BADOLBILZ

PSA: Use your high picks on big $ positions. Needs change fast. The Chiefs will be regretting using that 1st pick in 2020 on Clyde Edwards Helaire............and he was every bit the prospect of Harris and Etienne. Running backs are still a relative dime-a-dozen. The Bills will be needing to keep Josh Allen interested in their program for the next decade and the best way to do that is keeping those key positions stocked with difference makers. You can draft RB's and OG's and off-ball LB's much later and develop them or buy them free agency without breaking the bank.

The team is obligated to pay him the guaranteed portion of his contract.........so yes his contract matters and will be honored. They aren't demanding that they don't have to pay him anymore........though they are free to not want to pay him anymore.

You jumped into the thread late.........we already covered the difference between wanting and deserving. They are free to want. Josh Allen was free to want to be drafted by his hometown 49ers. That's not the way it works though. Collective bargaining and contracts(like the one that Watson signed guaranteeing him $110M) limit the freedom of players to the benefit of the league as a whole.........and therefore the pockets of the players because they share revenue at a near 50/50 split with ownership.

Because he's a reclamation project with a superstar contract..........he's a burden for the Eagles.........moving him makes sense for the organization if they can swing it. Watson and Wilson are superstar QB's who actually elevate their teams greatly.

Big difference between QB's well into their 30's like Wilson and Stafford wanting to change teams and one who is still in the window of his rookie contract. If all parties played until age 40 you are talking about 15 years worth of value versus 7. I know you follow baseball so basically this is the equivalent of trading your superstar young player with 6 years of team control versus trading the 30 year old with a lot of mileage on him. You are right........it's not coming though........it's here. Watching Tom Brady hand pick his destination to the most talented roster he could find will only embolden older vet QB's whose contracts are now limiting their own teams ability to build around them....... like Wilson. The NFL will have to figure it out........a continued string of good QB classes would be the easiest solution..........rules changes would be another........... but it is beyond bad precedent for Houston to let a young QB force his way out.

The moral of the thread is that it's VERY easy to draw conclusions.(and to draw a sewing circle of TSW bitties into a thread) Jesus Freaks? Cult-like atmosphere? Broken promises? Credible sources? The simplest explanation is usually the right one. 4-12 season + no first round pick + no cap space + regime change = Deshaun wants to play somewhere else Ignoring the fact that "credible sources" aren't saying he will waive his no trade clause so the cult can trade him to the commune with the most produce to offer.....among other things........ is irrelevant when you choose the much less likely, nonsensical explanations.

Fortunately sports agents would never do that.......otherwise we wouldn't be able to trust everything we hear from "NFL insiders".

OHHHH suddenly you remember..... As you know I most often find your football (and CA agriculture) takes to often be ..........this is one of those cases. I'll keep referencing people I trust for information.........there won't always be links........but I have no problem with you calling it fake news if there isn't said link. As I've said for years.......no awards for being right on TSW.🥂

Here's another piece of creative writing for you: The night before Russ Brandon was planning to announce the cancellation of the "Toronto series" and take all the credit for it........he went to a local establishment and was overheard drunkenly spilling the beans by nearby listeners. The next morning he awoke to find that the local media had reported the story and was furiously trying to figure out who leaked the story and making threats about limiting access to the media etc.. Good ol' milk of amnesia. I don't know how many people you've hired but it's not a great idea for the parties involved to drink at a job interview. Gifts.......also weird and unnecessary.......especially for a second interview. And if you think a non-red-wine drinker in Ryan was advised to bring a random "red wine" to the interview by an unscrupulous club president with the idea in mind that the billionaire TPegs was going to put it in his private collection..........well frankly that just seems a bit naive.

Correct here's the story from the hiring: https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/04/15/rex-ryan-buffalo-bills-new-york-jets Down near the bottom. Brandon advised Ryan to bring some of that red stuff that @eball drinks from the box every night to the second interview. Methinks some of you guys need to lay off the ol' milk of amnesia............I don't think you can call yourself a Bills fan from that era if you don't remember this story............it got a ton of mileage in the wake of both Rex and Brandon's firings.

No, he did not. He simply said that he had texted with Watson and that Watson wasn't happy with him and essentially that he "apologized if he offended him". That's it. He never said he broke a promise to Watson. Which sounds a lot like Watson was a bit delusional in thinking that he was going to be allowed to pick the teams next GM.

Closed the gap? The Mahomes trade CREATED the gap. Prior to Mahomes stepping on the field these were two pretty evenly matched rosters........which made it frustrating that the Bills kept blowing games they had in control to the Chiefs under Marrone and Rex. McD beat them in KC in 2017.........but once Mahomes stepped on the field in 2018 they went into another area code.

