Big Turk
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Perhaps they think labor peace is better for the game and fans long term than the minor gains they would be getting.
When you are arguing that hundreds of millions isn't enough, I think the average fan would be hard pressed to take their side...or really the owners side.
Millionaires vs. Billionaires doesn't really resonate with fans if that's the cause of them not playing and being able to consume the product.
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14 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:
If that was true maybe he'd have more than 6 starts over the last 2 years. He was thrust into the starting lineup due to injury, played ok and was then benched as soon as there were better options. Hamlin isn't a world beater, but he's a legitimate fringe starter. I don't know why folks act like he sucks.
He doesn't suck but he should be a depth player not the starter.
Forrest was playing really well in 2022 and started 11 games then got hurt in his 5th game in 2023 and fractured his shoulder which sidelined him for the rest of the year.
New coaching staff came in last year and as we know they have different opinions or different things he was being asked to do in the scheme so even tho he was healthy he didn't get a lot of playing time.
I am assuming the Bills think he is a good scheme fit and expect he will be more like the player he was before he got injured.
Considering their track record of DB coaching I'll defer to their judgement.
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Darrick is a better player, Damar knows the system and has McD's trust.
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I never understand athletes that get paid millions in their prime that I am in better shape than at age 50.
Boggles my mind.
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8 hours ago, cba fan said:
hmmm. What is lost in all of this is why would owners care if large, guaranteed contracts are given out? They have a salary cap. If they fail like many do, it only hurts teams who signed them like the dumb Browns. Teams are free to do as they wish.
With salary cap. It is in non-winning teams best interest that winning teams sign the big ticket "make a difference" players to huge, guaranteed contracts so it hampers their ability to put together a better roster.(and actually if they sign a bad player to a big guaranteed deal that is even better lol) Thereby giving the lesser teams a better chance to compete to acquire good players. (as a Bills fan i was rooting for Chiefs, Fish, Ravens, etc etc, to all sign their QB's to ridiculous large deals lol)
I get in the short term when one of your players deserves the big raise big guaranteed deal, your team will now be in the same boat and have tough negotiations. But that's life. Then the lesser teams get the good players and the window for teams to be super bowl contenders will be shifted to other teams until your turn comes around again. Really how this should work so the same teams don't always win.
edit: and i forgot that by giving out these huge, guaranteed deals it lowers the money available for veterans on that roster as the big, guaranteed contract takes up too much cap space. Teams then need to fill out roster with draftees, UDFA's, younger cheaper players thereby lowering veteran players income. NFL addressed this somewhat by exempting some of certain veterans' salaries against the cap.
Because things like signing bonuses and other up front guaranteed money come directly from the owners pockets since they are paid up front and many of the owners either don't have that type of money to spend or don't want to spend it.
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5 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
Yeah, that's what collusion means. And again, the word has NOT been used in the witness statements.
In other words, only the reporter is using it.
The witnesses are not. Meaning the people who actually saw what happened are NOT accusing the owners of secret or illegal conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others. (Thanks for the definition of the thing they are NOT being accused of by the people who were there.)
What is actually described by the witnesses is only a guy with some authority urging business owners to keep prices down. NOT secret agreement or cooperation to do so.
Pointing out what's in everyone's best interest is not collusion. To further use your definition there, the witnesses are NOT accusing the NFL of having a "secret agreement to fix prices." Where's the agreement there?
And again, what is said in the witness statement and whether that word is used has no relevance as to if it is collusion. Collusion is based on an action, not a word being used or not being used by witnesses.
Oh, so you are claiming the owners went to the NFLPA and told them they were working together to ensure we are going to keep prices down?
Of course they didn't. So yeah, it was in secret between the parties involved.
And that perfectly fits the description of what collusion in.
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Honestly can't believe anyone pays for this when there are so many options out there that don't cost a penny.
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A "magical weekend"? Are you hooking up with him or something? 🤣🤣
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I can definitely see why he wanted to get her pregnant.
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2 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
You’re right. 18 TDs most likely won’t happen again, but you don’t think Cook will hit double digit TDs ever again? In the best offense in the game? He will certainly have his opportunities, the Bills are trending further & further away from Josh in the goal line and short yardage situations. Why keep getting your quarter of a billion dollar QB pummeled? Hand off to the guys that are paid to get those yards.
I said he will likely hit double digit TDs once more, but that's it.
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These women with their money grabs because they see other people getting paid are disgusting and there should be criminal penalties for it. They should be put in jail if it's found they are filing false claims. Only way it's going to stop, when there are real consequences for it.
