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Freddie's Dead

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  1. His knee could explode, derailing his career like rg3. He'd be leaving money on the table, but guaranteeing a rather large pay day for himself. He's never had the big check.

    That's the gamble. If he signs now, he takes the short money as a hedge against injury. But if he plays well this year and stays healthy, MO' MONEY, MO' MONEY MO' MONEY!!

     

  2. I think it would be better for us to have Pitt, Cleveland and Cinci in division. It would be easy to fill the stadiums as people could drive from both Pitt and Cleveland pretty easily. It would be a better rivalry. I think the days of us being in with Miami should end. We did have a great rivalry with them and Ralph want to continue but he's gone now and that rivalry is largely done. I'd hate to leave the division with New England at the point where Brady and Belichick retire and we start beating them again. It would make more sense for us to be in with the other teams though

    This is exactly the realignment that Ralph rejected, relegating us to be the Cheats B word in the new millenium.

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    Or maybe this crusade against the Bills by lawyers seeking a payday by luring former cheerleaders with the thought of a comparably smaller payday is exactly what it looks like, and the Pegula's who have shown no such resistance to paying deserved money out, see the whole picture for what it is. If you think the Jills did this for minimum wage, you are fooling yourself. While the minimum wage laws likely apply in this case, none of them are screaming for joy, because now they are currently out of a job that promoted them into making far more than petty minimum wage.

    The case is mostly about whether the Jills were in fact employees, rather than the independent contractors that the Bills claim. I'm an independent contractor by trade, and I think that the Bills had a level of control over the Jills activities that (IMHO, IANAL) made the Jills employees. I'm very interested to see the outcome of the suit.

    The Pegulas would be opening a can of worms by doing that since the Bills contend the team had nothing to do with them directly. It was 97 Rock (WGRF) that managed the squad. Was that just a coincidence or a deliberate attempt to farm out a team function so as to insulate themselves from such a job action? That's for the courts to determine.

    I think the Bills subcontracted the Jills operation so as to insulate themselves from the cost of classifying the Jills as employees, and as you say PTR, the courts will decide.

  4. Surprised the Pegulas just didn't settle this for fair wages once they bought the team. But the Jills class action was certified last January, when the team issued this disappointing statement:

     

    "It remains our position that this case is being prosecuted by a very small number of former cheerleaders whose allegations do not accurately reflect the sentiment of all cheerleaders," the team said.

     

    They could have settled it for chump change, instead they continued the money-grubbing ways of past management. The Jills are done and gone, regardless of how their lawsuit turns out.

  5. Stevie Johnson was a good receiver. He also choked at the worst possible moments. His biggest sin though? His inability to take responsibility for his mistakes, stand up, and be a man. Pittsburgh, it was God. Jets? Miscommunication. Atlanta? He wouldn't even answer the question. Compare him to Scott Chandler after the Atlanta game. "It's on me, I have to take care of the ball." Yet the love fest laid on Stevie by the same people that trash Chandler just baffles me. Trading Stevie was addition by subtraction. He was nothing after he left, and this was one deal that the FO got right.


    I'll be here patiently waiting for the "Freddy Jackson Trade" thread, next.

    Especially since he was cut..... :ph34r:

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