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What kind of league would let Wood play in the Pro Bowl with an injury no Dr would sign off on him continuing his football career. Makes no sense. Would Bills have said nothing knowing what they knew and watched Wood risk his health in a meaningless worthless pro Bowl???

Not trying to be negative but: It's Nervous Nellie and Negative Nancy. I like what you did though. I give you points. Carry on.

yeah sounds like errant misinterpretation of Grahams Tweet. I pasted from other poster who listed the source as Graham tweet. My bad.

Graham was quoted as saying he was retiring regardless of the neck injury. A neck injury is partly to blame for Wood calling it quits, though the Buffalo News' Tim Graham reports Wood was going to hang the cleats up regardless. Wood was the 28th overall pick in the 2009 draft and spent all nine of his seasons in Buffalo, making the playoffs for the first time this past season. He made 120 career starts and was a one-time Pro Bowl selection in 2015. It's a big loss from a leadership standpoint as well. Ryan Groy makes sense as a replacement. Source: Tim Graham on Twitter What are we missing here?

What??? This is the tweet. From Graham. Eric Wood held off the announcement in case he got the call to play in the Pro Bowl on Sunday. He was an alternate behind Maurice Pouncey and Rodney Hudson. Wood was hopeful that could be his farewell, but he had planned on retiring regardless.

This is getting weird now. If this is the case why is the injury such big news and why would Wood tweet that he was retiring due to injury. His salary was guaranteed for injury they found at end of season physical so he was getting paid either way how he announced it after physical.

Report say he suffered career ending neck injury. That headline implies an acute traumatic event. Not a degenerative medical situation just discovered. Then the body of the news describes it as a complicated condition. Does not mesh. Hard to believe media would treat a situation like this with a click bait headline. So I wonder if he was skiing or surfing or something and suffered an injury. I wish him all the best for a speedy recovery and able to enjoy retirement from NFL with all his mobility working.

Yes for: Roquan Smith LB Georgia.

cut 4 and you get at a 3rd. Cut 5 and you get a 3rd and 7th. To put in perspective if they cut 5, Kelvin Benjamin would have basically been FREE. They could have then immediately resigned Ducasse Johnson DiMarco Davis and Holmes after cutting them. If they wanted them. This would have been a delicate thing to do, but you go to the guys you want to bring back and explain the situation. You also sweeten the pot a little by signing them to a little more salary for the remainder of the year. Win win. They keep the guarantees in original contracts and get another for remainder of year. A savvy FO would have gotten this done.

Correct. There is no conspiracy. So lets work with the facts only. What we do know that happens is refs favor the Cheats. So all we want is answers to the following. #2 being much more important than #1. 1. Why do refs favor the Cheats? 2. How can we stop it so best team in NFL stops getting extra help winning and the playing field is leveled for all teams? Thanks Al Riveron. Did not know you were a board member here........lol That is why it should have been a TD. It was ruled a TD and replay was inconclusive. TD all day.

You are a pats fan. Only way to fix it and get treatment is to admit it.

No reason to cut Glenn. Non what so ever. If they can not trade a All Pro in his prime highly coveted LT positon player that has a reasonable contract with most of the dead cap absorbed by Bills then Bean has completely lost me on his abilities to trade in NFL. Peterman would be a fine bridge guy. He will stink it up some at first but who cares. I think he can be developed next year and could become a long time back up like Matt Moore Ryan Fitz types do. Next year is a rebuild anyway so perfect timing, lets see what he can do with full support. Unless they get A Smith or Cousins then it is more of a win now season..

Agreed 100%. Yes I took this thread pretty far off topic. Sorry I didn't mean to bust on ya. We agree on a lot here. Business owners have a tough job keeping it all running smooth I know.

Makes a person wonder how Canadians get along.

Single parents have many things happen they can not control. Not every family can afford to have one parent be a stay at home caregiver. Kids get sick in a matter of hours. Kids need to be picked up when school calls and says they have to go home early for whatever reson, daycare shuts down for a day, weather closings, people get sick and hurt and can not make it in when they planned to work, cars break down, fender benders happen everyday on commutes to work, etc etc. Very unrealistic to expect all employees to show up every day they are on schedule. That is why many places in essential fields like healthcare, police, fire, etc etc have designated people on-call for theses normal occurrences. I don't want someone working for me who puts a job over the safety and welfare of their kids/family. That is just bad business. They fought every one of them claiming they were fired for cause. Since they won all of them, in our state the unemployment laws are all written to favor employer and put the burden of proof on employee. So they paid no unemployment insurance to the state as their account was full and never taking any hits from any unemployed. Only had to pay in some when state mandated higher amounts periodically.

Very hard to believe any NFL team, coaches, or players, would be so dumb to think they could get a team with a known rep of trash talking like the Jags, to commit penalties by trash talking them. Crazy. That is just what they want. That would be like challenging Rick Barry or John Stockton in their respective primes to a free throw shooting contest and expecting to win.

No not even close. I worked for a place that after calling in sick 3 days a year you were fired. That is a crappy thing to do.

so........there is only one way then??....lol

Yeah very intently. No fouls on Pats offense or defense. Very rare occurrence.

The whole sports world is complaining. media, fans, even players days after games, which is quit a departure from the norm as players seldom say anything after post game light comments.

I do not believe it is a conspiracy, but they get favoritism for some reason. Refs showing Pats favoritism is like global warming. We have clear and conclusive proof it is happening....we just do not know the cause. PS: did you even watch that "game ending" run play. Are you talking about that one with a clear hold by Pats player on Jax who would have stopped that run 5 yards short of a first. With ref looking right at it. That one?

Refs showing Pats favoritism is like global warming. We have clear and conclusive proof it is happening....we just do not know the cause. I do not think it is a conspiracy but they get favoritism for some reason.

I hope he gets directions to the nearest airport to leave the continent.

I hope he does not walk alone in NYC, Central Park, or any of the boroughs/burbs. I fear for his safety. They should just admit bias and move that review office to TB12 clinic at Patriot Way outside Gillette Stadium.

Yeah bring on the Rex. Then hire his brother Rob as one of the sideline reporters. Have a sideline reporter for each side. He is good and learning still. Yes a little goofy but very good. He does have this annoying twang every time a slow mo replay is questioning any reason to overturn a call. Like he wants to be the first to say I see something as he talks and makes funny sounds trying to find something.