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Who are you to judge? You're deranged.

I haven't seen the stats on this but I would imagine his yards and TDs per snap played are pretty high. I'd imagine his yds and TDs per $ are pretty good too.

I don't get it. We just let a reasonably priced productive player go for a late 5th round pick. I don't see how this makes us better.

Pegula's just a fan who happened to be rich enough to buy a team. He has no special expertise in the field. Your argument, to the extent you're making one, seems to fall under the fallacy that someone who is competent in one field must be competent in others.

I'll take these one by one You can save the snark. I'm simply doing you the courtesy of allowing you to explain your position before I expose it for the inane sophistry it is. Millions of fans are business people. The Pegulas' business was in no way related to professional sports franchise management. They are quite literally rich fans who bought a team and are now the owners. Not necessarily, but who's to say. The underlying philosophy that you're espousing is that amateurs should not second guess professionals, which is both flawed and boring. It's flawed for several reasons. First, it presupposes that anyone with such competencies would necessarily be hired on in such a capacity. But the NFL is a very limited field - there are only 32 NFL teams in the world. Becuase of that the overwhelming majority of people would never have an opportunity to put their abilities to the test. Second, it assumes that the professionals must know best. Around the turn of the 20th century Montgomery Ward was one of the biggest retailers in the country. They determined that opening department stores was a bad idea and stuck with the catalog format. A nobody named James Cash Penney thought they were wrong and started opening his own stores. His stores quickly overtook Montgomery Ward who eventually realized they were wrong and were late to the party. If Penney had followed the Riverboat Richie philosophy of deference to authority he would never have started his empire. Penney was actually more qualified for his undertaking than were the Pegulas as he had actually worked in the industry, the Pegulas had not. Third, it ignores the plain reality that some posters have been right a lot more often than the experts have. Fourth, your point is boring. The fun of this is tossing around different ideas and discussing them. If we all just deferred to the FO by claiming they must be right because they're the experts nobody would come here because it would be the most boring site on the internet. I don't think I could be a GM, but I think some of the posters in this thread would make better owners than the Pegulas. Many of them clearly know a lot more about football. Exactly

How is it different?

That's no excuse. Only a few teams were in a similar position at QB as the Bills.

Actually they do. See Terry and Kim Pegula.

It's funny to me that a team hovering around .500 for the last 3 years, that currently lacks playmakers in a league where a few plays can be the difference between 8-8 and 10-6 can trivialize the value of a guy who produced over 600 offensive yds and 9 TDs last season while seeing limited playing time. I feel like I took a nap and woke up in Fuktardistan.

A bird in the hand ...

I shot my TV.

I hope this is tongue in cheek.

Nothing like waking up to a feel good story.

He has the vision to see the holes and the wherewithal to set up his blocks to hit the right hole at the right time, and he has the speed and strength to be effective both in short yardage situations and as a home run hitter. Your analysis is like claiming Peyton Manning just threw to wide open receivers all the time without considering the affect his anticipation and accuracy had on putting the ball where and when the receiver could get open.

Referring to MG as a "backup" is an admission that your argument sucks. You use it to obscure the truth. Most people associate "backup" with a guy who only sees significant playing time if the starter gets hurt. MG sees significant playing time regardless. So when you try to exploit the readers mental association with the term "backup" in reference to a guy whose role is not similar to that generally thought of in those terms, you're using a rhetorical tool to obscure reality. And if your argument relies on obscuring the truth your argument sucks.

Depends. If we let him walk it's the former, if we pony up to keep him it's the latter

I think a lot of Bills fans are confused about the meaning of the term "backup". MG isn't the backup, he's the #2 RB. There is a subtle difference.

I got mind control over Mrags. When he say shut up - I be quiet. But when he leave, I be talking again.

I've been on a sours kick lately. I like Aunt Sally from Lagunitas, but I've really been enjoying Sour Monkey from victory. It's 9.5% alcohol which is unusual for a sour but it's nice because you can sip it and get where you want to be, and as much as I like sours they're too tart to pound. To Plenz, Pooger, and anyone else who frequents Richmond, Strangeways brewery off Dabney Rd has a great cucumber melon sour. It's a little pricey but it's good.

After having him on the roster for a year the staff knows a lot more about him and his level of development than anyone else. If they think he's not worth much I'm willing to defer to them. Plus, the new staff may not have thought much of him in the first place and/or don't factor him into their decision making process.

Unless they think his foot isn't going to heal I think it's definitely worth the risk. His production hasn't been what we'd have hoped but when he's on the guy is phenomenal. Talent like that has been all too hard to find in Buffalo. Demaryius Thomas was a huge disappointment his first two years when he was struggling with injuries, and look how that turned out. Just think of how we'd feel if we declined and lost him only to watch him fulfill his potential on another team.

I don't see what's so outrageous about that. I've yet to hear her say anything that I thought was all that offensive when taken in context.

Who do you think he's referring to?

How does such a simple point fly so far over your head? The point was about "stupid" cutting both ways. Lets look at what each side gave up and gained. The Republicans gave up political capital/high ground with the Garland situation. In return they got a Supreme Court seat, one of the most coveted prizes in politics. In return, the Democrats ceded the political capital/high ground back to the Republicans by fighting the Gorsuch appointment tooth and nail, and have nothing to show for it. The point is, both sides spent roughly equal political capital. But one got to !@#$ the prom queen while the other got stood up. Tell me again how that one cut both ways.