UKBillFan

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.

The worshipping of Burrow if they win. And that he'll have a ring before Josh. Stafford I can deal with - Burrow? No.

I thought all scoring plays were reviewable? How can a clear face mask be missed?

Much happier thanks to the Dorsey and (hopefully) Brady deals. Is it September yet?

Plus baseball cap.

I've got an image of Josh being on the interviewing panel.

Why did the 49ers abandon the run game? Why put the ball in Garoppolo's hands?

A week on and I’m not. The thought of Burrow picking up a ring before Josh with a franchise which is likely to be hanging around for years to come… sigh.

Josh is better than Burrow (take Chase away and see how good he is) but the Bengals have the better defense.

Bengals defense + Bills offense = Super Bowl Champions Happy with that; Mahomes doesn't get a second ring but neither QB looked brilliant. Rams or Niners for the SB though.

I'm the odd one out here but want the Bengals to win. Don't want the press to sell the storyline that Burrow could do what Josh couldn't. They can then lose to the Rams in the SB. I know the TV screen isn't a great guide but that looks like a bad spot to me.

I don’t think it says anymore about their relationship with McDermott than their relationship with Josh, to be honest.