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Once you have a billion, it's not that impressive to make another. I can turn $500 into $1k. The trick is to get the first million. Being a millionaire can be a skill, and many people have repeated that from nothing, but becoming one of the richest people in the world is usually straight luck, sometimes combined with talent. There's a lot of talented working people though, too. As far as Cuban's politics go, that's irrelevant. He got lucky selling a college sports website to Yahoo for $6 billion overnight that was shut down a couple years later.

Becoming a billionaire is not a skill. No one's ever done it twice. It's a lie Republicans sell to the working class in flyover country. Be smart, work hard and you too can own a private jet and casinos in macau. The guy that invented silly bandz is a total idiot. Mark Cuban isn't much better.

I'd let Logan Thomas play.

Did you say the same for Peterman in San Diego, or did you call him garbage?

While it's proven that all of these guys ( except maybe groy) are below average, they've never been this bad. The defenses are practically coming in unblocked. Given that we know McDermott gets regular analysis from his assistants via Embedded, one of two things are happening. Either Juan is saying that his players are good/good enough, or he's saying it's a problem and Beane can't/won't fix it, in which case it's on Beane. Given that these guys are performing way below their average, my money's on Castillo

Are you saying this is a good or bad thing? Outside of one miracle season, Carolina has never really been in a position to make a run. they're perennial pretenders. Cam couldn't win a Super Bowl if the other team didn't show up. He must have laughed when at his pick he has his choice of Mahomes or Watson, and for whatever reason knew they had to trade the pick and he'd never enjoy the fruits of the trade.

I always liked Whaley from start to finish. Solid, if unspectacular drafts, and always found good players on the cheap to fill out rosters. What killed him is what kills every GM, the lack of a top tier QB.

I just drafted him in fantasy 2 days ago. I couldn't believe he fell to the third round, but now I realize that I'm just a sucker. This offensive line is the worst I've seen for any pro team, and maybe even college, in my lifetime. In fact, I'm not even sure I've heard stories from yesteryear of worse lines.

How much did lack of mobility hurt Peyton or Brady? If a guy can't do something, you beat them other ways. An out route is the perfect call only when you need to get out of bounds quickly. You can gamelan around it the rest of the time. There are a half dozen other ways to run high-low concepts without that route.

You're a weird guy.

To be fair, I guess I also want to see if Daboll understands this is how elite teams play in the NFL. It seems like for 20 years we've been running a curl-flats-bomb strategy, and it's just been miserable to live through.

I'd like to see him pick up chunk yardage on intermediate throws where he hits players in stride that have strong YAC opportunities. I don't need to see 60 yard hero-ball throws. Basically, can he take over drives and move the ball down the field at will.

Are those Josh Allen's college stats?

You know that's fake, right?

In a world where Alec Ogletree and Robert quinn were each traded for 4th and 6th round picks, I would be far more inclined to go that route than this one, and I think Beane would too. They're going to have to do a ton of FA shopping next season to improve O-line, possibly WR, and LB. We also need to Draft replacements for Hughes and Clay before their deals run out next season.

Did you draw it in crayon?

Buffalo-colored glasses

What makes anyone here think Hughes has any value? He hasn't performed at a high level in any scheme since Schwartz. Trading Hughes would be nothing more than a salary dump. I don't see the raiders doing us that favor.

Exactly my thoughts. 1) I don't think the Raiders are really interested in trading him for anything below 2 1's+ 2) The Raiders have him locked down for 2 more years worst case, so why trade him? He'll be 29 by then and they'll have effectively eaten the rest of his prime. 3) If the team that drafted him #4 overall and has watched him ever single day doesn't want to give him $20m, why should we be chomping at the bit? In hindsight, all the teams that let their Elite defensive players walk have looked like geniuses. Suh, Williams, Haynesworth, and my personal favorite: https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/video/should-stephon-gilmore-lose-his-starting-cornerback-job I really hope the Bills are smart enough to realize that you hamstring yourself when you sign players to these kinds of deals, and they should because we just got rid of one in Dareus. I pray the Jets land him, because it all but ends their hopes of being a decent team for the next 5 years.

Like I said, I think his best ball may already be behind him. I think he'll continue to be a top tier guy for a few more years, as long as the money doesn't go to his head. But I don't want him on the team at the contract he'll command. Even with so zero trade compensation. I don't ever remember it working out in the salary cap era.

I watched most of Mack's games last year. I had him on my fantasy team. While he finished the year with 10.5 sacks. Most of them were Aaron Schoebel sacks. The kind accrued that were a result of coverage or garbage time. He was largely an invisible Man last year. He was also a defensive liability at times and he dominated exactly zero games. Also 10 sacks is not elite territory. It's just pretty good, Jerry Hughes level. I'm not interested in paying $2 million per sack. I'm not saying he isn't a great player, but I'm positive he'll be unable to live up to a $20m contract, and I think you can get players almost as good for close to half that.

Well, what exactly is this place?

Not really. Bosa, Chandler Jones, Campbell, Miller, Lawrence are all top tier with a lot more just behind them. You don't need the best, you need one of the best.

Fantasy keeps me engaged. I do miss the pageantry of the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure how much of that I should attribute to not being a kid anymore, how much the league has changed or how much the world has changed. I used to watch road to the super bowl on repeat as a kid, and it seemed like winning a super bowl was the biggest thing in the world that could change a city like Buffalo forever. The people were all in. Even if you didn't understand it like football you wanted them to win. I think a lot of places actually felt like that. These days the world seems more complicated and the Sheen of winning a championship seems no where near as intense and fades just as quickly. People don't care as much as a whole, even though the fanbase is way larger, and that takes wind out of the sails. Makes me kind of sad.

I think it's highly debatable if he's the best. If he is, there's a half dozen guys on his heels.