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How much room do we have on our IR roster?

Good memory!

I don't think any fans are worse than Philly fans. Some are more annoying at times, but not worse people. I remember this one story an Iggles fan posted about taking his non-Iggles fan wife to a game. They had been together for years, but he had always avoided it due to the behavior of fellow fans. He finally took her and the fan behavior was horrific, per usual. She was shocked and mortified that he would repeatedly, and for years, go somewhere where things were that messed up. He said she never looked at him the same way again and cited it as likely one of the reasons she left him. I wish I could find it. It was hilarious (divorce aside).

The technique is "sabrage" but it's also called "sabering champagne". Napoleon and his cavalry were known for doing it. Coincidentally, Madame Clicquot is often in stories about Napoleon's soldiers sabering champagne and I swear the bottle in the video is Veuve Clicquot.

Dunno. Maybe the third cop was in the restroom or off talking up some chick. Who knows? Nothing to indicate he even knew something happened. The two cops involved both got treatment so I don't know who drove whom where other that one drove himself to the hospital. Maybe the second rode with the first one? Or had his own car? Dunno. I doubt it matters unless his BAC got tested at the hospital. You don't want to have "driven yourself to the hospital" if you were over the limit. Could play into the case as well if it happened.

Not if you're on the ground getting stomped. How does someone make a 911 call during something like that? You'd hope someone would make the call, but I'm not sure how you would. And it's not like the other guys aren't going to scatter immediately. There were three cops, one of whom did not seem to be around the incident. One got stomped and one was trying to pull him out of the melee. Then they all got tossed. There's no time for a call up until then and even if one was made at that point, what good would it do? The other guys are gone.

Right. Okay, so the incident happened at 2:45AM Sunday and was a thread here late Monday morning. About 32 hours. In that time, the officers had to be treated, file a report about the incident with unknown people, those people had to be identified and it had to hit the news wire. Let's face it, we'd never know about this incident if McCoy - or another NFL player - hadn't been identified at some point. It doesn't seem like there was any delay. It just want newsworthy until McCoy was identified, which took less than 32 hours.

Didn't seem like there would be much time to call 911 while a guy was swinging a champagne bottle at you or you were getting chucked out of a club. This happened at 2:45 AM and was in the news that morning so it seems like the police report was filed pretty damn quick. As for identifying themselves as police, who knows? There will be testimony to that effect, but in a noisy club could anyone hear them anyway? should it matter? The club cameras are only there to protect the club. Whether or not they were "working" probably only depends on whether or not their footage would help or hinder a lawsuit against the club. Don't kid yourself, they aren't there for the public good.

The lack of evidence that the cops hit anyone would be the problem there. McCoy and his friends should have gone to the police department to show their injuries if they had any. It didn't seem like they did judging by what people who saw them later that evening have said. At least nothing obvious. The video footage only shows McCoy & Co. beating and stomping on a guy on the ground. All of the reported injuries - which are severe - are on the two cops, not the four on the other side. There also doesn't seem to be a dispute that this started over a bottle of champagne that was served to the cops, but forcibly taken by one of McCoy's friends. That doesn't look good. That looks like four guys started things with two off duty cops, beat the crap out of them and didn't stop after one of them was unable to defend himself.

There is so much wrong with this..... Wentz at 2 over Goff? Bills passing on Treadwell at 19 for Lee? Treadwell even on the board at 19? Wow.

So if McCoy and his boys knew this, then they must be the dumbest people alive because that means they would have known these guys were cops. Also clubs, bars and restaurants comp stuff to cops all the time without charging anyone. And if a server is going to shuffle charges then they're likely to be pocketing the money, not giving it back away. Somebody pays cash for a $200 bottle, bottle gets put on some big spender's $2k tab, $200 goes in server's pocket.

You noticed that too? Internet tough guys are so cool, though!

Incidentally, it is illegal to pay someone off in order to avoid criminal charges. It certainly happens regularly where there is a monied party involved in something like this, but it has to be done quietly. The fact that these guys are cops might be a problem there.

That is incredibly stupid - and misleading. Situations differ. Would I help my friend if four guys were stomping his head? Hell yes. Would I help my friend if he and two other guys were stomping somebody's head and hitting him with a champagne bottle? Hell no.

So.....concussed AND drunk. Got it.

Couples has 4 accrued seasons in the NFL and thus would not be subject to waivers. He will immediately become an unrestricted free agent and could sign anywhere. His old contract is meaningless.

Since the cash has already been paid the Bills would be on the hook for the remaining cap hit from his signing bonus, of which $10.5M is remaining. 75% of that could be deferred until 2017 with a June 1st designation. His $4.8M salary for 2016 becomes fully guaranteed on the first day of the league year, which is March 9th. The Bills could almost certainly get out of that though. They'd also have to draft or find and sign another starting RB. The real problem here might be timing. Who knows how long the legal process will take? Or if Goodell would suspend or otherwise discipline McCoy in the meantime. I would not be surprised if McCoy played part of, or even the whole, 2016 season while the case is pending. This could go a lot of different ways.

Well, that video is going to be a problem....... Just one, low-key offseason.......

I didn't realize that those we the only options for that money.

I'll say this, it's not like no one brought up character concerns regarding McCoy. Just like injury concerns with Kiko got brought up on the other side. The combination of trading away Kiko plus the contract they gave McCoy was too much in total for my liking. His character was part of that. So was his position. McCoy performed very well in the games he played and, while he said and did some stupid things, he kept out of any real trouble. So I admitted that the trade worked out better than I had thought. Recently I have been sticking up for him. Now this. Should have just stuck to my guns.

There are often huge discrepancies between official attendance and actual attendance. With free student tickets and discount deals available to everyone else, one also has to consider PAID attendance. That revenue plus booster dollars are what drives programs' bottom lines. How could UB make money in an NFL stadium? They only way is if it got a lot - and I mean A LOT - better as a program. That would need to have to happen first. Also there is the big question of whether or not there is any advantage to the Bills if they share the stadium. They'll be the ones that have to be sold on the idea because without their support it wouldn't happen.

The Bills are not in not cap hell at the moment, but maybe cap purgatory or cap heck. They'll be able to navigate their salary cap situation, but I worry that to do so we will see a net loss of talent this offseason. Whaley will need to do well in the draft. Clay will restructure his roster bonus, Mario will likely be released and Gillmore will likely be signed to a long term deal. Those will collectively clear a lot of space, but talent-wise we are down Mario. Regardless of his use/misuse last season, that's a huge loss of talent. Incognito will likely re-sign and hopefully Glenn will. He could also get tagged. While important, those re-signing would just keep those positions even with last season. There will be other releases and signings to be sure, but there won't be space for any high priced free agents (other than our own Glenn or possibly his replacement). Things will clarify quite a bit in the next few weeks so sit tight. Heck, the official base salary cap hasn't even come out yet. Beyond next season there is concern, too. As you say, what if Taylor earns a huge deal? Heck, what if he just earns a moderate deal? The impact on the 2017 cap will start to come into a little better focus, too. The one thing that could really blow things up is the developing Shady fiasco. If they were forced to release him, it would create another huge hole in the roster as well as a significant cap problem.

I find it difficult to believe that the Saints did not attempt to trade Evans prior to his release. They must not have had any takers at any price. Very odd. Edited to add: Evans has been missing time recently and his play has fallen off a bit already. That's why no trade. It would be a safe bet that he will either chase a ring or his last decent check. Neither is is a fit in Buffalo.

$10.5M in dead money is cap relief? Plus what we have to pay another starting running back, of course. People really need to learn how the salary cap works. That explains a lot.