CodeMonkey

I just searched TitanTV for the direcTV lineup and it shows what you said. Only showing the Sabres games from 9:30-10:00 (more or less, I assume when the Habs-Bruins game ends they will switch). According to that lineup you really get boned. You don't get game 2 at all, you get the full game 3 Monday on VS and the 30 minute thing again for game 4 on Wednesday, also on VS. That's the ONLY reason I stay with cable. Between MSG and VS I should get all the sabres playoff games in HD as well as almost all of the regular season games. I don't see that channel on the TitanTV listing. Did that add that for the playoffs?

That's fairly obvious after last years first pick. I liked at the end where he said they were doing due diligence by talking with everyone and if he knew who the #3 would be he would tell the ESPN guys. Which tells me they are at least keeping an open mind. Again, fairly obvious though (at least for most teams). Not sure why they bother talking with GMs now. All they will get is a bunch of cliche's and non committal responses. Being smart is not a requirement to be employed by the NFL or any of it's teams.

I don't want it to fail completely, but I am hoping for a "black friday" type market correction. In my opinion that would be well worth missing a season for.

Why does your anger seem to be aimed only at the owners? The players are just as greedy.

Aug 27 is a Saturday I'm hoping that's "kids day".

I disagree. It would take 0 years to have the same level of talent. And that's because as soon as the owners made that statement and started acting on it, the current players would come running. If they didn't show they would be in breach of contract and the owners would be free to sign whomever they wanted to. The owners could also probably file a lawsuit against the players who did not show and get some of their money back. Like it was said above, most players have a short shelf life and cannot afford to throw away a years pay. If the owners had good spin guys, they could even come off like the good guys after all was said and done. It worked for Reagan back in 1981 (I believe) with the air traffic controllers. The owners hold all the cards here, I don't understand at all why they are !@#$ing around. They just need to grow a pair.

Caveat emptor I suppose.

Well then time to get the autographed bottle Must be math challenged marketing people there (or they think their customers are math challenged). Usually the bigger quantity you buy the less it costs you. But there: 6 bottle pack = $29.99 2 bottle pack = $9.99 so three 2 packs = 6 bottles costs $29.97

Has anyone tried the sauce?

I'll see your drugs and raise you one casino theft. http://www.rr.com/sports/topic/article/rr/9003/38389060/Kansas_City_Chiefs_veteran_Mike_Vrabel_arrested

Or perhaps to Jacksonville for Trent.

Wow I can't believe you were serious when you typed this, but in case you were ... Driving, dangerous or not, is necessary for a lot of people and for society to function. Football is not necessary for anyone, for any reason.

First off the Bills could have had Tebow at #9 last year and didn't take him. Why would they take him with the #3 this year? Secondly, if Elway does not want Tebow he would be willing to take a hell of a lot less than a number 3 for him. Even if the Bills now decided they wanted Tebow they would have to be insane to propose the trade you want. A second rounder at most for Tebow. Lastly, thank God you are not the Bills GM. You just made Buddy Nix look like a genius.

Being a pats fan.

My son is a sports nut and gets this mag as well as the "regular" SI. It has for the top 5: 1) Carolina - Bowers (DE) 2) Denver - Dareus (DE) 3) Buffalo - Newton (QB) 4) Cinci - Fairley (DT) 5) Arizona - Peterson (CB) They have the Bills bucking the trend by being the only offensive pick in the top 5, with 3 of the 5 being D-Line. Not saying they know any more or less than anyone else, but with Buffalo's history of head scratching draft picks who knows.

But it wouldn't help their bottom line. NFL fans like violence. Highlight reel hits are good advertisement which helps the bottom line. Follow the money man, follow the money.

Parents have known the risks for quite some time. Or at least they could have if they had bothered to check. I know someone who does brain trauma research for a living so I had easier access to information than most I guess, so there was zero chance of my boys playing tackle football. Simply not worth the risk. But there will always be people willing to take that risk as long as the financial rewards are possible. Plus as long as there are passionate fans of the game, like there are here for example, the game won't die out. As the insane salaries for players get even further out of control, the NFL is very long overdue for a "correction" (as wall street puts it for the stock market), but it will survive. It is far too popular in the United States to completely die.

Speaking of your avatar, you need to post a LOT more !

While I don't think taking a CB at #3 is a wise move for the Bills right now (BPA or not) it sure would make this board light up like a xmas tree with the posts to fire Nix and Gailey for pulling a Jauron. That could be entertaining anyway First pick last year a "scatback" that barely contributed when the team had 2 viable RBs already. And follow that up this year with a CB. Man, peoples heads would absolutely explode

My honest answer is no. Outside of Bills fans Evans, Jackson and Spiller are not household names. Granted either is the guy with the non descript name, as you say, but the drop was memorable and was all over the talking heads shows. The bottom line is there are no memorable players on the Bills. Hopefully that will change soon.

A well thought out and expressed post. However in my opinion the good ole boys don't have the desire or the shrewdness to execute a smokescreen. They are evaluating talent and will make their draft decisions based on who they think are the best players available. Pure and simple. Nothing less and certainly nothing more. I'm puzzled by the smokescreen obsession by some here. Why can't they just be thorough in their evaluation of talent? Maybe we as fans can afford to accept or dismiss players based on the musings of some media "experts". But it is their asses on the line. If I were them I'd take my time and make my own thoughtful evaluations and not give a rats ass if other teams watch who I am looking at. The Bills were 4-12 last year and drafted CJ Spiller #9 overall. What makes you think anyone else in the NFL cares who the Bills are looking at.

Who would be the most recognizable to the general football fan? I suppose the correct answer is no one. But Johnson had that big drop that put him on the highlight (lowlight?) reels that weekend. I suspect that might make him the most recognizable.

+1

Didn't you, like a lot of the rest of us, think the same about the number 9 pick last year about this time?

I was there with my son. With about 5 minutes left I was getting ready for the drive home. Then suddenly it was over, the wrong way. Everyone in there was looking at each other like "WTF just happened", it was all so fast. A bunch or people had left in my section but they must not have made it out the door before the Preds got their second goal because most of them came back to their seats. It was a punch in the gut for sure. I don't think I've ever seen Miller go so quick off the ice before. He was clearly pissed. And for the life of me I don't know what Sekera was thinking skating the puck into the Sabres crease like that with a couple minutes left and a 2 goal lead. And Lindy putting Sekera on the ice for the first shift of OT after he brain farted the second preds goal and was on the ice for the third. The Preds had four goals and Sekera was at least -3 that game. Crazy ****.