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He has been paid $27M for the 2 seasons he's actually played in Buffalo. That's why his cap hit if cut after this season is $12M. So if you are going to play that game..........he's making $12M this season because he will not be on the roster next season.......obviously.

Yeah it was either a terrible free agent signing or the worst free agent signing in Bills history. If he ends up on IR the latter will be cemented. Lotulelei wouldn't be on an NFL roster now had the Bills cut him at any time this offseason or this summer.

Here we go with the outrageous Strawman argument above. It's like when the Bills were challenging league records for offensive futility in 2018 and McDermott would address questions about it with "Would we like to score 50 points per game? Sure.". Edmunds blitzed 72 times last season and yet did not generate a single quarterback pressure.............big difference between that level of futility and not getting 10 sacks, no? He has real deficiencies in his game.........it's not just a matter of him being unappreciated.

That is unfortunately an understatement.

Yeah.......the ketchup thing was even back in the Lot 1 days........that's a one-off kinda funny-when-drunk thing that turned into a spectacle for the sake of spectacling and I've felt bad for Kenny basically being obligated to repeat that every week. Like a lot of things wrt Covid.......it is the perfect excuse to kill a tired tradition and just enjoy the gathering. In other news........Kim stopped by our tailgate last week and she says Hammer has banished her from his lot.

I heard this same story at the preseason game. There needs to be a greater effort on the part of the team to make sure people actually choose whether they want a card, tickets or mobile. Defaulting to mobile ticketing because they didn't get a response to an electronic message is the opposite of logical. And this is from somebody who went to both playoff games last year and used the mobile wallet etc........it's fine if there isn't a rush........but THERE IS A RUSH getting into games and mobile ticketing unnecessarily complicates a simple ***** action.

He picks the Bills to beat the Patriots in the AFCCG and the Buccaneers in the SB...........that would have to be the perfect season.

I'm not sure if Bulldog is just constantly caught totally off-guard about every possible topic and can't formulate a thought in real-time or if he just learned somewhere that stammering added weight to his takes.........or both. He makes Schopp look like a first team All Pro broadcaster by comparison. They should definitely shake it up in drive time and postgame.......those two have ran their course together, IMO.

You are absolutely correct that ugly jealousy knows no cultural boundaries. But hopefully nobody is dumb enough to do something as inflammatory to the Bills fanbase as seriously threaten a Bills star player. It's not really about the angry mob, it only takes one fan half-off his meds. People here surely remember that retired soldier that was documenting his flight to Baltimore to beat down the radio personality that had dissed Buffalo. That was just over some harmless insults. Lil Baby is tryna keep her on a rookie contract.......men get that........but jealousy is never a good look and threatening a Bills star isn't worth the squeeze Lil Baby.

Duke Williams 1.0

As a fan of The Doors I find Bulldog's stutter/stammer combo has familiar cadence: I-I-I We-we-we You-you-you It-it-it Break on thru to the other side! Break on thru.......Bulldawwwwwwwwg!

Yep, everybody has a story like that.........it's reality. In one game last year(2019) I went thru security and both sides of the ticket check in front of me were blocked by people with issues getting an e-ticket on their phone. One poor guy his phone had died and he was just blocking the way and looking back at the crowd in shock realizing he couldn't get in until he went somewhere and charged his phone LOL. If you have your card you can have it out as you pass thru the metal detector and then it's a 3-4 second process scanning and you are gone. It's not the security that is holding everything up, that's fairly efficient, it's the ticket check. I hate to say it but it's naive to think that everyone will rush in early so that the place is packed at kickoff. The homefield advantage will likely be muted until the second quarter...........telling fans to start coming in 2 hours early is not a viable solution.

There certainly isn't a financial incentive to fix the problem. The biggest issue is actually the ticket processing............every 10th fan thru has en e-ticket they can't pull up on their phone when it's time to perform..........and the Bills didn't make it very clear to most ST holders that they had the option of getting the season ticket "card" again..........so it will be worse yet this year. E-tickets........great for a lot of things........not so much when trying to jam 50K boredom-averse fans thru a few gates in 30 minutes or less.

Security isn't the problem

I think Hammer let people reserve spots thru that tailgate thread. But in any lot, if you pay for both spots then set up your chairs there that should do it. It's about the $.

Yeah that was the irritating part........because he just kept believing in Shula. Shula in his prime in the 70's was a great coach who Marv Levy would have been at a signficant disadvantage against.......but by the mid-80's he had gone soft and was no longer a difference maker for that team. That should have been obvious by 1990 but not to Pete.........blinded by his homerism.

Some people freak out if they aren't in their seat at kickoff.........and that's just the stitious ones. What this says to me is unless you want to be lined up like cattle wait until after kickoff to go in. They need to fix this gate entry BS..........worst part of the entire experience at the stadium.

1) Edmunds isn't unsatisfactory..........he's disappointing. There is a difference. He is a top 10-12 MLB/ILB...........it's just that he's in a league of his own physically at the position so not being elite is a disappointment. The fact that they haven't found a better option than that is not surprising.........I don't think they have had another LB on the roster who was drafted higher than round 5 since Edmunds arrived. 2) Needing to make more big plays = needing to play better. When you "need" something it's not optional or just "nice to have". It was rare for McD to answer such a question so plain and directly. People make the injury excuse for Edmunds as well.........but on the play that he was injured he took a poor angle that lead to him whiffing, missing a tackle that he should have been in position to make......resulting in a long TD and crashing to the ground causing the injury. In subsequent questioning after he answered a resounding "YES" to Edmunds needing to make more plays McDermott placed the blame for Edmunds struggles in other areas(recognition/decisiveness) of his work than injury.

During the Bills SB run back in the 90's Pete Prisco was a very pro-Dolphins and anti-Bills..........would always throw shade on those teams. As much as I disliked hearing it........I knew he was right that the Bills of the 90's lacked the fortitude of the better coached, disciplined, focused and subsequently tougher-at-the-end-of-season NFC East teams of the day.

The whole "they were right for putting Edmunds at MLB because they are more capable of running the organization" argument is a false equivalency. Individual moves can still be wrong..........philosophies can be wrong.........and sometimes they convene like the Kelvin Benjamin trade. Try to keep in mind that the McBeane of 2017-2018 is not necessarily the same quality of decision maker that the seasoned 2021 version is. For example........ McDermott effectively trading Patrick Mahomes..........the league's most valued player for 3 years running........to an AFC rival and having that rival win a SB and reach another directly at the expense of the Bills.

Or maybe they have invested so much time on the assumption that he would become a great MLB that even if he's been a disappointment they would need someone to step up and take the job before they moved him and went thru THAT learning curve of converting him to a pass rusher or a less cognitively demanding off-ball position. His defenders assume they are thrilled with his play........but if you recall last season McDermott said in a mid-season PC that Edmunds needed to play better.............an extremely rare public criticism of a player of any kind from McD.

It's definitely a reflection of overall team strength, IMO. The 2017 Bills had a -57 point differential.......the lowest by an AFC playoff team since the 1980's.......but THAT number was skewed by the epic (post-Dareus trade) -80 point differential 3 game defensive collapse though. Without that they were otherwise +23. I mentioned in the Peter King thread though that the 1991 Redskins produced what was then the highest point differential in the SB era at the time.......+261..........greater than even the 1985 Bears..........and King had the audacity to prognosticate the Cowboys over the Skins and the vaunted 49ers to win the SB in 1992 despite the Cowboys only having a +32 point differential in 1991. And he was right.........but the Cowboys finished +160 in 1992.