Utah John

Well that was amazing. Thanks.

OMG I remember this. I hadn't thought about chicken man for decades but it all came back. Buck buck buck buuuuuuuck

Looks like the Bills have as close-knit a group as any since the mid-60s. That's great. Also they're loose as can be, with three gimme wins coming up. The thing is, they still have to play the games. Focus, focus, focus.

I think the Dolphins will probably score some points on offense. That's as far as I'll go.

I was quicker than that, but it wasn't hard to beat the traffic at least as far as Lake Avenue.

I remember at one point there was an announcement that the domed stadium was going to be built. All the parties that had to sign off on it, had done so. I remember one of the old AM stations with a little jingle, We've Got the Dome. It seemed to be a done deal. All the talk of Ralph Wilson visiting Seattle died down. It fell through, obviously, and I don't remember what stopped things. I loved the Orchard Park location, since I grew up in SW West Seneca and could walk home from the stadium. I think I did that twice, on warm late-summer evenings, and despite the distance I wasn't very far behind the people who drove and had to deal with traffic on Abbott Road. I think a domed stadium would deprive the Bills from a serious home-field advantage in December (or November) and would detract from the atmosphere. Regardless of where the new stadium ends up, I hope it's not a dome.

I'd agree if I wasn't sure the other teams already know what we've got. It's only because we've been fortunate enough that our starters haven't been injured that we haven't had to bring up these guys.

I paid attention to what was being said in the German media, for consumption by the German people. People there were shocked and humiliated at what Hitler turned their cultured, well-educated, tolerant society into, and they swore they would never again follow that path.

Is the Canadian Ballet still in business?

I'm calling BS on this. I was stationed in Germany while in the Air Force. I never heard ANY German EVER say anything good about Hitler.

I think he probably did commit those murders, but for my money he was the best player the Bills ever had. Better than Bruce, better than Kelly. People too young to have seen him play might not understand, but he was an amazing running back. Still the only player to get 2000 yards in 14 games.

Imagine this scenario: Dan Snyder is forced by the NFL to sell his team to a St Louis owner, and the WFTs move west. Washington DC gets an expansion team which puts them on track to be better in a couple of years than they're gonna be under the current situation. The NFL gets rid of two problems, the St Louis lawsuit, and Dan Snyder. Washington gets a real future for its team. And the NFL retaliates against St Louis by inflicting the WFTs on them.

Almost any place you pick will be close enough to an existing franchise to get pushback from that existing team. Portland is an obvious choice but is within a 2 1/2 hour drive of Seattle. As Bills fans from across NYS will tell you, that's not too far. My daughter lives there and I love visiting there, and I think a team would do well. I lived in Salt Lake City and the big problem there is that most of the state's population, and half of SLC's, is Mormon and is not supposed to attend concerts, plays, etc on Sunday. Of course their church leader could have another convenient revelation which says it's OK to attend football games. The big sport there is college football, with Utah, BYU, and Utah State all having dedicated fan bases. I think the NFL might have a tougher time carving out a fan base there than other places. One advantage is that it's not very close to any existing franchise, although Las Vegas is drawing fans from St George and other southern Utah locations. There's a huge area in the central US, on both sides of the Mississippi, that's not close to an existing franchise. Not including the northern part of the Mississippi, of course. If St Louis doesn't get a team, I'd suggest Memphis. It's something like four hours from Memphis to Nashville, where the Titans play. It's farther than that from Memphis to New Orleans. It's farther that that from Memphis to Chicago or Cincinnati. Memphis would be a good location for fans from Arkansas, western Kentucky, northern Mississippi, northern Alabama, and southeast Missouri. The University of Memphis has a strong following and the city is growing again following a generation of decline. But if St Louis gets another team I think Memphis is probably out. Oklahoma City would be a good location but I think Dallas would object. San Diego always supported the Chargers well but I think the league doesn't like cities that didn't let the NFL push them around about stadiums. San Antonio is probably far enough from Houston and Dallas to be OK, and there's enough population in the state to support a third team.

There do not HAVE to be two new teams added at the same time. When the Browns were re-created in 1999, there were 31 teams in the league. It wasn't until Houston got a new team that the number went to 32. Certainly it's easier for scheduling to have an even number, I'm just saying they had an odd number for a couple of years and things worked out.

The real money for the NFL is from TV. More teams, more games, more commercials, more money.

I've read that the NFL's goal is eventually to grow to 40 teams, with five in each division, continuing with four divisions in each conference. They think there's a market for more of their product, and they're in the business of providing that product. There was a time a couple decades ago when the league had an odd number of teams, so each team got a bye. IIRC at that point there were no byes in the schedule, and some poor team got its bye the first week of the season (the Chargers, I think). They could make this work with 33 teams and get expansion plans going to go to 34 and then 36 pretty quickly.

I think it didn't really matter to the Cardinals whether Rosen was good or not. The new coach saw that Kyler Murray was the QB he wanted, so he basically staked his job and his career betting on Murray, being hired with the demand that the team draft Murray. That's worked out well, to put it mildly. So Rosen was expendable, and the Dolphins traded a second round pick for him. Which is amazingly even worse than Cleveland trading a third for Tyrod Taylor -- worse in that the Dolphins gave up more, and worse in that Rosen is much worse than Taylor. IIRC, Rosen wasn't that terrible in his only year in Arizona. He had a terrible team around him so he was hard to evaluate. Then he went to Miami, a new team and another bad team. He's continued to bounce around, never getting into a good situation with a QB coach, offensive coordinator, and HC before being kicked down the road to another landing spot. If Josh Allen had been cut loose by the Bills after one year, he could have had a similar career, never getting the support and coaching he needed to become a great player.

I'm mostly worried about the fact that McDermott was at the wedding too. What will this do to the Bills preparation for upcoming games? Even worse what if this has been spread already to other staff members or any players.

The stat I like best is the Bills allowing 270 yards per game (1st in the NFL) and the Dolphins allowing 414 (32nd in the NFL). I'm fine with the Bills concentrating on their run game, AFTER they're up by three scores. Let Allen pass them into tiny particles, so there's no hope on their sideline, and then start pounding away with Moss and Motor. The only time the Bills really get into trouble on offense is when they waste downs running straight into the line for two or three yards, giving the defense a chance to load up against our O line.

So Wrecks Ryan broke the Jets and then the Bills. The difference appears to be that the Bills had sense enough to hire professionals. The Jets didn't and now we can look forward to two guaranteed wins each season for years to come.

Joe "Michael Corleone" Flacco will now perform his famous "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" speech.

That, and the WFT's defense.

Mahomes is as good as ever, and so are Hill and Kelce, but the rest of the team is falling apart. This is my complaint with evaluating QBs by the number of SBs they won. Troy Aikman won two, and he was just a B+ QB. Eli Manning won two and was a B. Peyton Manning won one and he was a far better QB than his brother. I don't think Mahomes will ever win another SB. He's locked into KC due to his salary and KC is locked out of restocking its roster for the same reason.

I grew up in West Seneca and have never had any trouble at all pronouncing interesting names with an eastern European origin. I can't wait until this guy shows up on a national broadcast, and we have to listen to some former QB struggling with saying his name. It would be worth the Bills getting called for holding just to see this happen once.

The thing about technology like the eye in the sky is that it only helps if it's used properly and consistently. You can buy a fancy new vacuum cleaner but your floors will stay dirty unless you use it.