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Agreed. Jones was smart to go to Shanny to turn his career around. Becoming the next Kirk Cousins would be very lucrative for him.

Every time I see a white out football game my first thought is that they’re surrendering.

No lie. The Browns were interested in signing Mac Jones this past offseason, but he wanted to work with Shanahan. They both run a Shanahan style offense and it’s the one Jones should be in.

I think we are on the same page. If the situation arises where they need to add at a position, then Knox is the lever they have to pull to create space by trading him away. They could also restructure his contract, but that would not create as much space.

From everything I’ve seen there is nothing formal regarding a tag next offseason. I expect Hendrickson to get franchise tagged and traded by Cincy in March or April. As for a trade, I think Cincy will be looking for compensation in the same range as what they could get then. The Bills would have to send Knox and another player to Cincy or elsewhere to free up enough space, but it’s doable. The trade price would hurt and I don’t think we entertain this if Bosa stays healthy, but if we were in need at DE then I’d be down to make the move.

If traded we’d still be in the hook for the cap associated with the cash pais to Knox on his $9.5M salary. That’s $559k per game prior to the trade. $2.235M for the 4 games he’s played. If we traded him today we’d clear $7.26M. It’s worth noting that the Bills are likely considering trading him. I base that on them not restructuring his contract. They’ll almost certainly need to do it at some point to free up some space - and he’s got the only contract left they could do it with. They’re keeping their options open.

Agree on where Sanders is. Cleveland is desperate for a FQB. They’d be playing him if he was ready. He’d be QB2 instead of QB3 if he was close to ready. This media thing was a 3 way competition to see who could be the biggest embarrassment IMO. Sanders should’ve simply given a supportive statement about Gabriel getting the start. I’m happy he thinks he better than some starting QBs, but he needs to keep that to himself. Rex Ryan is just an idiot trying to be relevant again. He has zero information about whether or not Sanders is putting in the work or not. All accounts from Cleveland is that he is, but that’s to be taken with a big grain of salt. What else would they say? Lastly, Shadeur’s mom’s unintelligent, batshit crazy post is really the topper here. Wow. If she really felt compelled to say something she could’ve just said that Rex is clueless because her son has always been a hard worker and is continuing to bust his ass to learn in Cleveland. At least she deleted the post, but the damage was done. Hopefully she was drunk when she wrote that abomination. Garrett definitely looks like a future Joe Thomas Award winner.

Some additional points: - US Congress has oversight of the NFL due to the ruling the prof mentions - The CBA is necessary for the current system to exist. If there ever comes a day that the owners and players do not agree on a CBA and it expires, the exemption ends. 32 teams would then operate independently. No draft, no cap, individual game rights, etc.

I was in Ocean City, MD at a music festival this weekend. We were chatting with a nice couple from Long Island who, upon hearing that we were from Buffalo, told us this. Their daughter attends FSU and got to be friends with Keon while he was there. They said that Keon is the nicest kid you’ll ever meet. Just a genuinely good person and total goofball.

I was in Miami last November. Please be aware that nearly every restaurant and bar adds an 18-20% gratuity to every bill regardless of size of party. A couple servers took steps to hide that fact. Lotta tourists accidentally double tipping in that city.

That was a dreadful OL they put Allen behind. I was worried he’d get injured or otherwise ruined because of it. So I was pretty much in the same boat as you. Still, I think we got lucky that didn’t happen.

Other way around. The NFL doesn’t want to see star players in the last year of their deals released at the end of the regular season so they can go play for playoff teams. So they make every released player go through waivers after the deadline.

He is not subject to waivers. He’s got over 4 accrued seasons and it’s before the trade deadline so he becomes a FA upon his official release. If it was after the trade deadline or he had less than 4 accrued seasons, then he’d be subject to waivers.

That was the Nathan Peterman debacle. As noted by others, Allen started week 2. Moving from a vet/bridge QB to a highly drafted rookie always seems to be almost solely dependent on how the vet/bridge plays. Sometimes you get Alex Smith, sometimes you get a cooked Russel Wilson or a trash Peterman. I wonder how long Flacco lasts as starter in Cleveland? He’s looking pretty washed. Still, in the last game he was getting a lot of players set properly on that offense. Not sure Dillon Gabriel is there yet with that aspect of playing QB.

