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People respond differently to getting drafted. He might have been like "F***, I'm rich now!"

Cost us a couple draft spots, but it was important to win RJ's last game. Also, Power is a man.

Not exactly. He's a parody of a Jets troll that someone on this site has maintained for years. I respect the dedication.

People react to the draft like we're picking teams in dodgeball. We already had a really stacked roster.

I really think that its because they rank the players against each other, and they were looking for someone who at least has upside that might turn into a starting NFL QB. The upshot is that there are no NFL starters at the QB position in this draft. Pickett is at least NFL ready. Let's put it this way; if Josh Rosen was in this draft he would have gone #1 overall.

Both professional and amateur draftniks all make a common mistake; the rank the players against each other. So, they give positional grades based upon that particular draft class. It becomes really important who is the best WR or RB or CB in that draft. But as soon as a guy is drafted, that becomes irrelevant. All that matters is how a player ranks against all the other dudes at that position on the team they go to and all the other players in the league. I would argue that this is a weak draft. The Jets are adding some of the best players from a weak draft and we added a bunch of dudes that we already know can play in this league including Von f***ing Miller.

From what I understand, he doesn't want to be used as a running back. That's because RBs don't get paid as much as WRs and their careers are a lot shorter.

Victor Matheson has made an entire academic career on the argument that sports are bad for local economies. All sports. The Olympics are a bad deal for host nations. World Cups are bad for the host. Superbowls are a bad for the local economy. All sports stadiums are a bad deal. It's not like he just came up with this argument for this case; he's the first call for any journalist when a new stadium deal is announced. For an economist at Holy Cross, he gets on TV a lot. My counterargument is that there are a lot of things that have a poor ROI (like public education) from a dollars and cents standpoint but are essential for the quality of life in a community. FWIW, here is his Google Scholar list of published works: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C36&q=Victor+Matheson&btnG=

My least favorite is "complementary football." Why do we need a term for "everyone should play well?"

The Bengals stadium lease expires in 2026.

The hostile media effect is a perceptual theory of mass communication that refers to the tendency for individuals with a strong preexisting attitude on an issue to perceive media coverage as biased against their side and in favor of their antagonists' point of view. Partisans from opposite sides of an issue will tend to find the same coverage to be biased against them.

The Bills posted that on April 1st.

I think that the same could be said about a lot of players, but that's why you hire an agent.

I didn't know that rule. It's interesting because there is no way that Mike Brown is putting $200 million in an escrow account because he doesn't have it.

I can't understand why Brady would want to do this. The only reason that I can think of is that he wants to beat the Pats twice next year.

It's all about timing. I guarantee that Washington would rather have Mayfield than Wentz, but they already made their move.

It's because they signed La'el Collins during that hour. And this is yet another reminder that the defending AFC champions still don't have a practice/training facility.

He's not a free agent. He is signed for over 18 million for next year because the Browns exercised an option last spring.

Who goes to Atlanta? Did I miss something?

We're a long way from the "cash to the cap" days.

This is your daily reminder that NFL contracts are not guaranteed.

Because he's still pissed at us for not drafting him?

That Betamax has a much better picture than VHS, or so I was told by everyone who ever bought one. Beta was the Cross Fit of the 80's.

The Vikings were supposed to be really good that year.

We used to be like that too. In the mid 80’s, Rich Stadium was empty. Even during the SB years, some local company had to buy up extra tickets to lift blackouts so we could watch home games on TV. It’s only since about 2000 or so that the Bills fans started attending in large numbers in down years.