Albany,n.y.

Most of the media is leaving the XFL out when talking about sports closings.

Not cancelled, just conducted over phone & Skype.

The Golden State Warriors already banned fans from tonight's game in SF vs the Brooklyn Nets. The empty stadiums/arenas has already started in professional sports.

Take the under on the Jags win total. If there's an XFL in 4 years Minshew will be the starting QB for the Tampa Bay Vipers.

Here's why we disagree: You think it's just a crapshoot. I think a competent organization with good scouting can judge players well enough that it's not a crapshoot. The draft becomes a crapshoot the further down you go. Ok, let's look at the QBs traded up for. The jury is still out on most of the 2018 QBs, but of the 2 prior drafts the majority of teams are totally satisfied. The exceptions clearly are Arizona with Rosen & Denver with Lynch. The jury is still out on the Bears choice of Trubisky, but the other 2 QB picks traded up for are their team's franchise QBs. 2016: Goff, Wentz, Lynch. 2017: Trubisky, Mahomes, Watson. 2018: Darnold, Allen, Rosen, Jackson. Of the 10, 7 have led their team to the playoffs, 3 of the teams have already been in the Super Bowl with 1 winning it & another winning it after the QB got hurt and his backup won the game. Note the best organizations traded up for the QBs who have had the best results, while the 2 biggest busts were from questionable organizations (I include Denver since they have failed a few times finding the right QB).

So, what would you have done instead of trading up for Allen, who was the top QB on their board? Keep the picks and end up with Mason Rudolph and be in the QB market this offseason? Don't say draft Jackson, because he wasn't on their board. From 2016 to 2018 all but 1 1st round QB was traded up for, with many satisfied customers. Maybe it's time to admit the GMs around the league know more than you do. I figured that out years ago, but some of you still think you know more than the best GMs in the league.

I totally disagree with the premise trading down is better than trading up. It's true if your organization is run by a bunch of incompetent boobs (insert Nix & Whaley here), because an incompetent boob is like a blind squirrel in a field full of nuts, more nuts, better chance of finding one. If you have a well run organization with scouts you trust, trading up makes a lot of sense. When you trade up, you know exactly who you are getting (like when KC targeted Mahomes & we targeted Josh) SF got Jerry Rice the WR GOAT on a trade up too. When you trade down you are truly the blind squirrel-you have no clue who will be available when you pick. Trade up-sure thing on the player you want, trade down- you just bought a pig in a poke. To the OP: Show us the data proving a competent organization that trades down benefits more than a competent organization that trades up I don't buy your theory & I doubt you have the data to back it up. I'll go with logic-knowing who you are getting in the draft is better than blindly acquiring extra picks.

Like whenever some guy in his mother's basement posts a mock draft on the internet and someone has to post it to either disagree and say what an idiot the author is or agree with the author and claim he's a genius.

Madden without the den.

A lot of the recent mock drafts have the WRs going in the teens. A trade up will cost a 2nd & maybe one of our 5ths to get to the mid teens. If Beane is sold on a WR who is available at around 14, he should make the trade. I trust his judgement over anyone posting on a message board 24/7. This means I trust his judgement over both your judgement & mine because he knows a lot more than we do and I'm willing to admit it.

He was worried that Brady would hit a wall & kept JG as long as he could. JG was never going to re-sign with NE unless he was the starter and they kept him until the last day he could be traded. One reason the Patriots couldn't get more was they didn't have the cap room to franchise JG and then trade him. The day they traded him was the final day they could. SF took a small risk because they would either have to re-sign him for huge bucks or franchise him. At the point of the trade he had only played a few games. By the time the season ended SF saw his impact & it was an easy decision to give him millions.

At the point JG was traded he was in the final months of his contract. The Patriots could either trade him for a 2nd & get him out of the AFC, or keep him for a few more months and get a 3rd round comp pick a year later, which equates to a round later = a 4th. Better to take a 2nd in the upcoming draft than the equivalent of a 4th. SF got a good deal because they were a NFC team that was willing to give up a 2nd for a player whose contract was up & could become a free agent at the end of the season. The Patriots could have gotten a 1st in the prior off season but the bidders were in the AFC (Cleveland was the main rumored suitor). The Patriots also wanted to have more time to make sure Brady wasn't done before trading JG and in fact, waited until the last possible day to trade him. Belichick's hand was forced by his impending free agency.

