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That’s exactly what it reminded me of too. 😂

There are still just as many excellent players today as back then, and I would argue they work even harder. Today’s players are in MUCH better shape compared to the 90’s players, where offseason workouts weren’t really a thing. You came to camp to get in shape. There were 90’s era players who even smoked. Today’s players have no real offseason. They train year round. So there’s no need to go back in time… I’d argue that NFL games today are about as exciting ad they’ve ever been, too.

I legitimately look forward to watching Hard Knocks every year. I tried to watch the first episode of this new season last night and ended up turning it off about 1/2 way through. It was just an Aaron Rodgers love fest. 🤮 I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any player get their ass kissed by hard knocks quite like that before. It was also a pretty boring episode from what I watched. I don’t know if I’m even going to be able to watch hard knocks this year if every episode is going to be like that.

NFL network reporting that he’s signing with Detroit.

Can someone post what they wrote about Allen going #1? I can’t read it. It’s behind a paywall.

Man, what a disaster that would’ve been if they had traded the Mahomes pick the year before, then missed out on Allen. Very thankful that didn’t happen! It still kind of hurts knowing we traded that Mahomes pick to Kansas City though. Had he gone to New Orleans at #11 i’m sure I’d feel different. But handing Andy Reid the final piece to his dynasty and knowing we have to go through them every year in the playoffs still stings if I’m being honest, at least until we are able to get past them (and Cincy too). But having Josh Allen sure makes up for it!

I worded my statement poorly but my point was that it smells like a BS front office leak to try and make Taylor look bad after he requested a trade, especially considering that just a couple days before that Jim Irsay said that the team and Taylor hadn’t even exchanged contract offers yet.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/aaron-rodgers-signed-a-seven-year-deal-with-no-voidable-years “Aaron Rodgers signed a 7 year deal with no voidable years”

This coming out right after the reports he requested a trade is very suspicious. makes it seem like a leak from the team/owner (assuming this tweet is even true) and I question it’s accuracy considering that it’s being reported (and more/less confirmed by Irsay) that the colts haven’t even discussed a new contract with him. Irsay just said a couple days ago (on July 27th) that “We haven’t exchanged any contract numbers with each other or anything like that. So, it's not like we're in the midst of that.” https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38085290/running-back-comment-not-aimed-jonathan-taylor

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I guess if you pay the $8/mo you get to read 50% more tweets a day or something like that. The policy seems to keep changing. But I’ve read of subscribers still having similar issues hitting rate limits. No way am I paying $8/mo for Twitter, especially in its current form (not that I’d have paid for it previously either).

Yes! It’s a PITA. I hardly even go on Twitter yet I still hit my tweet “limit” long before the 600 tweets I’m supposed to be able to read. I can’t even go back more than a few dozen tweets on my own Twitter timeline. I wanted to find a Bills tweet I shared less than 2 weeks ago but couldn’t even do that.

I saw in the foment section of Astro’s article yesterday that he didn’t have tickets for today’s practice but was working on it. I’m guessing he never found a ticket.

I had the same thought but It seems like he did actually give up guaranteed money, at least according to the ESPN article. If this is accurate, it’s very unlike Rodgers. He squeezed Green Bay for every penny. I’d be kind of pissed if I were a packers fan.

https://www.nfl.com/news/justin-herbert-chargers-agree-to-five-year-262-5-million-extension

Yes, he could only sign a 1 year deal. Teams are very limited in what they can do with franchise tagged players once the deadline to negotiate a long term deal passes (Jul. 15th or 17th). They can’t even start to negotiate a new deal now until the regular season ends. I think they just added $900k in bonuses to his franchise tag and gave him $2M of it up front.

He was their #1 C and they have nobody to replace him. Definitely a big loss. No way they can replace his production either for anything close to what he signed for last year. I don’t think they have any cap space anyway. Wonder if Krejci is coming back? There was talk as of late June that he was leaning toward retirement. If he also retires, the bruins will have lost both of their top 6 centers.

https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1679180182316535808?s=61&t=mvFwLU5P2NuqNnOmVpYtwg

Weber and Peca replacements. Paetsch was already a development coach so that makes sense. Very intrigued by the Prospal hire. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-rochester-americans-updates-hockey-operations-staff-promotions-nathan-paetsch-vinny-prospal-amerks-assistant-coaches/c-345283470?tid=281469158 There was also this buried in the press release: I guess Granato isn’t considering an assistant coach change after all.

Debrincat traded from ottawa to Detroit. Im surprised Ottawa would trade him within division, and especially for that price. Ottawa just gave up the #7 overall pick and the #37 overall pick for Debrincat 1 year ago. He wasn’t willing to extend in Ottawa so I guess they must have been getting desperate to move him. I feel like they could have got a similar package at the deadline though.

The Sabres have a crazy amount of talent in their pipeline! Rochester is going to be a fun watch over the next few+ years. Even this year with Neuchev and Novikov being added to the Amerks roster. Plus thr young guys already there like Rosen, Kulich etc. Too bad Savoie can’t play in Rochester this year.

Love this kid’s game! I’m still hyped up that we drafted him.

If what Josh Allen said was true, that McD sent Diggs home for the day, then all McDermott had to say to the media was that Diggs was excused for the day and it’s a non-story...

Yes. I actually mentioned him last offseason as someone I would be ok with the Sabres trading for. He had shown a lot of promise in spot starts for Arizona and San Jose. His save % was in the .915 range. But Vegas is also the deepest team in the NHL and play excellent team defense. They’ve been able to plug goalies in and keep winning. Buffalo has not been able to do the same. We’ve already seen UPL and Comrie play for Buffalo and we know they sucked. I keep hearing how it’s the Sabres defense but why was the 42yr old corpse of Craig Andersen able to put up better numbers than either of them behind the same crap defense? I am trying to cut UPL some slack because he is still young and it was his first full year in the NHL. But he also struggled in Rochester, so it’s not like we even have a good AHL career to base our hope for him on. He hasn’t put up a good season since Juniors. I defended UPL last offseason saying he looked good in the few NHL games he had played and it was too early to give up on him. I hoped he would establish himself as a competent starter but it didn’t happen. He looked like he did for Rochester. It’s hard to have the same faith in him again this offseason. I also gave Adams credit for the Comrie signing last offseason. I hoped he would show he could be our starter, because as you implied goalies can sometimes come out of nowhere and be good. But again, it didn’t happen.

The reports are that Hellebuyck told the Jets that he won’t sign an extension with them. https://illegalcurve.com/the-athletic-report-connor-hellebuycks-next-contract-likely-not-with-the-winnipeg-jets/ he only has 1 year left on his deal so everyone is just assuming the jets will trade him instead of losing him for nothing in a year.