Billy Claude

The guy obviously does not do well at casinos. It's probability 101.

I would be curious how often someone actually changes a posted opinion based solely on message board arguments, i.e., 1. Person A posts an opinion "e.g., A.J. McCarron is a good NFL qb" 2. Person B makes counter arguments. 3. Person A changes opinion based solely on the message board arguments (and not because AJ goes out and plays badly). I am guessing this almost never happens. Most discussions quickly devolve into people repeating the same arguments in slightly different ways eventually degenerating into name calling. Entertaining and harmless on a Bills fan board but it makes me very worried when it come to politics.

The idea that the Bills didn't want Shaq Lawson is revisionist history. In one of Beane`s first postseason press conferences he said that they were going to make a strong effort to resign Shaq but Jordan Phillips had earned the right to test the free agent market. So most likely the Bills made an offer but did not feel he was worth what the Dolphins were offering. Of course it is also possible the Bills matched but he was mad about them not picking up the option the previous year, or because of warmer weather, lower taxes and/or closer to home.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first couple of episodes. Thanks for pointing this out.

Maybe I am being too cynical but most of his pay is in bonuses. I wouldn`t be super surprise if he gets something extra next year to make up for foregoing his salary this year.

Great stuff. No one more fun to watch then Ryan Fitzpatrick when things are going his way.

The voice of reason as always. There must be something Hodgind is not good at otherwise he would not have been available in the 6th round. I understand fan optimism, however, if you read the board you would think that its 100% certain that he will make the team and 50% chance he will be starting in a few years. For what its worth (which is not very much) it appears to be a good draft but nothing wrong with a little skepticism.

This is spot on. Out of the last 8 kickers drafted -- only one, Jason Sanders of the Dolphins -- has had success with the team that drafted him and Hauschka, kicking at New Era, had better numbers than him last year. Some of the drafted kickers have been very successful (Jake Elliot) but not with their original teams while others have been cut without ever kicking in a regular season game. I think most people know that a kicker is important -- its just a question of whether drafting one is a good way of finding one especially if you have someone that was not that bad last year.

Are we really to the point where people believe that ESPN will go to the trouble of manipulating data just because they had a player pegged as a (let's say) a 5th rounder rather than a third round?

I don't know why people get their panties in a twist over stuff like this. Its just a statement of fact -- the Bills don't have much draft capital this year. It doesn't give an opinion about why this is the case.

Oops -- sorry this was not the computer model -- this is just some guy (John Breech) at CBS making predictions. Deleted

This seems the most likely case -- if they had signed Sanders, they would have used their 1st round pick on a wide receiver. Also people are being way too sensitive, I didn't see anything in the story that said Sanders was annoyed at the Bills trading for Diggs.

I`m not surprise Anderson is not returning to the Jets. If you remember Gase called him out after the first Bills game. Anderson doesn`t seem like someone who forgives or forgets.

Presumably the Bills would have paid less If New England wasn`t interested. Whether that was the 4th rounder or the 6th for 7th swap, I have no idea but I just thought it was ironic that Brady screwed the Bills over one last time on the way out.

So it appears that Brady's last act as a Patriot was to drive up the price the Bills paid for Diggs.

Jerry Sullivan is right much more often than he is wrong.

To answer original question :. Beane said something quite different about Shaq Lawson at the end of the season presser. Something like the Bills will make a strong effort to resign Lawson vs. Phillips earned a chance to test free agency. I assume something similar would happen for White and Allen though more likely they will be extended before it comes to this point.

What I don't understand is why AVP would go public with this. Mayfiel6 doesn't seem to be someone to take this as constructive criti ism. It's pretty bad judgement on van pelts part.

Certainly some people hated the Rex hire from day one but, in general, it was regarded as a risky but understandable move by both fans and media. Same with a lot of other things mentioned in this thread such as the Bledsoe trade. To be a true head-scratcher both the media and fans have to be pretty much wtf from the moment it occurred. After reading this thread I would rank them as follows (1) Johnson over Flutie (2) Drafting Spiller with Beastmode and Freddy already on the team (3) Naming Nate Peterman as opening day starter based on one good pre-season game. (4) Hiring Marv as GM when he was almost 80 (5) Extending Jauron based on a 5-2 start against a bunch of bad teams. If you look back there was a lot of initial support for the other stuff mentioned in the thread.

While hiring Rex was horrible in hindsight, I think a lot of people thought it was a good hire at the time. OTOH, drafting Spilled when they had Lynch was met with almost universal puzzlement.

Extending dick neuron after half of a good season.

Not that Marrone was great but at least the team improved while he was coach. He didn't go out of his way to promote himself --if he called himself St. Doug, it wasn`t at a press conference. Rex otoh was all bombastic self promotion.

Rex Ryan with Rob Ryan second. No one else close.

For what its worth, Bleacher Report gives the Bills an A in their one season assessment: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2869617-grading-every-nfl-teams-2019-draft-haul#slide0 Its interesting that they also gave As to two of the teams that were most criticized originally, the Giants and the Raiders. Their original post-draft grades were A for the Bills, B for the Raiders and D for the Giants.

This would defeat one of the primary purposes of the salary cap - competitive parity. Right now if a team picks up a bad contract there is an immediate financial penalty - the team has to pay the player. If a team can trade away cap space for draft choices there is very little financial penalty for that team. Some owners will decide to its is better to have larger profit than fielding a winning team. Other owners in larger markets with larger local income will go way over the cap. You will essentially get the same situation as baseball.