SoCal Deek
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I find these signings to be pretty troubling. Doesn’t this mean that they also have to release someone? So a young man who’s devoted his life to playing football and gets his shot on an NFL roster is told he has to go home because the Bills have decided to give his spot to a novelty dude who’s never played the game? Sad.
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5 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Better be in our new stadium before it ever goes global.
February in an open air stadium in the snow belt south of Buffalo NY. Sure! Why not? 😎
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6 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:
Erm London only 6 hours ahead of EST, which could lead to a Super Bowl around 1:00 pm EST. I realize it's usually played in prime time but considering the world audience could get if start 6-7 European time the NFL might try it. As can imagine more European/Asian views would offset most of the lost North/South American viewers.
You do realize that there’s literally MILLIONS of people in the United States that don’t live in the eastern time zone, right? Please say yes.
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London simply wouldn’t be possible because of the time difference….period. End thread.
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1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:
All of the above. I think if you're a GM and you don't have one of the ten or so guys who are in the first two categories I described, all of your plans have to be driven by how you're going to get a QB. Maybe you're drafting one, maybe you're getting a free agent, so you're thinking a lot about how to get a top draft pick and how to put yourself in position to sign the occasional free agent. The free agent route means you need cap room, so if I'm looking for my QB, I'm not using up cap space on a Gabriel Davis.
The Broncos haven't had much success, but I applaud them for being active. They swung and missed on Russell Wilson, but I think that their only choice without a QB was to take the best swings you could. However the Bills got into the situation, they needed to be swinging the year they drafted Manuel. The Bills took another swing on Tyrod (which was sort of a wasted swing - journeymen QBs usually just waste playing time that could be used on anyone with upstate. The Broncos, for example, took a swing on Siemian. It was also a miss, but at least it was a guy with real upside.
I think every season the Dolphins stick with Tua is a season they aren't actively looking for the right guy. Extending him means they won't have cap space to be in the bidding when a free agent comes along.
If I ran the Dolphins, for example, I would have been in the bidding for Aaron Rodgers.
I just don't see any point in building a team around a guy I don't think I can with. I have to field a team, of course, but my team-building should not create impediments to find the right QB - for the long term I can't afford to restrict my draft picks or my cap space.
It's just how I think an NFL team should be run. Obviously, the Dolphins think otherwise, and they have a smart coach and probably a smart GM, so what do I know?
Is there a free agent you think they should target? The obvious challenge is trying to time it out so as to coincide with your WR contracts. Otherwise you end up on a never ending teeter totter.
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17 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Thanks. I hadn't focused on it in that detail, but I agree. That's how I see Goff, too. For me, Goff is very good until he isn't, and that's off-script - he just isn't very good when he has to create, or to continue the script metaphor, when he has to ad lib. To say differently what you said about Tua, to me he looks like a college QB executing a highly scripted offense where the first or second option always is open: drop, look, throw. If something tells him not to throw, the probability of success on the play goes down dramatically. It's almost as though Goff knows the whole script, and Tua memorized only the first few lines.
Goff isn't my cup of tea, but at least I can get why the Lions signed him. If I were the Dolphins, I would be giving no thought to a big deal for deal. Painful as it is, scary as the future without a QB may look, I'd be moving on from Tua and getting to work finding a guy I think I can win with. Every year spent with Tua is a year the team is not moving toward a championship.
Exactly. If you have your QB on his second deal, you can't afford Davis. If you have no QB, it just make sense to spend on a Davis.
So if you are the Dolphins GM you’d be drafting a QB? Seems like you’d be stuck in a mid-late round one draft pick. Similar to the spot the Bills were stuck in for a decade. Or….is there a free agent you have your eye on?
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What ‘made’ me a Bills fan? Now that I think about it I have no idea, but after SIXTY years and having grown up in WNY it’s too late to question it now.
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1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:
I expected a few of these comments, and there have been some.
However, I find it interesting that the general tenor of comments from people here is that the Dolphins are idiots for spending so much money on wideouts. Someone said Hill and Waddle will make more than the entire Bills wide receiver room. It's probably true. The question is whether Miami's offensive production will be THAT much better the Bills because they have these two guys. And the answer is, no.
Whatever. We've had that discussion, and it was fun. We don't need to have it again.
I, like many here, was glad to see that Miami did. I don't think they have the right quarterback, and it's really dumb to spend money on receivers if you don't have a quarterback. It just limits what you have when the right QB comes along. And because I don't think they have the right QB, I'm hoping that they give him a big contract. Then they're in cap hell and don't have a QB. That would be great.
Come on Shaw! Maintain a sense of humor.
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I’m not seeing how any team justifies that kind of money to a WR. We all know they’re a dime a dozen. 😁
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Just keep the rubber floor mats away from the Bills training camp and I’ll be fine. I couldn’t care less what’s happening with the Jets.
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One thing that I’ve come to expect is that our defensive identity will not revolve around rushing the passer. It seems like it never does.
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There are only two things that matter in any offense. First, being able to move the chains on the third down. Second, being able to score touchdowns in the red zone. Everything else is a very distant third. So what do I envision from Shakir? Consistent performance in the first two.
