CodeMonkey

I watched the Stillers a bit this past weekend as well as a week or two ago. They look bad .... I mean REALLY bad. Particularly defensively. Being in Pitt, and it being Buffalo coming in at 3-6, I'm sure the Stillers and their fans will be looking to add a W to their terrible season. But honestly, I will be extremely disappointed in this Bills team if they don't come out of there with a win. That being said, the Steelers are favored by 3.5 (basically home field advantage) and 6 of 8 CBS pundits pick the Steelers with as well as without the spread

Yeah if you don't want to see the game, and are single or leave the family home. . This year Bills ticket prices range from $225 to $720 in regular seating areas and from $1278 to $2790 in club seat areas. So if you take the average of just the regular seats, that's $472.50 per seat. There are 5 members in my family that I prefer watching games with, so that makes my cost $2362.50. Call it $100 for parking and ignore incidentals like gas (I live in Rochester) and food/drink I am at $2462.50. Could I budget for that, sure. But when I analyze the situation, I can't for the life of me come up with many reasons why I would. And I can always find good uses for that kind of money elsewhere. The numbers don't look so bad when you take the cheapest ticket and assume you are only buying one. Not everyone is in that situation.

???? If you sit anywhere near either endzone in the lower bowl you end up watching half the game on the scoreboard. I call that a bad seat. YMMV

Not for me. They could give me seasons and I would rarely go (excluding club seats). I want to be able to see the game. Being comfortable and not having to deal with traffic and a-holes is also a huge plus. But you also have to remember that some absolutely LOVE the atmosphere, the tailgating, and the feeling that they are somehow helping their team as the 12th man by screaming themselves hoarse and beating on those cold aluminum benches. They can always DVR the game and see what really happens later And I have to admit that since I started recording the games and watching commercial free, I enjoy the games a LOT more. However it does make watching any tackle football game live painful. Sabres games are a different situation for me. There are only a few areas in FNC arena where you don't get a decent view of the entire game and the TV timeouts are not overboard..

I see this as an indictment of the American education system.

Hmmm I can vote tonight as well. Perhaps Coach Marrones Dog should get a vote.

My take from lots of threads here, not fixed in general, it's just the Bills get screwed constantly and the league conspires against them every game..

"Best 3-6 team on the planet" ranks right up there with "morale victory" and "intangibles" with me ... which is not worth a ****.

Yeah I made the mistake of taking my then 9 year old son to a Sabres/Habs game a few years ago. Several drunk obnoxious Habs fans near us. Plus on the way out we were going to use the bathroom before the drive home when my son asked what that was all over the ground at the entrance to the bathroom. I had to answer puke, and we went to find another bathroom. I avoid Leafs and Habs games in Buffalo, I haven't seen issues with any other teams fans.

Extremely well put and I could not possibly agree more.

The Stillers are very VERY beatable this year. In my opinion any healthy Bills QB is good enough to win this game. But beating a very bad Stillers team does not prove the Bills are a good team.

i can't answer for him, but for myself I thoroughly enjoy sporting events with my entire family. I just find it an enjoyable experience. It's not for my kids, it's not for my wife, it's not for me, it's for us all. I choose and prefer not to do it at the Ralph for many well documented reasons, but we have fun at FNC as well as watching Bills and Sabres games on TV (even in bad years such at this ).

Thanks for posting Coach! Glad you all enjoyed yourselves!

I had forgotten about the "white out" until one of my kids pointed out while we were watching on TV that except for a couple white pom poms, there sure wasn't much white in the stands. Epic fail indeed.

That whole "i'm not going to talk to anyone, pet my dog" is all bull ****. Marrone is pissed? Well welcome to the club Doug. They are how many games into the season, losing far more games than they have won, and NOW he is pissed. You can't really think anything about that statement is going to make the Bills a winner. Geez Doug, did your dog put the team into the situation where when the starting QB went down there was no viable backup and you had to look at every practice squad and unemployed QB in the league for one? If so, do us all a favor and fire that little !@#$er.

Crowd mentality dictates a scapegoat is needed in this situation.

How bout the Steelers. I think the Bills win that game regardless of who the Bills QB is. I don't know about 8-8, but I'd very happily put some money on the Bills finishing better than 3-13.

I agree. Whatever QB plays for the Bills should have a good day. And the Bills D should should smother the Steelers as well.

I have not seen one ounce of give-up in the Bills play in any game since Manuel went down. I expect more of the same this week if Manuel plays or not. I don't know if it's due to being a young team, or Marrones doing, or both, but I can't help but be impressed with the teams fight this season. Unfortunately all the fight in the world can't overcome lack of talent (depth at least).

SJ13 also had a chance to redeem himself later in that same play. Once the pass was picked off, instead of trying to tackle the defender like he should have, SJ threw his arms up in the air and turned away in a temper tantrum. It is quite possible he could have prevented the TD on that play, and the way the Bills D was playing lights out could have helped his team pull the game out.

Well if the pass had been completed many posts would have been made proclaiming the call a stroke of genius. As to the bolded, I was thinking that same thing about the KC offensive game plan. Reid willingly took the ball out of his best players hands and had his pedestrian QB throw it all day? I figured at halftime Reid would have come to his senses, but he still did not!

Yeah Marrone said in the presser that there was no bone injury (x-rays negative), but Woods could not put his full weight on it so that's why he did not return to the game.

Really? Not even a "I hope the Bills make damn sure this situation never happens again by getting a viable backup QB and/or preparing said backup QB appropriately" discussion?

What defines control is the bigger question. Does having it trapped in his elbow, which is where he had it, constitute control? I wouldn't think so, and my guess is that's why it was ruled incomplete and not overturned. But that's just my guess.

I hope it is Manuel only because it would be nice to ease him back into it against a bad Steeler defense. Whichever Bills QB plays next week should do well.