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Im not a huge Portnoy fan, but they were just valued at nearly a half a Billion dollars. All they do is advertise. Their content is just advertisement. They have the $5 mil.

It’s that ***** Cuyahoga water.

Nobody wants to admit it because it’s more fun to crack jokes, but Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey were integral first steps to righting the nearly 20 years of wrong with this franchise. It took longer than we wanted, but the team had come off of a run at GM that included the corpse of Marv Levy, Russ Brandon, and Tom Donohoe running our drafts. George Wilson was our starting SS and the dude was a WR like 12 weeks before the season. Think about that. That’s the depth chart Gailey and Nix inherited. Your best Safety could also be your slot receiver. There is literally nobody else on the roster...on a franchise in the NFL. Let’s not forget before that Tom D. Traded a first for Rob Johnson. Then had 20% of the cap tied up in Flutie and Johnson in 2000. Later cut RJ and took a larger dead cap hit on top of that. Our top 5 players are like 50% of the cap at that point. Then he traded ANOTHER First round pick for Drew Bledsoe. But wait, we aren’t done yet, in 2004 we traded a 1st and 2nd round pick to trade back into the first for JP Losman. What a total disaster. Gailey and Fitz are remembered better than Jauron because we had real football players, real football coaches, and a real football exec in the FO (granted with flaws). What those guys inherited in hindsight was not a professional football franchise. It reads almost like “Major League”.

Terrible hot take: EJ Manuel could have been a good QB. He had all the tools, the right head on his shoulders, over drafted, but the right situation could have developed him properly. He just needed more time and better coaching. Hackett and Marrone were destroying him. Thoughts today: He was never going to be good. But was good enough to bounce around as a career back up if he wanted. Marrone didn’t ruin him. But didn’t do him any favors either. EJ is the best QB in his draft class still. I’m not going to hate on taking the best QB in the draft at 16, even though he turned out crappy. You take that shot 100 times out of 100. He only left the league because he wanted to be a starter and he wasn’t, and he got a job in broadcasting. Hot take 2: Bills should have hired Schwartz over Rex. Thoughts today: Had we done that we would have McD, so I am OK with it. No idea how that would have turned out. But at the time it was still 100% a better decision than Rex Ryan

It is not a pie, one doesn't cancel the other out. If anything they are stackable. Win the super bowl, also be covered on social media by a major SM company.

Possible, but I am sure that the contract would specify the name, and wouldn't be, "Here is $5 million, we will name it what we will name it". Unsure how that generally works. If it is a bid on a county contract, unsure how the county then declines the highest/lowest bidder. It is a reasonably point to bring up, but I would actually think with Brady gone and how much Portnoy hates Goodell, if he did something like that he would push for something like "Goodell is a Clown Stadium".

This is actually a really good point I didn't even think about. It has the possibility for a ton of press. If I were Erie County and/or the Pegulas, I would mandate it as part of the contract.

It was Rich Stadium, then we went to the Ralph, watched games at the Cap. What will we do now, head to the Stool?

Dave Portnoy is a tough guy for me to pin down. He is absolutely a "bro-ey" arse hat. Huge pats fan. I think he has created a bit of a toxic culture around him and pushes that out with his "stoolies" But he is also a pretty smart (or at least smart enough?) dude, the guy hustles a ton. Some of his content is pretty good. He has created an empire for himself and by himself. Portnoy has been reasonably kind to Buffalo. Some ragging as a pats fan, but largely likes the Bills and us as fans. He also HATES Goodell. So I am sure he is absolutely itching to get his name on any NFL stadium. I am torn on this one.

They will all get criticized as they learn to mature into the league for whatever their shortcomings are. McD mentioned this today or yesterday. Something along the lines of, it happens in the league, it is fair to question, and it will be up to Josh prove people wrong. In his experience the good ones always do, Cam and McNabb. Baker has a history of acting kind of like a frat boy prick, so when the season goes awry, and he is continuously a douche, people are going to wonder if he can play the game with the maturity needed at a pro level. Can Baker manage football like an adult along side other men? He won't get worked on his game too much because he was very accurate in college and set the rookie record for TD's the year prior. Allen, the super raw dude with amazing measurable's and questionable accuracy struggles to get the ball out on time, or misses a receiver, or can't average more than 200 yards per game, he is going to get questioned a ton as to whether he can put it all together in year 3, especially as the Bills put together a top flight WR corp and a fresh backfield. Lamar has a ton of wiggle room here. He would have to be reeeaaalllllyyy bad in 2020 for the masses to start questioning him. But if he has a year or two where he struggles as a pocket passer, people will start questioning. Darnold. I mean, its the Jets, they are in the NYC/NJ market. Adam Gase is their HC. Gregg Williams can't get out of his own way when it comes to PR. Everything is a disaster. He will get some shrapnel, but probably will get less criticism because everybody is pointing tons of fingers at everybody else in the FO and coaching staff. They're all getting it in their own way. But they don't have the same historical deficiencies as Josh, they have their own, so their criticism is different.

