BillsShredder83

Honestly this will move in such a uniformed way across the league (well 31/32; looking at you Cinci), that there wont be any competitive advantage to how we handle it. We'll follow the market... and if thats the case, then I say good for the players. Its easy to point to the successful players' contracts in the NFL and say "what you werent making enough before?". However the average NFL lifespan is something like ~3.5 years'ish. Those juicy contracts are the exception, not the rule. CTE is very real, and a serious risk; but how about the lesser extreme more common risks the average player sees? Loss of mobility, loss of cognitive function. Missing out on their young kids early development with a busy schedule/traveling. Joint pain. I'm the last guy to feel bad for these guys, but they EARN it a lot more than we'll ever fully know & see. For the homies that are out in 2-3 years; they'll have a helluva head start in life if theyre smart with the money. Dropping even $500k-$1m by the age of 25 into a retirement account will really jump start a retirement investment!!! Most of these owners do this for the LOLZ along the way. While the players certainly do some of that too, their high income years (in the NFL) are so short that it can really mean a lot to them and their families.

This. I don't get all the belly aching from our side on this. If a dude like this (severe injury last year, barely played, career high is 938yards) is the sole difference between beating them or not, that's on us. We NEED some crazy criminal court thing to win in the post-season versus them? The dude who went 4/4 47yds, 0 td's against us in 2024 divisional? I get he's a very good talent, but id say the same thing if they cloned and had 2012 Megatron (Moss, Julio, JRice; he's none of these guys). JFGID! Theres a million ways to offset his talent. We can get/develop someone to cover him. Double team. We can have a lights out performance versus the other 10 and force them to be 1-D. We can beat them in a shootout. Hell, we can even BountyGate him, and it'd be less embarrassing LOL Acting like the single only scenario we can beat the Chiefs/win a SB, is to rely on criminal/civil courts to remove him? Weak. The single most pathetic viewpoint. Has there ever been a single SB winner who didn't have to find a way to neutralize a top-10 WR in one or multiple post season games? What are we even talking about here?!?! I sure as hell hope theres not a single/player or coach that holds that viewpoint.

LOL bravo for even entertaining this and being cordial oOpS tHeReS tReNboLoNe iN mY sMoOtHiEs!!! 🤯

My main reason for taking Stewarts side (besides it being the Bungholes), is the vagueness. Thats a huge problem. List out a bunch of specific scenarios? Sure. But not some open ended excuse for the Bengals to try and pull guaranteed. The weirdest part to me, is doing this to a guy with 0 off-field issues... but now that I think about it, its probably the exact reason they picked him to try. If you try and break this clause out with a, say, Mike Green type character. Of course youre going to get a fight. Hes a dirtball, and dirtballs do dirtball stuff. So a character clause isnt going to go-over well. But if you try and set precedent with a squeaky clean dude, hope the kid says 'sure whatever, i wont be getting in trouble, lets go ball'. Then you can argue down the road with future troubled talents "hey we made Shemar sign it." Precedent is what's important. If thats the case, I get what theyre trying to do here.... but they should've just pulled it quietly behind the scenes, instead of instigating a full blown public brawl -- then proceeding to double and triple down. How is this team planning to field FA's next year? L-O-L! How many draft prospects are going to tell their agent, Im not even interviewing with Cinci? How are they even going to field a team???? You think squeaky clean players are going to want to be subjected to that? How about the Tyreek dudes of the world? Absolutely the dumbest crap I've seen since --- well --- Hendrickson L-O-L!!

Id imagine Players Union, Agents, and NFL Reps are all working to try and find some type of general framework that gets everybody in the same ballpark... then teams and players can take it from there. Its not a real concern of mine. A whole class/round Isn't going to forgo the biggest and most needed payday, right before the finish line.

The most likely scenario aside from them resolving this, IMO is a trade (hilarious for a disagreement on a theoretical scenario)... What do we think a trade compensation would look like? Would be limited to a DE needy team, outside of division, and out of conference if trading team is a serious contender. Acknowledging the above probably puts us off limits, id give them Epenesa + 4th (maybe 3rd)

No doubt. Hes not dropping to the 7th IF this happens but is definitely dropping atleast to like the 3rd or later. On top of that, if his career plays out the way he imagines, hes also not getting a 2nd contract (the big $$ one) until a year later. The ripple effect of doing this is just so huge. I think hes 100% in the right here, but pushing forward would be an awful decision by him. Just likw the awful situation Cinci has put themselves in. Imagine pissing off your top 15, future of the franchise... while also having s*** all over Hendrickson lol all while doing all this in plain sight, knowing you need FA's for, well, forever 🤣🤣. Absolutely ridiculous thing to do to your franchise over a theoretical, with a guy who's never had off field issues too. Unfathomable stupidity Too close to college season to try and lawyer his way back to A&M too He'd have to fight in court to get that right... and college ain't gunna roll over and accept that easily as it would be a precedent setter... unless for some reason it's beneficial for them to do so, and it could be?? But if it was, id imagine itd already be in place soooo 🤷

What? Why did I think he was much younger???!!!!

