ICanSleepWhenI'mDead

Alternatively, could be: Rubber ducky escapes tub - - discovers miniature world.

Just when you think you've seen it all:

If we all pitch in we could make this happen - - who's with me?

Well if you're thick, I am too. It's not uncommon to find conflicting opinions online about salary cap issues, maybe because the CBA is so hard to fully understand that there are only a few people who really understand all the details (I don't). If I see anything from a league or other reliable source that seems to definitively answer the question (either way), particularly if it cites to a CBA provision, I'll try to remember to come back and post it here.

If you're gonna kick the guy just do it - - they added psycho-logical torture to the physical abuse by letting him know now what's coming later in the week. Kinda like - - "Wait till your father gets home!"

1 Take a closer look at what the Seahawk blogger wrote AFTER he communicated with McIntyre. Here's the relevant part: http://www.fieldgull...kings-rolloever The phrase I bolded above contains an obvious typo when you look at the numbers. Yes, the Seahawks blogger said that "the 2013 Seahawks Adjusted Cap worked out to be $143M" - - but that makes no sense. He wrote that blog entry on July 17, 2012, at a time when there was no way for him to know exactly what the 2013 Adjusted Cap figure would be. That's why his very next sentence states - - "Right now the Seahawks are spending $134.5M in 2012 salary cap, and have $8.5M in cap room." 134.5M spent in 2012 plus 8.5M in remaining 2012 cap room = $143M as the adjusted cap figure for 2012, not 2013. The first time I posted the Seahawks blogger's entry I inserted "[sic]" after the word 2013 to indicate that there was a typo in what the blogger originally wrote, because he must have meant 2012 at that point in the text. So in fact, although there was an obvious typo, the Seahawks blogger was indeed trying to analyze what you characterize as a "re-rollover" situation. He concluded that (1) the Seahawks rolled over $21M from 2011 to 2012, and (2) were on pace, if they didn't make changes for the remainder of 2012, to roll over the $8.5M unspent portion of the $143M 2012 Adjusted Cap to 2013. If the Seahawks blogger agreed with your interpretation of the rules, he would have concluded that the Seahawks were on pace to be unable to roll any $ over to 2013, because the $8.5M of 2012 Adjusted Cap room they had not yet spent was less than the $21M that the Seahawks rolled over from 2011 to 2012. 2. I wonder if the spotrac link you posted is simply trying to say, if we use the above Seahawks numbers as an example, that after the Seahawks rolled $21M from 2011 to 2012, they can't roll BOTH the unspent $8.5M and the previously rolled $21M into 2013. Note that the Seahawks blogger moronically initially thought that if the Seahawks rolled over 21M from 2011 to 2012, they could ADD the same 21M to what they were on pace to rollover from 2012 to 2013. 3. Although that interpretation of the spotrac link would reconcile the seemingly conflicting position of the ProFootballTalk link I posted earlier in this thread, I don't know if that's what spotrac meant. But I do know that the salary cap rules were the subject of prolonged bargaining between the NFL and NFLPA before the 2011 CBA was signed, and if any rule prohibiting what you call a "re-rollover" exists, it has to be in the CBA. If it's in there, I can't find it, so until somebody shows me a CBA provision to the contrary, I think you're wrong. 4. The CBA is not as long as the US Tax Code, but it's about as turgid, so I acknowledge that a prohibition against what you characterize as "re-rolling" could be hiding in there somewhere (with a pony ). 5. Agreed. 6. Are you suggesting that the 2011 CBA was modified by the NFL and NFLPA in 2012? - - that may be the only way a new salary cap rule that wasn't mentioned in the 2011 CBA could arise later.