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31 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
TDs aren’t easy to score. Cook had 18 because he Improved. Not bc of luck.
Not understanding how sports work is a problem for most people. Just because you improved, doesn't mean that you are going to hit the same numbers every year.
Mookie Betts, one of the best baseball players in the last decade, hit .346 in 2018 for the Red Sox and led the league in batting average. He's never come close to that again before or since. It was a career outlier.
Calvin Johnson caught 122 balls and had 1964 yards receiving in 2012. Both led the NFL. Never approached those numbers before or after.
Virtually every good athlete has them. Seasons where every thing comes together and you get a magical statistical season. I am willing to bet Cook's will be last year with his 18 TDs.
I will bet he probably only hits double digits for TDs again no more than once in his career.
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11 hours ago, Dave_Bills said:
The two names that immediately came to my mind were Moorman and McGee.
How was it not Tasker, the best special teams player in the history of the NFL?
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That's a really poor quality one...
I've bought several on DH Gate that are indistinguishable from the real thing, right down to the NFL logo on the chest plate by the neck and the jersey material.
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1 hour ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
Wait, there is still the Mob in Buffalo? Interesting. I wonder what kind of crime they are into these days.
It's still there but more low profile.
Up until a few years ago every mayor in Niagara Falls had ties to them.
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Haha, I thought this was the actual Mafia when I read it 🤣🤣
I'm like...well we are still one of the only places left that still has active families, especially in Niagara Falls 🤣
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7 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
I'd rather have Ramsey on the Dolphins than Fitzpatrick.
Josh shreds Ramsey. Fitzpatrick is a very competent player.
Does it really matter? It's the Dolphins, Josh is going to smoke them no matter who is playing for them. It's not like the Steelers haven't gotten blown out by the Bills regularly the last few years.
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8 hours ago, nuklz2594 said:
i keep reading he is a blocking machine. do you see him in the backfield?
I think it gives them more flexibility to not go to a 6th lineman so often and use more jumbo packages which can have him as a receiving option to make it harder for defenses to defend.
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Mayhem Maybin...
His rap song somehow was more terrible than his on field play 🤣
"Nightmare...
Wes Craven...
Quarterback...
Craving..."
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Kinda silly when he has a win percentage of over .700
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Trevor Lawrence and it's not close.
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It never will be.
It has zero and I mean ZERO chance to ever compete with the NFL again. No sport does.
75+ of the top 100 TV shows every year are NFL games.
A random week 10 NFL game draws more viewers than most World Series Games, NHL Stanley Cup Finals Games, NBA Championship Games and one off events like the Grammy's or Golden Globes.
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1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:
It doesn't matter. Any owner is free to give any play 0.89, 1.1 or 3X the amount of the cap if they want--it's their money.
all the pearl clutching over Watsons career seems kinda cute in retrospect. And clearly the owners did not have to get together and convince each other to not give fully guaranteed contracts. None of them except the monumentally dumb truck stop swindler did...
But yet they did anyway, regardless of your opinion on whether they needed to or not.
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2 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
The words "collude" and "collusion" are not in the witness statements, not that we've heard.
Only the article's writer introduced them, in speculation.
I don't think this is the bombshell it at first looked like.
They don't need to be in the witness statements. There are a lot of people who have no idea what those words even mean. But just for the purpose of this discussion, I will post the definition of Collusion:
col·lu·sion
/kəˈlo͞oZH(ə)n/
noun: collusion
- secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.
"the NFL Owners were working in collusion with one another to prevent higher contracts among players"
So whether the witnesses knew when they told the reporters that NFL owners working together to prevent players from having higher contracts, especially QBs, after the Watson deal is collusion, that's the literal definition of the word.
If someone says they witnessed someone in a courtroom speak under oath, then told them what they said on the stand was a lie, it doesn't make it not be perjury just because the person didn't use that word when they told the reporter what happened or didn't know what the word meant.
The actions define what happened and whether it was collusion, NOT the words being told to reporters by witnesses.
The NFLPA Is Becoming A Sham Organization
in The Stadium Wall
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Not only are they at the top spot, they are ahead by miles in a marathon.
They have almost double the revenue of the next closest sport worldwide, which is MLB or NBA depending on which year as they keep going back and forth.
On top of that, forget the National Pastime, the NFL is the National Obsession.
They are non-stop, all the time without any offseason. It's NFL season 24/7/365. During the NHL, MLB or NBA finals, the NFL is still the most talked about thing in sports.
75 of the top 100 watched shows every year in the US are NFL games and the NFL draft on day 1 averaged more viewers than the NBA and NHL finals and not much less than the World Series.
It's kinda insane actually.