DrDawkinstein

Browns kinda backed themselves into a corner on this one. With the bad PR signing of Watson, they had to ink one of their homegrown players. Good for Ward for bending Haslam over and getting paid.

They really should start each game with a human sacrifice and the crowd chanting "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", but the corporate stooges are too afraid to offend anyone.

Crazy how being on a floundering 6-10 team in the league's smallest market didnt do as much for his brand as being on a Super Bowl winning team in a major West Coast market with (what was) the league's richest owner. Curious. 🤔

This is PEAK offseason *****-posting. I cant even tell if it's real. Backwards? uh, stand on the other side of the flag?

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Oh, we're supposed to be re-voting? This is confusing.

Still a guess until you call and have the convo.

They reworked the contract, but can get out of it at anytime pretty cheaply (his dead cap hit is $5M next year). Plus, Morse is on the verge of retirement. And is one slap to the head away from a forced retirement. Get the Center who will be with Josh for the rest of his contract.

How do you know what it would cost unless you call and have the conversations? That could be the extent of the "interest".

Why would you doubt it? Beane will have a conversation on pretty much any/every available player. He's everywhere. I expect him to be "interested" in every FA CB right now. And why wouldnt we be interested in bringing Gilmore back as a stop-gap if he could be signed for cheap?

Devin Lloyd and Tyler Linderbaum not getting the respect they deserve here. Those are blue chip prospects, with not a lot of depth at their position in this draft. We can get DBs and WRs later. If Linderbaum and/or Lloyd is there at #25, Bills would be nuts to pass on that value.

lol Mitch

Just a side bar on this often referenced stat. The "less than 4 years" counts every single player to even get an invite to a camp. All the wash outs bring the average down. When you remove the camp fodder guys, I believe it's more like 6+ years. Let me try to dig up an article... Edit: Here's what I found with some quick googling... Players who make a team’s opening day roster in his rookie season average a six-year career. A player on a team’s roster for at least three games in at least three seasons plays for an average of 7.1 years. First-round draft picks have average careers of 9.3 years. The average career length skyrockets to 11.7 years for a player who is chosen for or plays in a Pro Bowl at least once in his career. Wallace falls into the first two bullets. But I absolutely agree with you that these guys should get as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, because it can all end just as quickly. Wallace may not get another contract after this one. So, good for Levi.

From what folks can gather out of Beane's press conference and the answers he gave regarding the McKissic debacle, the Bills didn't give Wallace's camp a solid offer because they were moving that money to McKissic. Then when McKissic went back to Washington, Wallace had already signed with Pitt, and Beane was pissed because we could have made a better effort to sign Wallace and not have that hole.

Then they would just be the old Pats.

I like Hill over McDuffie even. Start him outside this year and look to move him to Safety as those guys age out. Or let McD come up with new ways to use this dynamic player.

I mean, if you read the whole article it's clear that's not really the case. They are losing $45M this year due to the increased cost of Aluminum alone. But the aluminum part is interesting. The article mentions how they hedge against the cost so they prepare themselves and the company for stuff exactly like this.... I'm reminded of the beginning of the pandemic, when after years of hearing (from corporate sponsored mouthpieces) that folks not having much money was due to things like "avocado toast" and "buying starbucks", and that people should cut back and focus on savings... but when COVID hit, it turned out that all these companies who rake in BILLIONS of dollars every year had the savings to cover exactly ZERO months of operating costs. They had $0 saved! And were about to all collapse immediately if not for, once again, the taxpayer bailing them out. They still cut those fat bonus checks for the execs tho (thanks to the taxpayers). And now that things are back on track, theyre pulling in even bigger profits, and charging it to us. Funny how the huge, shareholder lead companies are so greedy, but the privately held company started and operated by a guy who came from the bottom (delivering beer/drinks in a truck) knows how to properly run a business, plan for trouble, and also take care of his customers.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-tea-inflation-99-cents?_amp=true Just a reminder that almost every other company, certainly every consumer goods company, could be doing this same thing. Sacrificing the CEO's $25M/year bonus to keep prices flat. But nah. They'll happily use these excuses (supply chain issues, Russia, etc), to jack up prices and scrape more cash off the back of the working class while raking in record profits.

I advise you to have a GREAT F#%IN BIRTHDAY!

As others have said, I'll ultimately defer to McBeane's expertise since this is an area where they have proven they know what they are doing. But personally, from only watching youtube highlight videos, I havent been as impressed with McDuffie as I'd hoped. I think even Dax Hill looks better/more exciting.

Thank you, Brian Flores. And thank you, Bill Belichick for that "accidental" text message.

Between him, Norm, and Bob Saget it's been a rough few months for some of my favorite comedians.

Got to see him do stand up live a few times, always killed. What a bummer.

Its all so subjective, but outside of my fandom, I'd try to put together an objective list that looks like: Brady Rodgers Mahomes Allen Burrow The first 3 all have SB victories, so they have an advantage. I've seen lists that have Allen #3 behind Brady and Rodgers. Allen #1 after this season tho.