Low Positive

If you scroll back a few pages, you’ll find Albright tweeting that the basis of this story was his idle speculation on a Broncos podcast. He admits that he has no source and was playing “what if.” Diggs’ contract is untradable. The Bills will have to make it work for the next two years. There is no other option.

This place is currently populated by the type of fan who: 1) Posts on message boards: tends to skew older. The drought era left a reflexive negativity on our fandom. I mean for the better part of 20 years negative opinions were well founded. I turn 50 this year so I can understand that but for those who were adults in the 70s and 80s I would imagine that cuts even deeper. I remember the 2-14 80s, but I was a kid. Also, the Bills subreddit is a lot less negative than this place. 2) Posts on an NFL message board in mid June: We’re obsessed. I don’t live in WNY any longer, but I would have to imagine that the general fandom is much more positive than this place. I see it here in Cincinnati with the difference in tone between regular fans and the discussions on Jungle Noise. But the negativity on TBD is interesting. You see so much tempering of expectations in order to shield against future disappointment.

Brady doesn't currently have an NFL contract so his pay is $0.

Joe Burrow's contract negotiations are going to be very interesting. Mike Brown doesn't have enough cash on hand to put into escrow to pay both him and Chase long-term top-dollar deals. I think both will get shorter deals just to keep the escrow down.

That was not an unreasonable opinion.

Yeah. We’re the most negative fans of a good team in the world of sports. And that includes English soccer fans.

I didn’t post them on here, but my draft night hot takes in 2018 are embarrassing in retrospect.

I’m a dad of two great kids. My son is a current deans list college student at Miami University (OH) and my daughter is a rising HS senior getting mail from Harvard and Yale. I couldn’t be more proud. But my own dad is in the hospital right now fighting for his life. He’s been a Bills fan since the AFL days and could use some prayers and positivity from the Mafia right now. So Happy Father’s Day dad and please get better.

I read that as “obvious Toupee.”

Isn’t “big dawg” most likely McD?

Then the Bengals offense sucks. Joe Burrow, J'amar Chase and Tee Higgins got the ball with 2:00 left in a tie game and they punted. Everyone remembers the calls that went KC's way on their final drive, but they punted the ball back to Mahomes with 41 seconds left.

Oh yeah they did. I've been tempted to dig up comments on Daboll from game threads in 2021-2022. But you can just go read the game and post-game threads from the Jacksonville loss.

The fines are written in the CBA and are automatic

Agents are lawyers, so we can parse that statement like legalise. It all depends on the meaning of the word “here.” I read it to mean that he’ll be in town.

I think that Josh makes that throw if Saffold doesn't lose that rep so badly. I have thought since it happened that if he makes that throw that the game would have turned out differently. I'm not sure that the Bills would have won, but it would have been a shootout instead of a beatdown. Sometimes a single play can turn a whole game. I think that it did in this case. Also, FWIW Gabe had his man beat on that play too.

Wasn’t trendy when I grew up there in the 80’s/early 90’s. I remember mostly hanging out in mini park trying to get people to buy us beer at Willie’s while fending off the insane guys that were just released from the mental hospital. I went back down there the last time I was in town and I didn’t recognize the neighborhood.

I’ve been to SoCal many times, but so never went to the LBC. Too much drama.

Here is the Cincinnati news report in this. Pretty cool that Boyd, Higgins and Chase all west along. https://www.wlwt.com/amp/article/bengals-star-wide-receiver-trio-reunites-bills-damar-hamlin/43798687

Camp body.

Jones has already been expended. He’s an unsigned UFA.

I did a bit of digging. In the era before video scouting was possible, small-school picks like Mean Joe Green and Andre Reed were considered reaches.

Bills just signed DJ Dale, DT from Alabama. 6”1’ 302.

Taiwan Jones is currently an unsigned FA.

Cole Strange was considered to be a reach, but then he started all 17 games for the Pats as a rookie.

Is it "tipping" if I saw it on the nfl.com draft tracker?