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The Duke is an interesting prospect that has what the current group lacks, size. I expect they will also address this type of wr in the draft as well. I agree with your premise.

Yes, I'm more inclined to grade Beane's performance rather than the individuals signed. WR: A- 2 players that open up the field for the passing game, Brown's speed and Beasley's' ability to separate and solid hands. If Duke makes it, he could provide the size. A good group for Daboll to work with now. OL: B/B+ It's safe to say the additions of Morse, Ty, Long, and feliciano outweigh the losses of Groy, Miller, Mills, and (most likely) Bodine. The line is improved with the addition of Morse alone (B grade), and the higher grade will depend on how much better the others are. TE: B Solid pick of an all around player at position of need. While he had everyone focused on James, Kroft may have been the target all along. Other: B+ Adding competition at CB with a former R1 pick was a solid move. I'm in the camp that believes signing Gore sent a message that Buffalo is a place to be. Overall grade: A- Filling needs so they can go bpa in the draft, judicious use of the cap space, and contracts that provide ample room to sign their own in the near future is damn good work.

Every time I see this thread my eyes see "Jose". It might help if mongo was used instead....

Beane Talking to a friend to leverage Ansah.

Dimarco is a McD kind of guy, so I’d guess he’s staying.

Miller is a FA, ducasse im guessing will be released this week

I was thinking about this earlier as well, did it have any persuasive impact? Who knows, but I do like the idea of the Frank Shady Show...

The draft

I know this is focused on R1, but with what they've done, I think RB gets pushed up in their draft, with R3 not being out of the question.

As long as they have enough $$ left for one more OL, preferably RT.

That's why I said signing Gore and cutting Ivory is a wash.

Good point about Ivory. Capwise, it nets to $0 if they release ivory.

They were in the market for an all-purpose TE, with good blocking skills, hence the "interest" in James. Interestingly, the early rumors had them linked to James and Paradis. Good head fakes on both!

Tiberius posted this earlier. Two related ponts: one, global trading patterns are developed over time as firms make decisions on where to produce and source. Given the significant outsourcing of US production to China and Mexico, trying to change those patterns will take several years at best. Two, Given those current production and sourcing patterns, the "propensity to import" out of income is much higher for the US than the rest of the world's propensity to import US goods. As a consequence, even if the US and world incomes grow by the same rate, the US trade deficit will grow. In 2018, The US grew faster than most countries, which caused the deficit to widen even faster. Until we start making massed-produced consumption goods here, that pattern won't change. An example to help. For every $100 of income growth, the US imports $20; for the rest of the world, they import $15 of US goods for every $100. So even if income is growing at the same rate globally, the US deficit will go up--if global growth goes up by $100, US imports grow by $20 and exports by $15. if the US grows faster than the rest of the world, as happened in 2018, then the trade deficit will grow even wider. This also explains why the only time you see the trade deficit shrink is during a US recession--as income falls, our imports fall faster than our exports. Trump is a victim of his expansionary Keynesian policies last year....and bringing home production will take time.

After reading some of the AB threads on TBD, I feel like this was a really productive discussion today...

I see. We've been comparing apples to oranges. I'm talking discretionary spending, and you're adding in mandatory expenditures. If we are considering the latter, then you'd have to agree Trump is quite the Keynesian too since spending has gone up $250 billion in his first two years...

Yes, otherwise I'd say one of Bosa, Allen, or QWilliams.

Is he a 3 technique?

So now the Fed's policy is lumped in with Keynesian spending? Weird definition...(almost as bad as Austrians defining inflation as an increase in the money supply...) Also, the budget wasn't re-set by the value of the stimulus. Again, about 1/3 was tax cuts and credits, not spending; Of the nearly $500 billion spent from 2009-11, $200 billion was in transfers to states so they wouldn't have to make cuts and worsen the situation. That leaves $300 billion over a three year period, or $100 billion/year, which is < 1% of GDP each year. The main cause (about 3/4) of the significant rise in deficits in those years was the loss of tax revenue and the rise in transfer payments associated with higher unemployment and transfers to states.

I wasn't crediting him. You stated that lackluster growth during his terms proved that huge Keynesian spending policies don't work. I am simply pointing out that, while there was a temporary stimulus to help stabilize the economy, spending declined for most of the rest of his terms--there was no additional Keynesian expansion after that, and the Republicans certainly saw to this in his second term. Again, Trump has been more of a Keynesian than post-2010 Obama. I agree that ee was not a good president. Endless war and no visionary policies.

PFF's ranking: https://www.profootballfocus.com/nfl/players/wyatt-teller/46131 Interesting, if you click on the link about the Bills' Oline ranking, they had this to say about Teller:

I feel bad for the Sacklers, being tossed out of an investment fund. Well, at least they didn't die from Opioid addiction like thousands of others... https://www.wsj.com/articles/hedge-fund-tosses-family-that-controls-maker-of-oxycontin-11551985100?mod=hp_lead_pos4

What's worth defending, and what I'm defending, is the right to criticize Israel's (any country's) policies, AIPAC's undue influence, and excessive force used by Israel on Gaza protesters.

You're suggesting they shouldn't stick with the dems because a handful call out AIPAC? The majority are trying to pass anti-semitic legislation. I've said this before, why is it so difficult to understand that there are conservative and liberal Jews? Yes, we can all find posts that support our POV. We're all BMan now...

Me and a lot of self-hating Jews apparently....