Beef Jerky Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) And lo, here's another thread containing his name on social media, thus generating heat for him on the Googs. Who cares if he's right? He generates clicks and eyeballs, his bosses are happy. Sounds like we are the ones getting played. Maybe when you see him in public you make fun of him till he cries. More people know he is garbage then you have a crowd all laughing... Yep just like highschool TV. Edited March 10, 2017 by Beef Jerky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyK Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I don't know how anyone can place any stock in anything LaCanfora says. It's hard to understand how he has a job. We all secretly love reading their "incites" and then chose what to believe it is called the off season. Years ago there was no news in the off-season and u would need to buy a magazine about the up coming draft. If it was not him it would just be someone else. ps Is it off-season or off season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan130 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 And lo, here's another thread containing his name on social media, thus generating heat for him on the Googs. Who cares if he's right? He generates clicks and eyeballs, his bosses are happy. Sounds like we are the ones getting played. Exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klos63 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 The Bills are a yawning chasm of dysfunction filled with dumpsters of flaming tires. Ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Organizations are known to put false information out there to find leaks. Tell one guy one story tell another guy another story. Whichever story gets leaked to the press is your mole. ....and WHO may be better than taking the bait, hook, line and sinker?......this guy misses the water from a boat........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 LaCanfora doesnt know what he is talking about.. He throws every possible scenario out there and obviously something is going to stick... he is just another hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonborn10 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Why is this so hard? Bench TT to avoid injury in meaningless game. Hire new coach and staff. Take time evaluating TT and other FA quarterbacks. Make decision after long discussion. That is not dysfunction. That is how a new team works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatComeback Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Back in December, as we all well know, Jason La Canfora reported that the Bills had already decided to "move on" from Tyrod. Further reports from La Can suggested the FO wanted to cut ties with Tyrod and that Cleveland was a likely landing place. Is it possible that the Bills played him? The Bills wanted to renegotiate Tyrod's contract but in this super-heated QB market they didn't seem to have a lot of leverage. Just this: they knew Tyrod wanted to stay with the Bills. So they leaked information that they were ready to move on to create enough media speculation that Tyrod starting feeling some motivation to renegotiate after all. After all, if you want spurious information to go public, Jason's your man. Just one email, text or call to La Canfora would have been enough to create the necessary media buzz to make Tyrod nervous. I have no insider information, just a curious, suspicious mind. Not at all... I think he was spot on when reporting in a December. Whaley wanted to get rid of Tyrod but Sean mcDermott wanted to keep him. Go figure GM vs Coach and Coach wins again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What a Tuel Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) Not at all... I think he was spot on when reporting in a December. Whaley wanted to get rid of Tyrod but Sean mcDermott wanted to keep him. Go figure GM vs Coach and Coach wins again Why do you think everyone is taking a hardline stance and not working in conjunction with each other? Whaley could have said "I don't like the cap hit after his "ok" 2016 performance, but I can see why we need to keep him", and McDermott could have said "yeah the cap hit would be rough, think maybe we can get him to restructure? Otherwise, who can we target?" Or some variation of that. Nope you'd rather believe Whaley stomped his feet and said "I don't want him" and McDermott said "too bad" and went to daddy Pegula. So much more believable. Edit: TLDR: The medias job has turned to desperate grasps for controversy to keep peoples attention, and their stories should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism. Edited March 11, 2017 by What a Tuel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judman Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 He is a gossip peddler, nothing more. Joy Behar has bigger balls than some of these sports reporter-diva guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Sports news and opinions = Alt News Inside info blah blah They guess most of the time and use misleading titles for click bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave mcbride Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) The only thing this chain of events makes me wonder about is Scott Berchtold. Why was he canned? JW has a ton of respect for him, which tells you that SB gets along with reporters. Edited March 11, 2017 by dave mcbride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yungmack Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Who knows? At one point in time, I think that JLC and others did have moles within the