Billy Claude

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.

Caretaker hire set up to fail. He gets a nice bump in pay and and a few guaranteed years on his contract for after he gets fired to pad his retirement. The Texans get the league office off their back about minority hires. Maybe Smith agrees to hire McCown as an assistant coach. A win/win for both sides.

I may be wrong but I believe the quote was by a former player (I am not even sure it was a Bill) about defensive coordinators in general, not Frazier in particular.

Absolutely. I firmly believe they waited until the very last minute to pick up Edmund's and Allen's options in the hopes of trading him or getting his replacement in the draft. They waited on Allen's so it wouldn't be so obvious what they were hoping to do. Give that, Edmund played a lot better this year than in 2020.

At least we won't have to worry about the "NFL is fixing games to get Brady Belichick in the Super Bowl" conspiracy theories anymore.

I do not assume someone is a hater just they say something slightly less than laudatory about the Bills (I like Chris Collinsworth). However, Nick Wright is clearly trying to be Skip Bayless Jr. He is purely an act and deserves zero respect.

I think it was mainly there was too much pushback that they were going to hire someone with no coaching experience given a lot of more qualified minority candidates. Also, they might still have been hoping that they could still get Watson back on board. There was also quite a bit of speculation that they wanted Culley to make McCown the offensive coordinator and then have Culley politely step aside in two years. Obviously, that did not happen -- I don't if that was because the stories simply not true or possibly McCown turned them down.

On the jetsnation board regarding Fitz at the game: That Fitz is a secret member of the Bills mafia explains a lot about that game in 2015.

On the Pats message board that non-call was cited as evidence that the NFL wanted the Bills were going to win the game.

I have nothing against him showing angry runs - that's fun. It's the bit where he pretends he's about to have a heart attack every week that I find extremely cringeworthy and clearly fake.