BullBuchanan

Elite TEs don't exactly grow on trees. There have been a handful of those guys over the last 20 years. It doesn't stop teams from trying, though.

Ah yes, ad hominems - the desperate flail of a defeated man. I already gave you the research. Do with it what you will.

This is a very, very good thing for everyone besides people (very few) that derive their wealth from a growing population.

Why not? It's not like going to the Super Bowl is a normal every day thing for people to do anyway. Does it really matter if it's in Phoenix or London? If you plan on going, you still have to fly, get a hotel, etc.

No, it really doesn't. I indicated why. It's not about whether or not positions flop int he draft, it's what it means to flop. Moving on... I'm also glad they didn't sign Gabe, but that's because I view him as a one-trick pony and a liability in our offense. I wasn't opposed to paying Diggs, and I wouldn't be opposed to paying a guy like Aiyuk or Higgins. I was however strongly against the Hardy signing last year, because again one trick pony who wasn't that good at the one trick. I like the Samuel deal as I think he's a better player than Davis on a much cheaper deal. If we still had a guy like Diggs, then signing a guy like Samuel for medium money while drafting a potential #2 behind him is an ideal way to hedge your bet. Unfortunately, that isn't really our situation as we're missing a #1. As for Miami, they're in an enviable position of having two #1s right now. They could have let Waddle walk, but then they would need to spend a premium pick on the position next year with a prayer that it works out. Instead, they'll pay him now, and most likely look to move on from hill in the near future and try to backfill a #2 instead - which is a much better position to be in at the position than where Buffalo is right now.

I guess you could, but in this case you're trying to justify it for a receiver and I'm providing a counter argument why it's wrong. WRs might have the most severe bust result in the league. There are guys that are drafted very high that don't even get on the field in a pro career. Guys that generate less than 1000 yards combined on a 4 year deal before they wash out of the league. These aren't isolated cases either - they happen constantly. Yea, it really hurts when QBs bust, but they rarely bust so hard they don't even produce something for you and they usually get a multi-year shot. You get one every couple of years (Lynch, Rosen, Kizer(2nd), Hackenberg(2nd)). You have WRs drafted in the 2nd round as recently as two-three years ago that might already be done having not hit top 100 yardage numbers in any season. That's really bad, like worse than Johnny Manziel bad.

Well, on one hand you have a guy in Gabe Davis who has 1600 yards and 14 TDs over the last two seasons, and on the other you have guys like John Metchie, Tyquan Thornton, D'Wayne Eskridge and a whole host of other guys most people don't even remember are in the league. If you need a guy to be your #2 and you need it to work, you go out and get the guy who's already shown he can play. If you can afford wasting a #2 on one of those guys or even a Chase Claypool/Skyy Moore/KJ Hamler, etc then maybe you take the risk that a draft pick will come in and be immediately successful.

I don't care at all, and I don't think It'll have any material impact on the game except perhaps being brought up in the news cycle by pearl clutchers and cults. It was easy to gamble online before it was legal/sponsored and I still use the same offshore places because they offer better deals and it isn't legalized in Texas.

Buffalo needed a miracle to make the playoffs last year and Miami needed a similar miracle to collapse the way they did. We both lost a number of key pieces this season, but Miami is at least returning one of the top offenses in the league that should be at minimum equal to last season's talent level. The Bills are looking to replace two of their top 3 weapons on offense without premium prospects or FA additions. I guess it's possible that they're a better offensive unit than they were last year, but it's a massive gamble.

I mean, "right quarterback" for what? Winning a Super Bowl? There are probably 28 starting QBs in the league right now that will never do that. What quarterback is just going to drop in their lap that's gonna do that for them? Before you try to win a Super Bowl, you have to be a winning team, and they've been that under Tua and then some. I though the kid would be a joke at the NFL level, but when he's been healthy he's been pretty good. He's not a top 3 guy or anything, but he's a top 10 player for sure. If there's a top QB available in next year's draft, there's virtually nothing they could do to get him and in an attempt to do so, they'd alienate Tua and have to go all-in on an unknown entity. It would also push Hill and Mostert to the end of their prime and they'd have to start all over again. At a certain point, you just have to commit with what you've got accepting your chances are lower than what you'd like or just blow everything up and end up with no chance for years.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

He won't be Top 5 for very long with a ton of new contracts about to hit. The deal will look pretty reasonable by this time next year. Those top 4 will all eclipse him.

Not since the fentanyl crisis. I guess people think math and facts are crazy these days.

Already have.

More people just means the same amount of resources split between more people. Sustainable Population studies hypothesize we're already over-populated by 2.5-3X of the optimal number.

When your goal is to win 9 or 10 games to back into the playoffs there's a lot more to talk about than when your goal is to win a Super Bowl by using the same strategy every year (that hasn't shown results in 5 years of trying). When you're just trying to make it, every game matters, you can dissect your own roster, other team's rosters, the schedule,etc and try to find a way to steal a big game here and there to make the dream come true. We worry endlessly about how we'll do in the division. Journalists have all these things to talk about too, so there's more offseason content talking about all these things. Instead, we know we're favorites to make the playoffs, so nothing that happens from March-December is that interesting. The entirety of the season boils down to 3-4 games in late January and February.

How could I not be dead serious? Bringing any amount of kids into the world is already an extremely selfish exercise. When you decide that you aren't satisfied with 1,2 or 3 but need 10+ what does that say about you and what does it say to your other kids? There's no physical means for you to give them the time they need each day or week. If you have 6 hours a day when you aren't working, they aren't in school, and awake that's ~30m a day per kid if you spend 100% of your free time hanging out with them.There's no possible way to raise that many people at the same time giving each one of them your best effort for setting them up to achieve their maximum potential and be well adjusted. That isn't even taking into account bringing 10 new human into a world that can't physically support them or ignoring the 3 million kids in foster care/orphanages who need a good home because you want to breed your own designer kids. It's just not well adjusted, sane behavior, regardless of wealth.

he's not playing for a vet minimum deal, and i wouldn't want to pay him anything significant and then have Miller steal his reps.

nah Rivers is a whackjob too. If you need a convoy to travel with your kids, you have a problem. No one's DNA is that special.

He's got 10 kids at age 30 including 4 in the last year. I'm doubting he slows down any time soon. Dude will need every cent he can get.

Well, at the end of last season both Dell and Collins were hurt. Collins has a robust injury history. They're going all in trying to win this year, and they have as good a shot as anyone given how well they played last year and how young they are. Stroud has a chance to show the league he's a top 3 QB this year.

It'll be the same as it always is. A lot of mental weakness with undisciplined play during critical situations. They'll beat the snot out of bad-mid QBs in the regular season and likely do decent against the good ones for a top 5-10 aggregate score. Then we'll all be shocked at how they give up the big plays in January.

Why do you think they cared about fans 30 years ago? They're a corporation. All they've ever cared about was money. Sometimes they way to that money was through an appeal to fans, but the money was always the primary goal.

DE or depth CB are the only things that I think meaningfully help us here. We're currently on pace to lose the sack production that Floyd generated with no real replacement, and if either Douglas or Benford miss a snap, the dropoff will be significant if Elam hasn't improved.

I've thought this is the problem. There have been times we punted or called weak plays instead of giving Bass a 50 yarder and that's gotta hurt your self-esteem and confidence as a kicker.