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I would rather sit higher up between the 30's than be in the lower bowl in the corners or in the endzone. Being higher up is the only way to see more football live than you do at home.
On the flip side the party is better down low in that you feel more "a part of the game" screaming and making noise down low.-
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I absolutely hate a short week 2 @ Miami
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20 minutes ago, Roundybout said:
We’re cooked
I work in well to do restaurant upstate that brings in a lot of notables from the city. We just had a couple come in and the man works in the league office, rolling directly up to Goodell. He was telling me that Swift met with the league after the salary cap went up more than expected and requested a piece of league revenue going forward The league told her to kick rocks.
So it wouldn’t be shocking to me that some of the schedule is around hers and even at her request.
I know this is “he said/she said”. Just passing it along.
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2 hours ago, turbo044 said:
with his 1.25 signing bonus, I don't think MVS is really competing with Claypool. MVS is close to a lock. I think Clayool is competing prmarily with Shorter for the last WR slot.
Certainly a bit more security. But the team can swallow $1M if he blows. It doesn’t guarantee him anything.
I think they’re taking a chance on two big, strong guys with very low cost and really high upside to play on the outside. Both have an easy out if they want.
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15 hours ago, Coach Tuesday said:
Hollis, Claypool and MVS are three of the least efficient WRs I’ve ever seen. All three of them under one offense would be like a squad full of Robert Royals.
Don't forget to add Dawson Knox to the list.
But if everybody makes the roster we have a ton of size. Claypool, MVS, and Coleman, plus Kincaid and Knox. The Bills seem to have a plan to get bigger on offense.
My guess is MVS and Claypool are pushing for the same roster spot.-
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6 hours ago, MR8 said:
Rodgers has the same situation Brady and Manning had. They have a massive voice in game plan, packages, and play calls. One play comes in and there are 3-4 concept plays in the same formation that they can change to at the line. The OC "calls the play" but it's a play with multiple change options based on what the QB sees.
I can see why an OC may not want to coach a guy like Rodgers where there's a ton of ego and a 99% chance he changes every play, but the blame falls on the OC of it goes wrong.
Either way, they brought in Hackett for Rodgers, so if they wanted to put someone higher, odds are that too was with Rodgers okay.
I love when teams do what the Jets have done here surrendering their franchise to a player. Cleveland and Watson, Denver with Wilson (and now they wear the cap hit to clean it up).... It basically never goes well. Manning to Denver & Brady to TB were like the only time super stars of this level going to a new team worked, and frankly thats largely because they're hyper competitive but they're not the same head cases these other dudes are. I'm sure both (especially Brady) are arrogant as hell, but they also "get it". Rodgers has proven time and again he only cares about Rodgers.
The issue with Rodgers is he is a bad team player. He’s a “me guy” through and through. He demands control and sprints away from accountability, then publicly blames everybody around him.-
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15 hours ago, Chas56 said:
I like Knox and have been a fan; however, I also acknowledge that Kincaid is the better player. Knox has a large contract to be a #2 TE. In addition, there are only so many balls to go around. I don't know if Brady is designing some diabolical two TE sets or whatever. Also, I'm aware that Knox and Allen have a good relationship. I just have a suspicion that something like a trade is going to happen. Am I nuts?
He doesn’t though, he just took a haircut. He’ll have a year or two where he makes “too much” at $14/$17M. But then he’ll have another 3 years where he only counts $1M against the cap which is basically nothing.
I suspect he’ll get one more contract here, they’ll add a year or two and get those $14/17M years under $10 and those $1M years will come up a bit. He’ll likely retire a Bill around 2029 at 35 years old.
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12 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
I know a dozen or so St Joe's grads who were all 2 years ahead of Kelly and so were around for all the nonsense at that level. Chad Kelly has been overwhelmingly despised at every step along his journey, it seems. What a terrible nepo bro.
It was so long ago I totally forgot I met her at Goodbar one night. Very cute. But also hated the kid.
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1 hour ago, Richard Noggin said:
Jim Kelly, at this point, would just hope for his nephew finally getting "saved" or some such BS.
