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Mayfield has better advanced metrics than Allen. DYAR, DVOA and QBR are all in Mayfield’s favor. That’s what PFF uses so it makes sense that they have him in front of Allen. But I’m not sure how Tre doesn’t rate better. I know they said he just missed the cutoff for the top 100, but I don’t see how he didn’t make it comfortably. Perhaps there is something important that they aren’t factoring into their ratings.

Chatter of debatable quality aside, if Burrow is smart then he’ll have his agent working behind the scenes to make sure he’s not a Bengal.

The problems for Baker have been two fold. Organizationally the Browns have been a mess, including front office and coaching. The jury is out on the latest reboot. Secondly, he coasted last offseason and it showed. He’s admitted as much. The Browns do not inspire confidence, but they appear to have a good HC hire in Stefanski and to be aligned as an org for a change. Lots has to go right, but Baker has the ability to be an elite QB. Losing to the Browns shouldn’t have been much of a shock. That defense is built to play man and bring pressure. Bad coaching led to them playing a lot of zone throughout the year, but they sure didn’t against the Bills. Allen has played very well against zone but struggled against man (especially with extra pressure as is often the case) so it makes a lot of sense that things went the way they did. Sometimes the problem with a game is the match up.

I agree with all of that, but it speaks to my point. If the Browns become more competitive with the Steelers I believe the rivalry will come back fully. But at this moment it doesn’t seem to be what it used to be.

To me it seems like Dalton would be a great pickup for a team drafting a QB early. A one year deal where he can improve his stock for a better deal next season while the team he plays for gets to sit their future QB for up to a full season.

I also expect the Bills to spend this offseason. It’s smart of them to be quiet about it too. No upside to putting it out there that they’ll be big spenders. That would lead to unrealistic expectations by the fans and, ultimately, disappointment. One point of clarification though. Minimum spending limits are calculated on CASH distributed, not cap accounting. That makes hitting the minimum a lot easier to achieve.

Breaking a relationships boundaries is obviously serious, but it’s important to know what those are when making judgements. I’ve always said that Tiger’s big mistake was that he chose to cheat on and lie to his wife. He was rich and famous enough that finding a great woman who was fine with an open marriage would’ve been easy. Instead he screwed his kids’ mom over. It wouldn’t surprise me if Baker did what he’s accused of here. There is no real proof of it though. Just an accusation from a woman who sent Baker a bunch of pics and was blocked at some point. I don’t even see a snap from him to her. No text or call records. Nothing so far.

Browns fans (I am also one as I was born and raised in Cleveland) probably would call the Steelers their rival, but the Steelers fans would probably disagree. The Browns haven’t been competitive with the Steelers in forever so it’s faded from the Steelers end. I’ve heard many say that the “real Browns are in Baltimore” and that’s their real rival. Historical rivalries have value, but new rivalries will take hold when two divisional teams are fighting it out for the title regularly. On a personal note, I’d like the Bills to develop a strong rivalry with another team. The rivalry with the Dolphins has always seemed pretty weak to me. Growing up I remember what it used to be like with the Browns and Steelers. I’d like that same intensity for the Bills’ rivalry too.

Some rivals would be moved out of their division and some new ones would develop. But I don’t think that’s a big deal. The only real rivalry in the AFCN is Baltimore and Pittsburgh. The Patriots have dominated the AFCE for so long I don’t see a real rivalry at this time. By getting more divisions populated by geographically close teams we would see more rivalries develop. We’d also see fans travel to more games in other divisional cities. That would help sell out and fill stadiums more often since fans would have easier access. Fans of teams doing well would more easily fill the stadiums of divisional opponents that weren’t.

I still have an Eric’s shirt from like 20 years ago!

That sounds fantastic

I made my preferred changes in bold above. I like your general idea, but think this makes more sense geographically. I left Cincy and Indy in their current divisions, but would be open to flipping them

He was a good boy

Sure he can. He seems like the kind of guy who’ll do it too. I’m just pointing out the gravity of the situation if/when it happens.

Opened at 8.5. I could see some slight upward movement if they go nuts in FA. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sportsbettingdime.com/amp/news/nfl/opening-win-total-odds-all-nfl-teams-2020-chiefs-highest/

He’s made about $71M in the NFL. Plus whatever advertisement money he made. That doesn’t include anything he gets from his lawsuits against the Pats/Raiders. I’m not saying that he won’t blow through it all, but it’s going to take real effort. Even after taxes that’s a lot of money. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/antonio-brown-6702/cash-earnings/

Since teams offset salaries of fired coaches that find new jobs, wouldn’t this just all resolve itself if Dennison found a similar job with another organization? Oh, right.....

I’ll see if I can get that from him. He also writes for a Browns site and I’ve seen what he’s written about fits there. But the Browns will likely be running a scheme that utilizes a lot of zone blocking. That’s a bit different from the Bills although we also need somewhat nimble OL because they all need to be able to pull.

I know the guy who did the article (Sobo) a little bit. He was just having some fun with possibilities that make some sense for each team. FWIW he is a big fan of how the Bills FO attacked the interior OL last off-season. He is a former lineman and is always a good person to get opinions on everything OL and DL.

Man the Jest are a train wreck. Not sure why anyone would work or play there. The exceptions would be for them to ridiculously overpay for someone like they did CJ Mosley or give someone a job at a much higher level than they warrant, like they did with Adam Gase.

I was in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and a large amount of pizza and wings were ordered in. Someone said “I’ll bet these aren’t as good as you get in Buffalo.” My complete answer would’ve taken like 10 minutes so I just shrugged and didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to be THAT GUY. For the record on the wings I had one. Huge bats that couldn’t possibly cook anywhere near as fast as the flats. Had a bat. Meat wouldn’t pull away from the bone. Soggy skin and not just because it was takeout. They were in the big, disposable chaffing trays and there was about 2” of sauce they were swimming in. I got one off the top but it was still really soggy. Asked which ones were the hottest. No heat at all.

Excellent screen name btw

Not sure what he did. I certainly don’t condone illegal prostitution, but he could be on the registry for doing precisely what he was caught doing here as a oliciting prostitution can get a person on a sex offender registry. Or he could have done something much worse. Dunno.

I’m very sorry for your loss

That is all correct. This year of the contract was obviously structured this was to force an extension before the season or let Dareus hit FA while he could still get one last big contract. Side note: Since this is the last year of the current CBA, the June 1st designation does not apply to any player - even those cut after 6/1. If a player is cut or traded it all hits this season.