organization. Think back to the St. Doug stories that came out 3 years ago. However, whomever that mole was (Brandon?) -- he has either been canned, relinquished of inside info, or changed his decision to leak info. I honestly believe that over the last year or so that none of these reporters -- local or otherwise -- have the first clue what is going on within the organization because the front office is now keeping everything close to the vest. So when JLC, Vic or whomever report that they have inside sources, it is likely BS and conjecture as we have seen. At least Rappaport and Schefter admit when they are speculating and wait until they get confirmation from players/agents/league officials/team officials before declaring something is so. Now, playing my own conjecture game, here is what I think happened: 1. Tyrod, as we know, was Rex's guy. While I believe that is a true statement, it also does NOT mean that Whaley and./or others within the organization were necessarily ant-Tyrod guys. 2. After the Miami game, the Bills were officially eliminated and Rex was fired. The regular season finale against the Jets was meaningless. Lynn probably wanted to play to win to help his chances of landing a HC job here or elsewhere. Instead, Whaley/Pegula instructed him to sit Tyrod and start EJ and give Cardale some playing time as well. It was referred to as a business decision at the time, and that is exactly what it was. There was nothing to be gained by the Bills winning that game. Rather, it was a smart thing to do to sit Tyrod and avoid the risk of an injury -- and to also see what EJ and Cardale looked like in live game action. That whole situation looked bad at the time, but probably could have been clarified if Whaley had taken questions along with Lynn at the time everything went down. 3. The team performed a head coaching search -- and was willing to be open-minded about the QB position. Since Tyrod had been Rex's guy, Whaley/Pegula did not want to necessarily impose him upon the new head coach. Conversely, they also did not want to force the new coach (whomever that may have been) to go in another direction either. 3. One of the first things that McD did when he was hired was reach out to Tyrod. Based on what Tyrod said yesterday, it sounds like McD kept in touch with him throughout the process. He also made it a point to hire an OC who was familiar with Tyrod. We can surmise that McD had likely identified Tyrod as the best candidate to be his starting QB in 2017. McD also strikes me as being an honest, no-nonsense guy. So I think we can take his rare comments over the last couple of months at face value. What that also tells me is that he and his staff and reached a consensus that, while Tyrod is unlikely to ever be a franchise QB, he is a guy you can win with if things around him (including the defense) are shored up. 4. Whaley, less forthright than McD, had pretty much come to the same conclusion in terms of Tyrod's prospects. I think he tried investigating the possibility of upgrading the position and realized that there was no realistic option to do that for 2017. There was also the $ aspect and trying to work with Tryod's people to get him to restructure. So when McD said last week that no decision had yet been made about Tyrod's future, I believe he was being honest. 5. When it was all said and done, I believe the coaches asked the front office to retain Tyrod, which they were willing to do once Tyrod agreed to restructure his contract. In the end this was a win-win for all parties. I am not sure how anyone could claim that the process showed dysfunction when it actually showed just the opposite. I also do not see how we can speculate that there was a power struggle here either. Whaley does not strike me as a power-hungry guy. He pretty much worked with Marrone to get him the guys he wanted and by all accounts he did the same for Rex. And it looks like he is doing the same thing with McD so far. I think the negative spin on everything that has happened since week 16 of the regular season is twofold: 1. The press is annoyed with the Bills for keeping info on the low-down and not leaking info. 2. Neither Pegula nor Whaley are especially articulate or like being in front of a camera. So neither has exactly won the war with the media -- or even tried to for that matter. I believe this is probably an accurate account of what happened. Benching TT seemed all about avoiding a catastrophic financial hit in the event of an injury in a meaningless game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Back in December, as we all well know, Jason La Canfora reported that the Bills had already decided to "move on" from Tyrod. He got played by Leroi who gave him false information; question is did the Bills play Leroi or did he give LaConjecture false information on his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 He got played by Leroi who gave him false information; question is did the Bills play Leroi or did he give LaConjecture false information on his own. So, Leroi is our Pycelle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndirish1978 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Dude is not an insider or a real journalist. He's just a nerd who repeats the gossip that lackeys "leak" to him in order to keep his job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Dude is not an insider or a real journalist. He's just a nerd who repeats the gossip that lackeys "leak" to him in order to keep his job. Completely agree. Don't listen to a work from him. Hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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