RuntheDamnBall

Yes, you're missing any actual news or announcement that would suggest that this whole scenario is happening. Other than that, good show running around like a chicken with your head cut off.

It's what everybody is hoping. If we end up even with Big Ben Lite, but a better person, that's a grand f---ing coup. Especially since that single first round pick was turned into Manuel and Kiko.

He's certainly acting stupid, but I don't know many people who react productively to being called stupid. Jerry Sullivan said to cut him, hence the conversation point.

Nobody. I will give up on NFL football if it leaves Buffalo. I'm dead serious. I love the Bills far more than I love the sport of professional football.

Same here!

And associated with known drug dealers. And his team was hiring private investigators to keep an eye on the situation.

Put this article in 2014, dip it in social media gasoline, watch it explode: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-11/sports/sp-260_1_bruce-smith

As it is for most teams at QB in the NFL, though.

That doesn't mean that the obvious solution is to call him "stupid" and send him packing. If the Bills cut him, a smart team that knows how to deal with players who need help will find a place for him. The Ravens, NE, Bengals, Broncos are all hoping we do something that stupid. Edit: to add to this, I just want to ask a few honest questions, and this is not one that is meant to be taken as a potshot at other journalists, columnists, etc. That question is: when was the last time you read a Jerry Sullivan column and felt like you understood something better? When was the last time you learned something? Whether you agree with him or not (and hell, I sometimes do), he is rarely doing anything other than appealing to base emotions. I guess it sells. It has kept him employed, we keep talking about it, it sells papers or generates clicks. He has nothing to lose by saying the Bills should cut Dareus. The Bills have to make their decisions based on assets and available replacement talent. You know, like a real business that's run with real people, who sometimes have real problems. I like the poster who shared Jerry's thoughts here, but I don't feel like JS' thoughts added anything to the conversation.

I presume he called for Bruce to get cut on multiple occasions? Professional troll.

I see what you did there, and concur.

Hahaha. In all seriousness, if they give him the money, they are the ones spending it and he doesn't have enough to call himself the primary. I don't think he has enough to own more than 10% of the team, maybe more if he has financing that the NFL clearly doesn't want to be a major part of the sale. One part of me says that this is the kind of world-class conspiracy-theory imagination that Buffalo Bills fans are famous for. The other part of me wonders if you're right.

I think most of us are - the OP's question, though, was "if this group buys the team, are you done?" I.E. even if they don't move them (immediately). I think I'll have a sick feeling about it until they are in a long-term lease with NYS/County/own their own stadium in WNY, but probably no sicker than I felt about relocation over the last 10 years of RW's life.

I still don't see how Princess Jon Jon has the liquidity to become primary owner. It doesn't add up.

That's just like, your opinion, man.

If you go back and read something like Paper Lion, in those days many of the guys were actually using training camp to get back into shape. It's such a different world. I'm not excusing Dareus - he's decided to be a part of today's NFL and is being paid handsomely to do so.

The headline is not as nuanced as John's article, though. DW and DM are saying all the right things. They know that Dareus is an asset and they can't win by calling him out in the media. They need to get him to buy in.

This. It is hard for us to fathom but millions of dollars isn't enough motivation for some people. Hopefully he can find his inner beast. We need him. Maybe some wins can help this dude get rolling. He has only scratched the surface of his potential. I know in the draft they spend a ton of time on makeup but I still feel like a switch went off in this kid's head post- family trauma, and that he hasn't been right since. He didn't have the appearance of any red flags when he went #3. Sorry for the amateur psychological diagnosis.

I know, it's like the Vikings are counting all the Super Bowl rings they've amassed over winning that draft. Think like a man who has some daughters and would do anything to protect them. If you can't, don't talk to me about this. Also, why resurrect this thread? Has Lewan just made the playoffs or something?

Until they really move the team, I'm in, but I'll reserve the right to take potshots at Bon f---ing Jovi all day.

Oh yeah, no image suggests "NFL owner" like that of this douchenozzle:

Stop disrespecting Martin Nance, yo.

In the ancient Norse myths Gods changed sexes frequently. But if nerds want to get into a tizzy about something that doesn't affect their day to day lives in the least, more power to them.

Possibly, and maybe I'm looking at it in a very Pollyanna way, but it just doesn't seem to me that money is the driver for Pegula in the way that it might have been when he was starting his energy businesses. I'm not going to say that he isn't going to look to make healthy profits, but he's said himself that if he wanted max return he would just keep pumping his resources into natural gas. If things move downtown, you would think that this is part of a goal, at least in part, to revitalize downtown and not just to become king of downtown. Really, the guy has already won the Monopoly game, and he is just getting to reap the benefits.

I get what you're saying. At the end of the day with what they are spending already at RWS, the end result seems both wasteful and expensive, but I imagine this will all depend on what kind of owner we get. If a guy like Pegula or Golisano is really sold on owning the Bills, and not just for the max potential profits ownership can generate, it might well be that RWS stays - longer than we think, anyway. I think anyone else is a wild-card and I would bet that a new stadium would be part of their conditions for staying. I'm right there with you.