Mr. WEO
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4 minutes ago, Logic said:
The NFL's obsession with the latter has, in my opinion, recently been leading to a reduction in the former, and I believe it will continue to do so.
More games (and Thursday night games) lead to more injuries and an inferior product on the field.
MORE is not always BETTER. Adding inventory does not always improve the product. Often, it waters it down. That's what I believe is slowly but surely happening. I agree that there hasn't been a turning point yet. The wave hasn't crested. But I believe that it will.
We can agree to disagree. You can enjoy your 20 game seasons where 14 backup QBs are starting by week 17, and I'll continue to think that the NFL is great as is and they should really stop tinkering with it.
Based on....what? You can't point to anything to support your personal concern. 93 of the top 100 broadcasts in 2023 were NFL games. 3 were college games. 1 was the Thanksgiving Day parade. No doubt the Friday draft ratings will dwarf all NBA/NHL playoffs game ratings---just one round of then draft.
Was it really that long ago that countless posts on this very board were predicting the downfall of the NFL because of concerns over CTE? Or that wealthy (I'm assuming they meant white) kids would just stop playing football and the talent pool would dry up?
Also, in week 17 (game 16), there were 6 backup QBs subbing for injured QBs---all of whom were injured weeks to months before game 16.
I get your personal opinion on this, but your predictions aren't based on facts.
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Beane should be commish of an upstart league with rosters comprised of only NFL 5th, 6th, 7th rounders...
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54 minutes ago, Logic said:
They'll never leave well enough alone.
They'll never say "ya know what? We have the most popular sport in the country, people love it, it's a great product, let's quit messing with it".
They'll keep making decisions in the name of money, not of fan experience or player safety. Decisions that water down the product and make it less enjoyable to watch.
Decisions like adding Thursday night games, adding two extra games, pricing regular fans out of the stadiums. Decisions like having to pretend they actually DO care about player safety to cover their asses for the Thursday night games and extra games, by doing things like legislating any and all violence out of the game.
My point is: The NFL will never be happy. They'll just keep expanding, reforming, and tinkering in the name of making more and more and more money, and as they do so, the product will continue to get worse.
Their never ending greed will be their demise.
Like Icarus, they will fly too close to the sun, and their wings will burn.how long have we been hearing that?
They went to 17 and the game is more popular than ever.
Every major sports league exists to provide entertainment and make as much money as possible--why should the one that does it far better than any other league be singles out? Name any business that has ever said "ok we've made enough money, let's not try to make any more. we're good"?
Players are clearly on board with more money--why should you be concerned with their health if they aren't? They are the ones assuming the risks with full understanding of the risks/benefits/alternatives.
As for the "fan experience"--the ratings speak for themselves. Fans simply cannot get enough of the NFL.
These "the NFL is ruining itself with greed" post never made any sense---any and all evidence proves it's false. You know that you are going to watch 18, 20 regular season games. No one is going to stop watching during the season. Why pretend otherwise?
Give me all the NFL...
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19 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:
Who exactly is clamoring for more regular season football? It's too long as it is. I don't want to watch playoff games where the best players are out due to the grind of the season.
That happens regardless of the length of the season...
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19 hours ago, Logic said:
I don't know how many times I need to say it, but...the NFL is Icarus.
how so?
4 minutes ago, stuvian said:The health dangers of football will eventually turn the sport into boxing where only the very poor or desperate will take part.
say what? boxing is only for the very poor? wealthy star athletic kids will not want to play in the NFL some day.....because of "health dangers"?
you think this is something they have not already considered?
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38 minutes ago, Allen2D̶i̶g̶g̶s̶TBD said:
I doubt Beane is staying put at #33. He has probably been comparing trade packages all day.
yeah, maybe he’ll trade back into the first round ….-
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3 hours ago, NewEra said:
So we should have stayed at 28 and drafted a player we could’ve had later, while not getting an extra 3rd rd pick….just so KC wouldn’t be able to give us a free 3rd rd pick in order to select a player that may have been there when they picked at 32? 🤷🏻♂️
worrying about other teams = fail
worrying about building your own team = yes please
do what’s best for your team. Worrying about what other teams are doing is for losers. Jmo
atta boy
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59 minutes ago, Gugny said:
I don’t think worrying about other teams is a good strategy.
