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Oh wow, this is great news. Unexpected too.

Danny Batten. Laid a somewhat vicious late hit on Tom Brady, but still only lasted a couple of seasons with the Bills.

I've grown very accustomed to my in-season Monday-morning routine of plowing through every Bills-related article in BN instead of doing my job, but admittedly this is getting to be an irrational waste of money considering how much free content is out there and the fact that I already pay for The Athletic. I'm still sort of psychologically locked in but this is probably my last year as a subscriber.

Who cares? Seriously. Who cares?

Easy, obvious decision. The Bills have a good thing going. Let's not mess it up.

For 17 years, the Bills were irrelevant and nobody would have bothered to report on what was going on in the locker room. For the past few seasons, the Bills have been a feel-good story. And they also genuinely seemed to have pretty good team chemistry. Now we're getting to experience what it's like to be a big-boy franchise with high expectations, competitive players with outsized personalities, and lots of media attention. Maybe you should root for the Browns or something if this bothers you.

To be clear, I'm not talking about on-the-field stuff like whether Edmunds was any good or whether we would win or lose this week's game. Most people in our orbit are good when it comes to stuff like that. If you don't see a massive amount of groupthink and gatekeeping concerning off-field issues, I don't know what to tell you. Our media is aggressively uncurious about what goes on inside OBD, and that's just not how the media is supposed to work. As a fan, I'm curious to know what the deal with Diggs is. I have no reason to know, other than my own curiosity, but that's good enough and needs no further justification. Anybody trying to sell you an "entitled fans" narrative is just asking you to sit down, shut up, and do what you're told, and there's no reason to give folks like the time of day. "The public has a right to know" might be a cliche, but it's a cliche that should be carved in granite in every building that still houses an actual human reporter.

This. Imagine if Beane had waited as long to extend Allen as Baltimore waited to extend Jackson.

Part of the problem is that people in the Boston media take their jobs as journalists more seriously than people in the Buffalo media. Almost everyone who works this beat -- that includes credentialed reporters and Cover 1 -- is basically a cheerleader for the club. The fact that Tim Graham won't dig into the situation with Diggs is why we have to go to the Boston Globe to find out what's going on. And those of us who complain about it get written off as being "entitled," as if there's something weird or inappropriate about wanting to know what's happening in the corners of the world that are important to you. It's a bad combination of bad local media meets bad online fanbase.

I don't know about Diggs, but I have a problem with it. I know the stats, but he really did disappear at key moments last year, and I'm positive that's not on him.

"Melting down in the playoffs" apparently means: Losing a very tight WC game to a clearly superior opponent. Losing the AFCCG to a clearly superior opponent. Coming up on the losing end of arguably the greatest playoff game ever played. Getting rolled by a top-3 team on a day when the team was clearly flat and emotionally uninvested. Obviously I'd like to win the SB every year, but 11/12 playoff teams lose their final game of the season, and I can live with this track record. I'm not seeing a consistent pattern of anything resembling a "meltdown" here. I mean, maybe the HOU game qualifies, but we were just happy to be there that year.

Obviously Diggs should chill out, return to practice, and focus on making the 2023 Buffalo Bills the best team they can be. That said, if he's bitter about his role in the offense, he's right.

Came here to post something almost word-for-word identical to this. Only difference is that my last Madden purchase was in the 1990s for the Sega Genesis. But yeah, I'll certainly pick one up as a collector's item.

Kind of amazing that three guys from that five-man QB class turned out to be total busts. (I'm putting Mayfield in the "bust" category, and I'm ignoring Mason Rudolph because I don't recall him as being in the same tier as the other guys).

Yeah, this is the first one that comes to mind. The Cody Ford pick was bad, obviously, but lots of scouts had him going in the first round. It looked like a great pick at the time, and I chalk that one up to just showing that the draft is always a bit of a crapshoot. But we could have easily kept Teller, and our coaches saw him in the building every day, so there's really no excuse for letting an all-pro just walk out the door for next to nothing. That was the equivalent of Indianapolis giving us Jerry Hughes for some guy whose name I always have to Google.

Who cares? If this particular SI writer had a vote on which team gets to go to the SB, I would put some weight on his opinions. But he doesn't. He's just some scrub sports journalist who earns a third of my income and doesn't know 10% as much about this team as I do.

I would not mind if they took KOs out of the game entirely. Punts make sense, but there's a certain logic to starting every new field position battle after a score at the same starting point. I don't like the fact that this rule change is going to turn a lot of returns into "surprises." That's unaesthetic but it seems to me that it also makes returns more dangerous than they were before.

Best to delete this account and start over from scratch. You'll never live this down.

I'll pirate this if the Bills are on and just skip it otherwise. Happy to give YouTube my money for the Ticket, but I'm not interested in getting nickel and dimed for random one-offs here and there.

So what? My first girlfriend and I both had sex with minors too. It was fun.

Not even if it's a really good game?

Okay fair point. But they did choke down the stretch.

Think about it from a practical standpoint. The anti-Araiza people have staked out that position because they got snookered into this "believe women" business. If we want to persuade those folks over to our side -- and I do -- we need to show them that you can support women while also supporting due process rights, including and especially the presumption of innocence. People from all across the political spectrum, ranging from Ted Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, would have agreed that those two values belong together and should not be placed in conflict. The problem with posts like yours is that woke anti-Araiza types desperately want to believe that they're the good guys in this story. They just learned that they railroaded an innocent person, so they're feeling some cognitive dissonance and looking for a way to regain their lost sense of moral superiority. Your post is the equivalent of tossing them a lifeline. It helps them believe that people like you and me are just misogynists. It makes it more difficult to win them over. We're clearly winning this argument -- don't fumble at the goal line.

Sadly, I worry that the Bills are destined to be Arsenal. Fun to watch and right there in contention, but too much of a tendency to under-deliver in big moments. I'm an Arsenal fan too. What was your favorite moment in the past month or so? The part where they blew a two goal lead against Liverpool? Or the one where they blew a two goal lead against West Ham? Or was it getting stomped by City? Why do I root for underperforming football clubs?

Fine by me.