Billy Claude

It is surprising to me that the biggest reach in absolute draft position during the 4 years is Pittsburgh picking Terrell Edmunds 106 positions higher than predicted in 2018. You don't really think of the Steelers as a front office that reaches a lot. He hasn't been a bust but probably a bit of a disappointment. He was a RFA this year who got no interest from other teams and re-signed with the Steelers for 1 yr at 2.5M.

Talk about a misleading tweet. if you click on the link and read the article (shocking, I know) it essentially says that Florio and Simms is pushing this story but the writer does not believe it since the Dolphins are more than a QB away (since they would not have enough draft capital to get Tyreke Hill if they traded a first for Sean Payton). So is screwing over Belichick really enough motivation for Brady to want to join the Dolphins?

Absolutely. I was pretty sure all that stuff about becoming Bills fans was temporary. Of course, the outrage will come back if the Browns don't win.

Revenge porn is illegal almost everywhere although I am not sure sending the pictures to two "celebrities" count. From ballotpedia: As of February 2021, 46 states and Washington D.C. had passed laws prohibiting the distribution or production of nonconsensual pornography. Nonconsensual pornography refers to the distribution of sexual or pornographic images of individuals without their consent. This may include images taken without consent or images taken with consent but later distributed without the consent of those in the images. These images are sometimes referred to as revenge porn. Yes, it is a pretty slimy thing to do if Von Miller actually did this No, I am not outraged but it is certainly disappointing. However, there is no need to defend the guy's actions just because he is a Bill. We are reaching the point in society that people are willing to defend anything someone does as long as the person is on their team.

They seem to have forgotten to mention that the Detroit Pistons were the third worse team in the NBA this season. No one wants to watch a team if they are fairly certain to lose even before the game starts, not even Sabres fans.

Agree that the numbers might have been down the last two years due to Covid but there was a clear downward trend even before 2020. Here are the 5 year averages and standard deviations 2000-2004 42 +/- 2 2005-2009 60 +/- 10 (max 71 in 2006) 2010-2014 52 +/- 6 (61 in 2013) 2015-2019 33 +/- 5 (pre-covid min of 28 in 2016 and 29 in last precovid year) 2020-2021 19 +/- 2 (probably affected by covid) In any case, even 33 out of approximately 2000 players is still much lower than expected for that number of 21 to 30 year old males though probably higher than those that make over 150K. In general, 21 to 30 year old males do a lot of stupid things independent of whether they are NFL players or not.

I would think the Saints would be more appropriate if those were the shorts.

A whole lot more than you think, given that there were 10 million arrests in the US in 2019 including over 1 million for DUI. It would be even more likely that an employee would be arrested if most of the company consisted mostly of males between 21 to 30 years old. See the overview from the FBI in the middle of the page: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/persons-arrested

I feel that the outrage expressed in this thread is purely due to taking numbers entirely out of context. As I noted in the Carrington thread, if you click on sort by year, you will see that the number of arrests has gone down systematically from 61 in 2013 to 18 last year. This is out of 2200 NFL players (including practice squad) consisting of mostly 21 to 30 year old males. This is extremely low arrest rate for this age group. As a comparison there were 860,000 arrests in the 21 to 24 year old age group in the US in 2019 out of a population of a bit more than 8 million -- this is the arrest rate is more than 1 in 10 young adult males. This arrest rate for the 21 to 24 group will be larger than the 21 to 30 year age group as a whole but not by that much. It is clear that the NFL arrest rate has been systematically going down (though it will most likely be higher this year based on YTD numbers) and that it is substantially less than the comparison age group. I wouldn't be surprise if it is not that far out of range of 21 to 30 year old makes making over 150K (practice squad salary).

If you sort it by year there has been an systematic decrease in the number of arrests from 61 in 2013 to 18 last year (although based on YTD it will be higher this year). All in all, 18 arrests out of over 2000 males in the age group between 20 and 35 is not very large and the NFL is to be congratulated in getting the numbers down.

It is true that owning the Bills are not a great rate of return although it is completely unfair to not include appreciation. However, you have to include risk factors when evaluating an investment. Owning a NFL team must be one of the lowest risk investments you can make since costs are controlled (versus the NBA, MLB or soccer). Even if they lost money in 2020, I bet they made up for a lot of it in 2021 due to the lower salary cap. I do agree that most owners are primarily in it for the ego trip. Profit is important but secondary.

I appreciate the Pegulas for keeping the team in Buffalo as much as anyone but your are making it sound like they plunked down 1.5B purely for altruistic purposes. Obviously they will still be making a lot of money just not as much as if they move the team somewhere else. The person who should be getting most of the credit for keeping the team in Buffalo is Ralph Wilson and his family who made it difficult for new owner to move the team and thereby, costing the estate a significant amount of money.

True, although the Wentz trade was pretty inexplicable even at the time.

Baker is a better QB than Wentz or Darnold who also were in bad contract situations. The Browns messed up incredibly badly if they end up with a 7th rounder for Mayfield when Wentz and Darnold went for seconds.

I think the Trent Murphy signing must be up there. It was only for about half the guaranteed money but at least you got a useful player with Star while Murphy was injured half the time and pretty much worthless the rest (except for the one playoff grame). I know everyone hates PFF but at the time they rated the Murphy and Star signings as the worse FA signings of that year and they may have been right.

Ok. I checked and there was speculation from the press that the Brown were deciding on Mayfield vs. Allen after they did the last minute shift from Darnold. So it appears I misremembered. ALthough one of the Browns VPs came out after the draft and said he had Allen ranked 5th https://www.bardown.com/browns-executive-explains-what-changed-from-not-being-able-to-change-his-mind-on-darnold-as-pick-1.1072699

Sounds like revisionist history to me. Before the draft it was always all the stories were the Browns were going to pick Darnold with a sudden shift to Mayfield about two weeks before the draft. I don't remember a peep about the Browns thinking about Allen. Theses stories happen with every missed pick - like Flores wanted Herbert or Pegula wanted Mahomes. The only one I believe is that the Cardinals wanted Allen instead of Rosen because those stories came out immediately after the draft.

It seems like everybody defending the move is focusing on the block punt against the Steelers and forgetting how bad Haack was the rest of the time.

Do we not remember the two 20 yard shanks against the Jets? That was the only thing that kept them in the game. His best games were average, his average games were bad.

I don't understand how it is legal for an gambling company to report him to the NFL. I assume if I go to Florida, make a bet on the app and they won't be reported to my employer. Is there something in the CBA that the players have to sign off on?

The important thing for the NFL is not the ratings per se but rather the change in ratings. How much did the ratings increase in Cincinnati vs. in Los Angeles? I assume the ratings in Cincinnati are always high and I wouldn't be surprise if the % increase in LA in Cincinnati. Also, as someone has already pointed out, in raw numbers, a 1% increase in the LA area is worth about the same as a 5% increase in Cincinnati area.

I agreed that this doesn't help Flores' lawsuit but it would certainly hurt Ross and it was definitely a move nobody understood at the time.

In Flores first year he called an all out blitz against the Steelers on a 3rd and 20 at midfield with 20 sec left in the first half. A lot people said that was proof that Flores was tanking. Maybe he got paid for it too.

They definitely could do worse, he has actual head coaching experience, but its not an accident that the Texans last two hires had zero interest from any other team. I don't think they (nor Lovie Smith) expects this to last more than a couple of years.