SoCal Deek

He’s a solid contributor. They don’t grow on trees!

Semi-retire? Congrats! You’re gonna love it! (I speak from first hand experience.👍)

Well, considering there are 2,000 hours in a standard work year, they’d have to conduct these ten at a time just to get them all done prior to opening day. I mean…..yikes!

Yeah! I forgot about Emmanuel Sanders. That sounds about right.

Of recent BILLS receivers who would Samuel compare to? Gabe Davis? John Brown? Robert Woods? Or who?

How is this a thread? 🙄

Yes!

I believe the factoid was meant as for a girls name.

Did you know that the name Wendy was created for the book Peter Pan? Until then, there was no such girls name. I found that fascinating.

Thanks!

I get regular YouTube drone video updates on the progress at Everton’s new waterfront stadium (Liverpool). Still makes me wish the Bills had opted for that location and a similar design. Everton is looking really cool! With that said, it seems like it’s been a while since anyone has posted updates from the Bills stadium. I have to imagine steel is going up….yes?

I know free agency isn’t done yet but looking at the overall roster it’s clear that Beane needs to find something like four to six STARTERS in the draft. Not just players, but actual starters. Offense: WR, OLine and you might even count RB since Cook isn’t an every down back Defense: Safety for sure, DLine if they want to keep rotating starters, and CB if you count dime formations

So NOW we draft somebody tall and fast! Poyer is done.

Put another way, every time Josh throws a touchdown pass every single man, woman and child in WNY has to put a dollar in the bucket. 😳

If he throws for 4,300 yards again next season that equates to a paltry $7,000 per yard….or $2,300 per foot. Geeez!

Just one small correction to your initial list. Floyd should be bolded as having signed with SF….no?

And there’s a rumor that he went to Harvard but it’s never been confirmed.

I loved his motor and effort. He really showed our younger guys what NFL pass rushers are supposed to look like.

I’ve never looked into it, but I have to admit that I’ve often joked about it. 😉

Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer offers a tee shirt as an ‘interesting trade’ for Jerry’s van? Maybe the Bengals would take something like that. 👍

It’s complicated and every Contract is worded differently but in general the basic design criteria (things that matter to the Owners) are stipulated in the basic performance documents. For example, the total number of seats or even those that are heated, but things like the size of particular beams are left up to the Design/Build team to work out. In most instances cost overruns do NOT come from the Contractor. They’re generally caused by the Owner asking for additional amenities that they failed to stipulate in the original scoping documents. And most construction contracts protect the Owner from increases due to inflation and weather…unless it can be proven that either are beyond the norm thru no fault of the contractor. I hope that helps.

I find the wording to be hilarious! “Include a dome”? Will the included dome be over the field or just somewhere in the greater Chicago area? 😉

It’s an interesting question. In most cases this would be called a Design/Build contract in which the Owners (Pegula and the State) would stipulate design criteria to the architect/construction team. Their ‘bid’, sometimes called a guaranteed maximum price or GMP would have to include all of those stipulated criteria…like a certain number of heated seats…be part of the minimum that’s provided within that GMP. This is obviously not a typical construction project but it must have some similar checks and balances.

Why does it feel like the Patriots are going through exactly what the Bills went through following the Kelly era? It’ll be interesting to see how long they wonder in the wilderness.

Ugh! First of all, it’s not an ‘event’. I’m suggesting that it sure sounds like the typical 90 minute ‘presentation’ that one gets at a timeshare. Is this REALLY that hard to understand? Or do you just want to argue about an observation?