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The Bills may release Tre'. But this is not a situation the concept of an NFL "Injury settlement" applies to. An "injury settlement" is when a young player, typically with a "split" (a different salary if he is injured vs not injured) is placed on IR during the season, but feels he has the ability to play that season and would like to try to catch on with another team. The team he is signed to and his agents negotiate the expected recovery time for his injury (let's say it's a high ankle sprain, and they agree on an 8 week recovery period. The player is released with 8 weeks of his IR salary (plus medical care and rehab), and can sign with any other team as soon as he's cleared to play.

Just a point on the 'youth wave' Captains last season: https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bills-select-eight-players-as-the-2023-captains Gabe Davis Stefon Diggs Josh Allen Jordan Poyer Micah Hyde Von Miller Tyler Matakevich Mitch Morse Of those 8, Josh Allen and the under-performing, over-paid Diggs and Miller are the only three fairly certain to be back (the latter 2 due to excessive dead cap) I would like to see Morse back, but he has an $11.5M cap hit with $3M of dead money and will be 32. He has a $1M roster bonus due 3/17. I would like to see Poyer back, but he has a $7.6M cap hit with $2M of dead money and will be 33. Davis, Hyde, and Matakevich are all pending free agents and likely to be gone.

OK apologies in advance if this is boundary pushing, please feel free to tell me to "stand down". Someone in the Buffalo press corps, or maybe it was Cover1, commented that with regard to Allen and Diggs "the Bro-mance is definitely over". Publicly, Josh is still very consistent and strong in support of Diggs: "that's my brother" "competitor" "he understands we can't force the ball to him". Publicly, Diggs is NOT strong in support of Allen. Any insight there? It wasn't training camp, it was optional "organized team activities", and then there was that weirdness where Adisa Bakari (Diggs agent) said he was given permission to leave by McDermott after discussions with McDermott and Beane regarding some issue he had. I'm not defending Diggs - I think it's a very bad look when a team captain storms out of the building or refuses to talk to the press. I am pointing out if people are still defending Diggs, it's because the picture has been muddled and there isn't definitive information out there (not to be interpreted as an attempt to get you to "spill the tea", just a point that there isn't spilt tea)

Found this from Pro Football Network (generally reliable about procedures and so forth): The trade may have been made earlier, and PROCESSED after June 1, but you can't trade a player, transfer liability for his March bonuses and so forth to his new club, and then designate the trade post-June 1 like you can when you cut a player

Thanks! I really appreciate the insight into the thoughts behind what you hear vs. what you feel like you can share. I do agree completely that unconfirmed stories (especially if inflammatory) aren't the best food for quality discussion here. I have heard from another source that "Diggs is a problem", but again, with no details. Just a note that Diggs performance pretty well fell off the last 7 (8) games of last season as well. Do you have any insight you can share into why the performance dropped off? Cumulative dings? Checking out? Other?

Why? Just curious. I am sure you have reasons, I just always wonder what's up when we get some of these "I could if I would but I won't" type cryptic comments (John Wawrow is somewhat notable for them) I could be mistaken, but to my understanding the only time one can post-date a roster move is with a CUT. Not a trade. A CUT. And when one does post-date a cut to after June 1, the cap relief only takes place after June 1st.

I think you should put down the pipe. The problem is that the Bills badly need to re-stock at Safety and DL as well as at WR. And their premier pathway to do that with the cap situation, is through the draft. Throwing all-in with our draft picks for a WR when we have needs across the board, is probably not gonna be good enough. The other problem is you seldom know who that truly great WR in the draft is gonna be. The 2018 first round was good for QB - and the best QBs were the 3rd and 5th QBs drafted. The best WR in the 2023 1st round were the 3rd and 4th WR drafted. But arguably the best WR in the draft was taken at the end of the 5th round (Puka Nacua) , and the 2nd best was the 3rd WR drafted in the 2nd round (I think, the 7th WR drafted overall).

?? have not heard this story

IK,R? I mean, Dorsey could have said many appropriate "joining team with this guy as QB" things which did not draw "seriously, have you been living under a rock?" raised eyebrows like this. "I'm looking forward to working with Deshaun Watson, he's shown the capabilities to be one of the premier QB in this league and I'm eager to get to know him personally and brainstorm how to make this a great offense" or something.

His face does look a little fuller, but he doesn't exactly look like porky here. I don't think he's Sammy Watkins-ing

Can you say more about this, please?

Yes, by 1-2 inches. Must be standing downhill on a slope. Allen's golf handicap, I believe. Brady's is not that much lower: 8 Aaron Rodgers is 4 or 5 or something like that.

He really did come close to saying that, didn't he? “One of the big things is, it gave me time to kind of go back and look at it ....... “When I did, I felt like there were a lot of great things that we were doing. “There are always things (of), ‘Hey, maybe I would do this a little bit different moving forward......... ‘Were we on the right track? Were we doing the things I felt like, at the end of the day, as the leader of the offense and play-caller were giving us the best chance to win?’ – in a lot of cases, there were a lot of ‘Yeses,’ and sometimes, in certain situations, I would maybe do something a little different,” Dorsey said. Well, I guess we'll find out. He said that Watson is "one of the premier QB in this league and from everything I've heard about him, a really quality human being"

Good Lord, What Did I Just Listen to?

