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https://www.nfl.com/news/chris-jones-new-one-year-deal-with-chiefs-worth-up-to-25-million-kansas-city-has Deal is worth up to $25 million. Looking at the incentives, unless he’s injured he should easily hit the first 2, making the contract likely worth at least $21.5M. He might be able to hit the 10 sack incentive, which would push the contract value up to $22.75M. The last $3.5M in incentives will be harder to hit and depend more on the chiefs as a whole. Chiefs also retain the ability to tag him. So he’s really not getting that much more.

So it was already investigated, both Terry and Kim denied that he ever said it and nobody else at the dinner remembered Terry saying it either.

But he’s not claiming Pegula said this to him. The lawsuit claims some other unidentified reporter claimed that Pegula said it to him/her and that unidentified reporter repeated it to Trotter.

That is what I thought at first. But re-reading it, I think they are claiming that the comment was said to one reporter and that reporter repeated it on the zoom meeting.

Holy crap.

Man, Josh… 🤦‍♂️

Offense hasn’t been bad but it just doesn’t seem to be fully clicking yet. But they do have a bunch of new guys this year. 3 new starting linemen. 2 new starting WR’s. New rookie TE starting. New RBs. Hopefully it’ll come together though.

Great play by Milano but he can’t taunt like that afterwards. Dumb flag.

Bills defense still susceptible to big runs. 🤬 Come on. Hold ‘em to a field goal!

Offense definitely not clicking quite yet. Hopefully they improve as the game goes on.

What in the **** was that Allen?! He could’ve easily scrambled for a first.

Saleh is lucky the refs stopped him from wasting a challenge. Seems a bit unfair. If he doesn’t know the rules that’s on him.

I am wondering the same thing myself. I don’t know what it means by “select plus subscribers”. I can’t figure out what package that is. I went to the spectrum site and I don’t see a package called “select plus”. I have the TV select package and I added on the sports package and the premium movie channel package. I’m hoping that means I have select plus. I’ll try to remember to let you know once I figure it out. Feel free to send me a private message in a few days if I forget.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/disney-charter-near-carriage-deal-that-would-end-cable-blackout-sources-say.html Nice! looks like this might have worked out decent for me as a spectrum customer!

A local 49ers beat reporter said that according to a team source the Bills made an offer and the cowboys beat it. https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-trey-lance-trade-offer-rumors-dallas-cowboys-san-francisco-niners-josh-allen-backup-quarterbacks

Hey, thanks for the tip! I just grabbed peacock premium free for a year through spectrum. 😁

Bengals QB Joe Burrow wants to keep him and WRs Tee Higgins, Ja'Marr Chase together: 'We're working to make that happen' https://sports.yahoo.com/bengals-qb-joe-burrow-wants-to-keep-him-and-wrs-tee-higgins-jamarr-chase-together-were-working-to-make-that-happen-204120421.html So much for that… lol

I am not by any means trying to argue that Mike Brown is an intelligent owner. I’d say he’s near the bottom of the list of good owners. But I guess I’m just failing to see how you think Burrows contract hurts Mike Brown’s bottom line, or why you think this makes him insane? Besides having to guarantee the money, I would say it’s a big win for Mike Brown’s pocket book. The Bengals are quickly becoming a popular national team with Burrow at QB and have made the AFC championship game twice and the super bowl once in burrow’s 3 years as the starter. That’s more revenue for Mike Brown. I would say he is making more profit by paying Burrow, considering how much he’s already helped the bengals popularity and playoff revenue. And what was his alternative? Refuse to guarantee Burrow the market rate, tag him twice and let him walk? Why would they do that to their beloved star franchise QB who wants to spend his entire career in Cincinnati?

Ok, say he didn’t use any tricks or deductions and paid the full 24% federal tax rate + 4% Ohio tax rate (which seems unlikely since multi millionaires often only pay a small fraction of that) - he’d still have made about $270 million last year from the bengals. So, still as much as Burrow will make over the next 5 years. And NFL profits continue to rise almost every year. So Brown will probably make more than 5x what Burrow will over that 5 year span. So the owner of one of the least profitable NFL teams (2nd least iirc) is making 5x more than the highest paid NFL player. All of this is kind of missing the point of my post though. There is a salary cap ceiling/floor and every team spends a similar amount of total money on players every season. The cap is tied to NFL profits and each team has to spend a percentage of the cap every season. So if they give one massive deal and 52 tiny ones, they’re still spending a similar amount of money to other teams.

Just to put this deal into perspective - The total amount of Burrow’s 5 year deal is less than an NFL owner makes in a single season. The Bengals owner spent $89 million in 2022 in operating expenses and made $462 million. So just shy of $375 million in profit. In a single year. In the NFL there is a salary cap ceiling and floor (every team has to spend to at least 89% of the cap in a 4yr period). Every team decides how to spend that allotted money. Even teams without a big QB contract on their books are spending a similar amount of total money on players.

$219 million guaranteed. The most guaranteed money Mike Brown had ever given out prior to this was $31 million for Orlando Brown Jr. in March. Before that was $30M to Carson Palmer way back in 2005. The Bengals have been extremely stingy on guarantees. Mike Brown obviously had no choice in this case. But that’s like $250 million in guarantees just this year. They also have Chase coming due for a new deal. They're going to have to give him some hefty guaranteed money too. I believe that guaranteed money has to be put in the bank up front. I know Bengals have been spending more in recent years, but I’m still curious to see if this deal has any effect on the way they operate, at least in the next few years. Is Mike Brown going to be willing to keep spending like he has?

Ballsy call by Campbell doing a fake punt from inside their own 20 on the 2nd drive of the game. Great drive by the lions offense after that fake punt.

umm… so in other words it’s already against the law to drive around smoking weed and you’d face consequences if caught? 😂 any cannabis sold by a legal dispensary has to pass very strict tests for pesticides, mold, mildew, bugs, microorganisms, heavy metals, residual solvents, etc. https://cannabis.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2023/01/ocm-testing-limits.pdf thats one of the major advantages of legalized cannabis. Now, buying cheap bulk cannabis on the illicit market? Yes, there are absolutely growers who use poison on their plants to treat all sorts of things (powdery mildew, mite outbreaks, viruses, etc). And with cannabis being an accumulator plant (it can pull + store heavy metals from the soil. Hemp has been used around the globe for centuries to remediate soil) it’s important that you know the grower wasn’t using nutrients with heavy metals in them. All reasons why legalization is safer.

Yep. I already have an antenna hooked up to my TVs as a backup so worst case I’ll switch to the over the air broadcast for the Bills game. OTA is usually as good of quality as the cable broadcasts. this only works if you are in market obviously.