Malazan

The problem isn't so much that they don't make money. It's that relative to the value of an NFL franchise, some teams income means they are high risk when it comes to banks financing them. If the Bills sold for 1 billion, paying back the load at 30 million a year would take 33 1/3 years without factoring in interest. Considering very few teams are purchased outright, it's certainly a factor.

Is this the girl from the bathroom or another one?

It's pretty surprising the offensive co-ordinatiors weren't doing this before or for like, the entire history of the league. You'd think they'd plan every season for weaknesses and defensive co-ordinators would counter and so on! I bet we'll see a lot of this 'planning' this season and going forward. Sounds like the next fad! Man, I missed the Giants having problems with missed tackles last night. Strange. Hopefully you can point out these issues with plays from the game. How does that relate to the Giant playing Dallas again? It's not difficult to grasp. It's just entirely irrelevant. If you wanted to complain about weaknesses in the Bills defense, then there were already threads for that. I understand there are people like you who just want to rail against the perceived slight from the Bills not listening to you and making all the rosters moves you would make, but that still has nothing to do with the Giants. LBs aren't generally considered part of the front four.

of all the doom predictions on the board. This one has the most merit, imo.

No, people are slamming it because the Giants defense playing Dallas doesn't mean one thing about the Bills defense regardless of what concerns there are about the Bills defense.

You're right there with many of us who read this thread about the Giant's defense.

The league is great!

I have never heard of this and would love to have a source so I can read more about it.

I am not sure what the Jets offense did in preseason has to do with the game we play actually the Jets...in the REAL season! We should be looking at the Miami offense to gauge how the Jets offense is going to perform.

They are not full time and part of the proposal is to have some full time refs, but the NFLRA is not griping much about that. They seem focused on money and the additional crews. I'm more than willing to have replacement refs if it means that the two worst crews get sat every week. In the bargaining process, the NFL wanted something in return for the drastic increase in salary the refs wanted. I'm not sure why anyone would be against referee accountability.

A lot of the issues aren't about money. The NFL wants to hire additional crews so they can sit poor performing crews. the NFLRA is strongly opposed to this.

A 1000x this

Of course it means they are the same. Dave Wannstedt has a lot of ties to Tom Coughlin and Perry Fewell. Granted, they are invisible and mostly imaginary, but they are there. Just like the voices.

The Patriots had a terrible pre-season. Looked downright awful. Not sure why the Bills are going to even show up for this game against the Jets.

TBD insanity at an all new level. Another team struggles and it means the Bills are doomed. Did you guys know the Patriots had a terrible preseason?! The Bills shouldn't even show up.

There wasn't any 'analysis' in that comment. It was a string of statements that said some things that may or may not be true. Granted, that is kinda the point of a message board, but we should all work together to recognize the difference between excellent analysis (http://yardsperpass.com/?p=58) and some comments that "feel" the same way we do ourselves.

They are relying on a super secret magic offense led by a reincarnation of Jesus. I don't think much else needs to be said.

If players can ignore the legally binding contract they signed in order get more money, then that is the other side of the coin. It's stupid. Honor the contract you agreed to and signed.

I think Dickerson plays.

I don't think it would be a surprise. Based on the pre-season, I don't think the communication is there for it.

He is not 'worth' more than his contract. It's a contract. Players can give up guaranteed money in their contracts if they don't want to play them out.

This is the insanity of it. Why should a player get to decide he's outperformed his contract? It doesn't matter what other players got until his contract is up. If the players want this ability then pay the fines ta the least. Maybe the owners should get the right to 'lockout' an under-performing player and not pay him. Let's see how that goes over.

to be fair, most of that time was in a regular role, not the specialized role the Jets made for him

I'll take the same stance I took with Peters. He pays the fine. If he wants to sit, more power to him, not getting paid for two years and then having been out of football for two years getting a much smaller contract.

Stevie talked about being more mature this season. Speaking on the field is the mature way to handle it.