simpleman
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The first game has not even been played yet. No preseason. Every one of our players is a concern until proven otherwise. OP bases his concerns completely on being a Josh fanboy, not on acutal performance. Josh has proven nothing yet. He has yet to prove he is true franchise QB. We all hope he will step up and improve, but he is a huge question mark till he actually proves himself in a game this year. As is with every player, every year. You need to prove yourself every year and not live on what you once did in the past. You either get better, stay the same, or do worse. Let us hope that everyone proves themselves this year when the games are finally actually played.
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16 hours ago, klos63 said:
i think you meant 'schmuck'
Doesn't it depend on which state you travel from?
thanks, spell checker was no help on that one, lol
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27 minutes ago, Georgie said:
Yeah ,but they have to pass Covid testing: can take a couple days
Not only that. Don't forget if it is a home game. NYS quarantine is 14 days for 90+ percent of the country. Exactly how will players from other teams pass quarantine? Or is the state law only for the common smuck?
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The worst part of this board is the people that see it as a place to just to insult other posters. The OP shared valuable information I had not read. If your toy smartphone makes reading text too difficult, maybe it is time to buy a real computer to use on the board. Thank you for sharing OP.
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25 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
To be fair not many short QBs before Wilson have done anything. Was Moon Wilson's height? The Bills in fact had suffered through a popular but horrible Lilliputian QB in their recent past. Maybe watching that QB fail while the Bills had a solid roster surrounding him scared Nix away.
Lest anyone think this post means to show support for the unpopular and also horrible but tall QB the Bills had as an alternative, it isn't. It's the wrong thread for that.
Wasn't that the knock against Mahomes? Both Wilson and Mahomes were "too short". Look around the league right now. Who are in the top tier of active QBs?
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19 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
It's been known they targeted Wilson in the 4th, which made trading up for Graham even worse.
You can't tell me you liked a QB but were willing to wait until the 4th for him, that's just BS. You thought he was a backup prospect or else you would have done everything in your power to draft him much higher.
I remember how excited I was when they announced the trade up. They were finally going to draft Wilson. Then they ..What!!!... Who??
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BUFFALO WILD WING STADIUM sounds good. If anyone can afford it they can.
"Inspire Brands Inc., owner and franchiser of the Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic Drive-In, Jimmy John's, and Rusty Taco restaurant chains. The fourth largest restaurant chain group".
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If I was still upper level management, and any of the posters here who were applying for a management position said during the interview that our company team was already perfect and didn't need to get better, I guarantee they just failed the interview. If you are so arrogant, complacent and lazy that you believe you are already perfect and can't get an better, you have a loser's attitude. And you would be a cancer on the team.
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2 hours ago, eball said:
OH. MY. GOD. Please let this season happen so these articles will stop. Everybody knows this is Allen's make-it-or-break-it season to show he is going to be "the man." EVERYBODY. How many "the Bills will only go as far as Josh Allen takes them" articles do we need?
Eball you know better. The article is just one part of a series he wrote comparing the 2018 first round draft QB selections. Each day of the week he does a detailed evaluation of a different QB. It is not specifically about the Bills, or written for Bills fans. It is written for NFL football fans. And it is a very fair and reasonable article. He tells the positives and negatives for each. Lighten up. NFL football is about more than just the Bills.
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20 hours ago, Mrbojanglezs said:
Didn't Terry already sell most of his fracking land so that money is already liquid or been re-invested in something else? Not really sure how much of his current wealth is depending on ongoing revenues from fracking...
"Pegula got into the fracking business in 1983 with a $7,500 loan from friends and family. His sale of the company in 2010 to Royal Dutch Shell netted him about $3 billion as majority owner. He subsequently sold company assets in Ohio and West Virginia in 2014 for $1.75 billion to American Energy Partners"
Everyone does not get the reality. He got into the oil and gas exploration business in 1983 to use conventional techniques. He was just a little guy in the business. Then years later In 1999 ( almost 20 years later), fracking technology was perfected by the largest multinationals. It was not his incredible skills as an oil explorer or producer that got him rich. He got rich because he wisely saw the fact that his previously near worthless investments in oil leases had suddenly suddenly became a goldmine. His lemons had unexpectedly became incredibly valuable. The multinationals bought up his leases at astronomical profits for him. He was lucky to have leases in the right areas that fracking could be done in successfully. He was wise to sell the leases to the companies with the knowledge and finances required to frack. He had zero risk and made huge sums of money. He got his money and had little risk or exposure to downturns. He wisely sold at the peak time, and became incredibly wealthy. His risks are now of his sporting franchises losing value from his original investment in them and not having sufficient short term reserves to allow him to weather any financial downturns, and being foerced to sell them at a loss. Not from the downturn in the fracking business.
