KnightRider
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Wasn't bashing him, sorry freddy if it came off that way. Im just frustrated with how the board is going downhill
If you are around enough to comment on how it is going downhill, volunteer to help moderate. Moderating is time consuming, and folks, over time have other priorities. The fact that SDS has been running this board for 20 years is just astounding. However, its success is based off the community those who pitch in.
Now, for the reason I clicked on this thread: If we were to bring back a former Bills employee to right the ship, I would pick Dennis Abraham. He left with John Butler for San Diego, and is still with them. He's been their director of pro scouting for quite a while, now. He's also a Akron High School graduate.
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I completely skipped the playoffs this year. It may be just me, but the random holding calls (these have been around longer than I've been watching) and more importantly the game changing PI calls (these almost never used to be called until Brady and Manning) have ruined the game. Championships should not be decided by officials, imho.
So... we're there any pivotal PI calls? How about the timely holding penalties?
And I agree with Chandler#81 - the SF game in (I thought it was '92?) was good a game as it gets.
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What other sport can fans be mad at coaching every week for not fixing ref's pathetic attempts at calling the right play? Rex deserves blame and should be fired, but there is a deeper problem in football right now. The refs dictate the outcome way too much
I've been thinking this for a while, now. Football has gone from being a team sport where one player (the QB) either makes or breaks the success of the team. That makes it easier for the officials throw the game one way, or the other. I call it the NBA-ification of football. But crap calls like that PI just before the half happen far to often. The officials should not be able to decide who wins. They do, though.
I used to love this game. I try to tell myself at the beginning of recent years that my impression of today's NFL is because the Bills have been bad for so long. They are not a bad team this year. But the officiating combined with today's QB-centric game leaves me wondering, why the heck do I still care about this game? I don't know that I have an answer anymore. I do know I turned off my auto-renew on my GamePass account though, today.
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In the days of b&w tv there was still a light vs. dark contrast. The problem for colorblind fans (including two of my close friends) on this one was that there was little contrast so they looked nearly identical. The problem for the rest of us, of course, was that we could actually see that red-and-green monstrosity. Thank god the Bills held on and made it worthwhile.
Good point on the light vs dark...
At least the Jets looked like the Jets. I kept thinking the Bills looked like they were dressed in Pats* throwbacks.
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It must have been terrible in the days when games were televised in black and white. No one could tell what was going on...
There are plenty of reasons why the uniforms last night were a bad idea, though.
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I think we all forget that Orton is a very good QB & while in college was in the heismen talk in his senior year & because he wasn't a finalist puts him in the above average category only because those guys in the finals usually fall on their faces at some point or time .
I just hope this coaching staff doesn't pull the same boner that happened (who ever made the decision) when Wade Phillips was coach & decides to pull the guy that got them to the play offs with the entire Flutie debacle !!
Flutie didn't have the arm strength to throw the ball downfield. I don't see that as an issue with Orton.
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With over 3 million posts in the database, things are starting to creak, if not actually break down. Although I haven't officially diagnosed database size as being the reason it is slower these days, it seems to have gotten progressively worse as the seasons pass.
So, that's an issue. I'm open to suggestions on how to handle this.
Given that this is database size driven, I could possibly buy another license of IPB and offload a decade worth of posts, make it archive only. This will affect post counts, etc... on active board.
I could just also just delete those posts. Not a big fan of that option.
Or, perhaps there is a server tweak I have missed or there is something happening in the background that is causing the long page load times. Regardless, I'll need a plan of action for this season...
Thoughts?
Oh, boy, the timing of this is ironic...
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They're halfway there... Ohhha! They're livin' on a prayer...
Sorry, that came to mind when I heard JBJ's bid was on life support.
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Kelly doesn't have the money to buy the Bills. He's apparently teamed with Gundlach who also doesn't have the money. Now they have talked with JBJ who also doesn't have the money.
The groups are looking for ways to put together a team that:
Has enough money.
Can satisfy the Trust on non-relocation.
Can get NFL approval.
Could we see a "Super Group" emerge to challenge Pegula? Wouldn't shock me in the least.
To me, it looks like politicking... The news flash this morning was that Kelly had met with him, but the Kelly did not see any indication that they JBJ and Co. were still trying to move the team out of Buffalo.
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There is no way to get around the damage done by the St. Lawrence Seaway.
This is a huge contributor... Buffalo's economy was built on that canal. http://www.nysun.com/opinion/can-buffalo-ever-come-back/64879/ does a pretty good job making a case that the St Lawrence was the spark that caused the fall.
No. Seattle just passed legislation to raise it's minimum wage to $15/hour. Moves like that don't make your city attractive to new businesses. New York's problem has been it's high taxes. NYC overcomes the high taxes because it's the financial capitol of the country, if not the world, and it's advantages offset its costs.
I openly admit there are few taxes I don't think need cutting, but I think high property property tax rates are probably the real problem. Quite a while ago, I read a WSJ article talking about how Boston and San Francisco's rebounds were due to a dramatic drop in property tac rates in 1978 for California, and 1982 for Mass... Found it!! http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/property-tax-cut-could-help-save-buffalo
While I don't see a rebound of canal utilization anytime soon, I do think Buffalo has a lot going for it. Cheap, clean, energy, abundant fresh water, and real estate much cheaper than most of the country make it a huge opportunity, if the right actions were taken. Maybe Pegula's example can show the polititions they need a strong private sector, and that corporations are not inherently evil.
