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I only buy knockoffs. I've had good luck most of the time except for a 50th anniversary Dahlin sweater where the gold trim looks like garland. My Paul Posluszny jersey isn't great either. The rest are good to great.
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7 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
What was the goal? That’s why it’s weirdo the Steelers were like, “we will take a CB upgrade and a TE upgrade in exchange for our 2nd best player (who is 27).” It’s weird. If you’re pushing your chips in, you deal draft picks. I don’t really understand it for Miami either. They were like, “we will trade our only outside CB and our only TE for a great safety.” It’s weird
The goal is do their best to pretend like they have a championship team while they made the move for Rodgers. Fitzpatrick, while their best secondary player, has fallen off the last couple of years from impact plays, and safety isn't as valuable as corner, and adding Smith adds a potential weapon on offense where the cupboard is a bit bare.
Ramsey and Fitzpatrick could wash out for them depending on what they do at S.3 hours ago, Florida Bills Fanatic said:It looks like Ross has the Fins teeing things up to start a major rebuild next off season. It's looking like a bad season, a high draft position, and creation of cap room. Their fans down here are increasingly apoplectic regarding this season. I expect a Tyreek meltdown as he sees the writing on the wall. There are some people down here that believe Tua will be shipped out next year in favor of a new guy on a rookie contract. I'm not sure that anyone would take Tua and his contract but I could be wrong. In any event, I glad that it's not the Bills dealing with any of this.
If Tua became available, I think there would be a heavy market for him. He's a player you can win with. He probably can't win it all, but he's better than a lot that's out there.
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29 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
Weird trade. Fitzpatrick was the best player traded. Miami gave up 2 good players. This was a Madden trade
How is that weird? Seems close to equal value when you consider the cap dump.
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Damn. Fitzpatrick could have been a missing piece for us. Would have loved to see a 3 way trade here.
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The NFL is far more likely to ruin their own game by way of rule and format changes due to their own greed, than sports betting is, IMO.
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On 6/25/2025 at 9:29 PM, Beck Water said:
Anthony Prohaska and the Cover1 guys say "Hi"
Whether you like them or not, separate issue, but they're not 60+ and don't have grey beards
Matt Parrino and Ryan Talbot more fluff and less technical but also not 60+ with grey beards
Cover 1 is like if Chris Brown ran a football deep-dive show.
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Mostly true. A deep-pocketed new owner might not blink at an $850 million penalty.
It means that a significant number of Canadian fans don't want to risk a bad scene crossing the border. The 15-20% decline is verified.
Keep in mind hockey isn't like football where games are once a week and usually played on Sunday. Hockey games happen on work nights. So you count on fans that live within 45 minutes to come out on a work night. If you're Canadian, do you want to risk getting hung up for hours, if not longer?
It's a giant leap you're making between a small reduction in retail tourism, to ticketed events. Even if we use the 13% decline in regular crossing and attribute that directly to the 7-10% of ticket holders from Canada. We're still talking virtual no one. That's like 150 people. The bigger issue is attendance as a whole. Win, and the tickets will go to Canadians or Americans.
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19 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
What does that have to do with the Sabres "loss of Canadian fans"?
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6 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
The loss of Canadian fans makes the Sabres small market even smaller. They are not in a good place right now and for anyone wanting Terry to sell, be ready to say bye-bye to the Sabres. No one is spending a billion just to keep the team in Buffalo.
Why is there a loss of Canadian fans?
Could not possibly disagree more that the Sabres are going to leave. I'd put the odds at low single digits. They're one of the most historic non-original six teams in a great hockey market, who have recently hosted the draft, World Junior championships, etc. It doesn't matter what a prospective owner would want. It's up to the league, and the continent is out of viable hockey markets. -
I'm excited to see the draft class additions. Last year I believed we were two years away from being able to compete for a SB. I still think we're a year away, but I kind of have a drought-era mindset where I'm allowing myself to dream that if Hairston and Jackson have big rookie years and one of Ogunjobi or Sanders is able to provide a significant upgrade next to Oliver that just maybe we have a chance.
