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My medium spicy take on this is that if we're going to keep Bill Belichick and Bob Kraft out of the HoF for at least year a year due to cheating then: 1. Brady deserves the same treatment. His direct involvement in deflategate is damning enough. (I know this won't happen) 2. The 2x SB MVP QB who beat the cheaters despite...the cheating...gets to go to the HoF.

What!?!? It's a great look! The helmets aren't my the absolute best but they're still clean. The white/away jerseys are my favorite white tops across any era.

Yeah, but I think that's still a drastic overpay for his production. If he can sign an extension to get him under $20M for the next 3 years, then sure. But this version of Diggs....nah.

Peyton Manning had like nearly a decade under 10%.

He averages around 17/18% of the cap right now. Which is super high by historical standards. And high-ish based on today. The Bills don't have much wiggle room with his new deal without an extension. Otherwise instead of looking at one year at 24-25% we're looking at 2 or 3. QB contracts are way too high compared to the cap. Nearly double the % compared to the Manning era.

Allen texting Beane everytime a QB signed a heftier contract than his, only to tear up his old one and become the highest paid player in the league, despite being able to maybe get another $5m out of Terry isn't noble. That really irked me. Beane said he'd been pushing for it. In a world where QB's are taking 2x the cap hit they used to, $5M is barely more than a rounding error. I'm not made Allen got paid. I'm "eh" that he pushed Beane for it. But I really don't like the narrative that he did us any favors with the deal. He didn't.

Yeah, the numbers around 3-4/4-3 see to indicate that most teams are running a pretty even split. I'm not film guru, but I think a big part of it is what the expectations are for the LB's are in any given situation. But with the dawn of the "edge" position, everything seems to be a bit more hybrid.

Buffalo sports media is about as non-combative as it gets in the big 4 North American leagues. A big part of that is because Pegula has kept them under his thumb. But now the sponsorship is gone, and that means so is his nearly 100% state sponsored media. This feels like such a small time move. Lucky it's in Buffalo. NYC, LA, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, etc. would all be tearing their teams apart if an owner cut access because somebody was critical. (Like many are assuming here)

I am a little surprised they are being this consistant. It makes the Belichick stuff easier to accept. If the league is going down this path for Kraft/Belichick because of Deflate and Spy Gates, I hope the apply it to Tom Brady as well.

Strong words from a guy we were also lead to believe took a back seat in final say of roster construction....

Coaching and competing are just two very different skill sets. Locker room leadership as a peer v the HC are two very different types of leadership. Maybe Rivers will be a great HC someday, maybe he won't. But he will have to grow his skill set. If somebody is going to take a shot on Rivers as a HC right awayit should be a program that can grow with him while he learns on the job. A franchise with an established super start QB isn't that. The Bills needed somebody who can hit the ground running. Too much risk IMO.

I took the "Pegula wondered" line as in "Interviewing Rivers gave Pegula pause". I'm saying that based on Pegulas 14 years of sports ownership, guys like Rivers do not give Pegula pause at all.

Pegula hired a soccer executive to be his HC, an NCAA volunteer assistant to be his Head of Amatuer Scouting, and the Rink Manager across the street to be the GM o of his hockey team. Pegula under no circumstances was wondering "what's up" when interviewing Philip Rivers. As much as I think Rivers was a bad idea (and unqualified) at HC for a multitude of reasons, he was/is more qualified than Adams, Forton, and Ralph Krueger combined.

Never been happier to be more wrong in my life 1. Baker 2. Darnold 3. Rosen 4. Jackson 5. JA17

It's entirely possible that Pegula planned this out and this is the result of his efforts.