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Seems like all the AFC East QBs have played pretty well. Trubisky, Wilson, and Tua in particular IMO. It'll be interesting to see how the other AFC East QBs fare in the regular season but their fans must be pretty pleased with how they're looking so far.

I see we’ve reached the part where we now like Warren Sharp

My tiers based on my draft grades for each: Tier 1: Trevor Lawrence Tier 2: Tier 3: Justin Fields, Trey Lance Tier 4: Zach Wilson Tier 5: Kellen Mond, Mac Jones, Davis Mills Tier 6: Tier 7: Kyle Trask As you can see, I'm relatively low on Mac Jones, and additionally, New England doesn't have all that much offensive talent around him. But you never know with their coaching staff; they've generally found a way to have good offenses so it's hard to count him out. Lance seems to be in the best situation for success. I tend to think Lawrence should be good enough to overcome being in Jacksonville.

Costs of recent stadiums in order of when they broke ground (most recent to least recent): Las Vegas Raiders: $1.9 billion Texas Rangers: $1.1 billion LA Rams/Chargers: $5.5 billion Atlanta Falcons: $1.5 billion Perth Cricket/Aussie Football: $1.0 billion Tottenham Hotspur: $1.3 billion Minnesota Vikings: $1.1 billion Singapore Football Club: $1.3 billion Brazilian Soccer Club: $0.8 billion Adjusted for inflation (and removing LA because that one is such an outlier), the average stadium built since 2010 cost $1.3 billion.

Yeah, this certainly looks like the best we've had in awhile on paper. Hopefully I'll be able to watch some film of the guys we've gotten at some point this year. I've seen highlights of course but highlights almost always look nice. Currently the #5 class in the country per 24/7 based on total recruit points and #20 in terms of average recruit ranking. The last time we finished in the top 30 was the 2016 class with Battle, Moyer, and Taurean and our last top 10 class was 2015 with Malachi, Lydon, and Howard.

The handle is the thing I'm looking for more than anything from Copeland. He really struggled in those earlier games I watched; was nearing double digit turnovers per game mainly from just losing his dribble, sometimes without any defensive pressure. It definitely looked like he tightened it up at least a bit in some of the more recent footage I've seen but I haven't really had a chance to dive in fully yet. I've been too busy lately to really keep my ear to the ground, but I had been told a month or so ago that JJ was probably a lost cause, though we're still trying. Bunch seems like he's always been very interested but it's seemed like he might be on our backburner. Sounds like this Dominick Barlow might be the new forward to keep an eye on. And yeah, re: Westry, I had basically heard that he's always wanted to come to Syracuse but he's not the one in control of his decision and it sounds like he'll be headed elsewhere.

Excited to see him hopefully continue progressing now that he's at IMG next year. I'm still not totally sold on him; the games from a year or two ago that I had watched weren't pretty, but he does seem like he's improved based on the more recent games.

I think the reaction is more along the lines of nobody caring because they're still the NYC teams to them even if they play a couple miles away. I get that that's not what Buffalo716 was talking about in his original post though.

I don't think they'd necessarily be looking for a place where they can move and privately fund the stadium. They'd be looking for a city that will offer to pay most of it, and they'll almost certainly have takers on that if it does come to it. I'd still be surprised if it gets to that point though despite Graham's assertions.

Some other notes that stood out to me: Downtown Stadium budget came out to $2.5 billion. Doesn't seem likely that the government would go for that. The Miami Dolphins are currently the smallest media market to own their own stadium; Miami is the 18th largest market in the country. Buffalo is 52nd and declining. Tim Graham thinks we may need to grapple with the idea that the Bills could actually move, as he doesn't think it's a given that the government will feel comfortable paying what it will take for the team to stay given some of the economic difficulties in the area already. I think it was already mentioned in another piece, but PSE says they haven't asked for anything related to the Sabres arena yet; they're planning to work on that after the Bills situation is sorted out.

The city spent almost $500 mil on their baseball stadium though

Minnesota is #2 behind Dallas, around $850 mil between two stadiums. https://www.sportscasting.com/taxpayer-money-billion-dollar-stadiums/

They’ll obviously end up coming way down from this number. Just a question of how much. I may be mistaken but I think Vegas is currently the record holder at $750 mil in public funding for their football stadium. Dallas is #1 in total with just under $1 billion spread across their baseball and football stadiums.

