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The NFL has too many teams. LA, and California generally, have too many NFL teams. The Chargers seem like the perfect relocation team.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks Hamlin was technically cleared to play football, but the team and NFL lawyers "strongly suggested" not to play him. Keeping him on an active roster is doing him a solid. Everyone, including the player, is in on "the" plan, so all parties get what they want. I suspect the Bills will release him next year, while paying his entire contract in full, and he'll retire.

I'm thankful for the contributions of free agents Latavius Murray, Linval Joseph, Rasul Douglass and Leonard Fournette. Murray took it upon himself to call a player's only meeting and runs hard everytime he gets an opportunity to play, and the defense has played more inspired and nasty since Joseph and Douglas came to the team. I don't think that's a coincidence. Fournette's contributions have yet to be written about, but I have a feeling he's going to impact a playoff game in a positive way.

Thank you - much appreciated!

Where do you get to see the uniforms for the week like that? That's very interesting.

He was washed when he was traded to the Broncos. Seahawks are excellent at knowing when "it's time." I also think Wilson believes his own press too much - he's not the hungry, humble guy who became the superstar QB. Hasn't been for some time.

I think the Bills have quietly benefited from some new voices in the locker room this year compared to last year, and even compared to earlier in the year. I think the additions of Linval Joseph, Rasul Douglas, Ty Johnson, and Taylor Rapp have added some energy and nasty. I don't think it is coincidence that the Bills defense started hitting harder and playing more aggressively after Douglas and Joseph arrived on scene.

Cowboys. What you saw yesterday is a blueprint of how you reach the Super Bowl. Lousy weather, still scored points. All that running gave the defense time to recharge. If a team happens to stop your run, you deploy the pass. The Miami win is nice, but that's an example of the *all or nothing* offense on a beautiful fall day. That happened to be an "all" day. You probably don't get that in the playoffs or in poor weather.

This was a poor move. There's a lot of film on Patricia's defensive strategies, and he's not a guy who adjusts the strategy ever. Seattle will have a good idea of what's coming. Eagles have slow linebackers and an old secondary outside Blankenship. Teams can dink and dunk and run to the outside all game long.

It's only coincidence that games are being proposed for large or growing gambling markets. Shocked the NFL isn't playing on 100 yards of a city block in Singapore. The way I understand it, Spain has very restrictive gambling laws, especially as it relates to foreign entities.

Yay, more company man Mike Tirico... You know NBC truly hates you when it dares you to watch the Tony Dungy/Jason Garrett broadcast. Little League World Series games have more cutting commentary.

He has a good shot at beating his 2022 yards - he's only 242 yards away, with some vulnerable secondaries coming up. I don't think he will be on the Bills next year. Too many drops, not enough separation on anything but the track meet pass.

There's always information and gossip flowing between agents and front offices. A lot of football (and in any industry IMO) is built on personal relationships between people. I'm not suggesting that Bills corporate could completely stop it in any way, but they almost certainly knew this article was being written and probably could have gotten some Bills corporate perspective included in the article. I don't think Ty Dunne would ever see one his articles published about the complete disappearance of the Bills CEO from public life, Leslie Frazier's odd departure, why Damar Hamelin is on payroll and allegedly "fine" but barely plays football, or the backroom politics/horse-trading of the stadium deal because those are things Bills Corporate do not want the public knowing about because there are details that are unflattering. So when this article came out putting Sean McDermott under the microscope in such detail, I'm curious about how it came to be.

I don't think much gets past Bills corporate without them knowing about it beforehand. The timing is curious. Corporate had to know about it. Why you'd deploy it on the Thursday before the biggest game of the season is weird. This article could have dropped literally any day of the season.

I don't think it will happen. More international play=more international money=greater potential for more international owners of teams (which I speculate the league does not want.) I think the NFL's worst nightmare is seeing foreign governments (through shell companies) like the Saudis or Chinese owning one or more franchises, or the league taking direction from those countries. That's where the wealth is consolidating - old American billionaires won't own these franchises forever.

Excellent approach. Makes sense. There is no scenario where I'd extend a 30+ year old receiver or bring Jordan Poyer back.

The Mac Jones *and* Bailey Zappe experience is why BB will very likely retire and not take on another head coaching job. No team wants its high draft pick or franchise quarterback enduring that psychological torture of starting, benching, starting, benching. No team wants to see their quarterback endure a gauntlet of coaches who are universally despised by players (Patricia, Judge, O'Brien) who never hold themselves accountable for the crap jobs they do.

He's just another slow Eagles linebacker. Come playoff time, you'll see teams focusing on the underneath or Philly will do a Jordan Poyer type of defense and slide a quicker safety in there.

I feel like there is so much game tape from how the Eagles and Packers played the Chiefs. I hope ol' Process has watched some of it. Bills won't have Von Miller this time to bail them out in the 4th quarter.

Long Kiss Goodnight - a very underrated action film. Die Hard 2 - somewhat of a more violent carbon copy of Die Hard, but William Sadler provided heft as the antagonist, and the plot twist was effective.

Eh, 2023 is an all-in season, and there should be consequences for the substantial underperformance of missing the playoffs. The 2024 season was supposed to be the most tenuous season for playoffs as the team begins to stack cap/spending for 2025 & 2026. Playoffs aren't impossible next year, but I don't think the front office is going all-in with the vets as they have this year.

For me, this is easier than it looks to start: No 30+ year old players. No exceptions. No Tre White. No long contracts to good but not great players. I try to ship Von Miller out of town (just because of his contract and lack of production, nothing to do with today's news) I try to trade Knox for picks. Next year is Year #1 of the reload for Season #1 in the new stadium. Likely not a playoff season, but need to free up cap to spend in 2025 and 2026 so that you have a peaking team for that inaugural season. You do not want your rebuild/reload to occur that season. Next year's remodel is why this all-in year is a crushing disappointment.

Zach Ertz was washed three seasons ago. He and Julio can jog up and down the field together in Philadelphia.

Sid Gilman remains their all time winningest coach at .619. Schottenheimer and Bobby Ross are tied for 2nd at .588. Norv Turner (.583, 6 playoffs) was quietly a better coach than Schottenheimer as a Chargers coach (.588, 2 playoff games).

I'm convinced this is tied to a stipulation in the contract, or a contract he has with a sponsor, where he has to be active for a specific number of games, not necessarily "play" in said games. I don't think it has anything at all to do with the Jets and the playoffs. That's the cover story. If the Jets at all cared about the playoffs, they would have done something at the QB besides Wilson/Boyle.