oldmanfan

It’s going to be an interesting year. In general I think we lost guys that were getting older. So younger guys now have to step up and that is at the same time exciting and scary. So we’ll see. To me the most important aspect to this season is coaching. Can Brady and Babich assume the coordinator positions and do the job?

I think Brady is going to have a lot of pre-snap motion with the wideouts to help scheme guys open.

It must be sad to need attention this much

Can you explain how a PE firm would generate profit from a 10% stake? My understanding and experience from seeing PE firms buy medical practices is that they come in, increase charges to patients, slash employees and/or require much longer working hours, pressure health care professionals to go to more high cost treatments to generate revenue, and so on. And then sell out to the next guy so they can take our profit. I am not sure how, in the NFL model, a PE entity will generate the kind of rapid ROE they typically want. Plus I just think it’s the top of the iceberg. Now it’s 10%. How long will it take to be 20%? Or 50%? Or eventually a majority stake?

For now

I hope Babich is an aggressive play caller and that McD allows him to do so.

Yes, opinion. You ignore vets like Dawkins, Allen, Hollins, Miller and such. Plus none of us really have any idea who players look at as leaders, last year or this year. I think the term you’re looking for is confirmation bias. You have a preformed idea of the season and try to shoehorn opinions to match it. The term fun loving goofballs gives it away.

Interesting points. My concern is based on what I’ve seen in my field of reproductive medicine. A good number of IVF clinics now are owned by private equity and they only care about making $$ and selling to a bigger firm. No one cares about the customer (in our case patients), employees are abused, and such. I have trouble seeing private equity only having a 10% stake unless they see return on ROI. And the only way they’ll get that is by things like jacking up ticket prices, etc. To me the 10% is the tip of the iceberg. But you are probably much more knowledgeable about financial matters than me.

With no statistical meaning. There was one vote separating Josh and Tua. In stats an N of 1 doesn’t mean anything. You calling leadership questionable is a fact. You did so. Whether it is or not, and your thinking it is, is opinion. The two are commonly confused by many.

I say 10. I think the offense will be OK, probably run more and a lot of 12 formation. But it may take a little time to gel. Same with the D. New safeties need to gel and Williams at the 1 LB spot will improve with time.

Ahem. There were 100 players polled and 11 voted for Josh as the most overrated QB. So let’s say we take active 53 man rosters only x 32 = 1696 players. So 100/1596 = 5.6% of the total players that were polled. And 11/100 voted for Josh. Or 0.6% of total active players. Yep, that’s the entire league all right… Yep should have drafted that Franklin kid. Just because he’s like #5 on the Broncos list of WRs doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be #1 here.

I hope you’re right. But I have seen the impact of private equity in my field: healthcare. It becomes no longer about patient care but $$. While they say it’s only 10% that a PE firm can own, the only thing that counts in the NFL is $$. And while again I hope I’m wrong, I can see within 10 years that PE become majority stakeholders, and then the only thing that will matter is ROI. And small market teams simply won’t hold up.

Could be the beginning of the end for franchises like the Bills, Bengals. Etc.

Where to start? 1. 2024 is lost. Ok Nostradamus. 2. Got rid of leadership? Or had guys getting older that have moved on. 3. Ineptitude at OC. I guess, unless you actually watched the last half of last year. 4. Players don’t take winning seriously. Seriously, that’s just nuts. I’ll stop there

You apparently missed the word all

And all blood pressures and heart rates return to normal…

QB: same RB: better, Davis improves the room TE: better, Kincaid has more experience and they’ll run a lot of 12 formation WR: even, depth is better and Diggs was declining in Brady’s offense OL: same, better protection up the middle with McGovern vs. Morse but Morsexwas better at pulling and run blocking DE: better, Miller coming back, and Solomon I think will have an impact DT: better with Jones back and better depth LB: same to a bit worse with Milano out CB: better, better depth with Elam and Ingram improving S: same lose smarts without Poyer and Hyde but gain in athleticism K: worse, Bass has a mental thing IMHO P: same Overall, the team is as good as last year and perhaps a bit better. Comes down to Brady and getting his offensive plans going.

And there you are…

People all butt hurt about Hardy, but odds are he winds up on the practice squad anyway.

It won’t surprise me if more moves and trades are made. I could see Toohill and a pick or two moved for a WR. Hardy will perhaps get resigned once he clears wavers. The practice squad should be interesting.

Sure he will. Dream on.

Oh.

Insane

My two daughters (raised as Bills fans in the heart of Indiana), my almost son-in-law ( a converted Bills fan - a condition my daughter and I both insisted on), and my wife (see condition for son-in-law) will all be here. Will be making my own beef on weck. My younger daughter eats fish (no meat) so she does smoked salmon on weck and loves it.

I don’t know what could have possibly inspired this thread, but I would bet large sums of $$ that McD would bend every single person on 2BD into a pretzel. Without breaking a sweat.