On offense, I'd love to see a bounce back year from Kincaid, Palmer finally delivering on the multi-year hype train, and Coleman taking meaningful progress towards being the "open when he's covered" player the Bills have been chasing most of the last 20 years.
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12 hours ago, Mango said:
To no surprise to most Terry has started to pull out of Rochester.
First he renegotiated his lease at Blue Cross Arena shortly after signing it. Pegula claimed it was purely business. Dissolving PSE after Kim fell ill. Saying it had nothing to do with moving on from either team
Then he actually pulled out of operating the arena. Pegulas team said that the teams wer safe and he was just out of the arena management game.
Now his other NLL team is for sale.
Buckle up folks, because the Sabres are on their way out. And if Terry doesn't hand the Bills off before he can run them into the ground they're on their way as well.
The Sabres are in no way "on the way out". It's regularly one of the strongest markets in the country for viewership despite a lousy franchise. I don't see any scenario in which the league would permit a move.
New ownership? Sure, and it would be welcome.
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He could either be a part time realtor right now or a HOF QB with hundreds of millions of dollars at 46. Seems like a very good trade. Where can I sign up?
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5 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
Yes but that's not always the case
John elway one of his two super bowls with shanahan in the West Coast offense.. and elway had the ability to play on script or he was the best improviser of his time
They switched offensive philosophy after winning the first one?
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It's a shame he took the bag with the Jets instead of going to a decent organization. He was just a shade under a Hall of Fame caliber player in his prime with the Ravens.
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1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:
Singletary was a legit starter. 25th, 25th, 16th, 26th in the league in rushing on a team (1) with mediocre run blocking, (2) where the QB was gaining 600+ yards a year on the ground and (3) that featured the pass once they got Diggs. The Bills may have hoped for more, but he gave what they expected to get.
Moss, they missed on.
Moss went on to perform well with Indy.
5 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
You get to retain said player on roster when original contract is over.Great, so see my original point that having Cook here on a deal deal wasn't a significant difference maker, and now add in the opportunity cost of losing out on other players due to his increased cap hit.
The only way paying cook makes sense is if other players on cheap deals around him step up the point where we have no real holes, and maintaining the status quo at RB is the optinal move vs gambling on the draft or trading for/signing a better player. -
7 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
The Moss class was a shallow RB class with some high end guys but not much depth (another problem with spending a high value asset on him). But the Singletary class there are guys after him who have had some production in the league: Damien Harris, Justice Hill, Tony Pollard, Myles Gaskin our own "best 3rd down back in football" Ty Johnson. And then the next two drafts after the Moss draft... Khalil Herbert, Kenneth Gainwell, Chuba Hubbard, Rhamondre Stevenson, Isiah Pacheco, Kyren Williams, Dameon Pierce, Tyler Allgeier etc....
If you are spending a day 2 pick on a guy you better be getting me a guy who is a cut above that company. And Singletary and Moss were not and never had the skillsets to be.
Did you read what you just wrote or what I wrote?
Singletary is MILES above guys like Damien Harris (out of football), Justice Hill, and Myles Gaskin(13 carries in the last 3 years). Which one of those guys would you have preferred?
In 2020 when the bills drafted Moss, you could have had your pick of:
Darrynton EvansJoshua Kelley
Lamical Perine
Anthony McFarland
DeeJay Dallas
Jason HuntleyLions
Eno BenjaminCardinals
Raymond Calais
Which one of those guys did you want? Moss has had a better career than any of them, and it's not close. For a guy that spends as much time analyzing the draft as you do, it's odd to me how unaware you are of the value of 3rd round plus RBs7 hours ago, GunnerBill said:If you are spending a day 2 pick on a guy you better be getting me a guy who is a cut above that company. And Singletary and Moss were not and never had the skillsets to be.
No team has reliably done that in the last decade. Why would you expect Beane to reliably hit on a 10% (or less) chance?
