Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I'll go out there a couple years and pick Ford!

Completely agree with you about being proven correct is the most important thing. But that goes both ways too, for example people who stated they shouldn't draft Allan will hope he fails to say I told you so, but never publicly admit that. They will state; "I hope he does great, but don't see it happening" The day if he were to get cut, then all their old posts will pop up saying "I told you so!" But then you have the other side who blindly defend the team, if a writer puts out an article stating the team is doing good, like the article from Simms about Allen, he's a great writer, but say anything bad, he's just a hack. Or state anything negative and be told you can't prove that.

That would be great if it happened and they answered as that would be tampering, likely get their 1st round pick! Sorry but no way that's happening unless he does very poorly here the next year or two and for whatever reason Buffalo encourages him to look elsewhere. But that's not the work it usually works. What could happen is McD calls up Rivera and offers him a job. But even that not likely immediately as Ron will get the rest of his contract $$ from Carolina anyway as long as he stays un-employed. Certainly some assistant job in Buffalo is going to pay less, so Carolina would still be on the hook for a big part of his salary.

I'll go under as 9 is a big number for a rookie particularly on a team that struggled last year in that area. But would change my vote to over if they still somehow were to sign Clowney or someone of similar ability.

I don't know what planet you're from, but here on earth people do use the past to predict the future with a decent amount of certainty in many cases. Your whole argument with the other poster is you that just because they were lousy last year, until they play this season, you have no idea how they'll be. So teams draft players based on how they played the prior season with a different set of rules and a playing in a completely different environment. But they still somehow use that data to draft. Based on your comments though past performance means nothing so then as I suggested why not just pick names from a hat. Just as much chance as getting it right according to you. In January you turn on the TV and listen to the weather and they say a high of 23, do you think we don't know that, it could be 90 today. Granted a much higher change of it being cold in January than the Bills receivers not improving some. Though I'd say there's a better chance of having a warm day in January than the current Bills receivers finishing the year in the top 5. I don't recall the exact words the poster said that you are arguing he stated it as a fact, but that's a stretch. It's hard for anyone to say more than 2 words about anything without it coming out as if they are stating a fact, but in reality 90% of the time it is more of an opinion so really no all that bothered by him stating it as a "fact". Just like the weatherman who states it will be 23 today and he's stating in a factorial manor and instead it's 25, does that mean he's completely clueless, I don't think so. Do I think the group will improve yes, top 5 no, and honestly would be less surprised to see no improvement than top 5. So enjoy your time on whatever illogical planet you're from that uses no past history to predict the future. Good luck with that!

One last time to you too since you also don't seem to get it. First off I wasn't even the one who stated they are at the bottom right now. My response was to you who is arguing because they haven't played the season yet, it's wrong. Was it really stated as a fact or an opinion. If you look at prior years stats and they put the new players towards the bottom, and last years players were also near the bottom, it's not a reach to state that they likely are going to be at the bottom again. And if it's stated in a factual manor, hard to argue against it. Since you ignored my comment the last time I'll ask again, if past performance can't be used to judge expected future performance, why do they hold a draft every year. Based on your logic, they should just pick names out of a hat! Why does everyone in the world except you use past performance to draw conclusions? Why is the whole world wrong??

So are you saying that if they are not ranked #32,, they can't be bottom. IMO and like ly the opinion of most people any unit ranked below say 25 is at the bottom of the league. So it's quite possible they can improve and still be in the bottom and even if they moved from 25 to 20 that's improved, but still not impressive. But again with adecent year from Allan, they could move up maybe 15 or so. So if no one can predict the future and it's silly to even talk about it according to you, why do NFL GM's coaches, scouts, etc even bother to have a draft every year. Why not just pick names out of a hat and that's the team you go to? Would save teams a huge amount of money as apparently no one has any idea what's going to happen anyway.

you don't need to see the future to know as has been pointed out, their career stats are far from overwhelming. Will the unit be improved yes. If Allan also continues to improve this group could look much better. I'm a believer that more often than people realize the QB makes the WR's look special so if Allan is the real deal, we may be just one true WR away from an elite group.

Actually not needed, just signed a bunch of real estate documents and they were all done via electronic signatures. Probably was the best penmanship I ever had too I might add.

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