Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

No one predicted the Giants to only win 3 games last year, and they appeared to have way more talent than Buffalo, so anything is possible. On the other hand could mean there's much more to team togetherness than imagined and the Giants with McAdoo were a mess.

Interesting in that JJ is worth $5.6B and the team is worth $4.2B, he doesn't have a whole lot else going on.

Yes but none of these people who do this professionally 52 weeks a year, year after year are as smart as Punt75 or the many other posters who always no better.

On a related cap question. What are the rules around money due players who are suspended without pay, does that money go back onto the cap? Say if Shady does get suspended for 4 games, do 4 games of salary become available immediately? What if he were to get suspended in January 2019, if he were due a bonus in March of2019, can they get that money back on the cap? Any idea??

If Beane pays the price, then the Bills are in much worse shape than imagined as would show TP is clueless. I'd estimate the success rate of QB's is around 30% turn out to be real good, probably of all the positions on the field, QB has the lowest success rate of actually predicting who will and won't be good. So to fire a person when there's only a 30% chance of success would be really dumb. The problem here is he needs to pay the price because he didn't pick the guy you wanted, so now he needs to pay the price. And if he did pay the price who would you suggest they replace him with? Keep in mind that whomever it might be, if teams can only pick a good QB at a rate of 30% or so, then any GM you bring in will likely have that same success rate. Maybe you'd like Polian, he's probably be around 75 by then. They're wrong all the time as I stated above 70% of the time or so they miss. And yes I did see some people who stated Allan should go in round 3, but the overall consensus was that he was a 1st round pick. And the overall consensus to was that all of the QB's potentially going high had flaws, none were perfect. Agree all the public evaluations are not by team personal, they are made by draft experts. But if these people don't know anything then no one can argue where Allan should have been taken as for all we know every team in the league may have had him rated as #1 overall prospect or #252.

They were more cocky than arrogant and any issues they had were centered around football, not politics or other things. Having huge amounts of outside money does make a difference in today's world. Rosen doesn't have a a history of having his bell rung, it's having concussions. Back in the day of Marino, Kelly, and Elway yes it was having their bell rung, today it's called a concussion. I'm sure in todays NFL in the last minute of the Bills 1st SB against the Giants, in today's rules Kelly would have been removed from the game. 30 years ago players weren't removed from games and then needed to be cleared by a doctor before they could return. So to think in today's world a team wouldn't not pick a player (particularly near the top of round 1) due to a history of concussions is very naive. Was that the only reasons he wasn't selected, I'm sure it also had to do with overall they felt Allan was better or had more upside, but am also certai nthese factors played into it. And as I stated in earlier post, 10 other teams seemed to agree.

We,ll apparently there were what 9 or 10 other teams just as dumb. IMO the fact that Rosen dropped as far as he did shows that most teams in the league had similar feelings. Once you get down to the tenth or so pick, not as much to lose if the pick doesn't work out.

So the consensus is he's not HOF material which I agree with. In that case was the trade worth it?? I'd say probably was the Bills team was pretty set at most positions so the draft picks they gave up, likely weren't needed that bad.

I'd think the NFL would first want to see where this ends up from a police investigation. If they never find the person that broke in would be hard to implicate McCoy from a criminal standpoint. That being said the NFL can still go after him and likely will investigate big time, however not sure it would happen before this season ends particularly with appeals that can drag things on. Without finding the person who broke in a lot of both pointing fingers at eachother. Likely need to find other people to sort through it all which again could take time. My take is it's easy to draft a RB to go for 1000 yards next spring if they have a halfway decent team around him, so assume Shady does make it through this year, I'll be surprised if he's around next season between this event and the fact that he'll be 31. Probably the best thing that could happen to Buffalo is the NFL suspends him year end as then the Bills may not take as big a cap hit for him.

I believe I read somewhere that he's on the board of Westminster Kennel Club.

Did McCoy have anything to do with this, who knows, but assuming the story is true that she got robbed and beat up. (Pretty certain she didn't hit herself), if they specifically asked for items given to her from McCoy, he's having this bad court battle with her already, and supposedly he's stated he wants the jewelry back per other posts here. Think it kind of makes it a good chance he was involved to some level. On top of that, its not his 1st issue with the law. Will he be found guilty, I'd guess not cause he hired a good lawyer and will be a hard thing to proof unless someone rolls over on him, but the NFL may still suspend him. There's another whole thread about Darius latest escapade. Didn't see any posts there condemning the press, you could have posted the identical thing there just replaced McCoy's name. How come?? Oh because it doesn't affect your favorite team in fact it involves a player most Bills fans hate. So when talking about "journalistic integrity", there's really no integrity by Bills fans either. Any player on other team guilty as charged, involving a Bills player innocent and condemn anyone that speaks otherwise without absolute proof. And that's fine, but stop ripping the press for it. I think a big reason all these things get reported today by the press is people do so many more stupid things so no shortage of things to report. 60 years ago Micky Mantle was a good old boy, today he'd be an alcoholic. People may get into fist fights, today they shoot them. Drugs were only used by low life drug addicts and women who got hit, were basically looked at as women that deserved it.

