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It's a pretty hard to swallow for sure. If the reports are true that they were trying all season to unload him, and this is the best they could get...

This will get buried, but my initial reaction: I'm not remotely mad at the team, but the NFL has a real asset supply and demand problem when a 27 year old All-Pro, 2x Pro Bowl DT can be traded away for a 6th round pick. The cap plays into it heavily, but only so much. All of his suspension issues aside, if he plays up to his abilities he can easily be one of the best defensive players in the game. The NFL can be incredibly frustrating in this regard.

Didn't you say you hated Dareus and wish we had cut him?

See the thing is... there are places I go to talk about social issues. When it comes to football, I see nothing but talking points and bad political discourse. There's never been a comment I've seen in a football forum that's helped reshape the way I feel about a social topic. That's not even saying that I'm actively trying to be close-minded or that I'm being difficult, it's just this isn't the proper mechanism for it. We're more divided now than ever before and some of us watch football to get away from that.

Absolutely walk away. It's the only solution when you get that sort of a response.

What is a bunch of bull **** though? Look at how worked up you've gotten! Edit*** I skipped over the text that I enlarged, but I felt like enlarging it to highlight how absolutely impossible it would be for Boyst and I to have a rational discussion on this issue. I'm not even angry at him, it's just...we have such a difference of opinion that I don't think it needs to be talked about in circles. I'm here to watch football and talk about it. The more of this crap I see and the more these incidents become overblown news stories, the less I want to spend even a minute of my time following the sport.

Why is it sad though? How does it effect you? Am I the only one that just doesn't care about this stuff? I keep seeing these threads get started on a weekly basis and 75% of you guys just talk in circles. I don't watch or follow football for it's politics. I also don't care if the players kneel. I don't care if there are flyovers. I watch football to be entertained by the sport, not by it's fans and their political persuasions. It's not like I don't have my own ideologies, but lately I have tried as hard as I can to separate them entirely from watching football.

Now he wants back, but not for us? What a long and annoying way to quit our team.

A 37 year old claiming that he retired for reasons other than being 37.

I've never watched a Pro Bowl, and I'm under the impression they're terrible. Is there a reason why people get all excited about this? Is it just another Buffalo inferiority complex and obsession for national attention?

If Anderson starts next year he could get drafted. The best MAC QB is never overlooked and I think if he started he would be the consensus top QB in the conference.

Quality post.

I love that play, what are you talking about!?

Standing idly by while Brandon and Pegula hired Rex is his big mistake. He should have been kicking and screaming for another guy.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but as a pretty big sports fan I can confidently say that I will never pay for sports journalism, especially opinion pieces. I don't find a lot of value in them, even if they're well written, and (especially when it comes to the Bills) it's rare that I encounter an angle I hadn't thought of or hasn't been discussed at length here.

I thought there was something in the rules that clarified even further. He cannot, for example, just chuck the ball into the end zone and out run the defense to "recover" a touchdown, right?

That makes no sense? You want the team we lost our tiebreaker to, to have a good record and win games? Are you even a Bills fan?

Best execution of stop, drop, and roll that I've ever seen.

I have to give credit to Tyrod. He really stepped up down in the fourth like that. Play of the games: 1. Tre White single-handedly getting us a chance to win it 2. Taiwan Jones coming in ice cold off the bench to dazzle dazzle their entire defense for a massive first down. It easily could've ended up like the Reggie Bush reverse last year, but Jones willed his way to the first. Awesome play.

Just list the excuses in numerical format so it's easier to follow. No need to get Shakespeare on us.

Not to mention the most amount of game extending penalty flags I've ever seen.

The only thing the last 17 years have proven is that I am stupid, and you can't fix stupid. Fan for life, baby.

Bart Starr, Brett Favre, and Aaron Rodgers. You get no sympathy from me.

Football to a lot of America still has this intrinsic connection with playing in your backyard as a kid. A catch was a catch and a fumble was a fumble. Before they introduced replay, this was still how it was in the NFL. Since they've introduced replay we've gotten further and further from these perfectly acceptable rules. It's not complicated. Replay has slowed down significantly and fans are now rooting for whether the 6mm white laces of the football are connecting with the foam polygon in the corner of the endzone. That becomes the highlight. I might be too far gone to leave the NFL, but I care much less. What happened to the Jets disgusting and tarnishes the name of football significantly. We don't know what a catch is. We don't know what a fumble is. We don't know what a touchdown is.

I genuinely can't stand the idea that Jimmy Garappolo is the best backup in the NFL. If Brady retires while Garappolo is still in his 20's I will take great joy in crushing him and the Patriots.