Hapless Bills Fan

It will go better if you take the bulb-shaped end and push it into the mound. I’m talking about digging a cave, you Perverts

I don’t think charges have been filed. The women have made criminal complaints, but except in wierd states like PA it’s “up to” the prosecutor to decide whether or not the complaint rises to a prosecutable crime. Perhaps one of our lawyer types will set me straight if I’m mistaken I actually think any NFL action, following their usual pattern, would not take place until after the civil case completes. The link said Watson wasn’t even scheduled to testify in that case until January. Of course, if criminal charges are actually filed that could change things.

I get it, in fact I agree with your point, but then the issue isn’t the cap hit, it’s the quality of the player in question

Well, neither can anyone else right now including the Bills FO and coaches so What’s Your Point? Thought she was NFLN, but I don’t keep great track

Or not

I don’t disagree with your take, but how much of a cap hit did the Rams take trading Goff?

? Thought our current ESPN reporter was Marcel Louis Jacques, I think he has embraced the Bills and WNY

I think the 11-0 start last year was a function of the Steelers kind of playing some bad teams to start, but also playing a game no one expected - a very passing focused offense with an effective short passing game. Steelers were near the bottom, 29 or 30, in YPA. Once they played a couple of good teams (Ravens, Tenn) who could smother that, it became more clear they had nothing else.

Correct, Delta is moving fast to take over. One would like to see the NFL be proactive instead of reactive with adapting - last year they didn’t adapt until they had some problems that were clearly due to their procedures (not testing on game day, having too many coaches with inadequate masks in the poorly-ventilated coaches booth all game)

This is going to have to happen. The testing cadence as it stands won’t enable a full season.

That’s not how collective bargaining works AFAIK. The players have representatives from each team and a committee to study the issue. Every issue does not go to a vote of the membership and it probably shouldn’t.

I think it’s a bit more than semantics. Leaving aside the “All Pro” thing now that we know 1 vote gets you in.... Beasley had a career year last season. As far as him being physically able to repeat it, many people (Romo for example) would have bet against last year’s performance being possible, because of his age. Eventually age will catch up with him but it seems harder to predict when that happens for WR than for RBs. OTOH, it may be that he had a career year in part due to a “perfect storm” of circumstance - Brown being injured so targets being split between 3 WR, no great choice to divide those punishing “slot” receptions etc. Now the team has brought in Sanders, who has the background of the same secondary route concepts that Beasley excels in. To try to put it in a simpler way, Beasley was hugely important to the team last season. Does that predict future results? A definite “maybe”.

I had no idea of all this, thanks for the education.

That makes some sense then, Thanks for explaining.

Watson? Wilson has no cases against him. If you’re gonna call someone a scumbag, you might want to get their name correct I don’t follow this last part

It’s only per week during the season so 18 weeks regular season if on the squad all games That’s still $165,600 per year which is pretty good money even for an older vet

Fair point “That was Then, This is Now” is applicable each year, especially to older players. But it’s also true that his average of 53 ypg his most recent 3 seasons probably understates his importance to the offense, especially when the game is on the line. I thought whoever put it, ‘when he needs yards, Allen looks first to Diggs, then to Beasley, then to himself (his own legs) had a point. He’s made strong contributions and I’m sure McDermott and Daboll would like him on the team He’s clearly under the belief that he has enough “clout” that he is above the rules. This has a bit of a Destinee Hooker feel to me (if anyone else follows USA VB and gets the reference). Time will tell.

Is it the same deal as last season where they can call up and return some players without waivers?

He said he would get tested and when the results came back negative the rest of his day would be just like the vaccinated players

He’s said he’s not gonna retire, he’s gonna play and they’ll have to cut him. And he’s a family guy with a bunch of kids, he won’t be out hellin’ around. But if he doesn’t follow the protocols, how does that work for McDermott? Beasley is a respected leader on the team and if he doesn’t follow them, who will?

Who replaced Dean Marlowe?

That would be called “assault”

Look at the date

Beasley has several times indicated that he believes he speaks for a number of players who are not at a place in their career where they can speak out. He has said he’ll retire or “play for free” (which I took to mean, be fined until he’s playing for free), but surely he can’t believe that latter will be allowed - the team would be penalized and would risk losing drafts picks, so would surely ask the league to suspend him for “conduct detrimental to the team” after a few instances? But even if he believes he’s speaking out for a number of players who feel the same way but aren’t in a place where they can risk their financial futures, is social media truly the best avenue? Has he tried writing the union, the NFL physicians, so forth and so on? Or is his action limited to Tweets? We don’t know. I can’t blame a player for being distrustful of NFLPA leadership - I think they’ve done a crap tactic job on some points over the years - but it’s a fact the Bills don’t seem to have a union rep even listed since Zo Alexander retired, indicating to me that no one wants to actually “do the work” and attend the meetings and such. I agree with that last para completely.

I think social media is a piss-poor medium for team discussion. I would think these guys have each other’s Instagrams and can DM if they don’t have phone numbers and text. I agree the teammate interactions seem respectful, but the general tweeting is frequently rude and attacking. And people are all in with interpreting Teammate A as attacking Teammate B which, even if that’s not the intent, could potentially cause problems. That leads me to conclude that Beasley’s goal is not intra-team discussion The corrallary, Son, the corrallary. When threads follow the guidelines pinned at the top of the page and stay respectful, they stay open. When a few people every now and then deviate, they get pruned. When too many people don’t follow the guidelines or get rude to each other, they get locked. This ain’t Twitter, and anything doesn’t go.