BADOLBILZ

They are paying PFF a six figure fee every year for access to all of the information they generate. The argument that they are just paying them to track things like personnel formations is laughable..........the league itself tracks that info and the team could hire an upaid intern to compile that kind of data.

Clowney was already a legend as a HS recruit. Players like that don't have to earn a lot of stripes.........they just gotta' flash the talent a bit too confirm to scouts what they saw. People don't realize just how closely NFL personnel people follow recruiting........especially the road scout types like Doug Whaley.........I think that Cyrus Kouandjio and Sammy Watkins picks were heavily influenced by them being 5 star recruits from the same class as Clowney.

Blaming the NFL for this is like blaming a loss on one bad call by an official...........it ignores the vast amount of other outcomes that created the scenario in the first place. If the Bills didn't choke away big leads to the Jets OR Minnesota then they wouldn't have needed the Bengals game.........they could have secured home field at home versus NE regardless of any other outcomes. All in all........Buffalo gets treated fairly in this. I've been a season ticket holder for nearly 30 years as well.........having not completed the 17 game schedule I don't know how you can act like a home AFCCG is something you own the rights to.

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The plasma sets were much more expensive to manufacture compared to LED/LCD.........so there was more money to be made pumping out a higher volume of slightly less expensive TV's that were much less expensive to manufacture. The LED/LCD tv's didn't have the burn-in issues and glare problem in bright rooms that plasma had.........but those were fixable issues with plasma.........they just cheaped out and gave us significantly worse quality for a decade. There are actually a lot of those type business decisions in tech. Like inferior tape technology being used for audio and video when CD/DVD tech was ready to go in the late 70's. Often times there is more money to be made by leaving the customer wanting as long as possible. Oh so you remember those women's beach volleyball demos they used to show in-store on the new plasma's?

Generally agree.............but that's not what happened with plasma tv technology...........they discontinued it despite it being a superior picture to the LCD tech and it took many years for OLED to be readily available to replicate the deep blacks of plasma.........and only now are those starting to size up to anywhere near the cheaper panel technologies.

When they are on the field next.........they will want passionate support.

Fortunately your first statement is inaccurate........or the human race would have been wiped out by trauma alone long ago. It's important to grieve but you also have to get back to your life. As @BillsVet aptly noted.......lowering expectations(apathy) is not a positive solution........if you are lowering expectations that is a personal choice and probably better left unsaid.......because the players WANT the fans to be passionate about their work.

There is a good deal of moping being attributed to a guy who is fighting.

What's your point? Going under cover of a dugout or pavilion or car during a lightning storm isn't nearly as effective as, you know, getting out of the water to prevent a shark attack. About 1/3 of people who get struck by lightning get struck indoors. Point being........it's not a fail safe to just take players off of a field........but we take the precaution anyway. Specific padding to distribute the impact to the chest might not make it impossible that there will be a recurrence of such an injury but it would likely reduce the chances.

The league might insist on some pad changes to protect the chest a bit more. We were actually talking in pregame about how little padding coverage most players have now. I heard a medical professional say this was like the odds of being struck by lightning.........and yet, when there is lightning sports teams are pulled off the field in sports at all levels...........

Yeah it's an injury most associated with baseball because players don't pad up. You can buy shirts with a special circular series of pads in the center of the chest. I made my youngest wear one but never told him why. Didn't figure anything good could come out of making him scared of the ball. Still no guarantee of safety. Instant death on the field from this among children in youth baseball is not as uncommon as you'd think.

Did you get a lifetime contract for playing with your niscus all torn like that? I'm told Poyer should get whatever he asks for.

That was a very clever attempt to turn this into an Edmunds thread. Okay.........should we re-sign Edmunds or Poyer?

And I hope you learn to take yourself much less seriously and be less needy for approval. That's why I bust your balls. Don't use manipulative lady friend tactics.......if you wanted to brag about your fantasy team you should have justed started that thread saying so........and then you could have gone back to follow up on it.

Yeah.........I can't watch much of the talking heads discussing matchups with the Bills. I've watched every Bengals game this season. I know what to expect. Same as I knew to expect that the Dolphins weren't going to unseat the Bills in the AFCE despite about 6 weeks or so of national media declaring it. I expect a Bills win too.

I think we all know this but with regard to the Bills..............they haven't won a road playoff game yet under McDermott. 0-4 It might matter less for some teams........I think it's basically a 50/50 split for everyone else in the playoffs over that period of time..........but it feels important to THIS organization.

I suppose that it could be said that at least THIS TIME you didn't start an entirely new thread to specifically talk about your imaginary sports team........under the guise of your interest in others teams, of course. Of course, it is the REAL gameday thread so you probably figured it would get more looks this way.

It was because he is friends with former Padre Trevor Hoffman, so he was supporting his friend in a game he had no real rooting interest otherwise. LeBron is a Yankees fan. It wasn't a good look wearing that in Cleveland though. Tom Brady is also(hilariously) a Yankees fan but learned to not show it in Boston area.

That is one of the worst, whiny sore-loser takes I've ever read. Harrison tried to catch the ball and steal a TD on an intended throw away.........he subsequently got hit hard and entirely legally. I'm for taking all unnecessarily violent hits out of the game........but the hit Damar Hamlin laid in the end zone a couple weeks back was dirtier than that..........and accurately ruled a foul..........and it also prevented a TD. Were you screaming bloody murder about that legitimate targeting foul? Fock no because it benefited your cause. Don't be ridiculous. What a bunch of sore losers you Ohio people are...........your adopted team choked the game away and the kicker would have missed the final kick from extra point distance.........you got nothing to complain about.

Yep.......what a hack job at the end...........tough night for you and a lot of Bengals fans...........hopefully it's the beginning of a bad year for Ohio college and pro football teams.

From a box score scouting perspective? Yes. But different style receiver than Jameson Williams though. JW has the goods to do everything and showed that last season for Alabama. Hyatt might......but all he put on tape was a ton of vertical stuff.

Stefon Diggs would be that high end slot WR. Think Cooper Kupp. There aren't the obvious high end do-it-all, have-it-all types at the top of this draft like the last couple drafts...........but there are some big play outside guys and some promising slot receivers. At this point I expect the big play guys Quentin Johnston of TCU and Jalin Hyatt of Tennessee to go 1&2 unless JSN tests great. Hyatt is kinda' like a younger, more quality competition tested version of what Christian Watson was last year.

Josh is a lifelong SF Giants fan, of course........though he wore Padres gear to their playoff game on the bye week this fall. I give Canadians a lot of credit.........there are lot's of Bills fans in Ontario and basically no Jays or Raptors fans in WNY. Not that Toronto needs any fan support to be a mid-market in MLB and NBA........but the support is not reciprocated. I try to do my part by being a Ticats fan. More WNY sports fans support the Canadian Ballet than all Ontario based sports teams combined though. Ted Rogers trying to pinch the Bills didn't help matters.