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Oh heckin' no. What he does is countersue for defamation. Then the two parties dismiss both cases. Here's how the game is played. Opening move: Plaintiff finds lawyer willing to work for a percentage of the settlement and sues for $$$ damages due to sexual assault and infliction of emotional distress. Plaintiff needs money to gather evidence and depose witnesses, but I think some lawyers will front that on spec as well and it's relatively small compared to legal fees. Next move: Defendant counter-sues for defamation. Now you see, one of two things will happen. Defendant will win, in which case plaintiff's lawyer won't get paid. Or, defendant will lose, but he doesn't owe money and plaintiff may not be awarded attorney fees. So plaintiff needs $$$ up front to pay lawyer to defend her. So plaintiff will typically and reluctantly offer to dismiss her lawsuit in exchange for dismissal of the other lawsuit. Sometimes there's an offer of some kind of $$ "without admission of guilt" but not necessarily (Araiza case).

Yeah, it's weird. His college stats start in 2022. But that doesn't seem like a detail an attorney would get wrong in a filing. Maybe he red-shirted? Speaking of weird, what young woman of college age and common sense faces a young man who previously made her uncomfortable in HIS dorm room, tells him she doesn't want to hang out, and then *turns around and walks away from the door leaving him free to enter*? Whisky tango foxtrot? You shut and lock the door before you turn and walk away. And if the guy forces his way past you into the room, you leave and seek help. And then, having this (allegedly uninvited) young man in her room announcing he's "high as *****" and "trying to have sex", what sensible young woman of college age walks away from him *into her bedroom*. Hell, no, faced with a strong athletic young man who makes that announcement why wouldn't a sensible chick grab her phone and beat it out of the room to find a friend or RA or call security, who could then go with her and get the guy out of there, rather than walking away from him into her bedroom? *smdh* Seriously, all this is verbatim from the lawsuit. The one filed by her lawyer. In the House by the Beck, the daughter of the house started having discussions with the 'rents about Power and Control and how you avoid putting yourself in positions where you hand those over to other people, starting in middle school and continuing into college. On the other hand, no sane and sensible young woman files a police report and undergoes a SANE exam (they are horrible - painful and violating - often described by victims as "a second assault") if she doesn't seriously believe she's been sexually assaulted. Nor does she change schools when no school discipline or charges result. I don't know what to make of the whole thing.

I don't think we need to delve into Diggs personal life or create hypothetical sexual scenarios to look for reasons the Bills moved on. The performance and locker room based reasons to move on from Diggs have been rehashed multiple times. It also seems pretty clear that Diggs wanted receiving numbers, demanded a high target share in order to get them, and wasn't going to be happy in an offense that was closer to 50/50 run/pass under Brady than the ~40/60 run pass that was the Bills offense under Dorsey.

I have that question a lot on the Interweb. Someone responds to say "this is useless stuff that is beneath my notice" OK then why are you here noticing it by responding?

According to the lawsuit, Hairston was enrolled at U of K and residing in the same dorm as the young woman who filed the lawsuit at the time the alleged acts occurred. Was he actually not enrolled in 2020/2021?

I respect that. I'd just like to point out that innocence and guilt, in a legal sense, are not at issue in a civil suit where the standard of proof is "more likely than not". I do wonder how many people commenting here actually read the suit? If one clicks on the OP article, it's linked.

Comical? Amusement is where you find it, so Sure, I'll give you that. Concerning? Why? This is peak off-season. He's a player who made huge on-field contributions to the Bills for 3 seasons - the biggest WR contributions we've had since arguably Lee Evans and #4 on the Bills all time receiving yards list behind Reed, Moulds, and Evans. In the Josh Allen years, you have to go down to #16 (Davis) and #22 (Beasley) to find guys who contributed half the yards. So like it or not, he's part of Bills history and as such his antics will always be of interest to some. Why does that concern you?

I dunno. Fitzpatrick *has* been a very competent player, but he had a passer rating of 127.6 against him and completion % against of 78.8%. That's like a 40 point passer rating against jump and ~20% jump in completion %. Ouch

The NFL reserves the right to impose its own discipline and sanctions if a criminal case is dropped or plea bargain accepted (or of course, resolved with conviction) (But they won't act while a criminal investigation is ongoing or criminal charges pending)

For me, if we're talking about their objective stats and measurables-based data that teams around the league pay for, they're always good: what plays teams run out of different sets, how often they run them and what their success percentage is, how open a receiver is etc. If we're talking about their player grades, they're always variable in quality - there's an element of subjectivity and assumed knowledge If we're talking about their lists of "10 best QB" or "10 best coaches" or whatever, I think they're written to generate controversy and clicks. If we're talking about Sam Monson saying Brandon Beane is the most sensitive GM in the league because he supposedly called PFF to complain about how the Matt Kalil free agent signing by the Panthers in 2017 was graded, Beane wasn't GM of the Panthers at the time, Dave Gettleman neither had cancer nor was on leave, Marty Hurney was not in the Panthers building, and there's no evidence that Beane was filling a GM role. So if he did ring up PFF and B word, it was very likely at the behest of Gettleman. And since PFF is supposedly objective and analytics-driven in their grades (that's how they market themselves) it would actually reflect very badly on them if they changed their system because 1 GM rang up and complained Beane may or may not be the most sensitive GM in the league based on his interview on WGR or other factors; my take is that there are plenty of big and sensitive egos in FOs of teams around the league and I doubt Monson is really keeping some kind of objective tally. If some other GMs aren't more sensitive than Beane, maybe they should be (I have certain candidates in mind, but I digress). Beane took a metric ton of crap and mockery for drafting Josh Allen instead of Josh Rosen or even Mason "the Reindeer" Rudolph and he was right. Beane took a metric ton of crap for trading Diggs when we had no #1 WR last year and came out with the top-scoring offense (and shed all of Diggs cap in 1 year). I don't forget that Beane got us into cap hell between Diggs new contract and signing Von Miller etc, or that Beane under-invested in WR in the draft-and-develop pipeline, but I think he's entitled to a bit of saltiness with the local press.

