Billy Claude

This. What the Bills do is probably not out of line with the rest of the NFL. This is an old article from 2015 and talks about the top 350 players that CBSSports rated as draftable rather than those actually drafted but they found that 149 out of 327 draft prospects were team captains with the remaining 23 from teams that only had game captains. So basically about 4 out of every 9 drafted player is a team captain. So having 3 team captains in a draft is pretty much par for the course.

Maybe, but Moore was 4th in yards per catch among Brown receivers with at least 20 receptions last season (Jeudy 13.7, Tillman 11.7, and Cooper (CLE only) 10.4). He was even behind one of their tight ends, Jordan Atkins at 9.4. If Moore was going deep he wasn't catching very many of them. Plus there's still the issue that he's an entitled primadonna like Diggs without the production to justify it.

61 receptions on 102 targets (59.8% reception rate) and you can't argue the low catch percentage was because he was going deep since he only got 538 yards for 8.8 ypc.

There's always a chance and the Bills don't have a lot of options but my guess is this will end the same way the Claypoole experiment did.

Moore's been a headcase at both New York, Cleveland, and even Ole Miss. It is basically a Chase Claypoole roll of the dice except that Claypoole at least had one productive season in the pros. https://www.si.com/nfl/jets/news/new-details-emerge-elijah-moore-profane-outburst-jets-trade-request-mike-lafleur https://sports.yahoo.com/elijah-moore-sidelined-vs-bengals-135039804.html https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28189413/ole-miss-wr-elijah-moore-apologize-urinating-dog-celebration

I would definitely be in favor if they did this instead of adding an 18th game but definitely not if they do this and add an 18th game.

For what its worth, several Jets have came out and said that Rodgers was a good influence in the locker room though it is interesting that it has been mainly defensive players saying this.

Right, the story is trying make it sound like Jackson's trying to do something ridiculous when it is something pretty standard. But like you said, however, it's more fun to make fun of Jackson.

Lamar Jackson isn't trying to trademark the number 8, Jackson (or more likely his lawyers) was contesting a particular form that Earnhardt was trying to trademark. In fact, Earnhardt said that it was a backup that they submitted in case they couldn't get the form of 8 they wanted. Since Earnhardt got the trademark for the 8 he wanted, he has already withdrawn his second submission. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/dale-earnhardt-jr-explains-why-he-gave-up-trademark-to-lamar-jackson-so-quickly/ar-AA1CCCw2 This stuff happens all the time.

Actually it was Tyreek Hill that filed for the divorce though later he claimed the filing was made by one of his staff without his knowledge: https://business.mammothtimes.com/mammothtimes/news/read/43876394/tyreek_hill_fires_‘bonehead’_staffer_who_dolphins_star_says_mistakenly_filed_divorce_papers

It makes sense that you are bad at positions that you spend resources on, especially with regards to draft capital. If you use a high draft choice at a position and the guy is a bust, you will need to do it again.

There's no way that the Jets have 250 VPs and SVPs. If they are offering 170 buyouts, its getting reasonably low in the organization.

Kind of strange. You usually offer these mass buyouts to downsize but a quick Google claims the Bills have 750 employees while the Jets only have 250. So it doesn't appear the Jets organization is bloated.

People around the league has seen this for a long time. Three former Bills front office people have been/are NFL GMs -- Brian Gaine, Joe Schoen, and Dan Morgan. That doesn't happen if other teams don't hold the Bills' front office in high regard.

Forgot about Rudolph but they seem to be all in this season picking up DK.

This means that Rodgers has the Steelers over a barrel. I haven't heard anything about them being interested in Cousins.

Apologies if this was already discussed uptrend. Dows this in Luke the $31M cap hit for Diggs? If it does, that explains the #8 ranking for the offense. If it doesn't, the salary ranking for the defense must have been pretty low. Anybody have the salary ranking for the defense?

I would put Rodgers closer to 20 considering the offensive weapons he had and an offensive line that was playing pretty well once they put Olu Fashanu in. He was basically Trent Edwards with occasional flashes. However I agree that he is better than what the Steelers had and that he looked better at the end of the season.

Good cummulative stats makes it appear he had a good season; Rodgers was #7 in yards (Allen was #14) and #7 in TDs (tie with Allen) but dig a little deeper and you realize it was simply because he threw the ball so much. The fact that he was #30 in yards per attempt (Allen was #9) shows he had a mediocre season at best.

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure they said the same thing about Saleh when he was hired. There are reports out of New York that Glenn wants to keep Rodgers but I can't imagine any OC candidate would want that. If you have Rodgers you essentially have to run Rodgers' system. The Jets had 5% fewer runs than the next lowest team this season. I can't believe it is because the OC refused to call running plays. Even if you try to run your system Rodgers will just audible out of it.

Spagnuolo was interviewed by the New York Jets. He is one of the 17 on their interview list. The Jaguars also interviewed Spags. They were able to do the interviews during the Chiefs' bye week. https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/steve-spagnuolo-jets-head-coach-interview-1-10-2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/jaguars/news/breaking-jaguars-announce-completed-interview-with-chiefs-steve-spagnuolo-01jh61djv3t5

The momentum is the same but Physics 101 says that the change in momentum = force * time it takes to stop. If the cushioning means that the head comes to a stop over a 2 cm distance instead of a 1 cm distance, it will increase the time for the head to come to a full stop and the average force will be reduced by about a half. This is the way airbags, crumble zones etc. work. So the brain may be slapping the skull if you hit the pillow but it will do so with much less force which decreases the possibility of a concussion and the severity of the concussion. I have no idea whether the Guardian helmet is real world effective or not but I don't think there is anything in the physics that says it can't work.

From what I understand they will get a $41M cap hit next season but very little cap hit after if the insurance pays out the $44M. The $41M next season is already reduced from $46 due to insurance payments for missing games this season. They could easily release him post June 1 in 2026 with very little pain. It is true the insurance company will investigate. The new injury has to occur while he was doing approved rehab or otherwise related to his original injury and not, for example, jet-skiing or night-clubbing.

It seems like nobody actually reads the thread. As pointed out by MDH and BarleyNY, Watson's contract is heavily insured, they will get $5M of cap relief next season for Watson's missed games this season and will get $44M in cap relief in 2026 if he misses the entire coming season. This is the best possible news for the Browns, enough that the insurance company should look into it more carefully since I am pretty sure Watson doesn't want to play in Cleveland any more. The insurance is expensive but the premium does not count against the cap, so the only question is why more teams don't do this, e.g., von Miller.

This is definitely best case scenario for the Browns.