May Day 10

My first choice is Quenneville. Then Berube. They check all the boxes, especially Quenneville. The Sabres have done a lot of good faith things for the NHL over the years. Time to cash that in and ask for Coach Q to be reinstated. My guess is it will be Seth Appert, who will be Granato 2.0.

Didn't marrone want whaley and Brandon out? Tried to leverage a decent Bills season and his contract clause... and lost.

I never liked eichel either It's undeniable that the nhlpa took note of the way the sabres wouldn't allow him to get the procedure he wanted, and also how they handled the situation publicly Also looks worse when eichel (like oreilly) gets set free and wins a cup. NHLPA members will always see things from the players' perspective.

I am not so sure the Sabres lose money. The NHL is setting revenue records, and Pegula just raked in 2 shares of the expansion fee. They also have a small front office and one of the lowest payrolls in the league. Also factor in that he bought the franchise for $189 Million and it is now worth about $1 Billion.

I could probably write 100 pages on this topic. Quick summary. The NFL and NHL are very different. NFL is very coach-centric, and the program kind of falls in line with the coach and they get a few years. If they hit on the QB, and the coach has a decent head on his shoulders, you get what the Bills have. I think McDermott and Beane are strong enough personalities where they do what they think is right, listen to Terry, and easily convince him that their path is correct. The NHL is much more nuanced. You cannot clear the cap and rebuild in 2 years like the NFL. There are extensive international scouting and development requirements and seeds need to be planted years in advance. Coaches are the lowest man on the totem pole, and are thrown away with the trash for a kick in the butt the minute things aren't going right. There is an intricate balance and chemistry with an NHL team that cannot be achieved by looking at statistics. The rot from the Sabres actually comes from the ownership groups that came before Pegula. Rigas (the NHL), and Golisano eroded the franchise and its reputation in the hockey/NHL community. Things got very stale and incestuous under Regier and Ruff. Pegula came on and enabled that to continue. He thought just adding monitary resources would propel the Sabres to the top. All it did was magnify and compound the problems. Since then, Pegula has groped around, thinking he (and Kim when she was president) are the smartest people in the building. They have failed to bring in anyone with any kind of credibility and experience from the outside. The entire league has passed the Sabres by and lapped them 3x. Their image in the hockey world has gotten worse through players' inability to succeed here, and things like the treatment of Eichel. Firing a GM and hiring a nobody with the purpose of firing all the scouts and hockey personnel is also a terrible look. For 20 years, this team has needed someone with credibility to restore the image of this once great NHL franchise. The thing needs to be completely re-built from the top down with the guidance of someone with extensive experience and rolodex.

I very rarely watch the NCAA Championship game. Never if I do not have a bracket-money-winning situation on the line. IMO conference tournaments and the first few rounds are awesome. Action going on everywhere. By the time the get to about 8 teams, I lose steam. Super Bowl is tough to beat. First day of the NCAA tournament is good. MLB opening day always is nice.

Usually I hate predictable. Wrestlemania was always really a predictable event, and it wasn't often my favorite PPV when I was a regular watcher. I will say though, even though all the predictable results came in, it was fun. It was a great crowd, and as I mentioned earlier, everyone involved seemed to be having the time of their lives. The challenge for the WWE now is how to make it unpredictable and captivating, and getting their stars to stand on their own... and without an off the hook Philly crowd eating everything up. It does seem like there is more of a willingness to push the line a bit, as I see a lot of swearing and kind of edgier content which will help. Not expecting Attitude Era or anything, but the audience needs to get that "anything can happen" feeling again.

It was terrific. I too was expecting stone cold, but I gotta say, for some reason, the undertaker wasn't even on my radar. I too like how the legends were a part of the plot instead of fight in some sort of degrading battle Royale. You could tell it was different. It seemed edgier, and It seems everyone involved was having a blast. *I'm usually a modern wwe pessimist

I had enough breaks in the clouds, including for the entirety of the corona/full eclipse, where it was super awesome. Watching the faded sub through the clouds was awesome. Just enough poked through the haze at times. I hope I didn't do any damage viewing it obscured by a bunch of clouds. After the total eclipse, it semi- was clear for about 5 minutes and we used the glasses as we could finally see it through those.

