Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I'll assume there won't be all the wheeling and dealing like what went on with DTV. Would be kind of hard as not really anyone to talk to with YTTV I wonder if there will always be a nearly bird sign up discount in future years.

You can select anything that is on any channel within You Tube, then choose to add it to your library and it will record every showing whether new or reruns. But does list them in date shown so newest is to the top. It has no limit to what you can record, somewhere after 6 to 9 months they get deleted. Or you can choose to remove show from library and they are then all gone. You get a choice of two showings, one kin d of "on demand" that includes commercials and second one on local network that you can fast forward thru commercials. Why you'd use the "on demand" have no idea, unless you just love the commercials. The main reason I got You Tube is I have two houses in two different states so only need to pay for one service and watch things in whichever location I'm at. There are some limitations when not in home network, you often have to wait 24 hours to watch something you recorded. You can watch it live or wait a day. Overall I like it, but guide is more pain if you want to see what's on TV 2 days from now. Also not as smooth to fast forward or rewind as my TIVO only that you can't go to a specific second, everything is in 15 second increments. Otherwise no big issues OK thought maybe you already knew a way to do this. I do believe there are more options using the You Tube guide when logged in on computer than when watching through TV, little easier to do things.

So is there an easy way with the guide to see what's on TV say on Friday night?? I have You Tube mainly for sports channels and do plan to get ST. But also have a TIVO with antenna for local network channels and their guide seems to be much easier to use than You Tube if I want to see what's on say 5 days from now. Or am I missing something? Do wonder as a You Tube subscriber will they be sending me an email about it to sign up? Recall when MLB offered their one team only package, the difference between that and the full package was like maybe 10% cheaper, so little wasn't worth it.

Fixed it for you! I can see either LB or WR in round 1

Are you even allowed to do that? Decline giving the 5th year option to a player, then turn around and tag him? Has that actually been done with any 1st round draft pick rookies? Don't recall ever hearing or reading names?? I'd have thought that would be something the CBA would have disallowed for the exact reasons you want to do it.

Or better chance he trades down than up.

Ed Oliver is a good player, just not nearly as good as the #8 overall pick should be and not as good as typically the #8 overall pick is paid. Then again how much should the #8 overall player be paid on a 2nd contract as likely every pick in the draft has many clunkers over the years so really hard to say how much that draft position is worth for 2nd contract. Likely if Ed had played at the level of these others, he would have been offered a 2nd contract at least a year ago if not more and likely would have signed it too as most do. Bills could have back loaded it and been easily able to afford it. But like Edmunds this past year, the Bills didn't offer a contract at least not at the level he wanted, so nothing was signed. Edmunds did have a better 5th year, likely is he had played at that same level in year 3 and 4, he'd have been offered a better deal back then and again would have signed it and they could have afforded it. Also makes me nervous whenever a player has his significantly better season in a contract year. I do think when players are given the 5th year tender but then no long term extension is worked out, the player has a chip on his shoulder against current team and more often goes elsewhere. For those reasons, if Oliver does play really well this coming year, I'll be surprised if Bills can then work out a long term contract with him

In yesterdays Athletic Joe B had a "mailbag" article and someone suggested similar. (maybe it was Tipster) Joe's response was he thought unlikely because Bills don't have many draft picks this year to begin with and Beane has never traded a pick from the following years draft, not even for Allen just to move up in current draft. In answering another question, he also feels barring something very strange happening both Beane and McD are completely safe for next year too. The only one he feels the heat is on in 2023 is Dorsey.

You want to get a good blocking TE who doesn't have hands of stone, that's fine and can help. But wouldn't spend a day 1 or day 2 draft pick on that guy either. Knox is an above average TE. If it were easy to find Kelce and Kittle types every team would have one, but they don't. Knox and the guy on Atlanta may be the closest to them. To me a great TE is more important when you have a noodle armed QB which we don't. To lazy to look this up but I'm guessing the average yards per completion for a WR is longer than for a TE. So again when you have the QB that get the WR the ball, no need to mess around.

This guy can't be a rookie, he looks like he's around 35!

A safety is worth 2 points!

Talk about assumptions! Are you Flemings agent, his mother?? Otherwise how do you know what he'll sign for? 1$.1 mil for 1 year is called an assumption Sir. And much bigger than what mrags stated. The number you throw out may very likely be correct, but right now is just an assumption As rags stated, Beane has stated repeatedly they are happy with Brown and felt due to injuries and other factors, they have faith in him. That has been publicly stated by Beane. 2+2= 4 that's not an assumption! Could they still bring someone in, maybe Fleming. Yes but as Rags is trying to tell you, but you don't want to listen, good chance it will not be high level of competition if anyone.

