BADOLBILZ

Your post-Jauron unwavering disdain for management in all conflicts is only surpassed by that for anyone whose father didn't drive them out into the middle of nowhere and leave them for dead. Never ceases to amuse.

Which one? Or both?

If it costs Watson a season of his career then it's at least not an L for the NFL, ownership and competitive balance. Letting him break his barely-dry-inked committment by acquiescing to his demand to be traded and letting him dictate where he will go because of the terms in the contract he is breaking would set a very bad precedent. It's ludicrous that anyone would suggest otherwise. There are a lot of people in the media who are just dying for a trade to come to fruition and trying to sell the notion that 3 first round picks would be enough.......when they most certainly know it would not........is amusing and eye roll worthy at the same time.

No, apparently having the best overall roster matters. That allows you to clear all of the hurdles in a matchup league. The Tampa roster was artificially enhanced though........they built that roster thru years and years of missing the playoffs entirely and in 2019 they had a great defense and an explosive offense that just turned the ball over a crazy amount. Then they added Brady, Gronk and AB on top of drafting early enough to get rookies of greater impact............that's not really a blueprint. In most cases your team is going to have to pick and choose where to be strongest. Pass rush should always have been second to QB play in terms of priority.

I have always believed and still do that Zerovoltz is the same person as Jeffismagic. He has denied it and actively tried to dispel it in the past. Of course there is good reason to deny it.......it's obviously a weak look to be a Bills fan one day and then front running for another team because of one player decision. Kinda' ruins your site cred. In related news @Teddy KGB also says he is not Ryan L Bilz. There are a few people on here who have assumed different identities to re-start their persona/identity/reputation.

$110M of his new contract is GUARANTEED. I gotta' hand it to you..........when you go wrong.......you go BIG......(and then you go home and pretend you never said it, but I digress...).

Quoting an angst ridden young person who put themselves into an early grave because they couldn't put their temporary struggles in perspective is probably a poor example of how to handle a difficult position that a young player and his agent put themselves into. Watson can start saying he was "mislead" after he finishes the 5 years with the club that he was committed to by the CBA. The only reason this is a talking point is because he ecstatically lined up to take the contract extension. It wasn't due........he jumped the line to get it. If you saw that interview afterward you realize that the man is very emotional. The only damage done since the contract signing was the firing of Bill O'Brien........which everyone including Watson knew was likely to happen. As I said........I believe the stories that his buddy James Harden's force-out raised the emotional Watson's angst about his own situation. Two entirely different league's and circumstances though. Houston should let him waste the year if that's his committment. Maybe in 5 months he will do ANOTHER 180 like he is doing now. Or maybe the Jesus freaks will figure it out. McDermott is one and he hasn't alienated himself from the locker room.

They definitely peaked at the right time. They were big underachievers for much of the season........and beatable in all of their NFC games. For whatever reasons their whole became the equal of their parts in this SB game.........that was by far their best playoff performance.

The Bucs had easily the best non-QB roster in the league..........that's why Brady chose them. They didn't play like it most of the year. They appeared to be a bunch of parts that were far less than the sum of their whole. I think this game was really the first one where they truly put it all together. The Bills were better than the sum of their parts most of the year. Less so in the playoffs where they were out-coached in 2 of their 3 games and didn't look sharp offensively in any of them. So I don't think they would have played very well against Tampa. Hopefully the Bills improve the roster AND the coaching staff grows/learns from this year.

I think there is a bit too much assumption on the part of people that Watson is making these decisions simply because the ownership/upper management are total freaks. He reportedly was very influenced by Houston Rockets NBA star James Harden recently forcing his way out of Houston and onto a Brooklyn Nets team so he could play for a title with his buddies. The NBA model can't work in football. Remove the competitive balance from football and the entire system comes down like a house of cards. That's not an exaggeration. The NFL can't replicate their game experience 100-200 times per year like the NBA and MLB so the perception that the playing field is relatively even is critical.

They already paid him a $27M bonus so there was an understanding that his contract was more than just a weekly pay check, GB. He doesn't have to show up. They don't have to pay him. They can go after the bonus while he eats said bag of ***** and gives away a season of his career. Whatever. I'd say "hopefully" it doesn't come to that.........but honestly I hope all parties involved are sufficiently harmed to the benefit of the Bills. It would be to the benefit of the small market Bills for this to go poorly for him, IMO.

Mike Remmers might have cemented his place as the career worst performer in SB history IMO. Between single handedly costing the Panthers a SB with his work against Von Miller and the absolutely atrocious job he did today.......just unbelievable. I don't know whether to feel sorry for the guy or for us having to watch such a terrible player greatly impact two SB's now.

The enormous, early-gifted contract says otherwise.

You know that I don't blame officiating..........and the officiating was terrible simply because the league entirely changed how they were calling plays in the secondary to the great detriment of the grabby, chippy Chiefs..........but I think KC compounded the issue by losing their composure. They expended a lot on their outrage and looked gas after halftime. For the first time, the Chiefs really paid for having a unit full of low character individuals.

That's a very dumb, irrelevant analogy. He's not some $50K per year non-contractually obligated office schlub. To whom much is given, much is expected. I mean....were they not "jesus freaks" when he signed his contract that called for a "no trade" clause 5 months ago? It's not like Houston didn't have options. They could have Dak Prescotted him. I don't begrudge him asking for a trade but trying to force his way out of a team that just gave his once homeless family generational wealth when it didn't have to....that attitude sure ain't gratitude. There is a line between being in an unfortunate situation and an untenable one. It was unfortunate when he signed the contract.......if it was tenable then it's tenable now. If he wants to go.......START by dropping the no trade clause.......let Houston trade him for 5 #1 picks and a bunch of other picks. Otherwise......he should go down to the corner store and get a bag of ***** and start munching while he sits out 2020.

