Around the NFL 2024 Season

[Spartacus]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5570133/2024/06/18/nfl-offseason-2024-winners-losers/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=3253079

 

So, which teams ultimately had the best and worst offseasons? Here’s a look at the potential biggest winners and losers.

Losers

Buffalo Bills

Could the Bills’ Super Bowl window be closing? It’s possible as this team tries to retool on the fly. The trade of Stefon Diggs and free agency departure of Gabe Davis leaves quarterback Josh Allen without his top two wide receivers. Meanwhile, the Bills also lost impact players Tre’Davious White, Mitch Morse and Jordan Poyer. They did draft big-target wide receiver Keon Coleman, but for a team that is trying to fend off the Dolphins in the AFC East and catch up to the Chiefs and Bengals in the conference, the Bills appear headed in the wrong direction

[KD in CA]

51 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5570133/2024/06/18/nfl-offseason-2024-winners-losers/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=3253079

 

So, which teams ultimately had the best and worst offseasons? Here’s a look at the potential biggest winners and losers.

Losers

Buffalo Bills

Could the Bills’ Super Bowl window be closing? It’s possible as this team tries to retool on the fly. The trade of Stefon Diggs and free agency departure of Gabe Davis leaves quarterback Josh Allen without his top two wide receivers. Meanwhile, the Bills also lost impact players Tre’Davious White, Mitch Morse and Jordan Poyer. They did draft big-target wide receiver Keon Coleman, but for a team that is trying to fend off the Dolphins in the AFC East and catch up to the Chiefs and Bengals in the conference, the Bills appear headed in the wrong direction

 

A very 'USA Today' summary from the Athletic.  

[Ann]

 

[Ann]

The price of a 16 oz beer at every #NFL stadium.
 

 

[Ann]

Kansas lawmakers approve plan to lure Chiefs from Missouri

 

Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the reigning Super Bowl champions with legislators approving a plan Tuesday for luring both the Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals away from Missouri.

 

Bipartisan legislative supermajorities OK'd the measure to authorize state bonds to help finance new stadiums and practice facilities for both teams on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which is split by the border with Missouri. Three Super Bowl victories in five years -- and player Travis Kelce's romance with pop icon Taylor Swift -- have made the Chiefs perhaps the area's most celebrated civic asset.

 

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[Spartacus]

7 hours ago, Ann said:

Kansas lawmakers approve plan to lure Chiefs from Missouri

 

Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the reigning Super Bowl champions with legislators approving a plan Tuesday for luring both the Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals away from Missouri.

 

Bipartisan legislative supermajorities OK'd the measure to authorize state bonds to help finance new stadiums and practice facilities for both teams on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which is split by the border with Missouri. Three Super Bowl victories in five years -- and player Travis Kelce's romance with pop icon Taylor Swift -- have made the Chiefs perhaps the area's most celebrated civic asset.

 

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https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/in-border-battle-for-the-chiefs-kansas-believes-new-stadium-would-attract-a-super-bowl

In a Kansas City Star article that describes the burgeoning border battle between Missouri and Kansas as a “confrontation” between the two states for the two teams, Kansas Senator Rob Olsen predicts that a new Chiefs stadium in Kansas “would host a Super Bowl within a few years.”

 

That’s the curveball that could have a major impact on the outcome of the effort to keep the Chiefs in the region. Improvements to Arrowhead Stadium wouldn’t bring the Super Bowl to town, unless the upgrades include a roof. A new stadium in Kansas would be a dome, which could lead to the usual cold-weather city quid pro quo — as the NFL has done in Minneapolis (twice), Indianapolis, and Detroit (twice).

 

[Ann]

He dropped Josh Allen from #2 (last year) to #6, and put Tyrek Hill above him (#4). Ooooooooooooooook

No other Bills player made the list. 

Some of this is head scratching. Aaron Rodgers at 20 (was 29 last year!), Justin Herbert at 41 (22 last year)...


NFL Top 100 Players of 2024: Patrick Mahomes reigns again; Myles Garrett top defender in Prisco's rankings
- Pete Prisco

[IDBillzFan]

22 hours ago, Ann said:

He dropped Josh Allen from #2 (last year) to #6, and put Tyrek Hill above him (#4). Ooooooooooooooook

No other Bills player made the list. 

Some of this is head scratching. Aaron Rodgers at 20 (was 29 last year!), Justin Herbert at 41 (22 last year)...


NFL Top 100 Players of 2024: Patrick Mahomes reigns again; Myles Garrett top defender in Prisco's rankings
- Pete Prisco

 

There's a pretty decent chunk of change for Prisco once all the fans start clicking, linking and commenting on this list.

 

Like shooting dolphins in a barrel.

 

 

[Ann]

Daboll really did lose weight.

 

[KD in CA]

55 minutes ago, Ann said:

Daboll really did lose weight.

 

 

His wife too.  Good for them, they look great.

[Ann]

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

On 6/21/2024 at 9:56 AM, Ann said:

Daboll really did lose weight.

 

 

Lost so much weight he's suspected of deflating footballs for Daniel Jones.

[Taro T]

On 6/21/2024 at 10:52 AM, KD in CA said:

 

His wife too.  Good for them, they look great.

 

Had never seen his wife before.  Until your post, just figured that she gained a large portion of the weight he lost.

 

But maybe she just had one section of the body that was just REALLY resistant to losing weight.  😉 

[Ninety-4]

5 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

Lost so much weight he's suspected of deflating footballs for Daniel Jones.

That fell a little flat.  

[Ann]

 

[Ann]

That Watson number...

[Ann]

Hmmm
 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

25 minutes ago, Ann said:

Hmmm
 

 

 

[Taro T]

9 hours ago, Ann said:

That Watson number...

 

Yes, that Watson # is nuts.  (But it's the Browns, so take it with a grain of salt.)

 

What about that Daniel Jones #.  That one is flat out N-V-T-S nuts.

[Hedge]

10 hours ago, Ann said:

That Watson number...

 

Josh Allen's hit in 2026 will be $64M, so hopefully the cap keeps increasing. (Near future: $30M this year, $43M in 2025, according to OverTheCap)