CheshireCT
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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?
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25 minutes ago, Whkfc said:
Jags got better we got worse with thus move
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.
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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.
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Bills let most of their one year rentals walk. If they gave him a new deal, I’m going to trust what they saw.
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Hasn't anyone listened to Beane? We can't even shop at K-Mart, we're shopping at Walmart.
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8 minutes ago, BananaB said:
Hopefully this isn’t top priority. A guy you hope never sees the field unless he’s taking a knee.
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.
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12 minutes ago, rajinka said:
Eh he made millions of dollars playing a kids game.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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3 hours ago, Utah John said:
The Moss for Hines trade was a good one for both players and both teams. Moss is a good RB who never fit into Buffalo's schemes. The Colts use him in line with his skill set. So the trade isn't what was bad, it was drafting him in the first place without evaluating accurately whether he'd fit.
Hines looked great as a kick returner and showed flashes of quickness and power as an RB. I don't think the Bills need him very badly as a backup but if Cook goes down, Hines' speed could be very important until Cook returns.
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.
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Just now, Shaw66 said:
I agree completely. To give credit where credit is due, however, what others say is, in fact, a legitimate question: Are Beane and McDermott the right people to get the team there? It is certainly possible that they just aren't good enough.
I'm not in that camp. I think they're committed to winning big, and they're committed to change in order to get there. Not everyone agrees.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Exactly, again. I wouldn't say what @LeGOATski said - I don't have a lot of personal goals, and winning a Super Bowl isn't really goal, it's a hope or a wish. But other than health and success of my family, there isn't much on my wish list ahead of a Lombardi. So, my "wish" is exactly the same as the team's goal.
But your points are correct, about how hard it is to win a Super Bowl and about how much fun it is to be the fan of a team that truly is in the hunt to win it all year after year.
During the drought, which team did I envy? Well, in terms of excellence, of course it was the Patriots. What they did was phenomenal, but it's sort of unreasonable to expect any team to do that again. I mean, the NFL might not see another dynasty like that for 50 years. So, no, I didn't envy the Patriots. What I hoped for was to be like the Steelers: a team with a shot every season, a team that had a hard-nosed QB who was one of the best in league, a team with stable ownership and a commitment to quality through continuity, a team that kept going about the work of being a success in the NFL year after year.
Amazingly, I got what I hoped for. The Bills have become the kind of franchise I wanted to be a fan of.
Will the Bills win a Super Bowl before I die? I don't know, but that's much more up to me and my longevity than is the Bills, because I expect they will win one before Allen retires, I'd guess more than one.
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.
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14 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
My patience is unlimited. I'm not a child anymore. I'm here to be entertained. The team's accomplishments are not a reflection of me. My personal goals are separate from their goals.
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.
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21 hours ago, boyst said:
the activities that fly for jobs like most of us have do not work.
if they treated these nfl players like most people in the office they'd be underwhelming like most people in average office spaces.
if anything, the nfl guys are more like stock brokers or real estate.
the jobs are not fun, high pressure, highly competitive, and fueled by more than just money.
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.
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5 hours ago, WNYFAN1 said:
This is the major problem with this team. Far too much cap space devoted to players that contribute at a level far below their cap number would warrant.
Now that the QB contract has really kicked in, you can't get away without cap efficiency. Bills are the opposite of cap-efficient. This is really difficult to overcome.
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.
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1 hour ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
Gabe Davis is the Ryan Fitzpatrick of wide receivers. He’ll wow you with a big game and follow it up w/ a complete stinker dropping everything. The 13 second game was phenomenal, but I attribute a lot of that to the attention they were giving Diggs.
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."
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I blame Taylor Swift. Poor guy lost his focus with her swooshing around in the booth.
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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.
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2 hours ago, TheBrownBear said:
I disagree. That's really up to the company's leadership. There are good and bad businesses to work for from an employee perspective. I'm a peon in the grand scheme of things, but my employer has a 7.5 hour workday, I get 4 weeks paid vacation, another week of Care time, good healthcare, can take off anytime I need to on short notice, great office culture, etc. Good employees will flee a company that doesn't take care of them.
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.
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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."
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1 hour ago, loyal2dagame said:
Yes vote here.
Play loose, unleash the dogs. I want scortched earth Josh Allen tonight. Break their will, then break their dorsal fins.
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.
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7 hours ago, bobobonators said:
But that’s the thing, under the current system every team does not have to go through the same system to get to the Super Bowl. As an example, we could look at the division that draws the NFC South vs a team in a division that draws the AFC East. Imagine you are the Chargers and next year you drew all AFC East teams vs being the Texans who draw all NFC South teams. Who would you rather play an additional 4 games? It’s not the same system - it’s not even close. And that’s not even addressing the remaining fact that some teams play in crappy divisions vs teams that play in stacked divisions.
Playing under the same system, as you say, would eliminate the current divisional format and have 2 conferences where everyone plays each other 1x. No schedule bias, no luck of drawing a crappy division to play that season, and certainly no more 8-7-1 teams hosting a playoff game while a 10-6 team stays home.
This is not a novel idea. Because I didn’t post it years ago doesn’t remove merit from the idea now.
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
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Say the Bills DON’T restructure Josh Allen…
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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.