Billy Claude

It is crazy that the NFL lets a team use their own footballs. Is there any other team sport that lets a team do this?

I'll bet the source for last bit was Rex Ryan.

I don't think Frazier got much credit from the fans even for the regular season defense. It was typically assumed that it was mostly McDermott.

So, maybe Leslie Frazier wasn't the bum that the majority of people seem to think he was? I was always amazed at the lack of credit he got for being DC of the #1 and #2 ranked defenses in 2021 and 2022.

It really did look like the refs had the Dolphins giving the points.

That's not true. There's still a lot of screaming about anti-Bills refereeing and especially about perceived anti-Allen bias. It's just more irrational than before.

Yes, in 2024 they changed the rules to let private equity own 10 per cent of a team. That is the reason for the spate of sales of minority shares in teams.

Just because it is on Reddit doesn't mean it is true. If this was a true story you would find it from multiple outlets -- not one Reddit story and a YouTube video. Based on that last sentence in the story "Eating food off of other people's plates is considered a serious offense in the United States, and Benjamin could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted." I am pretty confident it is fake.

This is just the rest of what is on Reddit. Is there a link to the original story? AI says he has not been arrested as a adult. I am going to guess this story is also fake.

Is this real? The only thing I can find on google is a reddit story that claims this yet there is no link to the New York Times article that they supposedly Instead there are boken links to the Washington Post and USA articles. I am going to guess it is made up. In any case, the Gentleman story was entirely made up since it was broken by Wesley Steinberg which clearly a parody account.

Agree. Also O'Brien >> Darnold and Eason >> Rudolph O'Brien was really good for a four year stretch including being AFC player of the year in 1985. Eason was the QB when the Pats got killed by the Bears in the Super Bowl. Darnold would need another three years like last year to get to O'Brien level. Eason wasn't very good but at least he started in 51 games while Rudolph is most likely a career backup.

It was a fake story by Wesley Steinberg who specializes parody NFL stories after Benjamin was cut. Everybody retweeted anyways without bothering to check so it is pretty much an established "fact" now. Here is the AI summary of why Benjamin was actually cut: Date: The release occurred on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Reason: The core of the issue was a disagreement over weight. Incident: Benjamin had a visible discussion with Judge and Gettleman before walking off the field during the first training camp practice. Weight Discrepancy: Benjamin was informed he needed to cut down to 251 pounds but reportedly arrived at camp weighing 268 pounds, despite passing the conditioning test.

The Bills won two very close games and lost a game the last four times they were favored by more than 10 points. Every time there's a thread about how they can't see when the next lost is going to come the Bills immediately go into a spiral. It's just bad juju.

Obvious newbie. Trying to include facts in an internet dicussions instead of just emotions and opinions. You'll never win an argument that way!

I didn't read the article (paywall), and I'm not saying that Zach Wilson was salvageable, but I don't think any quarterback including Allen would have succeeded given the situation they put Wilson in. I assume they discussed Wilson in the article, it's a case study in what not to do.

So those Cowboy and Browns fans who were questioning his desire to play football were probably right.

The NFL is purely demand driven. The reality is that the only way prices go down is if people don't pay because either they don't watch or watch illegally. So the illegal streaming services lower the legal prices, not the opposite.

Yeah, the Christian Hackenberg pick in 2016 was WTF from the moment it was made. You are doing pretty badly when you have two second round picks within 4 years play zero snaps for your team.

They don't have any example of people being offended. It a case of people being offended by people being offended.

Who, exactly, has said they were offended? There is nothing in the article with examples of people who actually said they were offended.

Right. Some people thought Jalen Virgil was a courtesy cut. Forget about it -- he was actually released with an injury designation.

It has nothing to do with what Chicago wants and as usual it's about what makes the most money for the Bears. The Bears wanted a lot of money from the state and city to build downtown and were rejected. The Bears own 350 acres in Arlington Heights so they think they can make more money building the stadium there and developing the surrounding area. Arlington Heights might also be willing to give them tax incentives.

Don't forget preseason Hall of Famer Brandon Reilly.

Most likely this was mentioned before but the Bills didn't have a choice. Previous to this season any team that had made the playoffs the previous two seasons were allowed to decline. This was why the most recent seasons were mostly the leagues sad sacks and why episode one has so much less drama.

I'm pretty sure they were before they had the pads on.