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Yeah great intentions but awkward and unnecessary at best.

I think it was a C word. Fortunately Beane has been adept at saying the right thing. Polian couldn't contain his opinions.

Actually they eschewed the advice of the league.....which was to hire a football czar like Bill Polian..........hired Rex then cut bait.......and then hired a guy with zero experience as a HC at any level and a grass-green personnel man as GM. Beane had only been assisting in the Carolina personnel department for 2 seasons. But I know what you are saying.........the Sabres are such a mess that clarity on how to fix it is difficult to find.

No, the way the contract was set up........including the pay cut.........it was pretty obvious that they didn't see him in the plans for 2021. They didn't miss Star in 2020. Defensively, what they really missed was the incredibly easy 2019 schedule. They also lost 3 effective pass rushers(2019 Alexander, Phillips, Shaq) and Edmunds and Milano were injured for much of the season. Star is an easy excuse but the truth is they held 2,000 yard rusher Derrick Henry to his lowest production of the year and shut down the near historic Ravens run game in the playoffs. Lotulelei at his best was JAG.........at his worst he was bad. This is one of those things that a % of people like you fight me on that will be accepted as entirely obvious that I was right a year from now.

He will consume at least $11.8M in cap space over the next two years even if they cut him today. If they cut him post June 1 they can push some of that cap debt off to 2022 but then they will owe him more.........a total of $12.05M or $12.3M guaranteed because he's got $250K each in roster and workout bonuses that will have accrued during that time. They are totally f*cked on the Star deal........it's a sunk cost even if he shows up for the offseason workouts at 250 pounds(I guess the rumor is he lost a lot of weight).

GTFOH with a points system.😆 Only 9 games the past two seasons ended in regulation ties..........they don't need to change the ranking system for that paltry amount.

As I've said.........the NFL has only made rules changes to prevent such non-competitive football...........that's not changing whether you think it's "bizarre" or "horrible" or not so let it go. We think your food is bizarre and nonsensical so just call it even. If you get caught playing for the tie in this country you are worse than a loser.........you are first loser. Ask Pat Dye.

You do realize that the NFL has basically been changing the rules non-stop for decades to prevent teams from just trying to play for low score ties? There is definitely an optical difference between a soccer team trying to play keep-away to preserve a tie and an NFL team taking two knees at their own 35 yard line with a minute left in the game to secure a tie.

Simply put there is no way that a football game..........with all of its plays and complexities and different ways to score..........should end in a tie. One team was always better than the other or got more bounces etc..........there should always be a victor. You haven't even offered a supporting argument.........which should be your first clue that it's just ingrained in you for no good reason. There is one reason for ties in sport..........fatigue. Just as it makes cowards of everyone...........it makes the need to determine a victor irrelevant.

The point of competition is to determine a winner...........if that isn't the point of the game then it's not true competition.

Toney reminds me of a less polished version of former Florida State star Peter Warrick. Warrick broke ankles and seemed to have a million body adjustments at his disposal which allowed him great elusiveness and balance thru contact. He was amazing against college tacklers........he went 4th overall. But his lack of actual long speed(4.58) caught up with him in the NFL. Warrick ended up being an elusive punt returner and similar to what we see now in Cole Beasley as a receiver...........which is OK but not what you want from a first rounder.

I appreciate people sharing their draft opinions but IMO he's only a Kamara-type in the same way that Drew Lock is a Josh Allen-type. The extra juice is everything in the NFL. I'm a Michael Carter fan........IMO he might have that extra level to be a special RB.........but if he goes before the Bills 5th round pick(and he obviously will) then I have no interest.

Terry Pegula is actually a hockey fan first so maybe it's more than just a "headache". The first time the Pegula's attended a Bills home game was AFTER they bought the team.........and they had lived in Orchard Park all during the SB years. It's not like he just bought a hockey team........he built the hockey arena at Penn State and then the Harbor Center. It might be a case of him thinking he knew enough about hockey to make good hockey decisions..............while it was easier to turn over more control of a team in a sport he hadn't followed closely.