Kelly was a notorious terrible dude until his unfortunate family wake-up call. Chad has ALWAYS been known as a privileged d-ooo-sh since way back. They're a-holes. Just the way it is.
St Joes hired an additional full time communications/marketing head whose sole job was to manage Chad Kelly.
I poop you not.
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1 minute ago, Chicken Boo said:
He's just begging for the 9-5 life.
He is on pace to serve 5-9 years, with a chance at life had that car accident gone differently.
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2 hours ago, holla83 said:
He also ran on the field to join in a bench clearing brawl with high school kids when his younger brother was playing at St. Joe's. He got kicked off the team at Clemson in addition to his high school team in PA. I'm pretty sure he got in a bar fight while at Ole' Miss. Just throwing in some stories that may have been missed in this thread.
Also wandered into a strangers house smashed after attending Von Millers Halloween party when he played in Denver.
The kid is an all around loser.
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Hated Brady while he was playing, especially in the meat of his career. But once he went to TB, left the division and the conference, and he started to lighten up a bit, I started to like him a bit more.
That said, Brady's story of on again/off again college starter, 199th pick, showing up and telling the owner that "I am going to be the best decision you ever made", would have played very well amongst Bills fans. -
15 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:
Guess Cincy in trouble with money they're giving Burrow, Higgins and Chase.
They are, it will be tough sledding to field a full football team with 2 well paid WR and a QB.
But the struggle isn't necessarily the extension date ir AAV, it is the cap hit for the league year.
EDIT: Borrow contract is just begging to come due. Allen's is all but here to stay now. $30M receivers are a giant deal at that point. -
I don't get the whining here. It seems as though the Pats, Panthers, and Bills were targeting Legette and/or Coleman. The Bills trading down with the Pats basically insured that the Bills got neither of them. The trade never made sense without a major compensation advantage.
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On 5/4/2024 at 4:31 PM, Big Blitz said:
Closest I’ve found is Stafford and Kupp.
But the Rams swapped out Goff for Stafford and had plenty in place.
I think the simple answer for those wondering what’s going on in the hunt for WRs like Higgins and Ayiuk are pipe dreams.
You cannot build a SB roster with top WR and top QB money. You will be depleted in areas that actually matter in winning.
The trenches.
That’s the fan disconnect. However, that’s why you’re right to want to get one on a rookie deal and why it’s so vital to hit on them in the draft.
But it appears this is a league wide approach to the cap. Cousins is gone in Minnesota as they prepare to pay JJ. Higgins and Aiyuk this is 100 percent the last year on their teams.
Don’t be shocked if this is Goff’s last year in Detroit.
Just looks like the Chiefs were ahead of the curve with Hill and we were 1 year too late with Diggs. Unfortunately one of Coleman’s years has Diggs dead cap. I don’t know how there are still Diggs apologists left.
I did a shallow dive a few seasons ago.
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I mean no disrespect to Damar Hamlin, but his trade value is approximately zero. If the Bills got a conditional 2026 7th rounder I would be shocked.
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2 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
They did but it's not the generally accepted idea of who was a drought player. I think most people think it is a Bills player that never played a playoff game for the Bills.
I am more inclined to give a nod to players who were in the playoffs by started the drought as “drought era” than I am to give the nod to players who missed the playoffs but ended the drought.
I don’t have a great reason to put into words as to why. But that’s what my gut says. lol
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49 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
It's the base, not the "up to" that I'll be wanting to see.
If he's got a 1k year left in him, when is it going to emerge?
It's been in there incubating since 2019, while he's been chugging along at 35-45 catches for 500-ish yards since Cleveland
I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. LOL. But I generally agree the dude is done.
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13 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
well, that's obviously not what this story is about--I think you understand this.
And sure, maybe his son in law was so bad at his job that Terry waited until Jessica wrote that piece about her mother's current condition (for which we rightly thanked her) before he fired the guy (and subsequently gave a share to another daughter). That makes total sense!! He was that bad---and the timing of Terry finally realizing this was just coincidence!!
