BADOLBILZ

You could say the same thing about Hopkins or Cooper the way they'd played prior to being traded. Sometimes vets need to be on a winning team to bring out the best in them. It's Kyle Van Noy syndrome. That guys looked washed 5 different times but put him in a playoff race and he suddenly becomes one of the more impactful players on that defense. I suspect Armstead and Jadeveon Clowney will revert to prior season form if they join contending teams at the deadline.

Yeah Cooper played on Raiders and Cowboys teams that greatly underperformed expectations. I mean when that Carr/Cooper team went 12-4 they looked like a team that was going to be around for awhile. And they totally fell apart. Cowboys teams he was on regularly fell way short as well. Wins and losses aren't often mentioned as a WR stat but for comparison sake he's 77-70 in his career despite playing on a lot of talented teams........and hindsight-perceived locker room cancer Stefon Diggs is 96-46. But Cooper is a big talent. The fact that he has four career 200+ yard games speaks to how explosive he can be.

IMO teams want their best players to want to win the most. It sets the tone. So his "it's-a-business" demeanor isn't seen as ideal for a star player. I don't disagree....he has been associated with more losing than you'd expect given the talent on the teams he's had so there could be something to it. But the Bills were beggars in this market. He is very talented and in the short term at least he opens up the offense greatly. If he plays in the NFL for a lot longer and settles in as a WR2-WR3 somewhere I think he will be more appreciated.

I wouldn't be shocked if the long rumored Elam for a bag of balls trade happens and a released White gets picked up by the Bills to fill the roster spot but White sure has looked cooked.

He can play both. And with the injury to Carter they need 3 tech help too. Yes. Hornell, specifically. The family own a car dealership there.

Open to trading maybe the worst performing player on the roster? You don't say. How Tre even got more than a camp invite from an NFL team was a surprise to me.

Nah. With the exception of a few 2 month runs where the team was unreal he has been a walking blunder since they hired him. Roberts wasn't a lot smarter letting Flaherty pitch to Stanton a third time. Flaherty totally lost control of about 10 pitches in that game and was lucky they didn't wind up in the strike zone and get hammered. He should have gone to his pen earlier and he might have had a shut out.

The flip side of that is that they swung at about 30 pitches out of the zone. Dodgers didn't even have to throw strikes. Buffoone almost always instinctively pushes the wrong button but he can't do anything about that. I don't think I have ever seen a Yankee team that over-anxious at the plate. That's how they stranded 12 runners. Hell the Stanton HR was way out of the zone too and the 3rd pitch out of the zone he swung at in that at bat. That's not abnormal for him but everyone was jumping out of their shoes to hit after a week off. They just couldn't hold their water, which is very uncharacteristic. But if Tortoise doesn't casual that throw from Soto they win anyway. Meh. It happens, 7 game series.

As @Warriorspikes51 said, if Beane can't get over that deal he thought he had in place falling thru it won't happen. But it makes a lot of sense. The story has been told, but he met his wife in WNY and the in-laws are Bills fans etc.. Actually a lot of these teams trading their near-age-30 stud DL makes sense because it looks like DL will be the strength of the 2025 draft. And if you are the Browns or Raiders what you really want are 2026 first rounders. If you hang on to Garrett or Crosby for another season you might not get a 2026 #1. That's the Arch Manning draft class which figures to be a deeper draft in addition to being better stocked at QB.

1) No and there never are until after-the-fact. Beane tries to keep everything he is working on quiet and usually succeeds. 2) Simmons would be a good get. Would add a lot of needed toughness/physicality to that DT position.

You agree with what that I did not, specifically? I said Reid is a very good HC but it's laughable to call him the GOAT when it took him 20 years to win a SB. Hondo said it wasn't laughable.........but then he said it's "crazy talk"? I have no idea what the difference is(and neither does he). You guys are either just disagreeing to be disagreeable or you got sucked in by @hondo in seattle trolling technique of pretending something was said that that was not said in order to elicit contrarian responses. One thing you can always count on is that people will jump into a thread and not read the prior posts. So that being the case.......I could post a reply to you saying you are wrong for believing Reid was the GOAT and some people would think you said that. That's the nature of a message board it's VERY easy for haters to steer a false narrative. @hondo in seattle is a very confused man. He wants to be a hater but he wants to be a buddhist. I mean buddist. It's amusing.

Lot's of people? Google is not that hard to use, budda.😉 https://nesn.com/2024/02/could-andy-reid-pass-bill-belichick-in-goat-debate-its-real-possibility/ https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2023/7/6/23785720/chiefs-andy-reid-patriots-bill-belichick-goat I literally said he's been a very good coach, too bad the Bills couldn't have gotten him etc.. I said he shouldn't be the GOAT and you are running with that like I said he wasn't good? You are trying to create a straw man argument for arguments sake. Not very buddist of you.😂

The "you think you're smarter than management" card is the weakest of rebuttals. Any completely uniformed idiot can claim that defense because there is no way of proving or disproving it. It's like a slur.......the intent is simply to shout down the argument without really addressing the problem. Smart people can make bad individual decisions. A lot goes into the decision to acquire/retain or dispose of players and that can make smart management look very stupid.

