May Day 10

This zoom press conference is a low point in franchise history. It is depressing. Terry Pegula's brain is gone.

Management 100% Dont think Lamoriello wont throw Trotz away the second he thinks it is beneficial to do so. They didnt hire Trotz, and then find some internal soft, inexperienced guy as GM.

The NHL doesnt work like that. This is a mistake that you can see the Pegulas falling into from satellite. In the NFL. All the power and clout eminates from the head coach. he is your central figure and CEO of football. The NFL is much more forgiving to change as there are no guaranteed contracts, and you could theoretically find like 7 immediate starters in a draft class. The NHL is much more about organizational structure. Scouting is so much more wide-reaching and advanced. Development is a major pillar that doesnt really exist in the NFL. Head coaches in the NHL are throw-away independent contractors. The GM will cast the coach aside in 2 seconds if the team needs a kick in the butt. But the Pegulas seem to think that they have the NFL figured out and want to transpose that to the NHL. They have been mystified by the Ralph Kruger six sigma shtick and it seems they are giving him the McDermott clout. No NHL teams operate that way. Also mind you, this is a coach with only 2 incomplete seasons under his belt, and really not a whole lot of NHL experience.

I just don't get what Adams brings to the table to right this ship. There is nothing. Groomed? You groom people if you are a good organization and need to someday pass the torch. Not a neverending pocket of dysfunction. God knows what that grooms. Kruger is another one. Uses nicely constructed words... but this is a guy with 2 incomplete NHL seasons of coaching under his belt. Now we are elevating him to some sort of 'super-coach' who will also help out with GM duties? It sounds like a terrible idea bound to fail. This is all so Kim Pegula can remain comfortable in her role. That is all it is. Toxic ownership. Dont believe for 1 second the Bills are safe.

This actually makes me more ill. Id take Botterill/Sexton/Greeley over Adams/Kruger.

Adams played hockey and lives in Buffalo. Took a few college courses and worked at Harbor Center. Most importantly, Kim Pegula is comfortable challenging him with ideas. Perfect GM for this team.

So how many years do we need to wait until we can lock in the fact that Adams is in over his head and terrible? 3 seasons?

what a circus organization. Really awful. I hate Botterill, but they need a seismic shift. Not promote the guy from the adjacent office they are comfortable with. This is the Ralph Wilson Bills from 2003-2013.

Wow. Kevyn Adams.... that is a choice for sure.

the blood is in the calf because the muscle is bleeding from being torn and gravity makes blood go down the leg as mentioned. This is your curse now. It will be increasingly easier to do this (and it will even hurt less at the time of the pull)... but make it very tough to participate in explosive sports, especially with limited/no stretching and/or in cold weather. I have learned that this is why you dont see a lot of baseball players, at least non-DHs into their 40s.

There is no escape Basically, no "explosive" sports like tennis or baseball/softball. You will think you're healed, try playing, pull it again, and be back to square 1. Jogging, swimming, skating/hockey are ok. Basically it's time that's needed. Good stretching from now on

you know its bad when much of the Sabres talk at this time is discussing who will take over his job.

I dont know. He just lays it on thick all the time. If you listen to him with any sort of skeptical ear, you hear lots of words that are constructed well, but dont give you much of anything at the end. He seems like a charming guy, and the players like him. I'm completely fine with letting him start next season. After Botterill finally runs his course. I don't want an experiment. They need experience and someone with history and credibility. No desire to elevate Kruger to GM and (likely) Chris Taylor as HC. Im not even sure Kruger has held a front office role with an NHL team.

Kruger has never done the job in the NHL. Good salesman though.

i like the part that the Sabres knowlingly played a goalie who was suffering from vision problems for a period of time while he lost 12 straight games for 3 months. In games that counted. In the standings. Now us fans have to sit here without playoff hockey because they failed to make a field of 24 teams (even when they 'bought' at the deadline, lol). I have zero faith in the management or direction of this team.

I have tuned in about 4-5 different times since this announcement. Each time its Tasker and Brown talking with Glab nowhere to be seen. Basically the same value as when Murphy was on. Very little. Topic of the day. Debate topic. Covid-19 off-football convo. Tweet sheet. Twitter poll, etc. Just the same formula. IMO, Murphy should never have been doing this daily show. He is not good engaging callers. He isnt good with an open forum type of show that masquerades as a football opinion show. They should have had him do the show every Wednesday in the place of One Bills Live or something and call it 'this week in Bills football' or something like that. Basically a pre-recorded, well produced show with a lot of fluff interviews with Bills players (Murphy is good at that), taped interviews with people from around the league, league report, team reports, Bills news, Bills history features, etc. Just keep it straight-forward and controlled. When Murphy was doing the afternoon show it was kind of a lot of this, and it was fantastic at times. Limited to 1x a week, it would be fantastic. Stretched over 5 shows/week mixed in with angry callers wasnt great.

It actually is a fairly lucrative sport. Cities love to have a team, its a lot of foot traffic 80+ times every Summer (even if attendance appears low). Paid attendance is X81 and also you have 162 televised games and regional television contracts and other advertising revenue is pretty big. I have negative thoughts overall on the future of baseball popularity (basically it will go the way of Horse Racing and Boxing in 50 years if it stays its course and philosophies).

Mlb will expand before relocation. Charlotte and portland would be my best guesses, followed by montreal, then vegas.

It sounds great, but such a major tease because we probably wont be able to attend games.

I dont think botterill has been patient at all. The farm isn't stocked with anything, and he has squandered picks and assets with little to show for it.

Botterill is a clueless barrel of pudge that is all

Im really dying for a realistic NFL Franchise simulation/sandbox game on the PC and mobile device. I have been playing OOTP Baseball and it is amazing. You dont "play" at all, but you can manage if you want. I actually found it as I was digging around for an NFL product. They dont exist, and I guess it is from the Madden agreement. That is a shame.

I just looked it up. It seems the guy has gone over to Out of the Park Developments which is GREAT news. OOTP makes an amazing product. Their baseball game is the best deep-dive franchise baseball product I have seen or heard of. Its based on simulations (you can manage games too), but that is all I want. Their card-collecting game for baseball is also great (and I have always avoided those like the plague). They have a hockey game that is 6 versions in and it is also strong, but nowhere near developed as far as the baseball game is. Hopefully the EA exclusivity still allows the NFL to license an OOTP product.

I hope they dont get it. Really, really want a deep franchise and history simulation game like out of the park baseball. Long overdue. I dont think ea is terrible (ncaa was amazing), but I would like to see a bit more effort on some franchise realism, and possibly historic stuff. 2k caught up in 05ish... but they dropped off bad. Their baseball game was awful, awful at the end. Their basketball game is nothing but eye candy.

Have you ever heard Bulldog do a show solo when Schopp is on vacation? It's a struggle