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I thought most top 10 pics.. we're guaranteed.. Possibly even the entire first round This is definitely striking new water which is probably why there's a decent amount of holdouts... If they can get it get whatever you can get

Some of the strike zone calls this year have even Angel Hernandez like 🤨. Truly egregious. And if you complain you get tossed by the guy? The challenge system seemed to work in the preseason and then it was scrapped for further study or whatever and Manfred is now hinting it will be in place next year. I say bring on the robo-umps! The Hawkeye system can make split second calls in tennis for the past 10 years. No reason they can’t make it work for baseball. 🖕the umpire union protecting these thin skinned pigs. I watch or listen on radio to a fair amount of Red Sox games.

I like Kesselring but that is a very light return for JJ. Hit a homerun with a 2nd round pick, develop him properly, watch him begin to thrive in the NHL, and then just before he's about to enter his prime - trade him. The Sabres truly are a farm team for the rest of the league.

I heard Keon's making his way there, as he's planning to transition to TE. Unfortunately, he's still too slow, so looks like he'll be running a bit late.

Is that really an issue? I know WNY isn't a huge market, but it's not all about population size with some of these franchises. Like MLB teams in Miami & Tampa Bay, the Islanders in NHL, the Wizards or Suns in the NBA, etc. all have big markets, but they're lower in attendance than most of the leagues they play in. Meanwhile, you have Cleveland, not a huge city, supporting an NBA, NFL & MLB, having great attendance, all with Cincinnati just 3.5 hours away with their own NFL & MLB teams. It's often just about team success, other times it's about fan loyalty over sheer numbers. In terms of loyalty, look at New Orleans. I doubt the average person living there makes much more money than those in WNY, yet the Pelicans had the 3rd highest NBA attendance & the Saints had the 14th highest NFL attendance. I think Buffalo can definitely support the Sabres, it's just that they've been terrible for too long, and the organization hasn't done anything to inspire confidence things will improve.

He's clearly a top 5 pick in any death pool and that is not a good thing.

He is sensitive. Maybe he's the most sensitive GM in the league, I don't know, but I don't think it matters either.

Who uses the term “butt hurt” anymore? Is this PFF reporter a middle schooler from the 2010’s?

Yep, Monson who voted Lamar for MVP, but is now saying that Josh has become “the guy” as NFL’s best QB… https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/josh-allen-freah-show-has-become-the-guy-atop-nfl-s-greatest-qb-debate-sam-monson

I saw that and just laughed and SMH, so predictable

I keep reading that QB Josh Allen is a big reason as to why this current team is so good and yet during the 2023 season the Buffalo Bills were 6-6 at one point with Ken Dorsey at OC until McD fired him and replaced him with Joe Brady. (With losses to the NY Jets, Jags, Pats, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles.) the Bills then went on to the playoffs. Josh Allen is great no question...alas, it is a team sport and McD has brought his process, culture into Buffalo and gotten to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor at QB. The Kansas City Chiefs have mostly kept Buffalo from reaching a SB and Andy Reid has 26 seasons of being an NFL HC. Reid made it to the SB in his stint as the Eagles HC. 14 seasons. The Chiefs currently have an OC and DC that have previously been NFL head coaches in Nagy, Spagnola. Aside from all that in is my belief that injuries to the Buffalo Defense have kept Buffalo from the SB...along with the brain fart of Leslie Frazier calling a prevent defense in 2021 AFC Championship game.

The day of Gerry Philbin's passing cannot pass without acknowledgement of his greatness as a player. His gridiron accomplishments: 4-year starter at the University of Buffalo Bulls Only the 4th UB player drafted by an NFL team and the first to play in a regular season game in the NFL 3rd Round pick in 1964 by both the NFL (Detroit Lions) and the AFL (NY Jets) AFL and Super Bowl Champion (1969) 2-time All-AFL 1968 AFL sack leader (unofficial, before they became a stat) with 14.5 in 14 games 66.5 career sacks (he's still 4th all-time in sacks for the Jets with 65) NY Jets Ring of Honor member Member AFL All-time Team as voted in 1970 (he and Tom Sestak were first team, Tom Keating and KC's Buck Buchanan were second team) John Schmitt, the center for those Jets teams of yore, reflected today on Philbin's toughness. "I do remember when we played the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoff game [after the 1969 season] — he had a separated shoulder. They made up a leather harness that was a half-inch thick that was wrapped around his chest, and they had chain-link fence holding the leather arm piece to the chest piece. You never saw such a barbaric thing. And he played the whole game against Kansas City. ... He was a damn tough player and I loved the man." "He was one of the best teammates I ever had with the Jets, and I played right beside him," said Ralph Baker, the Jets' left-side LB at the time. "I really believe he should've been a Hall of Famer. He was just a good guy, a regular guy who worked hard and shared his feelings. When teammates needed to be set straight, Gerry was the guy to do it." After his playing career, he sold real estate in Florida, moved back to the Northeast and to New Hampshire, then back to Long Island, where he owned a sand and gravel business, before returning to the Sunshine State and Palm Beach Gardens to be near to his children in his golden years. Schmitt, one of the on-field and emotional leaders of the Jets' Super Bowl era, put it well when he said of Philbin: "He was a man's man, he was a good father, he was a great teammate. And he was one of the leaders on our team." RIP Gerry.

