Mikie2times

As for my own unpopular takes, to which I have many regarding our current leadership, I think Josh should take more heat for not leading a TD drive vs KC the last two years. We blame a lot of reasons why those drives didn't work out. But at the end of the day the all time greats get 6. Otherwise they wouldn't be the all time greats. Josh has had more control over his narrative than many seem to think. Plays were there to be made outside of Bass missing a field goal or Kincaid dropping the ball. Sure, without Josh none of it happens. Sure, we can point to dozens of reasons we lost which seem to be pretty low hanging fruit in comparison. But it seems like most people believe Allen has been a victim of circumstance, when the reality is he had the ball two straight years at the end of the game and we just didn't get it done.

I don’t think anybody is arguing Jim is an all timer. So it’s ok to not be in the same class as Marino, Montana, Young, or Elway. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cut above the cloth and high level performer for a very long time. He was close enough to those guys. Close enough to be a hall of famer with very few disputing it. Perhaps he has some boosted fan recognition with us because he was Mr. Buffalo before Josh, but he probably deserves as much for what he’s done for the Bills in publicity and name recognition. He was the face of the previous dynasty even if Bruce, Thurman, Andre were batter players.

I thought we were better than Dallas in the last one. We beat them earlier in the year and had them on the ropes in that game.

Kelly played in an era where if you had 20 TD’s and 15 INT’s you could be a top 5 QB. Comparing stats is completely pointless. He was a hall of fame level QB in that era and is certainly in the conversation with Marino, Elway, Moon, Aikman, more than Esiason, Cunningham, Testaverde, Kosar, etc.

Winfield, pound for pound was probably the best tackler I have ever seen. Very good corner as well. As many called out, Odoms probably did it the best for the longest time. If I recall wasn’t he one of the first Free Agent casualties we had? Clements was a very good cover corner and also very physical. His hit on Brady is an all timer. McGee was one of the best return guys I have ever seen and just made big plays. These are the guys from the time I have been watching. I think all 4 offered something unique and it would be hard to rate one higher than the rest.

He capitulated faster than Donald

That’s a pretty solid one.

I’m surprised the “art of the deal” doesn’t involve needing to know what leverage you have.

If you’re asking that question. I can’t help you.

No. Go to school. If you can't afford it, take out a loan (like everybody else does). Find a job that won't be replaced by machines and that requires enough skill that somebody in Vietnam can't do it. Let capitalism run it's course. Instead what we are hearing is, raise the price of all consumer goods to subsidize job creation for the lower/middle class. That sounds like an awful policy some idiot on the left would create and mind you, I even like some Bernie policies. How did we arrive at a place where the right is pro union and wants to use taxpayer money for lower class job creation? It's not that MAGA thinks WOKE policy should be canceled, instead they just want it to benefit them. MAGA is the new welfare class.

With the way I set this file up it would be very easy to evaluate that (of course, not perfectly, but within reason) Below is the number of draft picks each team has had in rounds 3-7. I summed the total. Then evaluated how many starts were made by these draft picks. Than landed on average starts made per pick. Buffalo is #1, which I feel is directionally accurate. Again, not perfect, but we sort of know we are good in these rounds and this gives some context.

Yup, I see that issue on that now. I grouped OLB and LB for linebacker. It also has "ILB" Good catch, updated below.

No, I just used the straight draft info from Pro Football Reference

Horrifying.... Also interesting is most of the top playoff teams from last year are spending 20%+ on the DL.

Here you go. Pretty balanced for the most part.

I was thinking the other day on how likely it is that we will be drafting a RB. Then thought further on how it seems like we invest a lot at RB in the draft, but do we? It's hard to really say something is a lot without context. So I took every draft from 2017 to current, assigned each draft pick a point value based on the attached draft value chart. https://overthecap.com/draft-trade-value-chart Then I measured where each team is spending the highest budget by position. I looked at it as a % of the total a team has. In the graph below it is stacked by the total draft capitol each team has had since 2017. Buffalo came in 4th to the lowest in that area because we always pick so late. But as far as the %'s go, that is relative to each teams individual draft capitol. So if Buffalo has 37293 and has spent 13.4% at WR, the total capitol they spent at WR is 5,014 (13.4% of the 37293) Note: A good Samaritan called out that the LB category was likely underrepresented and he was correct, it didn't include position "ILB" which excluded Edmunds so he is now added in. That update is down thread a bit.

I wonder how long he looked in a mirror perfecting his mugshot power look. What a tool.

He’s backed himself into a corner a bit with his rhetoric, not that doing the opposite of what he says matters. It will come this week. I don’t think he can survive the pressure if it doesn’t. His own party will turn on him and is already starting to do so.

Like you never brought a few loaded guns to the airport....pshhh

Estimated market losses divided by a 75k salary

If we just stopped at this moment and invested the losses at 75k per year salary we could create 66 million jobs.

Doesn’t appear like a market bottom is in site. Futures are 3% down. Worst route since Covid. I don’t imagine FOX will have tickers running this week. Trump will celebrate Zimbabwe negotiations. In a matter of 3 trading days we are approaching a Bear market from all time highs just weeks ago. Incredible. I’m 42 and the only comparable market events I saw to this was housing crash and Covid.

And why would any prudent business owner take the steps to help accommodate a more long term outlook on these policies? One that Trump sort of needs to even check the box of returning jobs? No trust. How can you reroute your supply chains in a permanent way, build more in the US, when the reality is this could very well be an ill conceived negotiation ploy. At some point business and foreign countries have to trust our government will keep the rules the same for more than five seconds to have any material impact, good or bad.

A lot of the Trump voters that actually sealed the deal aren’t even MAGA. They have bulky 401k’s. They were ostracized by the Democrats in the election process (as was I). They took a lesser of two evils approach on the vote. But no where did they expect what has been happening to the level that it has and they certainly won’t put up with. Trump can’t hold the support of the US with his MAGA core. He needs to the moderates and swing voters and he’s losing them in mass with these policies. It will be a democratic route next cycle.

But, but, but…we have been taken advantage of too long! Not that any value exists for the US in international peace or a thriving global economy. It now only matters what our trade deficit is with third world countries.