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‘“It’s money off the table on one end,” he said. “But that’s a double-edged sword. We’re experiencing a ratings decline, and it’s oversaturation of football. Take the Thursday slate away, put it all on Sunday. Yeah, they made a nice little TV package out of it, obviously they’re making a ton of money for it, and in reality it’s probably not going anywhere. So yeah, there’s probably no solution to this. I’m just saying that as a player, as a competitor, as someone that has to do this, it’s just a b—-.”’

‘This trade is hard to process because there are still great unknowns—the greatest of which is the health of Kelvin Benjamin’s left knee. He tore his ACL in 2015 training camp and missed the Super Bowl run, struggled in 2016, came into this past offseason overweight for the third time since he began college and was dealing with the same ailing knee in the past two weeks during practice.’

‘Next year, when Beane takes his victory lap in free agency—salary-cap site Over The Cap estimated that Buffalo would have nearly $40 million in space before the Dareus trade—the football world can sit back and golf clap the savvy maneuver. Dareus, according to Pro Football Focus, only played in 138 total snaps this year for Buffalo anyway. It was obvious. For now, we applaud the team lining Dareus up next to Malik Jackson, Yannick Ngakoue, Campbell and Dante Fowler against the Bengals next Sunday.’