johnwalter

oh, fantastic. i'm just sitting at my desk, fuming.

ah, meaning it was automatically reviewed. so why, then, was it not brought back after it was sent to ny?

why isn't it challengeable?

i hear ya. i suppose it should have been obvious to me that they have ghost writers do-up the story, but as someone we've heard speak to the media so many times, it just didnt come off sounding like fred jackson's voice.

:'(

i think it does, i have complete faith in g-ro i worry about this problem more on defense with the step back that unit has taken from this season to last with relatively no turnover in personnel

the hair is sick, imo if i were a back, that man would scare the hell out of me

"he's weird"

Any chance he's back for Sunday?

i have always hated, and will continue to hate, odell beckham jr.

get your damn head around

very interesting, and honest quotes from shady. and he's not wrong.

Pro Football Focus ‏@PFF 15m15 minutes ago Top 5 CBs by QB Rating when targeted: 1.Ronald Darby 31.8 2.Aqib Talib 32.4 3.Josh Norman 38.8 4.Brent Grimes 41.3 5.Darrelle Revis 44.2

holy crap that's even more than 57%

i live in the oakland area and there is a lot of excitement building. aside from not missing on those top picks, they are hitting late. i believe they've pulled several solid corners and OL players out of the 4-or-later rounds.

too funny

Found this article very interesting, thought I'd share: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/patriots_nfl/new_england_patriots/2015/09/patriots_line_combos_make_foes_dizzy Even if you hate the guy, you must admit that he is an innovator and one of the best, if not the best, HC of all time. Brings new stuff like this to the game every season, and it almost always works (to the tune of 119 points in the first three games). Also answers a few questions about why our $250MM DL wasn't able to get more pressure against an OL starting two late-round rooks.

i'm game if you are. mack or donald all day!

as kelly said, that's not a (more subjective) PFF grade - that is a pure statistic like yards per attempt, several other sports media groups should be able to confirm that number.

Bills at 6 on NFL.com: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000541939/article/nfl-power-rankings-week-4-falcons-continue-rise-steelers-fall?campaign=tw-nf-sf13605019-sf13605019

F*ck the internet, I was coming to my own protection. He was not simply agreeing with your post, he agreed with your post, then tossed in that it would be "lost on me." Measuring a five-year contract's impact on a team's ability to make signings after one offseason is both premature and short-sighted. And again, the point is not that the Bills will certainly need that space, the point is that they might, and should keep their options open in case they do. ---- I would like to note that I have always enjoyed your posts and like you quite a bit. This is one of my first TBD arguments and I apologize if I got a little carried away.

i believe that football is, at some level, a game of allocating the salary cap. many people feel that the salary cap is unimpoartant and can always be manipulated, i am not of that camp. i am arguing that the team set itself back by allocating a massive chunk of cap space to a player i believe has a pretty good chance of not contributing to the level of his cap hit. the set-back here is opportunity cost: buffalo may or may not end up needing that cap space (hell - even tyrod is starting to look like he may cost us a few dollars). the point is that teams never know if they're going to need the space and (i'm arguing) should not restrict their ability to sign/resign CBs, QBs, OTs, etc by dropping 8.5MM a year on a running back. per the buffalo news: 2016: $4.8 million base salary, $250,000 workout bonus. Cap hit: $7.675 million. 2017: $6 million base salary, $250,000 workout bonus. Cap hit: $8.875 million. 2018: $6.075 million base salary, $250,000 workout bonus. Cap hit: $8.95 million. 2019: $6.175 million base salary, $250,000 workout bonus. Cap hit: $9.05 million. far too much for an RB in today's NFL, in my opinion.

certainly, i may prove to be wrong, lord know it has happened many times before. i got confrontational because i found the response disrespectful; instead of going with something like "i disagree with you," hemet went with "Stop complaining because the team is trying to improve itself....that is the whole idea," which i found condescending, and so fired back. i know this is the internet, and this kind of stuff flies, but do TBD a favor and find something more constructive to post.

i didn't turn to this argument after kiko went down and karlos lit it up - i've been saying this since the day we padded shady's contract because he was grumpy about coming to buffalo. obviously, i'm not "complaining because the team is trying to improve itself" -- that was a misguided and, frankly, poorly-thought-out accusation (see: straw man fallacy) -- i'm complaining because i believe that in trying to improve itself, the team did the opposite, setting itself back; i.e. team made a move that i disagree with, which seems like a legitimate cause for complaint, and a complaint that almost every poster on TBD has made at least once, if you would like me to comb your 18,000+ posts to locate such an example in your post history, i would be more than happy to do so. for the record, i'm a huge whaley fan, i love and appreciate almost every move he's made. i just found this trade, and the contract restructuring in particular, to be ill-advised. because we're 2-1 and made several great moves in the offseason, i'm not allowed to question a move that was not-so-great? we have so many young, talented players, i'm disappointed this cap space is going to shady when we have guys like gilmore, bradham, and dareus (at the time) to sign.

the issue was never losing kiko, the issue was losing the cap space.