Hapless Bills Fan

It's been pointed out in several threads that if Beane feels it would benefit the team, he can clear a buttload of cap space in a hurry by renegotiating Dawkins and White's contracts to convert salary to signing bonus. So I don't see cap space as too much of a hindrance if there's a move Beane truly sees as a potential game-changer for the franchise. But I think he would have to view it as game-changer, not as an incremental improvement

$14M for CB#2?

OK, I'm sure I'll catch flack for it but the other thread just started has actual information So rather than bury said information 10 pages in, this one locks.

I'll probably catch flack, but to avoid burying this in "n" pages of crap I'm gonna leave this open and lock the other thread.

This link is an article which references Joe B. But Joe B. says: There's no practical difference between "right of first refusal" and "original round" for an UDFA, and the former is slightly cheaper, so makes sense.

😅 -better beard game -less baby face "Tendered is the Ike" scans better with the song and alludes to the book title, if any liking for F Scott Fitzgerald managed to survive High School.

They couldn't tender all their RFA. A tender in a way is also a smoke signal to other teams that "this is a guy we find worth >$2M/yr" while, in the case of first-refusal or original round for an UDFA, not providing any deterrent for other team to sign him.

I appear to be constitutionally unable to feel pity for a Pats**** fan for any matter related to the Pats**** or their fandom. It's a character flaw. I admit it.

Doesn't say which tender, anyone know? Dion Dawkins: "You say Ike Boettger, I say Stallion"

If there are any military history buffs out there who find it interesting https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/why-did-uss-thresher-sink-133400787.html https://news.usni.org/2021/03/15/panel-navy-has-done-itself-a-major-favor-in-releasing-thresher-investigation For those who don't know, Thresher was the first of a new class of nuclear attack subs and sank during a training accident in 1963. 129 souls on board were lost.

It's a clue I don't really get, walk me through it? but Ertz never made sense as a move to switch teams over

She didn't say "most of responses are already on it" She said "a number of people are on it" in the responses Several people are also suggesting Daniel (sic - Danielle) Hunter I'd rather have had Hunter Henry over Ertz also That said I think the hope would be that Ertz would bring that "make everyone better" attitude to the TE room and teach them how to beat physical coverage and get open as TE. Lord knows they weren't gonna learn that last from Lee "I Don't Cut" "I Can't Separate" Smith. I know the league New Year starts at 4 pm, but what would this mean?

My favorite of the responses to her: Spill the Beanes!

I don't know if this is generally readable but Q&A with Joe Buscaglia has a bunch of interesting thoughts. https://theathletic.com/2457335/2021/03/17/live-bills-free-agency-qa-with-joe-buscaglia/ A couple of them, in case that's not generally visible (but the Athletic is running a special trial for $1/month, might check it out) Which needs will Beane still try to address in FA? On the Running Game Paradox (standing pat with the same OL and RB while saying we need to improve: On Taiwan Jones: He thinks we're moving on from McKenzie, which makes me 😥

Good article from colleague of Sal 😄 https://www.radio.com/wgr550/sports/bills/after-emmanuel-sanders-signing-bills-are-one-step-closer-to-building-a-super-team And Sal's thoughts about Sanders over Brown:

Awwww....something just got in my eye. For those who don't speak Insta: Isaiah McKenzie (posts pic of him leaning on Brown, maybe from frustration or for comfort): "Another one (teammate) gone, but I'm happy for you" John Brown: "Love you bro, I'm always a call away" Those guys really built a bond, even McKenzie who was noted as an incessant trash talker of his own teammates.

Ah, OK, thanks for the very well worded and thoughtful explanation. I don't dismiss the allegations of the woman involved at all. I don't even know what they are (yet). I found the lawyer's Instagram post announcing the lawsuit to be full of self-aggrandizement and puffery (my personal opinion), and given that said lawyer is apparently a neighbor of Texans owner McNair and said to be a friend, I find the timing at the start of the league new year kind of suspicious. Of course, it could, in fact, be entirely coincidental or it could be taking the most rapid possible course. 🤷‍♂️ I don't think they've changed as much or as fast as social media soundbites would lead one to believe. So we may just have to "agree to disagree" on that.

I'm not sure where the "settles and doesn't clear his name then done" conclusion comes from. It's beyond the scope here to discuss public figures in general, but in Football many players have quietly settled with people bringing civil suits (which were then dropped) or have settled the suits themselves or even had judgement against them, and it barely stirs a ripple. Examples: McCoy settled lawsuit brought by his ex-mistress/fiancee/professional escort Delicia Cordon: https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/chiefs-mccoy-reaches-settlement-suit-filed-67500755 Went on to play for Tampa Bay and win another Superbowl ring last year, so much for "done" Civil suit brought against McCoy in bar fight with off-duty police officer resulted in settlement. McCoy paid, and went on to play for KC and Tampa and win 2 Superbowl rings: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2847863-lesean-mccoy-paid-55k-compensation-to-police-officer-injured-in-2016-bar-fight I'm not intending to try to turn the subject on you, just to make the point that settling out of court or having a civil judgement against one is not the sure fire career killer for a pro football player that you seem to think it is. For a lower-tier player, it might be, but not for one of the top talents in the league, even one at the sunset of his career.

Well....I don't watch much TV and we don't have Cable so no, don't watch NFLN regularly...AND I still know who she is!!!! I don't rule out the possibility that the upgrade over 2020 Knox is 2021 Knox, but a TE upgrade over 2020 Knox is badly needed IMHO

To this...IMO it should not be overlooked that Sanders was a teammate of Beasley at SMU. Daboll, apparently at Beasley's urging, started incorporating some of the June Jones/SMU/Mouse Davis secondary route concepts in 2019 and more last year. Which have been effective, but teams have been bracketing Beasley and shutting these down. Brown is a skilled route runner, but had made several references to the complexity of the playbook, to rookie Gabe Davis "helping us with (the playbook)" - I don't think a playbook where the WR are expected to read the DB's body language and run one of several route options while using their own body language to signal the QB what they're gonna do, was playing to his core strengths as a WR. IIRC there were several evident route miscommunications with Allen during the year. I think those plays like an otter sliding into water for Sanders. Not only can he swim well, he loves that stuff. Signing Sanders is giving Daboll the chance to be chortling "yeah, Suckas, now we got two of 'em AND you gotta cover Diggs. Oh, and Davis."

Unclear on your meaning....Stills is not on the Bills team, do you feel we should pursue/sign him? And while we're at it, general question to all here: what about Lil' Dirty (McKenzie)? He's fast He's shifty He'll do "whatever" to help the team from playing scout-team QB to pinch-hitting at DB He apparently talks crap to everyone at a record-setting pace - to the point where he hesitated when asked about how he and Josh Allen got along and said they had a "90% love, 10% hate, because I talk crap" relationship He has some of the same problems that Logic discussed above, in being able to be neutralized by some of the coverage schemes teams used and by physical man coverage

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We can agree on this, absolutely. There are well-documented instances of people behaving like jerks on airplanes who are either motivated by an excess of "liquid courage" or some combination of personal belief/desire for notoriety, so in the general instance, it would indeed be a poor assumption. There's just a prior history here which leads to the inference, and it is still an inference. You have a valid point, and you made it in a civil manner and reiterated in a way to find points of agreement, that's what it's all about.

I agree with this bolded - I've said elsewhere that I don't think Brown was offered a paycut and I think that was behind his "cry from the heart" about being taken by surprise and did Josh Allen have input. He wasn't offered the opportunity to take a pay cut and stay on the team, the Bills had decided to move on. The market for Brown was less than I anticipated, too.