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Same here. It's just gets so darn expensive and good O Lines crop up out of nowhere when teams make a concerted effort to build them. More out of simply having favorable contracts elsewhere and having a solid window to invest in the line. Regardless when you have an over acheiving line teams don't start paying 5 guys one after the other until it becomes unsustainable. It's more about striking gold cheap. Maybe 1 or 2 (maaaybe) bluechip expensive guys, garbage dive for high value Ritchie types, and hope for good rookie contracts to fill in the blanks. Teams with great OL have that reputation for 2 or 3 years for a reason. It falls apart, too hard to keep so many high caliber vets. The ones that do crop up strike gold and ride that wave on good value for as long as possible but every team cuts their losses at some point. Too expensive to hoard 5 players in a not so deep position group around the league. I"m all about trenches and prefer DL. But I think you re-sign most of your players either with a pass rushing ability, secondary, QB and WR. And if you got money tied up (for players worth the salary), you're set to constantly draft trenches on cheap rookie contracts always looking for that perfect window of bargain values. That's one reason I didn't like the Star signing.. purely out of philosophy.. but there weren't many great FAs last year and we DO need to spend the CAP going forward. We're in a strange position but once we lock down high priced elite talent is when we can put our contracts where our team identity finds itself winning. It's always a matter of circumstance. If you have Aaron Donald. You build a team around Donald. Can't stick to any one way to build a team when the chips fall. Seahawks are a great example. Expensive top OL and Lynch with young Wilson and Legion of Boom on fantastic contracts. Morphed into the Wilson and Wagner show in as a smooth of a rebuild as you can call one.

I'm aware.. that's why i prefaced with "on another subject..." just some musings that's all.

On another subject while I completely think pot is harmless for pretty much all NFL players (there's always exceptions). the drug has absolutely no PED qualities.. in fact I'd imagine quite the opposite and it'd be pretty damn hard to focus on minute details like the PLAYBOOK and snap count, and for all intents and purposes should be the players' business using the drug.... I don't find for a second that it helps with pain relief anymore than placebo compared to a legitimate narcotic PAINKILLER which specifically targets pain receptors while marijuana is simply a mind altering drug.. maybe it distracts you from pain I GUESS. Pharmacology of marijuana simply points it to be a psychoactive drug so any percieved effects on pain relief are just that.. percieved lol. So I don't get the push to allow marijuana in the NFL as a friggin replacement to pain. I just don't think it really needs to be banned since it really does nothing to these players whatsoever other than what they think they are benefitting from it lol. Always found that a weird argument. Don't ban pot and players will stop taking pain killers?? Nah there's no benign action from the drug in that regard. Just don't ban it cause it doesn't matter and if someone thinks it helps.. cool.. whatever. It really does nothing to your neurotransmitters or body at all as far as modern medicine is supposed to do for ailments. And I know a million people say anecdotally it cures any symptom you can name.. that's just because it's a psychoactive drug that creates a placebo for whatever you want to imagine it benefits you for.

BuffaloBud420!! He was suspended for alcohol for a year. Aldo if I recall correctly it was pretty specious suspension for minor infraction if the reports are correct

It's self medicating. Anxiety disorders, depression are what cause drug use. It's not the best decision to start doing a drug you are susceptible, but people that feel mentally off are more likely to experience something that gives them relief. Sometimes it starts with prescription drugs for the very problem you have. For many addiction is a symptom to underlying mental health. Which affects your decision making.. your desparation for a change. All that. It's not their addicts because they took a drug because they're predisposed to like it. Sometimes they're predisposed to seek anything other than sobriety because sobriety is so hard on them. Ricky Williams and his crippling social anxiety disorder comes to mind. He knew marijuana would help for him. I don't think marijuana is particularly life threatening for people dependent on it, it certainly is for football, but Ricky made the choice to self medicate. You make a good point but there are different types of addicts.. and I think you are narrowing on a certain subgroup.

Sad. He's Cris Carter when drug rules are more strict, players are more scrutinized and never straightened up. He could be suspended (if not completely out) for a long time right?

didn't realize we both posted the same thing lol. Great minds think alike

QBs need to know who their throwing to.. tendencies, etc. I 100% agree. If your receivers suck and are so wide open, make it easier on them if you can. Not that Clay shouldn't be better and Allen SHOULDN'T always have to worry about that, but that's the nature of the game. WRs all like their passes differently, be it lack of talent, preference of speed when thinking of YAC, catching with hands or body, etc. It points to an understandable lack of chemistry since Allen hasn't had much time to learn this constantly changing group. But that's room to improve on. Just because it's not technically his fault doesn't mean he could do better minding he's not working with good WRs. It's a drop, but it certainly didn't need to be.. between Allen and Clay one of them has to make a wide open throw and catch look routine and easy.

