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I don't remember him finely at all Kirby. I just don't put ruining one game that we likely were going to lose no matter what and didn't keep us from going to the playoffs in the same light as ruining our best season in quite a while (1976).

I did and I'd take Peterman every day over Marangi. In 1976, Ferguson was leading all NFL QBs in most categories before he had a season ending injury in game 7. Marangi came in and completed 35% of his passes the rest of the season, an all time record low. Yes, his TD to int ratio was far better than Peterman (7 TD/16 int). And, Marangi had the NFL's leading rusher again that season, OJ Simpson. He ruined what should have been a great season.

And that Elway was dead set on taking Chubb!

I'm a gas passer too but don't get paid for it or have anything to do with surgeries, I just stink up the room I'm in.

When you plan your child's birth around football season. In 2001 my son was due to be born opening weekend. We already knew my wife needed a c section. Since you can choose the date if it's a planned c section, I convinced my wife we should have him a week early. She has a week recovery so I could feel fine going to a bar to watch the game (not on local TV in CA and either Sunday ticket didn't exist yet or I didn't have it yet).

I disagree. As a couple of others have already said, the MVP now is the QB of one of the two #1 seeds. So, if the Bills get the #1 seed he's got approximately a 50% chance. If he puts up better stats than the NFC #1 seed QB, he'll win. If the Bills win the East and are #3 seed, very little chance of him being MVP regardless of stats.

Actually, the question was :What was your best throw." In his answer, Josh said the Kumero through was the hardest he's ever thrown it in a game. Really enjoyed the interview and watched the Matt Hollins one right after. Not as good as the Josh interview but enjoyed it anyway. Thanks OP for posting!

Was listening to Sirius XM NFL Radio this morning. Bob Poppa and whoever was with him today didn't mention the Bills need for a QB at all, only that White was signed so the Bills can get insight to the Fish playbook for week 2. While that may be part of it, the fact is we needed a backup QB.

I've heard it in statements by Beene before, the 53 is Beene's call, the gameday roster is McD's.

No, it was Roosevelt Leaks. Whenever the Bills had 4th and 1, I'd just call out "It's 4th and Leaks." He seemed unstoppable on short yardage plays. Not so sure about inside the 3 though, but inside the one he was automatic (or at least that's how I remember it).

Thanks for looking that up. As others pointed out, even as I was posting it early this morning I was wondering why in the world Levy would have hired him if he was such a bufoon. I just looked it up now and couldn't find specifics about his coaching career such as years he coached where. But, Wikipedia does say that he coached under Levy in Montreal and then in Buffalo. So, he worked under Levy in Montreal, then hired him as a defensive assistant in Marv's first full year in Buffalo. After 3 years as an assistant he was promoted to DL coach and was fired after two years of that after his pre-SB comments. He went on to use his voice on WGR to trash Levy and the Bills and Marv launched into the tirade linked above two or three years later. Sounds like maybe when he was actually coaching, Marv must have liked him and it was only in retrospect and having a couple of years of being bashed on talk radio that Marv fired back. In any case, I love Marv's response!

Just saw this article linked on TwoBillsDrive and really enjoyed it. I never lived in Buffalo, was in Binghamton during the SB years and moved to CA near the end of them. So, I never heard The Coach on WGR but I read enough in the papers that he always was ripping apart Levy. In the clip, Levy says that Dickerson was an embarrassment everywhere he went. He embarrassed the Buffalo Bills. Then he went on to list the scores of every game he was the DC for when he coached in college at U of Minnesota, average opponent score was 47 pts/game. "He was fired more times than a Civil War cannon... He was considered a bufoon by our players." I put the link to the SI article that has the video embedded and the X link below. I enjoyed it, hope you do! https://www.si.com/nfl/vintage-clip-marv-levy-eviscerating-fired-coach-buffalo-bills

Agree with all that has been said above. Except, want to add my complaint that it was an even better deal when, up until last year, it was free for season ticket holders. But as said, it's still well worth the $60 they have us pay now.

He has 160 passing attempts? Really? Does that include preseason? I don't remember him ever getting in a game other than for Buffalo. Didn't Losman do it too? Or it was at least a 4th down and he ran around and then out of bounds well behind the line of scrimmage for a big loss.

