Augie

He is “special” that way. He’s the reason I didn’t fear the Bengals long term. They caught lightning in a bottle, but he won’t pay to keep the pieces they will need to re-sign.

Rub some dirt on it! 😂

I think my son played 3rd violin in middle school…..and the first 2 chairs were empty. 😂 It was a huge relief when he gave that up!

I hope it’s not 4.6% now! We could be in serious trouble here! Maybe this thread should be closed out of an abundance of caution? That may save us!

Except here of course. Right??? 😊

As to the bold, I think both of those things can be true. 😊 I think back to the heart of the Covid times and how places were lucky just to have any employees show up to work. I remember restaurants operating at less than half capacity because they didn’t have workers and signs that said something like “Please be nice to the workers, they are the ones who showed up.” EDIT: Just adding that a guy on my college hoops board does blue collar recruiting for a major national company and they couldn’t hire people. There was a terrible shortage of labor so they did a survey and learned that the average person for that type of job actually made a bit more money sitting at home collecting stimulus checks. I hope it’s not a problem to mention that. There is a sense of entitlement out there that I don’t understand. My wife hired the daughter of some close friends. Very bright young lady with multiple Masters degrees. My wife needed her to do certain things, but what the young lady really enjoyed was the technology side. She spent so much time on the tech stuff my wife didn’t always get what SHE (the boss) needed. I would have been afraid if I wasn’t making the boss happy. Not this girl. She was upset that they were cutting into her tech time. The wife eventually transferred her to the tech side, where they eventually got tired of her entitled attitude and sh!tcanned her ass. .

I think that’s why we do it. We like to be consistent. 😊 Actually, even after week one it’s hard to say exactly what each team will be, and they could look like different teams over the course of the season. Fingers crossed for next year. If the Steeler’s “home game” in Dublin happens to be against the Bills, I’d have to give that serious consideration! .

I’m afraid you are wasting your keystrokes. Some people are determined to hate on the current regime. They want to hurry up and start hating on the next regime!

I think OSU might have the most legit NFL players in the state! 😊

I love the concept, but as always it depends on the price. I chuckle at how easy it is for us to sit here in our recliners and call for this or that. You need value and reasonable people on the other end. I’m not sure if I’d love or hate dealing with Cleveland! 😂

In an ideal world it would be both.

I would love to know what percentage of the team each principal owner has across the league. I’m sure there is a minimum percentage they must maintain, and I wonder what that is. It seems to be becoming more prevalent for estate planning and liquidity reasons, but I remember some celebrity minority owners going way back, I think.

Which is still irrelevant to any game we will play next season.

The bold is totally non-responsive to anything I have posted. Where did that come from? What are you talking about? I like making decisions based upon the most current information available. If the situation changes my opinion may as well.

I hear @HOUSE is preparing an offer. I expect it to be on the low side.

What kind of numbers are you making up now. I can tell you that your numbers will not decide a single game next year. There is no point in this. There are a whole lot of people here I would NEVER go into business with. They seem too emotionally attached to see things clearly. This has gotten old.

I’m quoting this…..because I can.

I think “likely” is more accurate than “possible”. Only Reid has done better over the last 5 years. That is the problem. .

My son used to work out with a guy who was a stud and had a pic of him as a DB in a Bills uniform. I could never find his name on a Bills roster, so he should be in the running. .

There are A LOT of people here I would never go into business with.

Maybe a couple 1sts and pocket change, but that’s just details. I don’t know what the market will look like, and if it’s feasible. Otherwise that would be my perfect offseason if we add an immovable object at 1T.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for any reasonable move for a difference maker(s). Everybody wants that. But at what cost? I think that’s the divide here. I have no control over it, so I’ll wait and see and pray for the best.

Going all in comes with zero guarantees. Do you want to get close (like we did just last year), then not get a sniff for 3-5 years? Or would you like to sniff every year and hope for the best? I think you know where I land on that.

And that’s just fine. I hope the guy you like next can have us as Super Bowl favorites every year. That is not a given, you know. I like knocking on the door every year and hope one day things fall right, and we walk in to find a Lombardi. But that’s me. It’s like people are mad at their kid for having an A average, but not being first in their class. I certainly don’t think the heels of an AFCCG is the time to talk about dumping the coach and/or GM.