Fingon
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There will be some pretty severe consequences unless Allen renegotiates in a couple years. The Bills will shift from a team that can get good players in free agency and re-sign their own, to one that can't afford good players on a 2nd contract. We will become a team that relies on their 3rd round pick to outplay their contract.
There is a reason the top paid QBs don't win Super Bowls, and teams with QBs on rookie/below market value deals do.
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25 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Well Brady was the top paid QB last year...I believe overall highest paid player.
I'm not a capologist but you can still be the highest paid player at your position but have flexibility to move money around to save cap room for the team.
Mahomes did it this year.
Brady had the 6th highest cap hit among QBs in 2020 and is 15th this year:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2020/cap-hit/quarterback/
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/cap-hit/quarterback/
He was even lower on total cash paid at 8th. Mahomes also has a super low cap hit because his extension hasn't even kicked in yet.
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7 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Not in overall money it sounds like. Just flexibility to move things around.
Do you question Mahomes's football character being the highest paid QB?
And Brady was getting paid in different ways....it's the Patriot Way.
If Mahomes doesn't renegotiate his contract to lower his cap hit in future years, then yes I question his desire to win multiple Super Bowls. History tells us that top paid QBs do not win championships, and that QBs with team friendly deals do.
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Depends on how serious Josh is about winning a Super Bowl. Tom Brady owes a lot of his success to his frequent pay cuts and team friendly deals. If he just wants to get paid like Russell Wilson, then he'll take the biggest deal possible.
What kind of deal Josh takes will tell us a lot about his football character.
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Dareus to the Bills confirmed?
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Notorious Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano, head of the Musitano crime family, died in a Friday afternoon shooting in Burlington, Ont., police say.
Halton Region police say they responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:10 p.m. at 484 Plains Rd. E., the site of a small business plaza. The shooting took place in front of Pro Patio Furniture.
When police arrived, they said in a news release, they found "two victims with gunshot wounds."
"One victim in this shooting has succumbed to their injuries," police said in a tweet Friday afternoon. "A second victim has been transported to hospital. Suspect(s) remain outstanding at this time."
Police have since confirmed the victim who died is 52-year-old Musitano.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burlington-shooting-musitano-mobster-1.5645314
Musitano was marked for death by Buffalo Underboss Domenico Violi in 2017:
QuoteShortly before his arrest, according to wire transcripts filed in court, Mr. Violi divulged to the police agent that he had been promoted to underboss of the Todaro family – the No. 2 man in charge of the “whole thing.”
It was a prestigious role, he said, and he had beaten out 30 other people for the position.
“This one guy … he goes, ‘Domenic, you know you made history.’ I said, ‘I made history?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, nobody ever in Canada got this position,’ ” Mr. Violi told the agent.
“[Expletive], I’m happy for you Dom, that’s good. You know what? That’s gonna change a lot of things for us here,” the agent said. “We could do a lot of good things here.”
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QuoteIn one instance, last September, the agent and Mr. Violi discussed the Musitano crime family and the recent murder of Angelo Musitano, who was gunned down in his driveway, just outside Hamilton.
The Musitano crime family is infamous in Hamilton. In the 1990s, Angelo and his brother Pat were charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of Hamilton mob boss Johnny (Pops) Papalia and his associate Carmen Barillaro, both of them shot by hit man Ken Murdock.
The brothers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in Mr. Barillaro’s death, but the charges relating to Mr. Papalia’s murder were withdrawn as part of a plea deal. They were released from prison in 2006.
When the agent expressed surprise that Pat Musitano, Angelo’s older brother, hadn’t been killed first, Mr. Violi mused that it was a message to Pat and said that Pat was now in hiding. He said he was told that Pat would be gone before Christmas – that “that would be one headache out of the way.”
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By all accounts, Michael Masecchia seemed like an average English teacher at Grover Cleveland High School—a central Buffalo school whose most notable alumni include an NFL defensive end and a former U.N. official.
The father of two had worked in the Buffalo public school system for more than 30 years, in which he taught at least 25,000 students and coached hundreds more in football, softball, and soccer. In 2018, his salary was around $76,949, according to court records, almost 30 percent more than his peers.