3 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:They really should’ve took the money they gave WR Palmer and just gave it to Cook. I’m not a fan of paying RBs either, but Buffalo is in “win now” mode. I don’t want to waste another Josh Allen prime year by starting a player like Ray Davis who MIGHT be a suitable replacement. The Bills need to go into 2025 with every possible weapon at their disposal. A 1000+ yard/18 TD RB is not as easy of a replacement as some people think. If we were a rebuilding team then I would be all for letting Cook walk.
How does paying a guy already on your roster a big raise help you "win now"? I like Palmer, but I think they grossly overpaid for him. Still, he adds value that wasn't here before. Does James Cook? Maybe they think having a Saquon/Henry type makes more sense than having a Cook type back.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
They have both started. And been quickly relegated to the bench. If you are going for such low value positions in the first three rounds I expect actual starting level talents. And neither of those guys were.
That's a wildly unreasonable expectation. Looking at draft history, you're lucky to get 2 starting caliber players from rounds 3+, and both Singletary and Moss were that. In Singletary's class in 2019, 20 RBs were drafted after him and only one, Tony Pollard, has been better. In Moss' class in 2020, 8 RBs were taken after him and he's the best of that group.
90%+ of the time you're getting an RB that is a career backup when you draft in the 3rd+ in the last 10 years. They don't put up the 150+ yard games that both Singletary and Moss have. Make no mistake, I'm not saying they're great, but you're grossly misrepresenting their ability and achievements in comparison to their peers.
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5 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
I'm glad you guys are having fun talking about who could make that play, but that really isn't the question. The question is whether the totality of what Cook contributes could be obtained in free agency for less than Cook wants. I think the answer to that is probably yes.
As do I, and that's a point I was trying to make. You don't need a player to make a given play most of the time, if he can be as effective in totality.
3 hours ago, GunnerBill said:If they knew what they were getting with Singletary and Moss and STILL spent day 2 picks on them that is a fireable offence.
How? What exactly are you expecting of 3rd round players? Both of those guys have started in this league and have had monster games from time to time. Not sure what more you're looking for there.
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39 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:
Yes, I realize that and 3x $5 mill is a great deal different that 6-8x 5 mill. Math does matter.
As to someone earning a huge raise, (which Cook has), what do you think Shakir is getting or Benford or Benard? Shakir's raise for 2026 is nearly 3x his 2025 and his 2027 cap hit is over 5x his 2025. Benford's 2026 is 3x his 2025 and his 2027 is nearly 8x his 2025. Bernard? 2.5x in 2026 and 4.5X in 2027.
Obviously paying Cook a 3x raise is similar to the other similarly situated players on the Bills.
We all understand that you don't want to pay Cook. We get it. However once you start saying Singletary is a reasonable substitute for Cook your credibility suffers.
I didn't realize he was making over $5m This year. I knew his entire rookie deal was under $6M so not sure how he got such a big raise.
I could understand how you might think my credibility would suffer if I said singletary was a "reasonable substitute" for cook. I guess It's a good thing I never said that then.1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:Singletary doesn't have the vision or change of direction of Cook. There is zero chance he makes that play. Zero.
I disagree. Watch the highlight clip I shared at 0:34. It's a similar play that Singletary scores on.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
The Bills are not trading him at this point. Save for like a Saquan type guy going down in camp and the Eagles deciding they gotta make a move and overpaying. There was a point where a trade was on the table between the parties as an option but that has passed.
And Cook is going to be here and play.
Zero point zero point zero per cent chance.
His two touchdown plays were great here. Maybe people think that James cook play was more special than I do. It wouldn't crack my top 50 and I'm not certain it would crack my top 100 runs of the year across the league. If I'm not a Bills fan, it's just a nice play assisted by the safety dropping his head.
14 hours ago, Mikie2times said:His athleticism is what allowed the play to happen. For 15 million dollars this team will not find a player that will make as big of an impact as Cook will. If you don't agree with that statement I get it. That's how these things go. I think he's a 12 million dollar guy and not 15. But I keep getting stuck on reflecting on my own financial situations over time. A lot of the time 10% would have secured my highest motivation as it showed a belief in me. I have gotten it at times and not in others. In the end the cost to the employer was a very dedicated high performing employee over a fraction of what the likely replacement and training costs would be. I see the gap from 10 to 15 million with Cook as a fairly similar situation which is where I really wonder just how much more we would get with 5 million dollars?
