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For anyone still on the fence about the pervasiveness of racial inequality in this country, I encourage you to do a little research on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, and a little gem called COINTELPRO under J. Edgar Hoover. It’s not the first example in US History, but explains a lot about how we got to where we are today psychologically. For anyone looking for the cliff notes version: https://mobile.twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1266894029498675200 They sure as hell don’t teach you that in the history books. At least not where I’m from. We’ve been conditioned for a long time to react the way we do to these situations. It’s time we wake up, acknowledge it, educate ourselves, and become part of the solution.

Good first step.

Thanks. I wasn’t sure based on Gelber’s wording. Would’ve been interesting if Josh had been throwing to both. Again, not because I want AB. Just interesting.

Anyone see Gelber’s response to someone asking about AB? He said “He worked out with AB yesterday”. Wonder who he was talking about Allen or Diggs. Not at all advocating for AB, but an interesting comment in light of last year. Anyway, good to see him getting in work with the guys. Especially Diggs.

I’d replace Murphy with him in a second, but I think it’s pretty telling he’s lasted this long and we haven’t shown interest with the Leslie Frazier connection.

In my mind, cap management is a given. A constant. However, keeping everyone you want to keep is different than keeping everyone you wish you could. You always hear the GM/coach-speak “Boy, we’d really like to keep everyone”. Obviously, you can’t. But you can prioritize cap dollars for anyone you truly want to keep around. It comes with drafting successful players. Time always tells whether you made the right call with your cap allocation choices. Texans and Niners absolutely could’ve kept Hopkins and Buckner around, but they decided to allocate their cap dollars elsewhere. The organization didn’t look at it as a strong enough “want”. Again, when I say you can keep anyone you desire, I said nothing of the consequences. How strong is the desire? ? Yes, bad example. Rather than running from it and delete it, I’m comfortable just making the edit and acknowledging that mistake. It happens. Agree. Bad example to use.

I don’t think we are in fundamental disagreement, but I think you may be misinterpreting my comment. Of course they won’t keep everyone, but they can figure out a way to keep anyone they really want to keep. Will that come with sacrifices to other areas to make it work with the cap? Sometimes. But they, like any other team, can keep anyone they really want to keep. I said nothing of the potential consequences for who they choose to keep. I’m constantly reminded of the Saints with this topic. Years ago, we heard a lot of “They are up against the cap, there’s no way they can sign Jairus Byrd or X player without the cap catching up to them.” All these years later the Saints have remained competitive and kept most of their core players together. Besides GM and coaching staff continuity, the most successful teams are able to identify their franchise QB, keep core players, infuse the roster with cheap young talent, and effectively manage the cap. The Saints have all of those things in spades and have never really had to “pay the piper”. Look, I get it. As Bills fans we aren’t accustomed to a competent GM and coaching staff, but we finally have that folks. It can be done. Enjoy the ride! Edit: I just looked up the Saints record the last 10 years or so, and yes, they had a few 7-9 seasons sprinkled in there. No one is more familiar with 7-9 than we are, so maybe not the best example I could’ve used. But, even in those 7-9 years I never remember them being flat out terrible. Plus, with the Falcons and Carolina, they were in some pretty tough divisional matchups.

They can make the cap work to re-sign any player they desire.

This is completely fair and I don’t blame you after the misguided moves made by the previous regime. If we were picking #9 again this year, I would’ve been completely against trading that pick for Diggs. As good as he is, you don’t trade top 10 picks for anything other than QBs. Fortunately, I think the Bills would’ve also been out for that price since we could’ve had our pick of any of the top WRs. It’s crazy what a difference 13 picks makes on how I view a deal. Either 9 or 22, it’s nothing more than lotto tickets. Diggs is still a proven great player, but I wouldn’t trade the #9 pick.

Right on ?. Innocent mistake. It happens and I’m not usually that guy.

*Dante Fowler And, yes I agree. People (not on this board but in the media) were getting all worked up because of what we gave up for Diggs. Based on where we were picking, I’ll take the proven commodity all day. Especially at a position of desperation and on a reasonable deal (comparatively speaking).

Never long enough. Love these things.

Fitz’s or Wood’s?

Now that would be something! ? He was wearing all that Bills gear after all.

Are people really debating/criticizing the other driver for calling in Ed’s reckless behavior? Good grief. I’m guessing those criticizing it is because he’s a Bills player and this may impact the season. Football and/or the season mean jack if he would have hit and seriously injured or killed someone. No one should be making excuses for Ed. I’m sure he’s a fine young man, but he made his bed.

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McAfee is great on College Game Day. Either it would be an epic success or a beautiful disaster, but ESPN should give serious thought to getting him involved in the revamped MNF broadcast in some way. I don’t know if he has the chops to pull off a two man booth setup, but definitely a 3 man booth if they go back to that format.

Johnson was great depth for us and stepped up when he had to for the most part, but he disappointed me a bit in that playoff game. Playing against his former team on that big stage, I would’ve liked to have seen him play a little better in that moment. Not having Levi healthy impacted the team more than we know.

Damn. He gets that ball to Knox there and he likely scores.

Unless they’re grown men like Tremaine Edmunds or Jadeveon Clowney were, I’m not sure how many players would feel their bodies and minds are ready to take the leap early. I could even see a Trevor Lawrence situation because he hasn’t had anything left to prove at the college level for some time now. But for all we know he enjoys being the top dog on campus. Some do. Not saying a bunch of players wouldn’t/shouldn’t try, but It’s just so different from basketball in many ways.

Even though I’m a sucker for routine and 1 PM games, love the prime time game respect and how they placed them in the calendar. Entire month of December is basically prime time or potential prime time.

Bailed when Kiffin left.

You’re not alone in this and I agree that it definitely seemed worse than it was. The media says it a lot too, so I was also thinking he had a worse year than that. I guess when it’s constant Super Bowls, anything else pales in comparison. I know this is a thread about Stidham, but I don’t think Brady is done physically. Of course he’s not the same as he was, but that offense was bereft of talent last year. I think with all those weapons he now has in Tampa, and as long as Brady, Leftwich, and Arians can come up with game plans that maximize Brady’s abilities with what he can still do well, we’ll see a nice uptick in his stats from last year.

I see no way Stidham puts up Brady’s numbers from last year. 61% comp. percentage, shade over 4,000 yards passing, and 24 TDs against 8 INTs? I’m a big Josh Allen fan, but we’d be doing cartwheels if that was his passing stat line in year 3. It ain’t that easy, no matter what Belichick thinks he can do. Not like their weapons are vastly different from last year. Happy to eat crow if I’m wrong, but I just don’t see it.

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