I think NFL teams need to be encouraged not to just use tactics to keep scores close. OT needs to be more aggressive than regulation. We've seen a whole lot of teams that were out-manned and out-coached and would have been pleased to play for ties and save their jobs. It's my belief that most games are made closer than they should be by coaching decisions.......we saw it a lot with McDermott from 2017-2019 with mixed results. This year he played more aggressively with leads and was rewarded. Anything that makes it easier for teams to coach themselves into ties is no bueno.

Creating more points than outcomes isn't really a great solution. Hockey had to do something to address their tendency for ties.......but I don't think it's a model system by any means and it would be a lot more controversial if they played 16 very meaningful games instead of 82.

The biggest drawback to using college rules in pro football are the impact on statistics. College OT stats can get crazy and skew the leaderboards.........which causes conflict when it's time to hand out salaries...........conflicted evaluations lead to wasted money..........so management will not like that. And players will absolutely want those stats to count if they are playing redzone football back and forth sometimes 4 times each in a game where there are normally only around 12 possessions. This makes it a CBA matter as much as a rules change. I don't see it fitting in pro football.

Wins bring elation. Losses force accountability. Ties just bring excuses. That's not bizarre in the landscape of the the most violent/physically demanding of the major sports. It's not kickball or hockey.......it's not a 40-80 game season where it's easier to sort thru the mud created by ties.........and as a result of the NFL's result finality, at the end of every NFL season 8 coaching staffs usually get let go.........maybe 2-3 of them really deserve to be canned but that's life in a win or lose league. If it were as easy to end up in ties as it is in the sports where a guy stands around and blocks the goal then the NFL would be a lot less entertaining.

Ties really are anti-American. We want decisive results and instant analysis and ties are counterproductive to those endeavors. You are just used to it because soccer is a sport where you eventually just reach a point where both teams are too exhausted to score. That's not sport, it's aerobics. Always hated that about the game. Hockey has a similar problem. 4 OT playoff games are bullish*t.

When I heard that it occurred to me that we are taking for granted with the Bills that there will be team success and peace among ownership and management and highest paid players............just because it makes sense. I think it's much easier to look good as an owner in the NFL because the league really promotes parity and they are true partners in that they help each other everywhere except on the field. It's set up to allow a kooky screwball like Mark Davis to take over his dad's Raiders and fail into success............so it's a perfect place for any ownership group that doesn't know what it doesn't know. The NHL is a bit more "every team for itself" so it's concerning that the Sabres are the worst organization in hockey every year.

I heard Paul Hamilton on WGR the other day literally say that the Pegula's gave up full control to McDermott and Beane and he knew that they now REGRET giving all that power away........so don't expect them to do the same with the Sabres.

He's not a starting outside WR (X or Z) in the NFL. Brown may have hit the wall but he was an excellent starting outside receiver in 2019. McKenzie is just a gadget player with some ability as a slot WR. McKenzie would be a lot more valuable if he didn't have such a tragic history of fumbling as a return man. And while he took that one to the house against Miami in the finale.....I am sure that play lost a bit of it's luster to the staff when they saw him bobble the catch. Ideally you have a gadget guy who can also safely and effectively return kicks so you don't have to have 2 roster spots tied up like the Bills do with McKenzie and Roberts.

You can hate it all you want..........but the data supports the fact that offense is the better, more sustainable area to invest in. Simple as that. If you want to look at it on a year-to-year basis, yes you will have aberrations like a Tampa team that was 7-5 thru 12 games and "shellacked" multiple times in the process caught fire and stayed healthy and won the SB over a severely depleted offensive line on a team that was 17-1. If I have a young QB I will take my chances with being that 17-1 offense-dominant team and end up 18-1 more often than not. Referencing the NFL of 30 years ago and not acknowledging that it's a totally different game both offensively and defensively now is ridiculous.

It was Pat Williams that you are thinking about. They formed "the package". That defense was instantly stout but almost entirely because of Ted Washington. Pat Williams without a stud run defender was not good against the run. They added Adams and had a brief run where they were mostly very good but they just didn't have the power or the heart of those Bills DL's of the late 90's. When push came to shove.......like in the win or go home finale against Pittsburgh....... they got shoved.

Star is a DTaint. Definitely not big or physical enough to anchor as a nose and not athletic enough to be a good 1 tech.