DrDawkinstein

Cowherd has never, NEVER been on the Bills. He has always hated the team because he hates small market franchises. Among plenty of other reasons he doesnt like our team. Go back to ignoring him. He has like 2 decent takes across ALL of his sports opinions, and both have to do with how stupid most Sports Radio Callers are.

What makes you think he even had the chance? Beane decides to convert. Pegula makes sure he has the cash on hand. The Bills business office cuts a check, or direct deposit/ACH, or however the players get paid. End of story. Also, would an NFL GM, who all keep their cards close to their vest because they have multiple irons in the fire on different deals, give a player a bunch of inside info on the teams' plans, so the player can go leak it in a tweet without thinking? What does that conversation even look like in your head? edit: Dont get me wrong, I could understand that Diggs might be frustrated with the lack of WR talent brought in to help him. But I dont think he was made any promises, or even had much of a discussion, when he was restructured.

That's a good point. Likely paying all NYS tax on the bonus. But with only 1 florida game this year, I'd expect the interest I could make over the 8 months would make that 1/17th no taxed amount back pretty easily. Now, if you played for Miami, you would WANT the bonus instead of paying taxes for playing against the Bills, Jets, etc. Or if you are talking about the withholding being different (40%), that is more an HR policy than a hard rule to protect recipients from owing unexpected tax amounts. So likely not being withheld like that in these cases since the pay and structure and even employment are all so different. Bonuses arent ultimately taxed any differently than regular income. Its just the way your employer withholds it.

Actual chuckle. Well played.

And as anyone with that much financial literacy and responsibility would tell you: GET THAT SALARY CONVERTED TO BONUS! He's cashed all the checks, he just supposedly hasnt spent any of that money yet. It's a nice story and I bet partially true, but he didnt just walk into endorsement deals his rookie season. I bet SOME football money has been spent (but would agree very little). But he would concur to get it all upfront as bonus instead of salary. Marshawn Lynch has said that same thing. He has all his football money untouched and only spent outside money. 🤷‍♂️ Must be nice to be rich.

I mean that makes no sense. If you are set to make $16M this year, would you want it all right now and get to invest it all now and start earning interest for the rest of the year? Or would you say "no thanks, wait until September and then pay me $1M/week, and if I get injured than I'll lose money on an injury settlement, and I dont need the roughly $500k I couldve earned in extra interest between May and Decemeber" Like why? Why wouldnt anyone take all their money as soon as possible?

The bold isnt accurate. They both report directly to Pegula. Dont invalidate your other points by fudging the truth.

That's not how restructures work tho. In the restructures that convert salary to bonus, the team can do it automatically without player permission since it is benefiting the player. It puts their entire season's salary in their pocket in May. They promised him nothing when they cut him the check.

I'm not one to give McD a pass, but it's a tough spot for HCs. You either fire your guys and then people say you scapegoated them. Or you refuse to adjust your staff and then EVERYONE gets fired by the owner, like Wade (and maybe Mularkey, and a lot of other NFL coaches). Thanks for clarifying. It didnt even seem like he understood how big/crazy of a story he was breaking. Probably just diarrhea of the mouth and Lombardi saying stuff without thinking.

Never heard McD called the plays in KC.

Bummed he's not a Bill, but... it's still McCorkle.

Close coworker is a 49ers fan and always follows/supports the Bills, so I guess they're my NFC team. No rivalry of any kind there, and we barely ever play them, so it all works out.

It's really ***** that after years of great info and insight from an AP reporter, some newbs/BBMBers have to come in and proactively attack John until he leaves. Congrats newbs, you have achieved your goal of being another ####### on the internet. Just a heads up, to us observers it just looks like you have such little respect in your own life you need to attack others who might actually know more. It's a shame, because unlike most of the internet, TBD isnt an anonymous hiding spot. So many posters know each other IRL and hang out for Bills games and even other personal events. Really killing the vibe that has been established over the past 20 years.

Official Apology Form. Relevant to a lot of posters in the first 30 pages or so.

Augie mentioned Whitehall so theyre already coming to our turf. We'll save you guys a spot at the front table!

Haha, man how are you for real? This has to be a schtick, right? No one is really this insecure.

"You really got up and clapped right in his face? Bruh..."

I will say this Regardless of the ridiculousness in this thread from all of us who participated in the spirited discussion, this type of offseason deliberating and squabbling is wayyyyyyyy better than the offseason bickering of the COVID years. Good to have this back! Thanks for helping kill 2 days of work, fellas!

If we had 53 players with Diggs' attitude, we'd have 2 Lombardis by now.

I hope so because that would be the least personal, and therefore easiest, to solve

All love for you, my man. IIRC, coaches/teams arent allowed to contact players through most of the offseason. So there may not have been many/any opportunities to resolve it before now.

He was asked a direct question "How concerned are you?". It's not like he chose the words, he simply responded within the context of the question. Maybe if the question was "Can you provide details on Diggs' absence?" it would have gone differently. Who knows? I do believe McD was upset yesterday and let that spill into his answer, and it wasnt a general "concern for all players". But the wording does matter. And speaking of working... using "cucked" unironically 🤮 You becoming a PPP poster? 🤣

Two self-owns in a row! You're on a roll!

If you cant take the heat... There is no point to this thread anymore anyways. Mods could and should lock it. In the meantime tho...

Yet, you took the time out of your busy President day to make this meme, and then repost it while attacking multiple posters. You're worse at this spinning and backpedaling than McD.