When a coach is being mentioned as the GOAT after it took him 20 years to win a Super Bowl.........yeah, that's comical. It's a recency bias.

Salud in spanish means health. In the context of death it's used to cheer the health of the living.......not the deceased. Thanks, Fernando. Long live his memory.

Shanahan and McVay. Reid never takes Jimmy G, Purdy or young Goff to a SB. They've combined to reach 4 SB's with those guys. Andy Reid got to one SB in his first 20 seasons as a HC. Fine HC but the hyperbole about his greatness is kinda' comical.

He soiled his reputation significantly when he came back and his heart wasn't in it. But for a 15 year period he was outworking AND outsmarting everyone in the NFL. His teams were snake-bit with injuries year after year otherwise they probably win 5 or so. Parcells was a great HC in his own right but he probably never wins one at all if Gibbs teams have their health.

As far as being an offensive mind.........Reid is a watered down version of Mike Holmgren who was, himself, a lesser version of Bill Walsh. I have always appreciated what Reid does running an organization, he's a very good HC and it was a shame the Bills couldn't have gotten him after Philly fired him. But IMO, as an offensive mind there are those on the high end who could do more with what he's had. And then on the lower end there are guys who I think could take poor personnel and get more out of them. I mean, if I am stuck with a Tyler Thigpen at QB I think I'd take Chan Gailey as my OC over Andy.

#1 for me is Joe Gibbs. He was the Air Coryell Chargers offensive coordinator in the late 1970's and turned Dan Fouts from a dud into an All Pro and then won 3 SB's with 3 different QB's with the Redskins. None of them HOF'ers. He probably could have won a SB with Jay Schroeder too if he could have stayed healthy.

Just do not lose to the RCBP

It's always been a misconception that Reid is some all-time great offensive genius. He won with defense in Philly. He came to KC and initially turned them back around and won with defense and even had a season where his team didn't throw a TD pass to a WR all year. His offense were almost always only as good as the QB and weapons it had. I mean Chip Kelly took over for him and the Eagles got an immediate big system bump offensively. Reid was always a very solid regular season HC with serious game/clock management issues and he just hung around long enough that he had both a Donovan McNabb to help him get to and lose big playoff games(usually at home) and then he finally lucked into a GOAT type in Mahomes.

Pythagorean record is basically a run differential stat. And the 2000 Yankees had a terrible run differential down the stretch. Like -50 in the last week alone.😂 But the 2000 team was running away with the division before they mailed in the last 18 games. When they won their 80th game they had a 7 game lead in the AL East. They had a better record and a better run differential(135 v 118) thru 80 wins despite having played less games. When the 2024 Yankees won their 80th game......they were in second place. They had to play to win until the very last weekend of the season. 2000 had a better lineup and bench, defense, base running, coaching(obviously) and their pitching was a lot better than some of the ERA's indicated. Their season splits weren't nearly as crazy as this 2024 team that couldn't beat LHP and struggled in-division. Like I said........the playoffs have literally fallen in a manner where their weaknesses haven't been able to be exposed. They obliterated the AL Central. At one point they were 15-1 against them and then that's all they saw in the AL playoffs. And the Dodgers basically have one LHP on their staff. 😂 The thing those 2 teams have most in common was that it was a down year for baseball. No 100 win teams. The 2024 Yankees were exceptionally flawed but Judge and Soto carried them to October and(as sometimes happens in October) they've taken advantage of the luck of the draw.

Yeah, you don't really follow MLB if you think the Yankees have outspent everyone else anytime recently. I'm not happy about their thriftiness because the Yankees SHOULD be the highest spending team every year. Because they have the highest revenues and because when you win for 30+ years straight you don't get to tank and rebuild with very high draft choices for many years like the Cubs/Astros/Orioles have taken turns doing in the last 15 year stretch. If you don't want to tank you should be prepared to keep raising payroll. But it's been 5 years since the Yankees had the highest payroll. The Mets and Dodgers have been the highest payroll teams nowadays.

Yes, definitely. On many levels. But just the fact that you countered my all-time team record for blown saves(thanks Clay Holmes) with Mariano Rivera had a "down year" says it all. And there was no question whatsoever about whether that personnel could win a WS because they had just won 3 of the last 4. It's not like these 2024 Yankees coasted to the finish like the 2000 team.......they were tryin' and dyin' for most of the last 4 months of the season.

I think they will likely be focused on a 1 tech DT in round 1 whether they retain Cooper or not. Daquan has become a liability in run defense and Bernard is the key to their defense at this point so they are going to justify it with the need to protect their one playmaker on D. Big Deone Walker seems like a likely target. If they didn't have a first they'd have to get more creative at DT1T which makes more sense than using a high pick on one and maybe ending up with Mazi Smith 2.0. If you know they aren't going to go offense would that change your mind? Garrett's cap numbers would be modest at least because you'd be paying the Browns in draft capital to eat those guarantees. I'm not opposed to paying veteran edge and island difference makers. Ultimately, I'd like to end up with a player like Garrett at DE and DK Metcalf opposite Coleman and Shakir.