CodeMonkey

Alex Karras latest to sue NFL over concussions Just the tip of the iceberg I suspect.

Not quite pointless. Your issue was making an already too long game even longer with more replays. My point is that replays is insignificant noise compared to the real culprit, TV timeouts. TV money is obviously necessary to pay the obscene player salaries. No way in hell just ticket sales for so few games could cover that. But they could cut the number of ads in half, and charge twice as much for them for example. Do we really need to see 10 Budweiser ads per game? Wouldn't 5 be enough to get their point across? That way the money stays the same but the game moves along quicker. That's just one example of going after the biggest offender and not worrying about the little stuff.

I've seen convention center brought up a couple times. What the !@#$ would a huge convention center in Buffalo be used for? Who would be coming there? There is no point to having a big convention center without good hotels close and groups wanting to go to Buffalo for their conventions. No point building it to sit empty.

Fixed. Up to date is irrelevant in my opinion. It just needs to be viable.

The time replays extend games is insignificant compared to the TV commercial timeouts. Best game I have ever been too was a few years ago when a transformer got knocked out shortly before game time and there wasn't power to televise the game until the 4th quarter. Imagine if you will, a game where after each change of possession instead of watching the players stand around for a couple minutes watching the commercials on the scoreboard, they just went out and played. It was a beautiful thing. .

I thought you are your mates in the Rockpile were the party deck PTR!

If Mr. Wilson and/or the NFL is paying for it then I agree with you.

I agree with you in that I don't think Wanny took full control of the defense. But I also think that as assistant HC he almost certainly (or at least should have) had input into it. How much, we will probably never know for sure.

Typical fluff I've grown to expect from Gruden. What happened to him. He used to have balls when he was a coach. Now he either ball washes or uses a lot of words to state the obvious. Was getting neutered part of his MNF contract? I agree with some here who think the Bills should try and get a project QB, but not early in the draft.

There is no more reason to think Wanny took over the defense than there is to think that as asst. head coach he had no involvement in it. Aren't Gailey and Edwards buddies from before the Bills? If so, that might be way Gailey didn't want to can him. Or if he had an escape clause in his contract.

These kinds of thoughts make me smile. Chan, the players, and the front office of the Bills would understand Stache leaving for a better opportunity as they would probably do the same thing in his place. It is business, not personal, and they all understand that. But the funny part is what I bolded. The Stache is going to turn down a promotion because it is the most important thing to have the respect of the Bills fanbase What's a couple million dollars more or less as long as you have the Bills fans respect I have no idea if Stache will be the DC of the Bills next season or not, but thanks for the chuckle

Unless someone here knows the detailed terms of the staches contract, stating that he can or cannot leave to take another job is pointless.

Most people on this forum I would expect to be against a dome. But I think the majority of the people that go to games would prefer a closed roof during the winter at least. I think a dome would also help sell tickets to the late season games that always, even in the 90's when the team was good, had trouble selling out. Personally, I would prefer not to be in the rain and snow during any sporting event.

Hmmm. Perhaps. But at least they did make it to the big games.

Agree completely.

Because it IS different. If my Doctor is a drug addict my life is at risk. If he beats his wife he probably doesn't value life very much and that also puts my life at risk. If, however, my Doctor made it rain at a strip club it certainly would not make me drop him if he was a good Doctor. I get your point. You seem to want to put people on a pedestal and expect whatever your definition of good behavior is from them in all aspects of their lives. I disagree and generally only care if it directly affects their performance. I do admit that I would be more inclined to scrutinize my Doctors behavior more because of the impact (s)he has on my health. But I literally could not care less what any player on a sports team that I only follow as a hobby does in his private life, as long as it does not affect his performance. In short (and hopefully in conclusion ) we disagree on the role of professional athletes in society in general. You think they should be held to a higher standard and I cannot think of one reason why they should. At the end of the day, they simply play a game.

There you go. I knew someone could sum it up in one concise statement

Sports figures are not, and never were, heroic. They play a game for a living, period. People, mainly kids I would think, might look up to them for various reasons. But they are not heros. You aren't really equating a Doctor, who holds the life of you and your family in his hands, to a professional athlete are you? You really don't see those two professions as holding the same importance in society, do you? If you do then that is incredibly sad.

Exactly. And there is no harm in kicking the tires just so you are prepared in case someone does drop into your lap.

#9 in completion % as you say, but also #23 in yards per attempt. In this case the low yards per attempt explains the high completion percentage. Stats are wonderful things, but you have to take them all into account. Not just the ones that look good. The QB rating is not perfect, but to say Fitz is better than his rating because of a couple cherry picked stats does not make sense either. YMMV.

I never understood why fans of a team care about what the teams players do off the field. Makes no sense to me. I don't know the players or interact with them directly in any way. These guys run around and hit each other for a living. Why would anyone hold them up to an inflated standard? So getting smoked by the cowboys if their roster was filled with Mother Teresa types would have removed your pain? Not mine. Weird, but to each his/her own. OJ is in prison now. Does that change your opinion of him as a Bill?

He is actually neither.

Particularly football players in my opinion. A million dollars a game base salary for one player is insanity.

It's all about production to me. The way you stated your question, "Assuming production is equal no matter the mentality.", I would take the player with character of course. Who wouldn't? But if the choice is a player with "character" with a production of say 75% and a player who lacks character with a production of 90%, I take the 90% production every time. This is just football after all. If the topic were dating my daughter, it's character all the way.

None. I suspect the "kids day" game will be against the Steelers.