Mr. WEO

without the "Mamba Mentality", we are left to guess and wonder...

What a terrible decision to play every game in the same stadium---and in Birmingham Alabama of all places. Those locals could drive down Route 20 to Tuscaloosa and watch far more future NFL players play Spring football. Nothing drives TV ratings better than tuning in to the same empty stadium for every game every week!! "The Rock" should focus back on oiling his way into those BabyGap T shirts between actions shots and run for the hills like Vince McMahon did before him...

Lambeau had a massive reno in 2003 that would cost at least 450 million today and then another 140 million put into it in 2014. Arrowhead did the same for at least as much 10 years ago. You left out Soldier Field which was subtotally demolished and rebuilt. Erie/the Bills chose not to similarly remake the the Ralph when it was feasible to do so...settling instead on some cosmetic work a few years ago (which will all be tossed out now). I the next 10 years you will hear calls for many of those stadiums to be replaced. The RCA Dome made it to 23 years. Silverdome made int to 26 years. 3 Rivers made it to 30. Giants stadium 33. Bills stadium is the only place hitting 50 without a major overhaul. Other than the above, there is no stadium over 35 years old.

Halftime lady throws it to the "mic'd up" dude on Michigan and it shows him fighting with a teammate...lol. this is awesome

you know those days are gone forever, doc.

Kirby Wilson and Kevin Sumlin will be joining Brian Flores's suit against the NFL after this weekend....

Beane strikes me as a guy who doesn't need anyone much other than McD to bounce things off of at this time. There's still a room full of Shoes types there as well, no doubt.

It can't be recouped We all agree that it has nothing to do with being built to last 50 years then.... It may not be Terry or Kim, but the Pegula Lifestyle Trust will be calling the shots as always.

When Crosby attempts over 30 FG a year, his FGM % drops from 86.7% to 77.9%. He attempted 34 last season. He's 26th among active kickers with a career FG% of 81.1%. He's had only 3 seasons out of 15 in the top 10 for FG%. It wasn't Bojo... see above

No team loses home field in week 1, lol. That's nuts. The Bills gave up 20 unanswered points after a 1st half shutout of the Steelers. The Bills would score only 2 FG the rest of the game. as posted above, the difference between Haack and the best in the league re: Net, is 7 yards. A rookie is unlikely to be the best in the league next year (to close that gap).

That's not going to happen. See above. Bojo + Bass: missed 3 of their first 9 FG. After week 6, they went 22/25, getting Bass to a Bills record breaking season--as a rookie.

If a difference of a net 6 yards against better QBs is a problem for this Defense, then they will struggle to win 11 games. That won't happen.

lol live betting is the only thing that will save this league. after 5 weeks, who else would watch? 2021 answered that.

A low draft rookie isn't less likely than Haack of making a "killer mistake". His stats were as I listed them. He did have a blocked punt, that's it. His "awfulness", like many things on this board, gets endlessly repeated until most figure it's true--and then they repeat it. He wasn't last year.

5 seconds to google... https://www.footballdb.com/statistics/nfl/player-stats/punting?sort=puntin20

this isn't close to being true.

The difference between the the longest net punter and Haack last year is 6 yards. Only 2 punters who played all 17 games punted fewer times than he did. 35% of his punts were inside the 20. 38% 0f his punts were either FC's or downed (zero yards retuned). Only 21 punts were returned for a season total of 96 yards. of all the teams in the NFL, this is the one that shouldn't spend a lot of time fussing over a punter.

Just don't punt. Josh go for it every 4th down. Let the "number 1 Defense in the NFL" clean up as necessary. This Offense shouldn't have to worry about the other team's field position....

If you are of the mind that there simply is no better way to benefit more people with 850 million of public money, then you are going to say things like this. We disagree. Barring a natural disaster, there would be no other way to destroy a stadium. But to answer your question, after all of this, do you think that Pegula is going to be satisfied with a dated 25 year old stadium? Why on earth would he be? He'll just demand another one. Isn't that what these guys do? Look in MLB, the Texas Rangers got a new field in 1994 and then 22 years later announced they would be leaving it and another one was to be built. The Braves had Turner field built in 1997 and they were out of there into another new stadium less than 20 years later. This will be the future of these buildings. Plus, After 15 years, breaking the lease has less financil coat to PSE. If he leaves, he has to demolish the stadium on the way out. Exactly. It's what every taxpayer should want.

Yeah, he hastened its death but Spring ball hasn't worked since either. After the novelty of "new" rules and the general goofiness of it wears off, people realize they are watching football they have no allegiance to and don't care about.

Well the NFL always has expanded, it's not a belief of mine. It's fact. Someday they likely will again, sure. What's a market? A city willing to completely fund a team? A city that can generate fan support for an NFL team? How's that going in Carolina? Jacksonville. Or even Atlanta or Miami, for that matter. LA? Is that a "market" for pro football? 200 million form the NFL....is from the NFL--it doesn't count toward owner's contribution ("40%"). That leaves 350 million, minus easily more than 50 million that will be raised with PSLs (50,000 of them starting at $1000, per the Buffalo News). NOT owning the stadium hardly held Pegula back, lol. Why on earth would he want to own a 1.4 billion property that has nom resale value--that will be destroyed intentionally in what, 20, 25 years? He obviously would rather put in as little money as possible to its construction, pay a relative pittance in rent per year and then demand a new place down the road. He knows that the stadium is worthless as an asset.

There’s a difference between having a place to move to and pretending to (Austin, SD, for example). There’s also a difference between paying a reasonable amount and paying almost nothing for your new place of business. You are laboring under the impression that if Pegula was forced to pay a dollar more, he would “move the team” to, one of these nameless cities. I simply don’t believe that. I bet Hochul could have gotten more, but she’s compromised as a Governor not elected now running for governor (who’s campaign is now hitting the iceberg). She, as they say, ran to the podium with that crazy sweet deal for PSE. I’m pretty sure her predecessor would have squeezed PSE harder yet still got a deal done. This was a best case scenario for Pegula.

Snead has to be number 1. Nobody is doing like he is and it resulted in a ring. Colbert at 3 really makes no sense--what year is this? Plus, their despite his long slow road to retirement, their post Big Ben plan is.......Mitch Trubisky!

A great read. But it's certainly true that Davidson's ABA and even the WHL were more influential and successful than the WFL, which far from "nearly bringing the NFL to its knees" was a complete disaster. It did provide colorful stories for those who can remeber it. The original USFL was an actual threat to the NFL. As with every other "pro" football league since, these fail because the owners, who are purchasing teams that have yet to accrue any intrinsic value, won't tolerate or can't afford the losses that ownership in such wildly speculative leagues have to absorb for a few years. Look no further than the last iteration of the XFL. Despite getting spanked in it's first incarnation in 2001, Vince McMahon floated 250 million of his own capital to fund XFL2. Many assumed there was no way he would risk his money if he wasn't in it for the long haul. Some of us said there's no way he will take huge losses and hang in there for the first few seasons. When the pandemic suspended all sports in March, the XFL had played only 5 games. Instead of waiting it out and continuing the plan for a 2021 season, McMahon, the boldest of businessmen, no doubt looked at the pre pandemic 5 game TV ratings freefall and said "pull the plug, I'm out".

True, but had Robert I not merged (illicitly) with spawn of furriers Herleva (whom he initially spotted in the leather dyeing trenches from his perch on the castle rooftop) to produce William the Bastard/Conqueror, there may not have been a Norman England.