Mr. WEO

cool. Trade him for Gesicki.

My guess isn't that he did not take some sort of weird or mysterious multivitamin or exotic supplement just on a whim. He took anabolics, HGH or adderol.

https://apple.news/ACP4znyw6RkW1RX9Qt-8_fg this well documents the problem with a team run by Adams and Pegula…

well both of these scenarios involve a player who knows he's taking banned substances. this bro is claiming he didn't know...which has to be a lie. this is the discussion.

Ever since "Shady" got Williams's engagement ring back, Mario's a new man...

McD has fired 3 ST coordinators since 2018. Tabor has been out of the league since end of 2023. Carolina ST stunk that year. Not much better the year before. He's been fired by the Browns, the Bears and Panthers. All 3 teams seem like they sure could use a really good coordinator... As the OP shows, his OC is a guy he knew--on staff already. DC Babich is a guy he knew, on staff for years. He's not looking far....

he just needs to bulk up, no?

it's a 10 seat plane

I've consistently stood by my opinion the next guy would want the same salary, and would be foolish not to demand it (you kindly quoted me as proof--thank you!). You, on the other hand, keep coming up with arguments that oppose your own position (like saying Goodell took less than Tags, for instance). You aren't making sense. Obviously I acknowledge that none of us now know what the next guy would be paid--that's a point not worth making...and this is your "MO".

not screwing over—other than providing nearly unwatchable product

Why wouldn't a successor (picked by Goodell himself) not demand the same? Whether he gets it or not who knows, but why would he not ask for it? Makes no sense not to. Tags got paid 8 million his final year. Goodell had already made 6.9 million by his 7th month as Tags replacement 19 years ago. So you're wrong there too.

I'm not sure all of this expansion (on TV and internationally) gets done without the ultimate macher---Goodell. He knows all the "players" in all forms of broadcasting. Some new guy would not be viewed in the same way by those paying to broadcast the NFL.... Rule changes I agree--nothing to do with Goodell.

This has nothing to do with associates and partners--in the NFL there are none. Probably best to move off that odd comp. Whether there are 2 or 2000 lawyers clamoring to take the job has no meaning---only Goodell has it and he's not going anywhere until he says so. The owners have to be completely satisfied with his tenure thus far. His "successor" is a non-issue.

Not sure how this is relevant to the conversation. I don't "hate" sports figures--I don't know them. But I was skeptical when the trade was announced, based on the same behavior with the Vikings. A few years later and surprise surprise, he doesn't survive his last contract. This was all his doing, nothing to do with me. But some of us saw this as inevitable. The guy is outwardly immature--a cancer on any roster. He's about to be 0 for 3 on that note.... Higgins would have been a fantastic alternative to Diggs.

Goodell has nothing to do with what individual owners charge fans to enter the stadium. Likewise, he didn't decide to sell the product to streamers. The demand was there. The demand isn't there for these other sports--which really become relevant only during the playoffs.... Get ready for Oklahoma City vs Indiana AND Edmonton vs Florida in the Finals! Networks must be dying.... This is why I'm betting the majority of the owners do not care whether Goodell, right now, has a "succession plan". I have no doubt the owners pushed for international expansion. Goodell has run with it for sure. But it never gets birthed without the owners coming to Goodell with the idea...which he made a reality.

Well none of this is applicable for obvious reasons. There is only 1 NFL Commissioner. Why would the next guy take less than the current guy gets paid?

Amazingly, both are still on their roster. 2 Super Bowls. A Lombardi. Diggs is gone with less than nothing to show for it. No SBs….

Oh Diggs was a "sure thing" all right lol! If Roseman had not also put together a roster that played in 2 of the last 3 SBs, destroying a 15 win Chiefs team, you might have a point. They could shrug of a bad decision at WR. He quickly rebounded by drafting Smith and then traded for AJ Brown. Beane brought in his usual minibus load of week old bread bin guys who end their careers in Buffalo soon after their 1 year paper expires.... Diggs never moved the needle for the Bills--zero impact: with or without Diggs, Bills win the division, lose to the Chiefs in the playoffs. It cost a potential top rookie WR on a 5 year contract and 31 million in dead cap, plus all the predictable immaturity/headaches.

Cole Bishop "the psychopath on the field" isn't on the roster

Beane's draft day ineptitude drafting WRs, he probably would not have picked Jefferson.

@BADOLBILZ nailed it: Posted April 9, 2022 Literally, you can look at Diggs then existing contract and say there was no need to act..............not just "technically". You can't keep everyone at their happiest as a GM.........sometimes players are going to want for things. I think Beane did a pretty good job keeping Diggs at bay on an extension for a couple years.........but ultimately the objective should have been to get him to the offseason before his walk year and see where he stood going into his age 30 season. Beane blew all of his gains by having him at 3/4 of the market by re-inking him at the top of the market, IMO. People can disagree but I think this deal ends with 2-3 years left and a lot of dead money.

No not all of us...

the better question is what didn't Beane understand about Diggs before he traded for him? Diggs's early end in Buffalo was completely predictable to many.......

“Shady” picking me up after he tosses a few “minus 1s” off the party bus…

I had read that--that Terry hired him so he could "be heard". Obviously that was a problematic reason to hire someone immediately, as it was already clear that Pegula's management of this team has been a total disaster since he bought it. Now he hires this guy to prop up the guy who was hired to listed to Pegula. It is to laugh.....Terry should be barred from the building. I wonder if Lou even waited to hang up before he started laughing