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  1. 10 hours ago, reddogblitz said:

     

    Are we trying to win, or save money?

     

    And I thought Ralph was cheap.

     

    If we had Shady we very well may have won Sunday. Once Gore got up there in carries and we couldn't run because Coach McDermott doesn't trust Yeldon, Shady probably would have broke one on the last drive ala snow game and Bucs game in 2017.

     

    But at least it didn't hurt our cap space.

    Where are the reading comprehension skills??  
     

    I merely pointed out in response to another post implying that no money was saved that there was in fact money saved. Where in my post did I opine in any way regarding the  decision to release him? ?

  2. 3 hours ago, Cripple Creek said:

    When someone starts throwing numbers around you know that they don’t have a leg to stand on.

     

     

    I’ll try this again in this thread. 

     

    The McCoy release only makes sense if the aim is to release one player with greater talent over another with obviously less talent. That’s it.

     

    Keep your “but, but, but, Shady might not have accepted a lesser role happily.” WTF cares? Let The Process take care of that one. If It cannot then it isn’t worth much. Is it?

     

    Were they “doing good” for a guy who had carried the load and asked to be released?  If that’s what The Process is about then it needs fixed.

     

    Was McDermott “doing a solid” for his buddy Mozart? I sure hope that debts incurred be The Process don’t go back that far.

     

    They, Beane and McDermott, left a hole in the roster. To put it succinctly, they ***** up. They sent talent away and kept lesser talent.

    Dude, seriously??
     

    First of all, that is the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever read on this forum and I’ve been here a long time. Those numbers are accurate, and if they aren’t, by all means prove that they are wrong. Prove that anything I stated is inaccurate. 
     

    Second, where in that post did I EVER state an opinion one way or the other regarding whether we should have or shouldn’t have kept him??  I merely stated facts, in response to a previous post, that implied no money was saved and thus was an irrelevant factor. This was false. But then again, I’m just throwing numbers around and I guess we all now know what that means. ?


     

    Brownie says Josh is in stage 4. 

  3. 6 hours ago, Mango said:

     

    We are eating the cap anyways. Money was a non-issue

    Not really.  While it is true there was some dead cap money ($2.625 million), we still saved saved his full salary of $6.175 million. 

     

    The stats below were listed in early 2019, so we paid his $250,000 workout bonus.  Because it was his last year, the only dead cap money was the final proration of his contact and that dead cap space of $2.625 million was going to be with us this season whether we paid his salary and kept him, or if we cut him.  So cutting him saved the full salary and added nothing additonal to the dead cap space we already were carrying for him this season.

     

    LeSean McCoy

    2019 cap hit: $9.05 million
    Workout bonus portion: $250,000
    Salary due: $6.175 million
    Dead money: $2.625 million
    Cap savings: $6.425 million

  4. 2 hours ago, SlimShady'sGhost said:

    there is HYPE and then there is too much HYPE 

     

     

    Get your feet back on the ground fellow Bills Fans 

     

    if the Bills get crushed . It won't look good.

     

    There is still things Josh needs to polish up 

    SCREW THAT.  I'm all in and I couldn't care less what "it looks like" if we lose big.  For the first time in decades, I see a team truly on the upswing, so I'm even going to enjoy the part of the journey where we will lose some (even some we should win), because we'll also win a few we probably shouldn't as well.  You want to be careful and not get your hopes too high or get ahead of yourself, no problem.  I believe in this management team and coach, and I believe in our young QB, and I believe where this team is headed and I'm going to be as feet off the ground as I want to be while it happens.  So there!!  :P  ?

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  5. 4 hours ago, Kelly the Dog said:

    Funny little story about the Dawg Pound. The original dog pound guys used to bring in that dog house on their shoulders. It took a couple years IIRC for the cops to realize that 4-6 guys carried it in and two carried it out. That is because it held a half keg of beer. To the Browns credit, when they found that out they just made them sign a paper saying they wouldn't do it again rather than ban them from games.

    https://bleacherreport.com/articles/417030-six-points-before-the-dawg-pound-was-neutered

     

    Thanks for sharing that. That really is kind of awesome. 

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  6. I’ve been a Bills fan since 1966 when I was 8. I saw OJs first game as a rookie. I don’t know when this Bills Mafia thing came into being, but it was no doubt decades after I became a lifetime fan. I see the name like I do the Dawg Pound or Raider Nation.  But I do not consider myself a member of it, nor am I now somehow de facto assimilated into it like a member of the Borg Collective ?. Nor will I ever be. I’m just a lifelong Bills fan. 

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  7. 30 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

    Very funny but I can understand. I can remember back in the late 60’s-early 70’s going into a season knowing we had no chance.  