See, i don't even advocate paying him 10 when you can get that talent on a rookie deal for $1-2M. A lot of folks around here believe that we would have wont he SB in 2021 had we beaten KC. if that had come to pass, Devin Singletary would have been our starting RB. having James Cook hasn't been the thing that put us over the edge. He's not that big of a difference by himself.
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36 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:
What? You do realize he is making 5+ this season?
You do realize the whole discussion is about him asking for $15M and us talking about if the Bills should give him that?
56 minutes ago, HappyDays said:I mean this is just stretching to find reasons not to compliment the player. KC's defense had the play sniffed out and perfectly covered. None of the RBs you mentioned would come close to making that play.
There is a phenomenon happening amongst certain Bills fans where they're making the jump from "we shouldn't pay Cook" to "Cook isn't that good." There are plenty of reasonable arguments for why Cook shouldn't be extended - his position, his snap count, his 3rd down %, etc. You can make those arguments without making irrational comparisons to Singletary and the like. Any discussion about extending Cook should acknowledge the fact that if you don't extend him you are losing some of the great individual plays he made last year.
No, it isn't each of those players are capable of amazing plays and monster games and have done so. I'm not taking a thing away from Cook. It was a great football play, but that's exactly what is was - a football play. It wasn't a "James Cook" play the way that Derrick Henry stiff arming someone into oblivion is.
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5 hours ago, Mikie2times said:
What 15-20 running backs are going to make this play? Is Devin Singletary going to do it? Zack Moss? That is what replacement level is. If you don't pay him what will you do with the money? Go get a 10 million dollar RB and a back up corner? How about we scrap that plan and target a WR with all of that. Josh Palmer is about what we can get.
If you trust Beane to land an offensive difference maker with that money so be it, but to replace him with a replacement level back (which Davis and Johnson are) then assume your money lands you a difference maker that is even close to what he did for us last year is fools gold.
What is it about that play that distinctly James Cook? It's a great football play, but I don't think there's any particularly unique skill that he has that enabled him to do that. It's not like it's a signature move. Could I see Singletary or Moss making that play? Absolutely. I could see Ty Johnson making it too. Derick Henry? Probably not. He'd just run straight through the guy instead.
There are a lot of ways RBs can add value above replacement without having to replicate a given play, too. Maybe Barkley scores on 1st down, so you don't even need to have a hero pitch. If you look at the top 15 backs int he league, there's a ton of talent there. I don't think Cook does anything terribly special to stand atop most os them. There's also a new crop of rookies that will likely insert themselves in that group too.
As for what I'd do with the money, I'd spend it on basically any other position but RB or special teams. We'll likely need to make a serious investment at safety next year, whether that's in the 1st/2nd round or FA. The same goes for EDGE, and possibly WR. Maybe Elijah Moore resurrects his career and we want to keep him? The only way I'm giving a RB $15M a year is if he can carry the entire team on his back with Trubisky under center.-
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On 6/14/2025 at 2:03 AM, Sierra Foothills said:
Final thought... there are plenty of posters here who want to go "all-in" to win a Super Bowl and cite actions such as trading for DJ Metcalf etc. If you want to go all-in to win a Super Bowl, how about simply paying James Cook a few more million dollars?
so you're supporting paying a guy 6-8 x more than hes making right now, when he's not contributing enough to put us over the edge on a sub $3M deal? That just makes it harder to take the next step. there are 15-20 guys that could give us what James Cook is giving us. Here's good - very good even, but he isn't special. He's replaceable, and I'd sooner draft another couple guys + bring in some UDFAs and find fresh legs than pay a hefty second contract to an RB. There are far bigger priorities.
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Optimistic vs Realistic Expectations
in The Stadium Wall
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Realistic: AFC Div Champ - Lose to KC/Bal in Division or AFCCG
Optimistic - SB Appearance