Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

It may cause the league to push the Pegula's to build the new stadium more in the US side of Niagara Falls. You also have the CFL to deal with too. In any sport except hockey(and curling), teams in Canada will only get great support when winning. Actually there was a conspiracy by the Canadians to cause an MLB strike the following season so the Blue Jays remained champs for two seasons!

The difference is with the byes, the 1 and 2 seeds have less opportunities to lose. and having that bye gives the rested team a big leg up the following week, so more often than not will win and then move onto the conference championship the following weekend. Does the 6 beat the 1 on occasion, sure but more often they don't. The two teams you mention are also rather popular teams so sure many were happy about it. Actually thought the Giants also did the same another year, also a popular team. Go to 8 teams you're playing more games, so more chances to lose, and you lose the advantage of being rested. There's already enough parity in the league, at least let the better teams advance more.

that part is certainly true, which to me is why I like the byes as the better teams win more.

do bye's directly make it more popular no, but the fact that the four best teams meet in the championship rounds more often, I think does help make the game more popular. Many more road teams win the first week than the 2nd week of the playoffs.

You're right they don't and and that's why particularly in hockey the 8th seeds are beating the 1 seeds. Is that really a good thing. In the NHL and NBA way too many teams are making the playoffs anyway. Agree it was cool that in 2018 Virginia lost to the 16 seed, but did it really make the tournament better or Syracuse losing to Vermont or Richmond? Actually MLB does give byes BTW through the wild card round. Without the byes I doubt the Bills would have made it to 4 straight Super Bowls. Granted, one year it helped them, but the other three, would likely have been knocked out of one of them. And to your last question, why should the NFL. Did you ever think that maybe that's at least a small part of the reason the NFL is the #1 sport.

No! No! No! To me this is the one thing that makes the NFL playoffs good in that it rewards teams that were the best all season. More often than not it allows the two top teams to advance which is good. Without any real data, just my gut, I'd say roughly 3 out of 4 of the bye teams advance on average over the past 25 years or so. To me that's a good thing. There's talk of adding more teams to the college playoffs. I'd favor 6 teams there too and give the top two a bye. That way the best meet up in the end.

Saw a story the other day about Mark Gasteneau was starting a Go Fund Me page as he needed money for some major medical issue he had. Forgot most of the details, but one thing it did state is that players only get paid medical insurance for 5 years after they retire. That surprised me that wasn't for life, particularly when you consider the profession they are in. Would have thought they'd at least get a highly subsidized policy for much longer. The other big thing that will be talked about is clipping Rogers wings when it comes to power, but also read that the majority of the players, the ones who don't get in trouble could care less about that. I can see alot of screaming a yelling about less power for Roger, then the league says how 2% extra in the 401K instead and the players all then say OK great, we're fine.

I'm sure it's just a case of the union wanting to get the word out to the owners, the players are ready to sit out for an entire year so watch out, we mean business. We're not caving!! The problem for the players though is it's not just sitting out and losing a years salary. I'd estimate every year maybe at least 200 new players take the place of vets (say an average of 5 draft picks + 1 FA X 32 teams makes the team) so for those 200, not only are they sitting out a year, but some will never again see a check signed by Roger. You'll have another entire rookie class coming in. Take a guy like Lonzo if it were this coming year, would he want to lose his last potential pay check. It's hard to strike in a career business that lasts an average of three years! As for the owners, other than the desire to win the Super Bowl, they're probably just looking at all the money they will save in salaries. Where the issue really comes in is all the people working in tickets sales, assistant to the assistant equipment mangers admin, will they then lose their jobs. They could strike until Tom Brady's son is ready to enter the NFL and still be filthy rich.

I do think in some ways getting elected to the NFL hall of fame is too easy and too hard to get elected to the baseball HOF so likely there are other marginal players in there too. But also may be due to the fact that baseball players have easily measurable stats like HR's RBI, ave, ERA, etc. What's an offensive lineman have to measure against? It has to be hard on the voters to decide as you can see much more "tape" of today's players compared to guys who did get elected and those who just missed getting in from 40 years ago. How many of today's voters even saw someone like Johnny U or Bart Starr even play. But that's the job of the votors to sort through all that. His comparison against Aikman is fair until you get to the Super Bowl wins. And very likely Aikman was also marginal, but what did get him over the top were the championship wins. Not sure this article will help very much as can see voters now thinking, can't vote for him else it will look like anyone who feels slighted, get some attention on it and we'll vote yes.

