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I’ll believe it when I see it 😂. Every time I see new angles of the stadium I believe more and more that the cross-section was marketing propaganda. To be clear, I acknowledged it will cover the upper deck. I just don’t believe that will be 60% of the seats.

Yeah. Thats why I like the Tottenham design better (even though ours is modeled after it). It is an open-air stadium but the overhang covers all the seats. It would have given best of both worlds. I know my Physics. I don't know architecture. I'm clearly missing some important details because there is no physics on earth that makes this small overhang have te ability to cover more than half of the stadiums seats. I know picture angles can skew things but I have seen the roof from numerous angles now and every single one looks like it *barely* covers the upper deck. And in some places it looks like it doesn't even cover the full upper deck. On the left side of this picture you can see some seats are covered from the seats above it - there must be a largeeee number of seats under there. SoCal is our architecture expert.

Updated view of what the roof overhang is covering.

Cant wait to not watch it!

Just my opinion, but I think the upper deck 50’s are going to be the best value in the entire place. Completely shielded from weather, great view, and relatively cheap.

You're not wrong, but you're applying a standard for Allen that you're not applying to the other QBs in the NFL. ANY of the top 5 QB's in the NFL, if they chose to hit the open market instead of sign with the team that drafted them, would get significantly more. Because that is true of ANY of the top QB's, it makes the argument of "he could have gotten more on the open market" a bad argument. Because it holds true for all of them. In other words - that is already baked in. Based on the QB market as it is, Allen got a FAIR deal. He didn't give us a killer deal. Or if you want to say he gave us a great deal because he could have gotten more on the open market, that is akin to saying "Allen did what every QB does" - which, then, makes it a lot less special, doesn't it?

If he said pay me 120m a year, would they have paid it? The argument that we got a deal because he could have asked for the moon is a poor argument in my opinion. If you want to look at a player who gave true deals, look at Brady. Best QB of all time, and was never the highest paid - ever. He was rarely even in the top 5.

I'm very willing to believe that if you have some evidence for it. I want it to be true. However, the research I have done has led me to the opposite conclusion. One source: "It has the largest total guarantee (full and injury) in NFL history — $230 million. It’s also the highest annual average from signing at $55 million. The four-year cash flow is a record $220 million... That works out to “new money” of $175.446 million. So with two new years and $175.446 million, that’s a “new-money” average of $87.723 million." link Another source: "Sifting the #Bills Josh Allen contract, #Chiefs Patrick Mahomes has to be on deck for a tear-up renegotiation. From a new money vantage, Allen is averaging $87 mil+, by virtue of it being a tear-up deal & not a tack-on. Next nearest new-money avg was Dak Prescott’s $60 mil. Wild." link I don't see any deal here. It is the richest NFL QB per-ann contract in NFL history. Does he deserve it? Yes. Was it a deal? No.

Godwin is what? almost 3 years younger than Diggs? Pretty big difference.

Yeah. I'm the biggest Allen homer one could imagine ... but he didn't give us a deal. That was all agent PR. They did an excellent job at it. Convinced a lot of fans. That being said, he is worth every penny and have no problem with it.

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Yep Greg too. Probably even more so.

Im not sure why you think we have to go over it again. I know it covers the upper deck. That's dinky. Considering that the upper deck is a whole 15 rows makes the roof overhang covering not very impressive, and as I said before, dinky. And also as I said before, for me anyway, its not just about being covered from the elements. Its also about the nice intimate atmosphere that the larger overhang gives. .

Hi Maddy.

see, I think it’s the complete opposite. To me it sounds like she is always giving the most basic and generic response possible. Tasker: I am really liking how much Spencer Brown has grown. He used to struggle in pass protection against speed rushers but he has held his own lately. He is turning into a complete pass and run blocker. Glab: Yes, Spencer Brown, Bills right tackle and a large intimidating force out there. Tasker: *Stares blankly at her*

The absolute worst talk-show host I have literally (and I mean literally), ever heard. The epitome of awful.

I think a good middleground would’ve been keeping it open air, but making the overhang extend further. I really don’t know why, other than cost, they made the overhang so dinky. I would’ve liked to seen a far reaching overhang, similar to what Tottenham did. Their entire field is open to the elements, but nearly every seat is covered. It also gives their stadium a bit more of an intimate feel inside. Our little dinky overhang doesn’t compare.

Thats fair.

All of the reasons I mentioned before. But if you’re looking for quantitative data, he is the 70th-something paid safety. Which would put him at the very bottom of all starting safeties.

Long explanation: I track player performance. And Hamlin's poor performance sort-of made me obsessed with him last season. Missed tackles, poor angles, slow speed, etc all hampered the defense. If you watch the All-22 the Bills spent most of the season covering for him by rolling coverage and keeping Hamlin as deep as humanly possible. If you go back and look at the big runs we gave up this year, nearly all of them can be traced back to Hamlin either screwing up an angle, missing a tackle, or being so deep that it took him a long time to get to the LOS and then by the time he got there, the RB had adjusted his angle which completely fooled Hamlin. I will say that his tackling improved from 2023-2024 and throughout 2024 - he made a few impressive open field tackles toward the end of last season. Short explanation: There is a reason why no-one else in the NFL wanted to sign him. We retained him on a 1 year, $2M contract.

Ahh gotcha. Sometimes im bad at picking up sarcasm. Agreed with you.

Cole isn’t a full year starter.

I would like to see who you think is worse than Hamlin. Bills constantly covered for him all year long. I said mid season that Hamlin may be the worst full-season starter at S in Bills history. I stand by it.

True. Here is a view from underneath if it helps.

I actually think thats a fair comparison. Loved Fred.