You can't on one hand say "the Bills need more talent on their roster" and then on the other hand say "injuries are a lame excuse." Injuries take talent off of the field. Sometimes a team reaches a breaking point where they go from competitive to non-competitive due to injuries. I think that our defense may have reached that point.
They restructured his deal. He's a FA after this season. He'll play one year in Houston and then go on to Dallas to play with his brother or to KC to chase a ring.
But the Jets and Steelers can absorb the full cap hit. That is probably more appealing to the Raiders and their cheap owner. There is not much that Beane could do in that case. He can't force the Raiders to make it work with us. Even a first (which is a massive overpay) may not be enough to get them to do the cap moves to make it work with us.
The losses bring out a group of posters that only come out of the woodwork after losses. They are, as my mother likes to say, luxuriating in their first blowout loss in almost three years.
Social media amplifies conspiracy theories. The flat earth movement is growing at an alarming rate. Sports are not immune to this at all.
Losses hurt more now than they used to. The 24/7 NFL content creator attention economy now means that we have to experience losses not just once on Sunday/Monday, but all week because it will get discussed over and over on every corner of the internet/radio/TV. And it's all hot takes and absolutes because that's what drives clicks/ratings.
That's who I want, but the Browns would have to get to the point where they completely punt on the season. I don't think they're there yet. Also, the whole NFL world is mock-trading every WR on a bad team to KC right now.