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Garrett finally gets to play in meaningful games, so good for him! Poor Verse was my first reaction... talk about soul crushing gearing up for a possible SB run to going to hopelessness

I'll still be policing any and all fun!

This Sabres run and how fun it was after basically not following hockey for 10+ years made me realize something. I sort of miss the "innocence" (if that's the right word) of being a fan who just watches the games and enjoys them. This past Bills season was no fun for me. I barely enjoyed it, because I was guilty of consuming all the coverage I could on WGR, posting here all the time, arguing with people, getting dug in on certain points and feeling invested in being right... With the hockey team I couldn't have named more than 5 active players before the playoffs and it was cool that Lindy was coach again. My opinion was simple: "Go Sabres!" and it was exciting, fun, and I had zero knowledge or opinion of coaching, who to sign or not, or anything else. It was just fun to root for the team and go for the ride. Now, I am a much bigger football fan overall, so that will be harder, but I want to pull back on my 24/7 immersion in all things Bills/NFL and just view the games as something fun to enjoy instead. We'll see how it goes! This Sabres run and how fun it was after basically not following hockey for 10+ years made me realize something. I sort of miss the "innocence" (if that's the right word) of being a fan who just watches the games and enjoys them. This past Bills season was no fun for me. I barely enjoyed it, because I was guilty of consuming all the coverage I could on WGR, posting here all the time, arguing with people, getting dug in on certain points and feeling invested in being right... With the hockey team I couldn't have named more than 5 active players before the playoffs and it was cool that Lindy was coach again. My opinion was simple: "Go Sabres!" and it was exciting, fun, and I had zero knowledge or opinion of coaching, who to sign or not, or anything else. It was just fun to root for the team and go for the ride. Now, I am a much bigger football fan overall, so that will be harder, but I want to pull back on my 24/7 immersion in all things Bills/NFL and just view the games as something fun to enjoy instead. We'll see how it goes!

I believe him, and I also believe him when he says once he's retired you're basically never going to see him in public again. He's a different dude

Lots of businesses learned during COVID that they could charge a lot more for their products and there would still be insanely high demand. NFL saw that and made all these streaming service deals in the years since. Exclusive game here, exclusive playoff game there, Wednesday before Thanksgiving package rumored, Black Friday package on Amazon/Netflix/Peacock (I lost track at this point!), Wednesday/Friday games in South America or Australia now... Meanwhile we all go "THAT SUCKS!" and then "where do I subscribe to ________?"

It's hilarious to me that the owner blasted this player in a press conference discussing how people should stop blaming Beane for bad draft picks and now there is a full PR press to sell him as an exciting part of the offense. It makes me think that originally there was no way Brady was going to be the HC, or that Terry is just that clueless, or that nobody was talking to each other. It is incredible, really.

My worries about Brady have nothing to do with how he sounds, or looks or whether he wears shorts and how "cool" he is or isn't. I did not like his work as OC, by and large, so I did not like the hire. For me it's that simple. McDermott had run his course here, that much most people agree on. But I am not in the group that thinks an OC that many here wanted fired is automatically an upgrade over him, either. I worry when I hear that McDermott was too "intimidating" and "too intense." Sure it can be overdone, and he was definitely sort of an awkward personality, but choosing those specific criticisms is odd to me when discussing an NFL coach with the W/L record he has. I get that nobody wants to hear that and a new season is starting and a new stadium is opening and it's time to come on in for the big win, so to speak, so people will rally around the new HC. And that's cool. I am not a Brady fan, simple as that. Time will tell.

It's amazing how self destructive some highly successful people can be. He was seen as an all time coach in football. If he just showed up and wasn't a complete and utter dumpster fire of a boss he might have been ok. Literally everything he did to destroy his career in a handful of months was self inflicted. Not one part of it was football coach ability related.

A lot of what is seemingly paranormal hits when it hits and is not controllable and thus not testable. However, if it is real then it's not "para" normal at all, just a normal, albeit unusual, condition of our existence. The theory in physics that all time exists at once and is always adjusting to current events even though the future technically exists is mind bending but also could explain things like ghosts, EVP, psychic visions, premonitions, de ja vu, and the Mandela Effect, to name a few. OR it's all in our heads. Which story do you like better? I like the one with the tiger.

IMO the psychic meant the 2026 season for the Sabres and the 2026 season for the Bills which ends in 2027. This means a SB win on Valentines Day of 2027 for the Bills and a Stanley Cup win in June 2027 for the Sabres. Due to the way sports leagues structure their championships, plus the cloud of psychic distance and accounting for some razamadazzle, I can see the slight discrepancy there.

I don't even think it's much of a "conspiracy theory" honestly. Beane won, McDermott lost and now he has the power to fully implement his vision for the team and clean up loose ends. It's how business often goes. You want people who are on board especially after this past year. WGR is always free to grumble and gripe but the official team radio show and broadcast is always your Chris Browns and your Tasker types. Sal fit that as well but he was a huge supporter of the guy who lost the power struggle.

Sal was a huge McDermott guy and made no bones about it. He said many times on WGR that he didn't see anything coming but if something changed it would be GM not HC. He also basically said McDermott was a better HC than Beane was a GM. No matter what people say publicly there were some serious nasty things going on behind the scenes in the leadership IMO that we only know a tiny bit of. It explains the embarrassing way the entire firing was handled and the ham handed "thank you coach!" Tribute that came out after. I keep coming back to Pegula saying "Sean had to leave." Just the way he said it, again just my take. Turns out McDermott moved his entire family back to temporary housing in Charlotte basically as soon as he was out. I remember hearing he had kids in school here and wanted to sit the year out and let them finish the year out here. The guy and his wife owned a house here where they were comfortable, had kids in school and went to a temporary home in NC basically immediately rather than stay here another week. To me that says something. But this could be another part of turning the page. I doubt it's the only reason but these things are almost never due to 1 thing.

Rex Ryan's defenses when he had an elite S and an elite LB were incredible. But he needed all star level talent at those spots to run his system. His schemes were so complicated that it was tough for many players to follow. Tons of "if this happens, then do this, except if this happens, then do that." But if you could grasp it and execute it was a thing of beauty. If you couldn't then guys were out of position all over the place and it looked ugly.

In November this would have been laughable but now NHL fans without a team in the playoffs are most excited to see Sabres/Canadiens

I think the biggest issue with Lamar is mental. The guy is an incredible talent but it seems like you can get him to pack it in for the day if you make it hard enough. Make it ugly and rough and make him earn every yard he runs and passes for. You can see it starting when he does that thing where he starts hitting himself in the helmet after a bad play. That's when you know he's close to closing up shop for the rest of the game and becoming shell of what he is capable of. If he stays in the alpha mindset, though, he can be close to unstoppable.