CodeMonkey

i don't follow football much, college football not at all. So no, I had no opinion pre-draft one way or the other. Not saying I called this prior to the draft. I am not a GM and being paid to be able to grade players to that degree. I'm saying that looking back now, to me the better move would have been to take Beckham and not give up next years first round pick. That is all. And I believe that was the point the OP was trying to make as well way back 16 pages ago. i did say on draft day however, that I thought the price paid for Watkins (next years first) was too high.

Sammy is good, I don't think anyone is disputing that. The question in my mind anyway is, is Watkins better than Beckham. And if so, is he better enough that you would prefer to keep Watkins and give up next years first? Or would you take Beckham and keep next years first. In my mind, at least at this point in time, I'd take Beckham and next years first.

Based on the last line of the linked article it seems possible that the "victim" may just be trying to get paid. Hopefully there is video.

His clock management really sucked yesterday. Particularly at the end of the first half. Marrone worthy in fact.

Hey now ... the Bills have earned the right to be called mediocre. The Jets have not! Lets not overstate things!

Agree.

I mentioned to my wife that I was puzzled as to why people in Detroit would want to go to a game between a bad team and a mediocre team, neither of which was from Detroit. She had an interesting thought. Detroit is even more economically depressed than Buffalo, so maybe a lot of people cannot afford to go to a Lions game but are jumping at the chance to go to a free (or at least should be) game.

Nothing against Sammy, but hindsight being 20/20 I'd rather have Beckham and next years first. And that TD catch tonight was just sick ... and he made it look easy.

I suspect the Lions fans don't blame Scwartz for it. Just the Bills players for doing it. If the Lions were playing at the Ralph under similar circumstances, would Bills fans become Lions fans for the day? Highly unlikely. They would be largely neutral, which is what I expect in Detroit tomorrow night.

What the Bills did with the Schwartz thing was weak and embarrassing as well. If there is a largely pro-jets crowd there tomorrow night (and I doubt there will be, the average fan won't care enough) the Bills brought it on themselves. Karma is a heartless B word.

I was thinking the place would be half empty. Could it actually be fairly full, or are the scalpers just looking for suckers?

I agree. There are a lot of details that need to be ironed out to have an event like this. All in all it seems to being handled very well.

They put this together pretty quickly, and it is festival seating, not assigned seats. I'm not surprised that there are issues.

I'm not sure how that is possible considering they will also honor the tickets for the Ralph and it is festival seating.

Someone called him "Ron" in an interview once and it stuck. I think the person was the "commissioner of tailgating" but I am not 100% sure.

Oh and that was before the latest couple feet

I do not think you are way off, I'm sure the Bills would love to host the game. I'm sure the county would as well. But there are going to be significant flooding issues associated with the melt. That is just an enormous amount of snow that should start melting quickly once the air temperature rises. And as it melts, the snow still left gets saturated with water and gets VERY heavy which will cause even more problems. Plus emergency services peeps have been busting their collective ass, and will continue to do so this week. Will the county force them to work something so unnecessary as a football game after all this? Still too early to tell how it will play out. I don't think it's a slam dunk either way at this point.

No, but emergency services not being available would stop it as well. I'm sure the Bills will do all that they can, but I strongly believe alternate sites as backups are already being evaluated and lined up just in case. If getting the Ralph ready to host a game was a priority for the area I imagine they could make it happen. But it is not, in fact it is not even close.

I sent an email to WROC (CBS affiliate) asking if they will be televising the game Monday. Here is the reply:

I don't, not often anyway. But I would probably go if it were free-ish and there was absolutely nothing else to do. You have to remember, this is Bills/Jets, 7-13 combined record. Not Denver/NE*.

So as a DTV subscriber you can request specific network feeds? If so that is a nice feature.

Maybe Pegula can buy directv this weekend and mandate the game be televised.

The shortsightedness of this is flat out awesome. As mentioned by others, do you really think the Gov, or any government official, gives a !@#$ if the Bills/Jets game is on TV nationally or even statewide when people have died and continue to be in jeopardy due to the weather?

I tend to disagree. These guys have been playing and practicing together all season so far, and since the beginning of camp for most. By now, most are at least dinged up physically a little bit if not more. The lack of practice time really should not be a big disadvantage, in fact it could be an advantage at this point in the season for the players to decompress at home a little bit with their families, and heal a lot more than they would if they were practicing. Plus they played the Jets just a month ago. The disadvantage is that the players that required treatment were not able to get it. It also gives them a chance to reset after losing the past 2 important games and hopefully stop their current slide.

Double header, Giants at 1 and Jets at 4