Or just go here for the XFL depth charts (I did the search for him): https://www.fantasyalarm.com/articles/DanielMalin/80039/2020-xfl-depth-charts/

Terry has a reputation. Ask anyone in the NFL, you get in his way he'll frack you up.

The story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-romo-agrees-to-dollar17m-per-season-deal-with-cbs/ar-BB10xDKD?ocid=spartandhp

I remember the Buddy Ryan incident A YEAR LATER IN A GAME VS THE JETS. Buddy Ryan wasn't with the Oilers for the Bills game. He was hired to fix the Oilers D AFTER the Bills took apart the Oilers D in the 2nd half of the comeback game. Edit: Here is the reason for the punch from 1994 The Sporting News Pro Football Guide: Houston became the 1st team since the 1972 Dolphins to win its last 11 games. The Oilers latest triumph was marked by a sideline scuffle between assistant coaches Kevin Gilbride and Buddy Ryan. Defensive coordinator Ryan threw a punch at Gilbride, his offensive counterpart after the Oilers, leading 14-0 at the time, attempted two deep passes in their own territory late in the first half instead of running out the clock. Quarterback Cody Carlson fumbled the ball on his second pass attempt to give New York possession at the Houston 18yard line. The Jets however, did not score. Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason when asked to assess the Oilers Super Bowl chances " I think the only thing that might hold this team back is if the coaches kill each other." For the record Houston beat the Jets 24-0 and then lost to KC in their 1st playoff game. Ryan only coached 1 year in Houston & then was hired as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in 1994.

Close, but with the benefit of seeing the 1st round after the draft, the odds are the Bills would have taken Edmunds at 12 and either drafted Rudolph in the 1st or 2nd round with their own pick.

Here's the order translated. Allen, Darnold, Mayfield, Rosen, Rudolph & Lauletta. The proposed trade with Denver would have been only for one of the top 3.

At the time I would have been optimistic about drafting Rosen. Fast forward to today and I'd be wondering who we should draft with the first overall pick of the 2020 draft. Rosen would have put Beane & McDermott on pretty thin ice with a shot at a 2nd QB to either make or break them. The talk would be do we draft a QB or sign a veteran FA. The Bills would be on the verge of cutting Rosen if we had drafted him.

Bring back Josh Johnson? Just imagine Johnson to Phillips, we'd have the best minor league duo in the NFL. Cardale's MVP dream is dying in LA. I hope nobody here bet DC and gave the points.

I'm just glad that JP Losman isn't in the XFL lighting things up like he did when he led Las Vegas to the UFL championship. The calls to bring him back would crash the site.

Bring him back as a valet parker.

The Buffalo News says Ch 10 in Albany is part of the agreement. Games have been on Ch 23, but since it's the same management I'm guessing they'll stay on Ch 23.

My point is that no matter what your age, rooting against your team on a given down or even a game now and then will not divide your loyalty. Fans can multitask & still love their team just as much as the blind loyalist who feels the need to root for the team on every single down regardless of any other circumstances. I don't buy the idea that some kid, who isn't even eligible to play fantasy football, will lose his love of a team by not rooting for the team on every play. Do you know what the best way to kill a kid's interest in the home team is? I'll tell you-it's having a losing team for almost every year the kid is growing up. Fantasy football & betting won't make a kid find a different team than dad's, losing will. There have been numerous times in my 50 +/- years as a Bills fan that I have rooted against the team for one reason or another and it has not reduced my love of the team one iota. Examples are: I bet against them in a game I know they are not giving their best effort, like this past season's finale, December games where the game means nothing & the team will benefit with a higher draft choice, and games where a key player or coaching change will happen with a loss and that change, IMO, will greatly benefit the team in the long run. The best example would be in 1986 vs Tampa where an incompetent coach's job was on the line if the Bills lost. They lost & Hank Bullough was replaced by Marv Levy. I had no problem with the team losing if it meant Bullough, who I thought should have been fired immediately after the 1985 season ended, would get fired.

As a gambler, I can't agree. This year in the Bills regular season finale I saw a golden opportunity to bet against the Bills because I knew they were resting their key players. I bet the Jets on the money line & cashed the bet. Yes, I was rooting against the Bills 2nd stringers, but it didn't effectively reduce my long term love of the team.