Mr. WEO

he was released after 1 game--why reference this "time with Brady in NE"? you stumbled into that, I didn't even have to send you there! Anyway...just answer the question as to whether McD could have made the NFL's best WR function for the Bills True. Bit we are talking about on field and in the locker room. Maybe AB needed the calming influence of McD, instead of "I let the patients run the asylum" Tomlin...

might as well make money off of this. I'll take 50k

he played a single game with Brady in NE, lol. great point doc! When the 2018 season ended, AB was the best WR in the NFL--maybe you are suing a new definition for the word "spent"?. Anyway.... You don't think McD, who handled Diggs, a total head case, for a few years could not make use of AB? Why not?

google: "buffalo offered first round draft pick to steelers for AB" oh now it's "or another"? lol--the reasons were not football skill related, nice try. anyway, if McD and the Bills locker room could keep Diggs's behavioral deficiencies (almost) under control for 3-4 seasons, don't you think they could have gotten a solid year or 2 out of AB?

yeah what was this? there's no defender on his side of the court while he just dribbles up and dunks. there's a lady MC on the court as everyone just watches him shoot, lol. notice by the way, throwing down those dunks like he never actually had a wrist injury (wink, wink).....

He had just wrapped up his 6th straight season of at least 1250 yards---and had 15 receiving TDs his last year in Pitts. Totally spent! You think he couldn't get at least another 1250 with Josh Allen throwing to him (absent Diggs)? That WR was trash--2 big money WRs were Brown and Beasley combining for 1800 yards, lol. By his final year, despite essentially the same number of targets per year, Diggs's production was in free fall. In all, the Bills paid one of the worst playoff WR1s in league history 80 million to pad his stats during the season. 2 years after a huge (2nd highest WR guarantee behind only Hill) 4 year extension, he was widely excised from the the body Buffalo, the cancer that he was...

#9 in the AB deal. as I've said (and only as has been reported) multiple times. you are claiming that Beane would have redone the contract...but without a guarantee, or something... The Steelers gave permission for Rosenhaus to talk because of the pick package Beane offered (it was a 1st, even though he didn't call you up to confirm this).

he was looking for a redo of his contract—the whole contract, not just the bonus you are stuck on. “"I'd never seen that before with three years left and not adding years. ... We've all seen how many guys are cut one year into a long-term deal. It's been kind of a one-way system. In this particular instance, you had a player who said, 'This isn't an ideal situation for me.' For guys around the league, this is a positive development for players. And they have Antonio Brown to thank for it." Rosenhaus. “Rosenhaus spoke with general manager Brandon Beane on March 5, and Beane made clear then he would tweak Brown's remaining deal but wouldn't redo it. That was a nonstarter for Brown, so both parties agreed it wouldn't work and never revisited. again, where did you read that Beane offered a year and no guarantee?” it was reported multiple outlets a 1st round pick was offered.

11 with Mitch Trubisky of course

link?

He was a handful in Pitts at times yes. But he was the best WR in the NFL. Diggs....not so much. The disagreement wasn't about guaranteed money--Rosenhaus wanted the Bills to redo the remaining years on AB's contract. Beane refused (but was willing to part with Bills #9 pick).

AB was 2 orders of magnitude better than Diggs at that point. Diggs never rose to that level to be the kind of diva he was in Minnesota (forget Buffalo). He refused because he didn't want to play in Buffalo.

me, McD and Beane for sure. so what?

forget Shakir: Coleman was a better value play. You should be arguing for him to have gotten 160 targets.

under 200 ypg and 9 TD in 7 games against bartenders and insurance salesmen. a good QB would tear that league apart

you could ask the same of any WR who has ever played. WRs are often open yet not actually targeted. That’s intuitively true. What’s the point of your question?

kick the tires? Beane drawing it up now:

who did Chase set the market for? who else got that money? your whole premise is that the WR market is "actually insane" because the top 5 WR's are making a few points more of the cap than they were in 2018? that's checking in at something less than insane for me.....

The cap has risen 56% over the time that top WR % went up 3%. There is 1 WR making what Chase is making. No other WR contact signed in 2025 was close to his AAV. so we are comparing outliers.

so we can hear them formulating their bad calls? what problem does this solve? Half the viewers will say "yup--that's how I saw it, good call!" the rest will cry and say they are incompetent and the league's fixed. same results.

multiplying his yards per target by an imaginary and impossible number of targets really doesn't make much of an argument. By your thinking, it would make more sense to target Coleman over Shakir. If Coleman had 160, he would have had over 1500 yards.....

Josh obviously thought not. How many WRs had at least 586 snaps vs how many got over 160 targets? Allen was clearly forcing targets Diggs's way--look what happened in Digs's yardage over his Buffalo career--all over 150 targets. 350 fewer yards.

That's 1 NFL WR making that. Only 5 guys over 30M. Despite "setting the market" at 40 million, the next highest 2025 contracts were 33M (Metcalf), 28.7 (Higgins), 22M (Adams), etc. Right now Chase is an outlier, like Barkley--who "reset the RB market" (so I read here) at 20M (7% of cap). No other RB has gotten close to that in new (2025) contracts.

while the team in St Louis seems to draw the biggest crowds (4ok sometimes) there are games pulling in just over 2000 fans in the stands. Where are they supposed to put a game like that? High school fields? Unfortunately in this case "the networks" aren't simply the broadcasters of this sport, they are part owners of the league. so they have to fund the league with their own "TV money". it's a poor model

while it's true that RBs share of the cap has not kept pace with the increase in cap, WRs AAV has. OBJ's AAV was 10.1% of the 2018 cap. 30 million AAV for today's WR is 10.7% of the cap. No inflation there, just keeping pace.