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  1. 1 hour ago, Buddo said:

    I've seen it said somewhere, that there aren't that many true 'top end' talents in this draft, and not enough for a whole first round full of them.  Could well be a move just to make sure they get a top tier guy with their first round pick.

    Fwiw, it was being said in the same article about the talent levels, that there was plenty of it of 2nd/3rd round quality, so it isn't necessarily a poor class, at all.

     

    Unfortunately I cannot for the life of me, remember where I saw this, but I think it came when I was searching for where the best positional depth was in this draft.

    I heard Gil Brandt say it yesterday. I'm likely off with the numbers, but there were somewhere around 20 "1st round players" in this year's draft.

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  2. 8 minutes ago, BearNorth said:

    Disagree, Sestak was the man, if his knees hadn't gone south, would have been one of the first AFL players in Canton.  You couldn't run inside on Buffalo in the mid 60's 17 straight games without a rushing touchdown.  McDole had a long and distinguished career, but he was far from the best on the Bills D-Line in the championship years.  The D-Lineman then were the size of today's LB's.

     

    What are you disagreeing with? No one above said he was the best Bills DL, although Colorado said he was his favorite.

     

    Sadly I don’t remember any of them. I was born in ‘60, didn’t follow football until I was around 8, and even then only remember offensive players until years later.

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  3. 13 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

    Outside of the Bill Polian era that organization has been a hot mess since moving from Baltimore

     

    Was listening to Polian the other day. First, he spoke up both Reich and Frazier for the job (Reich a bit more enthusiastically), then he basically how bad off the Colts are. Not saying Reich should wait and not take it, but that th Colts have virtually nothing other than Luck and are likely to be last in the division until they can completely turn over the roster.

  4. 56 minutes ago, BuffaloDave55 said:

    It's called work for a reason.  Yes, many times people excel when they like what they're doing, but you get a paycheck for a reason.  Should we examine other jobs... see who has fun?  As noted in another post, professional sports.. the fun is for the fans.  If the owners and athletes have fun it's a bonus.

     

    I disagree. Perhaps “fun” is going too far, but you should enjoy your job. People leave well paying jobs all the time because they don’t like their boss, their colleagues, the company culture, etc. We spend most of our waking hours at work, ͏y͏o͏u should not be miserable their. Now, I also think part of enjoying your job is being successful, so, if the rest is great but the company is consistently doing horribly, that can take much of the enjoyment out.

     

    The original premise was 5 rings (I.e. consistent success) in a fear based organization vs. 1 ring (I.e. some success) in a fun organization.

     

    I think it still depends on the person as many likely don’t consider the one fear based as much as driven to succeed. But, I think if as am employee you believe it’s fear based, you’d prefer to be in the occasional success environment.

  5. First, I’d love for the Bills to get Foles, I don’t believe his postseason play is a fluke.

     

    The Eagles do not have significant cap issues that would force them to make this move, Jason Peters will be gone if he doesn’t restructure to give cap relief. They have less free agents than most teams and I believe know what they want or can do with them. Combined, there top two qbs are making less than many teams are paying one. They will get get a quality backup cheaper than Foles. Wentz had an acl and lcl tear. Those are the reasons the Eagles should keep him.

     

    On the other hand, Wentz still is confident he’ll be ready and will start the season opener. It seems unlikely the Eagles will be able to keep Foles for more than this season as he will sign a big contract elsewhere. They can likely get a first for him now or get nothing next year (unless they plan to tag and trade which could be possible). 

     

    Ultimately, I think it depends on:

    - when do they believe Wentz will be ready

    - what are they offered 

    - what is their backup backup ab plan

     

    As I started with, I would be thrilled for the Bills to make a run for him.

  6. 5 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

     

    How can you say "nothing changed in the last 2 weeks"???  He got a BETTER offer from NE in that 2 weeks lmao.  Thats the whole point.  He didn't welch and go with a previous offer...NE came hard for him and got him with a new offer that wasn't on the table 2 weeks earlier when they were still in the playoffs.  All this crying over spilt milk is just silly.  

