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a downtown location makes the most sense for a new stadium just because it has the highest chance of getting public $$ Otherwise, I would build it in OP in the current parking lot or nearby.

Wait until Barry finds out that he has to play second fiddle to a baseball stats guy that lives in California. Sometimes you take a gig thinking that you can slowly get the bosses to ease up on certain things and make it work, only to find out that they really meant what they said when they spelled out all of those ridiculous details in the interview process.

The Pegulas are in a tough spot with public money. If everyone believes that they would never move the team and it will be here forever, then there is absolutely zero fear/leverage to get public $$. His Majesty in Albany and our county executive will just say "well, they aren't moving the team so we don't feel the need to cough up any significant $$" But they can't make the type of threats that Mr. Wilson constantly had to make in order to force action on the part of the state, city, and county. Nobody would believe them. So other owners and the commissioner need to be the ones rattling cages. I think that's what is going on. I wonder how significant renovations would need to be to New Era in order to make it worthwhile. If it lasts 10-15 years and costs $300-$500 million, it seems like a waste.

Maybe he didn't like the idea of submitting his off-season plans to the analytics committee for revision and approval Depodesta even offered to come into work once a month to sign off! What a disaster the Browns are.... I wouldn't be surprised if Baker was chair of the group that approves the coaches game plans LOL

I for one don't like the extra point being a nail-biter. Imagine driving for a Super Bowl tying TD, only to miss the XP.

The skills competition is more interesting than the actual game. Make the Pro Bowl a flag football game and bring back some legends to play alongside the current all-stars. Marino and Kelly used to have their own game between their own squads of retired guys for charity. Montana, Favre, Peyton Manning, Marino, even guys like Boomer could probably still play a flag football game. Probably couldn't do legends vs current guys, but you could make the legends QB captains and they pick teams and play part of the game. I'll bet Deion Sanders could still play. It would be 100X more interesting.

All-time great offensive mind, and I hope he gets a ring this year. As Parcells said, when you win a ring nobody can ever say you couldn't win the big one. That's really the only criticism of Reid that anyone has left. I also want to see Mahomes get a ring early. It takes all the "will he ever win one?" pressure away. For the rest of his career, he would be a Super Bowl winning QB.

That song about New Orleans is kind of stuck in my head now. "I got an NO from the NO... Sean Payton talking about the deal though..." It's terrible but somehow I keep hearing it over and over in my mind.

This is my favorite ref for penalty announcements

After these games McDermott and Beane are going to build an elite DL, stack the roster with offensive talent, find a superstar LB and be more aggressive on offense

Just settle in and enjoy!

I was hoping for 17-7 just for interest sake

Yup

This looks like a blowout in the making

IMO this is why the NFL has been hesitant to do much about NE Once the floodgates open it gets ugly for the sport.

The funniest thing I've read in a while was a number of posts on the Pats Fans board saying that same thing. Imagine Patriots fans, without any sense of irony, posting about how the NFL is rigged! Except for their titles, of course! That was them overcoming the league, America, and the world! LOL On the topic of the games, I am rooting for KC. I see the 49ers winning easily.

AB is in for a rude awakening. Someone who makes millions and spends millions is actually no better off than someone who makes $50,000 and spends $40,000. Actually, the "millionaire" is much worse off, because it's a lot harder to continue to make millions to support that lifestyle than it is to make $50,000. And one balance sheet is in the green and one is in the red the minute the big $$ stops rolling in. In the short term it's flashy, but as soon as the income stops everything becomes too expensive to manage. Put it to you this way, if someone gave you a $5 million house most of us couldn't even afford to pay the property taxes (around $66,000 a year) much less take care of the place. Just having expensive, flashy things costs money.

