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Scary good is a stretch, imo. They were busy today. They were a bad team last year, and improved. I'd still pick them for 3rd place by the end of the season.

He's a much better GM in his mind than he is here on earth. Color me not scared. What they did today reminds me too much of when the Bills used to win the offseason and end up in 3rd.

Good points, all. But I refuse to be rational. I'm looking forward to telling my Pats fan friends (and I do have 'em), "hey, you won the offseason!" And if they manage to beat us in the regular season, "Welp...you won your Super Bowl!" I'm gonna get maximum mileage out of this long-overdue role reversal.

BB has an aura about him because of his greatness as a coach - and there is no doubt about that. I think most of us agree that he's the best ever. But he has never been all that as a GM. Always has his share of head-scratching moves, and his draft record is middlin' at best. He benefitted for years from a GOAT QB taking pay cuts and having a salary below his value, and also from FA's taking pay cuts to play with that GOAT. This reminds me of drought-era Bills, or other teams that "won" the offseason with FA additions but then fizzled in the regular season. None of what they're doing concerns me right now. They still have Cam behind center.

It reminds me a lot of our drought-era FA periods. And we'd get as excited as Pats fans are on their boards today. But, without a better QB, none of it matters much.

I disagree on both counts. Judon is not GREAT. He's a very solid signing, but I'd put him at above average. And I don't see them as loaded. BB always coaches up that D regardless of who is there - but talent-wise, I wouldn't even put them in the top 10. Quite a few guys on the wrong side of 30 in that group.

Smart move. Davis really emerged, and you can't keep everyone. This really helps the cap. Gonna miss Brown, though. Such a fun player to watch when healthy. A great Bill. I'll root for him wherever he goes...

I was on the blue team.

That made for fun post-football viewing. I'm not usually following the women's draw in the Australian this closely. Great run! I'm curious where she'll be ranked now...

You had me at banana bread beer.

Winfield & Clements were only together for a few seasons, but they were one of the best CB tandems of all time, imo. We let go of too many good players in the drought. Losing good players is standard, but you can't just let everyone go.

I've gone through all of the stages with Brady, and arrived at acceptance. It's sort of liberating. 10 Super Bowls. It's an impossible achievement.

I think they were talking about how she got a new coach fairly recently. Finding the right coach can make a huge difference for a player.

Pretty cool. That was a big win at a major. The Pegulas must be stoked.

We gave up a lot for a skill player last year. Now, that skill player changed who we are in a big way - but that doesn't mean you keep repeating the pattern. We have enough on offense. The Bucs just gave us a nice blueprint to work with - shore up the D, and get some playmakers there. Build the lines.

Man, are we getting wound tight about everything. People should listen to Rodgers: RELAX.

I had higher hopes for Addison. He wasn't really a factor all year (even though I think he was our leading sacker w/ 5)....

Beane has earned 100% trust, imo. After 2 decades, he fairly quickly turned this team into a SB contender - AND he picked the right Josh. Yet we will still get tons of posts on draft day saying he should have picked this guy or that guy, and blew it...

I slept on it. I really want this to happen. Star coming back, an early round draft pick, Watt, along w/ Oliver in his 3rd year - things could look a lot different for the Bills at the front of the defense with just a few moves. He's turning 32 in March. That's still 2-3 really good years, imo. I never really buy into "injury prone," either - it seems like bad luck a lot of the time (though there are exceptions). Would love to see the headline that we got him.

Long overdue for the Go Go's and Iron Maiden. Would love to see what it would sound like if they join forces on stage at the ceremony (unlikely). The Rock HOF doesn't really have criteria - it's way too subjective. For years, deserving acts have been ignored because the inner circle there just didn't like their music.

Let's find out....

I don't really see a comparison. Watson is a nice QB and can win a lot of games. Allen is on a different level, and there really isn't a comparison when you consider ceilings. I don't think that's a homer take. Watson isn't going to get much better than where he is, which is very good. We really don't know where Allen will end up - and he's already clearly better.

It was a bad game for him, by any standard. But in that bad game, he had 2-3 plays that seemed superhuman - the kind of plays that almost no one else can make. I still wonder about a couple of those throws. Did he really aim them to hit the guy in the helmet? Even he probably only makes those 1 out of 10x.

We need more balance, imo. After 2 decades of being more of a "run first" team (putting it kindly), it's been amazing to see us have an O that can light it up through the air, with a QB and receivers that can keep defenses on their heels. But those kinds of offenses can turn into a pumpkin more often than not as the playoffs progress and defenses get better & more sophisticated. All season, I had a nagging feeling that we were just too one-dimensional. I'd have no problem at all if Beane went RB in the first.

Brady is single-handedly responsible for every person knowing what a "nightshade" is now, and the idea that some vegetables are now to be viewed w/ a level of suspicion.