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There are a couple of games to play, so I may be a bit rash to speak about a SB matchup.

But it is worth musing over a Bills v. Bucs Super Bowl. That’ll be renamed the Brady Bunch tries to beat up the Bills again. Of course, a Bills win over Brady would exorcise the demons lurking in every Bills fan’s mind.

Ah, now I’ve done it! Even just thinking about it probably jinxed us and we’ll have to endure a Mahomes v. Rodgers final.

 

Oh, and Gronk is from Buffalo. Grew up a huge Bills fan.

 

He may have been but he is no longer welcome after what he did to White.

 

I hope Mahomes can play this week. If he’s out KC has zero chance to beat Buffalo

 

Reports: Ravens releasing Mark Ingram on Tuesday



Ravens running back Mark Ingram broke his own news, though it was expected.

Ingram tweeted a good-bye letter to Baltimore minutes before multiple reports broke that the Ravens have informed the running back they are releasing him Tuesday.

Ingram played his final game for the Ravens in Week 17. He was a healthy scratch in both playoff games.

The Ravens save $5 million in cap space by releasing him.

In 2020, Ingram had a career-low 72 carries and a career-low 299 rushing yards.

Ingram, 31, has 7,324 rushing yards in 10 NFL seasons, eight with the Saints. He has 9,219 yards from scrimmage in his career and 72 total touchdowns.

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Salary cap could be in the range of $180 million



Every December, the NFL gives the 32 teams an idea regarding the expected salary cap for the coming league year. This year, that didn’t happen.

It didn’t happen because the pandemic has caused revenue to crater, by dramatically reducing attendance at games. The NFL and NFL Players Association agreed in July that the cap for 2021 will go no lower than $175 million.

That would be a $23.2 million drop, per team, in comparison to 2020.

There has been talk that the cap won’t drop that low, and that it possibly could remain in the range of $195 million. The final number, however, will result from a negotiation between the NFL and the NFL Players Association. The players surely will want the cap to be as high as it can be. Multiple teams will want that, too, in order to avoid having to create the space necessary to comply with a $175 million spending limit.

Plenty of owners, in contrast, don’t want to delay the full brunt of the impact of the 2020 losses. They view it as an interest-free loan to players. And that mentality would push the final number closer to $175 million.

A league source with knowledge of the situation suggests that the salary cap could be in the range of $180 million.

At that amount, things could get very ugly for plenty of teams and players. As the source characterized it, the commencement of the 2021 league year on March 17 will destroy the middle class of veteran free agents. Plenty of players will be cut or not re-signed.

By way of example, a player like Ndamukong Suh, who was paid $7 million in 2020, will likely get something closer to $3 million in 2021. Many teams will be able to offer veterans only $1 million per year.

The problem is that contracts always are negotiated with the understanding that the cap will keep going up by five to 10 percent. If it drops by roughly 15 percent this year, multiple teams will have major issues because they haven’t built their rosters with the possibility of a shrunken cap in mind.

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Ah, now I’ve done it! Even just thinking about it probably jinxed us and we’ll have to endure a Mahomes v. Rodgers final.


LOL.........good one Dan.........the only way I can win Babys Pick-Em is to predict the Upsets.

Bills beat the Chiefs and Buccs beat the Packers.

BUT now that you told everyone I can forget about that eh........lol

 

The only thing that kept Rivers from having 5 more kids was being a teammate

 

7 daughters man...I’d be playing until they had to scrape me off the turf and send me home on a gurney

 

I only had one wife and one daughter and the house was never quiet. Can't imagine six more.

 

Same. I just have one brother, I was completely unprepared for the level of crazy involved in the mother-daughter dynamic.

 

The true answer is would he have won a SB if he played for Belichik? I’m not convinced that he could have, so no he’s not HOF.

 

I assume you are referring to Rivers. Why is Belichick the measuring stick?

There are a great bunch of HOF material QB's whom have never won a SB.

 

Because I don’t think he could have won championships even if Belichik was his coach

 

Rivers always had droughts in the biggest games of his career

 

I dont see how failure to win a Super Bowl is automatically an out when it comes to the HOF. Tell that to Fran Tarkenton, Dan Marino or Dan Fouts and throw in Jim Kelly for good measure. Ive always said; its the Hall of Fame, not stats, anyway.

 

I dont see how failure to win a Super Bowl is automatically an out when it comes to the HOF. Tell that to Fran Tarkenton, Dan Marino or Dan Fouts and throw in Jim Kelly for good measure. Ive always said; its the Hall of Fame, not stats, anyway.

Totally agree Will.........you forgot Warren Moon.

 

I have 5 likes for this post so far. I think that's a record for me. And I'm betting that all 5 of you have/had a daughters in the house.

 

And I'm betting that all 5 of you have/had a daughters in the house.

Yup.......and it's the bathroom time that I hated........