I think the problem with everything he does is that there is no evidence to support the notion that he is exceptional at it. Case in point: you say he changes how teams attack the Bills offense. That's pure fiction. There is no fear of him. Because he has PROVEN over and over and over that he simply doesn't make plays as an off-ball LB. As for not blitzing well.........while that is certainly a reason to question his pass rush ability.......blitzing and pass rushing from the LOS are not the same thing. I'd like to see him on the edge. Probably won't happen here but maybe at his next team.

Aside from the few teams that may have both the desperate need and the resources to trade for him I think the rest of the owners gotta see a potential Watson force-out of Houston as a VERY BAD turn of events for their system. It's a slippery slope, for sure. If you can make a guy the richest at his position and he can be ecstatic then just 5 months later with probably 12-15 years left in his career he's determined the situation is forever untenable.......then all bets are off. Watson changing teams this soon in his career would be as early or earlier in the prime of a true superstar that a player has ever changed teams in any of the 4 major US sports. Unlike basketball and baseball the NFL has been able to contour the rules of their sport so that only 1 position.......1/22nd of the starting lineup........is really necessary. Works out for the QB's and the league. They only have to funnel top dollar into one player and the league benefits by having human focal points, "faces" of the league, which was always tougher than it was in other sports where players faces were always visible and therefore more recognizable. Stability at that position is essential..........and whether the QB's realize it or not........they are expected to comply with the league's framework in return for being placed on a pedestal. IMO the Texans would probably receive a lot of support from the league to NOT trade Watson. It would be foolish on many levels for them to trade him. The only chance at getting value is a trade that would so hamper the ability of the receiving team to re-stock their roster over the next 5 years that THAT would also be bad for the league as well.

If he got that name from that play then it actually fits. Zimmer had no chance in hell of actually catching Hill.......it's just in his nature to not give up. Pete Rose didn't get that nickname because he dove into bases head first..........he got it in spring training from the Yankees laughing at him on the bench after Rose leapt up over the fence to attempt to catch a 450' Mickey Mantle home run that was "100 feet over his head".

I understand that you think Hill's rise was all about usage.........but the usage was able to increase because they were more productive with the greater QB. To see that, look at the amount of 1st downs Hill and Kelce produced once Mahomes became the starting QB's. More first downs, more opporunities. I can remember watching the All-22 of the 2017 Chiefs game and Kelce in particular was running free............but Smith couldn't get him the ball. Sometimes he couldn't see him, sometimes he was rushed and the throw was too challenging for him to make. And Smith was a well above average athlete at QB. Mahomes is just the better athlete, has better vision of the field and can buy tons of time and then make off-platform throws nobody else can. Stefon Diggs is a PRIME example a QB raising the production of an excellent WR.........his targets increased 44% in 2020 very much because the amount of first downs he produced increased 44%.

Our tailgating group has 30+ people and they usually show up in about 8 cars. 6-8 in our vehicle. Only a couple solo drivers. That's to say nothing of the buses..........or the RV's that aren't leaving right after the game. 40,000 drivers? Like I said your math is just really, really bad.

Bates was Dawkins backup at LT last year. He has played some right tackle, I think his first looks were actually there and center in preseason after they traded for him. Trey Adams is another guy to keep an eye on. I think Ford was bad at LG but Beane is invested in him and I think he will get EVERY chance to prove he isn't one of the best 5.

Oh Bates is definitely ahead of Boettger on the center depth chart. But I think Bates might actually get first crack at right tackle next season if Williams is lost. Sal Capaccio echoed that sentiment yesterday on WGR. I think conventional wisdom is Ford might get another shot at RT but I think they haven't been encouraged by his development and might just want to keep him at LG and hope he develops into a plus blocker next to Dawkins. They've put in quite a bit of time developing Bates and they really like him. In a scenario where they lose both Williams and Feliciano.........and knowing as they do that Morse is likely on borrowed time with the concussions.........it would be interesting to see if they pooled up savings and bought a top interior OL to anchor a supporting cast of Bates/Boettger/Ford.

I don't think the Bills had a SB roster. Neither does Beane, as he said in the aftermath of the AFCCG. Josh Allen really carried them. They'd probably have had a losing team this season if they had just a solid QB like Philip Rivers. Simply not enough playmakers on either side of the ball. Beane and McDermott dug themselves a roster hole in choosing to let all of the drought era 1st and 2nd round players go. They made a ton of bad decisions in McD's first 14 months on the job......things like passing on Mahomes/Watson and paying Star Lotulelei $50M etc.. But then they hit a grand slam with Josh Allen and have generally made better decisions since. They've learned on the job, which is frustrating, but encouraging. BUT......as the media noted in the lead up to the AFCCG the Bills had the fewest home-grown players on roster of the final 4 teams........flying in the face of the narrative that the Bills were the young upstart on the block. They are actually one of the oldest rosters in the league........which means that they are likely to experience even more turnover than most teams over the next 2-3 seasons so they will now really need to draft and develop better.

I shudder to think about 40,000 cars at a Bills game. I don't think you have much experience attending games or are just really bad at math.

Right of first refusal. I wouldn't be surprised if Boettger ended up as the Bills center if Feliciano walks and Morse is cut or gets concussed out of action again next season. He's reportedly cross-trained to help anywhere.