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The NFL’s television deals pay the salary cap for the entire league so Cousins would probably still be getting some pretty big checks. Just sayin’.

There’s no chance. Buffalo will be opened on the same timeline as the rest of the state, which Cuomo has recently said is still week’s away. They haven’t even begun their multi-state plan to reopen the economy yet. You’re not going to see schools reopen this academic year. I’d wager you won’t see non-essential businesses until at least mid-May. An international border? Who knows.

And Josh Allen is going to be free? If Allen continues to progress as this team’s franchise QB, he’s going to be 35 million a year.

Interesting, since Mike Clay also has JA ranked as his #7 fantasy QB. I’ve also heard him talk very positively of JA on various podcasts. In general, I really like Clay but he’s a statistical analysis guy and let’s be honest, at this point, JA is a gamer who gets it done in spite of the stats. It isn’t always pretty but he gets it done. I think this ranking reflects that.

Considering OBL is essentially a team-backed PR show, I’m surprised the Bills haven’t sent over some new talking points for Murph and Tasker. Really must be absolutely nothing going on over there.

I love when people take a legitimate criticism and twist it out of context. Never change, TBD.

So it’s like the majority of team’s backup QB situations?

DO SOMETHING, PEGULA.

As a school teacher, that’s starting to come more into focus as a potential reality. One shoe already dropped with one state already announcing it and another state hinting at it. In New York, we have the governor saying the outbreak peak is still 45 days away and my district is already sending us instructional updates requesting us to move to more online distance learning. To me, that suggests they’re preparing for the four weeks off to become four months off.

It’s not ironic at all. It’s the first day after a scheduled week long spring break.

With Williamsville and Lancaster schools announcing their closed indefinitely, I’d expect the rest (Buffalo and immediate suburbs) to close indefinitely as well. Who knows if the BPS will actually have that school day Tuesday. Sort of defeats the purpose of starting a social distancing quarantine if they do.

So we should just let the virus spread uncontrollably like wildfire through asymptomatic carriers until it’s ravaging the elderly and medically frail everywhere? That’s how you end up with a million dead.

You only consider the move for OBJ if you’re McD and you think you can knock down OBJ’s ego a couple pegs and keep him in check. Id consider a second and another pick, definitely not blowing Cleveland away. Looking for a buy low situation like Randy Moss from Oakland to NE.

What the hell strawman are you prattling on about? I made no argument about what you’re writing. I DID directly respond to a post about the player’s union having to vote on a 17th game. I’d also respond to what you think is unsupported by facts, which is generally (and I used that term) true and can be seen throughout the tenets of the NFLPA’s own prior contract preferences. This isn’t the place for that argument, though. Don’t create strawman arguments. It’s intellectually dishonest.

Nirvana was always a band whom I didn’t like but respected their place in music until the ‘Your Favorite Band Sucks’ podcast really hammered home my dislike for Cobain and the band. A solid listen unless you really love Nirvana, then you might be a little bummed afterwards.

It’s not like the NFL can just add a 17th game against the wishes of the NFLPA. The player’s union has to sign off on it. Now, union leadership is generally weighted towards the most tenured/powerful members and maybe that leadership has the persuasive clout to tell its members, “***** you, we are/aren’t playing a 17th game” but the majority still has to vote in favor of playing an extra game to get it done. I expect it will pass, because the majority of members are lower wage/shorter playing career guys who will benefit from an extra game check. That will be the players choosing to have “player safety take a back seat.”

1) I would assume that football fans care, mainly the football fans discussing it for five pages. 2) Buffalo Bills fans may also care considering that we have a young QB whose next contract will be based on the market that Mahomes sets. 3) You also care considering that you spent moments of your free time reading and commenting on it. And guys like you always respond about how much you don’t actually care, so don’t bother. #badtakes

Re: Convention Center I know for a fact that the city put feelers out to local developers in regards to a new convention center. There was never an official RFP issued but a bigger and modernized convention center is on the city’s radar. Now, the city’s broke and I’m not sure how high up a new convention center is on the state’s priority list of things to help Buffalo out with considering the looming stadium issue and Metro Rail expansion but it’s definitely something local leadership is pursuing on some level. That said, there’s a lot of things that the city has and still is “pursuing” that never got off the ground. The city’s been sitting on the Mohawk Ramp RFP for like three years now so nothing comes quickly in this city. So I’m not saying it’s a good idea or that it’s going to ever happen, just that the city has previously expressed interest in getting a new convention center built.

Buffalo and Buffalo business owners absolutely care about Canada. You’re underestimating the importance of Southern Ontario on Buffalo.

You don’t think somebody from Fort Erie can get to downtown Buffalo quicker than somebody from Depew? They literally could walk into downtown if they wanted. Southern Ontario is generally considered the Fort Erie-Niagara Falls-St Catherines metro. That includes places like Welland. St Catherines takes about 30 minutes once you get on the QEW but it’s an easy drive. Wife is from there, made it hundreds of times. Niagara Falls ON is about a 20 minute drive into downtown Buffalo, and the Fort Erie area is literally the international first ring suburb that wasn’t. Buffalo and its inner suburbs are considered a “20 minute city.” All those Canadian residents are within, or just outside by a negligible amount of time, that 20 minute window. Most of them have direct highway access to downtown Buffalo as well.

This doesn’t even take into account the 300,000 people in Soutern Ontario who live closer to the City of Buffalo proper than people in Buffalo’s outer suburbs. Not to mention, the 700,000 people a quick hour drive down the QEW in Hamilton. Buffalo is as much of a regional center as it is a self-contained place.

There’s always a Manning to the Brady. Mahomes might be the AFC’s best but there’ll be another QB that’s right there as the thorn in his side. Hopefully that’s JA but we’ll see...

Hindsight is 20/20. Every team in the league would have traded up to 10 if they knew Mahomes would be a perennial MVP.

That would make a lot of sense. The City of Buffalo/BMHA have been essentially neglecting that entire site since the redevelopment plans a bunch of years back fell through. With the Old First Ward neighborhood improving and a connector to Canalside and the Outer Harbor, I can easily see the city loving a massive project to replace housing projects. The only issue is parking, it’s still part of the urban core. There cannot/should not be any new sprawling surface lots so that will be interesting. If they go this route, they’re going to get a hell of a pushback from affordable housing advocates and other social justice groups, though.

I’m sorry but your impressions of Buffalo aren’t accurate. As someone who’s also very well travelled, I’m not going to claim Buffalo is growing more than other places but it’s not “still on the decline.” Life and progress in the actual city (read: not the suburbs) is better than it’s been in decades. ...which is to say a lot considering how incompetent city government is across the board.