Also, the NFL does not require a succession plan per say: "The NFL requires families that control teams to collectively own 30% of the club, with the controlling owner share smaller, with the minimum level determined by the number of years of ownership"
None of that matters anyway, as succession of Bills ownership is currently not an issue as Pegula seems healthy and just took over his wife's half of the team. So, over the past year or so, he has become president of the Bills and Sabres, and nearly 100% owner of both teams. That's not a guy thinking about succession....
While I agree with a bit of your take Graham mentioned the below. It seems as though teams are required to submit their succession plan yearly.
Quote"Each May, teams are required to file an updated succession plan that must be approved according to established league guidelines. An NFL source who has been involved in succession planning says to be compliant teams are required to designate a successor with a controlling interest, an effort to make any transition smoother and curtail potential family infighting."
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54 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
I don't think you bring in Hamler and Claypool if the plan is to say trade for DK Metcalf after June 1. Those aren't just camp bodies IMO, they're bets on upside. Not that I agree with the strategy but that's my guess.
Per Spotrac Hamler has zero dead cap space no matter when he is cut. His $1M is cheap on its own, but if we want to move on we get it all back. I am guessing that Claypools will be similar even of cost is different. Which means neither player precludes additional moves.
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15 minutes ago, Draconator said:11 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:
Old Beckham Jr. why am I not worried about this?
This is a very expensive 35 catches, 565 yards, and 3 TD's over 14 games.
Maybe OBJ has one or two more 1k years left in him, but he is running on fumes.
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14 minutes ago, May Day 10 said:
There was also an article not too long ago that there were talks to bring in Doug McLean, but it was snuffed out.
IMO it is much easier to build a good NFL team. You need a good CEO/coach, a savvy GM in synergy with the coach, and need to hit at a good QB. You can turn over a roster and cap situation in 2 years time.
The NHL has extensive scouting, drafting, and development that requires several aspects of the organization being run well. Building an NHL team is also a lot more involved and intricate than an NFL team. Bad decisions with the cap can doom the NHL squad for many years. The President/GM is the CEO of the team in the NHL, while the head coach typically is in the NFL.
The Sabres have had a general power vacuum dating back to John Muckler. They have not had a strong GM/president since then.
They hit on McDermott. He is a good and thorough manager. I think he has a strong enough personality to hear what Pegula has to say, but do what he things is right anyways. Beane is cut from the same cloth. They have earned plenty of trust with Pegula.
I think a big part of the Bills success is that McBeane have a 10 year working relationship before coming to the Bills. Terry's weird flat management structure allows him to work with the GM alone and the HC alone. When you bring in relative strangers it means he basically pulls all the strings. But when you bring in two people with that much professional history it makes Terry the third wheel on a bicycle built for 2.
It is like the difference between brining in Mike Tomlin with Omar Khan vs. Andy Reid with Eric Decosta. Both pairings are pretty good, Reid/DeCosta are better individually but one relationship will be much easier to wedge than the other. -
On 5/2/2024 at 6:07 AM, nucci said:
How can the same owner run one of the best franchises in football while at the same time run one of the worst in hockey?
It has been rumored that McBeane both have clauses in their contract that give them final say on roster decisions/no-meddling clauses. I believe that when the PSE article dropped a few years ago it was said that McBeane work to keep OBD away from all things Sabres. Around that time there was some talk of Danny Briere coming in as President of Hockey Ops but he wanted the same clause as McBeane and Terry wouldn't provide it.
Don't shoot the messenger. I don't have proof, but those are some of the things that have been speculated/rumored. There is probably some truth and some exaggeration. It does provide a pretty clean, easy, and believable answer as to why each franchise seems so different. -
On 5/1/2024 at 9:45 PM, SWATeam said:
We should be terrified of Beane and McDermott getting fired, not championing it like many here. God only knows the hires this ownership would make.
100%. I have been critical of McBeane at times but I think they keep this thing afloat.
I am hoping Lindy can wedge himself between Terry and the Sabres to do the same.
Xavier Worthy injured during 1st practice as a Chief
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The cervical spine is no joke. Cervical spine injuries are super serious and can cause all sorts of issues all over the body.
The amount we don't know about the human brain and nervous system is insane. For reference, we have been using anesthesia for nearly 200 years and we just figured out how/why it works in the last 5-10.