Big Turk

A few weeks ago Alex Singleton from the Broncos was randomly drug tested and it detected abnormally high levels of something called hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin. This raised a red flag and after further medical evaluations, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had successful surgery to have it treated. They believe it was caught early enough that it should have minimal impact, with the doctors believing he should make a full recovery and will even be able to return to play later this season. So while NFL players might hate getting that visit at their locker after the game to go pee in a cup, it may just end up saving their life. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/denver-broncos-alex-singleton-cancer-surgery-nfl-drug-test/

Looks like an ugly weather day from the early forecasts... 48 degrees winds 10-20 mph with higher gusts. Chance of rain 80%. Always a chance the rain holds off or ends earlier as it's still 6 days out, but not looking pretty as of right now.

My Dad got a notice that Kaleida would no longer accept his UHC plan in 2026 for Medicare Advantage so I spent the weekend delving into things and got him set up on Univera today...only for him to receive a letter in the mail from Kaleida this morning that it reached an agreement with UHC and would continue accepting it next year. Went to medicare.gov and basically sorted thru all the options there. This sh!t should be illegal.

It looks like they could free up about 23 million next year by designating Samuel and Knox as post June-1st cuts and also cutting Rapp who is in the last year of his deal next year, but since they are already almost 4 million over the cap next year, we would only have about $19 million to work with. Assuming there would be some other restructures and/or moves involved. Have 5 void years hitting next year as well eating up cap space if we don't move to re-work those in Milano, Jones, Bosa, Epenesa, and McGovern. Would expect McGovern, Epenesa and Bosa to look to be extended... that would help lower those cap hits of roughly $15-16 million combined. Milano and Jones are likely not returning and we are going to have to eat the cap hits of about $15 million total on them. So we have some levers to pull but we will have to work around some things.

You can go to either Spotrac or OverTheCap and play around with things in there that will allow you to manage things and cut players, etc...

It's unreal how snakebit this team is with injuries this year...and really Buffalo teams in general...same thing is going on with Sabres.

A healthy Palmer and Kincaid at the same time would alleviate some of this problem. Looks like we won't have that for at least 2-3 more weeks now.

But we DID run the ball effectively once he switched blocking schemes multiple years in a row... At the start of the year he would run a blocking scheme that wouldn't work and then after the bye we would switch to a different scheme and be one of the better running teams in the NFL. It was talked about multiple times by numerous film study people including Cover 1

And then we would be right back to "why can't run the ball?!?!?". We need a mix of Daboll's passing game schemes with Brady's run game schemes if that is even possible.

Except he has no idea how to be a HC. Some great coordinators don't have the skillset to make good HC's, they are completely separate skillsets. Daboll may be a great OC, but he will never likely be a great HC.

On IR

They should be on the phone to him immediately to help fix this passing game.

Maybe because they gave up a lot of yards to us?

Yeah they are good, but so were the Chiefs who hadn't allowed a 100 yard rusher at the RB position in 26 games until we played them. If the Bills execute properly we can run against pretty much anyone. If they don't and are sloppy in their preparation and are off on details, then that makes it a lot easier to stop them. The problem is our team seems to lack focus more often than usual this year for whatever reason.

Man I dunno...Henderson just scored on runs of 55 and 69 yards against them yesterday...

Maybe OP should rename himself to Private Pyle and go eat a jelly donut.

This has been the 2nd winningest team in all of pro sports in the last 6 years. I mean, sure, it would be nice to win a Championship and they SHOULD win a championship, but you could just as easily take a major step backwards as you could forwards by replacing two people that have been pretty freaking good overall in the grand scheme of things.

How many other teams paid out $415 million this offseason? I'm guessing not many. As always, the biggest problem is the lack of comparison to other teams here.

Palmer has been relatively durable over his career with far greater usage than Hollins has. It's easy to stay available when all you are doing is getting Special Teams snaps most games.

So I'm guessing $415 million just appeared out of thin air? You realize those bonuses are paid out of pocket up front right? They get accounted for on the cap spread out over the length of the contract but that money was written in the form of a check on the day that contract as signed. I'm not sure where you are residing, but it clearly is not in reality.

So we can just keep the fake narrative that doesn't actually exist going? No thanks, I'd rather point out the BS. If you want to argue they spent the money on the wrong people, that's one thing. To argue they "aren't spending money", that's complete and utter BS.

I'm guessing the fact Pegula ponied up $415 million in this past off-season on contract guarantees somehow is left out of this conversation? WTF are we doing here? Starting to make up random stuff and then convincing ourselves it's true? Holy Sh!t. I've seen bad before on this board, but this is starting to really piss me off because half the stuff is just a bunch of bullsh!t.

It's literally 3 games into his rookie year where he missed the entire camp. He has been damn good for that amount of time missed. My God, what is wrong with half of these posters who expect rookies to step on the field and be All-Pro from their first snap. It's called experience, reps and time on task.

I'm guessing he didn't watch the Broncos playoff game last year where Samuel smoked Surtain for like a 65 yard TD?

He won some, he lost some. He was right there in coverage on that long TD pass. He is going to be a stud for us with more experience under his belt. Probably better than Tre.