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"Especially the lies." From one of TV's great liars, Garak (so very well play by Andrew Robinson)

If I were lord and ruler over all I survey, whether it be in this realm or in unity with all other dimensional realms of time and space in existence, everywhere (and seriously I am working on a couple of things that makes this seem not so far fetched, more later) I would make the Bills exempt from any cap consequences for all time. ...Oh you're all gonna love hailing me as your galactic Caesar. Honestly, some good times are coming. Go Bills

I was so thrilled with this news. Previously it was my understanding that we were 42 million over the cap for next year, and that as of today there was extra money associated with the cap. Crazy, stupid me thought we went from being 42 million over to 29 million. Then low and behold everywhere I check says, with the above "extra" cap space, we are now...slightly under 42 million over?!!!! Yes, it is better we have it than not have it, but what the holy hell?! So this organization, in earnest plain description, this non-Super Bowl appearing team, non-championship game appearing team was due to be $55 million over the cap headed in to next year?! ...and this is just honkey-dorey and jiggle here, jiggle jiggle there, everywhere and we should be cool-cool-cool for 2024? Somebody please tell me, because I honestly don't know, the last NFL team that was due to be $40 million over the cap, got under, and then proceeded to be one of the best teams in the League? ...OK...5 question marks might be a limit, right* (* "?"...dang it!)

Exactly Hap. Possibly let's us keep 1 or maybe 2 guys already signed that we just plain don't want to get rid of due to the cap.

Donated for selfish reasons. ...because it made me feel better after such very sad news. God bless to all of them and may whatever faith you believe, James, be with you in your heart wherever you are, as is the love of your family, and may you be at peace.

Gugny... ... ... ...I can't even...I'm just laughing at my desk. Thank you.

Thank you, Huddsy! Give it to us, 2 times! No one like Chappelle. No one.

Thanks, transplant. They may move on from here and the back to back injury sucks, but honestly, I have always thought that even though he was lost for the season this injury just wasn't that bad and that he likely won't even miss camp. Tre of old and right off the bat? Probably not, but I just know he'll be back, sooner rather than later, and that this was not career ending.

Holy mackerel, I forgot Shakir! One more guy in the draft could put us honestly in quite the sweet spot. ...as long as our offensive game plan allows for it.

Thank you, gentlemen. BTW, Dub-Dubs (WWIP), I really do think he can still produce at a high level. Is he top 10? No, I don't think so next year. However, I truly believe 100 pulls next year really can happen (for a 5th straight year), especially with more than yeomen type help on the other side. At worst, ok, low 90s. I know DK technically is a TE, but look at how he came on as a rookie after a discover-who-is-and-how-to-use-him-start. It is not impossible to expect a rookie 1st round WR to end up with 80 or so grabs, and the first #2 to fetch that mark since Beasely, a possession/slant receiver. Heck, would anybody have a big problem with Diggs 90, Rookie WR 80, DK 80, while sprinkling in 40+ 950?) from Cook and 40-50 from Knox*? I'll take it. Go Bills (* without even referencing the slot receiver at this stage)

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/ Just to reiterate for those of you thinking about moving on from him that apparently his cap hit makes it virtually impossible to move on from him for the next two years. If I am reading this properly it is a $31 million hit this year and a $22+ million hit next year. He's our guy. He's here. He isn't going anywhere, even if you and he want to move on. If I am mistaken, and I may be, please let me know. Go Bills

I agree, but I do get why Jackson got it. Heck, it was just plain the best player on the best team and I can live with that. Honestly, too, this was a year where all these guys, these top 5-6 all contributed something and there could be an argument for each of them. ...and it does sort of make this so weird, because I am not arguing about who won it, but over why so many picked a particular guy for number 2. The Cowboys with Dak, albeit talented and interesting, were exactly who ALL OF US thought they were. Additionally, I know or believe that the voting does take place before the playoffs, but that said was ANYBODY surprised at the Packers embarrassing them even at home? Also I am not mad about Allen not getting it...but given this guy's generational talent can we please get him all the tools he deserves, even if it is just for one season. Can we not do to this guy what the Sabres shamefully did to a historic talent like Hasek...waste him and then wonder what could have been?

Wonderful. Her probably sends his mom flowers on Mother's Day. He's a good guy who had a good season and again I don't dislike him. After this good season by this good guy, though, if I am starting an open draft I dare any of you on this Board with the second pick overall to take him. And I don't like basing the MVP upon "after Jackson's stats this guy is next." Anyone can go right ahead and forget about Allen and go to McCaffery or Purdy...and honestly when I have written about this elsewhere I too had Hill above him. Holy mackerel did that Miami team depend upon him, but also was a star who shined throughout the League for most of the season. The Cowboys were a good home team, but were as soft as any of their iterations that they have put on the field for the last decade...and Dak was a healthy representation and vanguard for that smooshmellowness. In short and very respectfully, I disagree with him being...the second Most Valuable Player in this League...by 17 people.

17 people. 17 people said after Jackson the second most important player in this League was not Allen...not McCaffery...not Purdy... ...but Dak. ...17 people. I don't hate Dak, and I actually think people are too hard on him at times, but what I believe to be real, breathing, living people who walk upright on this earth came to this conclusion. and for the benefit of the doubt I don't have one shred of proof that any of them are named "Helen Keller."* (* Too soon?)

@Matt_In_NH

Ask the Range.

Super Bowl 25. I was there for the "wartime" security checks. Whitney Houston Looking back and realizing I had a better seat than Bruce Hornsby ...and a kick that from my angle and for 1 instant I thought was good.

We are underwater on Diggs for the next couple of years. I think $31 million and $23 million dead cap hits in '24 and '25. I am completely down with him being a Bill for a couple of more years, regardless of the drop off, because I believe he can still produce. However, can we please just finally agree that the next/eventual new number 1 WR needs to be drafted in 2024, if for no other reason than to possibly help free up an aging Diggs? I love Shakir and I like the potential in some of our WRs, but come on now...we need a #1 who can wear big boy pants this September.

Only 214 days until kickoff. Which hopefully should be September 8, 1 pm, at home. But if not "hopefully," then likely 9 pm, on the road in Beirut on a green Carpet Smart carpet over concrete.

In business profit cures all ills. In football… …score. run’em up.

Bump for the revisions to the OP. Bump for the moment. Bump for St. Crispin’s Day. Tell’em, Bill… King Henry V: What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more, methinks, would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’ Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III And to paraphrase that great former child star Sandy Lyle from “Along Came Polly”… “Hey, Stadium Wall Members, aren’t you the fans of that team that never lost again? …you’re ***damn right we are.”

I want to punch myself in the face, lay naked in the street and scream “what’s the frequency, Kenneth?” All at the same time. To each his own on how we are handling this monumental moment in Bills history. Go Blue. Kick their a**. Make us proud and euphoric.

Why in the world did I never get into really hard drugs in my life? I could so use them right now. 🤢🤮😵‍💫🫨🥴🤪 I am literally going crazy and getting massively sick. Go to **** all you lunatics who are “so excited.” I am a God fearing man, but one who will be sitting in his pew today with his family smoking cigarettes and shaking a tumbler of whiskey on the rocks just to cope. Go Bills! Go my sanity.

Josh: 25 of 35, 315 yards, 3 TDs, 8 rushes 58 yards and 1 TD. Cook: 20 carries, 75 yards, 1 TD Ty Johnson: 6 carries, 30 yards 485 total yards. Bills 38-21 This is the way. Go Bills!