No editors checking stuff anymore. I see these mistakes everywhere. The writer obviously had a brain fart. I think we all know what he was trying to say. Walker’s play is in line with that of a 3 tech but he is the size of a 1 tech. I think he could also play as a one gap, penetrating 1 tech.

Their plan was to start Dart at some point this season. There is no going back to Wilson (unless Dart gets injured) so they only had to wait until they were to a point where that made sense. 0-3 is about as early as they could’ve done it. The locker room must know that Wilson is cooked.

I’m sorry for what your daughter, you and your family is going through. My daughter (now 20) went through similar issues with eating, though she did not get to the point of hospitalization. In her case it was anxiety driven. Counseling, a low dose of anti-anxiety meds and opening up to me about some things she had bottled up seems to have helped her immensely. You aren’t kidding about parenting either. It’s a meat grinder sometimes. The best simile I’ve ever heard is that it’s like climbing a huge mountain. There are wonderful moments of great beauty along the way and it can be incredibly rewarding, but mostly it’s just a lot of work.

I’ve laid out what I thought Cook’s value was and why. Several times. I disagreed with the people saying pay him big money and I disagreed with the people saying not to extend him or to only do so at a pittance. What he got was right in line with my estimates of his value to the team and the RB market. He got more in effective guarantees (4 years vs 3) and less in effective AAV (≈$10M AAV on extended seasons vs $10.5M). I was very happy with how it turned out. He got paid his worth, but not overpaid and Beane didn’t buckle under the pressure so he didn’t incentivize other players to use those tactics in the future.

Knox is an entirely separate issue from Cook. If you re-read my post you’ll notice that I was very specific to praise Beane for his work on this particular contract. So I assume you don’t like his contract. I thought his original extension was an overpay, though not as egregious as most here thought. I called it a “modest overpay” at the time. Since then it has been reduced to a very reasonable contract IMO. His cash pay this season is $9M. I’m not sure how anyone argues with that. His cap hit is high, but that’s more a function of cap management rather than his current pay. It could easily be lowered if and when the Bills choose to do so.

If that’s what you think, rather than what you said in your previous reply, then we do agree. And you seem to agree with my earlier post as well.

It’s difficult to take anyone who uses the “it’s not your money” argument seriously. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how the NFL works and how good/great teams are built. Obviously it’s about cap space and the use of scarce resources (cap & cash) to build a roster. Every dollar that is overpaid to a player can’t be used effectively elsewhere. As for Cook’s contract specifically, it was much better than you realize based on your post. Beane did several things well with it, including: - Maintaining his compensation for 2025. He didn’t tear up the last year of the current contract so it only factored in at the existing $5M+. - The first three season of the extension are at $10M cash, not $12M. - So Cook is under contract for 5 seasons, but the first 4 total $35M CASH, or under $9M AAV. - That’s a far cry from $60M over the same four seasons. A team can do a lot with $25M. - As for the final year of the deal, Cook will be 30 so I’d look for some sort of rework or a release by then depending on how he is holding up. I was happy to see that Beane didn’t set a bad precedent by caving to the pressure exerted by Cook and his camp. Holding firm and getting a market value deal done will discourage others from trying similar tactics - rather than encourage them to do so. Great job on this one by Beane.

Let’s not revise what was said. Lotta people said to give him what he wanted, which was $15M AAV. Or didn’t even put a number to it at all. It’s difficult for me to understand why those fans get to take a victory lap on this. OTOH, some of us wanted him extended for almost exactly what he ended up getting. I was very happy with where it all eventually landed. He got a little more guaranteed and a little less AAV than I estimated. Beane held firm and did a great job on this one. Kudos to him.

Obviously they weren’t going to start talking about playing games in Toronto publicly until AFTER the stadium was fully financed and the PSLs were sold.

I can’t take credit for this one. They kept hanging around and I kept thinking they still had a chance. Wife was bummed and fell asleep. The couple (huge Bills fans) with whom we were vacationing were upset about it and went to bed. I did keep my mouth shut about the possibility of a comeback so I didn’t jinx them. SO WAIT! MAYBE I CAN take some credit……..

I don’t.