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You get or create a job in media where you can essentially provide 3rd party advertising space for player agents. In my own business experience.......people who want to be paid for information will seek you out. So I'd assume that is generally how a guy like LaCanfora finds a scout or front office person who can give them dirt for a few bucks.

Nah it was just a lie to manipulate salary cap ignorant members of the fan base like yourself.........and it worked because it played on the need for accountability that fans wanted after all of the underachieving under Rex. The McD Bills went into the 2017 offseason more than $30M under the salary cap with almost no commitments for 2018 and beyond. They merely wanted a completely clean slate........not anymore complicated than that.

Well, as the other tweet lauding his firing noted.........what do you expect? He IS a Red Sox fan.

Bigger staffs are also harder to manage and accountability can become a real issue. See the Buffalo Bills under Rex Ryan. Probably the most coaches an NFL team has ever had on one staff.

Yeah, I certainly get that. I am from WNY but traveled a lot as a kid and while I was often amazed by stuff I saw in NYC or southern CA..........pretty much everywhere else was pretty lame compared to WNY back then. Southern cities like Charlotte and Atlanta that so many Bills fans make home now were far behind the style and interests of a northeastern kid in the 80's. Even Toronto perplexed me with it's gawky awkwardness in the early to mid-80's. That's all changed. Those metro areas have experienced massive growth and are seen as culturally superior to WNY because of it now...........but as you said, for the most part, any idea or style that's new is new everywhere now. The look of WNY is as much an aesthetic now as anything. Nobody wants to see Danny's or Big Tree torn down and relocated into pieces of modern art with perfectly curbed new parking lots. It doesn't mean the people are classless bums. A lot of the little towns intentionally resist frivolous architectural change. Some of the people sitting on those boards don't want their towns and cities ending up looking like where their vacation homes are.

Yeah that money is there for the foreseeable future........if he doesn't get cancelled for saying or doing something offensive like Gruden. But in effect McVay has probably hardly worked a day in his adult life. He's always done professionally a job that he probably would have done for free if he didn't need food and shelter. Now he's wealthy. Most people grind thru work life day-to-day and crave the freedom of getting away from having to work. Guys like McVay and McDermott haven't lived that life.

I mean.........that's part of the charm of central and WNY. Sometimes it's just not necessary to replace everything old with something new. I own a home in SW FL where almost every building within a 50 mile radius was built in the past 30 years. Everything is new. It's not run down but it also has very little character or history. That's often the trade-off. @blacklabel is dogging Binghamton..........has he ever seen the neighborhoods around the Bills stadium? Ain't no new McMansions on that side of town. Danny's? The Big Tree? These are like historical sites to Bills fans and they all look like something from a half century or more ago.

He says it was his heart that made the decision. His haircut says he wanted to retire a Raider but I guess we will have to take his word for it.

Calling it a drug just implies a lack of control..........which I don't think necessarily/accurately portrays his situation.

As I said in another post.......McDermott isn't punching a clock somewhere like some Joe Sixpack in your human performance data. He's the boss and he is doing something he really enjoys. Fulfilling a dream. It isn't necessarily about whether each moment spent is as valuable as one spent in practice or with his staff etc.. And yeah, for an NFL HC putting in enough time to learn and recognize more about the competition can be very impactful. See SB XLIX where Belichick had actually run the game winning defensive call that lead to the interception by Butler at the end of practice on Friday in anticipation of the Seahawks running it. An obscure detail that snatched a SB win from the jaws of near certain defeat. It's often pretty obvious when you see teams haven't put in offseason work to prepare for the Bills(and likewise in the past at least, I'm sure). Many times a Bills team would have clear personnel weaknesses and a yet an opponent that knew they would be playing the Bills since the end of the prior season acted like they had no prior knowledge of the Bills personnel. Then you would hear something like "well they only had a week to prepare for an unfamiliar opponent".

It sounds better to say it can be intoxicating. It's something a lot of people do when they are enjoying what they do professionally. I used to put in lot's of 18 hour days and sometimes would work every day for months on end when I was younger. Helped me become successful and make a lot of money and demoralize and eliminate competitors, get sweet revenge......lot's of really fun stuff......working long hours can be fun. Sean McDermott isn't punching a clock filling out TPS reports........he's at the top of the mountain he had been climbing for a couple decades........he's enjoying it.

He's a better player than that traffic cone Star Lotulelei...........but it's a bit rich having a player sign for a very surprisingly large sum and then have him act like this was just a passion project. Dude played on 1 year $4M contract in Carolina last year........had a lesser performing season than he had in 2020.........and then got a 2 year deal for $14M with $10M+ gtd. There wasn't any hometown or ring chasing discount........he is in Buffalo because he got PAID more in Buffalo than he was likely to be paid anywhere else.

This is different from Buffalo how? Or Rochester or Erie or St Catherines/Hamilton or anywhere in Bills country.

After Ralph sent word down to cut Langston Walker to save some money...........as was his MO after watching preseason........in this case realizing that the Trent Edwards no-huddle offense was a complete f*cking joke.......the thought was, "well at least Brad Butler is a returning starter at tackle". He immediately gets injured. Enter Chambers. What an abomination.

They had an impressive run of titles won in a mostly tiny 4 team division. It's not often cited though because it's relevance in major league sports history isn't that significant. Not all sports have such tiny subsets of teams. Winning divisions in football doesn't even always require a winning record. By contrast, the Yankees once won the AL pennant(equivalent of reaching the SB) by having the best record in their league 26 times in the process of having a winning record every year for 39 seasons from 1926-1964. As for the Pats still being good..........you simply didn't respect Belichick. He's the greatest head coach in NFL history. His methods are often questionable........he WILL cheat and do whatever it takes to win........but he's worth 3-5 wins for that team every year.........there isn't a comparable head coach in sports.

