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1) I was talking about his rookie season as a whole, not just a 6 game stretch. 2) If we want to cherry pick stats, we can ignore the season finale against Dolphins and then he had 8 TDs in the last 5 games. While an improvement over the first 5 starts prior to the injury that's still nothing to write home about. 3) In his rookie season Josh had 1 elite game (season finale vs Dolphins), and a number of elite plays scattered throughout the season. I don't think that outweighs the numerous dreadful games (Packers, Titans, Texans, Patriots) or all the rookie mistakes in other games. I think any objective analysis of his season, as a whole, would show he had a bad year; and that a review of his highlights would show the potential to be an elite QB.

I don't know why we need this revisionist history. Josh was mostly terrible his rookie year. Sure there were extenuating circumstances like a poor O-line and a dreadful WR corps, but Josh himself was not good. He played a ton of hero ball and made way too many mistakes. That being said, he did have some amazing plays that flashed his talent and showed he had the potential to be a great QB. His 2nd year Josh was mostly a game manager. The roster was significantly improved and McD/Daboll obviously had Josh focusing on reducing the hero ball and mistakes to let the team win games without the QB being a difference maker. That was successful as Josh did drastically cut down on mistakes, but he was also very rarely a difference maker

The NFL allows massive contract shenanigans every year. Look no further than our deal with Von Miller. Why would they draw the line at a team structuring a contract so that a player facing a potential suspension ends up with more cash in his pocket if he does get suspended?

Never a terrible player, but definitely an overpay from day 1 that snowballed after opting out of 2020. Still can't wrap my head around how he opted out an entire season due to COVID and then never got vaccinated. Was he the only NFL player that opted out and then didn't get vaccinated?

Because Von Miller's agent gets to say his guy got a 6 year 120 million contract (even though it's really 3 years 52 million) and the team gets to play salary cap shenanigans. Remember when Taysom Hill signed a 4 year 140 million extension? The salary cap is so easily manipulated it's a bad joke...

I don't have any complains about any of the individual signings, but I will point out that Beane is running a master class in how NOT to navigate the comp pick process. Trubisky/Wallace signed for a lot less than I expected so it's not a huge deal, but handing out a bunch of small contracts like we have this offseason is the worst possible strategy for comp picks.

Coming into this offseason I was expecting to lose Wallace in FA. However, I thought he'd sign for a much bigger contract than 2 years 4 mil per. I have mixed feelings on this. Even though Wallace as CB2 was underwhelming he wasn't a bad player by any means. If we can upgrade CB2 via draft or FA bringing Wallace back at 2 years 4 mil per would have been a great depth signing.

Kyle Orton had "the slide" Trent Edwards had a number of cowardly decisions. Generally speaking Tyrod avoided risks. I don't recall anything that I would call "cowardly" though

Cut (preferably trade) Beasley and ask Mack to re-negotiate his contract. This cap stuff is not difficult when you're a good team and players are willing to re-negotiate contracts!

Generally speaking it's the good teams that take advantage of comp picks. They typically have fewer holes to fill, and less cap space with which to do it. Here's last years list of comp picks: https://www.nfl.com/news/2022-nfl-draft-compensatory-pick-projections-for-every-team The Lions are really the only bad team on the list. The Rams ended up with the most comp picks, and they went all in to an extent probably never seen before in the NFL (trading away 1sts, big signings, etc.). If Beane signs QUALITY FA's that have an immediate/sizeable impact and we miss out on comp picks due to that reason I'll be fine with that. If he pulls a repeat of 2017 and signs QUANTITY (depth/fringe roster players) and we miss out on 3rd rd comp pick(s) due to that reason I'll be pissed off. It'll be a huge tactical mistake.

Depending on what term he wants I think 50 mil is pretty close to his fair market value. Mahomes signed at 45/year 2 seasons ago. If I was a GM I'd only offer a maximum of 2 years at 50 mil though. Back to back MVPs non-withstanding he is 38 years old. Good luck to any team offering him 50/year to field a SB caliber roster. They'll need to do some real cap gymnastics to be competitive.

I can't believe the agent actually posted that. Part of the reason a player should pay an agent is to prevent them from posting melodramatic garbage like that, and in this case, it was the agent posting it instead of the player. Good job sabotaging your negotiation efforts with the Cards

Spotrac shows 12.7mm dead cap if we cut Edmunds even though his cap is 100% base salary. I always thought being traded vs being cut would have the same dead cap hit. Is it different in this case?

