May Day 10

Alabama is going to win but like 60 against notre dame. Again.

Can we boot notre dame?. I get they bring TV ratings from all the Yankees and patriots fans but it's a guaranteed snoozer blowout

I am convinced this is the best Bills team since 1991. kind of unrelated to the topic, but wanted to say it without creating a new thread

Dont get me wrong. Im perfectly comfortable with Leipold into perpetuity. It is probably he best we could hope for. Big games, I would consider this one, the Troy bowl game and the N Illinois Meltdown in 2018 (as well as the Ohio stomping). Last year losing every big game in the East. God I couldnt imagine going back with a snake oil salesman meathead like Quinn.

He is like someone in a lab crossed Rothliesberger with Manning with Mike Vick

He got it. The official on the field spotted it a bit back There was not enough replay evidence to overturn it and officials historically loathe to overturn spot challenges

I dont think I would trade Josh Allen for anyone in the NFL.

Bielema is actually a great hire for them.

I like Leopold because it feels like they will consistently be decent to good. But man, these big game disappointments are piling up

Its nice to see rival fans give Allen and the Bills so much respect after being in the toilet for nearly 2 decades. Especially compared to the beginning of last year when most of them considered the Jets ready for contention with Darnold and Bell while the Bills would continue being the Bills. This comment kills me days after reading it " So there still evolving and regressing? Wow. In another year Allen will be prime era Dan Marino and Sam will be a pile of primordial ooze."

Darnold was a safer pick. Supposed to be a solid and dependable starter in the NFL Allen was considered risky, had as high of a ceiling as they come, and general thought is he may need to season on the bench for multiple seasons. Boom or bust potential. We see what happened. Through a combination of Allen's internal drive, his skill set, coaching infrastructure, and team construction, Allen is realizing his immense potential. Darnold lacks the last 2, and the first 2 are questionable/unknown at the NFL level. The thing with quarterbacks, is they seem to have a quick shelf-life before development halts. If things don't work out, they generally go into the scrap heap. This is even more true right now with so many really good, athletic quarterbacks, with more on the way. I think Tannehill is a poor example, because he was thought of as pretty decent in Miami. He showed way more there than Darnold has shown for the Jets. Darnold also has had a sketchy injury history thusfar. Maybe a team like Minnesota, New England, Indy, Washington, Detroit take a flier on Darnold and try to develop him? It is probably likely someone will be interested and try and have a reclamation project for a year, and worst case, Darnold leads them to the pick of the litter in the 2022 draft.

Im not a big fan of the lottery either, and that goes for hockey too. IMO I think NBA has the most need for it because it seems that it is completely predictable, and it seems so easy just to overhaul a roster/team overnight. In the NHL and NFL, you have to cut deep to get to #1. That is a huge risk and likely stunts your team's growth potential. The Bills wouldn't be where they are today if they weren't scrappy in their transition years of 2017 and 2018. This is true with the Dolphins as well. The #1 pick is also a risky proposition. Andrew Luck battled injury and then just decided to retire. Lots of #1 picks dont end up as good as the #5, 7, or 10 picks who are selected on a team with a better infrastructure. I'm sure NFL players really wouldn't like being on a tanking team as they are putting their health on the line and are made to look bad in their short career earning window. And lastly, fans of a team like the Jets really need a light at the end of the tunnel. How awful would it be for them if they got screwed by some cloak and dagger lottery and ended up picking 4th or something. That also opens the door for conspiracy feelings that do not sit well with fans.

The Sabres have been much worse than the drought-era Bills IMO. At least the Bills were somewhat mediocre most of the time and would actually provide for some hope and entertainment. Even if it was fruitless, eternal, in-the-hunt dreams. Other than the Mike Williams and Darius seasons, they never really bottomed out, and never finished worst in the NFL. The Sabres have been plain bad. Like worst-in-the league for large stretches of the time, included full seasons buried as worst in the league. The NHL has >50% of its teams qualify for the playoffs and the Sabres have barely had a sniff past New Year's in any of these seasons. Add in the things that get rubbed in our faces like OReilly winning the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe and Lehner becoming a top goalie and Vezina Candidate. They are a really tough team to root for

I have browsed around there the last few weeks. I find it interesting, because I recall leading up to the opener last season, how 100% certain nearly everyone there was that Darnold was way ahead of Allen and was sure to be onto bigger and better things. I was confused as to how they could be sure, at that point it looked maybe 50/50. I like the banter about how amazing Allen is, it inflates my fan-ego. I have to say a lot of them have a generally good and realistic view. I do feel a bit bad for them. Although I typically hate NYC teams, Jets fans have had it pretty rough for a long time. Many though think.... that a 1st pick QB is a magic pill that fixes everything, along with cap space to spend on shiny toys. That is not true. The QB is important (but this day and age seems to be fairly common). The most important thing is the football CEO who is generally the coach, who works with a savvy GM. Need to get decent starters in the draft, and need to find decent but not all that splashy FA signings. Maybe can swing for the fences if an opportunity arises like the Bills did with Diggs and Cardinals with Hopkins. The environment for the QB is just as important as the QB, and a crummy environment will ruin any QB. The turnaround only needs to take a couple years if done correctly.

time to scrap the reds. they look awful. go with these for a throwback

if the timelines of the vaccine and NFL season were different, then yes. As it is now, the rollout/availability of the vaccine will be very limited through the playoffs. That, and time is short for the Bills/NFL to even create some sort of framework of a plan and verification procedures.

All they need to do is make some marketing muppet the gm/owner for life

Thats a brutal Division. I think they should swap Buffalo and Carolina. That would be a cool division to be in for a year

not happy until the hype video has some sort of major apocalyptic theme to it.

He was terrible last season. For all the variables a football team needs to worry about, getting a halfway decent punt shouldnt be a concern. I didnt necessarily want the guy from the jets, I wanted them to look at options. Bojo has been awesome this season though. It cant be the same punter

It was Bobby Rayburn for sure

Yup. Awesome news.

yeah, it stinks, because it appears this team has potential to keep putting up crooked numbers and could get itself on the National stage (even more). They might score 80 against Akron though.

crud

next up is when they announce a new blue stripe on the pants. It will be a tattered man groping around, desperately scavenging in a post nuclear wasteland and finding the white pants with a blue stripe, just in time for the authorities to come in futuristic tanks and weaponry to apprehend him.