Archives for November 7, 2021

‘”Yeah, definitely made calls, and I didn’t just pick up the phone Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. We’ve had calls with teams. The deadline is the deadline, and maybe it puts some urgency on it, but we’ve gotten calls all season and we’ve made calls at certain times to check in and say, ‘Hey, if your situation changes’ … like, you might call a team, knowing it’s three weeks before the deadline, ‘Would you guys ever move anyone off this position?’ Maybe they tell you, they wouldn’t do player A, but we’ll do player B or C. Or we would consider it. Or, you tell them, ‘This is the player I’d like. If anything changes on your end, let me know.’ And we track them. That’s a lot of the conversations. Some of that was follow up Monday and Tuesday, of, ‘All right, I know we talked a few weeks ago, is this a player you’d be willing to part with?’ Either it was, but it was too premium of a price, or it was ‘No, we’re fighting our butts off for our own team.’ “‘

‘The rules on when players can return from the reserve/Covid-19 list differ for players depending on vaccination status. For those who have been vaccinated, two negative Covid tests, conducted at least 24 hours apart, are required. For those who are unvaccinated, players must quarantine for 10 days, regardless of the presence of symptoms.’

‘Prediction: Bills 37, Jaguars 14.’

‘The statistics, however, speak for themselves. Singletary hasn’t topped 30 yards rushing in the past three games. Moss had 19 yards on eight carries last week. The Bills have to get more out of both of them. If they don’t, the thought of going to Williams isn’t a bad one.’

‘However, Allen has some things that Fitzpatrick never had here that help him be an all-time great in handling the media: youthful exuberance, an instant connection to the community and the ability to get unconditional love from Bills fans who expect him to eventually lead the team to a Super Bowl.’

‘Achieving a framework by late December or early January also positions Hochul to negotiate with state legislators to get the stadium into the budget. “This will be a budgetary issue and therefore will show up in the New York state budget as an item once I’ve had a chance to speak to the legislators and garner support for that,” she said.’

‘He has memory issues, which he believes are related to CTE. His recovered memory of his recovery comes from watching replays of it – and talking about it often. Otherwise, he says, he forgets large swaths of his life.’