CodeMonkey

It doesn't take much in Buffalo. Bills fans really want to Billieve. Most people who had seasons this past season will renew with the slightest hope such as a sexy first round pick and the hope/belief than Manuel will come around in 2014. A lot will renew without anything more being done by the FO other than keeping the Bills in Buffalo,

A lot too depends upon how much Whaley/Marrone really think of Manuel. If they full-on believe that Manuel will turn it around this year and start looking like a franchise, or even a top tier, QB then they won't need to even consider drafting a QB as a marketing ploy. Nothing sells tickets, seasons or otherwise, more than winning.

Agree completely. I don't believe the guy has even been there one full season, and a big part of analytics would come into play for the draft/FA and he has not been around for either yet!

Makes for an interesting marketing study doesn't it. Faced with needing more money to pay the players and owners more and more, probably having nearly maxed out ticket prices, pushed the commercial TV contract to it's limit, what are they to do? Expanding the market outside of the US is a long shot in my opinion. Making everyone pay to watch would seem a good way for the NFL to increase its profits. If people will pay what they do to go to a game, I have to believe a great many people would pay to watch the games at home as well. In Canada for example, several NHL teams already have a premium channel where you pay a fee to watch all of that teams games for the season. I could see a similar model working nicely for the NFL as well. And they could have these channels on all the major providers, cable as well as satellite. Think of how many people here get the ticket now basically to watch Bills games.

Right you are! I wonder why I thought he was a free agent now.

That point may well be moot anyway. With Marrone basically anointing Manuel the starter next season I would imagine Thads agent is already shopping around for a place where there would at least be competition for the starter position.

Worst thing that could happen is that somehow my expectations for 2014 get raised to 14-2 and I go on suicide watch in October. But you know what the say, fool me once shame on you, fool me 15 times shame on me

Interesting too that Byrd did not take Graham's bait ...

Huh. I would have expected to have seen a Shanny-fan wish for him to replace Marrone by now

The Bills have now sucked for 14 years in a row. The vast majority of people who have seasons now will continue to buy them regardless of record, as long as they are in Buffalo. Of course if Brandon is trying to increase the number of seasons holders significantly then he is going to have to pull a rabbit out of his butt

Totally agree, When he gave information you could take it to the bank.

They could do like they do in airplanes I guess and mount screens on all the (non bench) seats. Maybe seasons holders always are active, and everyone else swipes a credit card to activate theirs. To do that with phones would require all the phone providers to provide lots of data access to each stadium and would really burn through peoples data plans as well.

When you go to board a plane they xray those devices and look very closely at them. I've even had to fire mine up a few times so they could see it working. I can't imagine stadium security turning into what they do at airports, it would take forever to get into the stadium. They would have to provide (well rent, this is the NFL after all) devices somehow. Are they going to allow people to bring their own tablets etc. into the Miami stadium I wonder? Sure seems like a terrorists wet dream, particularly with it being televised live.

I agree completely with this. Spiller in the correct offense could be awesome. For example, no way in hell do I want him on the pats*. But I sure don't see the Bills offense being able to use him correctly in the foreseeable future.

If you are going to cut players on the basis of one bad game this past season Whaley is going to be very busy trying to sign new players this offseason.

Or you can do what some do and divide your total cost by 7 and assume that is your per ticket cost. Treat the preseason tix as free and do with them what you will. I suspect even calculating that way the Bills have some of the cheapest season ticket prices in the NFL. I don't see Brandon bringing back the home game. It is too lucrative for the Bills and keeps season ticket prices lower. Plus Toronto won't take a preseason game without a regular season one. Syracuse might draw some fans from ever further east and might be worth a shot though.

It hasn't come full term yet. Waiting on EJ Manuel.

Robey yes, I had forgotten about him. He actually improved the most in my opinion. I disagree with the others. Not saying the others had bad seasons mind you, I just did not see improvement.

Most people want to, quite a few do. *sigh* "Evaluating" is Brandon-speak for "I understand fans are upset about this. And I am going to continue it anyway because it makes us a buttload of money. So this will defer the matter until after people have calmed down and will be less likely to tear up their season ticket renewal forms."

I'll go one step further ... how many Bills looked better in december than in august? Certainly not any QB for example. I could make a case for Alonzo ... maybe, No one else is coming to mind.

Great job! There are other factors that could be considered such as how many times SJ13 was targeted, taking other seasons into account etc. But hopefully that is something that the Bills shiny new analytics "dept." is already evaluating!

Yup.

"HD TV and comfortable couch sitting at home" That is soooo me! I can't even imagine what tech they could add to the stadium to get me there. The way I see it, people either enjoy the "game day experience" and are willing to pay for it, or not. Tech won't fill seats.

My question ... Why is it that Hilliard got fired, but the coaches responsible for the bad play calling, bad blocking, and bad throwing still remain?

So he is the sacrificial lamb huh. Its not like he had an abundance of talent to work with but I guess at least one coaching head had to roll.