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Do we take a Kyle Hamilton if he's still available?

From your original post, it would seem that the Hochul's were the more corrupt, deceptive party in getting the deal done as opposed to the Pegulas. They're just making a wise business decision. Forking over 350 Million for something they will not own doesn't ooze with greed to me. They own the team, not the stadium. As for the Hochuls, I'm not going to disagree with you that there was probably some shenanigans going on, that's nothing new in politics unfortunately. Corruption is rampant in government on all sides, that's why I'm always in favor of smaller government or at least not expanding it's scope. People like to hate on billionaires but the truth is we created them. They provided a desirable product or service and we eat it up. If they start getting greedy and not acting in the best interest of society, we can easily take our dollars elsewhere. When the government starts getting greedy/corrupt it's a lot harder to take your tax dollars elsewhere. At the end of the day though, nobody was harmed in getting this deal done. The Bills keep playing in buffalo, WNY keeps generating more tax revenue and we can go see the games in a new state of the art stadium and not have to p*ss in a sink.

I mean, NFL owners typically aren't in the business to lose money. If any of us were billionaires and trying to negotiate a new stadium we'd probably go about it the same way. Greed is in all of us, politicians, billionaires and rubes alike. We all generally make decisions to serve our own best interest. The further up the food chain you get, the more leverage you have though.

Purely subjective talking point here. You could ask 100 different people and get a 100 different answers as to where they think their tax dollars are best spent. Sure, a person who doesn't watch football or attend games is going to think 800M on a stadium is wasteful...but A person who doesn't have children will think 800M on child health services is wasteful Someone who doesn't drive could care less how much money the state spends on roads and bridges. A person in the suburbs probably doesn't care much about public transportation. I personally would rather see my tax dollars spent on a stadium than a whole laundry list of other items in the state budget. You confuse me though.. You seem to be a Bills fan, no? But I've never seen anyone rail so hard against the team actually staying in NY and getting a new stadium.

I always wondered why teams would leave cities only to eventually find their way back one way or another. This explains it. I agree that there was zero chance a team would ever come back to Buffalo once leaving. 30 years from now when the new lease expires, stadiums will be costing in the 20-30 Billion range so $850 million from the state will seem like not such a bad investment. You can love or hate Kathy Hochul but if her one legacy from her stint as Governor is keeping the Bills in Buffalo that's not a bad way to go out.

Disclosure, I'm not a Democrat nor live in NY but I do applaud her for how she finessed the deal through. Part of the stars aligning was having Josh Allen too. Had the Bills not been on the path they're on and still stuck in perpetual 7-9 seasons, I think there would have been much less urgency to get a deal done for a new stadium.

I would kinda like to see Poyer stay and get a 2yr extension but at the same time there's some safeties in this draft that I really like.

Starting to feel more and more like Edmunds or Poyer arent going to be around much longer.

Why do you hate the Pegulas so much?

The deal isn't done though yet is it? Last I heard NY missed the Friday deadline for state budget with the Stadium funding being one of the contention points. I agree with all your points though. Even if there were a current owner willing to shell out 1-2 billion for a stadium, they wouldn't be doing it in WNY. They'd move the team first.

I agree, this coaching staff is a little too focused on the DL rotation. Having said that I don't think there should be an over emphasis to draft a receiver in the first round. Of the top 10 receivers in the league last year, only 2 of them were first round draft picks, 1 was from 2nd, 4 were from 3rd and 3 from 5th. I absolutely want to add more young receivers to the team but I think the value there is in the middle rounds. I'm pretty content with Diggs, Davis, Crowder, McKenzie.

I dunno man, after reviewing film of both Hamilton and Dax Hill, I see all the same qualities in Hill who also has a faster 40 time. He also appears to me to have a quicker first step than Hamilton when breaking towards the ball. I would be tickled to death if he falls to 25 and the Bills scoop him up. I think Hills stock will continue to rise on draft day while a lot of others will drop off some. Just my opinion though.

Bills just offered what Chandler Jones got so it's likely another team would have ended up at that same amount.

I have a hard time believing a poll that has 31% of Bills fans opposing funding of a new stadium

I would occasionally watch games I wasn't particularly interested in just because John Madden was commenting.

How they extrapolate "majority of NY voters" from a poll sample size of 812 is a bit of a stretch. The poll operator is clearly a Jets fan

I personally feel like there is a lot more value to be gained by moving up in the 2nd/3rd as opposed to the 1st.

I like George Pickens rd. 2

I take Dax Hill and move him to corner. When he bulks up a little I transition him back to safety if/when Poyer/Hyde move on. He's an absolute ball hawk and freak athlete. I like his instinctiveness compared to McDufie. Also faster and more range.

Can't please everybody...especially those in Seattle. Bills stadium is infrastructure...which is something both political parties generally agree on spending money on. Infrastructure = jobs and revenue for surrounding areas. Nobody would bat an eye if NY state quietly spent 800 million to build a new state of the art library or bus terminal. I'm typically and advocate for lower taxes because I really don't trust the government to spend my money in an efficient manner but as long as it's being spent, I'd rather it be used for something tangible, that has lasting returns.

There probably is some biased or racist individuals rooted in the league somewhere, I mean we did see a lot of dirty stuff come out of in the past year but by and large I would say no. If you think forcing a racist owner to hire a minority candidate as head coach is going to cure him of being racist and lead to a blossoming relationship with his new head coach it wont. It's just going to make things worse. Perhaps the best solution would just be to have organizations just publicly disclose how many applicants they had for coaching positions and the racial makeup of the applicants and if the figures show they are displaying an obvious bias in their hiring practices they can face the public backlash which often leads to them either committing to changing their ways or resigning. At the end of the day, the most qualified candidate should get the position. In your hypothetical of two equally qualified candidates(one minority and one not) you can't really call it racial bias if the team hires the white person, it coulda came down to the GM just simply liking his personality better. When you look at the staffing of the team as a whole though, if a teams total coaching staff is 90% white and yet 50% of the applicants seeking position in the organization are minority then that would be a probable sign of bias happening.

I don't know the actual numbers of minority applicants to the amount of positions hired so I can't really comment if there is some actual bias happening. I honestly don't know what the best solution is if that were actually the case either. It doesn't seem like being a decent human being and raising your kids to be decent human beings should be too difficult a thing to ask in our society.

Unpopular opinion - Equity is racism. I support minority candidates getting more coaching positions but I don't like the idea of mandating such things as it could create an eventual artificial disparity amongst coaching staff in the league. I don't know the numbers here but what if only 5% of the potential applicants seeking coaching positions are minority in some instances? What if a team has no minority candidates currently seeking a position within their organization? In a few years we're could be looking at a situation where minority coaches are 40-50% of all coaching staff when maybe 10-15% of individuals seeking coaching positions are minority. I think its a better representation of the league and society in general to have the number of minority coaches actually representative of the percentage who are seeking position vs. a forced arbitrary number. if 60% of of applicants are minority then it makes much more sense for the coaching staff makeup to also be around 60% okay, flame away

Regarding your thoughts. This was mentioned by PSE executive Ron Raccuia when asked by Chris Brown "We're going to build the best football stadium we possibly can for the Buffalo Bills and our fans. It will be state of the art and will have a great deal of modern amenities that we currently lack at Highmark Stadium. We do, however, want to maintain the intimacy, great sight lines and the amazing home field advantage and energy we currently have at Highmark Stadium. It will be a football specific stadium and we want to take advantage of all of the modern amenities, comfort, and technology available to us as we develop our plan with the architects."

Can someone explain PSLs to me? Is it just season tickets or something else? What's the difference?