Dan

The answer is always … 3.5.

My mother almost died (technically she kinda did) a couple years ago. One of the many thoughts that went through my head was I would never get to see or experience the joy of the Bills winning a Superbowl with her. She pulled through and is still kicking. So for me… it’s hard to put a price tag on what that moment would mean to our family. So I would need something along the lines of Josh’s contract size to make me consider taking the money.

But aren’t many of these streaming services monthly. For example, Netflix. You don’t pay one monthly fee. You have to pay that $15 fee (or whatever it is now) each month of the season. So aren’t some of the prices higher than quoted? The problem with all this is that no single service allows you to watch all of one teams games, let alone all teams games. So the value of each is all over the place. So I need Netflix to watch just a couple games. I need Amazon, YouTube, over the air antenna, I don’t even know what else. i have most of those streaming services and still watch the free/illegal feeds half the time because I don’t have the energy to figure out which device/app I need to tune to. Just to see the refs screw over whoever the Chiefs are playing. It’s gotten ridiculous. And yes I’m old. But in addition to those damn kids staying off my lawn, the NFL needs to think about the fans just a little and stop spreading their content to every conceivable format, time slot and continent all while making us pay for it twice - once for the service, secondly for all the damn ads that pop up everywhere! Then I’ve paid for it all.. but I still can’t watch replays/highlights without more ads or services. It’s just out of hand. Yes, you get lots of pop up ads on the illegal streams, but at least those are mostly porn ads. So you get something better to click away. Im not complaining, I’m just saying the NFL policies are forcing people to find work arounds more than just people’s desire to get something for free.

I think folks need to get used to Hamlin being on the team longer. I know it’s a popular opinion to dump on him, but he started all season on a team that was a few minutes away from a SuperBowl. He’ll be on the team, at the very least throughout his rookie deal and probably longer depending upon his contract amounts.

Same. Between all the ads and other crap that constantly want to load and refresh, all the official NFL sites are horrendous. I don’t even go there for basic info like scores and game times… any site is better than NFL.com or BB.com

When they add an 8th team to the playoffs, half the league makes the playoffs every year. IMO, at that point, they’ve completely watered down the playoffs and are making the regular season less important. It’s like in baseball, why watch the first half of the season at all. There’s just too many meaningless games. So the NFL really wants another game and another playoff team… but they just making it so there’s less reason to watch in Sept. Personally, I’d go back to the way it was. I’m old and they’ll never do that. But I would change the current format a little… currently the 1 seed gets ALL the advantage. They get the bye, play the lowest rank and home field. I would switch it so that in the divisional round the 1 seed gets the highest seed, and the 2 seed gets the lowest. The only real advantage the 2 seed has now is home field in the divisional. They’ve made it so the 1 seed practically gets a championship game invitation after the regular season.

This is what I don’t get… so many people talk about how easy it is to find good running backs. And yet in this post you talk about players from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even CJ spiller’s best years were 2012 & ‘13. So it’s been over a decade and people think Cook is so easily replaced. I would suggest people need to back away from the keyboard, think with a bit of perspective, and let Beane worry about the cap space and player salaries. Why are Bills’ fans so cheap? Personally I don’t care what they pay the players… just put the best team on the field. And Cook is the best RB we have.

I’m sorry. But if you listened to all the various post game pressers, it was apparent we were out coached again. The Chiefs had several plays on offense and defense that our guys had never seen before and were not prepared for. Conversely, it looked like the Chiefs knew what we were about to do all too often. I don’t want to turn this into a bash McD thread. But he still hasn’t figured out that the best teams adjust game plans in the playoffs and Super Bowl. You just can’t keep rolling with the same play calls and expect your guys to just out execute their guys. Yes, we need some more playmakers on both sides of the ball. A player just can’t drop that final pass! But we also need this coaching staff to realize what it takes to get to the Super Bowl and win it. Thats what this year’s game showed me… we need better players and we need better game plans.

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They'll be fresh for the late season playoff push!

So owners are allowed to sell minority shares and do other things to make money off their investment. But the fans that pay outrageous fees for season tickets aren’t allowed to make money off their investment?

Agreed the chains aren’t the problem. If done properly… they’re extremely accurate. The problem is the ref that puts the ball on the ground. Thats the arbitrary, paid off ref influenced aspect of the game that needs fixed. That and.. unless they did it and never showed it on tv… did they even bring the chains out and do a measurement in the ACFCCG?

In other words… stay ahead of the curve and pay Cook. I think we’d be fine with Cooper on the outside. The only real question is will he be fine with what we’d likely pay him, assuming they extend Cook.

I’m in the minority… but I say pay the man. …assuming you look at the whole roster and can afford it. But I pay extra to keep a player like Cook over just about any of the average to below average defensive players that need new contracts. Yes, we have 2 very good RBs behind him, but, Cook is the only one that seems to be able to take it to the house once he’s in the open. That makes defenses play us differently. And that is what a playmaker is. Right now this team has.. Josh and Cook. That’s pretty much it when it comes to true playmakers. Outside of the Oline, I’d say it’s a pretty short list of players we have to keep. And Cook is on it, for me. my only caveat… I don’t know all the salaries and such that it will take to get better defensive players in here. But don’t risk drafting a RB and hope he produces like Cook next year. Replace the jags on the DLine with draft picks first.

True… but you can only add so much talent each year and you have to balance the pay to meet the cap. Sooo…. Given the current state of this team. We just had an offense score more points than anyone else in the league, in 2024. On the other hand, we almost gave up the game in the divisional round after the Ravens came back. And we allowed KC to score more points than they did all year. So where do you put your resources? Offense or defense. If I’m GM. I spend every draft pick and FA dollar on the defensive side of the ball. After breaking into the Eagles courtroom and stealing their draft grades.