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Regardless of what should and should not be the law, he was convicted of a crime and given probation with certain conditions. He's a criminal. Laws tighten for criminals on probation and he violated the laws that were explicitly given to him. Whether or not pot should be legal or illegal, Rice isn't a normal citizen. He's a convicted criminal. If his condition was that he would go to jail for 30 days if he were pulled over for running a stop sign and he did it, then he should be punished by the NFL as well because he's violating the laws society thrust upon him because of his own previous wrongdoings.

He violated probation and is being put in jail. How the hell does that not violate the NFL's personal conduct policy? If Rice doesn't get some kind of an NFL suspension, the Chiefs have Goodell in their back pocket.

Exactly... this is the more important point. This was the season the Bills were going to play 8 at home and 9 on the road. We were going to run into rough road sections no matter what. The fact that the Bills have a definitive rest advantage against 5 Conference opponents and the only rest disadvantages are 1 day against 2 Conference scrubs. Title of thread should be changed: Schedule seems strangely favorable

Joe Marino's breakdown Honestly... our schedule is pretty incredibly awesome as far as rest advantages go.

Are ticket sales already going for that game? That's the game I'm going to be back in NY for and am planning on going to with friends.

How exactly can you say it's objectively a bad matchup for us without saying the Texans are a bad matchup for everyone? And if the Texans are a bad matchup for everyone, I would 100% rather get them in the opening game of the season when they don't have anything on you on film and you're going into the game healthy. I also disagree that they're a bad matchup. I think when you look at this game our D matches up very well against their O and our O going into this game, as I said before, will have 2 added dynamic weapons they didn't have last year and will also have a healthy Dion Dawkins and Spencer Brown. No NFL game is a cakewalk, but some of the fearmongering over a week 1 matchup against Houston is a little silly.

Our D can very much surprise them. And on offense we'll be going into the game with a healthy (please God for game 1!!!) Dalton Kincaid and DJ Moore. Neither of those players were playing against the Texans last year in Houston and those 2 players may own the top 2 target shares of the team in 2026.

Or we go in there with a brand new offense and upgraded weapons and keep the Texans completely on their heels for an entire game because they're completely unprepared for what we're going in there with.

I actually love the idea of playing Houston as our opening game. The Bills will have a completely new D that isn't on film and our offense is going to also potentially be pretty new and have the completely upgraded WR corps. Plus... everyone will be healthy. I'm more unhappy about the short week to open at home after a cross country road game, but I guess one could also argue that being the very beginning of the season and the opening game the Bills could come out of this Houston game fresher than they would have if they played them in the middle of the season. But seriously... why are people freaking out with opening at Houston? I could see us thrashing them given all the unknowns we're going in there with.

I actually like the idea of a Thanksgiving night game. I really don't want a Christmas game.

Ummmm.... I'm fine.... why? Did you think my questions were unreasonable or illogical? You didn't "simply post..." what Parrino said... you gave it weight and credibility.

Less than a 2 minute interview where he's being bombarded with questions and people have issues with the way he handled it... Sheesh!!! What do you even know about that one practice that was reported by that one reporter? Do you know how much he concentrated on him? Do you know how much time the reporters were given to watch the practice? Do you know the types of plays being practiced or whether he was even in those plays? If he's not signed to the 90 man roster, whatever? If he is, the coaching staff clearly sees something.

That was only from the day 1 media portion. To be fair... a lot was made about one of his drops posted on X, but after Skyler Bell's interview we know he struggled with drops (I think 3...?) as well. The news to me would more be about whether they sign him to the 90 man roster.

Did the Bills sign any tryout players?

When does the minicamp start? Today or tomorrow?