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People forget that. At that time, he only looked like a locker room distraction like TO. The real crazy didn't seep out until he got to the Raiders. The Steelers tight organization hides a lot of crazy. Rule #1. If he's too crazy for Tomlin, he's far too crazy for you. Cowboys are about to learn this lesson the hard way.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Remember when I posted MJ Lenderman to the general music thread? That's him on the Jazzmaster. They're from Asheville.

Not at all. They just got burned by Jermaine Burton last year so they wanna rewrite the boilerplate contract language so they can keep drafting bad dudes without paying the financial price.

So, modern(ish) American movies: Dazed and Confused Big Lebowski Annie Hall (I feel wrong for posting this, but I really love the movie) French Connection Royal Tenenbaums

They want the ability to draft guys with character "concerns" and not have to pay the cost when the issues inevitably arise. They got burned by Jermaine Burton just this past year. That's what this is about. And lookie here! Pac Man Jones is still getting arrested: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/06/11/adam-pacman-jones-pleads-not-guilty-to-assaulting-officer/84136075007/

Shemar Stewart agrees with you. Here is a quote from him: "I'm not asking for nothing y’all (the team) has never done before,” Stewart said. “But in y’all (the team’s) case, y'all (the team) just want to win arguments (more) than winning more games."

Mike Brown is not cheap. He's poor for an NFL owner. His only valuable asset is the small-market team.

Jeffery Lurie has a metric 💩 ton of cash and spends it kicking cap hits down the road. Mike Brown does not.

I have long given up trying to understand what the Bengals do, but they do have a new DC. It makes some sense that he might have wanted to see everyone in person in offseason workouts before deciding who to release.

James Cook

The modern media uses our cognitive biases against us to generate clicks.

But the Bills are about to trade Cook to the Cowboys. Or at least they are in the fantasy world of Pro Football Network rumor-maker Brandon Austin.

That story is less than a rumor. It's source is an article entitled "1 Trade Target for Every NFL Team" and it's pure speculation. At the same level as Teller to KC is Jameson Williams to the Bills. https://www.profootballnetwork.com/1-trade-target-every-nfl-team-2025/

He acts like most people don't already have subscriptions to most of those services. I already have Alta Fiber (cable), Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, and ESPN+.The only thing I have to subscribe to is Sunday Ticket and I can get the student rate. Talking about the price of services that stream games as if the only reason that people subscribe to them is to watch football is like including the price of buying a car in your calculations of the costs to drive to Chicago. Sure, if I didn't have a car it would cost around $20,050 to drive there, but because I have the car for other purposes, the drive costs a tank of gas.

Hoyer in SF. 2017 was the Cutler year in Miami

#1 rule of TBD; if any national media source says something positive about the Bills, it must be swiftly refuted. It cannot stand!

Does Brandon Beane have a crystal ball? How was he to know that the Eagles would make one of the biggest draft errors by picking Reagor before Jefferson?

I'm a fan and I wanted to believe that our second-best offensive player was going to continue playing for our team. So yes, I did bury my head in the sand. My head is currently buried in 10 feet of sand about the issues surrounding James Cook, but at least I'm self-aware.

Nothing ever changes "The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it." Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620.

I love this song. It's a bit old (2021), but I really like it. ]

Ah, the yearly offseason “how we became fans” thread. I, like a lot of you I suspect, became a Bills fans when my father (RIP) hung a Bills and Sabres pennant above my crib in January, 1974. The two teams are all that ties me to my hometown. Strangely, both of my kids are Bills fans even though they grew up in Cincinnati.

Yeah you did!

Hard Knocks needs TC fights, and joint practices usually produce at least a few.

If I had a third child (impossible because my wife is menopausal and I've had the cut), I would name him or her Nesmith.