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dpberr

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  1. No NFL owner is hiring a 72-year old guy to a be the head coach of their franchise. The wildest scenario where BB would be hired would be a talent-rich team that was underperforming and that team made a moonshot coaching change during the season.

     

    He should enjoy his good years of health and enjoy cashing those network checks.   I think he'll be a surprisingly good TV personality.     

  2. I like Jordan Phillips.  Always rooted for the guy, and smiled when the Bills signed him.  He was one of the rare Bills players that looked like he was enjoying himself out on the field.

     

    That being said, he's good, sometimes even great, when rested and until he's injured in some way.  He's just not a player that can perform when banged up.   He'd probably be better if he strategically played every other game .  😀 

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  3. Frank Reich was responsible for the Bills Super Bowl run in the 1992-1993 season.  

     

    There's no Super Bowl without Frank Reich heroics on January 3, 1993, and arguably the following week in Pittsburgh where he threw two touchdowns and no INTs against a Steelers defense that had a week to prepare for him.

     

     

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  4. No.

     

    1. The expanded regular season and playoff runs increasingly makes the NFL game a young man's game relative to NFL "playing age."

     

    2. The emotions surrounding players released this season will be forgotten by the time we are cheering on the 2026 Bills, which should be a fantastic team. The moves made today create that team of tomorrow. 

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  5. With the information at hand, I graded an A.

     

    The 2024 season is about arranging the team's contracts so that they can spend money on the teams that will be on the field in the new stadium.

     

    Moving an expensive, long term contract for a 31 year old player, when presented with an opportunity to do so, is a component of that strategy.  

     

  6. Clark Hunt is following the first rule of being absurdly wealthy - never spend a dollar of your own money. 

     

    I feel like between the gambling, foreign (government) investors like the Saudis/Chinese, and crews like BlackRock and Bain Capital that Hunt wants to bring into the league, the NFL is missing just one horseman from the destruction of its product.

     

     

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  7. I understand why the Bills made the move to a degree but I still wouldn't have done it.  This is my least favorite of the FO moves this offseason to date. 

     

    I don't think a 33 year old DT is going to have much in the tank come December/January to impact games, so why bother with the investment?

     

    My preference would have been to give those minutes to a rookie or a younger player.

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  8. 1 hour ago, FireChans said:

    They are hilarious. 
     

    If the Falcons had won the bidding for Watson, he is probably an All-Pro and they have a NFCCG appearance at least. Just to salt the Browns’ fans wounds.

     

    But because the Browns’ won the bidding, Watson inexplicably just stopped being a good-to-great QB, and is now the worst QB-contract in football.

     

    Thats the power of the Browns. No matter what happens, it’s gonna to maximize their pain.

     

    I think Watson is in Operation Quiet Quit.  Just sit back, go through the motions and collect the checks with the "let's not get ourselves killed out there!" mentality.  I doubt he will ever play a full season for the Browns simply because he has no desire to do so.

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  9. He is the definition of the washed player who's time has come to either retire or latch on to a playoff team in November.  His days of regular season play are over.

     

    He'd be smart to hit that November free agency market rested and ready to go.  There is value in his services there.  His ego won't let him of course, so he'll sign this spring and get cut at the end of someone's camp and bounce around practice squad and be salty about it.    

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  10. It's not a big list if you remove players 29 and older and then of that remaining pool, you remove the injury prone - less than 75% games over two seasons.

     

    IMO, that's the realistic baseline pool of FA the Bills should be looking at.  You factor in performance and salary wants with that pool of players.

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  11. I'd be interested in knowing whether there is art to holding a football for a kicker attempting a field goal.

     

    The only reason to bring a relatively lousy punter back is that he was quietly excellent at holding footballs for Tyler Bass field goal attempts.  

  12. There is a burgeoning free agency period in November where old vets sign on with teams for a playoff run.  Diggs will be one of these players.

     

    Unless you're a team that doesn't care about the 2024 season, you aren't giving starter minutes to a 32-year old safety.  

     

  13. I want to like that trade and pick because that college production is impressive and he plays fast in the games and late in the games. 

     

    However, I'm ultimately not drafting that neck or its injury history in the first round.  The more I read about that injury, two words are in my head - "borrowed time".

     

    At best, you get the Vander Esch career with the neck stingers and injuries.  Worst case, it's one terrible hit and he has to retire.  

     

     

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