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NFL: The Chargers interim "small" stadium at the Stub Hub Center is overwhelmingly popular with fans and the Chargers pull out of their original plans to be co-tenants with the Rams in Inglewood. They will build their own small stadium in...San Diego. Bills: The Bills and Patriots will have identical records on Saturday, December 2, 2017.

Phil Jackson wasn't an intelligent coach nor executive. Intelligent people adapt to changing circumstances and times. He was out there hustling the Triangle Offense *still* despite it being figured out in the late 90s.

The Bleacher Report "article" ignores the financial fact that the Buffalo Bills "business" can not afford the deliberate tanking of a season. He's looking at it strictly from a football perspective and not taking into consideration the finances of the business as a whole. Even with a string of decent 7-9 and 8-8 seasons, the Bills are way way way down in league revenue, not to mention profit. A tank season more than likely lowers revenue even more, and requires more investment from the owners, a significant rise in ticket prices or cutback in non-football related expenditures. Or all three. What's the first rule of being wealthy? Always spend somebody else's money first.

I'd go for the two safeties - Graham at SS AND Byrd at FS - and set them up as Team 1B at the position. The safeties are going to get a ton of work in this defense.

Always wondered if the United States should change the design of the flag every so often like professional sports teams do. Have two or three designs using the same colors, put it on the ballot on a Presidential Election year. The last time the design of the flag looked any different was all the way back in 1890. Would people lose their minds over the flag design? Probably.

This is how the civil war starts. These sorts of events. It's been fanned in an era where it's "ok" to show a beheaded president and it's "ok" to have a play about his assassination. Where it's ok to show up at a town hall meeting and scream, unhinged, at your elected official. This is all on top of the already percolating anger in most parts of the country at stagnant wages, little job growth, the expense of healthcare, rising debt. You know that some "right" loon is already plotting a response to this. Then the left will have to respond with something bigger. Once that's happened, you'll start having people showing up to town halls and protests heavily armed, looking for a fight. Then you'll have Americans firing on Americans with police officers stuck in between. Now you'd think that the political parties and the media would see how this all plays out but they will only fan the flames.

Sammy Watkins. If he's injured in camp, he won't be a Bill come September.

This made my day. Love it.

Should have never been cut in the first place. Come regular season, the team was devoid of leadership that year and it showed.

It'd never happen but I'd love for the Bills to troll the fans (or delight them) by having a season ticket ad campaign that'd have: A picture of George Seifert relaxing, reading a paper at the Buffalo airport; A picture of Mario Williams and Buddy Nix enjoying dinner at Tempo with a picture of another guest in the background with his finger on a laptop that'd represent the F5 frenzy; A picture of Rob Johnson and Doug Flutie doing something exactly alike in the picture to follow the RJ=DF? conversations; Wade holding a headset but not actually wearing it; And some of the other conversations of lore on here that I'm forgetting.

My guess is if there is a contract between the Bills and Maclin, it will be a 1 year "prove it" kind of deal similar to what Jeffrey did with the Eagles and bet on himself for 2018 free agency.

Wade Phillips. His firing laid the foundation for the last 17 years, starting with Donahoe, Greggo, the release of the Big Three, Ted Washington and Pat Williams. If Wade had stayed after the MCM, it would have been an entirely different decade of Bills football.

This guy has been a lost soul since his dad passed. He really needs to get out of Florida and away from the "lifestyle."

Nostalgia? Hasn't really worn off for me. I'm sure 90% of this board pines to live days like that again. Have you ever wondered how you'd feel if the Bills became annually successful? How your perspective would change? The decisions made in the aftermath of the MCM is where I felt the Bills were no longer "the" Bills and you could feel a palatable shift in the franchise.

Her career is completely over. If CNN of all news networks cans you from an event that's over six months away, you're super, ultra, fantastically...done.

The ability and willingness to make changes at halftime. If "your" scheme has been discovered, and it will, don't be a slave to it. Coaches like BB prey on the coaches with the stonecutter mentality to game planning.

Perhaps they've been told by the team doctors that his foot will never be 100 percent and prone to reinjury. I suspect that thats the case personally. You'll fix it, heal it, promptly reinjure it.

I think the opinion pieces about Whaley's interview made the journalists who wrote them appear small. As a casual reader, and one who does not routinely read their work, IMO, the pieces came across as if written with personal animus.

The Bills can afford neither the deliberate "rebuild" or "tank job." It's playoffs or bust at this point. The 8-8 team is dead last in operating income or what you'd consider "profit." Creating a worse on-field product, even temporarily, means a lot more Pegula dollars going into the business. According to the Forbes 2016 valuations of NFL teams, the Bills had just 26 million in profit. The 31st team, the Detroit Lions had 64 million. That's a big gap just between the cellar dwellers. The only way the Pegulas improve that is by making the product more desirable. To me, such low profit is an effect of not being in the playoffs for nearly two decades.

IMO, I wouldn't chase a temporary position even if it has some positives. It's risky. There is no guarantee that you will be offered a full time position at the end of the contract. You can do an incredible job and still not get the offer due to the health of the economy, the health of the sector you work in, budgetary constraints, new management, etc. Further, whether anyone likes it or not, we're due for a recession. Signs abound that the economy is unsettled. I'd keep the job you have and if unhappy, keep looking for a permanent position.

+1. Professional weirdo these days.

I'd be done with the NFL product if the Buffalo Bills were no longer a franchise. Outside of the Bills, my interest in NFL football has diminished from where it used to be. I'm bored with the product.

The WORST thing about Bob Villa is he was able to masquerade as a knowledgeable craftsman all those years on This Old House and got away with it. That guy couldn't frame a door without Norm telling how to do it.

There's no slogan! Don't we *need* a slogan?

GotG #2 was very good. Probably the last movie I saw in a theater was the first one. I'd say that the Captain America and GotG are more entertaining than the other ones. I have no idea how they are going to cram the Guardians and the Avengers into one movie. It'll be like a 1970s disaster movie. I won't see Alien:Covenant because at its core, it boils down to just more dumb people visiting a strange planet they shouldn't without ever thinking "oh, there might be some hostile **** there, perhaps we should pack LOTS and LOTS of guns, just in case."