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People are capable of having more than one goal or more than one project going at a time, especially short and longer term. It's what successful people do. If that is foreign to you, then it's time to rethink your own approach.

The craziest part is that if Beane does that just 2 more times (interviews, press conferences, they all count) then he'll be 8 times as much in Davis's corner. That's when things get really crazy, because then we're a handful of media questions from him being 128 times more in Gabe's corner, and it just skyrockets from there.

Based on the Ravens players tearing the organization apart today I would guess that there's more to the Lamar Jackson/Ravens situation than just a disagreement over guaranteed money. I'm always going to side with the players on these issues. These teams are worth billions of dollars. Every single one of the 23 teams should have weight rooms where the dumbbells are made of actual gold and silver.

Exactly. It's time to let the chef cook.

man... everything about the Commanders is just miserable, including their awful name.

When McDermott called plays here and there the defense got more aggressive, at least from what I recall. IMO McDermott is a quality defensive mind, so I'm excited to see him take on the play calling and a more active role in the defense. If you're going to have a defensive coach let's play to his strengths.

Overall, this is a very good ranking, especially for one of the smallest market teams. Top-notch facilities and staff. Overall, players seem pretty satisfied. It's nice to see this, as a fan of the team. It shows that there is a high-quality program here and we just need some 350+ pound linemen to get us over the line to a SB win.

I read in the PFT article about the Haslam's buying into the Bucks that Rodgers 1% would be worth about $33 million at that price (the price the Haslams are paying for a %).

It is odd that those are the 2 guys with fully guaranteed QB contracts. One can't decide if he even wants to play, or where, or for how long, and obviously the other comes with serious off the field issues. If I'm Burrow I'm asking "where's my guaranteed contract?"

Rodgers signed a 3 year, 150 million dollar contract last offseason that is 100% guaranteed. So I think it will become somewhat of a "thing" for top tier guys.

True, but he already earned over 300 million dollars, so I doubt the money alone is a huge factor.

It's just my impression after watching that entire hour long interview. It was pretty interesting to see a different side of Rodgers. IMO, he will retire. We'll see. Hopefully soon.

My prediction after listening to Rodgers on the Aubrey Marcus podcast is that he will retire.

I love the idea of McDermott calling plays on defense. He's really good at it, and it was why he got this job.

Jeez, I get a bit of a rush at just the idea of going 5 MPH over the limit on the expressway.

Right but either way Watson is not giving up a penny of guaranteed money, which is the point with Jackson's contract. I get that it's crazy money, but it's how things work. Cleveland gave out that contract and now any elite QB should consider it the starting point for discussions. Even if the entire contract is not guaranteed, agents will demand Watson's guaranteed money plus whatever else that may or may not be guaranteed. I feel 0 sympathy for billionaire owners who, if the roles were reversed, would also demand every penny they could get. Someone will give Lamar a fully guaranteed deal, so why would the player accept anything less? Whether it's a good idea for the team or not is sort of irrelevant to the conversation. If a team would do that for Watson, with all his off field baggage, then someone like Lamar, who is a bigger star and has accomplished more, can also get it. I hope he goes to the NFC and makes a Brinks truck load of cash. He's a great player and does things the right way. It's just that he isn't going to allow his career to go the way of RGIII where the team abuses him and leaves him busted up and without getting his big payday. I say good for Lamar.

I still say that if Lamar were a free agent, some team would give him a fully guaranteed contract in order to get him to sign, maybe more than 1. Therefore, why should he settle? He holds all the cards, ultimately. He is a star QB, former MVP, and could sit out an entire season if need be and still be the #1 free agent a year from now.

Lamar deserves a contract bigger than Watson's. Lamar is a better QB, a more dynamic threat, was league MVP, and hasn't had off the field issues and suspensions. That, plus contracts always go up over time= give Lamar what Watson got, plus some % on top of that. I'm always going to be for the players getting paid. If Lamar had torn his knee RGIII style in the playoffs this year the Ravens would say "gosh that's awful" and pay him pennies on the dollar or cut him loose and he wouldn't see a fraction of the $$ he deserves. IF Lamar was a free agent, some team would give him what he wants, maybe more than 1. Why should he settle?

I want to see McDermott call the defensive plays. It's his forte, so let's benefit from it.

If there was a dome, there wouldn't have been a travel ban in Erie County during that blizzard, and the streets and parking lot would have been cleared for thousands of people to drive in whiteout conditions through 10 feet of snow to reach the stadium and we wouldn't have had to lose a home game. That's the logic?

The biggest issue with a monster talent at RB is that he's beat up/injured by the time the biggest games come along in late December and then the playoffs. Someone in the NFL is going to adopt the "load management" philosophy with those types of players someday and look like a genius. These guys look unstoppable in September and by January they are on IR or a shell of themselves. Regardless of his health, I wouldn't play Miller until week 14 next season, just to ramp him up. We need him in January, not September.

This team is built backwards. All of the investment in $$ and draft capital is on defense, except the QB. Great defenses are going to get scored on by good offenses with the rules the way they are now. Look at the Eagles star studded defense in the Super Bowl. Your defense needs to limit the other team just enough for the offense to outscore them. Paying $100M+ to a pretty good LB makes zero sense in today's game.

There's a TON of injury luck involved too. The Eagles just played 95% of the NFC Title Game against a team faced with the choice of having a RB playing QB or have the QB with a busted UCL who couldn't even throw a screen pass hand off every play. That game was over after the 1st offensive series for SF when Purdy went down. One hit in the 1st quarter and that game went from 50/50 to basically a bye for the Eagles to the Super Bowl. But you've got to be there to be lucky. Can you imagine the Bills being in the AFC Title Game and it's the 1st quarter and Devon Singletary is lining up at QB? If this year's Bills team faced a 2 game schedule of the Giants and then facing a Pop Warner level offense for 3 full quarters we would have been in the Super Bowl too. I get the school of thought that says we've got a good HC and a good staff and eventually they will break through, if given enough chances. The problem is that we have a defensive coach whose defense doesn't show up in the playoffs. That worries me more than anything else.

Could he be converted to a blocking TE? He's pretty athletic for a man his size

Get ready for this kind of talk. 2022 was all about the run to the Super Bowl. 2023 is going to be (locally and nationally) about whether McDermott is good enough to take the Bills where they want to go. It has already started. It's the price of having a top 3 QB. You're supposed to win, and the spotlight gets brighter. We said the same things about other coaches and teams for years. Now it's our team. The Bills have nothing to show for having 3 seasons of top 3 QB play.