But one former student recalled that the 54-year-old “kind of blended into the background at school—like he was involved in the school but not too much as to call too much attention to himself.” Terrence M. Connors, a lawyer for the teacher, said Masecchia had “a great rapport with his students” and was once an “exceptional college football player.”
So when Masecchia was arrested in August 2019 on federal drug charges—after authorities raided his two-story Williamsville home to find a large cache of guns, several homemade explosives, and drugs—the school community was stunned. Masecchia was accused of growing and selling marijuana for more than 20 years.
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You let him walk. The highest paid QB has missed the playoffs 8 out of the last 10 years, and no QB has ever won a SB making more than 13.1% of the cap. The last 8 Super Bowl winners have been QBs on rookie deals or ones with deals significantly below market value (Brady, Foles, Peyton).
If Beane is serious about winning a Super Bowl he won't even come close to making Josh the highest paid player in the league.
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Seems like his fall off in play coincided with his shoulder injury. He was one of the best corners in football early on in the season.
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15 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:
....LOL and the Colts have a quarter billion.
Looking forward to "cap space" 2 years from now means nothing.
Sure it does, because it shows the liabilities you have on your books. If the Bills spend all $90 million next year they'll still have over $100 million in 2021 to spend. It gives them a ton of freedom this offseason knowing that they'll still have more than enough to sign their own.
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16 minutes ago, Doc said:
Yup, just like last off-season. But we still have the brains not to do it.
Does the $90M or so under the cap in 2020 I've seen on Spotrac already reflect the $26M carry-over?
Yes, which is why the Bills are listed as having around $200 million in 2021 cap space.
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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Federal agents raided Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club on Aero Drive in Cheektowaga Thursday.
This investigation comes following the report on Joseph Bongiovanni, a former federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, who prosecutors said orchestrated a corrupt scheme in which he protected his drug-dealing friends who had ties to the Buffalo Mafia.
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One of his co-conspirators seems to be the owner of Pharoahs strip club:
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The DMCA requires the NFL to take Fair Use under consideration before issuing take down notices. Most likely the NFL realized they had little legal recourse and opted to black list Cover 1 instead.
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Terrible receiver but maybe the best blocking TE in the NFL.
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https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/30/in-canada-the-buffalo-mob-is-viewed-as-alive-and-well/
Pretty funny that the Buffalo News has to rely on Hamilton and Toronto sources for this kind of stuff
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Per Tim Graham:
https://mobile.twitter.com/bytimgraham/status/1115427221710213120
I wonder what the corpse of Johnny Unitas is up to these days.
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41 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:
There was always talk about the Todaro's as far back as I can remember (my father told me this since I was a youngster). We used to drive to the LaNova shop on the West Side of Buffalo and I would walk in there and try to spot the old man and Joe Jr. They were always very pleasant and ran a good shop. It was a "Goodfellas" flashback to my youth where those "fellas" looked like solid guys to be around. Maybe they are connected, but I'm unaware of there ever being a conviction for racketeering or any mob ties.
The Buffalo mob as a whole has never really been successfully prosecuted. All the old timers in the family die in nursing homes and not jail.
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The admins here must be paid by the Buffalo News or something. They are deleting posts that reference the fact that all this content is available, for free, if you own a library card. Using your tax payer funded resources IS NOT stealing a companies product. THE ERIE COUNTY LIBRARY PUTS ALL THIS STUFF ONLINE FOR ANYONE THAT HAS A LIBRARY CARD!
Do you see the Josh Allen era Bills as having a "window"?
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The window is this year. Josh's cap hit goes from $16 million to $39 million next year. That means we will need to shed cap space in the form of letting someone go (Poyer?) or simply not extending good players coming off rookie deals. Ultimately, this will result in the Bills being more frugal and not being able to make many splashy FA moves.
The Bills will shift to a team that looks to fill holes through cost efficient late and mid round picks.
Now, it's not to say that they can't win a super bowl like this, but it's sure as ***** a hell of a lot harder. The Bills will need Josh to shift to a Brady-style below market value contract if they want to be perennial winners.