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On 3/3/2024 at 8:31 PM, SinceThe70s said:
This doesn't qualify as backyard birding, but back in January my two sons and I were playing a round of disc golf at Heckscher State Park on Long Island - it's right on the Great South Bay. It was a foggy day to begin with that got progressively worse and then as it got late in the day and was getting dark visibility was ridiculously low. The course was empty and there were no bikers or dog walkers. Not gonna lie - it was getting kind of creepy without what happened next.
Walking between holes there's a marshy area that you cross and all of a sudden to our left we here this extremely loud noise, look over through the fog and can barely make out a freaking huge bird taking off to fly away from us. I'm gonna guess it was 10 yards away but it all happened so fast and was so disconcerting that I can't say for sure - except that this bird was freaking huge and close and the flapping wings was loud.
After consultation with an expert - my sister who does a lot of boating on the Great South Bay - the operative guess is it was a Great Blue Heron (up to 6 foot wingspan) but honestly there's no way to know for sure, could have been a pterodactyl as far as I was concerned.
Good times.
Even in good weather, Great Blue Herons in flight look odd. In fog and diminishing light, they definitely have to look like something out of "Jurassic Park"!
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On 2/29/2024 at 6:33 PM, Jukester said:
Mist’ve been some nap you took. That was over 4 years ago.
Here’s a newer one:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bones-tools-cave-could-rewrite-history-humans-neanderthals-europe/
To be fair, there was no date on that article, and one of the headlines of another was about Tuesday's presidential primaries.
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On 2/29/2024 at 9:20 AM, boyst said:
your assumption is grossly wrong 🤪. and taking about 50 years ago as experience is grossly different than just 15-20 years ago.
i played in a division 1 sport at a MAC school in the early 00's briefly (about 4 months). I was burned out and quit having been playing athletic competitive sports since 8 or 9 years old. i participated with 3 world class athletes on my team and associated with at least 3 future nfl players i can think of on the top of my head.
Your personal views and my personal views were much different and we will have to agree to disagree.
Were you on an athletic scholarship? If you were, were you pressured to give it up, and did you? Did you graduate from this school or did you go to another school or just drop out? Did you "burn out" because of the pressure to excel at athletics while still learning to navigate your first semester of college? Did you feel you were missing out on your college education in order to play college athletics? You don't have to answer any of these questions publicly. Just think about your answers.
On 2/29/2024 at 10:57 AM, Big Turk said:Yeah trying to compare the 70s to now might as well be comparing two different sports.
Recruiters for big time collegiate sports programs don't give a real picture of what's really expected of college athletes. They sell them on an idealized picture of getting a free education plus perks doing something they love to do anyway. What they don't tell them is the cost that they'll be expected to pay. Student-athletes are always under pressure to perform at the highest level no matter the sacrifice but somehow that doesn't find its way into recruiters' spiel.
It was that way in the 1970s, and it's still that way in the 2020s.
On 2/29/2024 at 12:15 PM, Ya Digg? said:Perhaps not being exploited, but considering the NCAA and the universities make billions off of the players, it's allowing them to be more fairly compensated for what they are doing for those universities
It lessens the ability of collegiate HCs to control their star players by controlling all the purse-strings.
On 2/29/2024 at 2:01 PM, Freddie's Dead said:We're gonna disagree here. Many college athletes never even got their degree, but this argument was successfully used for decades to deny the athletes their due. It also didn't address the vast disparity between the "value" of their education and the amount of money raked in by the colleges and the NCAA.
Since the 1970s, collegiate sports have been "reformed". Some of the abuses that have been limited include: colleges can't give athletic scholarships to students who are so academically deficient that they can't score minimum scores on the SATs; athletes have to make at least minimum progress towards degrees; that a certain percentage of a team's athletes have to graduate within certain number of years from when they started, etc. Sadly, many of the institutions of "higher education" that field the most successful athletic programs in football and basketball fought these reforms tooth and nail.
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13 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
I get it, players come and go, I am a Sooners and Bills fan. If Diggs is here great, Ill root for him. If not, I root for whoever replaces him. At least at college, you had some semblance of 3-year stability.
NIL needs some universal rules, but I believe the courts just ruled against any significant rules, which just made it Pay for play or Free agency at the College levelThis is not what NIL involves. NIL allows to individuals to profit, if they can, from the sale of their names, images, and likenesses. It's independent of the college, and the NCAA, up until 2021, prohibited this.
