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Is Beane perfect? Of course not. No GM is perfect and Beane has made some mistakes (off the top of my head I would say the Lotulelei and Murphy contracts, and the Teller and Benjamin trades). Is Beane one of best GM in the league? Most definitely, and many consider him to be the best GM. Our roster is probably the most talented in the league this year and we're poised to be contenders for years. It's true that a lot of that has to do with Allen, but Beane is the one that picked him and deserves full credit for how the Bills look now.

Worst: 2010 vs Dolphins. Chan Gailey's first game as Head Coach resulting in a 15-10 loss On a personal level... I had stayed out at the bars until 3 AM the night before. Barely made it to the tailgate and couldn't bring myself to drink anything. Spent the entire game terribly hungover, and midway through the 1st Q some guy 2 rows back projectile vomited for a solid 10 seconds. Stadium workers didn't get sawdust on it until halftime (the smell was unbearable). The game itself might have been worse. The defense played pretty well, but the offense was putrid with Trent Edwards at the helm totaling 166 yards and 9 first downs. Down by 5 points in the 4th Q we had a 4th and 15 from our own 15 yard line with 17 seconds and Trentative threw a checkdown that gained 9 yards. Any fan that had an expectation that Chan Gailey could rehab Trent, or that the Bills could make the playoffs that year, had their hopes quickly and utterly destroyed that day.

In his heart he's below the Mason-Dixon line.

Sapp is a scumbag that's faced numerous legal charges (ultimately dismissed), but that cost him his NFL Network job. That was after he filed for bankruptcy a few years after his NFL career ended. Color me skeptical that Sapp has an "unnamed source" feeding him info about Kaepnicks workout.

Yea, crypto is viewed as property by the IRS so it would be taxed. If he sold at a profit and had to pay capital gains taxes he'd still be up overall. If he sold at a loss he'd be able to take that as a tax deduction.

That's my understanding of it. The advantage would be the crypto company giving the celebrity $$ in a separate deal to promote their product. Pretty stupid tweet anyway. We have no idea if Lawrence is still holding crypto or not. It's very believable he dumped his position for a nice gain.

Googled "health cost transparency" and these were some of the top hits: https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/top-hospitals-blatantly-violating-price-transparency-mandate-says-baker-institute-report https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/14-of-hospitals-compliant-with-price-transparency-survey-finds-4-things-to-know.html

What else is Farwell supposed to say there? He's just following McDermott's lead in giving non answers to the 13 second debacle. Unless I missed it all McDermott has ever said about it is "We need to execute better". I still think it's funny we're talking about the kickoff. The decision to kick out the Endzone vs a kick short of the Endzone changes our win probability by maybe 1%. Having a miscommunication is bad, but the decision itself was irrelevant. The real issue was going into a prevent defense and giving the Chiefs back to back free ~20 yard plays.

Interesting hypothetical. I suppose I have to imagine an alternate universe where the Bills don't have Josh Allen at QB, Pegulas as owners, Beane as GM, or McDermott as HC. Let's pretend Ralph Wilson never passed and that our acting owner is Russ Brandon, GM is Whaley, Rex Ryan is HC, and QB has been a mix of Tyrod Taylor, Josh Rosen, and other career journeymen. In that universe I could live with trading for Watson. I wouldn't be thrilled with the moral aspect of it, but I'd be more upset that we traded 3x 1sts and guaranteed so much $$ to a guy that had already sat out for an entire season and had a potential gigantic suspension forthcoming. What Watson did is morally reprehensible, but there was a criminal investigation and he's not even facing charges. I could deal with that as a fan if it brought the Bills from NFL purgatory to being a legitimate Superbowl contender. How many Chiefs fans jumped ship after drafting/trading for Hill/Clark ? How many people on here still like Lesean Mccoy (he never faced charges either even though he's a well documented piece of crap as a person) ?

Looks like McDermott is getting dinged for a few reasons 1) This team "underperformed" last year based on expected wins per the Pythagorean model. We had the best point differential in the league and finished "only" 11-6. That's a full 2 wins fewer than expected. 2) Josh Allen is a top QB on a rookie contract.

QB rating is a fairly flawed stat. It is hardly an end all be all analysis. For example: In the wind game last year vs Patriots Mac Jones finished 2/3 for 19 yards to go with 5 carries for -3 yards. This was good for a QB Rating of 84.0 Josh Allen finished 15/30 for 145 yards and 1 TD to go with 6 carries for 39 yards. This was good for a QB Rating of 75.0 QB Rating says Mac was the better QB that night. Is there a single person on the planet that agrees with that? Next example: Week 17 vs Falcons (a snowy/windy game). Matt Ryan went 13/23 for 197 yards 0 TD 0 INT and 2 carries for 7 yards. That's a QB Rating of 84.9 Josh Allen went 11/26 for 120 yards 0 TD and 3 INTS and 15 carries for 81 yards and 2 TDs. That's a QB rating of 17.0 Josh outplayed Matt by a decent margin in that game and the Bills won fairly handily. QB rating says Ryan was nearly 70 points better. That one outlier of a game with a few fluky INTs tanked Allen's home QB rating. If his 2 rushing TDs that game had been passing TDs instead he would've had the best net QB rating at home.

