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I'm as glad as the next guy that we made the playoffs and gave Jax all they could handle, at least defensively, on the road. That said, we made the playoffs in a fluke fashion. That's nothing to apologize for, but we are a very flawed team in key areas. Indeed, outside our secondary, OL, Shady, and perhaps TE if Clay is healthy, we need upgrades. Major ones at that.

True. But Cousins fixes Denver's biggest problem and the main reason they were bad last year. Really poor QB play.

Good call here. Vikings may be the dark horse that ends up with him.

Well, I disagree in that Denver's D is built to play with leads and I think Cousins may give them that more often than not. Their front seven is leaps and bounds better than ours. That said, I do think they missed Wade Phillips' scheming last year.

I hadn't seen your remark about the receivers before I posted the same thought. I agree.

I hope so, but Cousins says he wants to win now. Denver also has a better receiving corp, too.

I predict Cousins goes to Denver whose defense gives him the best chance to win now.

Welliver does the best Pacino impression ever.

Good point, no doubt. But the group he had were night and day better talented than what we had previously. And I have to give the credit for that to McD's scheming more than anything else.

I'd prefer Smith, but is it a foregone conclusion that he's gonna be available? If so, I gotta believe there will be many teams sniffing the tires on a deal with KC to get him. Not sure I want to spend too much draft capital on a QB whose ceiling has been firmly established.

Thanks for taking the time to look that up and post it. Not a good career move for Stevenson, imo.

Good call. Literally had a visceral reaction to this when it aired. Nobody saw that coming. Was that a result of Maclean Stevenson's contract demands?

Richard Harrow, 'Boardwalk Empire'; although very artfully done.

What completely turned the secondary around was completely turning the secondary around by literally replacing the entire unit. If Byrd had inherited the previous secondary and turned them around, I'd be more impressed.

Does this mean he won’t run crossers, too?

So true. That’s what I meant when I said there are right ways and then better ways to do things. Honorably is always the better way in my book.

Appreciate the clarification. Wood used a poor choice of words by saying “five days from ...” vs saying “five days removed...”

So the answer to my hypothetical is “spare me the touch feely.” Got it. I am of the opinion that little is lost on players on the team and around the league. There are right ways and better ways to do things. As for that cap space, it certainly was already allocated to begin with when they signed Wood to the deal. Now it’s “found money”and I get that it’s an asset to be used strategically. Perhaps they can free up that cap space in another way.

I’m not conspiring; Wawrow reported it. And I’m not aware of the cap ramifications other than the post June 1st scenario. If the amount Wood pays back is then added back to the cap, I’ll reconsider my stance. You are out of line regarding the negative Nelly take as my 22 years in this community can attest. Hypothetical: is that $3m or whatever it is cap space more valuable than the good will and reputation curried by taking care of one of you own? Does taking care of one of your own get noticed by other players on the team and around the league?

Blasphemy! Turn in your fan card immediately.

Retiring to Belgium I presume?

If the Bills are asking for ANY portion of his bonus in return, regardless of their expressed legal right to do so, it is a BUSH LEAGUE MOVE of the highest order. They signed Wood and gave him that bonus with the expectation that he would play out the remaining two years; it was already an expected cost and they were happy to incur it for a player of Wood's caliber, not to mention his leadership and example of the "football character" McD banks on. Yeah, it sucks that an unforeseen medical condition will force him to retire before he the contract expires, but that's as far is it should go. I don't understand given Pegula's seeming little concern about what it takes to sign players, coaches, etc. Hard to swallow when this team was glad to pay Marrone, Schwartz, Ryan, etc. multi-millions of dollars NOT to earn their respective deals through performance. You take care of Wood, regardless. Period.

I think it would have been easier to put him on injured reserve before the public announcements that he has been medically barred from playing football.