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so, does anyone have the specifics of how much of a jerk or whatever he was?

this and his wiggle and how hard he drives to get yards makes me think a lot of prime beez when i watch shakir. beez also got wiped by good man coverage. i think we need a man killer, big fast w hands. route running is a good plus, but i want a dk metcalf type who can run 3 or 4 total routes but still open things up and put the fear of god into the d. if dbs have to turn and run vs josh, he can hit someone about a mile away, and can run w the best of them too.

i'd trade him if the cap hit wasn't huge and we got tremendous value. but the cap hit is huge, and he's a great player at a lower valued position, so the value we'd get for him would very close to certainly wouldn't be huge so doesn't seem like much there. to me the greatest ability is availability, so while he's one of our best players when he's healthy, he misses enough games to be a concern. that said, he's prolly worth his contract plus to us so what would you trade him for? another expensive player or picks which may or may not work out?

i understand that this won't happen, but i'd much rather college sports were pure amateurism with actual students playing the sport and we had some minor league football for the (vast majority) of "student athletes" who are much heavier on the athlete side.

i like ras a gul, and i hope we keep him, but the monster in the room is he's wrong side of 30 and just got hurt. i think they off him an extension w some savings, and he takes it or walks.

His show was great. during the drought he was so mad, and lambasted the team and management when it was deserved.

so what was this about? cam newton runs some 7 on 7 flag thing and he manages a team that got into some kind of bad blood with another team? was this right after a game or something? did he cast a dark spell on them? is that what the hat is about? so confused.

i remember reading some blurb, i think on twitter, about how the chiefs are "elite" at drawing defensive holding calls in the passing game, and avoiding those calls on themselves. makes me sick!

the gap in our d's numbers in the reg season vs playoffs is just shocking. my pet theory is like a boxer who has great d by preventing his opponent from punching by keeping him off balance, controlled, or just moving out the way vs slower guys. when we face people who have answers tho, we breakdown our fundamentals and either shell up and become a punching bag, or make the wrong moves and try to do too much. im not sure of the exact answer, but i think it involves being more aggressive at times but we have to do so in an effective way. the sell out telegraphed blitzes aren't it. hopefully they made the right choice for some new blood leading the show. given how our LBs tend to play, and the embarrassment of spectacular stat sheet filling play by TB in his second year, i think bobby babby might be the man for the job.

I was a huge fan of zimmerman, guy reminds me of the old world football handicappers, just watching tape and figuring stuff out on their own. i always thought peter king was a cringe fest boomer. reading about his daughter's coffee or cigars or whatever else was torturous. his ultra boomer takes on the wuflu were mind boggling.

lol, i wouldt call what i do high level, and everyone here knows over under (big overlap in fin mkts and betting markets) all a market is is a two sided over under or spread. when the book at a bookie (old school ones at least) wasn't even, they'd show different prices for either side of a spread. normally it's -110/-110, so you risk 110 to win 10 on either side of the spread, but when it's out of whack they'll do like -120/-105 so the juice is 20% on the one side, only 5% on the other.

yes, you silly! people who work in markets (financial, gambling, etc) are generally familiar with these terms.

ya make a market, like a bid and an ask. so like, 5 years at 10 years means you think it will be 5 or less years, but not longer than 10 years. basically playing over under.

so, anyone want to make a market on how long this guy will last before going bankrupt?

this would be a strong thing for the team if we had fewer needs and more cap. i don't see how we could fit him in, but i suppose anything is possible. we absolutely need an upgrade at wr, and possibly 2, but we should be able to get that with a couple draft picks. we need a new 1t (or resign d jones) starter, and we need 2 more DTs and 2 more DEs. some cheapos can fill in, but some picks will be needed too. we also need at least 1 new starting safety, maybe 2, and we lost our two back ups as well. presuming all of that is completed (and we clear up 50 sticks in cap, MY GOSH SO MUCH) and he's on a fairly reasonable contract, then ya DHen might be a big addition to the team. part of the issue we have on o is altho the top line production is very good, and our qb is the goat (ill fight you on this) and our OL is more than solid, the drop off from our 1s to our 2s is SHOCKING. cook to murray is awful, TJ is ok tho. diggs to davis is a big drop, and davis to the next guy on the roster is awful. kinkaid to knox (14mm for like 9 games and a couple nice catches and more drops) is a bad drop off too. if henry means we can run mostly the same stuff w cook and him and get those great 1st down runs we've often gotten with brady, then he could be a huge get. if our d is gonna falter some over the regs, and be what it has always been in the playoffs (sharp disgusting cheeks) then having a better run game to just play keep away might be completely necessary.

everyone was being horrible to me and disagreeing with my post! for real tho, purdy stinks. he has a paint by numbers offense that he just has to follow the recipe on, and an embarrassment of talent all over the shop, but just made continued fundamental errors down the stretch, as well as obviously not having the dynamic ability or athleticism to make a single thing happen off script. obviously the special teams disasters were what sunk the 9ers, but if they moved the ball just a little here and there they could have scored another td (including off of the horrendous pick that mahomes threw) or more. i don't really care about the 9ers, but i hate kc and hate the fact i had to root for those dumb clowns to stop kc from another ring.

i don't know what should work out price wise, but if he was the qb for sf, they beat kc in the bowl.

