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No I was not. Please enlighten me.

I'm surprised by your criticism. Tim Graham's work is very well respected. There's no question he's a real journalist. Do you think he would go with this if there were no basis? The headline unequivocally states "Bills interested in adding Rob Gronkowski as another weapon for Josh Allen."

Hmmm... WO instead of WR... that's interesting.

As long as we're all piling on the little fella, here's more. Dates of contract extensions signings: Deshaun Watson 9/5/20 Jared Goff 9/3/19 Josh Allen 8/6/21 Patrick Mahomes 7/6/20 Carson Wentz 6/6/19 Ryan Tannehill 5/18/15 Today's Date 3/1/21 Apparently Team Kyler is sick and tired of waiting for his extension even though it's very early in the offseason and months before the precedent QBs signed their extensions (again WTF was Miami thinking!!!!!).

Thank you Yolo. I believe the following facts are true. In their first 3 seasons: Josh Allen: two playoff appearances including the AFC Championship game in his 3rd year, 1 All Pro and 1 Pro Bowl (both 2020) Patrick Mahomes: two playoffs appearances, 2 All Pros, 3 Pro Bowls, MVP in his second year and won the Super Bowl in his 3rd year. Deshaun Watson: two playoffs appearances, 3 Pro Bowls, and beat the Bills in the divisional round in his 3rd year. Jared Goff: two playoff appearances, 2 Pro Bowls, Super Bowl appearance in his 3rd year. Carson Wentz: set multiple NFL records as a rookie and won the NFC East in his 2nd year (Foles led the team to the Super Bowl win after Wentz tore his ACL), All Pro and Pro Bowl in 2017, missed most of his 3rd year to injury. Ryan Tannehill: Seriously, WTF combination of drugs was the entire Miami Dolphins organization doing? Kyler Murray: NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and Pro Bowl alternate as a rookie, Pro Bowl in his 2nd year, Pro Bowl and playoffs (Wild Card) loss in his 3rd Year I draw the following 4 conclusions: It looks to me like Kyler Murray doesn't quite deserve a Year 4 extension. They must have some crazy-ass parties on Stephen Ross' yacht The Goff and Wentz extensions were widely questioned when they happened. The Allen, Mahomes, and Watson extensions were widely seen as justified.

Would you mind identifying the QBs in the 3 drafts before him that got extensions after 3 years? Thank you.

Based on "The Rule of 72" a 4% annual rate of return would double your investment in 18 years. Not bad, not great.

Not that it hasn't happened or that it can't happen but I can't recall anyone 6'7" playing guard in the NFL. Anyone?

And whatever he has to gain will come at some physical cost. Probably he's reached the point of diminishing returns. As most of us seem to understand an NFL player pays a price for each year he plays. There's that hidden cost. Also, I'm gonna bet that Marpet doesn't end up bankrupt and broke. Just a hunch. What's the point of playing more years and making more money if you never learn how to save and invest?

There are many here who are willing to go all in for one championship right now in exchange for possibly never winning another. That is clear. I wonder if we won in 1990 how people here would feel. Lots of people on this board don't remember Wide Right. What if we won in 2000... the year of the Music City Miracle? Would one previous Super Bowl title reduce the number of people here who want to follow the Rams blueprint? Just a rhetorical question. Personally in spite of the Bills never having won a Super Bowl, I'm still in favor of the conventional franchise building model employed by New England, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Green Bay. Those franchises have won multiple Super Bowls because they're almost always good. I'd like to see the Bills follow that blueprint. JMO.

The above is true but interestingly the Chiefs came away with the highest rated draft in this article and of course they played in the Super Bowl. Did you get permission from Captain Hindsight? Also you're willing to stick with Tyler Bass even after finding out that he's legally deaf? What happened to Bo and sh_t?

Just for further context, Hunter Henry got a 3 year $37 million contract from the Patriots*** after compiling 60 receptions for 613 yards (10.2 ypr) and 4 TDs for the Chargers in 2020. He rewarded New England with 50 catches, 603 yards (12.1 ypr), and 9 TDs. Those numbers are a bit misleading IMO. It looks to me like Henry struggles to get separation and that he compiled many of his excellent stats based on being schemed wide open (naked bootlegs, misdirection, etc). He is however very sure-handed and an excellent blocker but more of a poor man's Jason Witten or Mark Andrews IMO. Maybe I'm wrong about Henry. Regardless he received an average of over $12 million/year.