Trading Edmunds doesn't make any sense from the Bills perspective. His 12.7mm active cap hit would turn into 12.7mm dead cap hit. No savings at all. I don't like Edmunds and wish we hadn't picked up the 5th year option, but we're stuck with him for next season. For OP my pie in the sky scenario is signing Chris Godwin.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but maybe he doesn't deal well with seeing other people's injuries. Like someone that faints at the sight of blood. Removing himself from the situation would be the best response.

You mean *best CB in the league* Jalen Ramsey? Dude was getting burned all day 😀

What people, specifically, do you think would have been witness to this conversation between Ross and Flores ? From Flores's lawsuit it seems like a 1 on 1 conversation between Ross and Flores. The only other person who might've been involved would be the GM Grier. Do you think Ross would testify that he broke the law and asked Flores to throw games? Would Grier testify against his current boss and likely destroy his future NFL career ? I think Ross/Grier would be left with 3 options. 1- plead the fifth, 2 - say they can't recall the specifics of the conversation, or 3- say that Flores is mis-remembering/interpreting the conversation Text/email would be a different story. It seems unlikely that Ross sent Flores anything in writing or Flores would've included it in the initial lawsuit. Then it comes down to whether or not a judge would grant a fishing expedition subpoena for Ross's emails/texts. I think that would be unlikely at this point (with no other corroborating witness/evidence other than what Flores says happened), but who knows.

"I plead the fifth" or "I do not recall that conversation"

He took a switch to his kid and went overboard with it. He ended up with no jail time, probation, and a $4,000 fine. Did he get a sweetheart deal because he's rich and famous with a good attorney? That's definitely a possibility. It's also possible that what he did wasn't that egregious and probation with a 4k fine is an appropriate punishment. I think it's more than fair to say that AP is a piece of ***** as a human being, but I don't think he's a big enough piece of ***** to be disqualified from the HOF. There's a lot of guys in the HOF with very questionable pasts (including a number of Bills).

Example #6,587 of why a screengrab is not a good way to evaluate a play

Outside of BUF/KC the divisional round was also full of poorly played slop-ball that ended in close scores (and I'm sure there are some purists out there that didn't like our game b/c nobody played DEF). The Rams were the only team that generally played well in that round, but they lost FOUR fumbles to leave the game open for TB.

No, from what's being reported so far it certainly seems he did it. What he (allegedly) did was get into a verbal argument and then try to rip his wife's ring off, causing a scratch to her finger. She doesn't want to press charges. I don't know if that would get prison time for an average Joe, let alone a famous millionaire athlete. Domestic Violence is never ok, but there are degrees to it. I don't think AP has crossed a line that would ultimately keep him out of the HOF.

Let's wait and see if Peterson is even charged, let alone convicted. Big Ben seems to be widely viewed as a HOFer and the allegations against him were much more serious. If I was going to bet on it I think both AP and Ben make it, but not in their first year of eligibility.

By my own hyperbolic eye test 😄 I posted that back in November and I will happily admit the O-Line looked much better (maybe a little above league average) down the stretch once we put Bates into the starting lineup. It's tough to gauge the O-Line when we have a unicorn at QB. Put Kirk Cousins back there and I have to imagine we'd have a bottom tier rushing attack and be close to most sacks allowed.

Rodgers Overall playoffs 11-9 Conference Championship 1-4 Superbowl 1-0 with 1 SB MVP Elway Overall playoff record 14-7 Conference Championship 5-1 Superbowl 2-3 with 1 SB MVP Elway (prior to his final 2 seasons with a stacked team) Overall playoffs 7-7 Conference Championship 3-1 Superbowl 0-3 (1 bad and 2 dreadful games) Honestly I don't know if either guy should be considered clutch in the playoffs. Elway's 5-1 conference title record is impressive, but he followed those up with 4 pretty bad SB performances. Rodgers only made the SB once, but in that one appearance he had a fantastic game. Elway may have the slightly better playoff career than Rodgers, but the better regular season career is Rodgers by far (and Rodgers isn't over yet). Elway had The Drive. Rodgers had the divisional game vs Cowboys that I linked earlier. Saying that Elway is far and away the more clutch player is a combination of viewing Elway through rose colored glasses, and discounting Rodgers based on recency bias.