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Hoax. Smallpox disagrees. I bet you get all the chicks when you start talking about reproductive freedom.

With Murray potentially back on the PS if he’s interested. He still hasn’t listed his house for sale.

My guess, and this is just a hunch, is that they would be very quick conversations, maybe involve a check with Josh and a promise to him to take two WRs in the first three picks, and conclude with a heartfelt thank you to Mr. Diggs for his time here.

Totally agree. Although, if someone wants to give us a 1 for Diggs, I'd strongly consider it. Better to be a year too early than a year too late in moving on from him. And, with the depth of the WR class, loading up with two early picks at that position could set us up for quite some time there (assuming, of course, that we hit on them).

I can’t say I disagree about Kashoggi. We essentially ignored it because those scum bags had something we needed. Still, there’s no excuse for condoning or ignoring or not speaking against what happened to Navalny.

Nah, he was trying to offload all that extra HCQ that Jared and the Don convinced Oklahoma to buy so he didn't have time. No, and he won't. And his acolytes will twist themselves into knots trying to figure out how to avoid it and/or defend it.

Give me a break. They made a business decision, plain and simple. I'm not thrilled with everything that McBeane does, but to suggest that those guys lack guts or fortitude . . . is nuts. The analogy you attempt to draw between this situation and the Kim P. situation is inapt. The Bills had a measure of control over the Kim P. situation. Everyone who dealt with her in Florida signed a confidentiality agreement. Local media was politely told that the story was off-limits, and that anyone who tested that edict would find various other things, such as their press pass, off-limits as well. By contrast, the Bills had no such means to control the Araiza accuser, her attorney, or any aspect of that story other than Araiza's employment status. Finally, while we're on the subject of "cajones," perhaps if Araiza had such fortitude and, simultaneously, a set of clean hands, he wouldn't have discontinued his defamation action against his accuser. But he did. And here we are.

Looks like Diggs in the wrong uni from this year’s divisional round. Next frame is the WR giving the thumb and forefinger for “this close” on the game-changing dime that slipped through his hands.

This is sort of where I’m at. I have good reason to believe this guy is a difficult human. People like that make for a bad work environment. If we can remove him at fair value, replace him with young talent (draft two of them, maybe sign a vet on a one-year deal to be sort of the old guy in the room), and spread it out between Kincaid, Cook, Shakir, and the two new ones, then I’m good with the reboot. It’s actually the far better play from a long-term cap perspective, and it might even be a wiser short-term play.

I love the guy for the reasons you stated, but he's done here. It ended on MNF against Denver with the drop. I wish him luck wherever he goes--except against us--and I hope he gets paid and has a great career. But I think both sides here need to move on. I'm going to go with Bob Woods on this one, although I acknowledge that they are different types of receivers. Nice player, might have a nice season somewhere else, always willing to do dirty work. But as a WR, just sort of slightly above average, in a different way from Woods. No shame in that, but he shouldn't get big bucks here.

Completely agree. That game was lost because SF’s O couldn’t put the nail in the coffin. SF D gave up an average of five points a quarter. That should have won the game.

Not that I’m in favor of this but if we plan on playing more man next year and Elam gets his act together a very easy thing to improve the d would be to flip one of Douglas or Benford to safety and to then invest that pick elsewhere. (I’m totally against moving Benford, FWIW, but the thought exercise there is a reasonable one.)

Agreed on ##2 and 4. Hopeful on #1. Disagree on #3. Here's my unpopular opinions: Dawson Knox is wildly overrated, Gabe Davis sucks, and Kaiir Elam could be an important piece of the D next year. EDIT: one more - If we can get a 2024 #1 for Diggs, he should be out of here on the next flight. Deep draft at WR, could even take two in the first round, and affords an excellent change to either trade way up (two 24 #1s plus a 25 #1 gets us pretty far up the board) or reload with some good, young, cheap talent in a year where the cap is an issue.

It has already started. Shakir Kincaid Torrence cook Bernard Benford. Time to supplement on O and get fresher on D. We need to nail the draft and maybe lean into a different direction on D (more man next year?) but we are headed in the right direction.

Quitter. I know what it’s like to lose. Moreso, I strongly suspect, than just about everyone here. It hurts. But the best way to avoid losing again is to get up and chase your goal harder. I might lose again next time, but it won’t be for lack of effort or desire. The only thing than one accomplishes by giving up is ensuring that she/he will never meet that goal.

You got it. Anyone who feels otherwise is a quitter. The reality is that we are very close. Maybe even one Chris Jones bull rush away from taking them out. Keep on grinding and whaling away in that rock and it will break. Just like anything and everything else in life.

Hit the rock until it breaks. We’re going to keep on hitting, and that thing is goi g to break.

Just what I was thinking. SF’s D is gassed.

I'm not saying that I think this is going to happen, but maybe they're sick of his childish BS, the attendant headaches, and the friction with the boss (Josh Allen), and Houston is one of few available destinations for him with the contract. The other possibility, of course, is that he's such a toxic butthole behind the scenes that sending him to a rival might be addition by subtraction for us and subtraction by addition for them.

You mean work with the victim’s attorney.

None. This is just a guess, but my bet is that there are a lot of people in the facility exhausted by his BS.

This. Huge attitude problem is an apt characterization. Also maybe not an idiot, but does some things that an idiot would do.

Not yet.

He was a headache in at least one instance behind the scenes. "Antics" is the perfect word for it.

I'm good with Johnson for another year. Tough. Runs the sweep well. Reliable with the ball. Catches relatively well. We can do worse at RB2 given the resources we have and holes we need to fill.