     

    Colts had their shot, NE upped the ante to keep him after the fact once the season was over.  He took the NEW offer, weighed it to the Colts deal and decided to go in a different direction.  Yet somehow he is in the wrong for taking into consideration a NEW offer that wasn't presently on the table while they were still playing as a team.  

    I read your first few posts and then skipped ahead to the last page. As with most here, I can't buy much of what you are saying.

     

    Of course he has the legal right to change his mind, pretty sure no one is in dispute on that. Your argument is that there is no integrity issue with what he did since he did not sign a contract and that is where I and others disagree with you (including Tony Dungy, Bill Polian, Pat Kirwin - but, as you say, his kids could care less about what any of them or us think). You made the statement that anyone who gets a better offer and would still honor their verbal commitment is lying. I don't buy that at all. I know I have and would in the future honor my word with or without a signed agreement (I've always been an "at will" employee so a signed agreement could not stop me from changing my mind if I so desired). I've switched companies and have told the one I was leaving to not bother counter offering because I already accepted the other position. I've hired quite a few people in my time, and none has ever backed out although I've always heard that it's possible. I have had people delay giving an answer because they have been waiting for either a counter offer from their current company or an offer from someone else they've been waiting on. In those cases, yes, some have taken the other offer, but, they never accepted the position with me either verbally or in writing prior to the other offer. If they did agree and then decommitt, they would have been blackballed from every company I've worked for.

     

    The point is, the time to negotiate both and to do due diligence with your family, etc. is BEFORE you give your word, before you hire others to follow you, not after. That's called integrity and in my opinion most still have it.

     

    To your points that teams break contracts all the time, not really true. They act within the agreement. I.e. with coaches they pay the remainder of the contract (as you know, Rex is still taking quite a bit of money from the Pegulas), or whatever the terms were. When Ralph fired Wade and refused to pay him saying he quit but being insubordinate, I think most Bills fans were horrified by Ralph's actions and he eventually lost in court. 

  7. 13 hours ago, chaccof said:

    TD 1 was a run by Don Smith after a strip sack

    TD 2 was Biscuit's return of the blocked FG and 

    TD 3 was the pick 6 by Leonard Smth

     

    That was back when the fans knew the Bills were going to win no matter what....awesome...... 

     

    I was at that game. When Denver lined up to take the FG I decided it was a good time to go to the bathroom. Bad decision.

    https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2010/9/30/1703600/september-30-1990-bills-score-20-points-in-77-seconds

     

    Also, the next week was the Monday night game against Oakland that others had mentioned where they came back from losing from 10 to winning by 14 in the 4th quarter. It was not quite as dramatic a comeback only because it took longer (i.e. more than 77 seconds), but was still a huge comeback in back to back games. I remembered both of those, but had forgotten until I just watched this video but the following week they came back against the Jets in the last 30 seconds to make it three straight fourth quarter come from behind victories.

    http://www.buffalobills.com/video/videos/1990-Three-Straight-Come-From-Behind-Victories/f1793f31-d7f1-4abb-9c20-82fd3e075d7a

     

  8. Three years ago, both of our dogs died. Our whole family went when we put Lulu to sleep in March. I think it was important for all of us to say goodbye. Eight months later our other dog was having breathing problems. The vet wanted to keep him overnight for treatment, we got a call in the middle of the night that Buckley died of heart failure. I was upset that we weren’t with him and able to say goodbye.

     

    Bring your family with you.

  9. 1 hour ago, BuffaloHokie13 said:

    Teams of interest for Buffalo to end the drought imo are

    Buffalo: Need to win 3 to get to 9-7, likely Colts, Dolphins, & @ Dolphins.

    Baltimore: Need to lose at least 2 games. Most likely candidates are Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cincy.

