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By the standards of the day Bills fans were traveling in great numbers. It's different now, so many of these games are either in what have become "destination" cities or places with tons of WNY transplants. It's bittersweet to me because my dream scenario as a Bills fan was for the fan base to become it's own entity(in the same way that Cubs fans had been able to do) and separate from the team's dysfunction. We have totally achieved that with the Bills mafia shtick. But at the same time.........fans will be GIVING tickets away for the Dec 22 and 29 home games. Those traveling fans won't travel to Buffalo and sit out in the cold to cheer the team on. We have great numbers but more than our share of posers because it's become so trendy to be a Bills fan.

Chritian Benford. He's been consistently excellent and has stayed on the field.

Yeah I will go with Benford this season. I can't really go with a RB, they have 3 of them who all make big plays. And an off-ball LB wouldn't be my inclination either but when healthy Bernard is their best player on D. His nose for the ball is epic and those plays change games. He is the anti-Edmunds in almost every way both good and bad(durability). He's even their best pass rusher.

Maybe one day Ankou will finally become a rosterable rotational DT but given that Daquan Jones has been bad this season and Austin Johnson has looked washed they need a more capable option in that mix. The Seahawks don't even try to run the ball so that game was not one to take seriously when evaluating DT against the run.

It's just not that popular of a dish in WNY. It wouldn't be a challenge to get excellent next day fresh sea food affordably enough but there is not enough demand. We have lobster boil parties and someone will run up to Maine and bring a couple hundred home. The money saved is far more than worth it and it's caught the day before. But you need the volume and that's the limitation for restaurants in Buffalo and Rochester.

First off........his name is SHILL Carpaccio. Get it right. And yes, he is a d-bag but it's because of all of the organizational knob polishing he has done on am radio to get and retain that sideline gig. Most men wouldn't go to the lengths he does to keep Maddy Glab from her rightful position. So, IMO, he has earned the right to dance and twirl. Hey-hey......hey-hey......hey-hey......hey-hey

It won't be a yearly occurrence if Hal doesn't get accustomed to spending $350M+ on payroll like the Dodgers and Mets are willing too. His payroll reduction rhetoric is concerning. The league has wisely done everything they can to penalize big spending teams and promote parity without actually instituting a salary cap. So if you want to LITERALLY keep winning every year you gotta' spend. Sure, you might be able to find an unlikely superstar once-in-a-while like the Astros did when they fleeced LA of Alvarez and extended their window for a season or two..........but realistically when you never draft early in round 1 and international money is capped your best chance is just too excel at finding average starters and bullpen depth. You gotta' keep buying difference makers to make up for the lack of cracks at top draft prospects because free agents(except Soto) are usually on the backside of careers. You gotta' be OK with overpaying. And given their ridiculous profits, Hal should be more than happy to spend more than anyone else.

You could say the same thing about Hopkins or Cooper the way they'd played prior to being traded. Sometimes vets need to be on a winning team to bring out the best in them. It's Kyle Van Noy syndrome. That guys looked washed 5 different times but put him in a playoff race and he suddenly becomes one of the more impactful players on that defense. I suspect Armstead and Jadeveon Clowney will revert to prior season form if they join contending teams at the deadline.

Yeah Cooper played on Raiders and Cowboys teams that greatly underperformed expectations. I mean when that Carr/Cooper team went 12-4 they looked like a team that was going to be around for awhile. And they totally fell apart. Cowboys teams he was on regularly fell way short as well. Wins and losses aren't often mentioned as a WR stat but for comparison sake he's 77-70 in his career despite playing on a lot of talented teams........and hindsight-perceived locker room cancer Stefon Diggs is 96-46. But Cooper is a big talent. The fact that he has four career 200+ yard games speaks to how explosive he can be.

IMO teams want their best players to want to win the most. It sets the tone. So his "it's-a-business" demeanor isn't seen as ideal for a star player. I don't disagree....he has been associated with more losing than you'd expect given the talent on the teams he's had so there could be something to it. But the Bills were beggars in this market. He is very talented and in the short term at least he opens up the offense greatly. If he plays in the NFL for a lot longer and settles in as a WR2-WR3 somewhere I think he will be more appreciated.

I wouldn't be shocked if the long rumored Elam for a bag of balls trade happens and a released White gets picked up by the Bills to fill the roster spot but White sure has looked cooked.

He can play both. And with the injury to Carter they need 3 tech help too. Yes. Hornell, specifically. The family own a car dealership there.

Open to trading maybe the worst performing player on the roster? You don't say. How Tre even got more than a camp invite from an NFL team was a surprise to me.

