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Sacrificing future resources for immediate results. Trading up (exchanging multiple future picks for one pick) and spending big in free agency to the point that it limits future spending the year(s) after are great examples.

This is the 3rd year of "Win Now" mode. You just don't realize it because they haven't been winning.

Look for his lips to move.

Here's a PSA, I just read an article by Tyler Dunne and it was kind of negative. Let's add him to The List. It appears that Bucky & Sully got to him. I don't want to link it and give them any more traffic, but it's titled "The day after: Questions about Shaq, rest a must for Sammy" so you know to avoid it. Let's send a message to these hacks that they can't get away with portraying negative events in a negative light.

Of course he didn't want to have surgery, it would have dropped him to the 2nd round and cost him millions. Kudos to him and his agent, he got paid. When he hurt it playing against air, there was really no other choice, despite what the front office wants you to believe. "We want to commend Shaq Lawson..." is anybody gullible enough to believe that?

wtf

Can you imagine replacing your injured 1st round pick with a character-risk like Hardy, and then have him get in trouble or suspended for something stupid? That would look real good.

Maybe the Kool-Aid Crowd just needs their own Safe Space, where their delicate sensibilities can be protected from the mean things said on the internet?

Is this still the Best Bills Draft Ever™?

He won't be lifting this offseason.

The ratios of each are markedly different. They really are.

Vernon is 25 and Mario is 31, that had everything to do with it. Just sayin'

Compliance buyouts don't count against the cap, it comes out of T-Peg's wallet. Consider it the cost of not removing Regier immediately.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/02/2014-ap-all-pro-team/ AP for one. I think PFWA and SN as well didn't check.

He was first team All Pro in 2014.

It's become an annual tradition. It's easy to say we didn't regress if you assume our first 3 draft picks will immediately start and play at a high level.

It's late December and the day before Christmas. If it was the home opener, it would be platinum like the Jets.

I still call it HSBC Arena. "The Key" does sound pretty good though.

I'd say it sure sounds like Boston is the frontrunner.

It's not a draft day trade value chart, which only tells you the cost of moving around during the draft. He's trying to set an approximate value for the impact the pick will have for his first 5 years in the league. Different animal.

He's using approximate value instead of the Jimmy Johnson chart. Most teams use their own internally developed chart, so...

I'd say so. Overall a very sound and rational summary. Interesting data on the true cost of the Ragland trade. It doesn't exactly paint our front office as the most competent, so this should be an interesting thread. (Grrrr who the heck is Bill Barnwell??)

Here's my cut-and-paste post regarding schedule strength: No, they didn't. You can't look back in retrospect and use winning percentage because the outcomes are dependent events. We play 6 games against 3 division teams that also play common teams from 2 other divisions. Weaker common opponents inflate wins within our division and stronger common opponents have the opposite effect. Those statistics are almost completely pointless by the end of the year. Actually, they're not even very useful at the start of the year because every team basically plays only 3 divisions each year (i.e. the Jets are not as good as their record, they just took advantage of their schedule and went 6-2 against those two soft divisions). If you want an accurate estimation, take each opponent individually and rank them against the entire NFL pool. Last year we were handed a cupcake schedule. We played the two worst divisions in football, and that's not really even debatable. Those 2 divisions did not produce a single legitimate playoff contender -- every single team was a complete pretender, and we couldn't separate ourselves from that mess. Even worse, a large portion of those teams are comparatively soft and don't play a physical brand of football (IND, PHI, JAC, TEN, DAL). Contrast that to this year where we are playing the two most physical divisions in the game right now (by far), including teams that are expected to go deep in the playoffs.

Of course there is, but that risk is not equal for each player.

Crazy guaranteed money for such a huge injury risk.