    Tennessee: Need to lose 3 games. Most likely candidates are Rams, Jaguars, and one of their back to back west coast road trips (for now I'll say the Jimmy G led 49ers).

    Kansas City: Need to lose at least 2 games. Most likely candidates are @Jets, Oakland, and Chargers

     

    Assuming all 4 end up at 9-7 in the way I've laid out, Baltimore and Buffalo make the playoffs on tie-breakers. If Tennessee doesn't slip up on one of their road games and goes 10-6 we need Baltimore to lose all 3 and end up 8-8.

     

     

    Correct except for the last part. If just the Ravens and Bills are tied at 9-7, and if the Raven's losses are to either Bengals or to Colts and one other AFC team (likely Steelers),  and if the Bills wins are 2x Dolphins and Colts, it goes down to strength of victories which we are well ahead on.

  10. 2 hours ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:

    They’ll probably change the rules now.

     

    I heard this discussed on Sirius XM NFL Radio a couple of hours ago. Didn't hear who they were interviewing, but sounded like it was someone either in charge of referees or part of the rules committee. He said he expects the NFL to look at it and make rule changes accordingly. The interviewer (not sure, but it may have been Jim Miller) suggested the rule is 15 seconds left or whenever the center touches the ball, whichever comes first. 

     

    In any case, good for McVay to use the rules as it currently is to his team's advantage.

  11. Assuming our main worry is a tie with Baltimore and that our record ends up at 9-7 in a two way tie (for a three way tie there are two many options on who the other team is to figure it out right now):

    - They are 5-5 which means they will go 4-2 in their last six games.

    - They play Houston (tonight), Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Ind, Cin

    - Since we don't play them, the next tiebreaker is division record.

    - Both of us are currently 4-3 in the AFC. The rest of our games are against AFC teams so our conference record will be 7-5 for us to be at 9-7. Baltimore must lose two games to AFC teams (unless of course they lose three games but that changes all of the above assumptions that we both get to 9-7).

    - Likely one of the losses will be to Pittsburgh.

    = The next tiebreaker is common opponents.

    - We both play Miami (us twice), Cincinnati (them twice), Oakland, Indianapolis. I.e. we have five games against common opponents. 

    - If we split with both NE and Miami, that is much worse than the more likely scenario of us beating Miami twice and losing to NE twice. Same thing with losing to Indianapolis but beating NE one time to get to our 9-7 record. Since both Baltimore and the Bills play Miami and Indianapolis, they are critical to our common opponent record.

    - If we beat Miami twice and Indianapolis, our common opponent record will be 4-1 (two over Miami, W over Ind and Oakland).

    - Currently, Baltimore is 3-0 in common opponents (W over Cin, Oak, Miami). So, their other, non-Pittsburgh loss must be to either Cin or Ind. If so, then we are both tied for common opponents.

    - Next tiebreaker after common opponents is strength of victories. As of now, and including our future wins against Miami twice and Ind, our wins are against teams with 40 wins. Baltimore, after adding in wins against Houston, Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, are against teams with 37 wins (if they lost to Cincinnati and beat Indianapolis instead, their wins would be against teams with 35 wins).

     

    Bottom line, we need to win the games we're supposed to win and need Baltimore to lose to either Cincinnati or to Indianapolis. 

     

     

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  12. I was at the game, end zone seats on the side that Christie's winning field goal was kicked. I lived in Endicott, NY at the time, a 3.5 hour drive. The night before I stayed with friends who lived in Orchard Park and had season tickets in the end zone near the tunnel (I along with a few other friends bought those tickets for them for their wedding). He came to our seat at halftime, looking really dejected. If he had said, "let's go back to my house and drink", I would have been gone. If I wasn't driving back to Endicott after the game to go to work the next day, I would have been gone. But, he didn't offer and I didn't bring it up, we stayed.