Nah. With the exception of a few 2 month runs where the team was unreal he has been a walking blunder since they hired him. Roberts wasn't a lot smarter letting Flaherty pitch to Stanton a third time. Flaherty totally lost control of about 10 pitches in that game and was lucky they didn't wind up in the strike zone and get hammered. He should have gone to his pen earlier and he might have had a shut out.

The flip side of that is that they swung at about 30 pitches out of the zone. Dodgers didn't even have to throw strikes. Buffoone almost always instinctively pushes the wrong button but he can't do anything about that. I don't think I have ever seen a Yankee team that over-anxious at the plate. That's how they stranded 12 runners. Hell the Stanton HR was way out of the zone too and the 3rd pitch out of the zone he swung at in that at bat. That's not abnormal for him but everyone was jumping out of their shoes to hit after a week off. They just couldn't hold their water, which is very uncharacteristic. But if Tortoise doesn't casual that throw from Soto they win anyway. Meh. It happens, 7 game series.

As @Warriorspikes51 said, if Beane can't get over that deal he thought he had in place falling thru it won't happen. But it makes a lot of sense. The story has been told, but he met his wife in WNY and the in-laws are Bills fans etc.. Actually a lot of these teams trading their near-age-30 stud DL makes sense because it looks like DL will be the strength of the 2025 draft. And if you are the Browns or Raiders what you really want are 2026 first rounders. If you hang on to Garrett or Crosby for another season you might not get a 2026 #1. That's the Arch Manning draft class which figures to be a deeper draft in addition to being better stocked at QB.

1) No and there never are until after-the-fact. Beane tries to keep everything he is working on quiet and usually succeeds. 2) Simmons would be a good get. Would add a lot of needed toughness/physicality to that DT position.

You agree with what that I did not, specifically? I said Reid is a very good HC but it's laughable to call him the GOAT when it took him 20 years to win a SB. Hondo said it wasn't laughable.........but then he said it's "crazy talk"? I have no idea what the difference is(and neither does he). You guys are either just disagreeing to be disagreeable or you got sucked in by @hondo in seattle trolling technique of pretending something was said that that was not said in order to elicit contrarian responses. One thing you can always count on is that people will jump into a thread and not read the prior posts. So that being the case.......I could post a reply to you saying you are wrong for believing Reid was the GOAT and some people would think you said that. That's the nature of a message board it's VERY easy for haters to steer a false narrative. @hondo in seattle is a very confused man. He wants to be a hater but he wants to be a buddhist. I mean buddist. It's amusing.

Lot's of people? Google is not that hard to use, budda.😉 https://nesn.com/2024/02/could-andy-reid-pass-bill-belichick-in-goat-debate-its-real-possibility/ https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2023/7/6/23785720/chiefs-andy-reid-patriots-bill-belichick-goat I literally said he's been a very good coach, too bad the Bills couldn't have gotten him etc.. I said he shouldn't be the GOAT and you are running with that like I said he wasn't good? You are trying to create a straw man argument for arguments sake. Not very buddist of you.😂

The "you think you're smarter than management" card is the weakest of rebuttals. Any completely uniformed idiot can claim that defense because there is no way of proving or disproving it. It's like a slur.......the intent is simply to shout down the argument without really addressing the problem. Smart people can make bad individual decisions. A lot goes into the decision to acquire/retain or dispose of players and that can make smart management look very stupid.

When a coach is being mentioned as the GOAT after it took him 20 years to win a Super Bowl.........yeah, that's comical. It's a recency bias.

Salud in spanish means health. In the context of death it's used to cheer the health of the living.......not the deceased. Thanks, Fernando. Long live his memory.

Shanahan and McVay. Reid never takes Jimmy G, Purdy or young Goff to a SB. They've combined to reach 4 SB's with those guys. Andy Reid got to one SB in his first 20 seasons as a HC. Fine HC but the hyperbole about his greatness is kinda' comical.

He soiled his reputation significantly when he came back and his heart wasn't in it. But for a 15 year period he was outworking AND outsmarting everyone in the NFL. His teams were snake-bit with injuries year after year otherwise they probably win 5 or so. Parcells was a great HC in his own right but he probably never wins one at all if Gibbs teams have their health.

As far as being an offensive mind.........Reid is a watered down version of Mike Holmgren who was, himself, a lesser version of Bill Walsh. I have always appreciated what Reid does running an organization, he's a very good HC and it was a shame the Bills couldn't have gotten him after Philly fired him. But IMO, as an offensive mind there are those on the high end who could do more with what he's had. And then on the lower end there are guys who I think could take poor personnel and get more out of them. I mean, if I am stuck with a Tyler Thigpen at QB I think I'd take Chan Gailey as my OC over Andy.