The NCAA still prohibits colleges from paying athletes for playing sports, which would certainly benefit the most popular sports and the biggest schools in those sports to the detriment of less popular sports and smaller programs. I think that the NCAA's transfer portal is what encourages "free agency at the college level" but that is definitely NOT NIL
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11 hours ago, boyst said:
Education, free meals, free living, tutors and aid to learn, clothes, health management, connections in business/life through boosters and such. And there is still the illegal ***** they got
You have obviously not had any experience with a big time collegiate sports program like football or basketball. I worked as a tutor for a large Midwestern university's football players for a single semester in the 1970s. This school was always in contention for the National Championship. Even though I was a starving grad assistant and the money was very good, I couldn't continue participating in a system which I saw as extremely exploitive. Most of these young men never sniffed the NFL, never got their college degrees, and certainly never made "connections in business/life through boosters". When they used up their eligibility and/or were seriously injured, they were literally kicked to the curb.
The NCCA programs are much better now, but accepting a college athletic scholarship to a major Div 1 program is not nearly the ticket to a better life that many people believe except for those few collegiate athlete who become stars.
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Here's an article to better understand NIL: NIL
14 hours ago, Big Turk said:But it will be hurting it in perpetuity while NIL deals are allowed, so technically it IS hurting the class every year. It's not like the players staying in this year will enter the draft and then all the other underclassmen in next year's draft won't exhibit the same behavior and enter the draft also. They will be staying in too.
The average length of NFL careers is about 3 years, so the percentage of players from every draft class who actually succeed, much less become long-term starters who make significant money, is tiny. Many draftees will never make nearly as much in the NFL as they do from capitalizing on NIL while collegians. This might not be true of first round picks or even most Day 2 picks, but certainly for kids drafted on Day 3. A lot of Day 3 picks are proverbial "big fish in a small pond" types who aren't going to even make NFL practice squads.
12 hours ago, boyst said:They can choose to do that. But the NCAA portal and nil have made the college game pathetic. These athletes getting contracts - eventually it'll be the top 100-150 athletes and livi dune getting lots of money while the small programs get lost and disappear.
NIL is about the NCAA allowing collegiate athletes the right to earn money off of their images, names or other likenesses, which the NCAA didn't allow until a 2021 court case. Colleges still cannot pay collegiate athletes for playing sports. NIL is about individual athletes profiting from their collegiate -- and in some cases, high school -- fame.
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16 hours ago, GoBills808 said:
it's manifested by a rote misunderstanding of genetics and the fact that certain stereotypes of dogs and more specifically their owners plays well in suburbia
i encourage you to read this if you're interested in inheritance of behavioral traits in dogs
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abk0639
if you don't they conclude breed is not a reliable predictor of individual behavior
I read the summary and then plowed through most of the actual article. I think this is the key statement from the full article: "Behavioral factors show high variability within breeds, suggesting that although breed may affect the likelihood of a particular behavior to occur, breed alone is not,contrary to popular belief, informative enough to predict an individual’s disposition."
BTW, I think my dog Gibbs might have been part of this study! When I got his DNA results back, I participated in a voluntary owner survey which asked many questions about behavior, disposition, physical traits, and health. They used the same little circle format for owner supplied photos as they used in the main article!
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Today's sighting at Bergman Park -- a flock of a dozen turkey vultures apparently drinking from some large puddles in a dirt roadway at the back end of the park. I saw one swinging low over the field well before my dog and I came around the shoulder of the hill, so I knew they were there. I expected to see a carcass but there was nothing there, so it had to be the water. They were very big with huge wing spans.
It was interesting to watch them fly off. They all faced the same direction -- southwest, into the wind -- before taking off when they realized I was coming their way. I guess that was the best way to get air under their big wings. They also took off in three waves as if they were in a formation rather than in a single flock like pigeons or ducks might do. Normally, vultures nest and roost on cliffs so that they can catch thermals to help lift them, so that was quite surprising!
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29 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:
Airdale Terriers are fairly big but I have never come across a mean one. I would get one in a second but my wife is highly allergic to dogs and cats. I am however told that they will eat your furniture if they don't get proper exercise.