this is one of the defensive scheme issues IMO. tactically maybe it's great to have fresh legs on the d line running up the field all day, but there is the tactical issue of putting in some trash player because your starter has to have his "rest" more than you should. logistically, these schematic tactics result in a lot of picks and cap stuck on the bench, or perhaps coming along more slowly than you'd like. it also certainly doesn't result in fewer injuries. the reality is we have settle, ford, lawson, and phillips, all like absolute jag level guys who we signed cheap. they get a ton of burn on our team. im sort of hoping mcbean finds jesus here, and he's shown signs of it by playing oliver more at least, but we need be more adaptable on D in terms of not being locked into these awful contracts, and getting young high picks out there when we need to play them.

elam and williams not being able to get burn in the divisional game so we just agree to lose somewhat more slowly (mainly by holding the ball on o no less) is a coaching/scheme issue. if you can't alter your recipe to work with the ingredients on hand, then you aren't a chef who can cook for all occasions. mccoach's addiction to "safe" d players has us tying up a huge chunk of our cap on old slow and injured guys. if some of the von, tre, milano, poyer, hyde money went to some kind of fast wr who can play or a younger pass rusher we'd maybe have won vs kc and would be in a better stich going into the next season.

it would be nice to have dq jones back, but i suspect he's worth more in FA than he is to the bills. AJ im almost certain of it. dq didn't contribute meaningfully vs kc, and he played only a handful of games all season. we have enough tied up in knox, milano, and von who are hurt too much, it seems a bad risk to add another, especially at that age. i have a funny feeling for no real reason that there might be a trade (where a team picks up cap on diggs) with diggs for another wr (i could see SF or Dallas being a potential trade partner). diggs for sure makes the team better, and never misses time, but that contract vs his playoff production is a bear. if we get a rook wr who performs how kinkaid did his rook year, and just restock the d, i think we are a better team next year in the playoffs than we were this year, and we were pretty close.

that's a really good point to emphasize. we are in an awful cap/contract situation. the upside i keep blabbing about is that the guys we will lose don't really have a big impact anymore, so we can afford to lose them. losing out some guys on D which gave up 7.7 a play and a forced one single punt in the divisional round, same guys who got trucked by cinci at home last year, well, i think we can give up 7.7 with a bunch of rooks and some cheapo fa guys, heck maybe even 7.5! we are also down our starting wr who didn't even play, was involved in a shocking % of allen's picks (particular on a per target basis) and who had 2 or less catches in what, half the games of the year or something? if we can get production out of williams, elam, and von, and not lose milano and our top 3 (4?) corners we are a better d than we've had in the playoffs ever, and we will exceed that if we get some good rookie production too. on O, we need 2 or 3 guys who are better than davis (who wasn't playing, so trivially possible), harty, and sherf. haines coming back might be better in passing than the last two and a rookie who can play or two can round that out. mcd has to learn his lesson, but i think there are signs he is learning. knox finding health and diggs not falling off a cliff are also our opportunities to excel.

i come to this board to get some entertainment and info on lots of stuff around the league and draft stuff. i honestly don't understand how you guys can just stomach the general sports media. i watch like 10 min clips that are linked here to whatever show on nfl or espn and they start off w some bills content (that's why they are linked here). even then, i've not made it through a full one. just sitting there and watching and listening to these people would turn me off of the nfl and perhaps even the bills entirely. i used to be into some of the gambling guys because they used more interesting metrics, but even that has gotten crowded with lots of junk. not all heroes wear capes, but many of them post here.

coaching is what is killing us in the playoffs more than anything. the injuries on d were awful, and we were close to beating kc, so i do see a trend of the coaching improving, but we have a couple humps to get over. 1. the scheme defensively relies on too many reads and reactions and gets exploited and doesn't adjust quickly enough. the playoff stats bare this out. 2. perhaps related to the above, the scheme is so complicated or whatever that there is just no fit for elam and williams, two capable but young guys who rode the bench while crippled douglas and bait and tackle aj were out there getting smoked. and douglas in his poor state wasn't as bad as the other cb! my evidence here is we stopped kc zero times and got walked on with aj, and then when williams went in he was a physical beast who made plays even after getting called for a ticky tacky PI and forced the only punt, and one of what 4 punts total in 3 playoff games?!??!! vs kc. somewhat related, platooning expensive fas and high picks on DL but having only 2 people on the roster who can play safety in our scheme leaves us in a bind where we have a lot of resources on the bench on any given down but when a safety goes down we are still without representation. the glimmer, i suppose, of hope is that oliver, our best dl, got way way more snaps the past season than anyone did before, and eventually even in the kc debacle mccoach relented and inserted the mistake prone but force of nature capable williams in and got a stop. just a matter of too little too late for that game, but i presume he's learning and will amend.

the downside is we are in a horrible cap situation. the upside is, we are getting such poor production from so many guys who are either leaving (with a couple exceptions) or big contracts (diggs sorta kinda, milano, tre, von, knox for obv reasons) that the bar isn't that high to get better production form the players who play next season.

a mass shooting is defined as where 4 or more people are shot. not that the all died, or are even seriously injured. it doesn't have to be just one shooter or gun, so if two guys shoot at each other, hit each other and some other people, it's a mass shooting, and so is whatever happened in vegas that produced zero photos or videos (someone really should set up cameras or something in vegas some day).