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I lived in the regency court apartments like 7 or 8 years ago. There's another complex somewhere else near the stadium too - big tree something. Probably like 3-5 minutes from the 219 and 15-20 minutes from buffalo. Obviously not a house - but they had furnished units too. Rex ryan was living in the building next to mine for a few months while his more permanent living solution was found. For gamedays it was about 30 minutes from my door to the stadium, but you don't have to pay parking money and you can just go to someone elses tailgate. Or you could park your car closer and tailgate - then walk home while traffic cleared out.

I thought Cash to cap was not using your space from the previous year. Not necessarily against moving money into future years. Say cap is 200M and your cap hit was 175M. You ended the season with 25M in cap. The next year the cap is 210M and your cap is 235M. Buffalo would operate as though their cap was 210M. Essentially they were so cheap that the moving money into future years never really came up

Tons of RPOs in their offense last year. A lot of first read short passes - but they aren't checkdowns. Not sure how PFF came up with the way of determining that.

Their offense never gelled last season. Bateman started year on IR. Hollywood was on the injury report 6 times last year which usually is an indication of some ongoing injuries. Stanley missed a ton of time, and they moved Orlando Brown. Basically the entire oline was in flux all year. They went from Edwards and Dobbins with about 280 carries at a 5.5 YPC clip, to Freeman/Murray at about a 4.2 YPC clip. Bell had 32 touches for 84 yards. Add in the fact that peters was gone all year, and humphrey was banged up and missed time. Now they'll have Peters back, and add Kyle Hamilton. I doubt they'll have the worst pass defense in the league again. They could definitely use some help in the receiver room. But their goal was to get better up front, and linderbaum and a healthy stanley goes a long way there. I think they'll look at late stage WR's here and see if they can find someone to help.

Hopefully hes suspended for 2022. And then when he makes his return in 2023 - that he just gets a rain of boo's at every away game. Also, I hope he sucks.

How many teams trade for a guy who's very liikely to get suspended for a year?

Easy work-around is to just tack on a fine. 16 games plus a substantial fine.

Bauer got 324 games in baseball. Anything less than a season and u look like a joke

They dominate bad teams to the tune of such a domination that it even goes through weighted adjustments like DVOA. Shutout Tua/Brissett dolphins, shut out webb texans, destroyed the saints with Siemian, jags. Thats 5 games where the opponent had fewer than 250 yards and we had 10 takeaways in those games. I do think improving the pass rush will help - adding a 2nd corner with some more athleticism is a nice step in that direction as well.

LIkely 2 of those guys stick - my guess is its shakir and mckenzie. Mckenzie will get more play on offense, but he's there to return in a pinch.

The government? I didn't realize this fell in that same Etsy/Venmo 600 dollar thing though

You need to have above a certain threshold in total ticket sales for you to have to claim it as income or a write off.

I don't know that we'll get PSLs with the deal the pegulas got from state/county.

Thats the thing - nobody wants to do this because then they have "the most expensive tickets on the market" It's easy to have a policy when you have a wait list. When you are selling fewer season tickets like say the Jaguars - you'll take what you can get to be able to say "we have 50,000 season ticket holders. Sure there are blocks of seats that are given to brokers, and i sold them at 60 cents on the dollar (or less) but its good press.

I have a friend who is a ticket broker, and his explanation of his role is "I sell the tickets for what they are worth - which is what someone is willing to pay for them". The team sells them to him at a discount so they lose risk of not selling seats and they'll make a certain amount for every game. When the team is good? This saturates the single game ticket market with massively expensive tickets because people all want to go, there aren't season tickets available etc. But when the team was in a 17 year drought, they were calling the brokers every year to renew their seasons early. When the team is bad (and the sabres are a great example of this)? The brokers are the only way you get butts in the seats. The sabres went away from brokers this year and people didn't want to go. Why? Because the broker strategy devalued the product so much. Why would i want to pay 50 bucks a seat when it was 10 in 2019. I know when they fired John Sinclair people were all up in arms because he was a friend or whatever, but he worked with brokers heavily to fill that stadium however he could. Likely at the cost of profitability.

It was weird. He looked small but also fat.

I think most teams assumed he was done. He was cheering for the bills in the playoffs... while on IR for Washington. Seems like something a retired guy would do. He also dislocated his hip last year and just has been banged up quite a bit the last few years. If he comes back my guess is it'll be as a late addition in camp or mid-season due to a run of injuries. He's made 80 mil over his career - take out a bunch for taxes and agents and you're still looking at quite a lot of money. He also has 7 kids per his wikipedia.

Well - the oline wasn't very good last year. We're counting on development more than anything else. Spencer Brown is now a starter whithout daryl williams behind him for depth. Bates is now a starter without feliciano behind him. Bates also is now likely playing RG, where he has limited playing time. Feliciano and Williams gone as other options. Boettger won't be ready to start the season. Ford is not a good player. Neither is Hart. Who knows about Doyle. I get that they don't need to be like good players that you've heard of - they are backups. But the ones that I've seen are pretty bad. Beyond that, are we sure the starters are good? Brown struggled a ton last year. Love the attitude, but the penalties and pass pro issues could become a problem. Bates is switching sides and has like 300 career snaps. Saffolds never been an impressive pass protector.

I mean he legit pitched a perfect game at home against NE. More TDs than incompletions.

last year specifically had some pretty terrible weather games. Pittsburgh game wasn't great. Houston was a downpour to start. NE was a joke with that wind. Jets game was windy. Atlanta and Carolina were pretty lousy weather wise. Like 6/9 games had pretty minus weather.

Huge cap hit. If they trade him, new team gets the whole thing. If they cut him he can sign anywhere and still get that guarantee. Teams are expecting Cleveland to throw in a 2nd or 3rd, not ask for significant compensation.

He's a veteran who has played tackle in the NFL. I cant imagine he's worse than bobby hart, and the other guy doyle is a complete unknown. I'm not looking for all-pro backups, but I like options. Guard i feel like we're running it back with Ford and Boettger. Didn't really bring in much there.

Quessenberry helps a lot. Bates has not played enough to have earned that deal - but we had to match otherwise its a gaping hole and it would be too late in FA to address it. He didn't even play 300 snaps last year and had 3 starts at LG not RG. He goes from having dawkins to spencer brown. That's a big change in communication and skill. Saffold on the left between 2 good pass protectors helps, and he's a good run blocker. I like the attitude for Spencer Brown, and I know hes a workout machine - i just hope kromer can coach him up in pass pro a bit.

It wasn't blocked right either. Guy came in unblocked up the middle.

I'm sure the player will be fine. They moved down and got some extra stuff. It's just a poor use of your most valuable draft asset. At least McVay liked the player? Lol