BuffaloBob

I think Chris Brown said he was in Stage 3 of the protocol as of today on One Bills Live.

Where are the reading comprehension skills?? I merely pointed out in response to another post implying that no money was saved that there was in fact money saved. Where in my post did I opine in any way regarding the decision to release him? ?

Dude, seriously?? First of all, that is the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever read on this forum and I’ve been here a long time. Those numbers are accurate, and if they aren’t, by all means prove that they are wrong. Prove that anything I stated is inaccurate. Second, where in that post did I EVER state an opinion one way or the other regarding whether we should have or shouldn’t have kept him?? I merely stated facts, in response to a previous post, that implied no money was saved and thus was an irrelevant factor. This was false. But then again, I’m just throwing numbers around and I guess we all now know what that means. ? Brownie says Josh is in stage 4.

Not really. While it is true there was some dead cap money ($2.625 million), we still saved saved his full salary of $6.175 million. The stats below were listed in early 2019, so we paid his $250,000 workout bonus. Because it was his last year, the only dead cap money was the final proration of his contact and that dead cap space of $2.625 million was going to be with us this season whether we paid his salary and kept him, or if we cut him. So cutting him saved the full salary and added nothing additonal to the dead cap space we already were carrying for him this season. LeSean McCoy 2019 cap hit: $9.05 million Workout bonus portion: $250,000 Salary due: $6.175 million Dead money: $2.625 million Cap savings: $6.425 million

No.

SCREW THAT. I'm all in and I couldn't care less what "it looks like" if we lose big. For the first time in decades, I see a team truly on the upswing, so I'm even going to enjoy the part of the journey where we will lose some (even some we should win), because we'll also win a few we probably shouldn't as well. You want to be careful and not get your hopes too high or get ahead of yourself, no problem. I believe in this management team and coach, and I believe in our young QB, and I believe where this team is headed and I'm going to be as feet off the ground as I want to be while it happens. So there!! ?

Thanks for sharing that. That really is kind of awesome.

I’ve been a Bills fan since 1966 when I was 8. I saw OJs first game as a rookie. I don’t know when this Bills Mafia thing came into being, but it was no doubt decades after I became a lifetime fan. I see the name like I do the Dawg Pound or Raider Nation. But I do not consider myself a member of it, nor am I now somehow de facto assimilated into it like a member of the Borg Collective ?. Nor will I ever be. I’m just a lifelong Bills fan.

I was not a fan of his attempts to do radio when he filled in for Rome, but he has certainly found his own niche now. Good for him.

Yes, but apparently Jones had something to with that botched kick, hence the assertion that HE won the game. How else can one win a team game all by oneself??

No. Wins are THE stat.

I can’t sleep anymore. Time to get my game face on!

If they go 4-0, I’m joining them! ??

An OBJ catch for sure! Get that man a watch. ?

I thought they were laughing as much at Marcus Spears gyrating in his seat to the rant as they were laughing at Greenie. That was funny.

Those were the days, huh? I was like 9-10 in that time frame. My brothers and I used to go with my dad. I remember games where we would be walking back to the car after the game, saying things like, “Well, at least we got to see them score a touchdown right in front of us today, right dad??” I remember them getting their butts handed to them by the chargers in a mud bowl game. Middle of the fourth quarter, the game was out of reach, were soaking wet, and the only guy on the entire field with a clean uniform was John Hadl. The crowd started chanting, “Get Hadl dirty, get Hadl dirty.” It took a couple of plays and the Bills finally sacked him. The place was as loud as if we had just scored the winning touchdown. Really pathetic. But that was how it was in those years.

Although, Dawkins was severely abused on that play and his man was hitting Allen from his blind side. Did he even finished his drop? I know you have to keep two hands on the ball, but I’m not sure that would have helped him on that one. I think Dawkins deserves some of the blame on that one.

And therein lies your problem. You shouldn’t have.

It was Jamaal Adams that he put on his back. And that cuss Adams was jawing the whole game. I’m sure Feliciano had a few choice things to say but he really wasn’t standing over him in a really aggressive way. But no harm done in the end.

My hatred for the loss of the braves will always be with John Y. Brown. He's the one who shed the Braves of all of their great players so that he could trade franchises with the owners of the Celtics, so that they could take the Braves to San Diego and he could own the Celtics. Just a few short seasons later, that apparently got old and he sold the Celtics.

Genee Cream Ale per chance? ?

I'm sorry but this conspiracy theory makes no sense given the numbers. While I don't have the specifics of the Colts ticket revenue values for season tickets they sold in 2019, their total gross receipts in 2017 were $59 million (the year he missed the entire season), and the average total gate receipts for the 2010 - 2017 seasons was about $57.3 million. https://www.statista.com/statistics/320644/nfl-indianapolis-colts-revenue-from-ticket-sales/ So ticket revenues have been virtually flat for the past 8 seasons. So first off, there is no indication that somehow those gross receipts would have drastically fallen had Luck retired in the Spring vs when he did. If Josh had blown out a knee late in training camp (now frantically knocking on wood for even typing that!), I would not have wanted my money back for my seasons. And in those 8 years, one was before Luck was drafted, in one he played only 7 games, and in one he did not play at all. There was virtually no difference in revenue for those years versus the other 5. Second, they are required to contibute one third of those revenues to the revenue shared pool (Roughly $20 Million). Any loss in revenue that might have occurred would have been greatly mitigated by the fact that the reduced receipts for that 1/3 would have been averaged in with the other 32 teams. In fact, some of the lost revenue may have been offset depending upon the value of the pool. The Colts were entitled to recover nearly $25 million from Luck. So even if they had lost 1/2 of their revenue or $30 million (which I highly doubt!), worst case it would have been close to a wash had they just recovered the bonus from Luck. So I guess this theory requires us to believe that essentially, the Colts owner decided to take in the money from the supposed 50% of season ticket holders that would never have purchased had they known Luck was retiring, and then give it to Luck? What sense does that make? Or how about that Luck and Irsay worked out a deal where they postponed his retirement announcement to take in an extra $30 million in season ticket revenue, and then he would let Luck keep the bonues money of $25 million so that Luck could kick back half to Irsay so they both ended up with $15 million each of the defrauded season ticket holders money??? Sorry. Not buying it. While there may have been a dip in season ticket sales, it is highly doubtful that it would have execeeded what they could have recovered from Luck. It would have made far more sense to announce it right away (assuming they had known of it since the spring), and just recovered from Luck what was necessary to offset the loss. They could always give it back to him next year, if he decided to come back. Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is the most probable one. Given the numbers, I'll go with that. Luck tried to come back and once again, the cycle of pain and injury was extended far longer than anyone expected, and he'd just had enough. So he decided to do it now, so that the team at least had a few weeks to get used to the idea that he wouldn't be back. No reason to defraud unsuspecting Colts fans of their hard earned money. ?

Was it too obvious? ?

You may have avoided vagueness, but your grammar is atrocious. But no one takes grammar more seriously than me. ?

?I believe it’s ok so long as he intended to use that in place of all these “cats.”