Maybe we are getting all tied up in semantics about what it means to "re-roll" unused cap room. The following link is to just a Seattle fan's blog, but it relays a tweeted explanation provided by Brian McIntyre (a guy who writes a blog on the nfl.com site). It shows that a team's unused cap room from 2011 can be carried over to 2012 and added to the league-wide standard cap for 2012. That higher, combined figure then becomes the team's adjusted cap for 2012. If the team spends less than its adjusted 2012 cap figure in 2012, it can then carry over the full amount of the unused 2012 adjusted cap to 2013. Each year a team can only roll over the unused part of that same year's adjusted salary cap to the next year, but there is never any need to subtract out the amount of unused salary cap from some earlier year. http://www.fieldgulls.com/2012/7/17/3165014/nfl-salary-cap-team-rankings-rolloever The above explanation seems consistent with the previously cited section of the 2011 CBA (linked above). So for the Bills, any portion of the team's current adjusted salary cap that doesn't get spent this year can be rolled over to next year, even though they did the same thing last year.

I keep reading in various threads that unused cap room can't be "re-rolled" into future seasons, but I have never seen a link to back up that claim. Maybe there's verification for your interpretation of the salary cap rules and I just missed it, or maybe the "common wisdom" is more common than it is wise. I don't consider what my own search found to be the final say on the matter, but consider this: http://profootballta...-automatically/ And I've actually read the cited section of the 2011 CBA, and it says nothing one way or the other about whether unused cap room can be "re-rolled:" http://images.nflpla...les/2011CBA.pdf All of the salary cap rules are contained in the CBA. It's possible that some other section of the lengthy CBA prohibits "re-rolling" unused salary cap space, but if such a provision exists, I haven't seen it. Do you have a link to support your interpretation of the rollover rules? If not, can you show me where in the CBA it prohibits "re-rolling" unused cap space?

Not a bumper sticker, but it should be:

I'm not a "let's all march to the same drumstick" kind of guy, so yeah - - "renegaded."

In a thread now renegaded to the dustbin of history: (http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/137603-school-district-named-after-bills-heroes/page__hl__%2Bbills+%2Bheroes), I pointed out that if you're gonna name a school district after Bills heroes, you could do better than picking obese backups. If you don't happen to live in Steuben County, I'm talking about the Jasper-Troupsburg Central School District: http://www.newyorkschools.com/districts/jasper-troupsburg-central-school-district.html Today's events have proven me right. I can understand why they kept the name even after Jasper was cut, because Troup was still on the team, and they probably had lots of forms and letterhead to use up. But I don't see how they can avoid changing the name now that Troup is gone, too. If they want to stick with the lineman theme, they have limited options. Nobody's gonna name a school district after Legursky. Williamsville North and Williamsville South have first dibs on Kyle and Mario, so they may be stuck with changing the name to the "Dareus-Carringtown Central School District." "Carringtown" is a lttle touchy-feely for me, but since even the fat kids get participation trophies these days, maybe they can slim down if the name makes them feel loved.

"I'm an idea man Chuck, I get ideas, sometimes I get so many ideas that I can't even fight them off!"

I think Leinart could actually be useful as the on-field QB. He threw 2 INTs yesterday, but in both cases, those throws would have been on the intended WR's frame and catchable if the defender had not intersected the ball's path. They were not wildly off-target throws - - just ill-advised ones. Both throws presumably went exactly where Leinart intended them to go, but he made a bad front-end decision when picking which target to throw to. I think the bigger problem with Leinart is how suspicious the NFL watchdogs would get if he started wearing this new helmet and his performance skyrocketed. I like the idea of a Fitz/EJ or Fitz/Tuel combo, but unfortunately Fitz is on the Titans roster, right? So the off-field guy would need to be currently available. How about Joe Montana? His anticipation was excellent, and like Fitz, he used that mental ability to compensate for unexceptional arm strength. Who wouldn't want a return to the glory days without having to take the hits? On the 60/80 percent arm strength thing, we could probably just put a resistor in the loop to attenuate the signal. It would just be a matter of linearly scaling the signal - - we're not talking about putting a man on the moon or some other form of rocket science.

Game of Thrones is fiction. This is science.

I don't care who gets the credit - - I just wanna beat the snot out of the Patriots for a change. As the article clearly states (I even provided the relevant excerpt), it only works if both parties have the device "on or against their heads." Even if you are wearing one, I'm not, so your signal was ineffective. So you might as well take it off.

