Albany,n.y.

2022 is not the 5th year option. The 5th year option was a little over $23 million all cash & all on cap. They restructured 2022 as follows. Base salary $4,100,000, $500,000 workout bonus, and a $42,400,000 option pickup which they are spreading out over the next 5 years on the cap. In total the Bills are paying Josh $47 million this new year, but because of spreading out last season's bonus (2021) over 5 years and this year's option over 5 years his cap hit got reduced from $23,016,000 to $16,380,000 while he's pocketing an additional $23,984,000 over what he would have received on the 5th year option.

I called him a future HOFer on opening day 2019, what took you so long to figure it out? 😀 Here's the story: I was sold on Josh from the time he arrived in camp as a rookie and saw glimpses of greatness his rookie year. I went out and bought his jersey after the Vikings game. Now did I really believe he'd be a HOFer, not that early but I had my hopes. On opening day 2019 I went on a bus trip to NJ to watch the Bills at Jets game. There was a Jets fan in front of me on the bus & he started mocking Josh Allen for being inaccurate. I got so mad that I told him Josh Allen is good and he's going to be great. When he laughed at me I doubled down and said that Josh would end up in the Hall of Fame. Now did I really think that at the time? Probably not, but I did think he was the Bills long term answer at QB. So because of that Jets fan's taunting, I can truly say that the 1st time I said Josh Allen would be in the Hall of Fame was as early as September 8, 2019.

He did such a great job in Denver.

Right now it's Josh & Mahomes on 1 tier and all the other QBs underneath.

This game was lost on Thanksgiving when Tre White went down. Just one stop by White would have been the difference. White is their best D player & he was needed against Mahomes.

A franchise QB makes everyone else look better than they are. Most HOF coaches had a franchise QB.

Before this week's playoffs started I told someone that I didn't think Tennessee would get in the Super Bowl for this reason: Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Ryan Tannehill. Three franchise QBs and Ryan "3 picks" Tannehill. I don't have an explanation of what happened in GB, other than if you look at recent head to head records SF has GB's number.

When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of NYC I used to see lots of Titans fans. After A few years they all became Jets fans.

A Ponzi Scheme involves decepton & fraud, all I'm doing is betting legally & hoping the Bills come through for me & help pay for my ticket. If they lose I'm out a lot less than I will be spending anyway, if they win I've got a Super Bowl ticket basically for its face value with the money I initially put in.

Right now there are cheaper seats than that, fees included, but I'd rather not say where they are until I have my seats next Sunday night. I'm rooting big time for Tampa today for 2 reasons: 1) I don't want the Bills to play the home team in the Super Bowl (see how that worked out last year when I warned everyone about the danger of the Bucs in their home stadium when I thought the Bills had a shot to go to the Super Bowl). 2) If it's Rams 49ers in the NFC championship game the speculators might buy up all the cheaper seats before next Sunday's games, and I'm not buying Super Bowl tickets until after thre Bills clinch a Super Bowl spot. Right now I can fit 2 tickets (I'll get reimbursed for the other ticket) on my credit card but if prices get much higher I won't be able to fit both tickets on my card & we'll have a tough time splitting up the payments. The main reason I have enough $ to go is because I've structured my bets to help pay for the ticket figuring if they lose I won't need to spend $ for the ticket anyway. I have bets in today that will pay me almost $2,800 if the Bills win today (I'll take out 2 grand if they win) and I bet futures on the Bills winning the AFC which pays $3,250. Add that to the $2,500 I already withdrew the 1st week of online betting and I've just about paid for my ticket-AS LONG AS THE RAMS AREN'T IN THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. Many of you will hate it but for me Brady winning today is a must win.

Because he feels it's ridiculous to bring in a guy who recently retired as a player & has never been a coach. He's more old school and believes a coach starts at a lower point & works his way up, not go from a retired player to a head coach with no experience in between. If you want to hear what he said, I linked the show somewhere in this thread & since it is right at the beginning you don't have to fish around for where his rant starts.

Game not games, Tyler Huntley won 1 game in 4 starts. Thar's a win % of 25% with Huntley starting. With Lamar Jackson the Ravens are 37-12 (75.5% win %) in 4 seasons. Even though they weren't as good this year they were 7-5 (58.3%) with Lamar. 58.3% is much better than 25%.

The goal is to win games. The Ravens fell apart after Lamar got hurt & Huntley replaced him.

You just need to listen to the 1st few minutes to hear the Tasker rant: https://www.buffalobills.com/audio/obl-1-21-greg-cosell-previews-bills-chiefs-friday-mailbag

McCown did such a great job mentoring Sam Darnold with the Jets, that's all he had to bring up in his interview to get the Texans attention. 🙃

Here's the story: https://www.sbnation.com/2022/1/21/22894848/josh-mccown-texans-coach-qb Steve Tasker went nuts on OBL when they discussed this to open the show.

The Giants definitely need a veteran to compete with Daniel Jones for the QB spot. Considering this is expected to be a weak QB draft, it doesn't make sense to use either of their 2 top 10 picks on a QB. Let Trubisky & Jones fight it out & they will have a very good backup too since the Trubisky/Jones 1-2 in either order are a lot better than this year's disaster at backup after Jones went down. Then evaluate both & see if either is good enough to be the 2023 starter. If both fail to impress, draft a rookie in 2023.

Unlike Edelman, Belichick bet the Bills to win the AFC.

Sounds good to me. I'll be the 1st in line for season tickets.

Ruggs told his agent to call KC to see if they would offer him a futures contract and his agent told him that they are not signing anyone to a contract for the year 2050.

Anyone but the Rams. We saw what a home field advantage in the Super Bowl is last year. With 2 hectic weeks for a team that has to travel & do all the press stuff vs being at home those 2 weeks, the difference is huge and is more valuable than a typical home team's home field advantage. Also, the price of Super Bowl tickets will skyrocket if the Rams are in.

There are 2 problems with bringing Fitz back. 1) He has to be cleared medically 2) He has to be willing to take less money than his last few years. If we can get by those 2 things, I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't want him back.

I think he read those conspiracy theories on this board and believed them.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to question whether a player should play injured & risk further injury without an understanding of his medical condition. Unless the OP is Lamar's doctor his opinion is pretty worthless. As far as the media goes, anyone who crushes any injured player in the media also has a pretty worthless opinion.

Edelman bet $50,000 each on NE & TB winning their conferences. If Tampa doesn't get to the Super Bowl he loses a total of $100,000. They brought this up on Inside the NFL tonight.