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Thats $46 million less if they signed him last year. Nearly $4M per year less. But I agree it’s not a “disaster”. Just a worse deal for them.

Yes, I believe most of what Florio says. I believe he is far and away the best NFL reporter there is. His law background and sources within the NFL give him a big advantage in my opinion. He routinely is proven right. Leagues above guys like Breer and Schefter who only pass along news that is given to them due to a quid-pro-quo relationship (meaning they also pass along agendas and false info). Florio on the other hand has called out that mucky relationship that reporters often have and has upset the NFL numerous times on his reporting of factual information that other sources wouldn’t give (because they don’t want to be shut out). This type of reporting is what made him famous. He was just a lawyer doing football as a side gig in his basement but his site became extremely popular over time because he exposed truth that most other reporters wouldn’t dare. Eventually he got so huge that NBC bought a stake in what he was doing, which is why you see NBC Pro Football Talk now. The main reason some don’t like Florio is because he DOES pontificate a lot. And sometimes his preaching (which can become annoying) involves opinions that can sound anti-Bills or anti-whatever-team that the person may like. These fans don’t want to hear opinions of reporters - they just want facts. BUT, at least when Florio does his pontificating, he never passes it off as fact. He says outright that he is giving an honest guess. He doesn’t pretend that it’s true. So when he passes along a piece of information that he says is fact, I believe him. Because he does a good job of delineating between his guesses and what he knows for sure. And he often ends up being proven right.

He wasn’t under contract, so there is no way to build in cap savings in year 1. His cap hit was already $0 (because he wasn’t signed). Teams sometimes save money on extensions of players they have under contract by pushing the money out. But that wasn’t the case here.

Last year Jones was willing to sign a contract that made him the 2nd highest paid DT in the league. Instead the Chiefs offered him an insulting (relative to his skill set) 3 year, $70M deal. This year they made him the highest paid DT of all time. When he was willing to settle for #2 paid in the league last year. In 8 months they went from offering him a deal worth a total of $70M to a deal where the guaranteed money alone is nearly 30% higher than that. KC rarely messes up. But they should have made him a fair offer last season and avoided this. They would have saved a good amount of money. That's good for us though. It’s obviously stinks they got him back, but it’s good that they paid more this year than they would have him if they just signed him last year.

Agreed. He should have been Super Bowl MVP. He turns 30 in a few months though. We can only hope this turns into a Von Miller situation where he loses it in a couple years. They would have had those rings even if they gave him this deal last year. I have no idea why they played hard ball with him last offseason, which pissed him off so much that he sat out games (though he clearly got over it), just to give him a record setting deal less than 8 months later. I guess I don’t see the benefit in that. I would have given him this deal last year, is my point. Alls well that ends well I guess.

I just don’t understand how a decent linemen and several draft picks are not worth more than a single 3rd round pick.

Ahh, sorry I missed it.

In what way is he better than either one of those guys? He was downright awful in Pitt. Probably the worst QB in the league the past two seasons. He single handily lost numerous Steeler games.

Do you have inside info or guessing?

He's really not.

Some very old and washed up names on that list.

I highly doubt this rumor is true. What kind of head coach would McDermott be if he let a CB coach keep his 1st round pick on the sideline for 2 years. Just sounds absurd.

Not everyone can golf, but most everyone can drink and play games. What if we rented out Dave & Busters for the night before? I went to a private party there and it was a blast. Lots of drinking, wings, and games. Drunk skee-ball is more fun than it has any business being.

Von must have seen this tweet from earlier 😉.

WOW. Good on Von for taking that hair cut. Never thought it would happen…

I expected this move until Bates was traded. Now im kind of scratching my head.

Beane today

Feels like we have a lot of holes between WR, Center, DB's.

Even if it was a pile of dung, do you really expect anyone in the Bills organization to say so? What employees of the organization say about their own project is absolutely worthless because they are paid to say it is great. This is akin to saying “Everyone who says that movie is terrible must be wrong - the producers and actors said it was great!” I have no idea whether it will be great or not. All I can say is that what they have released so far looks pretty milquetoast.

Like you, I don’t care if we have bisons or not. However: 1) I believe if you’re going to do something, do it right. Don’t half ass it. Do it full ass or no ass. 2) I don’t blame people who don’t like it and want to voice their opinion. After all, they are paying for these bisons. If the Bills were paying for this stadium in full, I’d give zero craps on what they do. Their money, their choice. But that is not what is happening here. New Yorkers are paying for a large portion of this stadium. And those who pay, should have a voice.

16 feet does feet a bit small for the Buffalo’s. Not that I really care if we even have them at all, but if you’re going to make them - why not make them a powerful striking feature? My “Go Bills” Christmas sign in front of my house is close to 20 feet tall and I made it myself 😂.

A two story house is typically around 25 feet (including the rafters).

Im starting to agree with you. Because I do not understand why our stadium, with limited features and the most milquetoast design is costing so much, when other stadiums that are striking and wonderful cost about the same.

I dont think he makes it to our pick, but yes i'd love him in Buffalo. I think he is going to be a Bengal.

I loved that show.