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Think any reasonable person would agree this was the right move for the Bills. Obviously hope the allegations aren’t true considering how horrific they are but this isn’t something the Bills can mess around with and the fact that he’s a rookie punter makes it even easier to just wipe your hands clean and move on.

Seems like our fun and new punter is no longer very fun. Should probably be looking for a new punter.

Not for this per se, but I split the cost with my brother and cousin for the ESPN+ streaming stuff

The WR group was definitely ranked higher last year with Beasley coming off a big year and the addition of Sanders. There's more perceived uncertainty with the WR group this year even if we as fans (and likely the team itself as well) likes the young guys. I would say the teams that should be ahead are (in no particular order): Cinci, Tampa, Miami, Minnesota, Las Vegas, LA Chargers, and the LA Rams. And then there's a few that you could debate like Philly and Seattle, and then a group where I would personally disagree but I can at least kinda understand the argument for Arizona and New Orleans. If you think Davis is a potential stud, it makes sense to rank us in the top 10. If you're more skeptical of him or are simply higher on some established guys that I just don't like all that much anymore (like Jarvis Landry for example), a relatively lower ranking makes sense.

I went Ravens but seems like Cinci should be right there too.

I didn't really think about it, but yeah, Winston/Thomas > Cousins/Jefferson is insane.

It is very good no doubt, but Allen > Burrow and Diggs > Chase IMO

I'm almost never this guy when it comes to the Bills, but JA and Diggs at #2 feels too low (as does Mahomes/Kelce IMO)

Seems like Antonio Gibson has opened the door for Brian Robinson to take some/most of his touches this year.

It's not really an unfounded internet rumor...Joe Buscaglia literally said this on the record on The Athletic podcast a day or two ago. Obviously still plenty of time for Elam to turn things around though.

To avoid federal courts

Breakdowns of all of the incoming recruits as well as some of the targets for future recruit classes: https://syracusefan.com/threads/analysis-videos-of-recruiting-targets.168625/

I'd say this is a blessing in disguise if Boeheim finds a suitable replacement but I'm definitely nervous we end up just going into the year with Maliq Brown and Peter Carey as our backup centers and that would probably be a disaster. Just not a fan of Ballard, at least from his time in high school. Obviously he hasn't had much of a chance to show anything in college so maybe he's developed since then, but he just didn't really do anything in high school.

I would second this. If he already has a collection he probably doesn’t need Buffalo Trace, Four Roses, etc. (Though those would be my brand name suggestions at that price point). Something local is more fun in that case IMO. And if you can find it in the $60ish range (not nearly as easy anymore), McKenna’s Bottled In Bond bourbon is awesome.

Benny is staying. We’ll see with Cole.

Let's effing goooooo!!!!!

Agent generally takes a % of the contract vs. a lawyer just getting paid hourly.

As much as everyone likes to act like Lamar is negotiating the contract himself and won't have any help, this is not what athletes do when they're going into these things without an agent. They just hire a lawyer to make sure they don't do anything stupid instead of having a full-time agent taking a significant amount of their money.

Seems to be some buzz that we may have been written off re: our chances with Judah Mintz a little too quickly. Still seems to be a DePaul lean, but if we end up stealing him away, he'd become by far our most promising incoming recruit IMO. He was an absolute stud in the NIBC league where Chris Bunch was mostly terrible.

Honestly curious to see what the analytics end up suggesting here, both in terms of taking the ball vs. deferring and also whether or not to go for 2 if you defer and have to match a touchdown and extra point. My initial feeling was that I'd want the ball because I'd rather be the team that starts with it when it gets to sudden death. But I definitely see the logic in deferring since by starting with the ball, you don't know if 3 points or even 7 points is enough to win the game or at least get you to the sudden death. Edit: catching up now and it looks like the analytics suggest deferring is the better choice as people assume the 2nd team will not be willing to settle for tying the game and therefore, the 3rd possession won’t come into play very often.

Some things are starting to crystallize a bit from the sound of it. Don't know too many specifics, but one person I trust is saying they've heard that in addition to losing the two Boeheims and Sidibe, we're expecting at least 3 more players to leave this offseason. He said two of those three don't really matter (my unknowledgeable guess would be Jon Bol Ajak and Chaz Owens but not sure) but that the third assumed departure is going to hurt. He specifically said he's not sure what Cole plans to do yet, so to me, it seems like the third departure is almost certainly Frank Ansalem or Benny Williams (my unknowledgeable guess would be Frank). He also added that we're expecting to add 2 or 3 players in the transfer portal depending on what one of our important players does (my guess would be if Cole leaves, we try to bring in 3 and if Cole stays we stick to 2). He said we're pretty likely to add one player in the portal that he does not like (my guess would be Quincy Ballard to replace Frank). So if my assumptions are all correct (and let's assume Cole stays because I don't want to picture our team without him), we're looking at a roster next year of: Symir JGIII Cole Benny Jesse Taylor Bunch Brown Quadir Ballard Carey Transfer #2 Unused Scholarship #1

I can’t explain the size of the stadium outside of the fact that the current stadium is just very small in terms of space. As for capacity, the belief is that sports are trending more to being a TV experience and therefore don’t require as many seats.

The article says it’ll be starting at $1000 per at minimum.

This is a really interesting way to put it and I think it's almost certainly correct.

For now I think Tennessee probably remains the better team over Indy. Still plenty of time and plenty of WRs out there for Indy to address that though and I think Pittman may prove himself to be a fine #1.