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I made a thread on this topic yesterday but it seems to be gone. Anyway, absolutely ridiculous take by whatever NFL executive uttered such stupid words. If anything, Allen is underrated. He often does not get the credit he deserves.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/40574131

And $22M in dead cup. And if he gets injured this year - say tears an ACL - they’re on the hook for 2025 too.

This tells me that you have not been in the company of professional coaches and executives. It is a common misconception and one that extends to the c-suite. People often assume: “X person made it to Y level, they must be brilliant”. That is often NOT the case. Much of it is luck, mixed with opportunity, mixed with timing, mixed with attitude, mixed with who you know, mixed with several other factors as well.

Where did you see that the source is secondary market? I was curious what the source of the data was.

What this shows is that the Bills are offering a lower priced ticket, but more than making up for it with extremely high parking/concession prices.

Takes a bit of a bite out of the “Bills have been too cheap for too long” crowd.

Don’t tell Big Turk, but NFL coaches, scouts and execs don’t consider Cook elite either.

I remember when we could just walk into training camp, no ticket required 🫤

this happens often! The idea of doing nothing sounds appealing when you’re working 50 hours per week. But it quickly becomes unappealing when the stark reality of 365 days per year of nothing smacks you in the face

We were definitely overrated in 2022.

Only $40M of that $100M was left to be paid and they reached a settlement on that.

Burrow is overrated. That has always been my hill.

Agreed. The media will media. It’s more frustrating that our own fan base doesn’t see it.

What the flip? - Allen has 19 game winning drives in 94 career games. - Mahomes has 16 game winning drives in 96 career games Allen has more game winning drives and throws than Mahomes, despite playing less games. Some of you say Allen gets too much respect. I say he doesn’t get enough.

But the problem is this: stating that someone has big lips is not inherently racist. You can certainly interpret it that way, but it remains an ambiguous statement. You might believe he is excusing the statement by saying that, to him, big lips means “liar.” However, this still does not make it inherently racist. The problem is the ambiguity here. An ambiguous statement needs interpretation to fit a particular classification. Others can interpret it differently. This ambiguity is why the Raiders did not immediately fire him. An inherently racist statement, without ambiguity, would be a racial slur, like the N-word, or stereotyping an ethnic group, such as saying “X people are cheap” or one of many other examples - but what Gruden said is not one of them. We also need to consider the overall context when determining whether something was said with racial intent. For instance, if there were more emails with ambiguous statements like the one mentioned, it would be easier to conclude that the person is making racist comments. This is because we do not generally assume someone would make repeated racially ambiguous comments without underlying intent. However, in this case, among 650,000 emails, there was only one email with an ambiguously racial statemnt? So we must ask ourselves - did Gruden wake up one day and decide “today is the day i’m going to make a racial comment in this email - but it won’t be anything clearly racist, like the homophobic emails I send often that I am direct with - this one i’ll make nice and ambiguous”. Or did he really mean that Smith is a liar? That is left up to you to decide.

Homophobic comments, yes. Racist… there’s some nuance there. The only “racist” thing Gruden emailed is that DeMaurice Smith has huge lips. When asked about it, Gruden said he was referring to Smith’s propensity to lie and he often refers to liars as rubber lips. Considering that Mr. Smith does not in actuality have large lips, one may be led to believe Grudens explanation.

Forced arbitration clauses should be illegal.

I thought this story was going in a “13 seconds”‘ direction. That is far more painful at this point than the SB losses

I do agree that the line has gotten better, as Gunnar mentioned. But there were still entire games last year where if it weren’t for Allen, there have been half a dozen sacks. I also fear what will happen with McGovern switching positions and Morse leaving.

And rightfully so. https://youtu.be/9cN9Ay7EmZY?si=V-tQWk22fSGzNn9-

We were bottom 10 in time-to-throw last season and bottom 5 in pocket time.

Allen had the 4th lowest pocket time of any starting QB in the NFL last season. 2.3 seconds.

Josh Allen bailed the line out of numerous sacks. Allen avoided 75 sacks over 2021 and 2022 alone. Thats second most in the NFL. Last year, only 10% of the QB pressures the line gave up resulted in a sack (because of Allen’s mobility).