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Hey, Zero, was hoping you'd weigh in. What can you tell us about the negotiations with Chris Jones, and the 6 game suspension of DE Charles Omenihu? Glad to here a good word for your former PS QB, now ours - I think his name may be spelled Buechele?

Actually in the One Bills Drive piece with Jordan, Jordan says he's known Kyle since Kyle was in high school. So even longer than he's been working with Josh.

Well, since we're all about the Josh podcasts right now Kyle says Josh brought him to Buffalo and thanks him. They talk a lot about golf. Ask Josh to list all the golf courses he's played over the off-season. About 10 minutes in, Kyle says the other day (on an off day) he saw Josh "about as hung over as I've ever seen a human being" walking around with a bottle of pedialyte and a personal bottle of oxygen (!!!!). Apparently the previous night, in the course of getting smashed, Josh stated he was "the best athlete on the planet" and promptly got beaten at pickleball twice by Matt Barkley's wife. Josh did NOT like the story about being beaten at pickleball, turned off his camera, and said he was going to get upset if they kept going with that He did explain his thinking behind the "best athlete on the planet" talk, about how he feels he could have succeeded at a number of sports such as baseball, basketball, swimming (Jordan confirms, good swimmer as long as it's not the ocean because he's scared of sharks), but then goes on to talk about hockey (nope) and soccer..... Kyle: "You honestly don't sound very confident right now" 😆 (guess we can count on him a bit to keep Josh on the ground) Later in, they're doing a kind of "buddy game" where they each have to guess what the other will answer. How many yards will Josh throw for this year?Josh guesses 5281, Kyle 5241.

I seem to recall a healthy dose of trepidation when we claimed McKenzie off waivers, because of his six fumbles as a rookie PR But I also recall that our receiving alternatives at the time were Zay Jones, Robert Foster, and Fat Kelvin Benjamin not to mention Andre Holmes and Deonte Thompson

I thought I was saying Maddy would have had to hide her tootsies from Sexy Rexy, if he'd still been here when she was hired. No more sandals for you, Ms Glab!

We got organic farmers who can speak to this more, but as far as I know organic does not mean "free of pesticides". It just means organic farmers use "natural" pesticides that are approved for organic use. Stuff like neem, nicotine, spinosad, copper sulfate, etc. These natural pesticides may be, or may not be, less toxic to people or less damaging to pollinators then the chemically produced kind. As far as I know.

Pull up a chair, Old Bean, and let me tell you a story about diptheria antitoxin (once hailed as one of the "seven wonders of the world" because of how diptheria could wipe out entire families of children, with no treatment). Except then we had "Jim the Horse" and children died from tetanus-contaminated antitoxin. Thus the Biologics Control Act of 1902. Now I'd like to tell you a story about a marvelous miracle drug, sulfanilamide - first effective antibiotic against streptococcal infections. Except it was bitter, and difficult to get children to swallow. Massengill made a marvelous new palatable-to-children formulation - sweet-tasting, and raspberry flavored! 100 people were poisoned and died (many children) because that sweet-tasting solvent was diethylene glycol and toxicity testing was not required at the time. In response, the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, which required proof of safety before the release of a new drug, was passed. There are a lot of Federal laws that are written in blood. What, you want to depend upon the conscience, good sense, and public service of corporations? Because that worked so well before the Federal Regulations. I would really like to see research be easier to conduct. I've been looking into it because I'd like more effective pain control for my mom, and everywhere I turn, I get "we really don't have any studies on that".

A lot are. A lot are deriviatives of the plant compound, modified to be more efficiently absorbed, or metabolized more slowly, or just to produce them more efficiently than they can be produced from the native plant.

So if y'all haven't found it yet, check out this Cover1 piece on Kirksey. In addition to a lot of film that kind of speaks for itself, they bring up a couple points I hadn't thought of: 1) Kirksey playing coverages successfully in Lovie Smith's Tampa2 last season 2) Bills hired Joe Danna, last year's safety coach in Houston. Danna should really have the tea on what Kirksey could or couldn't do as of last year.

