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Thanks for the sarcasm. I like that. Go to a high end steak restaurant like Mike Ditka's and try to buy a steak meal for two for $100.00 Then try to buy that same meal with $50.00 You will be at a McDonalds drive thru before the waiter brings the water while your friends eat well at Ditka's.

no Pitt and KC never self restricted themselves like Ralph did. They never applied all money spent yearly(regardless if it amortized in forward years like sign bonus)to cap limit like Bills did. For most it would not matter as most teams bring forward money not spent to cap in year 1 and bring it to yr 2 and regardless spend it eventually in the future. Bills did not do this during the "cash to crap" period. Ralph just pocketed the profit and started at zero the next year again. Yes the cap floor is all money spent in a given year to appease NFLPU thinking they are holding back cash to player salaries on any given year. None of that matters now as all money is brought forward onto the next year that was not spent the last year. So it all gets to the players eventually. Bills, Bengals, and Browns, did not forward the money and just pocketed the profit. This led to the salary cap floor instituted.

tyrod: Hey AJ, could you point me to the middle of the field you speak of? And WTH I thought you where 3" taller than me. What up?? AJ: camera angles man.

They did not employ the talent restricting "cash to cap policy" like Ralph and Bills did. Only teams that did employ it inadvertently were the misers in Cincinnati and Cleveland. If you remember that is why NFL instituted a floor for salary cap spending. Mainly due to Bengal's frugal ways.

He killed any chance of providing a winning team for over a decade with his "cash to crap policy"

Man people. Stop with this revisionist theory thinking. Ralph and Bills had to be convinced and pushed into including any clause in last lease Ralph signed to make it moderately more difficult to move the team. One can only wonder how much better the original poison pill was presented by the county before Ralph reluctantly agreed to what he agreed to. Since Litteman and a few others involved owned 1% of the team that Ralph gave them that no one knew about , they had a conflict of interest and likely were thinking about the better return they would get if they had no poison pill. Ralph wanted to maximize the sale and that was his only motivation. If it was not he would have come up with the poison pill not the other way around. The pill would have also been bigger and would not have provided for the 28 mill buy out at 7 years coming up in 2020. I will find the links and post when I find them. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2012/7/15/3160664/buffalo-bills-lease-agreement I can not find the article where Erie Co commis Poloncarz commented it was County who insisted on the poison pill and Bills initially had wanted nothing to do with it. It never came up until county demanded it.

The sys was a failure as it never worked as intended. Teams like the Cheats circumvented it by playing every loophole available. Signing guys who are cut. Offering options and then cutting them. Doing the dirty to Blount.....that no other team would have avoided scathing media excoriation for that behavior. but since it is BB and Cheats they are geniuses for using every means possible. Comp picks did not compensate the way it was intended and so it is a failure. Good teams circumvented the premise and got the bulk of the comp picks. FA NFL players suffered. If all teams did what Cheats and some others did I would think NFLPU would have initiated a lawsuit. Owners who pushed for comp picks sys failed to realize bad teams are going to sign more FA as they "you know" try to get better, then reducing comp picks. While good teams reap the artificail benefits of bs comp picks and salary cap savings of not signing too many FA's.

Yeah you are right. I just tried that and I got 24 of 33 right. Could not get past low 30 questions. I went in blind on internet and did no research so have not studied how to do the wonderlick, so did very very poor when I did not know it was timed. Scores very low. Properly preparing and taking this test and understanding the rules and I would do OK. As the other poster stated any good agent could help the NFL guy do this test and get an OK score. Lamar Jackson likely had no guidance except his mother. (and went in blind like dumb ass me) I had you guys....thanks buds.....

I hear ya however the on line tests do not let you go back. and yes timed tests apparently are not my forte in the manner/form like these wonderlick tests. Probably internet problem also. If it was like a real test I could skip the questions that take more time and FLY through the ones that I can answer on a dime. I could then return and answer the harder more involved ones. I would then answer many many more questions. 12 min for 50 questions is about 14 sec per question avg and is not reasonable in my book. It takes a few sec to read the question and a few to read the answers. I would bet most if not all testers in NFL do not get to 50 questions. They just fly through and answer the ones they know immediately. Then go back to harder ones. Internet does not let you do that. Internet tests do not let you go back. Maybe the real tests are on paper and you sit at a desk. Then I would do well as that is more normal testing. Or at least normal when I was in school. Many of the questions I had were math and I did not use a calculator or paper/pen so that is slower also. Not sure if calculator is allowed.

