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I don't think any FO is going to hitch their wagons to Tyrod based on what we would have to pay him after this season. EJ might not want to stay, but it could possibly be his best chance at starting in the NFL in 2017. I think EJ would probably end up starting next year allowing a rookie to develop for a year or two. I don't know how many situations in the league have EJ legitimately competing to be the starter. That said, the market for a veteran QB, a position we have to fill next year, the cupboards are very bare. Unless we hitch our wagons to Cousins for huge cash, and he is the guy of the future, I doubt we even sniff it. This! The point of the thread isn't, "See EJ is the man" or "Finally EJ is ready to take the reigns. He is just the stop gap, while we properly bring along a rookie. It could be done cheap and fulfill a temporary need for both teams.

I agree generally. However, we have to add 2 more. 1 vet, 1 draft pick. Here is the list of what is coming available next year, assuming we do not wheel and deal for anybody. Looking at the list, and assuming the rest of the year is a total disaster, I think this scenario is entirely plausible.

Just thinking about it... - Worst case scenario. We see more of the same from Tyrod. We don't pick up our option after this year. - We have no QB on the roster at that point. - Will probably need to develop a rookie behind somebody for the next year or two. - Could sign a different vet, for the same money to a 2-3 year deal. - EJ is already here and looking for an opportunity to start, to play for starting QB money in the near future (not that he will ever actually get that, but that is his and his agents hope) - His best situation to start may actually be in Buffalo. We could sign a worse journeyman/back up for more money than EJ on a 2 year deal. Thinking 2 years at 6-8 mil total gets it done. Afterwards, the draft pick takes the reigns, EJ signs his next contract with a different team.

This is absurd. Yes we need some better coverage LB's to deal with Gronk. But nobody in the NFL has been able to nuetralize him in god knows how long. Your "short corner" narrative is just as silly. Our top 2 are 5'11. That isn't "short for the CB position. There are guys who have played well at much shorter. Are they Sherman height...no...but almost none are. Cromartie and Peterson come close. Revis is right around 6 foot. You also failed to note that these same corners handled Thursday's same receivers just fine. You're on a crusade. Just stop. Other posters are right. The defense that WHALEY ASSEMBLED was great. He was asked to by the coaching staff, with the approval of ownership, to lose some pieces, to add more scheme specific ones. I won't like it if Whaley is fired, because honestly, there is a very good chance we downgrade. But I will understand cleaning house. My perfect situation is, Whaley has full confidence control over the new HC. He has yet to make his own hire. Rex was a Pegula-Brandon hire.

Professional athletes throw up all the time It is your bodies response to your heart rate being too high. In some cases it is from pushing "too hard" and in some cases it is a case of just fitness. Not surprising that maybe some out of shape guys are in the August heat in Miami, get some of the dry heaves.

I want this to be true so badly!

A huge part of feeling remorse, is taking responsibility for as long as it takes (or is worth it to you), to maintain those relationships. I have a special dislike for men who abuse women (probably more than a lot of others), but I am glad he continues to attempt to pay his dues. It would be a real shame if his response was "I have done all I can, and apologized, somebody should sign me"

Really great interview. Well spoken. HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD about how to handle interpersonal relationships. Really good for him. It isn't BS, people who don't think that way, can't even string some of those sentences together, regarding making mistakes and responsibilities. Now a really big fan of this guy.

I would really like to see Dareus at DE. I know our last venture into the 3-4 was an utter disaster, but one of the stars in it, I believe, was KW at NT. I know it is not popular, but I think the Dareus will be much better than KW at DE, better than the difference between KW and MD at NT. I think he can hold that role well enough in the defense Rex likes to run.

Have you been to a Phish, Dead, Moe., Gov Mule, Umphrey's show ever......because it sounds like you haven't. It is a pretty well behaved event, all things considered.

This is so inherently false it actually makes me angry. Fitness and injury are two very very different things. Especially in explosive track and field events. Can they correlate in some instances, yes, but is this by any means a rule. Not even close.

The real question is, is starting Geno worth the 12 million dollars in savings?

The cringe is strong on this one

Sammy, Woods, and Clay will all put up bigger numbers when we can start throwing the ball in the middle of the field. This is especially true for Clay at TE. I get that it is a mismatch to suddenly have him running down the sideline, or the screen pass. But this is not the best way to use the guy consistently. If we cannot consistently get those 15 yard throws over the middle, our great route runners in Woods and Clay, will never pan out as effective.

Murph: If you were a Bills fan, would you have booed you today? Trent: I don't know. I am not a Bills fan, I am an NFL quarterback.....something something something. I stopped listening after I am not a bills fan

There are more intangibles in sports than their is in business. But you do see this all the time in business, see Google. My sister also takes a pay cut to work for the DCCC, I do CDC (community dev) because it makes me feel good. These are intangibles, that intrinsically do in fact have a dollar amount correlated to them. Career advancement in sport is the same as going to the super bowl, it is indeed career advancement, goals, and aspirations. Actors are a terrible example. They take pay cuts all the time to work on Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, and Tarantino movies, and sometimes just a really great script. My GF works for a local company where she makes less money than she could elsewhere, but her work life balance is better, she gets free lunch, and brings her dog to work. The

You could argue, that Kelly, who was staunchly against Buffalo, would have continued to hold out if not for the presence of Blue Chip Players...ie BRUUUUUUCCCEE

The NFL defender an effort by BU to figure out a way for CTE to be diagnosed in live patients. However the league wanted control of the results, which BU wouldn't provide. Why? Because diagnosing CTE is a huge risk for football. Imagine diagnosing a couple of kids at your local HS in anywhere USA. That team and school district caries insurance in order to have that team. Given a diagnosis of head injury across players on the roster would make it nearly impossible to continue to afford having that team. Colleges outside of the big time football programs, like SUNY, will no longer be able to afford having a a football team for the same reasons. The NFL will lose it's pool of athletes over time and will eventually be less viable.

The question is, when will Jims close?

Hughes takes "stupid" penalties, but Vontaze....he might literally kill somebody

I was just saying last night, I think EJ will have a longer NFL career. RG3 might even be the better QB/football player, very good back up, to bottom end starter. But the guy is a really bad teammate, so won't be able to bounce around in back up rolls at all.

I have Sirius and listen to NFL radio a ton. Since he has been out of the Buffalo market for so long, people hadn't realized that he has been wrong about most things football for sometime now. Literally the past few years, if he claimed left, the story went right. He has been flat out bad for a long time now. The nice thing is, he doesn't really ruffle any feathers and has way more professionalism than those hacks Sully or Bucky.

"anything less than your best is a sacrifice of the gift" -prefontaine

I dislike his charts. The NFL plays a 16 game schedule, compared to the NBA, MLB, and NHL, that's basically a month. The difference between a 4 win and 8 win team is stark, and he lumps them into one group. He could look at numbers of teams within a standard deviation, but doesn't. Or size/spread of deviation. He didn't really prove any lack of parity. If he wants to talk about lack of pay in the NFL given their part of revenue generation, career length, and injury risk, he should do so, but placing it on the back of parity I think is flawed.

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