You happen to got a linky for that one? I didn't take it that way at all. McAfee was talking a bit about the NE offense and the Colts offense with Manning, where you don't talk you just look at the defense and everybody knows how their role in the called play changes with what they see. Daboll has talked about this in the past - their offense is built on Josh and the receivers reading the defense the same way and reacting the same way. That's what Josh means when he talks about "good body language" - the receiver is using body language cues to communicate his intentions about how he's going to run his route to Josh (while simultaneously trying to be deceptive in his body language to the DBs) What I took Josh as expressing was that Kincaid has been doing this successfully in practice and in preseason, but that the regular season moves faster and defenses become harder to read, so he expects Kincaid to make mistakes early in the season. Then later in the season he'll have seen it before and he'll learn.

It isn't, actually (a distinction without a difference). You either go through it and watch your fellow parents go through it and understand the practical difference between a school that offers merit scholarships, and a school that offers entirely need-based financial aid - or it probably doesn't matter to you. But someone offered admittance and a finaid package from Harvard would know.

Josh talked about using time-restricted eating last season. "a hungry warrior fights harder" or some such malarky. I'm sure Josh has his own team of nutritionists and flexibility and fitness coaches and massage therapists etc.

Probably that he was going to go on IR *whew* not a fan of Josh's ex at all, are you? Yeah, pretty sure the Bills have a PR guy assigned to Josh every media obligation he fulfils. I've seen him look off-camera before. It was already known at that point Shorter was on the 53 man roster. It hadn't been announced he was going on IR

Another example: Jerry Hughes. After he went into the tunnel just fuming and going off about the refs that one time, the word was soon out that you could grab Jerry Hughes with both hands (and probably your teeth, as long as you didn't leave marks) and it would make no difference. No holding was ever called, no hands to the face, nothing.

Speaking of Trey Lance...Bills may have enquired, but SF ate $8.4M of dead cap to move him. Stands to reason they wanted some reasonable draft comp. However, anyone who refers to drafting Boogie Basham or Cody Ford in the 2nd as the worst draft pick ever is cordially invited to read this article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38253859/trey-lance-future-best-nfl-team-trade-fits-how-49ers-got-wrong-next From what was quoted, "Beane told me off the record" was not said, and it was said in front of actual microphones during an actual broadcast. If you're a journalist and that's your idea of proper journalistic etiquette for an "off the record" source, I don't know what to tell you.

I could be mistaken, but I believe McDermott and other coaches have alluded to the NFL fining them for criticizing the refs. At best, the coach will be fined, at worst, the coach will be fined AND the team will draw extra scrutiny from the league and from the refs. I believe the teams ARE allowed to send film to the league and question certain observations, or to raise issues about a pattern they believe they observe.

I guess opinions will vary, but if you express such a negative opinion of a player you have signed and are evaluating - not just "he's struggling right now, the playbook is new to him, I'm concerned" but "he just doesn't have what it takes / it's never gonna happen for him" - Wow. That's a very concerning way to talk about your roster to a member of the media, even "off the record". I don't think that's inconsequential to tell the media that a player you signed and penciled in as "#2" just doesn't have what it takes and is never going to improve. If your judgement is so bad that you confide in a member of the media "off the record" who then babbles it to his media buddy in front of a microphone, that's even worse. It's one thing for reporters to find something out, but for the GM to say something like that outside the facility, to someone who doesn't evaluate talent or coach for the Bills....Whew. I am highly skeptical because the Bills under Beane have a reputation as a "deep well", where scouts and NFL insiders say you just don't hear anything until it's happening. and that starts at the top, with Beane. It seems very out of character and out of keeping with the way the Bills seem to run things.

So here's the thing. If I speak "off the record" to you, it means I'm speaking in confidence. It's between you, me, and the walls. If you then make it between you, me, and your radio broadcast buddy IN THE BOOTH, with microphones around, it's no longer "off the record". You have broken my confidence. If it were true that Beane said something like that "off the record" to Miller, you need to change the tense to "it seems they HAD a good relationship".

