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Sadly no. Not this year anyway.

I find myself in Munich from time to time so I came in here hoping you found a place that showed American football for future reference. I don't know of any, I suspect you would have to get on or near a US military base to even have a shot. No one else really cares. Garmisch is probably the closest one and that's probably 100km or so. Unlikely you could just stroll onto the base anyway. Bottom line, your laptop/tablet is your best bet.

Any educated guesses as to how much the starters will play? It's not on TV here, so I'm trying to figure out if is worth my while to setup to pull it off the satellite live.

Me too. I wish they would have kept it this season.

Yes, which is why in my opinion the whole concept of "vanilla" is nonsense. The Bills offense is almost identical to last season, with the notable difference being the (presumed) huge upgrade at #1 WR. Everyone has seen the Bills offense. They don't gameplan much at all for preseason, they run stuff they want to work on live and that can be used to evaluate people. They are not playing to win at all costs like in the regular season, that's what makes it look "vanilla". They aren't doing it as a smoke screen or to hide their awesome new game changing offensive scheme from their opponents, or any other (IMO) silly thoughts. It is preseason and they are treating it as such. Things naturally change week 1 of the regular season. Simple as that.

Except for your family and friends.

Yes it has its own thread even. Probably delete this one.

I was listening to ESPN on the ride into work and they were talking about the Rams situation with Bradford going down. There were 4 that the Rams were apparently inquiring about, Cousins, Mallet, and Sanchez. I forget who the 4th was. Apparently the skins won't even listen to people inquiring about Cousins.

Plus at $9 per that should keep the lines down as well.

Well that is encouraging at least. At this point even if they decide to try and do something, they may have painted themselves into a corner for this season anyway.

Nah. Our front 7 will pressure him (or at least they better be able to) and that will be it. Low scoring game to be sure, take the under

Yes, what I was talking about was strictly the math. I have no psychological background to be able to comment on the effects of how surveys are worded.

For most purposes, 1/√N where N is the sample size is a reasonable estimation for margin of error. So for 82 people responding that makes about 11% which isn't too horrible generally. So what that means is since the Bills came in at 19% in the survey there is a 95% probability that between 8 and 30% of the players in the NFL feel this way. This assumes, of course, that the distribution of the players surveyed is reasonable. The reality of the situation is though, that this probably only applies to players that have a choice (good players). Players being cut today for example would gladly go to the Raiders, Bills, or anyone else.

At this point I guess I can't see any fault in your logic except for maybe the Jests. From what I have seen, their D may well be very for real. The Bills O of this preseason would fail most heinously against it. And as far as QBs go Manuel may be better looking, I will leave that to others to decide , but I can't say right now that Manuel looks to be the better QB than Smith. Plus their backup is better than anything the Bills have, hands down. The way things look right now, optimistically the best I can see is the Bills splitting with the Jests. But they could just as easily get swept if things stay as they are now. Which if you apply the split to your guesstimation, you come out with the dreaded 7-9.

It is no anomaly. As you noted, from a interesting place to live as well as niceness of weather perspective, GB is one of the few (maybe only) NFL cities that would rank lower than Buffalo. The reason GB ranks better than Buffalo in this particular survey is their history of winning, as well as current quality of the team. No anomaly here, perfectly explainable.

That's not a concern at all. The jury is still out (at best) on Manuel. If he goes down, given Tuel and/or Lewis are the backups, we look forward to the next season. Nothing to be concerned about, the season is over.

And add to that, QBs that were known to be projects to begin with after college. I still wonder what Whaley and Marrone were thinking drafting a known project QB on a team that had no experienced QB to play under for a couple seasons.

My wife and daughter. They are avid skiers so Florida is at the bottom of their most desirable places to live. But I would take the occasional blizzard or ice storm over a hurricane any time.

They asked 100 players so I would assume 3 from every team plus a few bonus players. But who knows.

My wife will be disappointed. She liked his story as well and was looking forward to cheering for him Thursday.

Except that the status quo will be accepted. Boos or no boos, there are a lot of Bills fans that will buy their seasons, merch, etc. no matter what, just so long as they stay in Buffalo. The status quo has been accepted in the only way that matters, on the bottom line, for the last 15 years of mediocre to terrible play. There is no reason for new ownership to expect any less from the fans. Hopefully though, the new ownership themselves won't be satisfied with the status quo.

Green Bay is on that list with 6% of the votes. No doubt it lowers if the team is a winner, but not likely to go away completely.

Green Bay made that list with 6% of the votes? That almost has to be all weather and location, right? The Bills belong there. Between the area, the weather, and sucking badly for the past decade and a half I'm mildly surprised the Bills didn't beat out the Raiders for top honors.

I just knew those jokes were coming

Tasker was a great Bill, but he sucks balls as an announcer. Only one worse is his partner. I'm sure he believed that just as much as in the 2nd half when he called for a defensive hold against TB and could not believe the zebras missed it. Repeated it a couple time. Horrible non-call. Then on the replay you could clearly see there was not even any contact at all, much less a hold. Unless they are telling a story about years gone by, you can't believe anything those 2 homer clowns say during a game. About play calling in the 2nd half changing. I can't say because I left the house at halftime and didn't get back until about the 4th I think.. But the Bills 1st offense came out against the Bucs 2nd defense from what I hear. So I'm sure the play calling changed, and changed again when the Bills 2nd's took the field. The offense played terrible in the first half. There is no harm or shame in anyone admitting that. It was glaringly obvious. Just deal with it and move on.