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Nice article... I somehow missed Hull's death (I'll blame the extended loss of power due to the effects of hurricane Irene and the birth of my third son).
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I don't know where this stuff comes from. Jacobs is not buying the Bills. Pegula is not buying the Bills. Those guys live and die for their teams. They have no interest in also owning the Bills. They put everything into their current teams and their businesses. To think they would also have the time and energy for the Bills makes no sense.
Maybe they would go in as part of a large group of local investors just to keep the team here but they aren't buying the team themselves. Chuck Schumer mentioned that he feels better about the team staying than he did last week so hopefully that means some people are coming together to keep the team here going forward. Will be curious to see what that's about in the coming months
So just this last week I was listening to a Boston sports station who mentioned how uncomfortable it used to be when the Bruins players would visit the Jacobs home (in Florida, I think), and Jacobs didn't even know who the players were. While this doesn't exactly have me enthralled with him taking ownership, it also does not sound like he was living and dying Black and Yellow...
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Boy, just when I thought Bills fans had it tough, it just seems to get worse.
Thank you Ralph Wilson for the great years the Bills had as I grew up...
It will be good to finally figure out how the franchise transitions to a new era.
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After the game today my 8 year old son comes up and say, "Daddy, why do you root for the Bills?" I ask him, "What do you mean?" He replies, "they only make you mad and frustrated, so why do you watch them?"
It's a good point. As long as he's been alive they've only been a source of Sunday frustration and at this point it's pretty much only that something in me that refuses to quit, give up or take the easy route that has me still rooting for them.
I think most Bills fans feel your pain Mike and understand where you're coming from and I'm sure we'll see you back here a few weeks from now when the Bills will figure out a whole new way how to lose.
Hah! I got that same question from my seven year old after the Pats game... It is a fantastic question.
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Not being able to throw the deep ball is one reason for this offense being very predictable. We need to open up the playbook and play to our strengths.
1 Run the ball with CJ and Freddie at least 30-35 times a game including on third down.
2. Throw in some reverses using Graham or CJ.
3. Throw out of the Wildcat, let's see Brad Smith throw it deep.
4. Use the tight end more. Chandler should have 6-8 receptions a game.
There are ways to mask the weakness of your QB, can Gailey put in plays to do that is the question.
Fixed. :-) But the others would not be a bad idea.
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Maybe I should explain if your dense. The last bunch of years a low seeded playoff team won the Super Bowl. This year it turned out the Giants and Jets played in the late season and the winner was going to get in as a low seed. The two big city teams were smart enough to know about being a low seed and were where they needed to be but had to play each other. The Jets had them but let that dancer guy catch a long pass when they should have smacked him at the line. Except for that play the Jets would have won the Super Bowl. The Bills on the other hand were only about 417 plays away.
Crayonz logic, for sure...
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Dont care.
I have Buddy's back no matter what. We are better than the Jets. Our qb is better than the Jets' qb. I love the fact that Buddy is a straight shooter and I will back him 100 %.
The signing of Mario got Buddy some serious street cred and a boatload of "cool points." He is entitled to redeem them for shots at division rivals whenever he likes. His cool points do not expire.
To quote a Pat's fan - "If the Jets had Fitzpatrick, they would have been in the Superbowl."
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> So...why not have Buffalo sign the guy as a backup to Fitz.
because he's a huge distraction and not a very good quarterback
I don't want Tebow anywhere near the Bills...
Edit - What Mike said.
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OK - I'm in for a buck...
I'll put my money on the Colts and Bill 'The Genius' Polian.
I agree with this. There is no way they really that bad.
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Personally, I would have gone with "But I was comparing Boehner to Hitler". Just to see how many people responded "Oh...well, that's okay. Pretty perceptive, really."
And by the way - it would be nothing like Hitler and Netanyahoo golfing. Hitler had a MUCH worse handicap than Obama does.
That would be the way to get the song back on the intro, for sure.
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Its one fricken game.....ONE
Its a little early for this....if we want to B word about something lets complain about McKelvin who has been bad in EVERY game
Good for you, John. It's like crayonz went out and got 30 logins, though.
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I'm not sold either, but I am optimistic. 2008 and 2003 are still too fresh in my mind for me to think about anything other than the next game. Let's see how things look around Thanksgiving time.
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When Portis worked out for the Pats, the word here was that he really let himself go and was fat.
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Also, other teams have to prepare for it. The bills can run zero plays with it but it has soooome value.
Bingo.
Dolphins - Civil War? Will the Findom fall?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I tend to think organizational dysfunction originates from the ownership group. The Pats* were like that till the Krafts bought them in 1994, but were the laughingstock of the league in the late 80s when Victor Kiam owned it. I suspect it is no accident the Fish have made the playoffs only once since Ross bought them in 2009. Woody Johnson’s tenure as owner of the Jets also supports my opinion. Are there exceptions to this? Sometimes! While I think Ralph was great for the AFL/NFL as a league, I think he was not terribly good as an owner. When he allowed Polian to run it though, it flourished. Rich guys get that way because they made the decisions. It’s hard to allow someone else to make them…
On the football side, the Pegullas seem to be pretty good owners! This stadium drama reminds me of the one the Krafts had before Gillette was built.
What does not fit is the absolute cluster the Sabres have become. Maybe Terry only meddles with the on ice product.