Yes, they will -- or pee all over your house, too. It's mostly if they feel they're being ignored rather than lack of exercise. They are non-shedders, so they may be suitable for people with allergies, but not people who aren't willing to include them in the family activities. Male Airedales should hit 60 pounds or more, and some of the old-style ones top 80 pounds. Today, the breed is very good tempered, but in the heyday of their popularity in the 1920s, they were infamous for being fierce guard dogs. They were used in the 1950s and 1960s in the western US to hunt cougars and bear along with various hunting cur hounds. In fact, today Airedales compete in hunting field trials like sporting breeds like pointers, spaniels, and retrievers.
I grew up with Airedales, which my dad used as hunting dogs with his pack of Black and Tan Coonhounds, and I had one of my own as an adult for over a decade. He was not a hunter, however, just fifty pounds of lap dog and hiking companion.
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3 hours ago, Augie said:
A guy on my college hoops message board is a director at a shelter in his area. He says Pit Bulls account for well over 80% of the population at the shelter. I looked at volunteering at a shelter near us, and that number seemed very conservative. They are irresponsibly bred and that’s not the dog’s fault, but that doesn’t make them safe.
Of course the shelters are going to sell you on the virtues of the creatures they can’t get rid of.
Irresponsible breeding does not necessarily result in dogs with bad temperaments. It mostly results in 1) oversupply of dogs and 2) unhealthy dogs. Furthermore, irresponsible breeders are not necessarily just the scum running puppy mills, but also the family guy down the street who decides to breed his unspayed female Lab to his neighbor's unfixed male Lab that has been suffering from hip displasia since he was 2 years old. It can also be the breeder dreaming of winning his breed at Westminster who doesn't care that the puppies from his/her next litter will have the same dog as 3 of the 4 great-grandsires.
1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:I have two pitbulls and recently adopted a barn cat. The cat and my pitbulls loved each other immediately and they are inseparable.
My older pit sleeps with my 9 year old son. My son's best friend across the street comes over with his pitbull to play with my pits.
I have a dog play ramp with artificial grass over the top and a dig pit for them to dig.I pet sit on Rover.com. I take my pit bulls to the dog park and have for years. They are the most gentle, sweetest dogs you will ever meet.
Most pitbull attacks are falsely identified as pitbulls. Most people assume a mix breed dog that they can't identify the breed is a pit and most of the times it's not.
Just because it's mixed doesn't mean it's a pit. Just like if a person is Asian, doesn't mean he's Chinese.
So the statistics you are using are inaccurate and that is painting a negative picture.
Pitbulls are great. People aren't.
Boxer mixes are frequently mistaken as pit mixes. Many of the cur dog breeds that developed as hunting/farm dogs in the Appalachian Mountains in the nineteenth century and spread primarily through the Upper South and into Louisiana and Texas like the Catahoula Leopard Dog, the Tennessee Treeing Brindle, and the Mountain Cur can easily be mistaken for pit mixes as well. These breeds are about the size of pitbulls, have short hair, and are strong, muscular dogs usually with stocky builds.
DNA testing is the only sure way to determine what breed mixture a dog really is because looks can be deceiving. Veterinarians, vet techs, and shelter workers give it their best guesses, but there's no guarantees on what gets passed down through the genes.
My friends had a leggy, short-haired boy named Isaac that was primarily white with some black spots. He looked like some kind of Dalmation or Greyhound mix. He turned out to be Doberman and Border Collie.
My boy Gibbs' mom looked to be a smallish tri-colored Aussie shepherd, but as Gibby began growing he bore an increasing resemblance to a odd-colored Dingo (he's gray/black color called a blue merle) rather than to an Aussie shepherd, and he became significantly bigger and stockier than an Aussie as he matured. It turns out he's about 40% Blue Heeler, 30% Aussie Shepherd, and 30% smattering of German Shepherd, Norwegian Elkhound, Black Lab, and "general dog genes". FYI -- the Dingo look in Gibbs' late puppyhood came from his Heeler ancestry as Heelers were mixed with Dingos in Australia. Australia Shepherds originated in Callifornia and have no connection to Australia -- or Dingos.
18 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:Pretty good circlejerk yall got going on in here.
I'll just say this...
Pitbulls
Rottweilers
German Shepherds
Mastiffs
Irish Wolfhounds
Boxers
Akitas
Plott Hounds
Dobermans
Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Really, any breed that can get over 60lbs.