Absolutely could be bulking trying to slab on some muscle, and he'd have time to clean up the fat. Can't gain muscle in a deficit, and once you get to a certain level of ripped, every ounce of muscle gets harder to slab on. Easier/more productive to lift hard, pound ridiculous calories (to get your body to respond and push past plateau) and then peel back the layers. Look around bodybuilders in the offseason. Check out Lee Priest "offseason vs contest" to see the extreme end

Agreed. He was definitely heavier last year, I was expecting a brutal photo, and it couldn't be further from that

Josh aint exactly a getting a Victorias Secret cover himself either. I guarantee they are both freaking absolute units under that layer(s) of fat. Theres probably something to staying healthy with the few extra pounds on their frame. You cant exactly add 15-20 clean pounds (muscle) to their frames in an off-season or even a career. Can a guy who never stepped in a gym before get some "quick" (1-2years) gains like that? Sure... but these guys are physical specimen. Hypothesis: Jacked + 15-20lbs Fat > Just Jacked and 15-20 lbs lighter These guys are so heavily outweighed by every guy on the DL and 50%+ of LB's. Force = Mass x Acceleration , seems to sort of tell the story here

Its crazy that he wont hang out with me, id be a really fun hang in a house like that LOL FTFY! My goodness. Imagine how many shoes an actress/singer has? Making me second hand mad lol

Absolutely bananas that they got extra picks for promoting a POC too LOL look i get it, "technically", but do the optics of that look atrocious L-oh-f'ing-L !!! Is that hiring a POC into a promotion = 3rd round comp picks still (i think HC/GM's only)? Im not trying to screw up my FO for picks, but at the same time we should only make POC assistant GM. Think decoy. Keep your best assistant GM (white/black whoever) under a lower title, pay him extra to be chill about it, and prop up anybody that could fetch us those picks. I know the 9ers have absolutely cleaned up with how many comp picks they've got under the Rooney-ish Rule. I wonder if theyre doing something like this

Absolutely bonkers how fast he soured on them. 2 seasons total. Last year signed this deal: Funny they gave him this money after somehow in his FIRST SEASON THERE "Ramsey was regularly late to practices and would constantly undermine former defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and head coach Mike McDaniel." (from article). So this idiot started undermining his DC year one and ran Fangio out of town...... then they gave him a record deal the following year, meanwhile what did Fangio do? Go on to help put the Eagles over the top for a Lombardi lol I cant believe anyone would sign this dude let alone trade assets for him. On top of being a total douche, hes constantly hurt... sounds like a guy i wouldve traded for in Madden because his loud mouth in the media must mean he's good. Pitt loves these types and its baffling. Im all for taking an all upside bet/ zero risk on a guy with supreme talent (a guy disgruntled in one place only is kind of my rule) .... but paying him at the top of his position, after being a douche on your own team too. Absolutely baffling behavior by not only Ramsey, but by the Fins front office lol they deserve everything coming to them II know this will get s*** all over, but the guy was not put into a position to succeed either. I dont think hed make it as a head coach anyways, but that roster is not for some newb coach to handle. If Brady left us after the season I would take MM in a hearbeat!! Smart football guy, with great lockerroom chemistry... he'd have plenty of staff (and players with lockerroom respect) around him to help keep players disciplined. Id absolutely love that scenario to play out

No kidding LOL holy hell, anybody thinking that needs a new brain (not at OP, as i didnt think you were implying we did). The media acts like the only way to get better is to sign the top sexy FA's, or trade up to the top of first round..... thats the stuff that gets clicks on articles so of course its what the media dwells on. I DO wish this offseason we had addressed WR with more urgency, but I generally liked the moves we made acknowledging they were 2nd tier signings. Our biggest progress came via the draft. Is it going to be enough to beat the Chiefs? This draft for 2025 alone, I don't think so. Rookies acclimate slowly in Buffalo, especially on the defensive side, as history has shown. Can this be different? Its possible, but I wouldnt count on rookies to be the difference to get the job done alone. IF we get over the KC hump this year, its going to be because our 2nd & 3rd year players collectively take a giant step forward, or maybe 1 or 2 become a rising star out of nowhere (a guy can wish).