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15 minutes ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:
I could be wrong, but I thought the Pegulas sold virtually all of their oil and gas assets year ago to Shell. That’s why they are so wealthy. They may a few little assets here and there, but that’s just chump change—more for a hobby.
Am I wrong? Are they still in the oil and gas business?
I thought the same thing. They got rich selling the leases they had paid almost nothing for years before. They were never that big or profitable from drilling and production. They got lucky and got rich selling leases on properties they could not develop using conventional drilling techniques they had bought them for, and made an unexpected fortune when big multinationals later developed fracking technology, and suddenly previous marginal or worthless leases became valuable.
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While it might be nice for those who live in the TC area, it was simply a marketing gimmick when they started it. Hoping to build excitement and expand their home region eastward to sell more seats. The same kind of marketing / sales decision as was made to build excitement and expand their home region into Canada by having games in Toronto.
I'm not sure how effective it ever was doing so, or if the current ownership even feels it is worth the problems and expense it is to hold it at the college. If the cost is > the benefit, or not. I think it was more an echo of a bygone past that Pegula had already decided to just quietly let it fade away, rather than risk stirring up bad feelings by suddenly ending it. No idea about the ownership's true feelings, but that makes more logical and business sense.
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Webb being a good organizer and a good "coach" does not equal him being a good NFL QB. Let us not be too quick to take that leap. He needs to have the talent and tools to be a good NFL QB as well. Being a good player and a good coach are two very different skill sets. Being a good coach candidate and being a good QB candidte are two different paths. Both are yet TBD on the field.
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What percentage of the income from stadium related revenue goes toward the cap? I thought there were two revenue streams, Local Revenue(stadium income) ticket sales, concessions, and corporate sponsor income which went directly to the individual teams.And National Revenue, TV contracts, licensing, merchandising etc. to the league to be allocated to all teams though revenue sharing and determine things like cap. Even if the season is played without fans present, I thought TV contract revenue was a big contributor to the cap. That would not change even if the games are all not played in front of the fans, and just televised. The contract revenue from the networks would not change if the full number of games are played and televised according to the existing contracts. As long as the televised games have the ratings expected, TV income should be stable. Isn't most stadium revenue shared with the home team and the visiting team under some formula? How much of stadium related revenue (local revenue) is actually shared with the league? Wouldn't lack of stadium revenue impact the individual team's bottom line more so than the league's itself?
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White deserves and has earned being paid as a top tier CB. Dawkins has so far just proven to be an acceptable LT, nothing more. Don't overpay him. Next year both tackles should be a priority in the draft. Allen still has not proven himself to be a Franchise quality QB. This is his make or break year. Tre is the only one that needs to be paid as of this year.
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6 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:
I liked him years ago but now he seems bored. I'd sort of gotten used to analysts being crap, then Romo came along and made it even more noticeable how bad guys like Gannon and Fouts are.
Romo really raised the bar way higher. It makes it hard to tolerate the majority of the other guys after listening to him for a couple of games
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1 hour ago, Ethan in Portland said:
Hughes was a trade not a free agent signing
And I never stated he was.
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4 hours ago, vincec said:
Beanie didn’t sign Alexander, but I get your point.
I specifically mentioned " not his victories" when I mentioned Poyer and Alexander. But i meant it definitely has happened, and sure hope it does again. Both were considered by most to be strictly low risk depth signings of players who had just mediocre success with other teams, and instead they blossomed into key cogs for the Bills. Further back in Bills history I can think of Hughes in the same light. How many expected their signings to turn out so spectacularly? Time will tell, fingers crossed.