So there's some kind of serious disconnect here. I've been watching the One Bills Live interview with Jordan Palmer. https://www.buffalobills.com/video/one-bills-live-jordan-palmer-on-working-with-josh-and-kyle-allen 14 minutes in, Palmer is talking about how Kyle Allen is one of the "smarter young football minds"; he talks about how the Bills have a really complicated offense to learn and Kyle picked it up "really quickly" In Beane's interview post-cutdown, he mentioned how Kyle needs to learn their offense, it's complicated, and how Case Keenum acknowledged it was a couple months into the season before he really "got it". Is Kyle Allen one of those "catnip for Coaches" guys who's a wizard in the film room and at the whiteboard, but who either can't put pen to paper when it comes to running the offense on the field, or whose eyes write checks that their arm can't cash? On the other hand.....the alleged comments come from the Chicago radio announcers, not Beane. And in the linked thread, @GoBills808 asks the highly relevant question "Why would Beane say that to a Bears announcer?" If there's one thing a GM needs, it's to live by the precept "A Closed Mouth Gathers No Feet". He absolutely can not be babbling stuff to other team's RADIO ANNOUNCERS, media members fergoshsakes, about one of his players - especially not stuff like ""Beane told me Allen has struggled from the very beginning. He just doesn't have what it takes / it's never gonna happen for him. He said he was very concerned." I vote "did not happen".

They played college ball together.

Interesting explanation. It's a fact that when the Bills tried to plug Dodson in for Milano, it did NOT go well. When the Bills tried to plug AJ Klein in for Milano, someone (might have been @GunnerBill? Someone who's a respected regular here) called him "the worst LB I have ever seen". Fast forward past 2 weeks where Milano is still trying to play and Klein is trying to load share with him. The Bills admit "this isn't working", they IR Milano, and the Bills defensive brain trust sits down and re-works the defensive responsibilities. BOOM "the worst linebacker I have ever seen" is KILLING Seattle. 4 sacks, a forced fumble he recovered, tackle for loss, pass defensed - AFC Defensive Player of the Week and for the next 3 games he didn't look back. I guarantee Russ Wilson saw "54" in his sleep for weeks. Anyway, valid point that there has been no "Plan B" to the Guido Torpedo. What I'm not sure about is that the Bills don't see Williams eventually playing MLB. But they have certainly made it clear, that's not where they see him at present.

Deion Jones was very very good early in his career. 1st team all pro, DROY, pro bowl. Did you see anything of him last year in Cleveland? He's listed as having 5 starts. He was with the Panthers thru training camp but cut on Tuesday. The contract he signed last spring with the Panthers was just over vet minimum. Jaylon Smith had been an injury replacement at MLB for the Giants last 2 seasons. Wound up starting 13 games for them at MLB last year. Signed with the Saints for vet minimum, cut and now on their practice squad.

Can you tell me more about this "off air leaked audio from the Bears booth"?

Harvard does not offer scholarships per se. Has not for more than 40 years. Like the rest of the Ivy league and MIT, they offer need-based grants and loans that, with family contribution, are supposed to cover the cost of attendance. Now whether their idea of what your family can contribute, and your family's idea, agree, is another matter.

It's interesting. Superficially, Oliver's contract and Edmunds are not too dissimilar. Oliver: 4 year $68M, $45M guaranteed ($24.5M guaranteed at signing) Edmunds: 4 year $72M, $50M guaranteed ($36.8M guaranteed at signing) Differences include $12.3M more guaranteed at signing and an extra million a year. Reportedly, Oliver's language contains offset language (if he is released and signs elsewhere, the Bills subtract his new team's salary from what they owe). I agree that various lines of evidence suggest the Bills wanted to re-sign Edmunds but he went above what they were willing to pay. I think there probably were some FA MLB available who were at least as "true" MLB as Dodson and Bernard are.