Doc Brown

Jeez. Don't give them any ideas.

It's not that surprising to me because the market sentiment was pretty strong when he entered office and reached record highs after he was inaugurated. Then Trump did his bs trade crap and the markets had the worst three months since Carter was in office. It was more people of retirement age that were sweating it out as opposed to long term investors. Once Trump backed off a lot of investors took the opportunity to buy the dip. One person should not have that much power when it comes to influencing the global economy imo. Congress needs to pass legislation to regain the power of the purse when it comes to implementing tariffs.

This article was over a month ago and major indexes are not down significantly since he took office. Stock indexes (S&P, Dow, Nasdaq, etc.) are about where they were when he took office. You're right though in if he was locked in a room since inauguration and did nothing we'd pry be much better off.

At least they've got that going for them.

No. We're good. Trump told Tim Cook to stop moving Apple's operations from China to India and to the US so we can pay at least a 1/3 more. Completely in line with isolating China which I thought was the goal. Or was it bringing back crappy manufacturing jobs to the US? Guy knows what he's doing. President's should regularly lecture private company CEO's too.

That can't be the plan though because there's no guarantee one would be available. I would've absolutely traded a 2nd and a 5th for DK Metcalf and paid him the same amount. A strong offensive line, a strong running game, and then allowing Coleman to develop as a WR2 with Shakir/Kincaid as slot threats. Talk about opening up an offense. We saw what an aging Amari Cooper did like you mentioned in the Chiefs game. There's a reason Beane went on WGR to chastise the hosts about WR's. He wanted to change the narrative because he's failed at drafting day 1 or 2 WR talent starting in 2021 imo. Now we have to pay WR's more than they're worth in free agency (Samuel, Palmer) or hope Elijah Moore can somehow break out in year 5. Beane does a lot of things right. WR seems to be his blind spot though imo..

How sustainable is that though? The problems is when the run game isn't rolling and we get far behind against a good defense we get stat lines from Allen of 9 of 30 for 131 yards or 16 of 29 for 180 yards. Guys just aren't getting open. Josh starts to press and some of his bad tendencies come back. People point to the loss of Shakir but that shows how little talent/depth we had at the position. I think you're correct and we may be WR hunting again during the season. I know it is. Congratulations. You suck less than we thought because our QB has become Houdini at avoiding negative plays because our WR's can't get open.

I was more responding to this belief that we're just so far way from the Chiefs and we'll never get by Mahomes. We lost by what? Six in OT, three, and three against them two of the last three years. Does that narrative even start if Gabe catches the TD with 9 seconds left instead of 13? I wish we added more true play makers on offense but upgrading the defense even a little could do the trick. That's assuming the Chiefs are more in our heads than they are the player's.

Don't know what you're talking about man. I hope they prepare better for the actual games. Can't believe that was almost 20 years ago.

They're taking lost yardage due to sacks into account which lowers the passing yards of every team. Bills lost the fewest amount of yards due to sacks so we went from 17th in overall passing yards to 9th in passing yards and yards loss due to sacks. Shows the importance of avoiding negative plays which is why I argued for Josh winning the MVP besides the fact that I'm a homer.

Wow. I didn't know Justin Fields was that big of a draw.

Or we just squib kick it. It's funny how one simple stupid decision can dramatically impact narratives and legacies.

Vegas projections are more in vogue now when looking at schedule. Bills have the 5th easiest schedule based on projected over/under win totals. It obviously could be misleading but it takes the off-season into account.

Checks out over a month later.

Just the type of players they drafted/signed in free agency and the hiring of Nielsen makes me think McBeane had the same autopsy. Bringing in different minds to attack a problem is never a bad idea. I was hoping that Lou Anarumo would be hired in a similar role but he obviously took the d-coordinator spot with the Colts. It's going to be intriguing to see how much this defense sways from the McDermott system this year.

Funny but a bit choppy. It's like they never bothered to practice.

We got T. White, Dawkiins, and Milano in the 2017 draft and signed Poyer and Hyde that off-season before Beane got here. That's what, 4 all pros at one point and a perennial Pro Bowler in Dawkins? Plus, Beane was coming in with two first rounders before he even made the Watkins trade for a 2nd. I'm not saying he wasn't behind the eight ball in 2018 but I don't think he was that far behind.

A lot of RB's see that 2nd contract as their last one and stop doing the little things that require extra effort because they got paid. Henry works his butt off in the off-season and is Tom Brady like with his diet. He's just built differently.

My man. He's only a RB. It's not like we're dealing with a Trey Hendrickson like contract dispute.

The cap hit with Barkley was only $3.8m too last year just looking it up. I'm even more of a never pay Cook guy now.

Before last here, here's the previous 10 Super Bowl winner's leading RB that season and their cap hit that season. Isiah Pacheco (2023 Chiefs) - $889k Isiah Pacheco (2022 Chiefs) -$725K Sony Michel (2021 Rams) -$1.7M Ronald Jones (2020 Buccaneers) -$1.9M Damien Williams (2019 Chiefs) $1.7M Sony Michel (2018 Patriots) -$1.8M LeGarrette Blount (2017 Eagles) -$1.3M LeGarrette Blount (2016 Patriots) -$1.0M Ronnie Hillman (2015 Broncos) -$943K Jonas Gray (2014 Patriots) - $273K Barkley was the outlier. Causation doesn't equal correlation but it's hard to deny this trend when it comes to thinking of paying a RB a top of the market contract. It's just smarter to spend money on other premium positions.

Not me. It drives the franchise tag up on Cook next year if we want to squeeze one more year out of him. The way our o-line is running right now you could draft a replacement in the 2nd or 3rd round that gives you at least 90% (maybe more) of what Cook gives you right now on a rookie deal. There isn't a highly paid back across the league that takes less than 50% of the snaps who you can't trust to pass block.

It's definitely risky but the guy's built different.

It was a joke.

Good call. Might be BS.