I'm not bitter. He is who he is. I think we knew coming in that there was a shelf life until he burned the bridge here. Had some great times. I believe he has some juice left

I have often questioned local Yankees fans on that. You couldn't pick a more different philosophy and experience as the Yankees vs the local Buffalo teams (I was more on this before there were several other big spenders who emerged in MLB). Red Sox and Boston in general were kind of endearing losers for what seemed to be destined for all eternity. I have always been a Cleveland fan. I admit though, since the Guardians name change, it doesn't feel the same. The Cleveland experience fits in well with Buffalo though.

I hate the Yankees, but there are more Yankees fans in WNY than any other team. Next I would say probably the Mets and Red Sox would be close to one-another. Then comes the Blue Jays (surge lately with the affiliation and the home games in Buffalo maybe propel them into the above group with the Mets and Sox). Then comes the Indians Then Pirates I have only known 1 Reds fan in all my years living here. I know several (long time) Orioles fans. I would say they are after the Pirates.

It is tough/impossible to call the Bills the 'winner' here. It seems like Diggs might have had them backed into a corner though, and they had little choice. It seems he started pouting somewhere towards the end of the 2022 season. The Bills figured they could make everything better through the offseason, and last season, but it seems to have never worked out. This year, he would have probably been a distraction and/or not given full effort, and probably let the Bills know that. Its a net-negative for the Bills though. It is a drought-era WR room right now. They had to eat feces on a $31 cap hit. Along with all the other departures of team captains and pro-bowlers, this is really going to test the sustainability of the "process" here as well as Josh Allen's ability, commitment, and leadership. It kind of sails outside of the Bills being a powerhouse, and more into the seas of the unknown (and there is a hurricane Terry looming somewhere out there) I think Beane has done a lot of great things here. However, the combination of the Diggs extension, Von Miller signing, and Knox extension have really hurt. The good news is, 2025 looks to promise a ton of cap space. If they can land 3-4 decent regular contributors in this draft class out of 10 picks (and UDFA), and hit on 2-3 more next year, and make some good signings, they could be right back as a Superbowl front-runner with Allen and the younger pieces. That would indicate they are more of the ilk of Baltimore, Phily, SF, LA Rams, as opposed to another flash in the moment-in-the-sun recent franchise successes like Carolina, Atlanta, or

Which means he may be even more desperate for targets and flip out when the other guys get them

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Honestly, that structure sounds fantastic and much better than the current Frankenstein that we used to know as college football. This would give you your regional divisions/conferences and restore the rivalries. You have a relegation/promotion opportunity for the mid-majors if a program takes off.

I wonder if there was an actual decline.... or if Diggs was just pouting and not putting in full effort for the last half of the season and playoffs. I wish we could know what Diggs' heat with the Bills was, and what was done/attempted (if anything) to fix it.

If I'm not mistaken, the Bils could get to $50-$75 million-ish under the cap for next offseason. Maybe more depending on von Miller and knox's status

So if this is accurate, this basically costs the Bills $4 Million additional this year, and they are scott-free otherwise. Does anyone here know whether or not that $31.096 can now be spread across 2 years? If so, that can provide some immediate savings. Thirdly, I wonder if Diggs is going to press the Texans for an extension/restructure with such little guaranteed money?

They at a $30 Million cap poop sandwich, to ship him out of here (to a potential AFC rival) for pennies on the dollar. People freaked at his posts because they were clearly little glimpses of bigger issues in his head and inter-personally with his teammates and management. Maybe he was 'trolling' people or things were taken out of context. At this point, highly unlikely. The guy was a malcontent D-bag.

Run, Run, Pass, Punt

I thought for sure he was hurt.... but he participated in all the pro bowl stuff

This blows a huge hole in the hull of the ship here.

Ugh. Strengthens the Texans, who I think are going to be a bigger menace that KC and Cincinnati for the next 2-3 seasons.

Goodbye problem child. Had some great times here. By all accounts he is not a pleasant person, and I am sure his act has worn very thin based on the punitive damage this trade causes