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God I was agreeing with everything, until your last sentence! hahahaha . Honestly I don't think any LB is turning into multiple picks, doesn't seem to be a coveted position anymore like it used to be. Maybe he would get a 4th? I'd rather keep him.

LOL, love it. A huge F U over to Denver, and Pittsburgh gets to just grab him for free basically. No risk and huge upside for both Pittsburgh and Russel Wilson. Also, how many years can Russell Wilson carry this on? He has multiple years with guaranteed money doesn't he?

depends on how you look at it. It's a great signing for them at that price IMHO. I'm surprised he didn't get more. Directly, did we get worse? I would say probably since he has always been a great and steady player for us at C. Indirectly? we needed that cap space, which we need for now and the future. And the unknown part is how Conner McGovern will perform at C. When we lost Tremaine Edmunds we thought we'd have a significant drop off, and then enter Terrel Bernard who surprised us all.

Seems to be this year is all about getting younger. I'm not sure we see many aging veterans pulled in, even if they're former probowlers and cheap. Better to stick a young guy in there and let him take his lumps.

Bills let most of their one year rentals walk. If they gave him a new deal, I’m going to trust what they saw.

Hasn't anyone listened to Beane? We can't even shop at K-Mart, we're shopping at Walmart.

The backup QB job in this day and age doesn't seem to actually be about playing. When you have a QB like JA17, you're not going to find anyone who can step in and do anything remotely close to what he does. That means if he gets hurt, you're basically screwed anyway. The backup QB is essentially part of the support system for the starter, which means a vet that gets along with Josh and can manage those duties is the right choice.

The Bills are making the right move, so no complaints about that. Sure he's got money and had success, the point is that he was a highly gifted, hard-working athlete with a great spirit whose career was cut short. That's disappointing, for him, the team, and the fans.

It's sad, such a great player with a great spirit who gets double bad luck on the injury front....life is truly not fair sometimes.

A lot of beloved players on this list, but the moves seem like the right ones to me. All of these players have high salaries and are either on the way down age wise, or have had major injuries and their future performance is highly questionable. This could be a slight down year, but with the stability of this franchise + Josh Allen, I think we'll still be competitive. Look at the Chiefs, they didn't look "the same" this year, but they won it all.

Very honestly, I'm surprised that Morse has played as long as he has. Every time he got another concussion, I was just waiting for him to hang it up. Of course the team is better with him on it, but put this in the category of the Belichick method....better to get rid of a player a year too soon than a year too late. We need to clear cap space, and older veterans with large salaries are always your best candidates.

agree about the trade, was good for both teams. No matter what players you have, there will always be some injuries or freak off-the-field things that happen. It’s a game of percentages. my view is, any player who can be cut for savings on the Bills roster with little or no cap hit is a cut candidate. It’s unfortunate for those players…. Bills can’t afford to keep Hines, especially given his injury. He just caught a bad break and I hope he can get his career going again.

I think they are, and the consistency in winning they've shown is the best proof you can have. I think of it like a game of odds, if we're in the mix every year we're going to crack through eventually. Then as far as my personal feeling goes, I can see that they are both people who are constantly working on improving themselves. Those are the kinds of people you put faith in.

I think we get one too in the next decade, maybe more than one as you said. The players around Allen and the coordinators are going to change on a regular basis. It's a matter of us having the right combination of things in the right year.

exactly this! Plus, demanding a Super Bowl victory??? There are so many combined factors that contribute to this, one of which is LUCK. There isn't a singular change you can make to any team that will make a Super Bowl victory come true. Right now we're in dreamland as far as sports fans are concerned. We get to watch a team that is entertaining, wins most of the time, and has a chance at a championship every year. Can't ask for more than that.

What you’re saying is 100% true. However there’s more nuance than that. You can still hold people accountable, help them to hold themselves accountable, and work intensely and focused in a positive environment. When you’re working with highly competitive people, they’re already criticizing themselves to an extreme and don’t need additional people around them making them feel awful about themselves. We know more about psychology now than we did 20 years ago even, which is why things stopped working in New England. We know that poor mental health and fear tactics are not necessary for high performance. There are better ways to do it, and no one is going along with the “Patriot way” anymore.

45% of this board wants to fire the coach? y'all nuts??? is 45% of this board under the age of 6???? because it's the only logical explanation.

I think this is why we see teams making the hard decision to let guys go when they become too expensive. Even if the guy is a monster, it's a huge gamble considering the injury risk in football. Your $20M a year player isn't worth anything if he's rehabbing.

He played some great games for us. WR is also a position that can be feast or famine from game to game. I think certainly there are upgrades from Gabe Davis, but there are a lot of downgrades also. All that said, they haven't handed him an extension, and it looks like he'll be walking in free agency. I see him as another Tremaine Edmunds - probably not worth his "market value."

I blame Taylor Swift. Poor guy lost his focus with her swooshing around in the booth.

Definitely not a fake slide. That being said, sliding (or the right of the QB to slide) DOES put defenders in a difficult position. They’re trying to stop the guy, but have to be careful. I can imagine that maybe JA doesn’t make that touchdown run if the defenders didn’t have to at least consider a slide coming. I also frequently see defenders awkwardly diving over sliding quarterbacks to avoid the late hit, which always looks like injury risk to me. All that said, it’s an observation and I don’t personally see a solution or rule adjustment possibility. Take away the QBs right to slide and he’s gonna get his head taken off.

Glad to hear you're well taken care of where you are. I wasn't defending poor and underpaid employee treatment AT ALL. More or less stating reality of a system and general ideology that's most places.

This sums up the downside of capitalism. Everything is supply and demand. No matter how rich a company is, they pay the lowest they can to achieve the ends to a mean. So basically as long as people will take this job for $15 an hour, they will pay $15 an hour. If they can’t get people, they will raise it. The higher profits, the more successful the corporation considers itself, as well as outside observers. EDIT: Since I received so many barf emojis. My comment was neither an anti-capitalism post, nor a pro-corporation, strap-up your boots argument either. I'm fully in support of "taking care of your people." Everyone's interpretation of "being taken care of" is going to be subjective, however. This is just my view as to how the vast majority of companies are going to operate - in their own best interest, and paying employees "market-rate."

this. I think they celebrate and have a blast tonight. And I think they trash the fins just like Baltimore did. I can imagine McDermott telling them to go out and just have fun, and if they lose they get a do-over back in Miami next week lol.

Oh, I see, you're saying everyone just plays the regular season in their own conference. Essentially like two different leagues during the season. Yeah that's more equally competitive in terms of who makes the playoffs for sure. I still think though if you're Super Bowl worthy, you should be able to make the playoffs regardless of strength of schedule....and if you don't...well then you're not Super Bowl worthy hahaha. I would still keep the divisions for the fun of it. I've always loved having the special division games during the season that have extra importance, and also the rivalries between the clubs. Some of that I'm sure is nostalgia, but ultimately sports is just there to entertain us anyhow. haha