All potentially very dangerous dogs. So ban em all if that's your solution.
All the issues at our local dog park over the last few years involve German Shepherds. Incredibly aggressive, uncontrollable dogs that have been bred to kill.
If you really care about safety, can't just stop at one breed.
Well said, sir!
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9 minutes ago, SWATeam said:
They’re no more dangerous than any other breed! That’s why we have all these underground golden retriever fighting rings
Do Pitties set up their own fighting rings????
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3 hours ago, That's No Moon said:
So we agree. A pit bull's job is to murder other things, like a collie's job is to herd. They were bred to be aggressive and to kill other things. Things like other large dogs and people. When you take away its job, it becomes problematic. It still has blood lust and a screw loose. It's still a physical specimen of an animal that is fully capable of killing a person. Unlike a Jack Russell Terrier who was also bred to kill things. Most humans can punt a Jack Russell about 40 yards. Pits aren't the only dogs with this issue, but they are the most popular, the most poorly bred, and the least removed from their violence. I wouldn't want a 15th century Mastiff hanging around either, but they've had a good period of time where they haven't been specifically bred to hellspawn so it's less of an issue. Pits are still in that breeding for violence phase and it leaks out into the general population of pits and put mixes.
I don't really care what the breed used to be. That's what it is now.
I'm glad you brought up mastiffs because they seem to be the favorite "guard dog" of new generation of sickos and/or criminals seeking to weaponize dogs. Lots of dog breeds have less than ideal temperaments, but it's the owners/handlers/supposed trainers who make individual dogs dangerous by their mistreatment.
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Dogs, like people, are individuals with different temperaments and personalities. Some are stubborn, some are very smart, some are possessive, etc. Most dogs in the US are the descendants of dogs purposely bred to do certain jobs, and that human intervention in their ancestry often shapes their behaviors. Some of the traits that are useful for a breed's original purpose can make a dog a difficult pet when they no longer have real jobs. Working dogs like border collies and aussie shepherds, etc are notorious for getting into trouble because of their high energy. Small terriers can sometimes be aggressive because they were originally used to hunt rats and mice around homes and farm buildings.
More importantly, when some breeds become popular, puppy mills and backyard breeders get into the mix and frequently fail to breed for good temperaments. If the dog is the right "look" or size or color, they breed that dog to make money. People tolerate small dogs like dachshunds and chihauhuas that have bad temperaments. They don't tolerate bad temperaments in large dogs, however, Great Danes, Newfies, and Leonbergers are among the gentlest of dogs. Unfortunately for pit bulls (officially American Staffordshire Terriers), their strength, tenacity, and loyalty attracted criminal elements involved in dog fighting and drug trafficking back in the 1980s, and the breed became synonymous with viciousness.
It's important to keep in mind, however, these facts:
- All dogs have a prey drive, some significantly stronger than others. Even golden doodles can chase and attack what they perceive as prey, especially small furry things like cats and smaller dogs but sometimes small running children.
- All dogs are territorial, again some individuals more than others. They also express their territoriality in different ways, most notably by barking at intruders to their space, but jumping at windows and fences are common, too.
- Dogs are pack animals. They need a "family". Most dogs, especially in one dog households, bond to their humans. In multi-dog households, the dogs bond to each other as well as to their humans. Dogs that regularly go to dog parks or are walked often with the same group of dogs may form packs with their besties. Like teenagers, alone each is good but two or three or four together can breed real trouble. The same with dogs in a pack.
- Any dog that's mistreated or frightened or "mistrained" can bite or maul a person. All breeds have a range of temperaments, too. How a dog is raised and treated has much more to do with its behavior than its breed.
It's the responsibility of owners to train and socialize their dogs to make them good citizens. Dogs need to respond to basic commands. They need to come when called, walk on a leash, not jump up on visitors etc. Socializing dogs gets them used to dealing with other people, other dogs, new situations, etc so that they behave in situations outside their homes or yards. Not all dogs have temperaments or personalities that enable them to go to dog parks or doggie day care, but they still need to have some new experiences. Keeping dogs locked in a yard or tied on a leash, and only taking them to the vet maybe once a year can reinforce territoriality, pack mentality and fear aggression.
