Albany,n.y.

I liked OJ Simpson pre 1994. I don't remember if I ever said "We want Marangi", but I might have. I wanted Steve Spurrier to replace Hank Bullough, not Marv. I wanted Johnson over Flutie. I predicted JP Losman would lead us to a 12 win season his 1st year as a starter-Woops! Once I jumped off the JP bandwagon, I predicted Trent Edwards would be a HOF QB. (I think that's my greatest mistake) Now for a couple of good takes: With all those overly optimistic QB thoughts, I only questioned 1 QB, EJ Manuel. Before the draft I was against drafting a QB, especially in the 1st round because It was obvious to most people not named Buddy Nix that it was a bad QB class. I even posted on another board comparing that class to another one that produced no quality NFL QBs. After EJ said he was offering stock in his career I asked the question "How can I short the stock?" When we drafted Josh, I went back to optimist mode. Now these 2 things haven't happened yet, but I believe they will someday in the future. The day Josh signed his rookie contract I posted on Facebook "Bills sign future Super Bowl MVP" and on opening day 2019 I responded to a Jets fan in front of me on the bus to the game who was criticizing Josh & his accuracy by telling him Josh will end up in the Hall of Fame.

He signed a 1 year deal with Atlanta & because he was only on a roster for a short time in 2020 (when he spent most of the season on TB's practice squad before signing with SF) I believe he's a restricted free agent because he doesn't have 4 years in.

Rosen was playing for league minimum last year (after getting paid his guarantees by a team he wasn't on). He got benched in garbage time & you want to hand him $3-5 million. What are you thinking wanting to sign Rosen for $3+ million?

Offer him a contract now before the price goes up is NOT fair market value. Any agent knows not to sign a contract unless it is anticipated value, not the current value which is a LOWBALL as presented in the post I comment on. I'm laughing at anyone who says sign him now before his price goes up & claims that's fair market value. Common sense says it isn't. You're right, it's not the same front office. That's why neither party is interested in signing a deal which "would probably" need renegotiation. They signed Josh to one of the biggest contracts in the NFL. The only thing they would want to do is restructure for cap relief, not renegotiate.

Every time I see a post like this I laugh. Don't you think Knox is thinking the same thing & for that reason the only way he's signing is if he gets big $? It's as if some people think that players don't consult their agents and the team can get away with a lowball offer. Even if the player does sign, a low contract will cause problems if the player and his agent think they've exceeded his contract. Remember, the Bills & Jason Peters reached an impasse that resulted in him being traded away just as he was approaching his prime years because they got away with a low contract-until they didn't.

That was Rex Ryan & Doug Whaley's doing.

I always projected EJ to go into broadcasting. I just don't see that for Darnold.

When olympics are held in a city for the1st time, new stadiums & arenas are built with government funding, often at a loss since there are no permanent tenants. Real Sports once did a segment on this. There are a lot of private buildings built after tax breaks have been granted so that a building can be built in a specific municipality. Many times with the promise of bringing hundreds of jobs into the area. If the Bills were to leave, there would immediately be fewer jobs from people directly employed by the Bills all the way to restaurants and motels in the area that gain customers on football weekends.

When the county stops owning stadiums, then you can say you don't want taxpayer funded stadiums, but the bottom line is Erie County is the owner of the stadium & the land & it wouldn't make a lot of sense for the Bills to pay everything for something they don't own. When municipalities stop building stadiums on municipally owned land, the taxpayers will be able to stop funding stadiums. Until that actually happens there is no reason to expect the Pegulas to foot the entire bill to build a stadium on Erie County's land. Every time the state, county, town or city builds a new building on land they own, from a tiny garage to an office building to a stadium, the taxpayers pay for it. What you really want are private stadiums on private land owned by private individuals-Good luck with that. It's really a local/state's rights issue that the federal government shouldn't come anywhere near.

The XFL isn't playing until 2023, so this year only the USFL will be playing. Even though the USFL has team names & cities, all the regular season games will be played in Birmingham Alabama in 2 different stadiums. The playoffs will be in Canton Ohio.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33341262/xfl-petri-dish-football-innovation-prospect-development-part-partnership-agreement-nfl The NFL-XFL agreement will give the NFL a "petri dish" to experiment with proposed rules, test new equipment and develop prospective officials and coaches, XFL president Russ Brandon told ESPN. A Buffalo Bills executive for two decades, Brandon said NFL officials routinely discussed the need for such an outlet after NFL Europe shuttered in 2007. "People would ask, 'What are the opportunities to look at the game through a different lens from a player development standpoint?'" Brandon told ESPN. "'How can you be an incubator or an accelerant in many different verticals, from officiating to rules innovations to playing surfaces, to player development?' You can go on and on.

