Big Turk

They are picking up the 5th year option for Rousseau for 2025...that would likely push an extension for him into next offseason. Brown has no 5th year option as he wasn't a 1st round pick.

Spencer Brown extension incoming?

I work remotely but have met the team I work with several times and get along well with most of them. In general, we work very well and efficiently together and communicate all the time thru various teams channels, video calls and meetings.

Maybe they have the finer details the sites don't?

"Mayhem" Maybin would be at the top of mine, if only for having to watch his on field performance(when he got on the field that is) AND listen to his God Awful rap song. A Double Whammy of terribleness so to speak.

Kincaid will likely be added to that after this season and Cook isn't far away.

Andre Reed or Eric Moulds and for fun Brad Lamb so we could see if he could turn a super fast white dude into anything more than a footnote.

Well, what I meant was that we need both Kincaid and Knox to stay healthy because I don't think Kincaid is getting that many targets, although if nobody else steps up, he very well could be Allen's favorite target.

If Knox stays healthy well over.

Has he gone the route of so many OLineman and dropped like 100 lbs by eating normally? I remember in an interview with one of the ones that dropped a ton of weight (Joe Thomas maybe?), they asked him how he lost weight so quickly, and he said "Oh it was super easy...now I only eat when I'm hungry instead of forcing myself to eat to keep my weight up". Basically those guys are literally force feeding themselves on a daily basis...

Mammy Jones

We wouldn't have made the playoffs 3 out of the last 5 years.

Never been there but my soccer coach growing up was from Quito and said it was a place of great beauty and that I should go there some day to see it.

Yeah, it's one of the highest ranking places for expats to retire due to it's cheap cost of living, relative low crime rates and safety profile, year round mild climate and good medical care.

Not true...Quito, Ecuador is only 16 miles from the equator but because of it's location in the mountains it stays relatively mild all year with high temps in the upper 60s and lows in the upper 40s pretty much year round. It was founded in 1534 by the Spanish Conquistadores. Also in Ecuador is the city of Guayaquil which is 152 miles from the equator and the main port city of almost 3 million people. It was founded in 1542 as a port city and almost immediately began booming in population and a center of trade. Temps there are warmer but not unbearable with year round highs in the mid to upper 80s and lows in high 60s to low 70s. Same with Bogota, Columbia which is about 300 miles from the equator but again due to it's locations in the mountains the temps are almost the same as Quito year round. It was made the capital of Columbia in 1821.

Buffalo has been replacing low paying blue collar jobs with higher paying IT jobs for a while now. Numerous companies have moved their tech hubs to Buffalo and even more are coming. Why? Because Buffalo and the WNY region has an abundance of high quality software engineers that the rest of the country is starting to figure out that largely hasn't been tapped yet. These companies can pay significantly more than what most people make here but significantly less than what they would pay someone in say Seattle or San Fran or Houston for example. It's a win-win for both sides. Fun fact...the person who invented React, a very popular front end JavaScript framework/library used by millions that was created by Facebook(now Meta) is from Orchard Park. So even if people want to say the job market is stagnant, which it really isn't, the overall pay for those same number of jobs is going up and continues to rise. And the only sources I found that showed the cost of living was higher in Buffalo were places like Forbes that had seemingly nonsensical data showing that the average house price in Buffalo was 483K(it's more like 275K) and that a gallon of milk here costs $4.70(it's more like $2.69). All the other sites showed Houston is somewhere between 8-15% more expensive which only makes sense considering the housing payments alone will likely be close to double there. And like everywhere down south the cost of groceries there about forces you to have to have a second job just to feed your family every month. Everytime I go visit relatives in South Carolina I about cry when I walk into the stores to get food for the week.

I can believe it...in May alone this year, Miami had more hours with a heat index over 108 than any other entire summer besides last year's summer. So before summer even started, they literally shattered extreme heat records for every year on record other than 2023. Absurd. It also beat the earliest occurrence of this by over a full calendar month, with the earliest it happened prior being end of June, which was the only instance of that...all the rest were July, August and early September. The heat is starting to build to extreme levels in these places like Florida and Texas well before the start of summer now...going to become unlivable at some point if this continues.

Too bad you didn't stay for the summers when there is plenty of sun.

I've never had any issues getting a job...in fact the last 2 jobs I have taken, I was happily working elsewhere when I got recruited and both came with 20K raises plus bonuses. I suggest the issue is more the type of career field people choose to be in and less the job market. If people choose to work dead end careers or factory jobs that are going the way of the Dodo Bird, then yeah, I could see that. If you are working in an in demand field and are good at what you do, you'll likely not have too big of an issue finding a job.

It's cheaper to live here than it is down there...probably by quite a bit...every time I go to the grocery store when I am down there I about have a heart attack. Have to get a 2nd job there just to buy groceries. Don't worry...I'm not moving anywhere where I need to wear a coat in winter and have to live indoors in the A/C for 5 months out of the year. If I have to deal with that type of heat, I'm not dealing with the cold too. I go for Victor and Canandaigua...love that area.

That's 8% too much. If you think our property taxes are high, check out the insurance rates down in Florida. They are almost 5x the National Average at 11K a year. Within a decade, people will be paying more for their house insurance premiums a month than their mortgages as insurers continue to leave in droves and refuse to insure anyone there. In fact, the six most expensive places in the US to insure a house are in Florida. They talk up their no state income tax, but this pretty much eats it all up and then some. Even when factoring in paying the NYS income tax, NYS property taxes AND my house insurance combined, I'm still paying a few K less a year than just the house insurance costs down there. That's not even factoring other cost of living expenses that are far higher down there than in WNY.

Cool...well, you can pay those extra tax dollars for them sitting on their ass doing nothing, I already pay far too much.

Probably not as different as you might think. There are some severe limitations of what AI can do in software engineering without human intervention. It can build fully functioning programs on its own that have no basis in any reality of what it actually needs to do. The type of things that humans are very good at ascertaining and understanding context is something that is very difficult for them to get AI to be good at and that's not likely to change all that much.

It's been greatly overstated. Mostly it will eliminate low level stuff like people who write documentation or do basic tasks like translation services, etc. People want to believe that suddenly in 5 years everything will be AI and all the software engineers will suddenly be out of a job. I use AI everyday in the form of GitHub Co-Pilot while writing code. It's valuable. But let's be real. It's not putting me out of a job anytime soon, if ever. It's very good at generalized tasks but not very good at complex ones, often sending you on wild goose chases for hours if you let it. Effectively I explain it like this. If you were using it as GPS, it would be great at getting you from Buffalo to Seattle by giving you generalized directions on what exits to take and what interstates to use. Once you get to Seattle it's not very useful at all at getting you to places within the city and you'd be driving around in circles for hours getting lost. More accurately, you could say that the developers who are using AI will replace the ones who aren't. Now THAT is likely accurate and has already started occuring as AI has helped developers become more efficient in what they do. Remember when robotic technology was going to replace every factory worker 25 years ago? How'd that turn out? Sure it replaced the most basic jobs and requires fewer employees now, but it is never going to fully replace humans. AI is very similar to this. Don't buy into the sensationalized hype of people who have no idea what's going on and don't actually work in the industry.

People on welfare don't have much of a drive either and I'm sure they complain. But I guess they should get more money too?