I completely disagree with this. If Bishop isn't the best option for this year, he shouldn't play, period. IDK if McGovern is a good center or not. Kromer seems to think he is. McGovern thinks he is. I don't know if you remember, but Eric Wood, who like McGovern had never played guard in his life before being drafted, was moved to guard for one or two seasons before they moved him back to center. Obviously, they need to get the snap fixed, but we're just under six weeks before opening day, there's plenty of time. What examples do you have that McDermott "always try to fit a round peg into a square hole?"

Love it! I grew up in Rochester and my father still owns the house I grew up in in Irondequoit. Even though I live in CA, until last year I've usually gone back with my family to visit in the summer. I'd try to plan around camp and have gone once or twice at least half the years they've been at SJF. I look forward to it every year, but ultimately normally I'm underwhelmed with it and may even get bored before practice is over. But, I still will likely go next year if I have a chance and will be excited to go!

I read the article in the Athletic just before coming here and seeing a similar article is linked. In it Elway says, "I wonder how long it will take him to realize I passed on him and took Bradley Chubb instead. And it took him two and a half holes to bring it up." No word of his response to Allen but it did mention that this season will have the 7th different opening day starter in the last 9 seasons. Link is below behind a paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5667113/2024/07/29/john-elway-broncos-josh-allen?source=user-shared-article

Agree 100% with this. A rotation does not mean someone has been beaten out, it means they haven't landed the starting job, at least not yet. Using ALLin's logic, we would say Torrence was "beaten" out by Bates and Bernard was "beaten" out by Dotson. You can say who is beaten out when starters are announced for week 1.

So, in your mind, the backup QB is more important than the (future)starting safety? Running back? If Josh is out for a huge amount of the season, a 2nd round pick backup is NOT going to lead us to the SB. If he's out a few weeks, the goal is to have a QB that can lead us to a 500 record. Of course it depends greatly on who we're playing for those few weeks. If the Bengals and Chiefs are there, likely we won't win with any backup. If lesser teams, Mitch has a good a shot as any.

So, even though you're not club currently, since your seats will be club in the new stadium, that's what they'll be offering you? I'm just a section over from you, section 132, row 35, 14-17. With having to travel from CA for games, I can't imagine I'll be willing to pay for clubs, not so sure I will be willing to pay any PSL but still excited to have the presentation and to be at the decision point. Very interested in hearing how your meeting goes!

You said you have no feeling about him either way but you had called him a prick in the prior sentence. Am I the only one that thinks you have already made up your mind about him?

My slot starts 4 pm tomorrow. Only lots 1 and 7 are available for presale and the pass is for a specific lot. Lot 4 will be for single game and it looks like st holders can buy them now, $45. The presale ends on 6/16. So the window isn't short just starts by seniority. Oh, it said lot 3 is closed but made no mention of 5 or 6.

I travel for work quite a bit so am in airports several times per month. I rarely will be wearing Bills gear, so of course I don't get comments. But, whenever I see someone wearing any Bills gear, I always say "Go Bills". Sometimes it leads to a conversation. I never bring up TBD or TSW. Most of the time I work into the conversation that I live in CA and am a season ticket holder. Living in CA, I every once in a while see people with Bills gear, same thing, always give them a "Go Bills" and typically that leads to a conversation. I'm more likely to be wearing some Bills gear when I'm home, I always wear a Bills cap when I walk my dogs.

Not sure what you mean by "if Seattle eats some of that contract in the way the Bills did with Diggs". Buffalo didn't "eat" Diggs' contract, it's just the way the salary cap works where a signing bonus is paid up front but is amortized over the course of the contract. When a player is traded, what's left of the amortization immediately goes against the cap. This is the first time I've looked at overthecap, but I think I understand it. Metcalf would have a base salary of around $13 million this year and $18 million next year. Seattle would have a dead cap hit of $15 million / $7.5 million this year / next year. Unless they really want to get rid of him, I doubt they'd want to do that. But, I didn't think the Bills would have wanted to take the big hit they did for Diggs, so, what do I know.

Yeah, I just read the terms that were posted above after posting my response to NoSaint. Even though Miller is one of the most positive people I've heard, I doubt even he believes he's going to get 15 sacks or even the 10.5 that he'd need to earn $8.645 bonus. But, perhaps 8 sacks to earn $6 million? Obviously, as unlikely as it is, we'll all root for him to get the 15 sacks and earn the full bonus.