So Watson's agent told a bunch of mouthpieces that he wanted to shill for him that Watson would be "consulted" before the guys were hired? What exactly does "consult" mean in the context? Input? Veto? How do you know he wasn't "consulted" on Caserio or that his opinion was just taken into account and overruled leading to a feeling that he was lied to? And like you said, there is no reason for Watson to be involved in the GM choice, what would he know about THAT job other than maybe wanting hire his own agent as the GM.......which is something that has happened recently in MLB. And Watson submitted his trade demand long before Culley was hired so your timeline is off by weeks in that regard. Like I said there are a lot of ways and reasons that this is just BS spread by Watson's agent. I'm not sure how closely you follow US sports other than football but this is pretty much standard agent work in MLB and the NBA to try to get a player to more immediately greener pastures.

Like I said.......you dudes need to get some focus factor......you got C.R.A.F.T..........this story was discussed ad nauseam on TSW and you practically live here. From Sports Illustrated: "Team president Russ Brandon also texted Ryan the next day: “The owner likes red wine. ... “I'm not a red wineguy,” Ryan says, “but that day I drank red wine."

Who are the sources and what was the promise made?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-brass-was-on-a-yacht-drinking-wine-when-lesean-mccoy-offer-came/ You guys have such terrible memories.

Yes and yes.

C'mon man...........you have no idea what, if anything, was actually promised. Sometimes promises are subjective.........like the difference between allowing input and allowing someone to make the decision. But saying someone broke a secret promise is also good way, NBA superstarry way to steer a narrative so that you don't look like you are just trying to get to greener pastures too..........so there is that possibility you don't appear to be considering either. And I find it amusing that you have equated "don't work for people you don't trust" into a discussion about NFL personnel/management. That's hilarious......talk about your slippery slopes.

Brandon had Rex get Pegs liquored up to accelerate the hiring process.........remember the whole "get this bottle of wine" story?........and then shortly after the hiring they were all boozing it up on the yacht when the call came in to Whaley offering them McCoy. Got so liquored up they sealed the deal without talking to Shady and his agent first. Lesson: Don't drink and drive your franchise into mediocrity. Couple bottles of booze cost Pegs $50M in guaranteed money. Pegs traded his first wife in for his secretary....half her age.....so I wasn't necessarily surprised that he would hire a, shall we say..... "self-indulgent", guy like Rex Ryan. But the whole "man of faith" 180 hiring of McD after previously choosing a guy who was into watching his wife do foot stuff on other dudes......that was a very amusing turn of events and first choice of words.

There is a difference between wanting something and deserving it. Jason Peters "deserved" a raise......as Andy Reid said after he fleeced us.......Peters was "the Peyton Manning of left tackles" and was being paid like a right tackle. Watson deserves nothing. He willingly signed up for top dollar to play long term for those same guys after the organization had already made most of the bad decisions that put them where they are now. He didn't get to choose the new HC and GM? If Aaron Rodgers couldn't why should it be assumed Watson would be allowed to? So it's just a "want". And if he's determined not to play for them the Texans have every right to tell him to want in one hand and ***** in the other and see which one fills up faster.

The schedule the Bills played in 2020 was also one of the tougher ones they've faced since the league went to 16 games. The schedule they played in 2019 was probably the easiest one they have faced in that time. That was the primary reason for the decline in the defensive rankings. As Cover 1 has pointed out in their analysis though........the system has become very predictable.......which necessitates either adaptation of scheme or actually finally getting some pass rushers/playmakers in the front 7 that can force teams to make quicker decisions.

It's simply imperative for the Bills to start beating the Chiefs off the field and then on. Something they have consistently failed to do since Reid arrived in KC. They aren't just at different stages of roster development where the Chiefs are simply going to age out for them. It's doable but McBeane need to MAKE it happen. One thing Reid has proven in KC is that he's not going to come back to the pack for you.

Yeah it's been reported........but not on the likes of ESPN of course.........that the NFL has been giving back money to the networks this season because advertisers have been asking for money back because of poor ratings. Viewing habits are changing but there is far too much content that a large amount of the country sees as boring, depressing or inflammatory being forced into the equation by the NFL and NBA specifically. Obviously the key is to stay continuously entertaining to the audience and the sports leagues are falling short in that regard.

You want to make yourself feel better about the seeming disparity between the two teams by finding a linear reason why it "might" change. Success in the NFL isn't simply linear though.........the Chiefs could make bad personnel decisions that set them back and the Bills could make good ones that propel them......or simply Mahomes could blow out a knee next year and the Bills could be provided with a much clearer path to a SB........which if they won nobody would put an asterisk on. There are lots of ways the Bills could overtake the Chiefs.......more experience in their "re-build" makes no sense though. If there are more than 5-6 Bills players that were on the AFCCG roster that are still on this 53 man roster in 4 years later it will be a surprise. You don't stack cheese in the NFL you gotta' be constantly changing and adapting.

Ir-*****-relevant, your honor. The Texans would be professionally wrong to trade Watson this offseason regardless of what or how fervently they worship.