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It could be cool, but I’m just not sure how a stadium lends itself to that sort of event. It’s a casual atmosphere. Either way, Buffalo would knock it out of the park. It’s an event for football die-hards. The NFL spends so much capital courting new markets and casual fans by hosting the Super Bowl exclusively in glamour towns and having international games that they owe it to their base to let the middle market, middle class, middle aged fans have this one.

It doesn't need to be at the stadium. Kansas City hosted this year, and it was in midtown which is 10 miles from the stadium. The draft is a perfect event for smaller market teams like Kansas City and Buffalo.

I just can't fathom signing a very average DT to a $68m deal just to free up space for Hopkins. If that's the move and Buffalo doesn't win the title this year, Beane should be gone.

If there is one team in “win-now mode” this season, it’s the Bills.

Very similar to the last several seasons schematically. Anyone who thinks Frazier was going rogue and doing things that McDermott was opposed to is delusional.

Show me Schefter's quote on it.

Bell wanted a longer contract. Mahomes has 12 years.

He’s literally said the exact opposite. Guys like Mike Florio simply try to speak it into existence. https://theathletic.com/4552865/2023/05/25/patrick-mahomes-priorities-legacy-rings/

They’d be stupid to price themselves out of the market that way. Mahomes probably gained $20 million a year in additional endorsement revenue by winning the Super Bowl. Why would he jam up his own franchise for an extra $5,000,000 and cost himself a Creed Humphrey which would both hurt his chances at another championship and expose him to potential injury?

Mahomes isn’t getting a new contract. That’s all been made very clear.

Elam's lack of playing time the second half of the season is still a mystery to me. Has there ever been any explanation for it?

It just seems like these are the same level of moves that have been made every year. If they don't work any better than adding Saffold worked, then a year from now people are going to be complaining that all Beane did to address the issues was being in McGovern and Torrence (and the criticisms will be justified).

I've seen a lot of people say this, but I don't get it. For all the complaining about how bad the line was last season, Connor McGovern and a late second round Guard is all it takes to fix? That seems like an awfully small band-aid.

If that's true, Diggs should be gone.

You've already got a 34 year old Defensive End at home.

He sucks and all, but I don’t see how he’s done anything that warrants jail time. It seems hard to imagine, but sometimes being born into fame and fortune is the opposite of a blessing.

The agents are making those decisions. Whether you agree with what the agents decide, those guys earn millions to do this for a living. The players are just doing what their agents tell them, and that’s the smart move. Guys like Lamar who don’t hire agents get crapped on for not having agents tell them what to do, and then the guys who do what their agents tell them get crapped on as well.

Not sure what the take-away of it is, but I'm postseason victories, Josh averages 36 rushing yards per game. In losses he averages 69 yards. That could mean that he runs more out of desperation, or it could mean that he's trying to do too much. Like most things, it's probably a little bit of both.

Quinnen Williams, like nearly every single other player in his situation, is doing precisely what his agent is telling him to do, and that’s exactly what he should be doing. Agents aren’t stupid. They understand how to cause a stir amongst a fan base and apply pressure to the franchise by manipulating their clients’ social media. It’s part of a 9 figure negotiation, not childish drama.

There's nothing pessimistic about that. Football teams turn over their rosters frequently, and this is the oldest roster in the league. The 2024 version of this team will have 8-10 new starters compared to the 2023 team. McBeane have chosen to mostly run it back the last two seasons. They're due for an overhaul outside of Josh, Diggs, and the youngsters who are going to have to take over for guys like Hyde, Poyer, and Morse. It's very doable when you've got a young superstar at QB. Look at the "make it out break it" thread. If most of those guys show out, then they'll be part of the retooling, and the team will keep on rolling. If not, it's a bigger project.

Not necessarily. We just saw that a team can win a Super Bowl while doing a serious re-tooling. Vegas has the Bills winning 10.5 games. If they sightly outperform that by going 12-5 and going on a postseason run, there's no reason to think they can't keep it going while doing some serious roster churn. If they underperform at 9-8, then you're absolutely looking at a two year rebuild. Anybody whose age starts with a 3 would be a candidate to be moved, and guys like Tre, Brown, Oliver, Knox, Davis, Basham, and Epenesa would have to be evaluated as well. I think Buffalo is a 10 or 11 win team, so neither of those outcomes would shock me.

2024 is going to be a serious re-tooling year. If the 2023 season goes poorly for whatever reason, it could be a full-on rebuild.

He had 51 total TDs and 4400 total yards in a 2 year span. That is absolutely mind blowing.

Conversely, if they had replaced the worst QB in the NFL with the guy who had won the last 2 MVP awards, they would have had really good shots against the Patriots x2, the Bills, Dolphins, Lions, and Vikings. The Jets were a competent QB away from being a playoff team last season. Now they’ve got ARod, and if he’s got anything left, they’re a very formidable team. If Hall comes back healthy, they’re very much a factor to win the AFCE. They’re a young team that’s only going to get better as their youth develops.

I’ve quoted the post I made that got all of the negative responses below. It was literally the last post I had made before I made my comment about people reacting negatively to me comparing what KC has assembled to Buffalo and that “I don’t see some glaring advantage”. At the time, it had 3 reactions, and they were all “disagree”. Either way, I’m done discussing it. I do like the Bills, and I think their fans deserve a Super Bowl. I made no response to Bills fans being protective of their team. The response I made was to someone saying that Bills fans would murder their front office for what Veach and Reid had assembled. It was a laughably bad take. If I’m crying about anything, it’s the price of Super Bowl merchandise. I don’t know if you’ve priced any lately, but it’s not cheap.