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Mango

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  1. I absolutely hate a short week 2 @ Miami
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. It was so long ago I totally forgot I met her at Goodbar one night. Very cute. But also hated the kid.
  8. St Joes hired an additional full time communications/marketing head whose sole job was to manage Chad Kelly. I poop you not.
  9. He is on pace to serve 5-9 years, with a chance at life had that car accident gone differently.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. I did a shallow dive a few seasons ago.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. LOL. But I generally agree the dude is done.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. This is a very expensive 35 catches, 565 yards, and 3 TD's over 14 games. Maybe OBJ has one or two more 1k years left in him, but he is running on fumes.
  21. I think a big part of the Bills success is that McBeane have a 10 year working relationship before coming to the Bills. Terry's weird flat management structure allows him to work with the GM alone and the HC alone. When you bring in relative strangers it means he basically pulls all the strings. But when you bring in two people with that much professional history it makes Terry the third wheel on a bicycle built for 2. It is like the difference between brining in Mike Tomlin with Omar Khan vs. Andy Reid with Eric Decosta. Both pairings are pretty good, Reid/DeCosta are better individually but one relationship will be much easier to wedge than the other.
  22. It has been rumored that McBeane both have clauses in their contract that give them final say on roster decisions/no-meddling clauses. I believe that when the PSE article dropped a few years ago it was said that McBeane work to keep OBD away from all things Sabres. Around that time there was some talk of Danny Briere coming in as President of Hockey Ops but he wanted the same clause as McBeane and Terry wouldn't provide it. Don't shoot the messenger. I don't have proof, but those are some of the things that have been speculated/rumored. There is probably some truth and some exaggeration. It does provide a pretty clean, easy, and believable answer as to why each franchise seems so different.
  23. 100%. I have been critical of McBeane at times but I think they keep this thing afloat. I am hoping Lindy can wedge himself between Terry and the Sabres to do the same.
  24. This is an interesting number to keep an eye on. My knee jerk is that we just didn't have a ton of room to kick the can further down the road. We did a lot of restructuring in years past. That said, the Sabres have been bottom half in cap space 7 of the last 9 years (as far as cap friendly goes back). It hasn't just been "let the kids play" it has been happening for a while. So I do have a little bit of an eyebrow raised. But I will reserve judgement if spending goes back up once we have more space/the stadium is built.
  25. "I am intentionally condescending, arrogant, and disrespectful to people" I will take "People who are negative additions to every community anywhere for 1000, Alex"
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