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The real debate is whether Rex is better at his job than Mario is at his.

It's not supposed to. The NFL may think that there is pressure. The NFL is stupid.

$4.5M "ain't crap" for a 10 year career? How so? If they aren't playing for 10 years, they can always get a job elsewhere.

I think it's over.

NFL Total Access Verified account ‏@NFLTotalAccess "The #Bills are planning as if LeSean McCoy will miss several games to begin next season." - @RapSheet on McCoy Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 43s43 seconds ago Ian Rapoport Retweeted NFL Total Access They'll add a RB in free agency or the draft for this reason.

It would make the game more competitive too. Imagine if the Saints could've halved their dead cap money the last couple of years? Brees would probably be competing for Super Bowls in his twilight years, rather than dragging a garbage team to 6 wins.

Just for reference, Sportrac is one of the best websites for that stuff. https://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-and-the-veteran-cap-benefit-rule/ http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/anthony-dixon/ I'd love to have Fred back over Boobie. If we just roll with McCoy, Karlos and Gillislee, that's fine too.

If the NFL was ever going to go the guaranteed route, they would need to include amnesty as well. Without it, you are right, bad $100M contracts for QBs would put teams underwater for 6 years. The more I think about it, I'd actually love a soft cap similar to the NBA in the NFL. A lot of the things the NBA does just seems more fluid and exciting. Exceptions, Bird Rights, MLE. I'd like to see more of that in the NFL. The league is at an all-time high due to the success of League Pass and their willingness to "take over" social media. The NFL and MLB try to shut down folks tweeting videos of big plays or awesome highlights. The NBA encourages it. And the tv deals. But I think the competition is poor in the NBA, and I'll tell you why. There are no true rivalry's. Before this season, who would you have called Lebron's rival? Who would you call Durant's rival? Or Steph Curry's? The only true "we hate them and they hate us" rivalry is the Clippers vs GS and SA. The rest of the league just mosies along. There hasn't been a true championship contender in the East beside the Lebrons since the Big 3 in Boston, who won it 7 years ago. The competition stinks.

It makes those leagues weaker. The NBA (I know they have a soft cap) is a terrible league. The good teams and players are entertaining, but they are virtually 1/5 of the field. The rest of the league has no chance and everyone knows it. Partly that's due to a lack of talent, and the that one good player out of 5 can have on a team, but still. The other part is bad contracts that have actually ruined careers and eras. You could make the argument that the Amar'e Stoudemire contract ruined what was left of Carmelo Anthony's prime, bringing a East contender to its knees, and basically ruining the East in terms of competition. Lebron is going to the Finals, it's a certainty. No team is good enough, they're either crippled by garbage contracts (Channing Frye, Derrick Rose) or crippled by terrible talent (PHI, NY, every other team in the East?). At least with the NFL, a great defense can sometimes upset a franchise QB. In the NBA, you either have a super star, or you will never ever come close to winning a championship.

And again, that's a product of how many players there are in the league. If the NFL went fully guaranteed with their contracts, they just wouldn't sign guys to 4yr $44M. They'd sign them to 4 yrs, $16M with escalators.

Hurt feelings. I'm not a big Shapiro guy by any means, but I do enjoy him going after this kind of behavior.

Woah! The corollary to the players getting paid less than the NBA and MLB players is that the NFL pays almost as many players as those two leagues combined.

It's actually $400k less than Boobie's deal if we signed Fred to a vet minimum.

Would Mario have been pouting? Or having another 10+ sack season?

Oh, no there's nothing on that. Right. That's what I believe. And thus, the failures (and successes) of Rex Ryan reflect on Whaley.

Kirby's info has always been pretty solid. My take on the hiring was to give the Pegulas the benefit of the doubt. I still refuse to believe that the Pegulas forced a HC on their GM, who he didn't want. If they did, that's somehow worse than Whaley wanting Rex in terms of the future of the Buffalo Bills.

No way. The league shouldn't mandate these guys to do anything. If they value the education, they'll get it. If not, that's on them.

CSULA is trying to stifle differing viewpoints. http://www.dailywire.com/news/3599/csula-president-shuts-down-shapiro-event-shapiro-daily-wire CSULA President Shuts Down Shapiro Event; Shapiro Replies, 'See You There, Snowflakes'

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League minimum for an UDFA in 2016 is $450k. I think they're doing okay.

Why? Don't you root for the laundry?

I'm not talking about your info. I'm talking about JfH's fanfiction that Whaley was railroaded into hiring Rex and was against it from the start.

Because it's fiction. There's no proof.

May I ask when you heard this? When the hire first came in, later in the offseason, or when the growing feeling of nausea started around week 8?

Well that makes me feel a bit better, but I don't believe he wasn't for the Rex hire, either.