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Agree, we had to make a hard choice to keep either Rasul Douglas or Tre White. Rasul was healthy and cost way less, and Tre had large uncertainties around if he'd come back to himself and when.

Seems like a wise and erudite take(tm) Like Josh Allen going from 110 degrees in Fresno to Laramie, Wyoming? As he said "I guess I'm going to have to get used to it". It gets cold in Oklahoma and Colorado and even Kansas and Baltimore during football season It stays warm in Detroit inside that dome. You either have the mindset that "I'm going to get used to it, Football is Football" or you don't.

If you hover over the link, it's a Fox News story. Always hover before you click.

Then he'll be an idiot. Twitter (now X) - all social media these days - is pretty much a sewer. You can meet the dregs of humanity on there. If I choose to go walk in a sewer and throw leftover steak around to lure out the rats, when I could instead take a stroll through the beautiful park that is life off social media and look at the beautiful flowering trees and bulbs, watch little bunnies nibbling and see squirrels and deer and look for owls perched in trees, I'd be an idiot. I'd be even more of an idiot if I conclude, based on my sewer walk choice, that all animals are rats (or that all Bills fans are horrible). And I could go further than that. In the sewer of X, if Diggs chose to post positive content like he did when he first came to Buffalo and posted videos of himself doing incredible sprint workouts where he got up to peak speeds of 21 or 22 mph, or doing catching drills hauling in off-target balls while standing on 1 foot on a balance ball, he'd draw out the well-dressed and best behaved 'rats' to say nice things to him. But he doesn't, so the well-dressed and best behaved X'er fans have no reason to look at his content and interact, they're frustrated by the obscure "ready for watever" breadcrumbs he tosses down and they leave him alone.

You don't necessarily have to be that rural to have feral dogs, and they don't necessarily make the news. (Sometimes they aren't truly feral, they're pets that irresponsible bahstahd owners let loose at night to have a run, and they join up in packs before innocently heading home) We have a city park I used to run in after work with some colleagues. We were minding our own business passing through a wooded portion of the trail and the pack came out of a culvert towards us. The guy I was running with yelled stomped his feet and they ran off into the woods while we beat feet into open ground (but kept a careful listen). Wished I'd had pepper spray. The park has deer, rabbits, ground hogs - all kinds of dog food. A bit later, the feral dogs in the park did make the news when they got into the zoo somehow and killed several African antelope. Poor antelope were penned up, didn't have a chance. After that the city Got Real about dog trapping. Don't know if they're still there. I do see dog-ish poo with hair in it sometimes and we occasionally smell Long Dead Critters while we're walking our pup.

I'll give it a go to explain. Please excuse me if I describe stuff you know, but nothing will make sense unless the basics are known. NFL contracts are divided into roughly two bins: bonus money, and yearly cash. Yearly cash is stuff like salary (paid per game), workout bonuses, and roster bonuses. Salary may or may not be guaranteed. Bonus money includes signing bonus paid when the contract is signed, but also option bonuses which can be written into the contract to pay later and restructure bonuses which are when the yearly salary is dropped to vet minimum and the rest is paid out as a restructure bonus. Here's the thing: the team can chop bonuses up into pieces corresponding to the length of the contract, and a piece assigned to each year of the contract (amortized) So the cap hit for a player on the roster consists of yearly cash, and the bonus money pieces assigned to that year. With me so far? For Diggs, that number is about $27.8M, of which ~$19M is his salary, roster and workout bonuses, and ~$8.8M is the chunk of his signing, option, and restructure bonuses assigned to 2024. Now here's the next part. When a player is cut or traded, the team doesn't owe his salary, workout, and roster bonuses any more (unless they are guaranteed). If he's traded, that money gets paid by the new team. BUT, all of the player's amortized signing, option and restructure bonuses for this year and subsequent contract years all get added together and lobbed onto this year's cap. For Diggs, that number would be $31M - about $ Now here's the catch: if a player is cut and designated "post June 1", OR if a player is traded after June 1, only the portion of his bonus money assigned to this year count against the cap this year. The rest is deferred to next year. So, we would get "cap relief" this year if Diggs were traded, by handing off his ~$19M salary workout and roster money to his new team, and only counting this year's bonuses of $8.8M against this years cap. BUT, the rest of the bonuses ($22.3M) would count against the 2025 salary cap. That's what people mean by "cap relief" if he's traded after June 1, AND the trade partner agrees to take on his salary and workout and roster bonuses. Of course, you have to find a trade partner who is willing to do that. That really ought to be what Allen says to Diggs whenever Diggs yells. Catch the damned ball, Stefon.

I believe Kurt Warner has Entered the Chat Here's a link to the Pittsburgh Beat Writer article quoted in that - trust the beat writer more than Florio https://sports.yahoo.com/steelers-beat-writer-shares-insight-200750586.html I guess if Tomlin "promised Pickett he'd get a chance to compete" then he learns about Wilson being signed and told Wilson is in "Pole Position" that could lead to unhappiness.

The thing is, he apparently had a career year last season....AFTER recovering from the torn Achilles.

I can't hate on the notion of the Bills using sound draft resources at OL. That said, I think Beane has some kind of positional value metric he bakes into the Bills draft board, and C in Rd 1 ain't it. Do you mean Zach Frazier, C from WV?

