Augie

Agreed. It can’t happen in the salary cap era. I wonder if Florio is giggling at starting this mess. “Reports” is a bit too vague for me to spend any emotional energy on. Nobody knows if this is even true, but it’s taken on a life of its own.

So, you want to create more tells on offense? Interesting. I prefer the idea of surprising our opponents.

I’m enjoying the unofficial thread much more. You guys are missing out.

PSA here - There is an additional fee for goats which was not properly disclosed up front!

For almost a decade I’ve gone to park several times a week. I’m often the only white guy there. One day a local police car went by and the guy I was hitting balls with stopped and pointed out they had a new paint job. That really meant nothing to me. He yelled out to the rest of the crowd “Hey! He doesn’t even notice the paint jobs on cop cars!” It was a big hit! LOTS of laughs! But it was also true to some degree, so it also sucks. .

The Sgt’s problem isn’t Marshawn, I must say.

Things can happen very fast. It’s a violent game, and I don’t want to stop, review or argue over one more thing that used to just be called football. I’m sure Tua disagrees with me.

I don’t think Sunday Ticket gets you games on separate streaming services, like Peacock. The idea there is to trap us into getting additional services so the NFL can cut deals all over in an attempt to force us to subscribe with each. Strangely, I enjoy Dan Patrick in the morning, but at some point recently his show became delayed by a day on Peacock. I’m not sure if I would get the current day’s show by signing up, but I refuse to do that now because I don’t like the pressure they try to apply. As for the draft, I haven’t been to one yet but Nashville looked awesome! Detroit? I think I’m busy for that one. Doesn’t NBC have a lot of Tour coverage? Does Peacock offer extended viewing options? I’ve watched the Tour for decades and enjoyed the “tourism” aspect more than the actual racing. I loved all of Paul Sherwen’s commentary on the various little towns, etc. It wasn’t until much more recently that I learned he married a girl I was seeing right after college. We were just tennis and drinking buddies. Small world! RIP

It turned out fine for Jags fans, I guess. 🤷‍♂️ But I am not a Jags fan. This will be my first year of booing Roger at the draft. I apologize for being late to that party. Oh, and I’m NOT getting Peacock if I need it to see a Bills game later in the season. I have enough streaming options forced on me already. It’s not the money, it’s the principle. I’ll miss a Bills game rather than give in to NFL pressure. That’s a bad thing long term of you are the league. Adding fringe fans is nice. Losing long-time core fans is bad for business.

I was born a Bills fan. I know everything! 😂 But my high school appearances never got much attention from the press. 🤷‍♂️ .

I lived in a house in college with a dozen other guys and a Golden Retriever, and I didn’t own a vacuum cleaner. The house was briefly condemned upon our departure. We believe that was largely due to some horticultural hobbies taking place on the fire escape from the upper floors. We were the worst possible group of tenants for an attorney turned first time property investor/manager. But it was merely a house. A house in Cincinnati. Congratulations to you and yours, sir! It’s not like we crippled THE NAVY!

Now that the thread has aged a bit, I’d like to point out that when I first saw the abbreviated thread title on the main page, I thought this was going to be about @Chandler#81. 😋

You are playing checkers at a gun fight….or something like that. Let me explain. The NFL is doing every single thing in their power to make the league a year round entertainment machine. It is an endless cycle of training camp, preseason, regular season, playoffs, Super Bowl, Combine, Draft, rookie mini-camps, and around we go. The universe is a force of its own, almost as powerful as the NFL thinks it is. The universe fights back by trying to provide us with “offseason content” year round, because the NFL has messed up the calendar for everybody. Off season content has been made virtually homeless. You see, it’s really quite simple, in a Karmic kind of way, that we get some of these threads now.

He was on pace for more than 12 sacks last year. Let’s let him shake the rust off and peak in the playoffs.

I had to respect Brady opening with 12 receptions by 7 different guys.

I just watched the fourth quarter sober. THAT was kinda close!!! I was more nervous than last night! This is what they do to us……..

……until you looked here. Take it and run with it! 😋

Does anyone else remember when we had to lose to have threads like this? I’m not sure, but I think this is good news. 🤷‍♂️

Just a couple dozen more this week, I think. If we had actually LOST it would be closer to one hundred.

“Obviously, there are a lot of fouls on both sides here.” 😂

I’m not blaming the outcome entirely on the travel, but it was an “experiment” for a reason. It was a “home game” my ass. Jet lag and being an “away game” were factors. You did not sit where I was in a bit of shock at the high level of support for the Jags. I wouldn’t have believed it either. The Bills fans LOOKED like a lot, and it was, but if you weren’t for the Bills you were almost certainly be for the Jags even if you didn’t wear the colors, and the Bills did NOT fill more than half the stadium. I heard an estimate that we had about 20k there. I don’t know how accurate the source was, but it felt about right. As for arguing against the reality of jet lag, that is where your reputation for being tiresome comes in. Continuing that would be pointless. To be clear, I’m NOT NEARLY as upset with the game and outcome as I am with the NFL. The league and Competition Committee allowed this to happen Why? It is clearly unfair to have a team play in a city for more than a decade and ever call that a road game for them while the divisional opponent loses a home game on their schedule. It is the NFL that wanted to experiment and see if it gives you an advantage to arrive a week earlier. I love the Bills and (most of) our fans. 😋 I’m pissed at the NFL for undermining the integrity of the game.

Well, you are wrong again. It is NOT that simple. I could not sleep on the red eye this trip, just as I was unable to sleep on my previous trips. Some people are like that, including some Bills, I’m sure. It’s not just 5 hours different, it is a full day of travel, even if they had the best possible conditions. Jet lag is real, and most people know that. I was also shocked and bragged here and elsewhere how Bills fans took over London. That’s the way it looked because only a handful of Jags fans were walking around wearing gear. On the streets of London and out side the stadium the Bills were represented FAR more the the Jags. That is true. What was shocking was that if you were not in Bills gear you were almost certainly cheering for the good things that happened for Jacksonville. The optics were very different from the reality. Jags fans were louder in London than the multiple times I’ve seen them play the Bills in Jacksonville. They might have worn a Steelers or Dolphin jersey, or just street clothes but they were pro-Jags, and they were most of the people there. You’d EXPECT that after a decade as the “home team” in London, and that’s exactly what it was. .

What did you put in your math? These are “mathy” things I speak of. Don’t claim math makes you right, then refuse to show your work.

You are familiar with math, correct? You need to plug things into the formula. The things you want to plug in are nothing but wild a$$ guesses. We do not know these things. We CANNOT know these things. So it’s just a way for you to try to confirm your own personal biases. Period.

I was there, and I was shocked! There were not many people in Jags gear around town, but almost everyone there NOT wearing Bills gear was pro-Jacksonville. It is their “home team” for the locals in London. I was also surprised that every team in the NFL seemed to have a jersey there representing them. Apparently the exact team affiliation is not critical, but if you live in London the Jags are your team. We had nice seats in the NE corner (albeit with the sun in our face early). What section were YOU sitting in? This happened. They have been building that fan relationship since 2013, so I should not have been surprised. And you are uninformed and naive if you were not there and are skeptical. Might is have been mid 70’s percentage against us? Sure, but it was NOT a home game. It was a bad joke. I arrived about when the Bills did, and I was still struggling a bit at game time for sure. Not being able to sleep on a red eye KILLS you.