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23 hours ago, RussellDopeland said:
Classic fan mentality in this thread. Since Kincaid has emerged, they advocate for trading Knox..."He makes too much money!!" They act like they're paying Knox out of their own bank accounts. If Beane were to listen to them, trade Knox for a 4th rounder, and use that pick on the BPA; then the Bills end up with, let's say, a backup OT. Then in week 3, when Kindaid pulls a hamstring, Morris or some scrub rookie/street free agent ends up starting at TE. Then the same fans that b!tched about Knox's contract rant about the team not having any depth and what a poor job of roster construction Beane has done.
More importantly to the idea that the Bills need 2 legit TEs, when Knox was injured this past season, the offense struggled, including Kincaid. When Knox came back, the offfense improved significantly. The Bills want to run a lot of 2 TE sets so that they can run or pass with the same personnel on the field, making it harder on defenses. They need to have two legitimate pass catching TEs.
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Or, maybe, the Eagles are suffering from "Super Bowl loser syndrome": the team that loses the Super Bowl struggles the next season, frequently even not making the playoffs. Of the last 10 Super Bowl losers, only the Seahawks and Chiefs made the playoffs the season after their SB loss.
XLVII - Broncos
XLIX - Seahawks
L(50) - Panthers
LI - Falcons
LII - Patriots
LIII - Rams
LIV - 49ers
LV - Chiefs
LVI - Bengals
LVII - Eagles
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1 hour ago, Mat68 said:
Looking back Oliver was though of the same way. This year he took a big step. I could see Rousseau having a similar trajectory. His advance stats are solid and he is the best all all around edge player on the roster by a margin imo.
Generally, DTs like Oliver take longer to come into their own than DEs simply because the learning curve for interior linemen tends to be longer than for the edge rushers; there's more to learn in the pro game than in college. That doesn't mean that Rousseau can't improve his sack numbers, but it seems that he's not real likely to do so. However, that doesn't bother me much because he's a good DE against both the pass and the run.
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1 hour ago, LewPort71 said:
"Do you believe in Miracles ?
Yes !!"
One of the great calls in all of broadcasting.
I can still remember those words and the hockey stick flying into the air as the buzzer sounded. After that, the final game, a few days later (when Team USA actually won the gold medal), was anti-climatic. Beating the Russians in 1980 was like the UB Bulls beating the Bills, and to do it in Lake Placid, their "home ice", was magical.
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3 hours ago, sherpa said:
We have a lot of hawks around here, daily patrolling our property.
We always here the newborns in the spring in our woods.
When I first retired I looked into falconry as a hobby.
I have some property here and access to a lot more close by.
I was shocked how complicated the process was. You have to go through an apprenticeship.
Gave up that thought.
I did get a commercial drone license though, and did many real estate photo things.
Every time I fly the thing, the local hawks will come over and check it out.
If they get too close, which they usually do, I just zoom climb the thing.
I don't think they can figure that out, so they always back off enough for me to get things done.
I have always loved raptors, going back to when I was a kid growing up in the country and would hear screech owls in the nearby woods. They're my favorite birds.
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3 hours ago, FilthyBeast said:
Just thinking more about Groot and this dline as a whole, the fact that this GM and defensive minded head coach has never drafted a player that has managed double digits sacks in a season has me dumbfounded. Yes Floyd did it this year as a FA (despite next to nothing the 2nd half of the season and playoffs) and Miller was certainly on pace for it before his injury in 2022, but all these other draft picks really haven't come close except for Oliver this year.
And that's what scares me most about the draft this year because I'm willing to bet they go dline once again in the first round despite all the talk about WR and other areas of need.
The Bills use a DL rotation so their best Dlinemen don't get as many reps as the best Dlinemen on teams that usually only sub when necessary. That can certainly impact sack stats, especially for guys who miss a couple of games or who play hurt for several games. I don't know which philosophy is best, but the Bills system works for them with the players they have and seem to like; they had a sound defense this past season despite suffering key injuries on defense. It may be that Beane and McDermott envision a defense where the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts.
As for the draft, I doubt that the Bills draft a DE in the first round simply because the edge rushers with 1st round grades will be long gone when the Bills get their shot. I wouldn't be surprised to see them use a later pick on one, however. When they realized that Edmunds wasn't going to be the guy at MLB they drafted him to be, they drafted Bernard in the third round in 2022.
