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The 2023 IFA period ended today and Roki Sasaki did not become available to MLB teams. Rumor is Sasaki will be available in the 2024 IFA class and that he will go wherever Yamamoto goes if it's just between the Yankees and Dodgers. Sasaki reportedly idolizes Yamamoto. Lending credence to those rumors.......the Yankees just dropped all of their top prospects in the 2024 IFA class........purportedly to leave $3M in money for Sasaki. The two top prospects in the Yankees class that they were going to sign in January reportedly have gone to the Orioles and Pirates.

I think because only football in the US has a season that runs into winter and plays thru those conditions. The context is other outdoor sports like baseball and golf.

Yeah those appear to be positions of strength. A lot of OT's considered draft-able and a ton of WR's. But I suspect the WR's will go faster than people expect because now everyone knows you need 3-4 very good receiving targets/offensive weapons to expect to win. Teams with a high volume of playmakers are making modestly talented QB's look like guys who you can win a SB with.

There isn't a Green Bay but I came to find out in HS that there was a halfa-horse town called Green Sea around there. Not near the sea and much more brown than green. But Rasul's coverage has very reminiscent of the coverage by the "no-see-ums" in Green Sea.

Yeah if he doesn't get AT LEAST $10M aav over 3 years then the league is saying they think he REALLY sucks. Alan Lazard got 4 years $44M in a deeper free agent class last year and I can't imagine he was seen as a better option than Gabe will be this year. If anything, I think the demand for WR talent has only grown. Offensive numbers may be down but WR have never been bigger difference makers than this season. I don't want Gabe back for anywhere near what he is going to get but they are going to have a hard time filling his role as a WR3-4 type with as good or better of a veteran UFA because there aren't nearly enough to go around.

Well don't forget to do a mea culpa on your Spencer Brown hit post from earlier in the season. That was no better of a take. Brown has gone from "biggest problem on the Bills offense" in your estimation to being maybe the 5th-6th most positively impactful player on the offense behind Allen, Diggs and Dawkins and right up there with Cook and Kincaid.

This is all you need to know about why Gabe will NEVER be a high catch % player..........regardless of how you target him. The man simply has bad hands. I give him a lot of credit for getting to where he's at considering that he might have the hardest hands of any WR in the league. Clapping at the ball is his adjustment to not being able to give the ball a soft landing spot with quiet hands like most receivers can..........but that technique will always lead to a relatively high % of passes going uncaught. It's especially hard to execute in contested catch situations.........which is why he's so hopeless if DB's are physical with him close to the catch point or even if they just disrupt his route a few steps before the ball arrives. As a result his game is go's, posts and comebacks..........can't have passes bouncing off his hands and into traffic on short routes.

I know your take is emotionally fueled by being a single mama's boy but the reality is that nothing good can come of a family member being critical of their grown relative's employer. Only bad. Which, makes it a dumb thing to do. Always. If she got an internet fight out of it.......well she played a stupid game and won stupid prizes.

A sprain is a tear. The Bills said he had a sprained an ankle and that was affecting his play when they put him on IR. Nothing to see here.

I definitely think his recent slip is related to a back injury. It explains the lack of flexibility needed to snap off some of his routes. IMO it was inevitable with all the volume he has been getting in recent years.......and the fact that he's not as adept and not taking big hits like a guy like Hopkins.......that he would reach a point in a season or his career where he was compromised by injury, IMO.

Extremely underrated athlete though. He is going to extend a lot of drives with his legs if he does miss a throw here and there.

Expecting it? Yes done expecting it. I have some degree of optimism that he might get back to being a productive player but that is tempered by the uncertainty of his playing status wrt his DV charge.

I think it was moreso that he wasn't interested in playing on the biggest, most pressure packed stage. The $100M they still owe Stanton wasn't going to stop them with all of the money they stood to make if they signed him. In LA he gets a big market and a winning franchise with a bunch of stars in place to support him........but more importantly not anywhere near the scrutiny of playing in a big east coast market like New York, Boston or Philadelphia. The worst game of his entire career was his first outing in Yankee stadium: 2/3 IP, 2 H, 7 ER, 4 BB, 1 HBP, 1 K. He figuratively shat himself under that pressure(even though the crowd was practically there recruiting him LOL). He's never played in any big games in the USA so the question is whether he's going to produce in big situations.

Sasaki might have an out but it still would be in his best interest if his team just agreed to post him instead...........then he becomes a regular unrestricted free agent instead of entering MLB needing to build up service before UFA.........and the team at least gets the posting fee instead of nothing. I'm sure the Japanese don't want 21 year olds jumping to MLB after only 2-3 seasons of pro ball in Japan anymore than MLB would want their own young players getting free agency at that age.......so this is a conundrum for the league if he does have an out in there. Sasaki would probably get Yamamoto money in a posting situation.

The Bills need only to trail the Dolphins by 1 game going into the finale to win the division because they would hold the tie-breaker if they beat them the second time..........so Miami doesn't need to lose 2 games prior to the finale.

Didn't the Bills almost take the gas pipe in this "up 14 with 3 minutes left" situation against both NYG and Tampa this year? Surprised it's not been done since 2016.

So teams are now 1-767 in that situation. Hilarious Toney yesterday and then Bradley Chubb gifting the Titans a TD early.......nice weekend.

Also Yanks meeting with Yamamoto today. 25 year old potential ace likely to get $250M-$300M from either Dodgers, Mets or Yankees. There is also some rumor floating around that Roki Sasaki might have an out in his contract and that he could become available(without posting fee) to MLB teams in the next week or so. He's maybe the most hyped pitching prospect ever from Japan. He's going to be 22 and his fastball has topped out at 102 mph(see highlights below). That would be a situation like when Ohtani came over.........he is not eligible for veteran free agency........he can sign anywhere he pleases but will just get whatever international bonus pool money a team has to offer. He would eat up all of their bonus money like Dominguez/Arias/Mayea did so the continuation of that rumor has it that the Yanks have been telling the prospects that they had lined up in their latin american class to seek contracts elsewhere.

I wouldn't say it's luck........they got dominated in the 2020 AFCCG and I just think since then it's just always been a game the Bills are really up for and the Chiefs don't feel the same urgency. They've outplayed them in KC each time since that AFCCG, IMO. The divisional playoff loss was probably the most "luck" affected game because the Chiefs ended up getting 2 more possessions than the Bills in that game because they won both coin tosses and finished both halves with the ball.......2 more possessions is a pretty unusual situation to occur in a game.

4 straight at Allenhead in regular season tho.

Yankees and Dodgers have a trade brewing to help LA open up a couple 40 man roster spots for Shohei and Joe Kelly. Supposedly a 40 man roster pitcher and a 40 man roster prospect from the Dodgers for a non-40 man roster prospect from the Yankees. Specifics should be available in the morning. Update: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-dodgers-trade-teams-make-swap-to-shuffle-rosters-after-shohei-ohtani-juan-soto-deals-per-report/

Yeah the Chiefs are not playing good football. I expected the Bills to win this one and the spread was indicative that Vegas thought the Bills were playing better recently as well. Both the Bills and Chiefs should have addressed their WR positions better. Both units were bad today but the Chiefs made the big mistakes(which they have been doing all season).

Yeah it's gotten way out of hand........but they aren't calling that on anyone this season. As I've said to the Spencer Brown complainers on here........there are less good right tackles in the NFL then there are good players at any other offensive position........and the situation at LT isn't a lot better. They have basically decided to just let those guys line up in the backfield to keep QB's upright.