CodeMonkey

I applaud the effort. I wonder why the SB though and not during the season, if not the entire season. Media exposure I guess. I sure they hope they come up with some solution. It is a shame to see these guys become drooling idiots at 50 from all the concussions. It is worse when you consider all the HS and college players that get the brain injuries and don't even get the NFL money.

At the end of the day the fish have made some strong moves in an attempt to improve. Time will tell, but on paper anyway the moves would appear to be good ones. The Bills have fired a DC and assigned those duties to the asst. HC, which on paper would also appear to be a good move. So far anyway, to me the fish appear to be the team making the stronger move to improve. But it is still very early in the process. Get er done Buddy, show me the baby.

Ahhh yes another Bills offseason. This scheme and DC change changes everything! Forget that the Bills have spent the last 2 drafts and FA signings attempting to switch to the 3-4. All it takes is the Stache in charge! Never mind that as asst. HC last season he should have had considerable input into the defense. I believe that Wannstedt is a better DC than G. Edwards will ever be and this switch is a good thing for the Bills. But to expect a complete turnaround simply because of this makes no sense (except to a contingent of impressively optimistic Bills fans I suppose). Now if they completely re-tool the D this offseason with several key strategic FA's and draft picks that is another matter altogether. But if it essentially the same players with a semi-new DC then I do not expect nearly as big of an impact as the OP is hoping for.

4-12 and 6-10 happened.

linky

You obviously missed this! Yeah I know each team gets one and the squads self-vote, but you take what you can get

I understand where you are coming from, but that statement just smacks of accepting mediocrity to me.

Its not that you are a fool or anything else bad, but you are thinking about it as a Bills fan. Think about it from a network executives viewpoint. (S)He is making a big money investment to televise the game and is going to be judged on what the ratings were, which affects how much they can charge for future commercials and therefore the profit of the network. The Bills have not exactly been setting the league on fire the last 12 years, and the last 2 seasons the record has been horrible. Outside of Buffalo and small pockets of displaced Buffalonians around the country, what interest would be generated by televising the Bills? At the end of the day it isn't about being fair, it's about making money.

If I were running the TV networks and spending all that money to televise a game, I certainly would not choose a bottom feeder team that has not made the playoffs for 12 years running (a new record I believe) and has been out of the playoffs by December the past 2 seasons with a combined record of 10 - 22. How am I getting nationwide ratings with a team like that? Heidi would draw a bigger audience.

Well that depends on what you think the right thing is. Personally I don't think any tax money should fund any stadium improvements. But Cuomo will do what every politician does, do what he thinks gives him the best chance at re-election.

Ravens fan? Not sure where you came up with that. The fork was in them early again this season, really doesn't matter if you or I like it or not.

Well this ravens fan sure seems to blame Flacco ... and a host of others

I don't buy any kind of lingering injury. With rib injuries, particularly ones bad enough that it hurts to breathe, you see indications in how people move, walk, run etc.. Fitz threw the same (motion wise), and not only did he run the same and just as often, he did not slide but went in head first and drove for additional yards. QBs with rib injuries would NOT do this. Not even IronMan FitzMagic.

I am probably in the minority, but I want to see the SB only played indoors. Not for the fan comfort, I just don't want weather to play a part in the outcome. But if it is to be outdoors, it doesn't get much better than SD.

How about the meadowlands, an outdoor stadium, in Feb of 2014. Maybe they just took a look and decided that spending $15,000 to go to Indy and see a football game was just stupid. I have no love for Marcia and the girls Lord knows, but I would certainly understand that decision. To me it may be less about not "representing" and more about not being a sucker.

Nope.

Is there such a thing as a franchise long snapper is my question.

Bingo. Plus he could certainly get a job as a QB coach if not a OC. By everything I read he had an office with the Colts coaches and was more or less an assistant OC the past few seasons anyway. He absolutely has many post playing options. I also think he would be better than any of the player talking heads that the networks employ now.

"Mental toughness" is 100% BS and is generally a losers excuse after the fact, in my opinion anyway.

The Bills are almost forced to pay him #1 WR money, whether he is worth it or not. What other team is going to do that? He holds the position of power in the negotiations with the Bills and will end up getting close to what he is asking for. He wants to be in Buffalo unless he is really as stupid and immature as some of his antics might lead you to believe.

This ^^^ Or like in the case of the Bills this past season, all of the above.

It's also useless to speculate because there is no chance a first vote HOFer like Manning is going to close out his career, and risk permanent serious injury, on a bottom dweller team.

Could you imagine the uproar if the NFL tried to blackout a superbowl to the teams cities primary markets for not selling out. I can't imagine the game not selling out though. Even in Indy and even at those prices. Most if not all of the inflated prices are from resellers. If they don't sell they will lower the price or go themselves. There will be a butt in the seat come game time

Metro area? You realize the stadium is in Foxboro Mass, a good 40 minute drive from Boston.

With the Stache already in the organization this isn't as crazy as it might sound.