The difference is the Giants & Jets could have only threatened to move back to NYC. They really couldn't come up with much of a threat like the Bills can. The fan base doesn't change just by crossing the Hudson. If the Bills move the fans are abandoned. Plus, it took 2 teams sharing a stadium to fund it and they can charge a lot more for PSLs than most other franchises.

We're not trading Josh Allen to them 😄 Realistically, the Bills are drafting too low in this year & are projected to be drafting low in future drafts. By contrast, the main reason we were able to get Bennett for 2 #1s and Greg Bell, 3 years from when he was a number 1, and a 2nd rounder was because the Bills were drafting pretty high in the years before the trade & the parners thought the picks would be relatively high. There's no way Washington would trade Young to a team for what they view as low 1st round picks. In other words, the whole premise of this thread is nothing but an impossible fantasy.

I remember him most for a weight problem. When he signed with the Bills he was over 300 lbs. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1997-08-14-9708130432-story.html POOH BEAR LOSES WEIGHT BATTLE, DECIDES HE'S FINISHED AS PLAYER By CRAIG BARNES Staff Writer South Florida Sun-Sentinel • Aug 14, 1997 at 12:00 am TALLAHASSEE — Pooh Bear Williams, who has battled weight since coming to Florida State, finally surrendered on Wednesday: He decided not to play. His weight was estimated at 320 pounds. "I feel bad about it," coach Bobby Bowden said. "He was one of the nicer kids we've had. I talked to him and his father, but he'd pretty much made up his mind. I imagine the weight just got to be too much of a problem. He told me he was going to stay in school."

I guess you have a different Google search engine than I do: https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/travis-scott-lawsuits-victims-families.html https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6498405&page=14 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-me-good-samaritan19-story.html https://www.mcdivittlaw.com/blog/can-sued-helping-accident-victim https://cmplawgroup.com/blog/californias-good-samaritan-law-in-2019-can-you-be-sued-for-helping-a-car-accident-victim-and-aggravating-their-injury/ https://lawteam.com/florida-good-samaritan-law/ I'll stop pasting, I think I've made my point with the links above.

We don't know what he did or said afterwards. All we've seen is a clip when she 1st fell. I was just trying to give a reason why a rich celebrity might not want to get physically involved. Maybe his wife, a health care professional, did go down. We just don't know. If he was drunk, he might have been afraid of falling & got away from the edge of the stage to what would be considered a safer place. Unless we get the whole story, we are just speculating. The only thing we know for sure is his wife is much more qualified than him to do something after the woman fell. I also know that if I'm impaired, for whatever reason, & someone near me falls off the edge of something, I'm getting away from that edge before I become the next one to fall.

Every taxpayer pays for stuff that they don't care about & will never use. In the real world, not some fantasy world, teams move if the government doesn't kick in some of the stadium costs because there will always be somewhere else where the politicians will pay to get a team to move there. Now there may be exceptions in rare cases, but even the biggest cities have experienced franchise relocations. The Giants & Jets moved to a different state even within the same metropolitan area & the Bears are threatening to move out of the city of Chicago to the 'burbs.

His wife is an experienced nurse, of course she is more qualified than most of the other people on the scene. You obviously don't know that otherwise your statement makes no sense. Is your response for real? Have you never heard of lawsuits against just about anyone with money? If you have you wouldn't have no idea what I'm talking about. Go and look up how many times a celebrity has been sued just for being somewhere where something happened. Go and look up the times a person came upon a scene, tried to help a victim & got sued.

Here's my take. His wife, who has experience as a nurse is right there. Why would any of you get involved when a professional is right next to you & you have no qualifications to help the person? Here's another thing, if Stafford, completely unqualified (and possibly drunk) so much as touches her & something goes wrong in the future, she'll sue him for millions. I've seen stories where someone stops to help out in an accident, moves the victim the wrong way and the good samaritan gets sued. Now imagine if you're a millionaire like Stafford. are you going to risk a future lawsuit when there are much more qualified people around to aid & assist the victim? He's probably been told before this that if something happens near him and there are more qualified people to assist someone, get as far away as you can & avoid any possible lawsuit. People like us just don't think about getting sued for being a good samaritan because we have nothing to lose. A rich and famous person is a lawsuit waiting to happen every day.

So you want the Bills to move out of Buffalo. Got it.

I want the state to take some of the profits the gambling sites are giving to the state & use some of the state's gambling profits to go to the stadium instead of raising anyone's taxes.

They play in a different state, so the Giants & Jets are irrelevant to stadium funding in NYS.

The horse Ralph sold, Arazi, was stabled in France & came to the USA and won the Breeder's Cup Juvenile race as a 2 year old. He was the favorite in the Kentucky Derby as a 3 year old and finished 8th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arazi_(horse)

This has nothing to do with where the state will come up with the money they have to kick in for a new stadium.

That's because they didn't build a football stadium.