Welcome to the new world, my friend. The article I linked is from the Washington friggin' Post. Among others, it quotes "Duke University neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis." And if you missed the fact that Hackett already has a degree in neurobiology: http://www.wgr550.com/Bills--Hackett--From-neurobiology-to-NFL-OC/15360055 Who better to push the NFL talent frontier?

That's the kind of low-tech thinking that's allowed the Patriots to own us.

I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of watching the Bills get clobbered. Our front office pays lip service to using modern sports management practices, but that's the problem, it's just lip service. I have no confidence in the analytics department when our talent evaluators give us CBs like Heath and Rogers - - even if they get cut. The 2011 CBA now requires all teams to pay a minimum team salary over a 4 year period, so even IF the owner's profit motive put us at a disadvantage in the past, that handicap is gone. [Note that I said IF - - I don't want to get sucked into an argument about whether Ralph is cheap because that's in the past - - this post looks to our future] This year, we have new blood in the front office. Dinosoars like Nix and Gailey (and to a certain extent Ralph) have been replaced by Whaley, Marrone and the Brandon brothers. Six months ago we had a GM who couldn't even keep a simple conference call private, but we now have guys who know about stuff like AOL and Blackberry. Heck, our new offensive coordinator, Hackett, even has a degree in neurobiology. Take heart, fellow Bills fans - - with new blood in the front office, we will eventually improve through the draft. But that takes time, and after missing the playoffs for 13 years, I'm inpatient. So let's take advantage of our newly found technical proficiency to maximize the production of our current talent. Let the Patriots be the dinosoars for a change. You're probably thinking - - well that sounds good, Mr. Smarty Pants, but just how exactly are we supposed to do that? Here's just one example - - check out this article about brain research that Beerball recently posted in a different forum (no offense to Beerball, but he just didn't see the football implications of this new science): http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/experiment-lets-man-use-his-mind-to-control-another-persons-movements/2013/08/29/42bc646c-10bd-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop In short, science can now use one man's brain to control another man's movements. Near the end of the article, it says that with the new gizmo, one guy's brain caused a different guy's body to hit targets he aimed at. Think about that for a minute. No, I mean it, actually THINK about that. We could take a quarterback like Leinart, that nobody else wants and won't cost us much, and control his movements with another QB's brain. The implications of that are astounding. Here's what the new gizmo requires: Geez, if only the NFL was so concerned about head injuries that we could convince them to let us use an experimental "green dot" communications helmet of our own design. The NFL watchdogs might get suspicious if we turned a journeyman like Kolb or washout like Leinart into a star, but nobody knows what to expect from Tuel or EJ. I like their own potential, but we need them to beat the Patriots in less than 10 days. Jim Kelly's body may be ravaged by age and blitzers, but can you imagine how good EJ (or even Tuel) could be if Jim Kelly's brain was controlling their throws? It's a new world - - let's leverage our Hall of Fame QB's mind to take advantage of it and beat the ever livin' snot out of the Patriots for a change! Who's with me?

How about a nice game of chess?

Pretty informative article on the problem of underfunded public pension obligations and possible solutions: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582282-pensioners-are-pushing-many-cities-and-states-towards-financial-crisis-who-pays-bill

I've never known quite what to make of this:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21582258-it-not-just-detroit-american-cities-and-states-must-promise-less-or-face-disaster

If such a rule exists, it has to be in the CBA. Unfortunately, the complexity of the CBA exceeds my interest in the topic, but I posted a link to the full text of the current CBA above if anybody wants to slog through the part detailing exactly how the salary cap works. It's not obvious to me that dollars carried over from last year sit untouched (how can you say that they weren't part of the dollars already spent this year), but it's certainly possible that there's some arcane rule that says you can't carry over unused salary cap space in two consecutive years. I've never heard of such a rule, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I'm late to the party on this, and not as up to speed on salary cap stuff as I used to be, but does the salary cap rollover rule "fix" the problem of not spending available cap money this year: http://profootballta...-automatically/ http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8016480/nfl-salary-cap-carryover-rewards-smart-management And if you want to slog through the salary cap rules in the CBA to confirm, have at it: http://images.nflpla...les/2011CBA.pdf