and get a Tony Siragusa and the Bills have another Ray Lewis on their hands? Edmunds simply doesn't make plays in any aspect of the game. As @GunnerBill noted in the AFCCG.........one of the big problems Patrick Mahomes had was that he didn't have Logan Wilson on a string in coverage like he did wrong-way Tremaine.

It does seem HIGHLY unlikely IMO that Edmunds will suddenly become a fast thinking, instinctive reacting LB and therefore become capable of making the big plays he to this point has not. But not impossible.........Demario Davis and DeVondre Campbell would be examples of guys that became much better all around LB's 4-5 years into their careers after being low quality starters on their rookie deals. The Bills made their mess with Edmunds and got themselves impaled on a $13M contract for 2022...........now they gotta' hope he corrects his issues..........I wouldn't touch his contract.........let him play it out and hope for the best.

My son had a Kyler on his little league team.......which was refreshing as every single other kid had a first name that ended in "en". I do wonder if there were parents in my youth who lamented every kid being named Mike, Jim, Joe, Dan, Don or Tony.

I'm convinced this is either a cleverly disguised "dome" or "am I getting old or is it just everything" thread.

Yep. The timing is absolutely perfect to demand the state cough up those brand new ill-gotten gains to fund a stadium. And do it before the cost of dealing with all the addicted gamblers in-state becomes more obvious.

I'm inclined to definitely keep Zimmer if they can get him in that $1M range. I do expect Jordan Phillips to be released by Arizona and a 30 page thread about it, though..........and he might be looking at a minimum deal if he doesn't get someone to bite on paying him incentives. I'm on the sign Von Miller train.........I expect he will re-sign with the Rams though. I'd be interested in a Khalil Mack trade but think it would have to look like the Von Miller to the Rams trade.........multiple 2nd/3rd day picks.........not a first........and that might not incentivize Chicago to send Mack back to Buffalo. In the draft for DL I am most interested in a low investment big body like Marquan MacCall or Noah Ellis on day 3 to back up Harrison Phillips. Interested to see how Minnesota DE Boye Mafe moves up based on combine/workout numbers. He finished the season strong and then had a big Senior Bowl so he might no longer align with where the Bills might be able to draft him on day 2 or day 3. He would be a nice guy to add to the mix if you get a player like Miller or Mack and have him develop behind a similar physical type. Key is interesting though..........he was a potential #1 overall long-term projection pick early in his days at LSU..........definitely not lacking for physical talent/traits. Even if just for the Halloween party he throws.

Actually, I do share quite a bit about our parties........so yeah, I guess I am. Enjoy your honeymoon lover-boy. (I'm still on mine 25 years later so there's my darling over-share) But try to remember the Tony Bolognaviches out there...........those who have ruthlessly clawed their way to the top only to find there is nobody to share a 2 for 1 Jimmy's John's sandwich deal with.

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Ramsey is definitely annoying and yeah there was surely satisfaction when he nearly blew that Tampa game and then when Higgins whiplashed him. And I am all about not spreading the virus but the neck gaitor when it's 75 degrees in the house and nobody else has a mask on was also. As for the short pass option...........Smudgy Perine isn't what I would have had in mind.

Sometimes going for the jugular means having the patience to methodically call and make plays that give you the best chance against a defense. The Bengals offensive game plan......full of slow developing pass plays.......made little sense. The Higgins TD versus Ramsey was just a broken play that would have been flagged and then overturned by the sky judge in every prior game this season so they really just caught a break on that. Credit to them for taking advantage of the Rams inexplicable choice to blitz there.........but in reality Ramsey had that one well covered. And as @Hapless Bills Fan mentioned earlier the pic of Chase running past Ramsey begs the question did Chase OPI him to get to that point as well. 4th and 1 and they didn't have a good short pass option?

Yeah I felt that there was no way that the refs were going to let the Rams go 4 and out in a goal to go situation if Cinci was still clutching and grabbing.........as both teams had been allowed to play all game. Two ways to look at it...........that is was just BS letting the refs influence the end of the game like that. Or realizing this could happen and going for the jugular all game instead of playing/coaching yourself into a tight game. It's my opinion that most close games are tentatively or poorly played and coached into existence.

The level of play was on par to a November regular season game between two "in the hunt" level teams, IMO. Lot's of unforced errors and wasn't a desperate sense of urgency and they seemed to fall into a lull where they were comfortable punting back and forth to each other in the second half. You aren't always going to get a good game or a close game in the SB. But what I always hope to see in a SB is greatness on display that really shows you why at least one of these teams is there. Last years SB was a blowout but Tampa absolutely played their best game. Maybe the way to put it is that if you were a college football coach who is too busy recruiting to see NFL games and only saw THIS game.........you wouldn't think you were missing much.

Yeah that makes sense........though Brown isn't a great pass protector. Norwell is a former Ohio State Suckeye so Cinci might be a very attractive destination for him.

He's been a guy I've penciled in as the 9th DL..........a backup to Phillips and a mid-late round rookie at DT1T and 3T and DE.............and as you said he's a Rousseau fan/supporter. He'd have to be cheap though. He's not a playmaker anymore.

We had a fairly large group watching the game together and a couple of our younger Bills fans were cracking us up...........they thought Mary J Blige might be Dolly Parton and that 50 Cent had a 50 on his chain cuz he was 50 years old. Jennifer Lopez had that commercial with the open dress and they were like who this old lady and why she got her t!tties out? They also made some awesome steaks using techniques they learned on TikTok. We had a lot of fun watching the game and even got some laughs out of the poor quality of football. If I was just watching it alone I might have set a 30 minute alarm and nodded off in the 3rd quarter though. You could almost see the bad football coming.

If this warms your heart........well, that's good.......you do you.......get it where you can. But PDA'ing......or complaining about a significant other or ex for that matter........in front of thousands of strangers and a few people you actually know well on TSW and jock sniffery gifts like this are two things I don't even want to think about. I went thru the young women trying to impress me with autographed jerseys and footballs thing...........it's awkward when you don't care about those kind of things and then have to act overwhelmed or get a trophy case to display stuff you don't want. I finally had to let the over-gifters know.......I appreciated the gestures but I just root for the laundry and don't really care much about whether I would like said players off the field or care what they even do when not playing football.......... so don't spend copious amounts or exercise yourself to attain personalized Bills gifts for me.

Yeah if I recall correctly the Chargers and Colts would have both been in the playoffs if the season ended after 16 regular season games. They would seemed to have provided much better competition in the WC round than sorry-ass Pittsburgh and an uninspiring Oakland team. The extra game probably actually watered down the field a bit in this instance............though LAC and Indy had their chance and failed to win in week 18.

That is hilarious.........but in fairness: 1) No QB who had been a Bills starter or would become one later has been the starting QB for a SB winning team 2) Just as nobody who had been a Bills HC or would later become one has won a SB to date. You'd think one of the two would have happened.....Ferragamo and Bledsoe had started on SB losers before joining the Bills.........Rob Johnson and Bledsoe were backup QB on SB winners........closest they got to either 1 or 2 though was probably when Ralph tried to pay Mike Shanahan and Bill Cowher top dollar to come out of retirement.