I hope he's great right away I can't explain it, but I want the Browns to continue to implode. A division with Lamar, Big Ben and this promising rookie, coupled with a totally dysfunctional front office/coaching structure, doesn't bode well. Wait until Stefanski is submitting his rough drafts of game plans to professors Haslam and Depodesta, who have both earned their stripes through success in the league, for revision and commentary before they give him the OK or make him do a re-write. LOL Depodesta might even commute into work every few weeks just to check in. I'm shocked, because I always thought I would root for them to be good because their fans deserve it. But as soon as they were the popular SB pick last summer I couldn't stand them, and Baker Mayfield isn't as fun as I thought he would be.

This makes me think Brady wears a buzzer and Ernie Adams buzzes him when the defense gets too close or some other code they have Sometimes when a player seems to know everything that is going to happen it is too good to be true

I wouldn't be shocked if it comes out that Brady had a live mic in his helmet right to Ernie Adams in his helmet for most of his career

Enjoyment of the sport in our time

MNF is such a shell of what it once was. I don't get how ESPN, which was once a powerhouse, can take such a big $$ industry as sports and have such horrible production value and terrible programming.

If you invalidate the Patriots dynasty then everything the future greats do is called into question as well. Does anyone even take the Tour de France winner seriously anymore? After a year or two you find out that the top 7 finishers all get caught doping and the 8th place finisher is the real winner. That's like finishing out this season with KC or SF winning it all and then 2 years from now we have to go back and strip the titles and find someone who was clean and say (for example) "Congratulations to the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, winners of the 2019 Super Bowl!" It makes the entire sport pointless to watch. And it just starts a cycle of doubt in sports fans' eyes. Is Mahomes really that great, or is Andy Reid cheating somehow? Is McDermott REALLY a defensive mastermind, or does he know the other team's plays in advance? How is it that a 3rd round RB named Singletary is unstoppable in the playoffs and leading the Bills to a Super Bowl win? At the end of the day, New England won and lost on the field, not because of cheating. They could very easily be 4-4 in the Super Bowl, with 1 blowout loss. OTHER TEAMS'dumb decisions are they reason they won 2 of their Super Bowls. All the Falcons had to do up 28-3 (which is 4 scores) is run the football, get even 1 or 2 first downs the entire 4th quarter and they win by 10+ points because there wasn't time for NE to come back with 4 scores. Even with all the turnovers and penalties that Atlanta had NE needed the entire clock in the 4th quarter to tie it up. If Atlanta just played Martyball once they got up 28-3 they win. If Seattle just runs the ball, they win as well. I hate New England as much as anyone, believe me. They are the monster under my bed, the boogeyman in the closet, the snake under my chair. But they deserve credit for what they did.

As a fan of the NFL the last thing you want is a REAL cheating scandal, even if it attacks New England and hurts their legacy. Because it de-legitimizes the entire sport in the public's eyes. Whenever anyone wins in cycling it's automatic in terms of perception that the person cheated, they just didn't get caught. OR it's just a matter of time. You can't just enjoy the sport for what it is. IF New England really had to pay a real price for their cheating then the last 20 years of NFL football are tainted. Regardless of how you feel about that then it calls into question everything else. Did Peyton Manning cheat? Do Mahomes and Andy Reid cheat? After all, how does a team go from 24-0 to winning the same game by 20? If the Bills win a Super Bowl do you want to hear about how it's illegitimate? Josh Allen cheated somehow? McDermott knew the offenses and called the defense accordingly? Everything the greats accomplish gets called into question if you drop the hammer on NE. That's why it won't happen. At the end of the day, if Shanahan runs the ball and stops passing up 28-3 and the Seahawks hand off to Lynch 4 times inside the 5 Brady and Belichick are 4-4 in the Super Bowl with 1 blowout loss. Those are decisions OTHER teams made that had nothing at all to do with cheating.

The Bills have a good thing going on, and the best part is that it is very unlikely that Frazier or Daboll become head coaches. I see Daboll being like Greg Roman. Even with what Roman has done with both Kap and Lamar in designing unique offenses he isn't seen as a serious HC candidate. There is nothing wrong with getting paid millions to be a successful coordinator on a winning team and gets pats on the back all the time and (hopefully) win titles together.