TheCockSportif

Jerry Jones has had decades to bring a championship back to Dallas, and has shown loyalty before business sense more times than I can count. Here are the top 3 off the top of my head. Jason Garrett. Enough said. Dave Campo had no business being HC in the NFL. He was HC for 3 years of the Cowboys. Tony Romo outlived what he could do at the position and he was still extended. So I agree with you that overpaying a QB will put the team in salary cap hell, and when you look at teams who are in salary cap hell, the majority of them have overpaid QBs. But we're talking about the Cowboys here.

Either 1987 (they were supposed to be good that year then strike plus other stuff meant for yet another disappointing season) or 2004. In 2004, I remember watching the opener against Jacksonville @ The Harp in Boston, and wondered if the team had squandered an opportunity on that day. Sections of the highway 93 were being abated with a torch and claw hammer and were falling to the ground, if memory serves, because the Big Dig was nearing completion, and would make a huge thud as they fell into a dump truck, parts onto the pavement, etc., on that day. Watching that distracted from yet another completely underwhelming effort from this team.

I like McD, but this slogan sounds like the title of a song by Fleetwood Mac, and maybe it already is.

Ol' Dan has been trying to find a new tune to sing -- ever since his perpetual Curse of the Bambino schtick antiquated itself.

I don't remember Russ Brandon, and I don't think he was mentioned on any Bills-related message board.

Shoulder injury, nobody has picked him up as FA already, I mean how can you explain that away?

Nobody says that Barkley is good. But Cam Newton is money that this team does not need to spend... on a backup. I will never forget Newton in that Super Bowl, and I suspect that many others won't as well. He literally cowered his way out of winning it.

That was 5 years ago. A lot has changed in his profile since then.

Sarcasm though? Newton is old now and he is not what this team is about. At all. He's what the Bills brought online with Bledsoe, maybe, but probably worse at this point in his career. Absolutely not. Yesterday is yesterday in this league.

I'm glad that they seem to not be pursuing Newton. Like, for real. I could not be more pleased.

I think that Brady realized a few years ago that the avocado offerings at Wegman's weren't to his liking and he started thinking about moving on. Seriously, though. I had thought that he was going to call it a day there a couple of years ago. You should sense the dissonance even back then.

Bojo though. He drives me crazy. I'd prefer consistent but not flashy play from the position for the time being.

You know, he could still sign with the Bills and his family could stay in KC. It wouldn't be easy for any of them, but there are harder things in life.

This freaking exactly.

Hmm, I had to ponder this for a second or two. Going into the glory years, the Bills had been terrible for 6 years (and yeah, I'm lumping the 1982 season in there) and then laid an egg in 1989 ("same old Bills" was the thinking with many in WNY back then). Before that the 1970s were the very definition of mediocrity -- and with OJ and the Electric Co no less! What I'm telling you is that we enjoyed the ride while it lasted, oh, and those 4 SB losses were crushing. The band-aids the team put on the later 1990s squads were exactly that. If 40+ years of fandom has taught me anything it's that being a Bills' fan makes you anything but spoiled.

I remember when the Bills did this kind of *****.

I'm laughing at my lack of insight here. I totally thought that you were talking about Spiller!

Fair assessment, and I really like that you back referenced guys like Spiller. It's nice that this team could be in a position to fill spots with these guys rather than to clamor over we should be rooting for late round picks like Xaiver Omon once the season is already lost.

True, but 5th round QBs to me is like buying a "manager's special" in the meat department. It probably won't kill you, but it's not filet mignon.

Could be a decent backup, and if he's coached up then he can be traded for a 1st rounder in the future. It must be true; I read here on TBD a few days ago. ?

Maybe it was a stool sample?

Yeah, I forgot that one... how could I?! My mistake. But still, it's rare to have first rounders be given for backup QBs, and to have them be successful at that.

Correct, and much less for the second stringer. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the number of cases in the NFL where a backup QB was traded for a 1st rounder. Here's what I've got thus far, off the top of my head, and from the late 20th/early 21st century: Trent Green (kind of an asterisk here because he was destined to be a starter before injury) Rob Johnson (OMG) I'm sure that this list is incomplete, but is just off the top of my head. What I'm saying is that asking for a first rounder for a backup QB is rare, but it's possible in many cases (Google this -- I just did) to get a second rounder, in particular if you bundle another player. Most recent cases I can think of were Jimmy G and Matt Cassel. Having written all that, it's never a bad idea to look at QBs. I just don't happen to agree with the POV that backup QBs can be groomed into being traded for higher draft picks most of the time.

It's Maybin and by a wide margin. Honorable mentions: Erik Flowers Mike Williams CJ Spiller I couldn't bring myself to add Watkins to this. Not a good pick given the roster at the time, but Maybin and Flowers and Williams were totally inert. CJ Spiller was a pick that wasn't required and he was never really used correctly anyways.

While I like and respect Arians, I'm thinking that the 2020 version of the Bucs have all the offseason flair of the 2000 Redskins.