Kirk Cousins signed a 3 year 84mil deal with the Vikings in 2018 that was 100% guaranteed (and it looks like all of his subsequent extensions/deals with Vikings are also fully guaranteed). I'm surprised no one has mentioned Trevor Bauer yet. MLB just suspended him for 2 full seasons for domestic violence allegations (after he sat out an entire year on administrative leave), even after the gov't announced no criminal charges would be brought against him. There is 1 woman pursuing a civil case against him (a second woman had started a similar civil case, but later dropped it). I will say that the allegations against Bauer are more heinous in nature, even if they are less prolific than the allegations against Watson. If we can view the MLB decision on Bauer as precedence, I would expect Watson to be suspended for AT LEAST the entire season. The suspension will only increase if more statements like this one come out of the civil case (especially if it's closer to the regular season).

Using starting temp and wind from PFR (precipitation going from memory). I'll note that they had the "wind game" against Patriots in 2021 listed at 19 MPH, and it was obviously significantly windier than that. By my count there were either 4 or 5 games in 2021 that had worse weather than the worst game in 2020. Seahawks in 2020 might've been the nicest ever November home game.

You have to just be trolling at this point. Weather conditions vary from game to game in Buffalo and they were significantly worse in 2021 than in 2020.

1- Weather. There were ~5 brutal home weather games last year. 2- Meaningless week 17 games that Josh was pulled from happened at home in both 2019 and 2020. Josh played for 1 series in 2019 vs Jets. 3- Couple random home games that the run DEF got stampeded (2019 vs Eagles and 2021 vs Colts *Edit* also 2020 vs Chiefs). Tough for a QB to get stats when he's not on the field. 4-Josh's home stats are still pretty darn good and it's tough to complain about a 21-10 record. His personal stats are a bit better on the road, but the W/L is a little behind at 18-12 (yes I know it's a team stat). Over the last 3 seasons I think the only games Josh might've been too amped up for would be 2019 vs Patriots, 2019 @ Texans (playoff game), and 2021 vs Steelers.

I'd want to move on if we missed the playoffs (barring injuries). This roster is loaded, including a top 5 (or top 3 or the best) QB in the league on a rookie contract. If you can't make the playoffs with that I don't really care what else he's done for us. I'd also consider moving on if the defense is shredded in the playoffs again. Even if you ignore "13 seconds" the D was absolutely shredded by the Chiefs (twice) and was pretty darn bad against the Colts as well.

I think that's the only logical response. I'm still trying to figure out what Papa is saying here: “I said, ‘No. This is not my job to fire your Commissioner,'” Schnatter said. “‘He works for you. I just sell pizzas. I have a family of small businesses that, you know, probably 35 percent of our spend’s NFL, it’s down 20 percent. Papa... your sales were down because you went from making decent pizza to making "pizza" that would give a bad name to cardboard. When you start cutting costs to that extent and your entire business model is brand recognition it's only a matter of time before people stop buying your product.

Excellent article! I can't get over the fact that the Browns were willing to give up MORE than pick #65 for Tyrod Taylor, but that Beane was willing to only take the 3rd rd pick with the promise that we would have the inside track on trading for #4 overall. And then they reneged! Edit Whoops. It was the BRONCOS that were willing to give up more than #65 overall. Still can't believe there was that much of a market for TT (and I like the guy more than most on here).

I went with a B- Hate the Bernard pick. Looks like his ceiling is a journeyman backup, and it's not even a position of need. Had we went O-Line with that selection I'd probably be at a B+ or A-

Probably would've been a small reach to take him at 25, but it's our biggest position of need so I would've been fine with it. The trade up feels wasteful (what are the odds DAL wanted to draft him?). At least it was only a 4th round pick

I'll go with Nantz. I'm not really a fan of Madden. I can appreciate what he did historically, but I'm not old enough to have listened to him during his prime. When I was really getting into my Bills fandom by the 2000s he only offered up the most banal comments and the game had passed him by.

Why would I take a bet where YOU are wagering MY house? Bet your own house! Maybe Kupp is ok with being underpaid by ~10 million this year. He's still being paid 15 million to play a game. If he was going to complain about it and squeeze the Rams for every penny I think he would've done so by now (see: veteran-deal WRs Adams, Hill, Diggs or rookie-deal WRs Samuel, Brown, McLaurin).

1 - Those guys are on their rookie contracts. Diggs was on an already lucrative 2nd contract. 2- No harm has been done to the teams yet - missing voluntary practice is meaningless 3- The most underpaid veteran WR in the NFL has to be Cooper Kupp. I've yet to see a report that he's looking to re-work his contract

With the insane inflation we're seeing at QB contracts I have to wonder if Allen and Mahomes will be content with theirs or if they'll demand a new deal. Josh's 6 year deal doesn't kick in until next season, and he'll probably be underpaid by at least 10 million that season. By year 6 he could easily be underpaid by 25+ million.

Personally I'd put Panarin on there instead of Shesterkin. Igor is having a fantastic season and should win the Vezina, but this is his first year playing at an elite level. Panarin has 5+ elite seasons (although none are as good as Igor's current season). Including Scherzer is a bit weird. I can appreciate he's had a fantastic career, but he's a 37 year old pitcher that never started in NY before this year. Should Von Miller be considered for this list?