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WTF are you talking about? Kansas City metro has 2.5 million people.

So Laremy Tunsil and Roquan Smith are fools?

Then he's a moron.

One can argue whatever one wants to argue. It doesn't change the fact that the 49ers have been more successful over the short term, the medium term, and the long term, though. They're an elite organization.

SF has played in 3 conference championship games and a Superbowl in the last 4 seasons. I think you're selling them short by saying that the Bills have been more successful than they have.

How about a 7th round pick for Carolina’s first round pick?

Yeah, he only took them to 5 NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl in 14 seasons.

So you don’t think there’s a correlation between age and injuries or injury history and injuries? I didn’t think I was exactly going out on a limb by suggesting it. More than ever, the NFL is a young man’s game. Between the addition of a 17th regular season game and the removal of a bye in the postseason, you pretty much have to expect to play 21 games to win a championship compared to 19 in the past. That puts a lot of strain on older players. It’s a risk/reward proposition. Beane has chosen to take his chances on some older players and/or those with injury histories. If they stay healthy, the Bills are championship contenders and he looks like a genius.

Injuries aren’t random, though. Older players are more likely to get injured than younger players. Players who have had major injury issues in the past are more likely to get injured than players who haven’t. Beane signed Von Miller last year. He was 33 years old and had experienced 2 major injuries in the past. He got injured again. Now Beane has let a 25 year old LB with no major injury history walk while signing an injury prone WR and re-signing a 32 year old Safety to play alongside a 33 year old Safety. The Bills were the 8th oldest team last season, and they’ve gotten older in FA. They had the best roster last year when fully healthy, but that didn’t last. It’s a calculated risk that didn’t pay off last year. We’ll see if it does in 2023.

All. In.

Nobody’s dragged Lamar for not playing last year? Are you serious?

So $133m guaranteed won’t cripple a franchise, but $180m will?

Lamar, we don’t want to pay you if you get hurt trying to win games for us. Also, you’re a bum if you don’t risk your career by playing injured.

GMs should be more than happy to guarantee a contract to their franchise QB. Whatever GM signs a QB to a massive contract is getting fired if he sucks irrespective of how much of the money was guaranteed. It’s not like pissing away $130 million is fine but $180 million is grounds for termination. If you pick the right guy, he’s worth whatever the contract is.

They’re so well run that they’re 4-8 when Lamar doesn’t play.

Ravens are 45-16 with Lamar starting. They’re 4-8 without him.

$133 million guaranteed simply isn’t in line with the market for a QB of his level. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34096853/highest-paid-nfl-players-tracking-most-money-guaranteed-per-year-every-position

Nobody would be complaining about Watson’s contract if he was balling out. It’s a bad contract because he’s been a disaster on and off the field. Lamar has been great on and off the field. Why should he pay for Watson’s crimes when every other mediocre at best QB is cashing in?

He was offered a borderline top 10 contract that would have been well below market.

Something about Lamar Jackson makes people lose their minds. In no universe is he worth less than Daniel Jones, Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins, etc.

Big Black Bock

I never watched Edmunds and came away impressed with him as a player, but I can’t deny that the team’s performance was dramatically better when he was in the lineup compared to when he wasn’t. He was going to get a bag from someone that the Bills couldn’t match. It’ll be interesting to see if he earns it.

Allen’s contract is increasing at a rate that exceeds the salary cap increase, but it’s still not really an issue. Miller’s is potentially problematic in that he’s going to be a big cap hit in the near future, and the likelihood of that turning into an albatross is considerable given his age and injury situation. If you cut a player, all of that money that’s been restructured comes due immediately in terms of the cap hit so there’s potentially a lot of dead money sitting out there.

If you're looking to corner the market on guys who have been mostly disappointing other than a monster game in a loss against the Chiefs, he's the missing piece.

Tyreek Hill isn’t really all that fast when you put it in context.