I wouldn't say coyotes are that numerous here. But we do see them. The other day I saw one trotting along the railway embankment 3 blocks south of here. I had my dog with me (and no stick). I was surprised how big it was - I read that they're 20-50 lbs and 24" at the shoulder but I would have said this one was easily 30", it was bigger than my 22" 50 lb dog for real. I kept my dog at heel and shushed her when she wanted to bark at it. It was minding its own business and I wanted to keep it that way. Of course, it could have been a coy dog or a coy wolf. Hair sticking out could just mean a feral dog, we have a couple packs of them too. They're much more of a menace than wildlife IMO because usually wildlife are timid and wary (at least coyotes) but dogs usually have no fear of people at all. Someone reported 4 domestic rabbits in a particular area a week ago and then on Friday was all "I can't find a trace of them" well durrr. If not coyotes we have hawks and barred owls, too.

Can someone who is a Betting Savant please translate that for me? It kind of looks to me like they're saying you have to bet $230 to get your stake + $100 back if Diggs is on the Bills? (What Process means by "free money"?) On the other hand, if you bet $100 and Diggs goes to the Cowboys, you get $400 + $100 which I think means oddsmakers don't think it likely. Everyone else is higher odds yet. But I don't bet, and I really don't understand betting lines.

Do Not Blaspheme the Fitness of Cougar Biker Chicks by calling them a "bunch of old ladies on bike". You have no idea. Those mountain trails around those parts - they would drop you like a lead balloon. You would be "chick'd", for reals.

"As a species, cougars are not considered endangered" Two subspecies, the Florida Panther and the Costa Rican Puma, are endangered. The ordinary Western variety? Nah. They can be pretty hot, No Cap.

That's what the post-June 1 release of Tre' White is suppose to handle - another $10.2M of cap space, with $4.1M dead cap pushed into next year.

There are arguments to be made both ways. You can have a guy who looks all-world on scouting and film and is putting up great numbers, because he's playing against a lower level of competition (think Zay Jones playing for East Carolina). Maybe that will translate to a higher level of competition (think Stefon Diggs playing for Maryland) or maybe it won't. Or you can have a guy who comes across fabulous in interviews with off-the-charts attitude, maturity, and work ethic (think Nathan Peterman), but who doesn't have the athletic chops to cash the checks his brain can write when he's on the clock. And some guys just interview poorly. IMO you need both, though it's fair to ask if the Combine tests are still the best available metrics for players in this day and age.

Hollins played for the Dolphins during Covid year, yes. I'm puzzled, because I think it was a preseason game - I don't believe the Dolphins played the Saints during the regular season in 2020 - but my vague memory is that the preseason games were cancelled that year. Maybe the final one took place?

I got no comment on the tape, other than that a release at the college level ain't cuttin it in the NFL. But if a man has the security to play football dressed like a Banana Slug, or like an unholy cross between a Persian Lime and a Banana Slug, he's all right by me.

I look at it as sort of the standardized college admission test equivalent (ACT/SAT) - though those are falling out of favor due to flaws. But in theory, the idea of them was to provide college admissions offices with an apples-to-apples way to compare a kid from a huge highschool who was in the top 1/4 of his class, with a top-5 kid from a class of 100. I mean, we have fantastic athletes at all levels of competition, with all levels of quality in their teammates. The combine (in theory) is a chance to see them all together performing the same tests under the same conditions of altitude, field, etc. and provide an apples-to-apples metric. So in theory, it has value. In practice, it has flaws too.

Why?

What I can't get over is the persistence of those women. 15 minutes the thing had its jaws around their friend McDermott needs this story for one of his little pre-game speeches on working together and never giving up. "If 4 older ladies can take out an actual predatory cougar that's trying to actually kill and eat one of their friends, I KNOW you actual grown ass men can lace your cleats up and take care of 53 guys wearing stripes and calling themselves tigers."

Well....if people stop breeding pitbulls and pitbull mixes, it seems logical that the current breed individuals will age and pass on eventually then there will be no more No killing (except mercy euthenasia of geriatric sufferers) need be involved.

I would need to see that evidence. Do Not Believe. I mean, if it's not illegal to breed or own a pit or a pit mix, you can't arrest the breeders, they've broken no law.

Strap this story on with your breakfast coffee. 5 women, average age 59, were cycling near Seattle when they saw 2 cougars. One of the cougars leaped, grabbed the jaw of one cyclist, and dragged her off her bike by the head. (Cougars kill prey by crushing their heads and necks). The 4 other cyclists jumped off their bikes and ran to the rescue, hitting the cougar with rocks and sticks and trying to choke it and stab it with a pocket knife for fifteen (15) minutes, until it loosened its grip and the attacked cyclist got away. They then pinned the cougar to the ground with a bicycle and a large rock for 30 minutes until help arrived. That's the cougar, on the bottom there, covered with bikes, a rock, and three bad-ass women. OK, they didn't actually kill the cougar - a Fish and Wildlife officer responded to the 911 call and shot it. But from the photo, that was a 'mercy shot' Memo to Mack Hollins: I'd take your diet advice from these ladies, 'cuz, Savage. If they eat soup, Drink Up.

I'm just here for the title juxtaposition of "Beane's Soup" and "Mack Hollins Hates Soup". Are you Mack Hollins?

Dude. Just because AJ Klein got a start, doesn't make him a starter. Dodson, Same.