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While walking my dog this morning in Bergman Park, I spotted two hawks (possibly red-tailed hawks) hunting over a large grassy field of 4 acres or so. Their calls alerted me to look up. Just as I located them, a crow showed up to harass them. Mr Crow was soon joined by 3 compatriots and the hawks departed. The behavior of crows and other smaller birds harassing raptors is called "mobbing".
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21 hours ago, BillMafia716ix said:
He needs to become more of pass rusher. He’s a good run defender but you want your edge guys to get after the QB
Sacks aren't the only measure of a DE's pass rushing ability. Rousseau does get after the QB. He not only had 18 QB hits in 2023, but he also disrupted passing lanes, forced QBs to hurry passes, and knocked down passes. More importantly, Rousseau is a good all-around DLer who plays the run well. Teams need those kinds of DEs as well.
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7 hours ago, FireChans said:
I liked Greg a lot coming out of college. Great physical traits with a lot of room to grow or low floor/high ceiling has been the Beane MO and I think it’s the right one. Josh, Edmunds, Rousseau, Elam have all fit that mold and when those players do hit, the benefit is that they are supposed to hit big.
But obviously we have been hit or miss in that first round. And perhaps even more bothersome, they have not hit “big” except for Josh. Edmunds is an NFL player but he wasn’t the defensive All-Pro they thought he was going to be. And Rousseau seems to be going that same road.
I have this debate all the time on here about players “who can be 8-10 sack guys.” 8-10 sack guys are INCREDIBLY rare. It’s not very common for 6 sack guys to just become double digit sack guys because they play more or anything else. And Greg is that perfect example. He played 3 more games than last season and had 3 less sacks. He played more defensive snaps than he ever has in his career and a higher percentage of snaps. And his year was just… alright.
But anyway, besides that, we are running into the Edmunds problem where the fifth year option decision is coming. I would assume Greg is going to play on it, but based on his production, are we sure he is going to get an extension? Or is he going to be an Edmunds, where we let a solid player get overpaid by a bum franchise because the juice isn’t worth the squeeze?
7 hours ago, FireChans said:The concern is what “good players” cost. Greg’s fifth year option is going to cost $13M. Danielle Hunter (a more productive but older player) is projected to get $20M AAV. What will Greg get the year after?
Do we pay Rousseau $20M a season to be a “good player?”
Why do fans have to be "concerned" about Greg Rousseau at this point? He's a good young player with 2 years left on his rookie contract at a bargain price for the level of his play if the Bills pick up his fifth year option (which they would do if he continues to play at his current level). If Rousseau improves, then the Bills will extend him. If he doesn't, then they'll let him walk so somebody else will overpay for him. That's exactly what they did with Edmunds -- and i don't see how that can be seen as a "problem" since the Bills had Terrell Bernard ready to replace him.
FTR, most first round draft picks don't become "difference makers", especially those drafted late in the round. Getting a good starting quality DE at the end of the first round who plays for five seasons is not a "miss", especially for a team that has to pay a veteran franchise QB.
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24 minutes ago, Westside said:
I don’t personally care for answering questions with a limited amount of answers to choose from.
If not winning championships all the time ruins your ability to enjoy the game, maybe, just maybe you shouldn’t watch anymore?I totally agree, which is why I didn't participate in the poll.
Having the Bills always being a serious contender for the Super Bowl is infinitely preferable to having them struggling to win even half their games. Losing in the playoffs hurts terribly for a little while, but it's not the soul-crushing misery that came from watching the Bills regularly miss the playoffs season after season because the ownership and front office didn't make winning football games their highest priority. Been there, done that too much in my 60+ years as a Bills fan, so I will continue to enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts, even if it each season eventually ends in disappointment.
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2 minutes ago, WhoTom said:
... which inspired Neil Young to write the song "Ohio" and record it with CSNY.
I remember the moment I heard the news from Kent State just like I remember the moments I heard that Kennedy had been shot, that the Challenger had exploded, and that a plane had slammed into the World Trade Center.
Dion Dawkins Value - Extend or Trade?
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Dawkins is better than a "solid" LT, and his "running his mouth" is maybe a 5 on a scale of trash talk. Trade away a starting LT because he "runs his mouth"????? Seriously?
The Bills have real things to fix, but LT is NOT one of them thanks to having Dawkins. Extend/restructure is a no-brainer. You don't fix what's not broke.