UKBillFan

Looking at the colours this is to prepare us for the seismic trade announcement - we’re sending Josh to Cleveland with Baker Mayfield coming here in return. The kit is to make him feel at home.

When was the last time a rumour surrounding the Bills came true? If they're saying we're trading up we'll trade down instead.

Not sure about in America but, regarding your first paragraph, in the U.K. it’s known as positive discrimination.

Can’t see why anyone would flame (famous last words?) as that seems fair and logical to me.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-forming-new-committee-to-review-league-and-team-policies-regarding-diversity Plus other changes noted. I guess we meet the criteria as Kelly Skipper is our Running Backs coach? In theory, it’s a positive step for the NFL.

He is, in fairness - he’s a much better QB than the mocking on here would suggest (albeit not number one in the draft over Josh). What teams don’t want to do is pay the amount the Browns are asking for him.

Think “pretty much” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence - still expect a CB through the door prior to the draft.

With the risk of Watson being suspended for a period, a lot of QB1s coming off the table and the Browns trading Keenum to the Bills, are they pricing Mayfield out of the market with the aim that he'll cover the suspension period?

I'm sort of surprised the Browns let him go to be honest; they're not seriously looking to keep Mayfield on as the number two QB are they? And if they're acting as if Watson will be suspended for a large period of time, and expecting Mayfield to step in, then I thought Keenum would be the perfect back up. Think we've got a steal, especially if we get Barkley back too to support Josh.

Just to interject, in the eyes of the law there is no difference between the two at this stage. In the eyes of the NFL the Raiders terminated his contract and no one else has signed him; in comparison the Texans didn't terminate Watson's contract though didn't play him last year and have now traded him to the Browns. As said, the NFL probably should have suspended him from the off and that would have cleared up this mess.

I personally think Watson would push back, and quite heavily, if they tried at this stage. I think Goodell is waiting for the outcome of the civil case and will then make the decision. The Browns have seemingly decided they couldn't care less.

The NFL is Watson's key source of employment; the Lady's Library Club and attendance would be invite only, and probably voluntary, so two different cases. The NFL wouldn't be able to ban Watson outright on the grounds of innocent until proven guilty but franchises, should they have wished to do so, could have 'black-balled' him akin to the treatment of Kaepernick. The Browns decided not to. I think Watson is a nasty piece of work but I don't think the NFL are in a position to ban him from signing for teams at this stage.

Reading between the lines it sounds like the Commanders may have bypassed the agents and went straight to McKissic? Who then said he wanted to stay in Washington.

Exactly - same as any other leading franchise, if the number one goes down in all liklihood the hopes do too. Mitch was probably one of the best reserves a franchise could wish for but we wouldn't have got as far as we did with him at QB.

"Stuff the contract. Baker... if you come to Green Bay, I'll go to Cleveland..."

Though we don’t have 20 years. I can’t see Josh following Brady, playing into his 40s, and top QBs can be hard to come by - see our wilderness years between Kelly and Allen. The signing of Von Miller feels like the first sign of going all in on this year or maybe next. Future moves in FA and trade will determine how much we’re willing to bet the farm of following in the Rams’ footsteps, knowing we’ll have to follow it with mathematical gymnastics regarding the cap. McDermott’s seat will get warm off the back of it, but only if it’s clearly a long term coaching problem which is clearly holding us back - if we stack up a load of injuries and/or Josh regresses (though that result in pressure on Dorsey and/or Joe Brady) and/or Miller clearly isn’t the player he was so our defense isn’t as sound then he’ll be fine. If there are obvious coaching issues, bearing in mind to this day we do not know for sure whether 13 seconds was a coaching or execution blunder, then obviously the seat will get hot.

Went out this evening annoyed about the Jones/McKissic situation. Came back to THIS? I have some sympathy with those who read the opening post and then jump to reply without going through the 36 pages in between - might be worth editing the original post to add the tweets laying out the conditions? What a brilliant move from us; we really want that trophy. Just hope everything falls into place.

Don't be silly, they're here for the love of the Bills. Clearly. *cough*

He clearly was coming here for the money and not for the love of the Bills so glad he's been exposed now before he signed on the dotted line. No loss - we want players who WANT to be here rather than forced.

If the Rams lose, and I was a Ram fan, I'd be fuming over the lack of flag for the last Bengals TD.

Yes, that's why they didn't give OPI on the Bengals last TD.

Makes up for the Ramsey farce.

He wasn't off the field of play, nothing late about it. If he was over the sideline then I'd agree.

Awww did ickle Joe get pushed? And they start a fight over it.

Ah right thanks. Seems a bit daft.