Are you talking about this? Something along the lines of "look at you always trying to record people. What do I look like, the police? "

Last year we watched Josh Allen in a playoff game run at full speed and attempt a lateral with the game on the line. That same game also featured a 50 yard bomb to a double covered full back. What other throws are there left for him to attempt? ?

Article basically ends with, “Mario Addison abuses Cody Ford all day.”

I agree with you. MT is not as powerful of a runner as Allen is and Trubisky definitely regressed (statistically) from 18/19 compared to Allen, it is why they are view differently, even though one didn't really play much, if any, better than the other in 2019. Funny, though, the last line you could replace Allen and Mitch and it would be the same. Also, Buffalo and Chicago's 3rd down conversion rate are nearly identical. 35.7 and 35.9%. Slightly related, just going though some numbers, Buffalo had the 6th most offensive drives in the league last year, but 20th in total plays, and 24th in points per drive. 8th best in average starting field position, but 26th in trips to the red zone. It seems like the biggest difference between the 2019 Bears and Bills, would be Buffalo falling from a top 5 down to a top 10 defense. It seems we should at least be able to maintain from last year with shoring up a more complete backfield, a much improved WR corp.and an improved JA should be able to get us a pretty large leap. I think the OL is good enough (about average overall). Sustainability of being top 3 in multiple categories is really difficult defensively. I think if the Bills can maintain their league rankings across the board on defense, we would be very lucky. Not uncommon to go from 3rd to 5th or 8th year to year.

Something to point out is, Trubisky and Allen had very similar performances for 2019. Mitch just came down from huge expectations after a very good 2018, Allen came up from a very bad year passing in 2018, so the narrative changes. If Allen flat-lines in 2020, he would actually have two years comparable to Mitch's 2019 season that is basically running him out of Chicago.

I would focus on this. If our offense can’t be really good (much better than really bad in 2019) by basically giving your 2 year QB another offseason (third year), he probably isn’t a very good QB. At the very least, I think he needs to be able to take, what I would call an average supporting in the NFL (2019) and pull them out of the basement. If another player can help improve those chances great. But he’s still got to do it.

They should actually move Thursday to Saturday’s. With a 5 day incubation period, playing Sunday to Thursday doesn’t make any sense. Also a short week with a wild COVID offseason isn’t really good for anybody

Thanks for popping by Jake.

There was a slam dunk follow up there. “Jake, what people need to love god first and people second? Are you saying that loving people first is bad?”

That makes sense.The $175M floor is already a change to the CBA, so I do not think making another amendment is an issue. Regarding the bonds, they can afford to carry the debt for sure, but I am not sure they need to. That $175M is also based on expected regular season TV revenue this season. I get the sense the NFL is trying use the decreased revenue while maintain GP $. I honestly do not know the total overhead of an NFL team, but I would think that 100% of the cap +60M should be enough to cover a vast majority of it. Could be wrong, but I don't think I am far off. From my point of view, if the league gets in a full season, with no fans, and a full superbowl run, there should be enough cash in TV revenue alone to break even this year. In that scenario, there is no reason to take out any bonds unless you are trying to maintain GP$. If they don't get in a full season (seems likely), they will absolutely need to take on debt. If they get a full run, once they calculate in SB revenue and the extra playoff games, the cap may end up being the same again anyways, and our whole conversation is worthless. haha

Estimations are pretty wild, anywhere from dropping it 30M to keeping it flat for 2021. This seems like a slam dunk for the owners to agree with the CBA on and at least keep it flat. Dropping the cap 30M is detrimental to literally every team in the league, especially when revenues go back up with people in the stands in 2021. The NFL is in a good spot, the TV contract covers the entire salary cap plus another $60M. And that is if they spend 100% of the cap. I would be surprised if any team goes into the red this year. This year teams may barely break even year for owners. It hurts teams much more in the long term to drop the cap and have teams lose talent because of a pandemic. They can make it work. It just depends if owners want to try and make back lost profits. Edit: Sportrac is estimating $175M. With roll over, if that happens, the Bills only have $8M in space next year. Definitely some space to for cuts to make more room, but it would be much tighter than expected.

God, with how quite stadiums will be this year, I hope one Sunday we hear a QB audible into Person, Man, Woman, Camera, TV.

They were doing that last year. But it depends on where you lived. Saratoga was not available...

Honest questing regarding the top of this. Did Tre voluntarily announce he was contemplating opting out, or did he get asked and then responded? The only thing about it on his twitter is him responding to negative comments from fans.