May Day 10

Its terrible all around. Not a fan of Eichel either TBH.

what an absolute cluster mess this organization is.

absolutely yes to all this.

The Sabres should absolutely talk to Davidson and make him the highest ranking executive. Will they? Not a chance.

I was really into trading up for Watkins even leading up to that draft. I loved Joey Harrington. Also wanted the Bills to go after Colt Brennan with their first round pick.

And does anyone think that Leopold is any kind of lightning rod who can turn that kind of program around and out-recruit Texas and Oklahoma, ok state, etc...

hopefully he walks past the mummified remains of Turner Gill and that awful fat man who actually got them to win a few games.

Ugh. Terrible. Why would he go to that boneyard scrap heap?

Mac Jones is nothing

Happy that Lance won't get near the patriots

I trust them. They would really have to smear feces all over themselves with trades/value for me to want to criticize whatever they do tonight. It also helps that they are at #30 so I do not hold strong opinions on anybody.

If you want to make everything perfect and fair from a players' standpoint... sure. Scrap the CBA and make every player an independent contractor. Every decent player will have a guaranteed contract and everybody will be a UFA whenever their contract is up. No draft, no trades, no salary cap, no franchise tags, etc. We will probably see a huge stratification of the league and teams like the Bills will not be able to compete on any sort of consistent basis (if they ever could). While not perfect, the system now overall is fair and it promotes league growth. The players get a % of the revenue and it is facilitated between a cap roof and cap floor.

If you still had a cap, it would be a bit unfair to the veteran players who earned their way through service term, as every dollar that gets added to the typical ELCs would come out of their potential pay. You would probably see quite a bit more early retirement and shorter career spans. Because of this, players in the NFLPA and their leadership would probably have abolishing the draft as an extremely low priority in their CBA negotiation wish-list. They actually bargained the ELC structure down for incoming players in more recent years. It was bad before, i cant imagine if incoming players had all the leverage a UFA enjoys, if not more because you are bidding on potential and speculation.

It could probably be negotiated out of a CBA. Im sure it would be a hill owners certainly die on as competing with contracts for upcoming draft picks would be a disaster and a cap would be unsustainable without ELCs. Ive never seen it as something players' associations have ever have gone after or even brought to the table. It is probably a thrilling process for many players. Overall it would be bad for the parity of the league and it would grow weaker and turn into haves and have-nots financially and the Bills, Browns, Steelers, Lions, Packers, etc would be sent into oblivion.

I dislike the finale. In fact, I didnt even like the last 3-4 seasons so much. I realize that isnt a popular opinion. I mean, it had its moments and we loved some of the characters, but really it was a lot that went nowhere, and a lot of plot lines just fizzled. The main reason I hung on until the end was to see how it ended. Then, they really didnt end it, at least in any conventional way. I think Tony got shot, based on the forensic frame by frame analysis we have seen online for years. Thank god for people who can break down a screen by screen forensic analysis of who is shown from what point of view in sequential order in order to figure out what in the hell happened.... as opposed to actually showing it on the show.

I have only been watching the box scores. The box scores look better

I dont believe they have any interest in doing that. That AA league was really aligning themselves with this, practically begging. The NFL has a farm league right now that is fully funded. The players dont get paid.

best way to make a ton of money is to merge with whatever XFL exists at the time

Terrible. Sux having a gm who has no business sitting in that position

Its going to be a hot ticket I think

Its tough. I didnt 'dislike' many Bills that come to mind. The top one I guess is Trent Edwards. Once things were going south he really came across as a baby in his interviews and such and he became such a soft, low-compete player as a QB. The one who I underappreciated the most, or never really had a positive opinion of, despite his place in the history of the team stat-wise was Aaron Schoebel. The guy got like 80 sacks and had 14 one season, and I can't say I can recall any particular play or highlight of his. I really didnt like Rian Lindell either. Nothing against the guy...but the NFL had evolved into the league where nearly every kicker can boot 50+ yarders pretty regularly and Lindell was still a decent 1990s kicker. That carried over a bit with Carpenter although he had a little more of a leg, but they still burned a roster spot on a kicker who can get touchbacks Oh. I hated Brad Smith. Again, not the guy, just his roster spot waste. They would bring him out for a wild cat. The entire stadium knew the play, and he would be tackled for a loss. yay

IMO, the best scenario in both terms of cost and logistics is to build a new, reasonably priced stadium somewhere on the current campus/nearby lots. They should have an overhanging roof of some sort with the thing engineered to reduce wind. The infrastructure is there, its county land. The delta between a renovation and a new facility would not be large enough to justify a renovation.

NFL Stadiums do nothing to rejuvenate a municipality. Sometimes owners pine for a 'retail shopping area' built within the stadium funding which they directly benefit from. That can be built without a stadium. If you have 70,000 people in downtown NF coming or leaving around the same window of time, it is going to be a horrific traffic nightmare. It is a landlocked peninsula of sorts without good arteries to get out of there (and Im sure the GI bridges and NF Boulevard would also be at a standstill) and people would be jumping in the river instead of sitting on the Robert Moses. I guess if we pay more billions we can just build highways. Niagara Falls has been mismanaged by corruption and terrible politicians for decades and decades. Gifting them a football stadium would change nothing. Imagining Niagara County ponying up any percentage of the money also seems like an impossibility. A stadium wouldnt help downtown either. You need a Fortune 500 company (or 2) to headquarter down there. It is cart before the horse. An MLB stadium with 81 dates could be a different story if there were decent attendance. I also think a nice amphitheater would work out better than a Football Stadium because you would get a ton of dates between May and September. You would put Darien Lake out of business, attract new acts, and other possibilities.

Teams at #30 dont move to 4. They would probably need to make a series of moves to incrementally climb up the draft board. The aggregate being too pricey

Ullmark is a UFA. he is a goner. And if they brought in Rutherford and Karmanos, then yes, I would defer to their wisdom and experience on Granato, and feel overall better about the organization. Adams and Pegula? lol. This organization is such a heavy lift right now. Zero trust going at it with zero experience anywhere (in the places that are actually staffed). I want nobody there to witness a few good games or even a good month and decide that the ship is righted. Its stunning to me that the Pegulas decided to make Kruger the 5th highest paid coach in the NHL when they hired him.