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Neither one of them will answer the questions.

No, he was ranked 18th last aeaosn. No-where near #4. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-highest-graded-cornerbacks-2023-nfl-season Elite would be top 5. Taron is great, but he had rough stretches last season. He was still quite good, but he wasn’t elite last year. He was elite in 2022.

Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you were referencing both Cook and Taron. My fault.

He was. Surprisingly so. But he wasn’t elite (or close to it). Bills used him really well though. And I think he’ll be even better this season. 2023 was an odd outlier of a year for all RB’s which is why Cook ranked pretty high. But for example, just the previous year (2022), Cooks 2023 stats would have put him at 11th in rushing yards, 62nd in rushing TD’s, and 14th in rushing first downs.

He also mentioned Taron Johnson, who while good last year and I love him as a player, was not elite. Hopefully he returns to form this year. He single handily lost us a game, and should have lost us a second one but the refs thankfully didn’t call him for one of the most brutal pass interferences i’ve seen in a while. PFF had Dawkins ranked as the 21st tackle last season. Which puts him just outside the top 10, which is also good, but not elite. I think i’d rate him a tad higher.

Right. Everyone gets a gold star! Some folks on here are funny. They can never admit they’re wrong or misspoke. I always know they’re backed in to a corner and have nothing to say when they resort to some quip about my username. It’s like clockwork. Meh, let me have the last word.

Spiller was used to absolute perfection by Gailey. He wasn’t used more because Chan knew his productivity would fall off a cliff. Which it did, the second Chan was fired after that season. Not sure if you noticed, but “elite” Spiller never ran for a thousand yards again after that. He was never elite - but he was perfectly used by Gailey. But we can agree to disagree. A player without a top 7 stat in rushing yards, rushing TD’s and rushing yards per game is not “elite” in my opinion.

Spiller was elite while NOT being in the top 5 in rushing yards, rushing TD’s, rushing first downs, or rushing yards per game? Guess we have a very different definition of “elite”.

In that case then CJ Spiller was elite elite too. His 2012 season had more rushing yards than Cook had last year, with a higher yards per carry and more rushing TD’s. No one ever saw him as elite though (or close to elite) because that’s ridiculous. Teams ran the ball at an exceptionally low rate last year which boosted Cook’s ranking. In Spillers 2012 season, Cook wouldnt have even made the top 10 in the NFL in rushing and 52nd in rushing TD’s.

I think he is saying that the heat wasn’t necessarily the problem in that game 2 years ago. It was the sun. Which was only on our sidelines.

You feel that Cook isn’t far from elite? You are elite at creating strawman arguments.

This is a good question. We really know nothing about her other than she is good at tennis. That doesn't mean someone will be a good owner (or a bad owner). If driven people as owners/president meant successful teams then the Marlins would have been excellent for the past few years.

I'd take McDuffie over Taron. But Taron is great, no doubt. McDuffie is extremely versatile. He plays outside, inside, safety at times, can line up in the LB box, etc.

Beane is an A+ general manager in terms of constructing a solid top-to-bottom roster. But he has struggled mightily to get elite talent. I think that is part of the reason he swung for the fences with Von Miller. The Chiefs have 4 legitimate All-Star players in Mahomes, Jones, Kelce, and McDuffie. Bengals have Burrow, Chase, and Hendrickson. We just have Allen.

This was from just April and it showed the canopy fully covering the upper decks. And if the canopy doesnt fully cover the upper deck, it wont be able to cover any of the club seats.

There is an entire market of timeshares that are sold exclusively to wealthy people. Some of them have net worth minimums and the cost for the timeshare can be a million dollars or more. They're typically marketed as "residence clubs" with a "fractional ownership" instead of timeshare, but its very similar. Ritz Carlton and Regis are two such examples.

You underestimate the buying impulses of human beings. Normally rational, intelligent, wealthy people get swept up in timeshare presentations and cruise incentives, and they end up entering into contracts that they never would have otherwise entered. Yep. Not only that, I firmly believe that the upper deck will be the best seats in the house. Best views, fully shielded with the canopy, no snow, no rain, no shoveling off your seat, views for miles from the concourses, etc. If you want a club seat, I think there will be plenty of discounted PSL’s for sale a couple years after the stadium opens.

Others wont care (because they really want a certain view). But some ju How many games do you go to? That really could be the difference. If you go to 4 games per season, then you will save tens of thosuands of dollars by going to individual games. This chart assumes a $500 per ticket average cost, going to 4 games per year.

With clubs down to $8k (even in less desirable sections), you have to know that some of the $20k club purchasers are kicking themselves.

it's definitely going to sell out. The whole stadium will.

Nope. I’ve never mentioned any facebook buddies. You might be thinking of when I relayed the info from two season ticket holders who were told by their agents that there's no need to worry about being moved to the "back of the line” and they would have a second chance to buy in the clubs once all the appointments were finished. Which I hypothesized meant they were not at the time on pace to sell out the clubs (because otherwise how they could be confident about getting a second chance at buying in the clubs at the end). The insider person is a whole other thing. Here is that post: This was posted back in April. What I actually find most interesting is the 2.5x prediction. If that comes to fruition, the rest of the post would gain some credence. If it doesn’t, then i’ll likely dismiss the other info too.

I never said it was. I was passinig along an anecdote that I saw, and since the Bills are being uber secretative, that is all we have to go on.

Someone posted on the season ticket holder facebook groupt that they had inside info that Legends is having a tougher time with sales than they had expected. If I find the post again, I'll link it here.

Not sure how you can put us above the Bengals. At least until we beat them.

I thought the Bills said they knew about it before drafting him and looked into it?