"Excuse such failure" is not the question here. The question was whether winning seasons, division winner, 2nd playoff round year after year is a huge accomplishment. And objectively, it is. But since you want to go there.....Football is the ultimate TEAM SPORT. Teams aren't entitled to and don't achieve greatness year after year simply because they have a great QB. Peyton Manning was undeniably a great QB. He played in the league 6 seasons before making it to a conference championship - which the team lost. He played in the league 9 seasons before they won a Superbowl, then 12 seasons before another Superbowl appearance, which they lost. Nothing is given, even with a great QB. I don't even know what the words mean "travesty to excuse such failure". What does that mean to you? What is excusing it? Athletes and fans of athletes have goals - let's use an example winning an Olympic Gold Medal. That's the goal. But there are many smaller goals that are still huge achievements - making his country's Olympic team, earning his country's team an Olympic spot through results in lead-up events etc. Why is it a "travesty" or "excuse" to say yes, he didn't make his ultimate goal, but what he accomplished is still a huge achievement and puts him in the top 20 or 30 divers in the world? What is it you want to hear, or to see happen with the Bills?

Dude. You said, quote "There is not a single fan that thinks a divisional round exit every year is a huge accomplishment. Lol. " That is a statement which is disprovable by a single fan who thinks 3 successive playoff years is, in fact, a huge accomplishment - not the end goal, but still a huge accomplishment. I am that single fan I believe there are others, but I suffice to disprove your original statement (which you've changed, by the way - no, I was not responding to a claim that "fans want to peak at the divisional round", that's a different statement. Stand down, I'm not the delusional one. Yes, we want more, but that doesn't take away from what the team has done as a "huge accomplisment"; it is.

I mean this in the nicest way, @HamSandwhich: Google. Seriously. All sorts of info is out there. For example: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/24/23368759/mississippi-welfare-fraud-scandal-brett-favre-reform Asking people to give you a "good article" combined with the above "ESPN was one of the entities that were accused by Favre so they have a reason to paint this in a certain light" suggests that you are primed to accept only certain sources, so instead of asking to be fed so that you can reject what you're given as biased or as not good, why not just do your own research? Again - this is a strong hint that you are only looking for articles that read in a certain way or from certain sources you accept, so why not do your own research to find something you perceive as "fair" or "holding mustard" instead of demanding to be fed and chiding those who don't feed you? Full disclosure I'm not rolling my eyes at you, but I rather understand why you're drawing that response.

I wonder if the Browns choices were limited by 1) needing someone willing to work with Stefanski as primary play caller 2) willingness to work with DeShaun Watson In the TBN article about Dorsey's interview as Browns OC, Dorsey was quoted with an interesting comment: As the leader of the offense. Hmmmm. Maybe it's just me, but I see Josh Allen as the" leader of the offense" and the OC as the designer and play caller.

Um. 🙋‍♂️ It is a huge accomplishment. It's just not the level of accomplishment we as fans (and the Pegulas as owners) want to peak at. But it's still a huge accomplishment. It is very hard to win consistently in the NFL. The season records are littered with teams that changed coaches, had a winning season or two, went to the playoffs, and then subsided to mediocrity.

? Andy Reid’s oldest son killed himself with an accidental drug overdose at age 29 in Eagles training camp. I think Andy Reid missed a day of camp and asked that training camp continue in his absence, then re-joined the team pretty shortly Far as I know, none of the Reids actually killed anyone though, the younger son came about as close as one can come without actually (permanently disabled a little girl, who spent weeks in a coma)

Andy Reid’s son Britt Reid almost killed a little girl, who was left permanently and severely disabled as a result. This was just before the Chiefs Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay. Since they lost , not sure you could say “didn’t miss a beat”

Dan Quinn hiring his own staff especially OC and DC is SOP for a HC change At the least it’s more common than not But What’s intriguing about this, is that 1) Sam Howell showed promise 2) The Commanders own the #2 pick 3) Kingsbury just spent last season coaching Caleb Williams at USC (Kingsbury was his QB coach) So….what will happen there?

All of you kids, GERROF MY LAWN!!!!!

A while back (can't find it) I saw this thing where guys were shown a bunch of photos and asked to rate the girls in them. There were a lot of critical comments. Then they were asked to rate themselves and they were like "9" "9.5" blah black and I'm looking at the guys involved and going "seriously Dude you think you're a 9?" I'm all about "ratings, who cares, just so you're happy" but the flab bellied basement dweller dissing quite nice looking ladies has become such a meme Huh? Wasn't Brady's separation/divorce year the Bucs 8-9 season where they missed the playoffs?

Ha yeah I sound like I'm all up on the social medias probably, which is ironic since I don't have an account on Insta or X or Tiktok or whatever Brittany did a podcast with Matt Stafford's wife and I ran into an article about it Obviously we agree on Scenario #2