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    I'm not the one doing mental gymnastics to justify the trade in my own head. I'm also not comparing Watkins to Matthews or Darby to Gaines. I'm looking at the actual trades in both cases and in both cases it was the Bills who gave up the better player and all 3 teams agree (Bills, Eagles, and Rams) because the Eagles and Rams both agreed to use draft picks as sweeteners to even out the trade of players. The Bills agree to take lesser players this season in exchange for picks. It may work out for the best, but that's still what they did. #BluePrint I'm not speculating about the reasons or other extenuating circumstances. I'm looking at the trades and the trades only. Bills downgraded both times and were compensated for future picks. It may work out in Buffalo's favor in the end but it shows they are willing to be worse in 2017 since the picks they added won't come until next season. If they had made these drafts at the 2017 draft in exchange for picks that could play this season it could be argued as a wash, but they didn't.
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    Whatever mental gymnastics you have to do to convince yourself it wasn't a downgrade is fine. The Bills considered it a downgrade though, otherwise they wouldn't have required the pick. If Philly didn't believe Darby was an upgrade they wouldn't have agreed to give the extra pick. The trade could turn out to be different but that's how it stands at the time of the trade itself. Hell, Darby could lose his foot in a boating accident making us win the trade in a landslide or Matthews could turn into Jerry Rice in his prime. That still doesn't change the fact that at the time of the trade both the Eagles and Bills agreed that Darby was better and the Bills were willing to downgrade this season in exchange for an additional draft pick to help them in the future. Throw in the added downgrade in the Watkins trade and the Bills seems to be attempting some sort of stealth mini tank or whatever nonsense. Then they get butt hurt when people called them on it.
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    How is that not true? I never said we traded Darby for Gaines and a pick either. We traded Darby for Matthews and a 3rd. That objectively means that both the Bills and the Eagles agreed that Darby was worth more than Matthews and in order to even the value out Philly had to add a 3rd round pick that won't be able to play for Buffalo until 2018 at the earliest. The Bills are knowingly taking a hit to their team for the 2017 season in exchange for the hope that they get that value back in 2018 and beyond. I don't your question at all either because it doesn't make sense. How would we trade Watkins to LA for Darby? LA doesn't have Darby and never did. We had Darby and traded him to Philly. I think you may have the 2 trades confused. Buffalo traded Darby to Philly for Matthews and a 3rd. Buffalo traded Watkins and a 6th to LA for Gaines and a 2nd.
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    You may not be convinced but my point is the Bills and the Eagles both are/were. Otherwise they wouldn't have required that Philly add a 3rd round pick and Philly wouldn't have agree to add it. Even if Matthews ends up being more productive than Darby, it doesn't change the facts that the Bills were ok with downgrading for the season in exchange for hopefully upgrading next season with the extra draft pick. And it certainly doesn't jive with their whole win now, push for the playoffs, or whatever storyline the PR machine is pushing out. I really don't know what exact narrative they are pushing because once they closed down the official Bills message board a little while back I stopped going to their website.
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    The Bills and Eagles both saw Darby as an upgrade over Matthews or else they wouldn't have had to include a 3rd round pick. Same with Watkins over Gaines except they had to add a 2nd in exchange for a 6th from us. It can still work out for Buffalo, but it's clear that they expect us to lose the trade in 2017 with the expectation that they balance it out at the draft in 2018.
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    We knowingly and willingly downgraded at both positions and the Bills brass thinks so as well. How do I know that? Because they required and received additional draft picks to make up for the difference. That means they knowingly downgraded their talent this season in exchange for hopefully improving in the future with draft picks in 2018. Any talk of trying to win this year is just window dressing to keep even more of the fans and team from mentally checking out. Is it still possible for them to win and make the playoffs this season? Yeah, it's possible. Not very likely though. It won't be a full on tank though as long as we have Taylor and McCoy though, we'll win just enough games to draft 8th or something horrible like that. Bad enough to have no real chance at the playoffs in December but not bad enough to get our choice of the QB's coming out next draft.
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    Josh Gorges coming off the books at the end of the season. Oh and competent coaching.
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    Season 2 was the docks and the longshoreman's union, right? That season was awesome. Dude getting drunk with his pet duck at the bar. That may have been one of my favorite seasons. I agree on season 5 though. You could tell they were heading into wrap up mode, especially after many of the better charcter started getting picked off.
