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Anderson maybe? Mark Anderson, or something like that.. its driving me nuts

Me neither. Im not a victim blamer, but these guys are at a higher risk of a false accusation, even the guys who are careful. There are women who weaponize this kinda thing (see Trevor Bauer, Araiza). A woman who wanted to do that to you, would have major leverage knowing about that clause to try and bully a dude into settling out of court an a baseless & consensual encounter. Wouldnt matter if i was the 2nd coming of Reggie White, Im not signing anything that says 'accusation or charge'. Its a dark thought, but a realistic one. Its painting a bullseye on your back. There are sufficient amounts of dirtballs in the NBA, but theres also a circle of hot females that target impregnations in the NBA as a paycheck. Itd be ignorant to pretend there arent women out there that would/have targeted this kinda thing before. Hell the Duke lacrosse lady did this, trying to get blood from a stone, those guys didnt even have sports money... was only going after mom & dad money.

If this is true, crazy to draft a guy this high IF thats such a major concern. Basically you took a dude you have zero trust in. Its like a last minute, day of wedding, pre-nup. I guess the story isnt very clear until we find out what "default" means. I'd guess the term 'default' is intentionally vague, not defined well... to try and give them leeway to get out for any reason they want to. If its a "dirtball" clause, and defined clearly ---i.e. "sexual assault conviction (certainly not 'accusation'), weapons charge, violence charge", sure Stewart should generally have no problem signing it. If it explicitly says the Bengals can get out of it for an injury, I think that would already be out there for us to know. Stewart would want to clear his name and prevent any 'tough guy to deal with' labels, PR battle. My final educated guess is broad/vague verbiage AND an attempt to be sneaky about it! They really are doing their best to go back to the cellar with the #3 QB in the league

Ok I was with the other guy until now lol I will say every situation is different. Bengals situation is especially ugly because they have been shooting blanks in the draft. 45% on 4 players is excessive, but add in bad drafting and injuries amplifies how bad it looks. It'd be hard to let Tee walk, and this is why I want the Bills to run a WR pipeline.... It'd have been easier to trade him if you had a bonafide replacement behind him already on the team. You could get a nice haul and save money... or play the comp pick game. Im not kidding when I say next year we should be looking into moving up for a premier #1 WR, and then take a high WR between round 1 - 3 each year. Or 1st - 4th minimum. Josh is going to increase these guys value, which will make WRs harder to retain and fit under the cap. Soooo you can either swim upstream against it, or take a swing each year. Control costs. Keep giving Josh weapons, then worst case scenario we have some trade ammo, and we go next man up. Josh is who got Gabe that Jax contract, which tells me he had good value in a trade if done one year earlier. Recycle that trade back into the team or back into WR room

It may be a fair assessment here, but bad blanket statement. You don't not make moves based on a 5th rd, 1 year player. Dude would've got the same treatment if he was a 5-7sack guy. Can't count on him enough to pass up his players at his position, but doesn't mean the staff thinks he won't take a step either. Hes a mini project, low cost, high upside. Love these kinds of picks. Hopefully he makes us look genius Who was the dude that did this for us maybe 7 years ago? Was really fast DE, but ppl b-worded he took a looping route on his pass rush. Pretty sure he came from NE and or maybe Miami. I really liked him at the time but we cut him. Mark something maybe???

Straight up, I'm a thief ..... oh no how will my friends and family ever trust me again LoL Theres not a single corporate product or aspect of govt (essential or not) in existence, where I can go one full day without being ripped off a dozen or more times... just by opening my eyes in the morning. The working man in this country owes nothing to any of these people except for a tar and feathering. But yes, I'm gunna hold a vigil for the corporations as victims of petty theft, and ignore the gunpoint robbery the middle class is subjected to on the daily. 👌

I think this could hinge on Brady as much as it does Keon. Find a way to get him the ball a few times a game, in the short-intermediate with a full head of steam and he has a killer year. every slant he caught like this last year looked like it had house call potential, between his physicality and long-speed. sounds like the physicality should notch up this year too

Fair, I was a understating my true point. Hes gotten better since his rookie year w/ contact but i see too many shoe string tackles. dudes "power" is that he is hard to get a hand on, a very valid skill set, i just dont think its going to lend itself well to a team with even a middling OL. if we put a good OL out there like we do, theres no need to pay a one-dimensional RB that kinda money. if he can become a pass blocker and see the field on 3rd down more, AND he proves that he can produce, or we find a way to get more production passing to him, you could possibly defend paying him... but he has not been the 3rd down back we thought we were signing up for when drafting him. do i think he can be better in the passing game, i do. for whatever reason it hasnt materialized. even if he does have significant upside to that skill, if we cant scheme it and find a way to use it.... that skill doesnt help us. if brady wants us to retain him, he better find a way this year to materialize it. id be more than happy to pay him IF (or watch someone else do it if he completely prices himself out w/ us) he can turn into a true dual threat. we've had very weak outside WR play as of late, we need a guy to stop the defense from being able to narrow the field horizontally. i obviously like having the guys talents around, i just cant justify that kinda money for what he currently brings to the table. thats not even necessarily on him, but i think we can get very similar production at significantly cheaper prices... and Davis looks like he'll be an upgrade in the passing game to me. i also certainly think we can make up for the production drop off through Josh throwing the ball a touch more. I think we could find out Ray-Day is better suited for this offense!

