Billy Claude

I agree that picks in training camp doesn't matter. I strongly disagree that turnovers don't matter during the season. Minimizing turnovers was what made the Bills offense so remarkably efficient last season and why Allen was the MVP. If the Bills had the same number of turnovers last season as 2023 they would probably have finished 10 and 7 again or worse considering the state of the defense.

You are arguing context but there was no context in the original statement - simply that four Super Bowl wins and zero losses is better than four Super Bowls wins and 2 losses. I agree winning in the finals does raise ones status exponentially however in this case the two have the same number of Super Bowls wins at the age you are comparing. I don't think losing in a couple of Super Bowls subtracts from the wins but rather adds (a little bit) to it.

I have never understood this line of reasoning. Why is it better to lose in an earlier round versus getting to the Super Bowl and then losing? To me, everything else being equal, going 4 and 2 in the Super Bowl is obviously better than going 4 and 0.

The players make significantly less during preseason compared to practice squad. It is between 2k and 3.5k per week depending on experience plus room and board.

Beane has been pretty defensive lately. First blowing up a standard question about his handling of the wr situation and now claiming that he was right and his boss was wrong. Textbook example of what you should not be doing.

I assume that Dude Wipes offered the most money. I am sure that Dude Wipes felt that a team call the Browns would be a natural fit as a marketing partner.

The Browns helmet unveiling was sponsored by Dude Wipes who also sponsors the influencer so it is likely he got in thru that connection. One would think the Browns didn't know about his plan but who knows? Maybe someone in the Browns org felt all publicity is good publicity.

Mostly likely was staged even if the Browns didn't know about it -- the guy who fell in the water was an "influencer" who immediately put the video on his feeds.

Maybe the last couple of years but before that Rousseau was regarded as a high ceiling, low floor guy and so were Knox and Elam.

All four of the Jets coaches listed, Ewbanks, Michaels, Walton,and Ryan were sub 500. How is that possible?

The only surprise is that he didn't try wait it out until his contract expires next year. The NFLPA really needs to do a better job when they choose their executive director. Based on their last two hires it appears Roger Goodell was the head of the search committees.

The Jets have invested a lot in their offensive line. They just haven't gotten very good return on investment though the line was pretty decent during the back end of the last season.

The NFLPA is supposed to get the best deal that they can get for the players. It is not the purpose of the NFLPA to protect the owners from themselves. NFL players get 48% of football related income. NBA players get 51% and NHL players get 50%. The average NBA salary is about $12M, the average NHL salary is $3.5M and the average NFL salary is $3.2M. NBA and NHL contracts are mostly guaranteed while most NFL contracts are not even though NFL players have shorter careers and are more likely to have serious injuries. Increasing the fraction to the players to 50% will drive zero teams out of business nor will it affect ticket prices, how many streaming platforms games appear on nor how many international games there are. No matter how you look at it, the NFL players have the worse CBA is any major sport.

The players do have a problem with the NFLPA leadership. They ousted the previous president of the NFLPA, DeMaurice Smith for giving away too much to the NFL during the last contract negotiations in 2023 and they don't seem to be too happy with the new one also. I would not be surprise if he is also ousted when his contract runs out. Like I said before, they should have gotten a lot more for agreeing to go to a 17th game.

It is would have been something that players don't like and would have been incredibly easy to get given how much the NFL wanted the 17th game, something akin to getting floor mats when you buy a car.

What surprised me was that the union was so weak they couldn't have at least gotten rid of the franchise and transition tag in exchange for adding game 17. They left so much on the table in the last negotiations that it wouldn't be shocking to me if someone at the top of the NFLPA was on the take.

Don't want to be too cynical, but it reads like it was written by his agent. However, if he really was able to stay off social media for 6 months, it is already a sign he has matured.

I don't want to butt in on the pleasant back and forth but I really don't remember much criticism of the trade when it happened. I am sure someone can dig up something critical but l think that 99% of reviews of the trade that it was a understable move for the Bills and that it was a reasonable risk to take for the Chiefs. As for teams passing up on Mahomes, at half of them desperately needed a QB immediately (Browns, Bears, 49ers, Jets) and others teams could have done what the Chiefs did and red-shirted Mahomes a behind a declining starter (Chargers, Panthers, Bengals). The Browns and Panthers could be excused for picking Garrett and McCafferty but otherwise those other teams did much worse than the Bills. The other two teams also needed QBs but were not ready to give up on recent high draft choices (Titans, Jaguars). The trade by the Bills turned out to be a bad move in hindsight but in no way was it regarded as a ridiculous move at the time.

The NFL treats retirement as a pause in the contract status and Waller had three years left on his contract with the Giants so they still held his rights. Brady had signed a three year contract in 2019 that was essentially voidable by either side after each year. Supposedly Brady was asked to take a pay cut which the Patriots knew he would not accept. So Brady voided the contract and was an unrestricted free agent when he signed with the Bucanneers.

Johntay Porter was a bench player for the Toronto Raptors. In the spring of 2024 he removed himself from two games claiming injury in which there was an unusual amount of money betted against him making his average points, rebounds and assists numbers. This was flagged by one of the sports betting firms and he eventually pled guilty and was banned for life from the NBA. Terry Rozier did something similar while he was on the Carolina Hornets in 2023. He was their big free agent signing at the time so a much more well-known than Johntay Porter. The NBA investigated and cleared him at the time but now Rozier is under federal investigation. Probably it didn't make as much news as it might because, first the NBA tried to keep it as quiet as possible, especially with respect to Rozier and second, both the Raptors and Hornets were very bad teams that had zero chance to make the playoffs.

The recent Jontay Porter and Terry Rozier scandals didn't have much effect on the NBA.

On the evidence part. this is what I found -- it is a small study of 500 Australian gamblers split into groups of those who gamble in game and those that don't. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7644858/#:~:text=Those who bet in-play,betting%2C holding other variables constant. They found those that bet in-played had more problem gambling issues. The study is certainly not definitive since their two groups were not from the same socio-economic background though they tried to account for those factors. Note also that in-game betting is not allowed in Australia so you have to do it via off-shore websites.

It won't ruin the NFL or sports but it will ruin many people and their families. There should be some control: 1. Ban advertising for gambling the same way it is banned for cigarettes. This has the added advantage of not having to see Kevin Hart every 10 minutes. 2. Ban the use of credit cards for gambling. This is already true in the UK and many states. 3. Ban gambling in any event that already started. If you can't enjoy a game without placing a bet on whether a team will score on the next drive, you are definitely an addict. This means when an addict loses a prop bet they at least have to switch to another game to get their fix.

My guess is this is just about a rehash of Brown's widely reported Chapter 11 filing last year rewritten to make it sound like it is new or, quite possibly based on MLFootball's reporting standards, they didn't even know or care whether it is new or not.

Willie Totten -- started two games at QB during the 1987 strike. Set numerous college records as Jerry Rice's QB at Mississippi State. IK Enemkpali -- broke Geno Smith's jaw because Smith laughed at him when he asked for his promised reimbursement for plane tickets to a Smith charity event. Marlin Briscoe -- first black starting QB in the NFL. Started 5 games in his rookie year with 14 TDs for Denver in 1968 before being traded to Buffalo after he found out Denver wanted to convert him to CB.