Definitely a drop. Really no need to throw it so hard. He's not fitting it in tight coverage where no YAC is possible. Catchers that wide open are expecting a touch pass leading them to the YAC they already got their minds on getting.. then BOOM ball is rifled to our TE with not-so-great hands. Know your personnel when they are wide open.. Fitz would half *** putting any power in that throw just to make his own throw easier, an easy catch and YAC. But JA's got the arm it's probably easier for him to lead a WR by rifling it. When you throw it that hard you lead Clay by like half a yard. If you're throwing for YAC you have to take into account a lot more factors.. judge Clay's speed, where he should be directed to go by where you place the ball. Just food for thought. Definitely a drop with a TE with bad hands. It just didn't need to be really. You're blocking-first TE needs things to be easier on him when he's that wide open.

Sounds like a funny post?

Uh.. how is U Buffalo this good?? Tyus Battle is the best player on the court babee

I'll be honest.. I voted for Beane

Despite Beane's best efforts we didn't suck THAT much It's a shame really. We were all pulling to be absolutely godawful unwatchably terrible right? Cause... Draft picks..

I've learned a lot about Josh Rosen these past few pages. Keep up the football X's and O's talk boys

Y'all dumb if you don't vote for Thurman

Those crafty Pegulas pulled a fast one on the NFL. All those Packers owners have some Splaining to do. Rule violations left and right

Perfect. My sentiments exactly.

dude there's a thread complaining about QBR and how it's not a fair metric since Stafford has a much higher one than Allen, another thread championing "adjusted completion %" because Allen is ranked 10th, another saying he will be MVP next year, this thread saying analysts who aren't former players don't know anything, a thread saying we picked the right Josh (like it matters how crappy another quarterback is to measure Allen's ability), and my favorite a thread wowed that he's the #45 rushing Bill of all time. No wait my favorite is the "who's the JA of the defense we can draft" thread. These threads are useless haha. We watch all the games. He passes the eye test, he has shown he can make all the throws good quarterbacks are expected to make. He's ran for a lot of yards. He's super promising.. duh. We're now desperately seeking for validation elsewhere, and complaining if we don't get it. Maybe the posts elsewhere are constructive but these threads are just mob mentality snowballing him into a god. I like the "Josh Allen Progression" thread. That has the posts you're talking about. Not the ones b****ing about how Sal (or whatever radio jockey of the day is annoying Bills fans with JA blasphemy) and how numbers are making Josh look bad except for when certain numbers make him look good! and these former PLAYERS (newsflash, they heap praise on every young QB in broadcast) know more than some nerd analyst! There's too much JA on my forum! Allen supporters can be objective in the right thread. But check out the first pages of the adjusted completion % thread and don't tell me it's a big JA love fest vilifying anyone who thinks differently. I guess I'm being cranky about us being excited for Josh. I am over the moon. But I don't see a need to complain or vilify someone with differing opinions. I just think it's insecurity. Let's be confident that JA will show the world without a shadow of a doubt what we know and not have to look over our shoulder all the time about it!

Saints have Michael Thomas. Allen clearly needs better WRs, but I don't think this is the metric to prove it.

And Saints have Michael Thomas.. you obviously need good WRs. I just think this metric has to get subjective on what's catchable and not. Cam is in a lot of old lists I see available. It's a combination of having good completion %, a lot of drops, and probably a healthy amount of just-inaccurate-passes regularly thrown that average Joe #3s and 4s aren't gonna come down with all the time with circus catches Tom Brady never makes it, because he throws it away and to the dirt so much basically.

You need to pay for PFF edge I checked in old PFF list and he's in Chiefs Matt Cassell territory.. cool Not a fan of this metric at all. Just look up a PFF list and it's quarterbacks that have a good completion % regardless and random names sprinkled in. 2012: 1 Alex Smith 2 Aaron Rodgers 3 Russell Wilson 4 Peyton Manning 5 RGIII 6 Kaep 7 Brees 8 Big Ben 9 Matt Ryan 10 Matt Cassell 2013 had Cam up there.

Fitz played with some **** offense. Overachieved immensely (of course that's Fitz for you, he always does when he shouldn't be starting) I'd argue Tyrod had a worse offense last year.. not that he elevated anybody. But he had hot garbage. He was playing with all the WRs we cut this year. A younger much worse Zay. Basically just had Cogs and a better Shady going for him. And a better Clay.. cool. that's probably the worst skill position players I can remember. Even over Fitz's group given Stevie and Marshawn and Fredex. Got annoyed hearing how he was on a downward spiral. Bruh our offense was on a downward spiral and not being replenished for 4 straight years. Took McDermott and Beane long enough to shoot for Foster's and McKenzie's after trotting out Matthews, Zay, Kelvin, Holmes.. Yuck! I'd give Tyrod and JA 1a and 1b worst offenses to work with in the past 2 decades.

I love seeing Brady on the decline. Can't handle the blitz anymore. That 4th down throw on his last play where he had to fall down just to sling as hard as he could.. inaccurately. Was awesome. Wish I could find a GIF of the TV angle close up on him. It was pathetic.. and awesome. Allen isn't even close to declining Brady but he throws that velocity with no effort. Shannon put him on blast for falling down trying to throw ? https://youtu.be/DYrkmAVVIgE

Yeah I don't mind his frankness at all. Great resume I always assumed he'd be HOF when he retired but I'm probably overrating him there lol.

I certainly like his frankness and desire for better.