Clearly, there was no one at 28 who the Bills wanted.
The fact that KC ended up getting a WR with our pick doesn’t faze me.
I don’t care what KC does.
I find it hard fo believe that Beane is content going into next season with our current WRs plus any receiver(s) he gets in subsequent rounds.
He has a plan.
are you under duress?? who made you right this? blink S-O-S if you are in danger
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2 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
It’s so weird because NHL coaches almost never get fired.
then he must be the best ever, having been fired 4 timesanother great point!
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2 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
Because the devils took a step back this year and IMO Lindy was the scapegoat.
I thought it was much more on the GM, and injuries.
The GM refused to address goaltending in any meaningful way even though it was a glaring hole/weakness (it was bad even last year during their record breaking season) and unsurprisingly the devils ended up with terrible goaltending again. They didn’t have one goalie with even a 90% save percentage while Ruff was there.
The GM also let two of the team’s top 4 veteran defenseman walk in free agency and didn’t replace them.
Then early in the season the Devils lost their #1 defenseman to injury for the year. So they were down 3 of their top 4 defenseman from last season.
That obviously negatively impacted the devils ability to defend, which exasperated the already bad goaltending.
and their #1 C (and best player) was also hurt for a good amount of the year, along with a bunch of other guys.
Devils were top 5 in injuries in the NHL this season. They only had like 5-6 players that didn’t get injured and miss games at some point in the season.
I’m sure Lindy made some mistakes, but saying his system is “too old” and that he never made adjustments just isn’t true.
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7 hours ago, BarleyNY said:
Just wait. Sports betting isn’t the endgame. The companies are losing money on it so far. Their goal is to get table games and slots on your phones so everyone can gamble 24-7. That’ll be their moneymaker if it happens.
Draftkings is enjoying massive revenue increases. The expect $410 to 510 million EBITDA on revenues of 4.9 billion next year.
Fanduel is expecting $635 to $785 billion earnings next year
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2 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
He just broke the devils record for most wins and points in franchise history last year. The devils had the 3rd best record in the entire NHL for 2022/23, and the 4th most goals.
Lindy is well known for constant in-game adjustments. He’s known as one of the better tacticians in the NHL. So many of his ex-players have talked about it.
Devils players even talked about it. For ex: Tyler Toffoli said you have to be very smart to play for Lindy because he’s constantly making systems adjustments in game.
You could see the Devils switch from a 1-2-2 to a 1-3-1 or a 2-1-2 on the fly in games. To say he didn’t make adjustments just isn’t true.
Last year’s playoff series against the NYR is another good example. After losing the first 2 games of the series, Lindy completely changed the way the devils attacked and defended NY and Gallant had almost no answers for it the rest of the series.
Lindy pretty thoroughly out-coached Gallant IMO.
and to say his system is out-dated isn’t true either (I mean, we aren’t talking about the old trap system NJ ran under Lou…lol). Almost every coach+team in the NHL use similar systems. Some coaches just emphasize different aspects. The system the devils ran isn’t much different than what many other good NHL teams currently run. They were a very potent rushing attack under Lindy and were the best in the NHL at defending off the rush (last season).
If anything, I would argue someone like Berube coaches a more out-dated style (heavy forecheck, dump & chase, grind it out hockey) than Lindy does (high powered offensive attack and taking away time & space on defense).
As an outsider (who probably watched more devils games than Sabres games this past season), what I saw wrong with the Devils this year was goaltending, inexperienced defenseman and injuries.