Well like the article said, maybe they figure they're just going to keep handing the ball off every play, so no need for Jackson to learn much of anything!

OK, but in your example, while the Dallas market would definitely get the Dallas game, the other network could show any 1:00 game so you might have a 1 in 5 chance or so of getting the Miami game? The only was to still assure you'll get to see the Miami game is with ST. And BTW not that I'm advocating for ST either.

If you're going to tank, tank in 2021 for Lawrence! But hope the Fish do tank for Tua as that may likely be good for the Bills!

There is some truth to that!!

so this was his last year, does a 2 year extension signed now mean this season and two more or two total years now left?

Pegs daughter suggested he try on a pair of her heels.

Another interesting thing to look at on the list of names, how many were just signed to their 2nd contract? Getting FA around 26 to 28 isn't bad either as likely will not grow too old to preform up to their contract. A couple of 34 YO signings aren't bad for leadership, but other than Ty N none signed over 30

Will also make a disclaimer that all of them could be gone tomorrow if Beane got a decent trade off. But would be less likely IMO to see them get cut. Having said that: I think Croom will stick as TE is a tough position for a rookie to come in so can see Know being inactive the first month or so of the season. Sweeney as a 6th rounder will likely be on the PS Same could happen with Teller too though may be afraid there to expose him to others grabbing him. Do think Vlad and Bodine are gone, they seem to like Sirles. I also think one of their O-line signings will get cut. People keep talking about how Long is better at guard. Wasn't one of the big issues he had was terrible snaps due to a torn ligament? Was his blocking as a center worse than as a guard or was it strictly snapping the ball? Also agree with DiMarco likely gone Wouldn't be shocked to see them trade McCoy.

While it's improved, still don't think the Bills have a very strong WR position group, so maybe we'll have a 2 TE offense out there most of the time, Smith and Kroft, plus Beasley, Brown. Many are saying this spells the end for Croom. I'd think it may more mean the end for DeMarco.

While I think Knox can likely develop into a strong TE by year 2 or 3 (as has been mentioned in other threads, TX is a position that typically takes time to develop) , wouldn't be shocked to see him inactive at least the first month of the season. So you start the year off with Croom, Kroft, and Smith. Good chance a month into the season one of them gets hurt anyway, put him on IR, then start activating Knox.

Well I think to qualify as a former player, you need to have played more than about 2 weeks! You can see how much it helped with his nephew Chad!

If you want to add in coaches salaries you'd also then need to add in salaries being paid to fired coaches. That would really hurt teams that have been weak for year like Buffalo and keeps firing coaches. So better be careful what you ask for. or you're really a Pats fan as your idea would likely help them much more than it would hurt them..

TE is probably the one position group he has enough daughters to go around. At first Terry suggested kickers but that too many of the girls out. and maybe the name fits!

could be right, but no one would know that for a couple years, so certain another team would grab him as soon as he were cut. Likely anyone drafted higher than 6th round would have trouble making it onto the practice squad without being grabbed by another team. I think now that Anderson retired, Buffalo for similar reasons may not want to expose him to be picked up by another team so he makes the 53, unless looks very shaky in camp and pre-season. If Anderson were still here, then would agree with Jackson to PS and take your chances. If he gets picked up, oh well, but now may be more concern.

Who's preformed better over the past 3 to 4 year OBJ or Clowney? In spite of all the off field antics OBJ and he was only worth a first. Antonio Brown got a 3rd. It has to be a real top super star to give u pa first, Clowney is not that. I'd be shocked if a team gave a up a 1st for him, and just hope it's not the Bills. 3rd, go for it, 2nd maybe, I'd try and also get a 4th or 5th back then too. PS If you gave me a choice I'd rather give up a 1st for AJ Green than Clowney.

As long as he stay healthy then yes, but that's been his issue. This year though may have enough other depth around him that if he is out, likely won't be missed as much.