Mango

Kirby, you’re a guy with a lot of historical insight into the Bills, and X’s and O’s. Your posts are generally pretty level headed. I always appreciate them. It’s telling of this regime that you’ve been getting more and more angsty with their decisions.

Exactly. From the sounds of it, the feds have enough to fine and give very minor jail time to what is probably a dozen or more people. Just based on the system Sonoiki had in place in terms of distancing himself with a middle man. That’s why wording is incredibly important here for those conversations. The feds would rather cut stuff like this off at the head, rather than waste their time on a bunch of small timers in the grand scheme of things. It’s not just a would you rather, it’s incredibly costly and time consuming to “prove” Kendrick’s had full knowledge at the time of the transaction that this was insider trading. The burden of proof is incredible. So they’ll fine him a ton, in exchange for Sonoiki and the bigger business.

Like I said above, in order to be fully prosecuted, he has to be fully aware that the transaction is insider trading. That’s why the text correspondence is crucial. What’s listed in the SI report doesn’t give any claim that he knew at all. Kendrick’s is scarred because he’s losing money, and confirmed the moving of the money. Neither are that incriminating.

I can’t find it right now, but basically it comes down to what was said in the text messages and precise wording. Basically the difference between “Yo, I got a deal for you, send me 80k and you’ll thank me later” and “Hey, I have some insider info, let’s make some money, don’t tell anybody, this isn’t above board, I could go to jail”. If Kendrick didn’t know about the insider info until the transaction went through, he’ll get a slap on the wrist, and a HUGE fine. But little to no time. The fact that he already plead guilty gives way to the idea that he has a plea deal in place already. They’ll cut Kendrick’s loose in exchange to nail Sonoiki, who by all accounts has been giving insider info to multiple people. For cases like this, in order to be fully charged, Kendrick’s has to be fully aware that he is trading with insider info from the start of the transaction in order to serve time. So far that’s unclear, which means it’s very possible he serves little to no time.

From what I’ve read, he is sentenced in December, but there is some fluidity as to when he starts serving. He’ll most likely see the entire season. Im also reading a lot that there is a good chance he serves zero time. If he does, it will be ~6 months, but only end up serving 2-3. He’ll be out in time for the 2019 season, if not 2019 OTA’s. Either way, it’s a one year deal, and he’ll almost certainly be available for the entirety of the season. Just for perspective, Michael Irvin stabbed a teammate, Ray Lewis and Marvin Harrison killed a guy, and kept on playing, receiving multiple other contracts. Nobody really batted much of an eye at that.

This is actually a very fair point. But this is a tough result to see after week one, and asking the community, as well as the roster, to trust the process.

Yeah. It’s like being the CEO of Nike (or any large manufacturer) and saying “child labor is bad, and I hate it. But you’re still the CEO of Nike, notorious for taking advantage of hold labor. Here you are, 10 days after starting a thread entitled, “If you hate the Bills, why are you here” (paraphrasing). Then saying, I had a criticism once. @PlayoffsPlease is right. You’re very much “get off my lawn” and you being “a better fan” than everybody else. It’s tiresome, and really unproductive to any conversations because it doesn’t add anything what so ever. Man, I get it. Forums can be negative, but you have a choice as to what you bring to the community here/

I get it. You’re a big Bills fan. As are the rest of this on the board. But at the same time this is a forum, so we’re going to analyze stuff, it’s the nature of the medium. But are you Terry Pegula? Do you have ANY criticism of the state of the Bills this year? It’s really odd how defensive you are over absolutely everything. There is absolutely every reason to at least be somewhat sceptical of this team, yet you just tell everybody that they aren’t “real fans” or they just hate the team. It’s odd to say the least.

To paraphrase: Reporter: was this your decision to switch QB’s? McD: ultimately all decisions come down to me. As you know me and Brandon Beane talk a lot. Brandon and I discussed the decision and we report/stay in communication with Terry and Kim.

To this point. I thought it was weird that when asked about the decision he only mentioned Beane, Terry, and Kim. Not Daboll. Why wouldn’t your OC be involved?

I have been pretty open about not liking some of the moves this FO has made. That said they’re safe this year pretty much no matter what. They put a TON of pressure on themselves next year with this plan. If we hit an early skid like we are seeing now, they’re toast.

We’llpay somebody about as good as Dareus, Dareus money. Somebody about as good as Cordy, Cordy money. And somebody about as good as Robert Woods or Sammy Watkins, their money. Then the rebuild will will be complete...got it. ??‍♂️

Off the top of my head, I don’t know. Pettine is in the booth tonight

You have these guys 8-10 hours per day 5-7 days per week. If they can’t produce for 3 hours without you by their side, you’re messing something up the rest of the week/year. Not to mention, isn’t that what positional coaches and contact with your HC is for?

No we didn’t. We got Jordan Matthews. Gaines was the Sammy trade. Jordan Matthews is a dud. Is he even on a roster currently? Seriously? I have been harsh on some of the moves by the FO. The Sammy trade was worth it I think. We weren’t going to re-sign. Gaines was extremely helpful (when healthy) in the secondary. I am not a big fan of the idea of “scheme fit”. When you favor scheme over talented athletes/players, you’re going to have a bad time more times than not. Is there another sport/athletic endeavor where coaches/teams forego talent over scheme and regularly find success? Can’t really think of one. The entire concept is only applicable to middling or lower tier portions of your depth chart. Where you find a guy who only does one thing well, and you only use them for depth or situationally. Scheme should not be priority for most starters because they are talented enough players to still be better than the next guy.

So we didn’t have issues rushing the passer? Harry is not a back up? Vontae is good? Edmunds is ready to play starting MLB in the NFL? Star isn’t a space eater? Star is also good?

We had issues rushing the passer last year. Phillips is a back up and isn’t ready. Star is just there to eat space. He’s also not terribly good. Tremeaine Edmunds isn’t ready Vontae is bad.

But the other sentences don’t?

Drafting similar, with a HC, with intel he acquired from his previous year is DRASTICALLY different than saying Beane helped Buffalo and McD with the draft. Seems like we are walking back a bit?

Have not seen this reported. Not to be snarky, but source? This is is a much further leap than anything I’ve seen is all.

There is NO WAY Beane helped McDermott with the draft. It’s career suicide and it should be. He was employed by the Panthers and working on their draft. IF it is true, nobody should have touched him with a 10 foot pole. Serious lack of integrity in that move to help another team with their draft, hoping you get a jibe a month or two later. Dudes like that in any profession go from “almost there” to “never was” over night.

Who have we drafted/ picked up in FA that fits a similar profile. Mediocre/Decent Pro’s that fit well into what we’re doing since that draft? Whaley might not have been the best ever, but Potter and Hyde for right into what his strong attribute is. And there is nothing about White or Dawkins that says anything that doesn’t fit that either. If anything 2018 is a drastically different draft than 2017. And 2017 fits the mood of the prior 3. Find guys that fit your HC through the draft, and guys through the bottom night not be the best l, but they’re ready to go. Right now we are waiting on Allen (which is fair, QB is different) and Edmunds. Who is probably better right now at OLB, playing out of position on day 1, and not ready to go. There is almost nothing similar in player selection between the 2017 and 2018 draft or FA. Sorry.

Real question. With our lack of CB behind Tre, lack of pass rush, and bad LB corp. What will you think of the defense takes a step back after our “focus” on it this year?

Thats not true. Dareus had a buy out option next year that would have drastically reduced the dead money to 2 mil or so. All we had to do was wait another season. Right now we are paying 23 mil in salary and dead cap for his lesser replacement and a 6th. Whaley. Bean was employed by the Panthers at the time.

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