    Those were the days, huh?  I was like 9-10 in that time frame. My brothers and I used to go with my dad. I remember games where we would be walking back to the car after the game, saying things like, “Well, at least we got to see them score a touchdown right in front of us today, right dad??”

     

    I remember them getting their butts handed to them by the chargers in a mud bowl game. Middle of the fourth quarter, the game was out of reach, were soaking wet, and the only guy on the entire field with a clean uniform was John Hadl. The crowd started chanting, “Get Hadl dirty, get Hadl dirty.”  It took a couple of plays and the Bills finally sacked him. The place was as loud as if we had just scored the winning touchdown. Really pathetic. But that was how it was in those years. 

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  8. 24 minutes ago, Doc said:

     

    The first INT and fumbled snap weren't his fault.  The INT off the tip was bad luck and tipped passes happen often.  The fumble on the sack was on him and he needs to prevent that in the future.

    Although, Dawkins was severely abused on that play and his man was hitting Allen from his blind side.  Did he even finished his drop? I know you have to keep two hands on the ball, but I’m not sure that would have helped him on that one.  

     

    I think Dawkins deserves some of the blame on that one. 

  9. 17 minutes ago, Freddie's Dead said:

     

    Aw hell no!  I want to like this, but my hatred for the Clippers runs deep.  Still not over the fact that my Braves were stolen.

    My hatred for the loss of the braves will always be with John Y. Brown.  He's the one who shed the Braves of all of their great players so that he could  trade franchises with the owners of the Celtics, so that they could take the Braves to San Diego and he could own the Celtics.  Just a few short seasons later, that apparently got old and he sold the Celtics.

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  10. I'm sorry but this conspiracy theory makes no sense given the numbers. 

     

    While I don't have the specifics of the Colts ticket revenue values for season tickets they sold in 2019, their total gross receipts in 2017 were $59 million (the year he missed the entire season), and the average total gate receipts for the 2010 - 2017 seasons was about $57.3 million.  https://www.statista.com/statistics/320644/nfl-indianapolis-colts-revenue-from-ticket-sales/  

     

    So ticket revenues have been virtually flat for the past 8 seasons.  So first off, there is no indication that somehow those gross receipts would have drastically fallen had Luck retired in the Spring vs when he did.  If Josh had blown out a knee late in training camp (now frantically knocking on wood for even typing that!), I would not have wanted my money back for my seasons.  And in those 8 years, one was before Luck was drafted, in one he played only 7 games, and in one he did not play at all. There was virtually no difference in revenue for those years versus the other 5.

     

    Second, they are required to contibute one third of those revenues to the revenue shared pool (Roughly $20 Million).  Any loss in revenue that might have occurred would have been greatly mitigated by the fact that the reduced receipts for that 1/3 would have been averaged in with the other 32 teams.  In fact, some of the lost revenue may have been offset depending upon the value of the pool.

     

    The Colts were entitled to recover nearly $25 million from Luck.  So even if they had lost 1/2 of their revenue or $30 million (which I highly doubt!), worst case it would have been close to a wash had they just recovered the bonus from Luck.

     

    So I guess this theory requires us to believe that essentially, the Colts owner decided to take in the money from the supposed 50% of season ticket holders that would never have purchased had they known Luck was retiring, and then give it to Luck?  What sense does that make?  Or how about that Luck and Irsay worked out a deal where they postponed his retirement announcement to take in an extra $30 million in season ticket revenue, and then he would let Luck keep the bonues money of $25 million so that Luck could kick back half to Irsay so they both ended up with $15 million each of the defrauded season ticket holders money???

     

    Sorry.  Not buying it. While there may have been a dip in season ticket sales, it is highly doubtful that it would have execeeded what they could have recovered from Luck.  It would have made far more sense to announce it right away (assuming they had known of it since the spring), and just recovered from Luck what was necessary to offset the loss.  They could always give it back to him next year, if he decided to come back.

     

    Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is the most probable one.  Given the numbers, I'll go with that.  Luck tried to come back and once again, the cycle of pain and injury was extended far longer than anyone expected, and he'd just had enough.  So he decided to do it now, so that the team at least had a few weeks to get used to the idea that he wouldn't be back.  No reason to defraud unsuspecting Colts fans of their hard earned money. ?

  11. 1 hour ago, Hebert19 said:

    Was trying to not to have a vague title of Matt Barkley so added the more serious part.  

     

    I've watched him in the past and he didn't seem in shape so to speak...was a little rounder than you would expect.   He also didn't seem to have the same command of things in his other backup jobs...

     

    But this year...he's come in and did exactly what you would want.  He's helping Josh.   He's in great shape (looks like a different guy if you ask me).   And seems all in here in buffalo.  

     

    Not sure if it is that he's taking it more serious or just a better fit for him.   Thoughts?

    You may have avoided vagueness, but your grammar is atrocious. But no one takes grammar more seriously than me. ?

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