May Day 10

the level of jubilation from belichick certainly exceeded any non superbowl win... and even those dont seem like as much. not sure if its worth reading into. he could have just been happy for his coordinators. or he knows it was his last game in foxboro as the patriots' coach

1 penalty all game

its very possible they take a step back next year. especially if they hand it to a rookie qb.

I like Howard Stern. His sirius show got too stale for me years back and I got sick of/annoyed by most of his staff (Benjy, Ronnie, etc)... I was also completely sick of Artie before the end of that. He became the driver of 100% of the show's content for the last year.

trump didnt start toronto rumors. they have been there a long time, and flared up in 2008? when home games were moved there. the second bon jovi expressed interest, every bills fan new it was very suspect. it was widely known/reported that he was in tight with mlse, lieweke, and the city of toronto. did donald trump write kryk's columns for him? it took everyone 30 seconds to connect the dots

i suspect he left mainly due to pegula choosing to continue with a flawed management structure. he didnt want to stake his career on things like brandon and whaley trying to force ej manuel to be good. mcdermott got what marrone wanted here. polian would have been brought in to mold the front office, probably chosen a gm to work with marrone... and we would likely have had a better result in 2015 and 2016.

I also get annoyed by the spot foul thing. A tacky PI call results in a huge swing.... but with that said, yes, I think the other way would result in muggings of WRs when it is strategically beneficial. One thing I dislike though is the removal of the 5 yard 'inadvertent" facemask penalty.

Yeah, I dont get it, really. I guess I kind of do, but I don't agree/feel it myself Marrone, IMO was against the leadership of the Bills and wanted serious changes to be made and/or control to continue. He was right. Pegula chose the 'lifers' and continue the lineage of Brandon/Overdorf/Whaley calling the shots that affect the football team. Marrone didn't want to stake his career on it. Pozluszny is what he is. Seems like a class guy. I never felt spurned by him Dareus is a little tough... the Bills are the ones who gave him that deal. He already had question marks. But whatever. Questionable characters win the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl every year. I have admiration for Coughlin The Patriots. Such an insufferable fan base and team. If they win, they will also be tracking the last thing we have - 4 consecutive Conference Championships.

zero dilemma

Agree with this 100%. Sal agitates me. Not only his delivery of yelling into the microphone, but his outlook is always Murphy-esque positive and he refuses to focus on areas that call for criticism. IMO Buscaglia is the best/honest balance. He seems to have a very neutral, measured, and well thought out approach. I dont mind Sullivan, but I understand how his personality turns people off.

it was hardly a bad question.

fan alliance between the queen cities. i was delighted to read the mmqb piece on a few of the beneficiaries from andy daltons foundation. its really great that some positivity can come to the surface about the nfl, when 98% of the (off field) news is negative. dalton and his wife seem like good people and i will root for him moving forward. i hated the bengals for breaking my heart in the icky shuffle afc championship game. i did root for them in superbowl xxiii because my 10 year old self wanted the bills to lose to the best. that is an underrated super bowl. that bengals team was great. we did steal credit for the no huddle from wyche though

im optimistic. firing dennison was not easy or fun. but they did it swiftly because it needed to be done. still work to do and its very possible the team will win less than 9 games in 2018... but they a committed to building a sustainable football program. i havent felt that way since butler or donahoe

These guys mean business

Whaley isn't a good GM. He ran a leaky ship strife with dysfunction. Some of the contracts they handed out are puzzling. Obsession with trading up in the draft hurt. Absolutely no urgency to resolve the awful QB situation. Publicly, as 'CEO' of the football department he came across as a boob. To me, the whole Levy/Brandon/Nix/Whaley lineage was basically one administration anyways. Just a series of passing the baton to buy another few years so the fans wont revolt.

i think we are massively stretching the boundaries of "ugly" here

i still believe

That doesnt strike me as a very strong denial of anything

cant they just take whaley?

yes, and you KNOW Belichick is smarter than that. He knows that it isnt easy to develop these guys (Hoyer, Mallette, Cassel, etc...). He had to have wanted to move on from Brady. I would, and as a Bills fan, I was hoping that the Patriots wouldnt

We do have something tangible out of this though Garappolo has been traded. I got indigestion last year watching him play and imagining another 12 years of this. His play with San Francisco reaffirms the AFC East dodged a bullet.

i do think there has always been an elephant in the room. the question of coach or qb always comes up (as far as credit). i could definitely see brady freaking out trying to last to belichicks end. if belichick dumps brady to the cardinals, brady stinks there, and garapollo's patriots dont miss a beat... what does that do to brady's legacy? he still would have it, but the background grumbles of belichick's mastery would be too much for brady to handle.

KEEP DONATING PEOPLE ITS WORKING!

please let the bills end it in 2 weeks...

this thing better produce a couple future Bills