No argument that the Kalil signing was a Bad Move in retrospect. They got 16 games out of a 4 year contract before he went on IR and was subsequently released. Your account of the Gettleman/Hurney succession at GM and Gettleman's cancer doesn't match public record however: 1) Gettleman was fired by the Panthers in July 2017 2) Hurney was hired as interim GM to replace Gettleman in July 2017 3) Beane was gone to the Bills by that time 4) Gettleman was hired by the Giants in Dec 2017 5) Gettleman was diagnosed with cancer (lymphoma) sometime in late May/early June 2018 There's nothing to be found on the Google machine indicating that Gettleman had cancer in Spring of 2017, or was on any sort of leave as GM, or that Hurney was actually brought in that Spring prior to his July 2017 hiring, or that Beane had taken over as GM for a non-cancerous Gettleman who was not on leave.

I have been listening very carefully to that very loud silence. https://www.si.com/nfl/chiefs/rashee-rice-update-on-potential-suspension- It's almost like the criminal case will drag out until his career is over. A bit hard for me to understand how the league can pretend to care about its image but let that guy on the field. https://www.footballguys.com/article/2025-rashee-rice-jordan-addison-legal-updates "We're busy, Man"

His calves are like twice the size of Cybo's. It's like man, don't get calf cramps Dion they'd be extra with calves like that.

Apparently so, since the Texans just did it.

I think Beane is open to fair criticism but it's not because of "culture". The criticism that Beane had under-resourced the WR position in the draft up through 2024 is fair IMO. I also think it's a fair point that our offense is our strength, so invest in it rather than continually searching for a top defense we haven't managed to achieve. A couple more plays on offense get us there. Potentially a couple better players make those plays. The fact is, a number of Beane's attempts to put the Bills over the top have not provided decent return on investment. Von Miller is the biggest example, but I don't think they got what they expected with Emmanuel Sanders or Amari Cooper either. But I don't think the issue is the Bills "culture" or "signing for culture". It's more taking a big risk to sign a undeniably great, but 33 yr old DE to a big contract and pinning your Superbowl hopes that he will work out.

Example: he tags Beane as "sensitive" saying PFF "had to" change the way they grade free agent signings because Beane called them up to complain about the way they graded the Matt Khalil signing. He's got to be talking about the Carolina Panthers signing Matt Kalil in 2017. Beane was not the GM who signed Matt Kalil. He was assistant GM and probably had some involvement - but also absolutely no "skin in the game" for how the Panthers got "graded" by PFF for that signing since he must have known he was on his way to Buffalo. Dave Gettleman was that GM. Now I don't know how Gettleman runs things, but in general, assistants do not take it upon themselves to call up a company their organization does business with and threaten them. They might make that call- but only at the behest of the actual GM. The other thing is: PFF "sells" themselves as being objective and analytic-based in their grading. So if they changed it in response to customer pressure, what does that say about PFF?

Anthony Prohaska and the Cover1 guys say "Hi" Whether you like them or not, separate issue, but they're not 60+ and don't have grey beards Matt Parrino and Ryan Talbot more fluff and less technical but also not 60+ with grey beards

And that, my friends, is the bottom line.

I'm curious about that walking pad/stand up desk setup Since it's peak off-season, can you say more?

I know they claim a person can return to golf, tennis, swimming, and "light" weight training I dunno about "almost being back to normal" for an athlete

The thing is, I think if you asked most of these guys who had a moderate degree of success in the league or better ..... .they would tell you they don't regret a minute of it Many of us have significant injuries that either hinder or prevent some activities from something outside our control..an accident while driving or at our "little jobs", without the adrenaline rush and glory that is sports at a high level

He's not talking about his route running ability, but his ability to release and get off the line. Stevie was amazing there, to the point where I heard the coaches didn't want him to practice their release drills. It was like "whatever you do, we can't improve on it and we don't want to tamper with it" Stevie was not a precise route runner. He excelled in Chan Gailey's offense where Chan taught "beat your man, get to the spot", not so much in SFO or SDG where the expectation was to run an exact route. That's how it looked, but a good bit of it was the receiver having options, and needing to be on the same page as the QB (and give the QB good body language) about what he was going to do. We've seen that with Josh a few times. There was one notable play where he was actually penalized for "intentional grounding" when it seemed quite obvious to the announcers and most people in the stadium that it was an option route and the receiver and he weren't on the same page. One of the film guys even diagrammed the route options and what Josh expected and why.

They called the offense "Air Coryell". Steve Fairchild and then Greg Olson were the OCs. It was the descendent of the "Greatest Show on Turf" offense Martz took to two Superbowls. In its successful implementation, it was built o a vertical passing game opened up by a strong run game (though Marshall Faulk had a lot of receiving yards). In their SB year, Isaac Bruce and Torrey Holt both rocked 15 Y/R The QB had to know exactly where he was gonna go with the ball and be willing to stand in the pocket and take a hit to get it there. But what kind of verbiage they used, pffft can't tell you.

? when did Ryan Fitzpatrick play in a West Coast system? What did Bill O'Brien run in Houston - thought that was E-P like? Fitz best season was with the Jets...under Chan Gailey....E-P system

I read it differently - that he had back injuries playing sports and recovered easily, but then had car accidents with serious injuries and surgery? Hmmmm.