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    That's the Pegula's for you, Jeff. The best part is they not only hired him because of his name, his faith, or his impressive wrestling background (unrelated non football reasons), but they also let the unproven rookie head coach hand pick his own GM. An unstandard practice that is usually only given to proven Super Bowl winning head coaches like Shanahan, Parcells, and Belichick. I can't recall a single time a rookie head coach was allowed to pick his own GM.
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    They didn't trade Watkins for Matthews though, they traded Watkins for a CB with the same gimpy foot issues that Watkins has. The real reason they were traded was because of their haircuts. McGinger doesn't want Rastafarians on his team. Gaines and Matthews have haircuts that you can set your watch too. That's what matters.
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    They downgraded in talent no matter how you slice it. Jordan Matthew is not as talented as Sammy Watkins and EJ Gaines is not as talented as Ronald Darby. In the end it doesn't matter though. We were only fighting for second place in the division and an outside chance at the playoffs in a best case scenario anyway. To top it all off Gaines is just as gimpy as Watkins.
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    If they're not trying to win now, they need to go ahead and trade McCoy. Running backs age like milk. No sense in keeping him around during his few remaining seasons of peak play just so we can have him when he's old, slow, and expensive when they finally try to start winning.
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    Does this make Boldin our #1 receiver or is Jordan Matthews better? Either way welcome to the show.
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    To each his own I guess. It's one thing to take kids you care about and witness their joy and excitement. It's quite another to do it for your own "fun". Hours of standing in line, in the Florida heat, surrounded by 1,000 of children you have no emotional attachment to. Maybe it's just me but there's not enough booze in the world to make me want to do that.
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    You guys/gals can all do that on the 3rd annual Sabrespace Meet Up. Sabrespace 3: Where's the blotter, and why does it feel like I'm waiting in line at the DMV only outside and on the surface of the sun?!
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    Why are you going to Disneyland/world as a single adult male with no kids?
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    Maybe for quarterbacks specifically, but I don't think it's the case for other positions. I think quarterbacks are most similar to goalies.
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    It's more than double but less than 3 times. NFL rosters are 53 players with actual game day roster being something like 47 or something like that. I think the NHL is 23 players (give or take). More than the size of the rosters though, I think the difference is the age of the players being drafted. Only the very best NHL draft picks enter the league after being drafted while every NFL draft pick is fighting for a spot the very next season. That helps skew the numbers in the NFL's favor. I'm pretty sure the average NFL career is shorter than the NHL as well which would lead to needing to rely on the next wave of youngsters more as well. Also, I edited my earlier post to link an article that had a chart with some NFL draft pick numbers.
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    I don't think the numbers don't bear that out. Part of it probably has to do with the age difference (drafting 18 year olds vs 21 year olds) but the percentage of draft picks that even make the NHL is pretty low compared to the NFL. The draft picks of most teams in the NFL end up on most rosters with many of the ones who don't playing on the practice squad. http://www.tsn.ca/playing-the-percentages-in-the-nhl-draft-1.206144 https://www.milehighreport.com/2014/5/13/5713996/how-long-does-the-average-draft-pick-stick-around Most of the "draft busts" in the NFL are still players on the roster. Most of the "draft busts" in the NHL never even make it.
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    We need to become one quick. No sense in waiting 3 years to make the push. At that point Okposo will be 32 and in decline, Kane may be long gone, and O'Reilly will be 29 and likely starting to decline.
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    Except Iggy Pop.
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    This. We need to take advantage of gaining top tier production out of bottom tier salaries if we ever want to make a serious push for the Cup. Bringing in Duchene would essentially cost us Kane next season (2018-2019) and then we wouldn't have any blue chip help coming in from the farm. Sure guys like Pu and Asplund should be able to contribute in the coming years but they don't have the ceilings that Nylander and Mittelstadt do.
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    You need to threaten to cancel to get some sort of discount or deal. You should also work out some deals with some friends or family members. My girlfriend pays for Amazon Prime so we get to stream their stuff without it coming out of my pocket. I pay $21.38 each month to Netflix for 4 simultaneous streams and 1 dvd at a time that I share with various family. My older brother pays $11.99 (I think) for the Hulu with no commercials and we all share that. My Dad pays for HBO and Showtime through his Time Warner/Spectrum that I use through the Roku. Despite that I still pay for Directv but with threatening to cancel I'm paying around $79 per month with no premium channels, but I do have the whole home DVR, HD, and multiple boxes.
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    I think they are allowed but no one uses them anyway. It wouldn't be possible for Colorado to do it right now anyway though. By rule you can't start negotiating a contract extension until the final season of their deal so the earliest Duchene can be extended is July 1, 2018.
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    It'll probably be written in silver as well.
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