Y’all lost 2 of your veteran top 4 defenseman to free agency, then replaced them with inexperienced players. Then lost your #1 D for the season in November (which erased like 60+ points from the lineup). All of that exacerbated the already poor goaltending.
Hughes also missed time with injuries too and just wasn’t as impactful (25 less points than last season). Devils were top 5 in injuries this season, but still actually had good underlying numbers for the most part.
Plus, NJ got worse after Lindy left, and that was with significantly better goaltending! Most teams get a bump after firing a coach.
Almost all of NJ’s underlying analytics got worse after Lindy left (which wasn’t true after Brunette leaving. The devils underlying analytics were good the season before Brunette was hired and good the season after he left. Until Lindy was fired, then we saw the numbers get worse 🤷♂️)
why did they fire him?
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I'm here for the fresh should we move up/draft takes!!
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12 hours ago, Augie said:
Partners exist all over the league, it’s just not worth my time to track down how many teams have how many partners. You hear about celebrity ownership all the time. Tom Brady is about to become a part owner.
Private equity may be the future, investors are now and have been for a while.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-fbn-dolphins-estefans-062509-2009jun25-story.html
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There have been teams with minority share owners for a while yes (Miami, for example). More famously the Commanders now.
But outside of family members sharing ownership, partner owners in the NFL are still the exception by a wide margin.
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2 hours ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Yes I thought it was exactly like buying a vacation home with your sister-in-law.
Amazingly I figured out they would get great legal/financial advice but things change.
Buying a minority interest in a private company is fraught with hidden dangers.
What if the Feds/State want to start a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains, just like they have been angling for years to go after hedge Funds. The govt agency could claim the "value" went up X million in one year and demand a cash tax payment. IMO NYS and probably California are the two riskiest states for something like that. Oversimplifying it but those are just some of the risks with minority positions in a private company.
Not a bad idea, how many Bill fans would buy stock in the Bills just to say they own some. That is if the NFL owners would allow it a la Green Bay but I doubt it.
What has prevented them from doing so to this point?
The answer isn't hard to fathom...
2 hours ago, Augie said:Investors are far more common than I realized. The “owner” is only required to control 30% but can start sharing slowly with family after a period of ownership. The inheritance taxes are a critical reason owners had to find a solution, otherwise they’d be forced out of control. They are even considering letting private equity join the party to give some liquidity to minority investors and provide flexibility for the principal owner.
This is a great article, if a bit long. It mentions the Bills specifically. In it they point out inheritance tax on a few hundred million dollar asset is one thing, a 5 BILLION dollar asset is something else. This is a complex world few of us can begin to imagine. Taxation and liquidity.
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the article points out that it is not common, but may be in the future.
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3 hours ago, T&C said:
We know this. But, he still lives in Clarence.
that's some commute
2 hours ago, Bruffalo said:"Man who had more career success than Sabres did without him forced to move back and clean up the sloppy mess the organization has become" is much more accurate title.
he was fired by 3 more teams since he was fired by the Sabres.....
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17 minutes ago, T&C said:
Lol. He/they still lives in Clarence... he never left.
he coached 3 other teams since he last coached the Sabres. He was in Jersey last year.
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you want to speak to his manager?
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1 hour ago, Allen2D̶i̶g̶g̶s̶TBD said:
I like Troy Franklin better than Legette or McConkey.
Franklin can be the true deep threat that we've lacked since
John BrownGabe Davis left.corrected for accuracy
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2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
I wish he did.
what an incredible list of bums that is
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Pegula's Rolodex has 3 names in it...
this should end well!
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can I be another Pegula offspring who "works" in he company business?
I want guaranteed family lifestyle-type money...
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On 4/21/2024 at 12:16 AM, GoBills808 said:
Just watched it
Calls out diggs multiple times for effort for all the 'he just wants to win' crowd
Soooo many posters fell for this!
Guy is soft, not competitor, bout pouter...
Rd 4, Pick 128: RB Ray Davis, Kentucky
in The Stadium Wall
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He will sign a 2 year contract..