RangerDave

It's interesting that we signed a Tree Walker, after drafting all of those trees! (I assumed he just misspelled his first name.....)

I am no draft expert at all, but in my mind a player who can be a difference maker for a team would be the definition of a "1st round grade", no? I understand that people drafted after round 1 can be great players, but pre-draft, those with the "supposed" potential to help a team win now would be drafted first.

Employees of the federal government can be transferred anywhere in the country (or for some, anywhere in the world) for the "benefit of the government." Military personnel get transferred all the time. Companies downsize or close one location and move jobs elsewhere (even outside the US). Back when I applied for my first permanent job, I had to apply to a central office which would send a stack of applications to an office that had an opening. I had no idea where I could be hired. Of course, all of us could choose to decline the job offer or transfer and look for another job. Boo freaking hoo for a football player who decides to declare for the NFL draft, gets drafted, then opts to sign a huge contract with the team that drafted them.

I think there is a vet minimum, isn't there? What else can they throw in to get it to that level??

Holy cow! I saw a million personal fouls and unsportsman like penalties that were never flagged. The refs were horrible back then!! 🤓

With 15 months' worth of interest! I will say that it does take guts for the NFL to admit they made a mistake, and admit it in such a public manner. They could have just continued to officially agree with the call, while notifying their referees discreetly not to call it again.

Will Rogers never met a man he didn't like. But, then again, he never met Edelman.

I truly have empathy for you and others who suffer from mental illness, as I do for people suffering from physical illnesses.....up to the point where the sufferers kill others. At that point, they are criminals in my book. That leaves 99.9+% of people with mental illnesses in my good graces. The others, not so much.

I was a volunteer member of the Luray Volunteer Rescue Squad in Virginia and used to volunteer Sundays from 4 PM until midnight. I was completely enthralled one afternoon watching the Bills-Niners "no punt game". We got a call in the middle of it! The look on my face when the tones went off was enough that, thankfully, the other two volunteers with me that night said, "Relax. We'll take the call." I was forever indebted to those two guys!

May be true, but it seems like our defense can't defend third and longs lately, so there is always that.

I think this is a good way to separate eras. How do/did they compare to their contemporaries? I also think there is a difference between the greatest passer of all time and the greatest quarterback of all time. Quarterback includes being vital to team success, in my opinion.

If we resigned Matt Barkley, what do you think we could get for HIM in these frothy times??

I could live happily ever after with 14 million guaranteed dollars, even after NY taxes....

And which car is yours, exactly??? 🤑

The lack of 100-yard rushers can be attributed to a terrible offensive line as well as a lack of a great running back. I think Stafford played behind poor protectors, if I recall correctly. That surely had to affect his play and success, or lack thereof, no?

What about the GM that gave Goff that horrendous contract? Should they not be a GM? I think part of the trade had to do with the Rams paying penance for giving that contract to Goff (who they obviously did not completely believe in) and trying to rid themselves of that awful sin and the taint that goes with it.

I assumed this was a one-time deal due to the COVID drop in revenue, as the OP was proposing.

What if, instead of "buying out" a player's contract, whereby the player still gets a percentage of his contract money, the league changed the cap rules? Can they say that each team can cut one player, but that contract would not be included in the dead cap hit. That would amount the the same situation of ridding a team of one bad contract, like proposed by OP, but the player would only get whatever is left of his guaranteed contract. Would that be allowed under CBA rules? Would that be better or worse for the player than being "bought out" of his contract?

Who do you think the Bills would use this one-time buyout on? How would it help us? What players do you think other teams would/should use it on?

Could those players be used to gain intel on the teams they played against (in this case, the Bills) and who their new team may play against in the Super Bowl? Intel could be from either from playing against the Bills, or from their former team who scouted the Bills extensively? I'm sure the Packers have analyzed the Bills already, but hearing what another team found couldn't hurt.

Man, the Bills would win the Electoral College in a "landslide"!! 😄

That is some great next-level trash talking right there! Would this be called a "left handed assist"?

I think almost everyone would agree that having one Super Bowl win among several playoff years would be the best option. Giving that option would make the other two options certain losers in a poll and would make the question useless. (Some think it is already useless enough! 😁 My only point to asking the question was whether you think winning the big one once is better than having a long term success, albeit without a championship. There have been many good arguments on both sides, and I am still wavering on which side I fall on. I usually lean toward "Just one before I croak!", but then bend toward "But winning a lot over a period of years was a lot of happiness in that time!" Since I posed the question, I will take a stand: Just win one, baby! If I look at the question in the reverse, winning one now will make the previous drought tolerable. Therefore, winning one now would make a future down period just as tolerable. Here is to winning the championship now and multiple rings in the future!

Maybe this is "make believe", but it has almost happened. We had a period where we had sustained dominance, and we had a period where we were wandering in the desert for a decade and a half. If we had won a ring in the '90's, would that have ameliorated the frustration of the 2000's?

Yes, I think we go to Super Bowls, we just never win them. Just like the '90's teams. So close, yet so far.