Seriously the only shocking thing here is that WGR is talking about a topic even remotely related to the Bills in late June. Usually it is hot dog and boy band drafts. Who am I kidding? They talk about irrelevant garbage year round…

Yea I have made the argument that 2017 was their best draft. White, Dawkins and Milano become cornerstone players for the rebirth and two of them are still here 8/9 years later. You do have to factor the Mahomes thing in but I don't think they passed on Mahomes cos Beane said "I don't like him", or McDermott didn't like him. They passed on Quarterback as a position because they wanted to do their homework properly on it (and in fairness 2018 was already known to be a strong group). They got LUCKY to get a shot at Josh the next year but also kinda unlucky that the trade they made ended up passing on a guy Mahomes level good. Josh probably makes the 2018 draft the best. And they did get Taron Johnson in that class too as a cornerstone... plus Tremaine who they got 5 years out of and Wyatt Teller who they screwed the pooch on trading away. But a new regime NEEDS credibility early and not only the record in 2017 but White, Dawkins and Milano looking like hits gave them that.

The Sabres are such a joke.

He was very complimentary of Beane and said he had a point about the results he had gotten. He just took advantage of Beane exposing himself to say something that otherwise wouldn't have carried any weight if Beane hadn't shown his thin skin on WGR. But PFF has always really been about big picture grading. Beane's roster grades well there. #1 in the NFL scoring and #1 in fewest points allowed from 2020-2024. The Bills issues have been grossly underperforming in the divisional and championship rounds. That's a matter of not matching up with the other actual SB contenders in the AFC. Just not enough difference makers.

Outside of the Sabres, the 4 other teams owned by Terry have made the playoffs at least 60% of the time. More (at least 70%) if you remove the Knighthawks and the fact that they’ve only been in existence for 5 seasons and (understandably) missed the playoffs their first 2.

Yea those pieces are enough to demonstrate it wasn't one of the worst rosters in the NFL. It was a roster in flux in the middle of a tear down that shouldn't have made the playoffs and did - as distinct from some of those others rosters I mention - 2012, 2014, 2015 - which should have made the playoffs and didn't. Worse teams at the time it would be the usual suspects - Browns, Bengals, Jets, Dolphins, Bears, Redskins... the 49ers were terrible at that point as well they'd just hired Kyle and John Lynch after two one and done coaches. If you wanna say the Bills were 22nd or 23rd or something, fine.

Yeah the Panthers were caught off guard when Beane left. Took it for granted that the local guy would hang around until they were ready to give him the job. That whole offseason with Beane hanging around Carolina until after the draft........even though he knew he was going to be the Bills GM......was very shystie. If McDermott had done literally ANYTHING but essentially trade Patrick Mahomes to the Chiefs their reported theft of Panthers draft info could be seen as a clever move. An argument could be made that THAT was their best overall draft in the McBeane era. I know he's not been a particularly good personnel man but I've always taken solace in Howie Roseman not being very good early in his tenure with Philly either. You can grow into that job if you are smart like Beane.

They traded Peterka... The Buffalo Sabres forward was reportedly traded to the Utah Mammoth late Wednesday night in a deal for defenseman Michael Kesselring and forward Josh Doan. DailyFaceoff.com's Frank Seravalli first reported the deal and Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman indicated the return. Neither team has confirmed the transaction.

McD is the #2 HC in wins over the last five seasons and only Andy Reid has more. Men like Mike Tomlin made their glory inheriting a QB in big Ben and the guy he replaced made it to the playoffs and SB with QBs like Kordell Stewart, Neil O'Donnell. Lions HC Dan Campbell has yet to even make it to a SB along with Browns HC Kevin Stefanski. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/most-total-nfl-wins-last-5-years

We had pieces but overall a bad roster. Our starting offense or major contributors were: Tyrod Taylor. Benched after 2 games with the Browns. Back up since. LeSean McCoy good for us. Dionte Thompson - Did he ever make another NFL roster? Charles Clay - FA disappointment and out of the NFL one year later. Kelvin Benjamin playing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in a future Ghostbusters remake. Jordan Matthews - Fell off a cliff after the Eagles. Zay Jones probably always naked. Nick O’Leary - out of the NFL 2 years later? We had good pieces in Incognito, Hughes, Hyde, White and Poyer…. But we also had Ramon Humber, Preston Brown, Jordan Mills, Adolphus Washington and Jon Miller starting…don’t forget the above. Which offensive roster was worse that year?

They got lucky with Sean McDermott. They got a serious, professional, dedicated leader with the strength of character to walk straight into his first NFL Head Coaching job and start calling the shots (got the GM sidelined, then fired, had the long time PR guy who leaked liked a sieve moved on, and most importantly he got the trust of the owners and kept them away from football). Separate to the questions about whether McDermott is a bad, good or great coach which is being done to death elsewhere he is undoubtedly the biggest reason the franchise stopped being a laughing stock. There is no Brandon Beane, there is no Josh Allen, there is no culture and consistency had the Pegulas not got that choice right. Had they hired Anthony Lynn as the "nice guy in situ" who had done a decent job as OC in the previous season or Harold Goodwin I have zero doubt we'd have carried on spinning our wheels and we'd be onto a 3rd, 4th maybe even 5th regime under this ownership by now. Not dissimilar to the Sabres.