They actually had a lot of "Left Tackle Luck" in that Donahoe period too. In the last Dwight Adams draft(Donahoe's first) they drafted Jonas Jennings and he was a really talented player..........I believe his rookie season he started at RT and didn't allow a sack. He was every bit the blocker that Dion Dawkins is today(and probably even better in pass pro) but he was constantly leaving the field injured. Then they had a chance to select McKinnie.........who was considered a slam dunk pick to the Bills.......even in the fall prior to that draft. SHOUT! magazine had an issue that fall with McKinnie on the cover LOL. Hard to emphasize enough how OBVIOUS it was that he be the Bills first draft pick. But even after the Williams pick blunder, Jennings moved to LT and played well. But after they struck gold with Peters in UDFA they couldn't justify re-signing the too-oft-injured Jennings once Peters emerged. Having 3 talented LT's like that should have been a blessing but by 2009 the Bills were LT-bankrupt and starting "Da'Mattress" Bell. That 2009 OL might have been an all-time low point for Bills OL play. I believe there was a stat presented during the opener that the Bills OL had the least combined starts of any opening day OL to play in the NFL since the merger.

Always suspected Szabo might have gotten fired for suspicion of sharing Carolina draft info with the Bills. It was weird that he got let go in Carolina in 2019......he had recently been promoted and seemed to be on the way up in an organization he had spent nearly 2 decades with and where there seemed to be a lot more potential for upward mobility than within the Bills organization. He ended up with a lateral(perhaps a bit of a demotion even) move to the Bills.

Yes.......because hair serves to trap and intensify the natural odor of the genitalia. And without question, Hairy brings maximum stank every time he sets up behind the plate. And every time a ball skips past him as he carelessly tries to backhand it the announcers point out that it's not that he doesn't put in the physical work to get better..........which only emphasizes the fact that the cerebral aspect of the catching position is somehow still lost on him 14 years into playing the position at the pro level. Having a bad defensive catcher who is also egregiously bad at framing pitches was a big problem for the Yankees in recent seasons. Trevino and Higgy are lesser career hitters but they are doing wonders with a staff that was held back by the league-worst kinda' defense by Sanchez in recent seasons.

Even though he's tripled washed.....and then some at this point..........he probably has a shot at being a year-long practice squad player with the league keeping them expanded again. Not a $6M man any longer but maybe a $200K man still. And the Bills are no longer one of the deeper receiver groups in the NFL anymore. It's Diggs, Davis and a bunch of slots and ST's only's. So his competition might be an unavailability expert like Isaiah Hodgins.

Nice 10-4 win over Minnesota despite bad defense and an uncharacteristically bad start by a Yankees starting pitcher. The hard part was having to watch ol' Hairy Snatchez behind the plate again.........as usual about 10 pitches ended up getting past him and hitting the backstop. That's just ugly baseball to watch. So glad he is playing for someone else.

Back in those dark ages of Donahoe/Levy/Brandon as GM's we used to see some ridiculously misdirected crusades against players on TSW. Peters was one that a lot of posters were always looking to contrive any excuse to bash. People like Shaw just can't let it go. But one of the more fervent crusades was the hate against Bryant McKinnie.........because their Lord and Savior Tom Donahoe chose to select a slovenly bum RT with a bummier knee......Mike Williams.........instead of the broadly accepted #1 LT in the draft in McKinnie. The McKinnie hate watching continued long after Mike Williams very brief and lousy career. McKinnie didn't turn into a HOF'er like Peters but he did become a long time stud LT.

You keep going back and forth between whether it's your opinion or a fact depending on what's convenient. What you've said is not factual. Is it your opinion.......as a homer who will make up utter nonsense to further that agenda? Probably so, yes. But you could also have just misremembered because that's just how you want to remember the player. Just learn to recognize your own BS, please. Players leave games injured at times. Josh Allen once left a closely contested and critical home game against the Patriots and Barkley came in and sh*t himself and the Bills lost that critical game. Happened against Houston too and Peterman came in and was a disaster in defeat. Did you see any bones snap in those instances? How are we to be certain he was hurt that bad and Peters wasn't in situations where he might have left the field? I'm sure you'd find it ridiculous to question JA's toughness though.

Can we get the list of Bills players you are rooting against and don't like their attitudes?

It's not a fact. You are just running out of fodder so you chose to make something up. He had seasons early in his 30's where he played all 16 games and played 97% of the snaps. Dion Dawkins is a young man(entering age 28 season) and despite being very durable himself he generally plays around 95% of the offensive snaps. LMK when Dion plays 88% of the team offensive snaps at LT when he's age 39. I'm all for being critical of players/management relative to their peers.........but dogging a guy for not being tough when he's still playing LT 17 years into his career is just daft. The Bills did have a talented LT named Jonas Jennings who fits that description.......constantly leaving the field because he wouldn't play hurt.........but I'd hope you have enough sense to not conflate the two. Peters succeeded Jennings at LT. In fact he once basically shamed Jonas Jennings back into a game that Jennings had limped out of. Peters was not soft by any means. Dude tore the same achilles TWICE in the 2012 offseason........back when that was a much bigger deal.........and instead of his career being over he came back and was first team All Pro again. https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-lt-jason-peters-ruptures-his-achilles-again-09000d5d82917fca