     

    To be honest, I was very late in thinking the comeback was happening. I remember at least after the first two scores and maybe even the third, saying to my friends that were sitting with me, "This is just making it less embarrassing, there's no way we're coming back to win this." I absolutely didn't BILLieve, even though I'd been at some great comebacks for the Bills (such as vs. Broncos in September 1990, Bills score 20 points in 77 seconds of the 4th to win 29-28).

  13. Of course most of us remember Kevin Everett. How about Derrick Burroughs? 1st round (pick 14) pick for the Bills in 1985 draft. Excellent DB. A Monday night game in 1989 against Houston he injured his neck and never played football again. He was diagnosed with spinal stenosis. He wanted to make a comeback, but no team would touch him. According to this article, https://tspnnews.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/derek-burroughs-erased-from-history/he had to sue the Bills to even get his medical bills paid for (I presume they said it was a preexisting condition, but I didn't research it and didn't know the Bills refused to pay until I looked up the article). Bill Polian was mentioning him on Sirius XM the other day, without mentioning his name. Just said that one of our 1st round picks from the 80s had this condition, the Bills knew about it before the draft but the doctors said he was safe "unless he had an incident." Per Bill, in the Houston game he had an incident and that was the end of his career. I found it interesting that Bill described the entire thing but did not mention his name. And, I had never heard before that the Bills knew he was vulnerable before hand. I kind of remember it had been reported as if we were surprised to learn of the defect until after the injury. By the way, Burroughs is now an assistant coach at Jackson State.

  14. what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

     

    Was I really rambling? I thought I gave the details of the story pretty well. And although I thought it was quite a bizarre story that the guy was making a career decision based on a postcard and the name of a stranger he met at a gas station, I enjoyed listening to it and thinking that if he's good (since frankly I have no idea), that's got to be the worst reason ever for us to miss out on a free agent signing.

     

    Bill Polian listened to the entire story (probably more than 5 minutes of Tre telling it), then said something like, "What a great story."

  15. I just heard Bill Polian interview Tre Boston on Sirius XM. Tre explained why he chose the Chargers.

     

    He went back to Carolina after visiting both teams and was trying to decide. He stopped at a gas station he had never been to before. While he's pumping gas, someone pulls up and asks if he could spare 1 or 2 dollars to help with gas. Tre gave him $20. The two talked for a while, the man explained his story, told him what he makes and how he decides what to use for gas and what to spend on food. Tre gave him another $20. The two kept talking and Tre felt the man was put in his life to help him. He was thinking about how to ask the man his opinion ("Buffalo or LA" or "choose city 1 or city 2"). Then, before he asks anything, the man says, "My name is Mike Daniels (I may have remembered the last name wrong, sorry) "but everyone calls me "L.A." Tre immediately started to think this was a sign. Then, he turns around to the gas pumps. The one he was at had one of those credit card leaflet holders and there was a postcard that said "Jesus saves." He checked all the other pumps, this was the only one with a Jesus saves postcard.

     

    At this point, he was convinced this was a sign from G-d that he is meant to go to LA. He went home and told his wife and was crying the entire time because he's convinced he was given a sign as to what he must do.

     

    Just listening to him, I think he's more of a Buffalo person than an LA person. Very much a family man, that sounds like he'd be happier in the smaller city.

  16. Yeah that is definitely going to be a funny experience I am also wondering how much tickets will be since there are going to be a lot less on the market

    According to this article, average face value price will be $192 with the range being $70 (behind North end zone) to $375 (behind Chargers bench). They are expecting to take in as much as a normal size stadium so obviously the prices need to be high.

     

    I've been to several LA Galaxy (soccer) games at StubHub, I've always had good seats, but I can't imagine that there are really any bad seats in the house. Last year I went to the Bills/Lambs game, paid just over $100/ticket, and was so far away I could barely see the field.

     

    Also, there was a huge Bills Backers party near the stadium.

     

    Personally, I'm really psyched to see a Bills game in this venue.

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