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Wow they must have pulled a hoodie to get info on the Bears huh. Where are all the people who cry foul when the Pats* do that

I didn't see the game. When the Bills 1st offense was in, was it against the Lions 1st defense or what it against their backups?

Little, if any. It is the same offense as last year including coaches except Watkins who hasn't been on the field long enough so far to even notice. No reason to hold back unless you think that the Bills offensive brain trust that has been together for several years including last season with this team had an epiphany at some point during this off season and devised some game changing plays.

The owner wanted out of Cleveland.

The girl far right ... any girl who can look that good while drinking a liter of beer one handed is obviously my future wife

Maybe they don't care as much as it is not a new revenue generator? Actually though I suspect they just wanted time to evaluate how it worked in the preseason and didn't want to commit so quickly is all.

Damn, even Germany hates the Bills!

Perhaps one of the least important threads ever due to the fact that there are almost no facts to discuss and everything is 99.99999999999999% speculation?

I Googled it and came up with this http://www.yelp.com/biz/champions-sportsbar-m%C3%BCnchen

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.