HalftimeAdjustment

What page is that, the one where the NFLPA let them down? Or the one where they were all planning to shut up about it until one guy started tweeting? (She is not a player... so whatever she tweets... it is what it is. I would never hold her comments or opinions against her husband, that is not even logical).

He certainly has the right to retire and live his life free of the agreed upon protocols and all of the other encumbering rules that he has to deal with as a pro football player. He can move about freely (in most states) and he does not have to get vaccinated. Alternately, he can not get vaccinated and abide by the rules agreed upon with the players' union, understanding they might even be relaxed later in the season if warranted. He would then get paid. Both of those are choices he could make, and may still make. Instead, on the surface, it appears he wants to defy the rules in some form of "resistance" so that he can be a martyr and forced to retire. I would expect, if he makes that choice, that he will then fight (via his lawyers) to get paid for not playing.

When it's the subject of collective bargaining and the union has agreed to those protocols... I would not be surprised to find that they are given great deference. In fact, it is not clear who he has to sue in order to challenge them; does he have standing to challenge without also suing the NFLPA?

I don't agree with anyone suggesting he should be cut for his social media activity. If he does not intend to comply with the protocols negotiated by the NFL and NFLPA, the team should be able to ascertain that during training camp. The process agreed upon with the NFLPA should be followed and he should be fined and/or suspended appropriately. If at that point, he continues to complain, he may need to be suspended or cut for conduct detrimental to the team. Not before that. Why? Because if he is unwilling to follow an agreement made with the NFLPA, he should also not benefit from any other agreements made between the union and league... such as salary guarantees, practice limits, benefits, etc. Since the NFL depends on its collective bargaining with players for its ability to avoid anti-trust lawsuits, the agreements with the union have to be honored. So... either he gets the NFLPA to renegotiate or he has to adhere to it. As far as his tweets and media being a distraction, I'm confident the other players are not going to get that bothered by it. I disagree with them very deeply, but it has to get significantly more egregious to qualify as detrimental conduct warranting action. A premature cut, fine, or other action by the Bills has more of a risk of backfiring on the team so they should tread lightly until he is clearly in violation of rules, not just making ill-advised tweets.

I think I'm off the "fan of Cole" bandwagon. Not because he chooses not to get vaccinated (apparently) but because he feels the need to complain about the rules on Twitter and make false/misleading analogies. He absolutely could have contacted his NFLPA reps or even gone to other players to approach them in a group, but instead he's carrying on and asking someone if they cared about people who died of the flu. So, I will root for him as a Bill, but as a person I'll group him with a few other Bills players that I didn't care for over the years.

That made it a special teams call and was not eligible for PFF scoring 🙄

I think the term "worst" is too vague l. Wide Right was the "worst" in terms of impact but it certainly was not dumb, embarrassing, or even unbelievably inept. It would be the "worst play" if Norwood spontaneously decided to fake it and throw a long pass instead. Or if the ling snapper somehow snapped it over his head and a series of failed attempts to pick up the bouncing football led to it rolling out of bounds. Imagine, it would be known as "The BAD Snap" instead of "Wide Right".

Well then I guess he is a "process" guy... back up the Brinks truck.

Was he at voluntary OTAs?

The QB who recently talked about his eating habits, water drinking habits, sleep habits? The QB who modeled Uggs? The QB who once had a MAGA hat? The QB who once talked about how bad the hotels were in Buffalo? Who fathered a child with his girlfriend right before they broke up? I mean, he is good at this but he is not perfect in terms of avoiding non-football media attention.

Well, the question that comes to mind when I think about our new punter is, what relation is he (if any) to Christina Haack? Somehow I've never seen that last name in my life and it appears twice this year. Wikipedia doesn't have this answer, so I'll just throw it out there.

That assumes there is $9.85M of good will. I don't think that is the case.

What about all these OLinemen?

I see posts about trading Hughes but I really question whether we can get enough value in trade. Who is going to offer up valuable picks or players for him at his age... only someone who is a 2021 contender. I can't see trading him for a 2022 4th rounder from a playoff team.

Hopefully this was a simple BPA pick. Within reason, if you end up with too many quality NFL players at one position, you try to trade one and if the doesn't work, the lowest performers get cut.

If one of our top 30 ranked players is available at #30 and they are good enough to contribute this year, pick 'em and dont worry about grade. If they are not going to be a factor this year, trade down. Trade up only if we have a target.

Maybe he did not like living in Buffalo and targeted LA.

Well, there's also Star. Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard.

Not at all, he's not my type.

Except that time his one night stand took a picture of him before she left.

The funny thing is, I never thought about Marshall Newhouse again. Based on the Wikipedia article, it seems like the conditional 7th rounder wasn't bad value for a guy who went on to start 2 games at LT and play in 9. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Newhouse

So now that we have signed as many free agent OL as we can find... do we run a competition and trade the losers for 2023 draft picks?

I did not see that coming. 😲

Chad Kelly is available.

I'll assume that we can trade this punter to a punter-needy team for a 2023 late round pick.