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Just from a cap % standpoint, I don't think the expensive WR/QB pairing is sustainable. As it stand now there hasn't been a QB with a top tier cap number and WR with a top tier cap number to ever win a SB. Pundits talk all the time about how important it is to maximize rookie QB contracts. Now WR's on second deals are getting $25M per guaranteed? I am glad the Dolphins are making this decision.

Also, has anybody noticed that Joe Brady looks a little more like an adult this year as opposed to last year where he looked a little bit like "Malibu's Most Wanted"

Right, he has to learn to run with rather than impact (literally and figuratively) the WR. I like Elam. I think he is a good dude and a good corner. I hope he can figure it out in Buffalo.

I think he’s saying his game is heavily reliant on his size, strength, physicality and athleticism. That’s his sweet spot. Whereas some of those guys are reliant on intuition, details, etc. I don’t think it’s a maturity or notebook issue. I think he’s a smart guy. I think he knows the playbook and works hard. He’s just struggled with application.

The cervical spine is no joke. Cervical spine injuries are super serious and can cause all sorts of issues all over the body. The amount we don't know about the human brain and nervous system is insane. For reference, we have been using anesthesia for nearly 200 years and we just figured out how/why it works in the last 5-10.

I would rather sit higher up between the 30's than be in the lower bowl in the corners or in the endzone. Being higher up is the only way to see more football live than you do at home. On the flip side the party is better down low in that you feel more "a part of the game" screaming and making noise down low.

I absolutely hate a short week 2 @ Miami

I work in well to do restaurant upstate that brings in a lot of notables from the city. We just had a couple come in and the man works in the league office, rolling directly up to Goodell. He was telling me that Swift met with the league after the salary cap went up more than expected and requested a piece of league revenue going forward The league told her to kick rocks. So it wouldn’t be shocking to me that some of the schedule is around hers and even at her request. I know this is “he said/she said”. Just passing it along.

Certainly a bit more security. But the team can swallow $1M if he blows. It doesn’t guarantee him anything. I think they’re taking a chance on two big, strong guys with very low cost and really high upside to play on the outside. Both have an easy out if they want.

Don't forget to add Dawson Knox to the list. But if everybody makes the roster we have a ton of size. Claypool, MVS, and Coleman, plus Kincaid and Knox. The Bills seem to have a plan to get bigger on offense. My guess is MVS and Claypool are pushing for the same roster spot.

The issue with Rodgers is he is a bad team player. He’s a “me guy” through and through. He demands control and sprints away from accountability, then publicly blames everybody around him.

He doesn’t though, he just took a haircut. He’ll have a year or two where he makes “too much” at $14/$17M. But then he’ll have another 3 years where he only counts $1M against the cap which is basically nothing. I suspect he’ll get one more contract here, they’ll add a year or two and get those $14/17M years under $10 and those $1M years will come up a bit. He’ll likely retire a Bill around 2029 at 35 years old. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/29132/dawson-knox

It was so long ago I totally forgot I met her at Goodbar one night. Very cute. But also hated the kid.

St Joes hired an additional full time communications/marketing head whose sole job was to manage Chad Kelly. I poop you not.

He is on pace to serve 5-9 years, with a chance at life had that car accident gone differently.

Also wandered into a strangers house smashed after attending Von Millers Halloween party when he played in Denver. The kid is an all around loser.

Hated Brady while he was playing, especially in the meat of his career. But once he went to TB, left the division and the conference, and he started to lighten up a bit, I started to like him a bit more. That said, Brady's story of on again/off again college starter, 199th pick, showing up and telling the owner that "I am going to be the best decision you ever made", would have played very well amongst Bills fans.

They are, it will be tough sledding to field a full football team with 2 well paid WR and a QB. But the struggle isn't necessarily the extension date ir AAV, it is the cap hit for the league year. EDIT: Borrow contract is just begging to come due. Allen's is all but here to stay now. $30M receivers are a giant deal at that point.

I don't get the whining here. It seems as though the Pats, Panthers, and Bills were targeting Legette and/or Coleman. The Bills trading down with the Pats basically insured that the Bills got neither of them. The trade never made sense without a major compensation advantage.

I did a shallow dive a few seasons ago.

I mean no disrespect to Damar Hamlin, but his trade value is approximately zero. If the Bills got a conditional 2026 7th rounder I would be shocked.

I am more inclined to give a nod to players who were in the playoffs by started the drought as “drought era” than I am to give the nod to players who missed the playoffs but ended the drought. I don’t have a great reason to put into words as to why. But that’s what my gut says. lol

I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. LOL. But I generally agree the dude is done.

While I agree with a bit of your take Graham mentioned the below. It seems as though teams are required to submit their succession plan yearly.

Per Spotrac Hamler has zero dead cap space no matter when he is cut. His $1M is cheap on its own, but if we want to move on we get it all back. I am guessing that Claypools will be similar even of cost is different. Which means neither player precludes additional moves.