I'd appreciate if you guys didn't comment too much on the episodes. The Missus and I plan not to watch until the end of the season and then binge watch the whole thing. Thank you.

Thanks for taking the time to compile the stats of the other players. I feel like none of those guys played a complete 17 game season but I could be wrong on that. I excerpted Skurski's piece because I do think it's damning that he's 8th out of 11 in "Big Plays" on his own team. Again, I'm not one of those calling Edmunds a bust. To me he's a disappointment because it seems like he should be better than he is. It seems like his best talent is using his movement skills and wingspan to effectively deny space in zone coverage. Wow. That said he's not horrible and he's even better than average. Picking up the 5th year option was a slam dunk but the decision whether to sign him to a new deal is far from a certainty.

It's not mystifying that Neal wasn't given an opportunity to matchup against Kelce after having held up well in that role previously? Okay, I stand corrected. 😀 Tre White is "not some minor piece?" Okay... and you're telling me this for what reason?

I never said Kareem Hunt was a felon so I didn't jump to any conclusions. You've completely missed my "larger point" clarification. Please re-read. I'm quite successful at what I do, both professionally and otherwise.

You're right. I don't know. Nor do you. None of us do. In my profession I stringently try not to judge people and I try to base my opinion of people on my own dealings with that person. My larger point is that it's not necessary to acquire players who've run afoul of the law in order to field a championship team. It seems like there are a lot of people on this board who think/hope/wish that adding felons and badasses to the team will ensure a Super Bowl Championship. There's a subtext in this thread that a team needs to have a felonic character or two in order to get over the hump. It seems like it's born of a "win at all costs" desperation that I don't adhere to.

Bust? There's a wide variance of meaning with that word. I would call Edmunds a disappointment. That said, there will be teams willing to pay him well. I believe the Bills will let him test the market and might even draft his replacement in April. As for measuring his performance, in Jay Skurski's BN piece on Edmunds yesterday he wrote: "If we define big plays as sacks, interceptions, forced fumbles or recoveries, passes defensed and tackles for loss, Edmunds combined to make just 12 such plays. Seven players on the defense had that many or more." That's pretty damning for a guy who: we traded up for and drafted highly is considered a freak athlete plays a position that generally results in big plays and impressive stats Look at it this way, only 3 of his defensive mates had fewer big plays in 2021.

Don't forget D'Onta Foreman. He would a really nice piece, probably inexpensive and we could use him like Green Bay uses A.J. Dillon. Your oversimplification ignores the full range of reasons why people might be against adding Kareem Hunt. I'm sure there are many here like me who believe that this team is good enough to win a Super Bowl as is and doesn't have to compromise character to attain their goals. There are also those who feel this team can improve by adding excellent and law-abiding players. Having gangsters and thugs on the team is not and never has been a prerequisite to winning championships. Plenty of championships have been won by teams with "pillars of the community" on the roster.

The very worst thing about the end of that game is that McDermott called 2 defensive time outs... one before the 19 yard pass to Tyreek Hill and then the last timeout and the following play before the 25 yard pass to Kelce. These were the two plays which preceded Butker's 49 yard game tying field goal which forced overtime. WTF were they discussing during those time outs???

Yeah... that's what happens when you start playing around with buzz words. 😅 It's like playing with fire sometimes.

It seems like he's asking, if your core competency is a market modifier, what certainables can be brought to force in a meaningful and actionable way? And if the bandwidth exists how can those certainables be employable as a best practice in order to create a center of excellence that incubates further positive outcomes? Brandon asks really good questions here. Both from the helicopter and from a granular perspective he contextualizes the conundrum that happens when one monetizes mission critical processes. These are legitimate real-time and scalable concerns.

Agree, disagree, or indifferent, thanks for doing this.

You're right... I had forgotten that. After some research Milano pulled his hamstring against Houston and missed the KC game.