HardyBoy

I feel like beane has chased the draft picks he traded away and it impacted the draft a lot...also, it adds a ton of uncertainty to the draft prep process...they know they are likely going to trade down to get a third back, but I have to imagine that makes all the prep prior to the draft, all the mock drafts and scenarios completely hypothetical. Yeah there's a ton of uncertainty in the draft as it is, but essentially going in not knowing where you're picking at all because your plan is to get more picks early...I think there is a plus side to this in terms of certainty if you do nothing and trade wise, and they don't have to do anything trade wise to chase picks

Some might need a decoder ring, not us...we just need Draconator and a six pack!

He ended up going to the Rams and iirc made the team...his path to making the team was likely better somewhere else. The only way you could possibly know that the bills weren't interested is if he wasn't signed as an undrafted free agent on any team at all, which wasn't the case.

How do you know they didn't?

I think he got a concussion against the Pats

Yeah, I saw that...I watched the Falcons game at a bar at a networking event without volume (except for me thinking Palmer tore everything on the initial play and then when they stepped out at the half yard line to end the half)... I'm sure they mentioned it on the broadcast, but I didn't hear it obviously

Haha, I dont know what a bunch of people here are thinking, let alone the players

What in the world?! Penix had 233 yards and a yards per attempt of 6.9 which is below his career average...and they scored 24 points, including three in the second half...seven of which came on an 80 yard run on the first play of the drive... Dan Marino...seriously?! It really has gotten to the point where I'm almost rooting for wins more to keep people from going crazy than for the actual wins...almost

Missed tackles could absolutely be a factor of a player getting to a spot a fraction faster because they are fresh...that's not an excuse

Why isn't this being talked about more??? They looked like a team coming off their bye and the Bills defense especially started playing way better in the second half after they adjusted to what I'm sure some wrinkles they were able to add during the bye and two weeks to prepare for the Bills. Feels like massively important context

Maybe she's trying to mirror your energy or repeating things you've said in the past cause she wanted to connect with you? Cause otherwise, I'm not sure I really am going to take the opinion of someone who barely watches the team more than five minutes at a time...that said, my own wife does have a pretty good understanding of football, she grew up having to watch it, but she doesn't anymore all that much, but I do value her opinion when she watches... so yeah, I'm flip flopping a bit, lol

I feel like trading a 3rd during the season causes Beane to chase the pick in the draft somehow...like there is some sunk cost fallacy or something going on

Lol, nicely done and go bills

Do you understand what the term contributing factor means? I'm not saying he did that because of CTE... I'm saying it could he something he was dealing with and as a coping mechanism he could have went down a path of self soothing with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately could have resulted in him doing that... Like if someone hurts their back and then gets prescribed pain pills and then gets addicted even when using them as prescribed and then loses their job as a result and then gets foreclosed on and then has to live on the street and then gets arrested for robbing someone...and I say I wonder if them hurting their back was a contributing factor and then you saying "you can't be serious"...you know ridiculous and lacking humility or understanding your comment would have or lacking the understanding of how incredibly close any one of us is to that reality no matter how much you want to tell yourself you're different and somehow better than reality...well, same thing here in terms of how silly that comment is

My first thought too...at least as a contributing factor