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    REPORT: Steelers trading Antonio Brown to Bills! - Per Ian Rapoport (Hold up....maybe, maybe not....) EDIT: DEAL NOT HAPPENING PER BRANDON BEANE - UPDATE: Traded to Raiders

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    1 minute ago, BaaadThingsMan said:

    I wonder if this is a situation where the agent feeds a story to get another team to up their offer? The Bills only being a pawn in the game? That would suck!

     

    Sabres were a pawn where Babcock got more money out of the Leafs. I wouldn't be surprised.

    REPORT: Steelers trading Antonio Brown to Bills! - Per Ian Rapoport (Hold up....maybe, maybe not....) EDIT: DEAL NOT HAPPENING PER BRANDON BEANE - UPDATE: Traded to Raiders

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    Just now, YoloinOhio said:

    Why is everyone saying he would rather retire and refuse to play for Buffalo? Because of Allen? Really? If that’s the case and he only wants a proven QB then there are a lot of teams he would nix

     

    Because people like to ***** on the Bills and Buffalo in general. Twitter is awful right now, as is Reddit. Plus, you have players like Jamal Adams, Stephon Gilmore, and Dez Bryant ripping on us.

    Bills fans and why the love of Blue Collar teams?

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    13 minutes ago, ddaryl said:

     

    It has a lot more to do with the nation and large market cities pissing on Buffalo any chance they get

     

    Gets old, and none of us want ot be associated with big ***** of the "non Blue Collars" cities

     

     

    Agreed with the rest of the country continually taking shots. But Buffalo and the companies here certainly don't help the cause though. People here love to play up the "we're an underdog / hardworking" city as opposed to just existing. It comes through in a lot of advertising, marketing, and communications. 

    Bills fans and why the love of Blue Collar teams?

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    Posted · Edited by junior12thman92

    To me, these are separate conversations/unrelated.

     

    I think that, yes, Buffalo loves "blue-collar" teams filled with players like Kyle Williams, Eric Wood, etc., because they see themselves and the broader community "in" those players. They're not braggadocious, flashy, or prima donnas. They're just hard workers who go to work and do their job. 

     

    I think people don't want AB on this team mainly for the reasons Flip Johnson mentioned  above (30+, big contract, would probably be unhappy here), as well as teef (the capital it would take to acquire him, him not fitting in with McDermott's team-first type of player, etc).

     

     

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    Bills sign C Spencer Long to 3 year deal

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    Posted · Edited by junior12thman92

    Here's some info on him from last week:

     

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25932213/jets-release-center-spencer-long-avoid-cap-hit

     

    In their first significant roster move under new coach Adam Gase, the New York Jets announced Tuesday they are parting ways with center Spencer Long.

     

    The Jets released Long to avoid a $3 million roster bonus, which would've become guaranteed if he had remained on the roster Wednesday. The expected move makes him a free agent.

     

    Long, 28, signed a four-year, $27.4 million contract last offseason after four seasons with the Washington Redskins. The Jets had hoped he would stabilize the center position, a weakness since Nick Mangold stopped playing in 2016, but the plan didn't materialize. Long played the second half of the season with a tendon injury in his right (snapping) hand, which affected his performance.

     

    The low point came in a Week 9 loss to the Miami Dolphins (who were then coached by Gase), during which he was off-target on at least seven shotgun snaps. Then-Jets coach Todd Bowles didn't pull him until late in the game, resulting in a torrent of criticism. Long never played center again.

     

    When he returned to the lineup two weeks later, he played left guard, where he stayed for the rest of the season. He wound up with 13 starts -- eight at center, five at left guard. The Jets structured his contract in a way that leaves no "dead" money on the 2019 salary cap. His entire $6.5 million cap charge comes off the books, increasing their cap-room surplus to about $100 million. They can use some of the money to sign a center because there is no heir apparent on the roster.

    Siberian’ stigma: How the Bills recruit free agents to Buffalo and why deep pockets don’t always help

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    2 hours ago, SydneyBillsFan said:

    Ok, so we apparently suffer from being a small city team in brass monkey weather - why does Green Bay not suffer for the same reasons?

     

    They at least have a history of fielding competent teams and making the playoffs. We... do not. 

     

    There's lots of fans in this thread saying that winning cures (almost) all. That's true. But we haven't exactly done a whole lot of winning in the last 20 years. Now combine that with the myriad of other factors Graham laid out in the article and you can understand why coaches threaten that they'll trade players to Buffalo. 

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