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Sneed definitely isn’t taking a cut. He has never gotten paid. Jones I could see taking a smaller deal with more years.

Morally, I felt it was tough to cut him without due process. Business and football-wise, it was a no-brainer to jettison him. Tough decision. Really glad the kids’ life isn’t over and he gets to pursue his dream. Not sure there’s anything else to say.

Bills fans used to ANNIHILATE Lamar Jackson. That trailed off for a bit until this second MVP. There can be no other great QB’s in the NFL! I eagerly await the tonal shift on CJ Stroud from “what a great rookie season from a promising young QB,” to “Stroud is overrated and I take Allen 10/10 times over him, he ain’t even close!” You know it’s coming. Week 6 if the Texans are like 5-1 and someone on ESPN says Stroud should be MVP, the hate will start to fly.

Hopefully Von plays more left bench next year, or isn’t on the team at all, and we don’t have to worry about this.

Hot take: Sean McDermott joins competition committee yesterday. Today, salary cap is bumped up almost $14M more than projected, which helps keep us competitive. coincidence? I think not. Unlike the draft, where we know exactly who is going to be successful and is definitely not unpredictable at all.

Bah gawd, that’s Terry McLaurin’s music!

2024 cap released. $255M Sean McD already making his presence felt at the competition committee.

2025 dead cap hit with a post 6/1 cut is $22M, which is the same as if we cut him pre 6/1 in 2025. These numbers are all readily available. And yeah, I’ve used Spotrac for years, and I’ve never seen them call post 6/1 designations as potential outs. It’s an educated guess, because I have experience with the website. unlike you, who treat it like gospel when it supports your opinion, dispute it as “wrong” when it doesn’t, and don’t even know how to use it lmao. You also don’t know the definition of brazen, but nice comeback attempt?

Thank you. I was trying to read the daily mail link and I thought I was having a stroke.

They do list 2025 as a potential out. They also say we can say can cut Diggs post 6/1 and save $19M in space in 2024. As far as I know, Spotrac doesn’t use post 6/1 moves as potential outs because they are pretty rare in general. You are very confident and quite brazen about your interpretation of Spotrac for a guy who needed 2 pages of directions to figure out how to use the website.

Click the red X on the right. Then you can debate the numbers with the website.

Jim ain’t getting flack for this. He’s 64 years old. His nephew is about to be 30.

People will call this “low expectations,” but the Sabres are literally unwatchable. Some dark day Bills games in December were unwatchable. We have a primetime fun great team. There’s about 28 or 29 fan bases of teams that would kill to be us.

These two parts, mostly; if you switch to “Bills” and “Allen” it basically becomes your takes over the last 12 months.

I enjoy watching Josh every weekend, and I’m very grateful that we have the second best QB in the league. The potential for hope and heartbreak is what makes sports so special. Josh will get one. Bills football hasn’t been this entertaining since 1993, and our chances of winning a title have never been higher. This is the run you will remember forever and you should enjoy it while we have it.

Oh the IRONY lmao.

Andy Reid didn’t have to face Brady in the same conference, much like Shanny doesn’t have to face Mahomes now. Andy lost to Kerry Collins, Kurt Warner, Brad Johnson, Jake Delhomme, Brady, Drew Brees, Kurt Warner, Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers in the postseason. Some great names in there, and also some not so great names. Marvin Lewis lost to Matt Schaub, Phil Rivers, Andrew Luck, Big Ben when Andy Dalton was a starter in the NFL. McD and Allen have lost to Mahomes 3 times and Burrow once (since Josh has been a franchise QB). Shanny has lost to Brady (as OC) Mahomes, Mahomes, Hurts (when his QB got hurt). your Marvin Lewis comparison fits far more to pre-Mahomes Andy than McD. Shanny and McD are the better comparison. Losing to the greatest QB in the generation isn’t a crime. We face them before an NFC team ever will. Losing to Jake Delhomme and Brad Johnson and Kerry Collins? Man, you’d have burned McD’s house down if he did that.

What % of punts does a punter actually do in game time situations? 1%? Less?

Not really a wash. It was probably, statistically, the most impactful defensive play of the entire game by both teams. Chris Jones causing an errant throw on second down in the redzone is the “game-sealing play?” What is this madness?

Poyer forced a fumble out of the end zone that saved the game from being a blowout and cost the Chiefs 7 points.

We would all agree that Brock Purdy has a chance to win the Super Bowl but didn’t play well enough to get it done? Missed a couple plays that would’ve changed the game? Why can we not use that same criteria for Allen? It all comes down to that fundamental flawed assumption. “He’s just as good, if not the better QB than Pat.” So Allen can’t be criticized in that same way, I guess. I will continue to live in the world where Patrick Mahomes almost ALWAYS delivers and that’s what makes him the best. Namely, reality. Ya’ll can continue to believe that Allen also does (despite what our eyes tell us). I wonder what Saints message boards were like when Brees and Brady were at their peak. “Brees is just as good if not better than Brady, there’s just a coaching discrepancy! The team isn’t good enough, they have Gronk and we only have Jimmy Graham!” Now of course, we can all admit that Brady was just a better QB. I’m sure even Saints fans admit it now. It’s hard being second best.

That’s true. There is a fair amount of luck involved. It’s hard to win championships. There’s also an aspect of when you’re the best, you sometimes just need to not beat yourselves. You can create your own luck. Folks that believe the NE dynasty and the Chiefs dynasty is “just” luck, are completely wrong imo. But luck certainly helps. Which is why the Chiefs lost their 1 SB and Brady/BB lost 3.

Nah, I think we keep scratching and clawing and trying to get better (with a pinch of draft luck) and try to beat them or hope we catch some breaks and not have to face them at all. I don’t think we can NEVER win. We just have to get lucky, and a team with a good coach (but not the best) and a great QB (but not the best) is going to need luck to break through. Mahomes can win 10 for all I care, I just want one. I am past the point of caring if Josh Allen goes down as the greatest QB in the history of QB’s. There’s some weird obsession with trying to wish Josh into being a better QB than Pat but that race is long over.

I think he’s a good coach. Honestly a great coach. I also know he wasn’t “good enough” before he got the best QB in football. If the Bills had the best QB in football and couldn’t beat them, I would be yelling fire McD with the rest of ya.