It is a goofy test. I just tried taking 4 of them on line and they all timed out. I never got past 15 questions or so out of the 50 they wanted to ask. It seems you are limited to 12 minutes. I get most questions right but score bad as I don't get too far. No NFL QB brain in my head I guess. On IQ tests online I score super high. Weirdly high. Disturbingly high as no one can be that smart and I know I am not an Einstein. I do well as I am a good expert test taker, know a little about a lot of subjects, have a great memory, and for some unknown reason retain all sorts of useless trivial knowledge. But they also do not have a time limit.

lol.......All you dreamers need to schedule a sleep over ASAP and get this **** figured out.

Teams with less talent can overachieve and play better with good coaching and motivation than some teams with better talent. Especially in high physical sports.

FO and coaching surprised us last year. Coaching has a year of experience and hopefully corrects some very questionable calls last year especially in game management and awareness. I would not count them out. They made playoffs first try, it could hopefully be a trend. They clearly overachieved and played better than talent they had. And had luck on their side for 1st time in almost 18 years.

perfect. To expand a little. You know by watching if you have a franchise QB. It is apparent to virtually all football fans regardless of results. PS: QB would show some ability to come back late and pull out some games. Not fold like a house of cards like Tyrod and Fitz did/do. Stafford, Rivers, Jimmy G., and similar are franchise even though they have not won Super Bowls. "Yet" Big Ben would be even if he had no Super Bowl wins like the two tainted/lucky ones he was "awarded". Kurt Warner would be even without his one St Louis Super Bowl win.

Agreed, that was true at first but they walked that back a bit. Then of course they all went ballistic when Trump needlessly interjected and told everyone not to jump off cliffs...so what did they do?...like sheep waiting for directions.......they all jumped off cliffs. It is now to the point I don't think anyone knows what NFL and individual owners stance is now. Some owners like Jones stated they wanted players to stand as written in employee rules for NFL players. Then you have the Tomlin fiasco that made him sound like a stutterer trying to win a Chines spelling bee with the Villanueva situation. Trump just stirred it all back up again when it had died down. Stupid. I wish Trump would come out and advise all players to take a knee every time they hear the anthem and to also strike at the next labor impasse, take more drugs, spend all their money in Vegas, etc etc...you get the picture.

What? Sunday is a work day for NFL players. It starts several hours before game when they have mandatory time they must show up at stadium before game, then ALL day until game is over and mandatory interviews after game are done. I believe on road games taking the team flight back to home city is also mandatory unless excused by team.

Then sign Kap for a big/decent sign bonus and cut him in camp to then carry over dead cap for Kap on the cap next year. I would tip my cap to Belly if he was that spiteful to the power struggle he apparently lost last year. lol. Maybe Brady could drop kick Johhnny in practice recreating Flutie's last NFL drop kick for Brady's reality series about his life. That way Johhny would earn his namesake. Johhny Football.

I always liked Gabber as a back up. I like this signing.

Who is "Dick?" 3rd time. OK yes I am being a dick and I will stop now. Sorry to draw this stupid **** out. I am just being dumb now. Peace. I will strive to be nicer to my fellow brother Bills fans.

Who is "Zero" ? He was being a dick and I called him out. I consider it closed.

I call bull ****, he knew exactly who the OP was referring to and wanted to soft call out the poster. Anyone who follows NFL knows who Mort on NFL LIve is.

How many Morts do you know involved with NFL??? And are on NFL Live????

Tweet is a language all its own. Trying to figure it out sometimes is as hard as trying to figure out a hip hop/rap song, IE: odd name of song, then writer, several performers, featuring someone? who?, sampling, etc etc........

Only the Browns, who currently own the 1st and 4th pick, could be hoodwinked into giving up draft pick assets to improve the most attractive 1st round sitting position in decades by putting out, or believing other teams, putting out fake news. Why would any team be tempted to try and improve a draft they have the 1st and 4th pick? Has someone gone crazy in Cleveland?? Maybe they should trade 5 future 1st rounders to get Giants 2nd pick then try to pry Jets 3rd pick so they have all the first 1-2-3-4 1st round picks. Go Big Dog Browns or go home. All crazy talk.

4th is high enough.