The regular season ones wouldnt bother me at all... the playoff losses are never rewatchable. Any playoff Chiefs games? NF'ing way, especially the first AFCCG. Josh's first playoff game in Houston is a no. Forward lateral game? Was the first time I remember absolutely bawling about a football game, I hate seeing that play to this day.... only 6months before that my first time bawling at any sports game, and it was hockey. These should surprise nobody. What DID* surprise me, I was turning 3yrs old when Wide Right happened, and during covid I was rewatching classic Bills game I wasnt old enough to remember. The Houston comeback game, shellacking Bengals in AFC Champ game, and any SB Run era playoff games I could find. Was really cool to watch as somebody who knows the history, but cant firsthand remember any/much of Kelly, Bruce, Andre, Thurman's Prime. I was having a grand ole time!!! I knew watching the Cowboys smackdowns would have 0 entertainment value, so I figured Wide Right Game could be a fun watch. I dont have an authentic memory/attachment to that game and I knew the ending obviously. .... was a fun game to watch, but seeing the context of how that kick came to be, made it absolutely brutal all over again. I don't remember that game at all, but damn it felt like I was. Cant say I recommend that to anyone LOL Man I wish I could've experienced Bills/Chiefs as even a neutral viewer. In my head I know that's gotta be a top 10 all time playoff game. But I dont even like seeing the highlights of us going up late in that one. I will NEVER rewatch that

Bingo. He is not a back that can run behind a weak line. 0 power. Hes only dangerous staying clean in the backfield and through the hole into the secondary... eating once in the secondary is a real skill set, just not one we have the luxury of paying for. Give that $$ to a WR or somewhere else next year. I'll die on that hill

I don't blame him at all. RBs have like a 5 year shelf life... and 1st rders get 5 year rookie deals (i know cook was 2nd). Nflpa will have to renegotiate the RB rookie contracts to ever get this fixed. Cook is worth a raise, and someone will give it to him, just not us and shouldn't be. Our OL parts the damn red sea. Im ready to see Ray Davis take the crown here. Dude finished the season with nearly as many yards and more receiving TDs than Cook, with probably 25% of the snaps. He can pass block. Running the ball won't be a problem, and Davis will do more in the pass game. Why in tf would we pay Cook? Absolutely insane. No hyperbole trade him at the top of his value. Laugh all you want but Ray is a better fit for our run game too IMO. Ready to get roasted 🤷

What a dumb "article" from Florio. It's literally nothing. I get its the offseason but atleast string it together with other teams nfl news like a quick hit. I got the same exact thing out of the headline as reading the article. Such a hack

Why would any team ink that kind of deal (or really any deal) without getting a physical. I assumed when terms get announced a guy has 24hrs to get there for physical kinda thing. When you spend solid $$ on a player from FA; its not only hitvhing your boat to a guy, its also removing yourself from a certain tier of FA money..... so God forbid you ink someone, then find out they cant pass a physical, but the other guys you were courting have moved on and found a new team. Absolutely bonkers if this is how it works. How does a full month pass without being sure on the physical?

What is there to gripe about in the zoomed out look? First, he wasnt a Pickens or AB level of malcontent. Dude wanted money and more targets... literally EVERY WR in the NFL. He was young and hadnt peaked yet. He helped Josh develop, we got 2 absolutely elite years out of him, leading the league in yards one of them. ^^looking at this, we traded a 1st (and 5th?), and recouped a 2nd... So we netted all the above, for the equivalent of a 1 round trade back? I WISH WE COULD MAKE THIS KIND OF MISTAKE THIS OFF-SEASON.

I think you can be mentally & physically tough while being being unsure of your post injury capabilities. Dude was healthy through college wasnt he? I think he can be nasty in the run game, appears like a haul to bring down once hes got the ball, so im willing to give him the pass here. Dude had just started to get the earliest signs of momentum going and then had it killed by a month off the field. Probably very hard to get that train going again as a Rookie & as somebody whos been football healthy his whole life