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9 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I think you have the wrong impression. I don't care what they put there. I just think it's odd nothing is there. Seems like an opportunity missed.
I apologize if I got the wrong impression but the dialogue answers your question. There’s no desire (maybe even from you) for such a development. When watching one of the stadium construction fly over drone videos I was struck by how little there is anywhere around Orchard Park. When the drone looks to the horizon you can’t see a building for miles in any direction. It’s far from a commercial real estate hub….thats for sure!
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49 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Maybe a TBDer who lives there could explain?
I’m still not sure where you’re going with this. The location of the new stadium is clearly a done deal (in case you haven’t seen the photos) and the current one has been at that location for half a century…all without a Chilis restaurant anywhere to be found. It doesn’t seem to be bothering anyone but you. Are you that committed to popping in for some baby backs on gameday morning? 😉
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Diggs ain’t gonna be happy….again
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35 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Well, there are certain communities do that think that way. I'm sure you've run into your share of NIMBYs in your line of work.
Absolutely. California is crawling with them. I find it hard to believe that the City of Orchard Park is the driving force behind the lack of an Applebees across the street from the stadium though.
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10 minutes ago, HOUSE said:
Its not about the money, its about providing family entertainment at reasonable prices
Wait a minute! Isn’t that what’s printed on the US dollar right below the picture of George Washington? 😉
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3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I don't know this for sure but I was under the impression the town of Orchard Park blocked development out of fear their quaint little suburb would change too much.
I’m sure right. They can’t possibly need additional tax revenue. (sarcasm)
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1 hour ago, LABILLBACKER said:
So true, by now there's not much left. A way you can make your safeties and cb's better is put more pressure on the qbs. Maybe the cupboard is empty on remaining pass rushers, but I know our current top 3 guys may not cut it? Would I like (not love) Aiyuk on a reasonable deal...yes. But I just feel we're done dealing. We're going to roll with this group and pray guys like Solomon, Coleman maybe Claypool step up.
I’m far from a salary cap expert but I’d imagine that teams have learned to save some room for mid-season signings. They have no idea who’s going to be injured in a seventeen game season.
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I look at Patriot Place and see something that becomes a destination on non-game days. At the very least a hotel or two would have been nice
Patriot Place did okay with clubs, restaurants, movie theaters, even a hospital. And that part of Foxboro isn't close to population centers. OP is not far from most of Buffalo.
This is the part I simply don’t understand about how people look at our society. We live in a free market economy. If there was money to be made by creating a development as you’d like to see, someone would build it. I can’t imagine there’s some grand orchestrated conspiracy against it. It’s not like the Bills are more interested in having people come and drink their own beer in their parking lots.
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Just now, BADOLBILZ said:
1. McBeane have pounded home the idea of not wanting Josh running the ball nearly as much as the prior season going into each season since 2020. It basically cost Ken Dorsey his job. So tell them it's "old". They know it's important they just don't want to commit to "building around the QB" as the #1 priority of their organization. When it obviously should be. And unfortunately, nobody has run the ball like JA17 has at the QB position and had a long career.
Add that to the fact that he holds the ball longer than anyone(mainly because his targets suck) and you have a recipe for a premature end to a career. Those increasingly common shoulder/elbow sprains/tears gradually turn into chronic pain and weakness. It's insane to have a player with this much arm talent and not do whatever is necessary to get back to that 2020 level of talent around him where he existed much more in the pocket. That guy was going to play QB at a high level until he was 40.
3. Instead of asking Josh Allen to be Tom Brady("less careless").........give him more weapons. This offense should be historic with his arm talent.
I often wonder if his “targets suck” as you say or if the design of the passing offense is not all that it should be.
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12 minutes ago, Magox said:
Our outside boundary corners are Douglas, Benford, Elam and Ingram.
Safeties are (R) Bishop, Rapp, Edwards and Hamlin.
We are lacking depth at these positions, an injury or two and those position groupings are in trouble.
No doubt but that doesn’t mean you do anything until much later, after someone actually gets hurt.
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It all comes down to who’s available. It’s not like the possibilities are infinite. If the free agent cupboard is bare….do nothing.
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9 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
And little ol Buffalo is part of the greatest sports league of em all. That's why you build an overpriced stadium with public money. To remain in that exclusive club. I don't know what the state and county get for their $850MM but there must be something coming back over the next 25 years.
They probably could have made something over the last 50 if they bothered to develop businesses around the stadium. It blows my mind that all that ever existed was a Tim Hortons, a 7-11, and a couple bars.
And who exactly was to do this development? The State? I’m guessing that the private development market determined that constructing stores and restaurants across the street from a specialized facility in the middle of nowhere that’s only open 10 days a year isn’t a very good investment opportunity. The stadium has been there for half a century. I’m guessing that’s as close to consensus as you’re gonna get.
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Bills sign Gable Steveson
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Look at it another way. It then means a different player who’s devoted his life to playing football is sitting home so the Bills can bring in a novelty player that’ll never make the team.