Actually the one thing I thought I did know was the Bird rule, but I thought it referred back to when he was drafted as a junior, but then went back and played one more year. Boston had drafted him low the year prior as knew he was going back to school but then kept his rights after the following season. Thought that was the Bird ruie, guess I don't even know that one.

Glad I like football better than the NBA. Free agency rules in the NFL are a cake walk compared to the NBA. Between the Rose rule, Bird rights, mid-level exception, luxury tax, biannual exception, non-tax exception, expiring contracts, restricted Bird, etc.. the list goes on . How can anyone figure that thing out!

For the sake or argument, assuming Allen does become another JP, if TP fires them for that, then there's really no hope for them as owners as the likelihood of finding a real good franchise QB is about 30%. As long as the rest of the team shows improvement, keep them and try again. I do think too that deep down TP does seem to be the patient type while he has made some fast hires and fires, there were some extenuating circumstances around them.

So if I wanted to watch iton All Access via my computer since I'm out of market, would need to use some IP spoofing app rather than GPS I'd assume??

This merger with Time Warner don't believe it's with the part of the business that provides cable and internet access. This is the part of Time Warner that produces content that then could then be broadcast via AT&T or DTV. Time Warner sold their internet access and cable part of the business off a year or 2 ago to Charter which then re-branded it to Spectrum So no one is "with Time Warner" anymore unless you are a movie producer If anything the could give more ability for the content to be distributed only via DTV

I've been thinking that would have happened the last couple of contract but DTV backs up the brinks truck and offers the NFL more money than they can get elsewhere so they sign up again. DTV know without ST, they'd be out of business quickly as many more will dump them in droves, even so more people are cutting the cord as not worth $100 a month or more, plus the price of ST on top of that and will go to these "grey" area legal options like VPN, Reddit, etc. Yeah the Verizon deal was a nice perk to customers could stream without using data. NFL may find very few additional subscribers to this as won't want to pay for data. If you live in western NY area, can still dump cable DTV, whatever and buy an antenna for over the air and can watch all the Bills games that way. If out of the area, then this won't help you anyway. I dumped DTV at the end of last season, bought a TIVO with an antenna. I'm out of the area, so will be looking for another option for Bills games, probably will use Reddit as that seemed to work well last year. I planned ot dump DTV at the end of the season so many weeks I'd try Reddit to see how reliable it was and for the most part, was never not able to get he game with pretty good quality.

Or the other option is who ever was killed has a connection to the brother and he knows he's next when they find him. So he was trying to get out of town fast.

Didn't I read here that Sully and others were offered buyouts? That's much different than being shown the door. He's 73 years old, getting a buyout at that point, I'm sure he's laughing all the way to he bank. He's a columnist, not a true beat reporter, so he really doesn't need sources, he is paid to write what he wants. Someone who can write what he wants and have it published, I think that's called a job!. His editors apparently didn't delete the stuff because they thought it was good. Sorry you don't understand that!

Completely agree with you, except, last year at this time, how many people had the Giants with the #2 overall pick??

Agree you could do the contract such that has a low 1st year base salary with a decent size signing bonus and a 2nd year has a large base salary and maybe even a 2nd bonus

What shocked me the most wast hat he only had 15 years experience! Seemed like he was around forever!

The one thing Lawson has going for him is a cheap contract. Think he may have to outplay Hughes, they then keep Shaq and cut Hughes for $$ reasons. I also do agree not likely at all he gets cut, but do see him getting traded. Which may also play into the first part I stated, do we cut Hughes to save money or trade Shaq. Think if it came down to those two options they trade him, assuming he doesn't light things up.

Because of this I do this there is some level of truth to this story. I'm sure every team in the league that has top level players in the last year of their contract gets calls from other teams about said player. Team probably always says sure for a kings ransom. Likely too as time goes on time goes on, the number of picks drops off that team can get. Think if by the start of training camp he's not signed, wouldn't rule out a trade with some one. I don't follow things that close would Lawson be a good match for the Atlanta defense. Throw him in next years #1 and 3. Seems when trades for a player in the NFL are made, teams rarely get back the value you'd think they should get in return.

But that could make the pick worth more. This year was it worth trading up to #1 overall or even #2? Probably not as had a choice between 4 to 5 with none standing head and shoulders above the rest. Next year if only one good one, pick could be worth more. Or could be only one good one, but even the one isn't good enough to move up that far to get.