My wording wasn't the best. I was more thinking about the bad posts he got in response to articles in the press. They certainly weren't to kind to him WRT his behavior. That in turn caused many of the bad posts. But I do believe he was more bothered by what was written about him in the press than posts. Actually he did respond on Twitter so while not this site apparently he does pay attention to what the fans say about him. So then maybe he is an idiot who doesn't have better things to do?? He does strike me as the type more bothered by unqualified criticism than some are,

Even he was upset with the way things ended last year and all the shots of him yelling at Allen then walking out of locker room and all the bad posts he got on sites like this, where is he going to go and be in a better situation as to QB and to get good passes thrown to him more. I can think of a few places where the QB play is as good or maybe better, Chargers, Jax, Bengals, Chiefs, but Bengals and Chiefs, he's not the #1 target. Maybe with Dallas, Raiders, Lions, Browns, Broncos, Saints but big debate on how good QB really is. Definitely not in same league as Allan, Mahomes, and Burrow.

Agree on the money part but also other thing that worries me is who is he being bumped for? If it's the first two rounds OK, 3rd round questionable. Anything below that and possibly even 3rd would worry me if the rookie is called upon. Is say 4th or 5th round rookie really going to jump in and play potentially either tackle side better than Quess could play? That's the problem I see with the Bills right now. They are in the SB window so you want strong backups in case they are needed so mid round picks are tough as not likely an improvement over a vet journeyman, but then how do you replace these guys long term. A 6th or 7th rounder for the most part can hide on PS. A weak rookie can create havoc for Allen whereas say a guy like Shakir, worst case runs the wrong pattern or drops the ball. Allen doesn't have to throw to him, but the defense still needs to account for him. Rookie backups on O line really worry me.

Yes but very strange that it didn't happen then right after the season ended as normally would be the case on coaches fired. So have to believe there was more to it, like Frazier was given an ultimatum, "this is the way we're going to do things this coming year" He thought about, decided he couldn't support it. At that point, late February, did they then "allow him to leave" rather than be fired, possibly. But based on timing, I don't believe it was a simple firing. There had to be more to it based on timing.

Between comments made by McD earlier about being more aggressive makes me wonder if there was more discussion between him and Frazier on what needed to change defensively. Maybe Frazier half halfheartedly agreed to it, but as he thought about it more, came to conclusion he didn't want to do that so after alot of "soul searching" decided to resign. McD then stepped int to call the plays.

I think Klein has a role, but don't think it's to be the starting LB in the Bills Defense. Seems their scheme is based on that guy clogging the middle on pass plays and reducing the passing lanes. Or maybe as someone stated the other day, the plan is to go with 3 safeties and 3 CB's on passing downs and they signed the new safety for that? But the nice thing about both Edmunds and Johnson is they could play both pass and run downs so weren't giving anything away to the offense based on who was in on the play. Putting Klein out there says we're playing to stop the run.

I meant better in that he got an extra 2nd round pick out of the trade and more saying in a joking manor.

Two seasons ago when he played due to injuries elsewhere, once they figured out how to use him best, he was good. Just don't ask him to help with coverage, but was good against run.

So Joe B of the Athletic is a better negotiator than you as he also traded with Detroit, threw in a 5th but he was able to wrangle an extra 2nd out of them. Then traded 2 sixths to get back into 5th. This is his latest. I suppose this violates the rules of this thread as he did make an additional late round trade. I know many will not be happy with no O lineman early, but really isn't an easy path for one to make the 53 man roster without cutting someone who likely would be better player in 2023 than who they may draft in mid rounds.

Think I read they are staying at the Biltmore Hotel out in Arizona probably at about $600 a night. I'm sure staying at such a luxurious place allowed them to come to this monumental decision to allow players to wear number zero!

Are these two guys from NSync?

Couple comments: Well one of the three must have been taking the photo. Belichick must also be missing as don't see anyone wearing a hoodie Sean Peyton looks like he could play some linebacker!

I'd have expected to see good strong teams in the bottom 10 and weak losing teams in the top 10 as the weak teams don't have any good players, But in reality, both top and bottom 10 have a mix of both good and bad teams.