Wasn't mentioned in the OP, but these rankings do not factor in OLine whatsoever. It's solely RBs, WRs, and TEs. I don't get the Packers ranking personally. They have a good RB and an elite WR and that's it IMO. I don't think Tonyan, Dillon, or the other WRs are anything special. I'd probably put them somewhere in the 15-20 range.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-more-highways-equals-more-traffic-why-are-dots-still-ignoring-it/#:~:text=They found that for every,lane capacity and traffic increases. Just the first result that popped up but it mentions what I was talking about. Basically, studies have shown that more highways = more cars = same amount of traffic congestion (but with more cars). So you could argue it's a net positive if you're just trying to get more traffic into the city but it isn't really improving the flow of traffic the way urban planners used to think it would. They call this effect "induced demand".

I don't remember if it was mentioned in the article or if I read it elsewhere, but one thing I learned recently that was pretty fascinating is that a lot of studies have shown that highways don't actually improve traffic congestion at all. So theoretically, the point would apply to cities that aren't shrinking as well. But also, the article mentions Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, etc. and I don't think those areas are shrinking.

Yeah, most of DC will likely be fine since the government insists on having everyone in DC still, but for example, there's a ton of offices across the bridge in Arlington where office workers like myself would generally be. These companies spend so much money to have their own buildings when it may not be fully necessary anymore. My partner's company for example had their lease expire during COVID and they're still deciding if they even want to rent an office building anymore. It'll be interesting to see how these sorts of decisions impact everything else. A much smaller anecdote, but there's a street by our offices in Arlington that's just lined with food trucks taking advantage of all the worker bees being in one area; I'm not sure what happens to those food trucks if there's no longer a centralized place for all the corporate offices.

He's definitely an Eagles fan. He's a fan of all the Philly teams (and also a big fan of college softball lol). His main gig at this point is with The Draft Network and doing a lot of film breakdowns/particularly focusing on QBs. He doesn't even work for PFF which makes the title of this thread kinda funny. But yeah, not surprising at all that the clip of him is being torn apart by Bills fans. I would take Allen over Dak at this point but I think for Solak it mostly boils down to just wanting to see Allen replicate the success again this year which is fair IMO. As someone else mentioned, the "arm arrogance" phrase ruffles people's feathers, but I think he's basically just saying Allen is too aggressive sometimes, which is true. I think we pretty much all agree that the upside to that aggression is worth the downside either way, but there are other QBs out there that can produce roughly the same high-end results that Allen does while limiting the negative plays more than he does.

I do feel like this past year of remote working for so many office workers has probably opened some eyes. For example, I work for a pretty huge consultancy company (not bragging or anything...I'm just a small cog in the machine lol). Their policy had always been that you could work from home one day a week, but after seeing that people's productivity remained the same over the past year or increased if anything, it sounds like they're going to give employees the option to work from home whenever they want (I assume there will be some exceptions for big quarterly meetings or something). They've also made it their policy to stop hiring people around major cities like mine to instead focus on spreading out to smaller/cheaper areas. Most major cities will continue to be hubs for young people and rich people because they offer more things to do, but I do think there's potential for cities to start reimagining themselves a bit. I know that for me personally, I really underestimated how nice it is to live in a walkable area; I pretty much only use my car if I'm going grocery shopping or driving home to visit family at this point. I would love to see cities make themselves more walkable/decrease car dependency.

Love Allen, but yeah, I'd swap without hesitation. Not sure that's the biggest upgrade we could make though even factoring in the importance of the QB position.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/27/climate/us-cities-highway-removal.html I don't work in urban planning, but I find it to be super interesting and have particularly been interested in the talks around becoming less dependent on cars (particularly in urban areas). This article sort of falls into that category and heavily features Upstate NY.

I remember a few years back, the Milwaukee Bucks owner's son posted a picture of himself in the draft room that happened to have their draft board in the background as well. I also remember someone from the Bucks leaking that they had traded up with Atlanta to draft Kevin Huerter before the deal had been made official. The Atlanta Hawks wanted Huerter for themselves and didn't realize during the negotiations that he was the Bucks target, so when they saw the leak, they cancelled the deal at the last second and took him for themselves, which is how Milwaukee ended up with Donte DiVincenzo.

I will say I really just don't see guard skills in Quincy either lol. Best of luck to him though.

Quincy Guerrier officially transferring to Oregon. Says "(Coach Altman) was looking for my position and I was looking for the same thing. I’m going to play more at the three and I’m going to be able to play more on the perimeter and put the ball more on the floor. That was really the main reason why I left Syracuse because I couldn’t really do that. Now I will be able to show my full potential.”