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Beane has made a lot of gambling signings this year. I'd rather he do that, than just stand pat. But let's not anoint him a genius until he actually proves it. He made one major signing that can be game changing. He made numerous "depth" signings. He made a number of signings that were health gambles like EJ and Williams, that "MAY" turn out. We can only hope he can make what appeared to be a depth signing like in the case of Poyer and Lorenzo , who turned out to be a huge winners.(Not HIS victories). But we need to wait to see how his gambles turn out before we give him a win. We can hope for another Poyer signing, but they are quite rare. We have declared a lot of "Winning Pre Seasons" in the past and found out that they did not result in "Winning Seasons". Let us just hope and wait before we judge.
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I see no terms of the deal except a one year deal. But he suffered a major injury in 2018. He did little in 2019 to prove that he is able to come back to his pre-injury level. If not, it is still worth the risk as long as it is not too high a cap cost.
If he can come back from the injury he is high reward. It is a huge gamble with huge rewards and we all hope he can beat the injury. If he can't ever come back from the injury, hopefully Beane structured the contract so that the risk is not too great as far as the cap.
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Quick, short article on why the pats passed on Diggs,
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/nfl-rumors-why-patriots-passed-stefon-diggs-trade-bills
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12 hours ago, matter2003 said:
I get "Game-Pass is not available in your region" when I try and go there? It's not available in the US?
"NFL Game Pass will be offered free of charge until May 31 to fans within the U.S., and starting Thursday until July 31 to fans outside the U.S. and Canada* with the following features:"
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13 hours ago, billsfan89 said:
The XFL is doing a decent job of fielding football in the spring. But their biggest issue is QB play, they have a couple of decent QB’s but they lack the QB play needed to field consistent quality football. If I were Vince McMahon and the XFL brass I would desperately try and invest some money into signing better QB’s. I think they have to consider handing out multi-million dollar contracts to QB’s to help the quality of play in their league in year 2 and 3.
The quality of play has to improve if they want the league to go beyond the 3 seasons they have funded. I would seriously consider going out there and investing 20 million into finding some QB’s on 2 year deals. Backup QB’s typically make 2-5 million in the NFL, I think you could go out there and get 4-5 solid QB’s to join what they have now I think the quality of play will easily improve to the point where you could hook the hardcore football fan and then build upon them long term. I think you could attract a better backup QB on a 2 year fully guaranteed deal in a salary competitive with what they would have gotten in the NFL and actually get a chance to play (and play less games.)
I also think some big name QB’s who flamed out from the NFL even if a bit gimmicky would also be a good move. Tossing some money at Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel, and some other former big name college QB’s definitely would draw attention (Maybe not Tebow and Manzil specifically but someone with a big college brand) and getting some mid-level or better backup QB’s like Colt McCoy, RGIII, and Tyrod Taylor could help the overall QB play of the league get to a point where it is more than passable.
I think a 20 million dollar investment in the QB position would be enough where you could punch up the quality of play at the position to the point where you could field consistent football of high quality. I would hope then if they make a good investment in the QB position and as the league grows to profitability they can then open up some more competitive contracts to other aspects of the roster like maybe 2-3 additional players making low 7 figure contracts.
I agree, it is all about the QBs. You gotta spend the money where it counts. For Pro Football Fans, it is now all about the excitement of the passing game, love it or hate, that is the reality.
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52 minutes ago, Niagara Bill said:
Letting him test market is the only way to get the information for resigning him. We should not over pay for Shaq. We should learn our lesson from Dareus. Shaq has some of the same historic troubling times. He finally got serious last year. He wasted at least 2 yrs of his career and we paid for it.
Keep him for a goid price. Let him walk if offers are extreme. He is not a saviour
I too would let him walk if he is offered too much. I would not overpay him. But "He wasted two years." Really? He was injured his first season, the team knew the risk when they drafted him. HE did not waste that year, if anyone wasted it, it was the team that chose to draft him knowing the risk. His second year he was essentially a rookie, learning to play football at the higher NFL "speed". What percent of rookies look fantastic their Rookie year? Only an elite few like Tre look that way, they are the exception rather than the common. While not elite, the last two years he definitely has proven he belongs in the NFL. How did he waste two years?
While not elite, he is definitely a quality player, and should expect to be paid as such. By Buffalo or another team. The question is how much is a quality player at his position worth?
No worries about Josh but the Interior DL is a concern!
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“No worries about Josh” “Josh will lead the team to offensive greatness”. Based on your faith and hope.
As most others have said, it is all about Josh. If he fails, no matter what the rest of the players on defense, offense and special teams do, the team will fail along with him. He is Key.