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So what do you do when Tua refuses to sign it?

That’s true, but $24 million is nearly double $13 million which is what Samuel’s guarantee was.

What makes you think that Samuel who signed a 3 year, $24 million contract is an improvement over Davis who signed a 3 year, $39 million contract? In three more season played, Samuel has 650 more yards and 5 fewer TDs than Gabe. I can see how he could be a better value at their respective price tags, but Davis got 63% more on the open market with nearly double the guaranteed money.

Chiefs SF Ravens (Lions, Packers, Bengals, Texans) (Bills, Cowboys, Eagles, Browns) I voted 5-8. Somewhere in the 8-11 range seems about right.

What’s different in the playoffs with Cousins on the team versus Josh? They still win against the Ravens in 2020, NE in 2021, Miami in 2022, and Pittsburgh in 2023. They still lose to Cincinnati and Kansas City each time. The only games that might have flipped is if Buffalo beats the Texans with Cousins in 2019 and/or loses to the Colts in 2020.

Maybe they can win the I’m Super, Thanks for Asking Bowl.

Or a Super Bowl ring.

Diggs’s production leaped with Allen because his targets went from 94 to 166. Allen’s obviously a much better QB than Cousins, but Stef also saw 80% more targets.

You’re not wrong, but what does it mean in terms of evaluating his decision as a GM? Let’s assume that there was a pool of players Beane had graded identically. He then traded back 4 spots and allowed KC, SF, Dallas, and Baltimore to pick from that pool first. Those are some of the best front offices in the business, and KC clearly had a strong opinion that one of those players stood out amongst the rest. Settling for whomever those teams didn’t want doesn’t seem like the best way to get the top player from that pool.

For those who think Dallas should let him walk, where would you rank him amongst this list of every QB drafted in the past 5 seasons who has been even remotely viable: Kyler Murray Daniel Jones Drew Lock Gardner Minshew Joe Burrow Justin Herbert Tua Jalen Hurts Jordan Love Trevor Lawrence Zach Wilson Mac Jones Justin Fields Brock Purdy Kenny Pickett Sam Howell Desmond Ritter Bryce Young CJ Stroud Will Levis Anthony Richardson The only one I would say is definitively better is Burrow, and he’s constantly injured. Stroud looks like a stud, and Love might be soon. I think Dak is just as good as Lawrence, Tua, Purdy, and Hurts. So you can sign him to a huge deal or you can hope to find a QB in the draft even though half the drafts won’t have one as good as him, and half of those who are will be gone before you’re ever on the clock.

Is it that time again? One of my favorite traditions here is watching everyone pretend that a star QB is crazy to ask for a huge contract that he will obviously never get only to be shocked when he gets it.

The Chiefs have agreed to forfeit every game he’s ever played in.

That’s going to be appointment television. Texans are -1.5 currently.

Those dots you’re trying to connect are incredibly far apart given the seriousness of the accusation you’re suggesting. You’re saying that the front office drafted someone who they knew was accused of SA, and you base this on the fact that he was the third punter drafted instead of the first or second?

Literally laughed out loud at that one.

I’d take Allen at $100 million over Lawrence at $55 million.

They’d better triple check it for accuracy next year.

So Zac Taylor must just be an elite coach given that he’s dominated the Bills and has gone 2-1 against the Chiefs in the regular season and 1-1 in the postseason.

And Beane didn’t draft that linebacker. As far as Higgins goes, I don’t think anyone would dispute that he would be the best player on the Bills not named Josh Allen.

The Bengals and Bills both have elite QBs. Josh is better, but Burrow is also great when healthy. Setting QBs aside, Cincy has three elite players at premium positions in Chase, Higgins, and Hendrickson. Buffalo had Diggs plus half a season of Von.

Buffalo

Yes. Beane’s given big contracts to Allen, Dawkins, Oliver, Miller, and Diggs. Allen was great. Oliver didn’t do a damn thing. Neither did Miller. Diggs was terrible, and Dawkins got worked on the biggest play of the season. The big money guys on the other side dominated them. Kelce had 2 TDs, Mahomes was Mahomes, and Chris Jones did something that can’t be coached when he drove Dawkins into Josh’s lap. That game wasn’t about Xs and Os. It was about Kansas City’s Joes kicking Buffalo’s JImmies.

That’s an interesting question. What did McDermott do in Buffalo before Beane got there? He drafted Tre White, Zay Jones, Dion Dawkins, and Matt Milano while adding an extra first round pick for the next season in the process knowing that they’d need all the extra ammo they could get to draft a QB the following season. Then he took a bad roster and a bad QB to the playoffs for the first time in 17 seasons. Beane picked Allen, presumably with a lot of input from McDermott after Mayfield and Darnold had already been taken. Allen, Rosen, and Lamar were the three left. Basically, he/they were smart enough not to take Josh Rosen. And let’s not pretend that Josh just walked on the field and started balling. He had to be developed over three plus years. Since then, Beane (and McDermott) has mostly drafted average players. McDermott has proven since his Carolina days that he can develop talented rookies into difference makers on defense. Beane has whiffed on them in the draft. It’s not like Basham and Edmunds got better after they left. They were mediocre guys who were way over drafted. If Brian Burns or Montez Sweat was on the defensive line instead of Oliver, things would be very different. Rousseau is fine and might get 10 sacks one day, but he’s never going to be Maxx Crosby. All things considered, I’m taking McDermott’s resume over Beane’s.

It’s not a fact at all. Kicks in Orchard Park have the 9th highest make percentage in the league since 2012. (Yes, that’s an arbitrary date, but it’s what the page defaulted to when I Googled it.) https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/rank-all-nfl-stadiums-by-field-goal-percentage-from-highest-to-lowest-since-2012

“Lack of evidence” and the bizarre loophole in Minnesota law that has since been closed which stated that a person couldn’t be charged for raping a drunk woman if she had consumed the drinks willingly.