Great post. I'll just throw in my 2 cents on the bolded. While I'd love to have an All-Pro WR, I know its not realistic unless we hit jackpot on a guy at the end of the 1st one year. Adding one serious outside threat forces defenses to be more multi-dimensional than they have to be now (one reason Spags has owned us). Defenses against us dont have to worry about anybody getting over the top of them,(thats been beat ad nauseum) allowing them to crowd the line more... but even more troublesome is not having a horizontal field stretch. No deep threat + Bad outside WR's creates a nasty venn diagram, where defenses can put 70% of their focus and personnel in shallow - intermediate & condense to the middle.... which happens to be where we are most strong. We run the ball well, that ven diagram is very favorable to a defense wanting to stop the run. We also get the majority of our passing game from inside the hashes.... same spot where the defense wants to be. We're throttling our own strengths by not having an outside guy... plus, were missing out on a ton of gains to be had on the outside. Obv there's nothing we can do to fix it now, except pray that somebody breaks out between between Moore, Coleman or Palmer. Its possible. My thing is I really feel like we're one top 20 outside WR away from being unstoppable. Dude wouldnt even need to dominate like 2020 & 2021 Diggs. We could move up and down the field, in whatever manner we would like, completely dictating the pace. Getting just a bit more consistency outta the offense, can lead to our DL getting more opportunities to just pin their ears back and rush the pass. I loved our draft though, and my God do I pray we can finally address the WR position better next year

Was Darby not a culture fit? I cant remember anything from then. Or was that a scheme fit thing? The Sammy trade at the time was bigger news to most. Was he traded after only his rookie year here?

This chat is going through a culture shock of non-buffalo events having infinitely less alcoholics. I knew I was an alcoholic in Buffalo, then I moved and realized exactly how unhealthy that cities relationship is with booze lol I live near a bar and am always shocked to see the crowds start leaving from 10-11p. When I drank, we were just finishing up pre-gaming at a house LOL Columbian Marching Powder would get the bullpen call right about midnight! Weaklings! Thank God I got sober lol def would've missed out on seeing Buff get a ring

Same ppl that cried when they found out Hulk Hogan wasnt just eating his veggies nad saying his prayers before bed LOL

Were there notable stats showing progress with Cook's hands? I'll be honest, my knee jerk reaction is 'he drops a decent amount of very catchable balls', but I wouldnt be shocked if I didn't notice/forgot over past several months. I cant specifically recall any brutal drops EDIT: nope. Im not a hater, and ill 100% give him credit for doing a ton of work rushing the ball, I think he had his best season by far (TD's skyrocketed) .... but last years receiving stats are bunk! After seeing this I especially cant justify paying him Saquan/McCaff type money. Just no way! In fact this is an incredibly mediocre pass catching season for any starting RB, let alone a premier back.

You really dodged a bullet there LOL Doctors also used to manually stimulate women for "hysteria" treatment. Maybe science evolves It's either this, or athletes stopped looking for an edge..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. The same pool of guys who crash drunk driving and beat up their wives, must have some unique moral code where they draw a hard line at PED's

When he said supplements, he meant TRT lol there are no supplements that work. If you have the health insurance to jump on TRT, the guy isnt wrong!! Living below your potential quality of life, because grampa used to say "rOgEr MaRis WaS tHe oNlY ReAl bAlL pLaYeR" is silly. No matter where you land on PED's in sports, theres nothing wrong AT ALL with better living through science under a doctors care. If you're done having kids, and your test is in the gutter, and you're not playing pro-ball; by all means feel free to take advantage of the medical advancements that we have

Cmon bro dont be naive. these guys all always blame it on some 'tainted' supplement. if this was true you'd see these companies going belly up OR ATLEAST shelling out settlements. Literally not one time have we seen that that I can remember. You're living in fairy tale land if you believe that guys whose lifelong dream is to be in the NFL, will give that up because theyre 40 time is .05 slower than the rest of the class. Or if you think in an industry where we regularly see 8-9 digit contracts handed out, that nobody will take a single risk to help their career, legacy, or lifetime financial stability (for them and their kids) out. How many PED tests do we see people pop yearly in the NFL? 3? 5? LOL. How about college? Any? So the entire sport of football is clean from high school to the pros? Survey's conducted in the USA found over 8% of men ages 18-25 reported using anabolic steroids (not even including SARM's or Research Chemicals)... but out of all players on NFL 53 man rosters (1,696 total), 3-5 a year use PED's. Hell 10 players popping (weve never seen that) would still only be .5% These players have 6figure - 9figure incomes, and have the easiest access of all. Meanwhile any 14yr old with $100 can get anabolics delivered to their doorstep from the internet in 3-5 days. LOL! It's way crazier to suggest what you're suggesting, than to say the NFL is full of geared-up meatheads.... and the game is better for it. Want to see a clean game won 9 - 7 ? Go to a peewee game, but like it or not, anabolics are prevalent in HS all the way up to pro and semi-pro

Not worth stressing at this point since the media has been silent about it... once the media starts to howl, it'll still take a while to be concerned; as their job is to get ppl riled up and angry. create a story outta nowhere. if there isnt even a media frenzy around it, I can reassure you there really is NO STORY to be had lol

Jamal Adams is all this. Its not 1990. As cool as all that stuff is/would be as an icing on the cake.... nobody wants a plate of icing with no cake (Adams). I dont care if he wears a pink tootoo, and slow dances runningbacks to the ground... as long as he's getting the tackle & more importantly being sound against the pass! If he can do that, then I'd also welcome Ray Lewis levels of (on-field only) violence