SoMAn

Is there a way for out of area listeners to hear the WGR55 broadcast of Bills games? (apart from having a friend or relative hold their phone to the radio speaker). I know you can pick it up with the Bills app, but it's limited to the local audience. I'm in the Atlanta area, so that's not an option for me. Does XM/Sirius use feeds from WGR?

I suspect one of the reasons for keeping Kumerow on the roster (aside from being really well-liked by teammates), is they can set up with 21 personnel; Gilliam and Moss/Singletary in the backfield, Knox on the line, and use Kumerow's size as either a receiving threat and/or extra blocker if a run to one of the backs called. That gives Josh a lot of options when he comes up to the line and sees how their D is set up. Part of the Patriots success through the years has been great blocking from their wideouts. McKenzie and Beasley's size limits their effectiveness against bigger and stronger defenders. When you see the Bills in 21 personnel with Kumerow, watch Josh scan the D-line, and if he sees a formation that he believes can be exploited, listen for the "alert - alert" audible signal. Options. Match-ups. That's how you keep the ball moving.

No. He's just another commentator adding his 2 cents. I don't care one way or the other about him or any other paid talking head. Not sure why many of you get so hung up on the people who fill the void on the radio and TV airwaves. It is what it is. Occasionally, Collinsworth et al add insights from their playing days, production meeting interviews. or other experiences. Occasionally they say things that seem way off base. So what!?! As long as I can see the game, their talking is mostly just white noise to my ears. Life's too short to get that blistered over Collinsworth, Mowins, Glab, Wilcots, etc. Turn of the sound off and chat it up with your buddies instead if it's that annoying. Not too concerned about the broadcast teams. I'm just glad it's football season and our guys are kicking a$s. Don't worry. Be happy.

Yes. Last year both my dad and my best friend lost to cancer. My mom and dad took us to several games in late 60's at the Rockpile, going directly to the games from church, still wearing our white button-down shirts and polished Buster Browns. Our seats were 4 rows from the field. Those experiences were field-of-dream memories passed from father to son in which the love of Bills football was manifested and still lives on. The friend is someone I knew vaguely through other friends, but we got to talking at a parents-out-of-town house party about 40 years ago, and bonded over our affinity for the Bills. We became best of friends. I was his best man when he got married. He was the reason I ended up in Atlanta in the mid-80's. In 1986. we drove from Atlanta to Buffalo for the season opener against the Jets - Kelly's first game. Stayed all week and left the following Sunday morning to catch the game that was halfway home in Cincinnati, Kelly's second ever game. He was back in NY for last several years where his wife had gotten a job. I spoke to him hours before he passed last Christmas. He was weak and could hardly speak, but we always ended with an 'I love you' and the last words he struggled to say to me before hanging up were 'go Bills'. Good original topic. Thanks for letting me share.

This is ridiculous. Sporting events are exceptionally entertaining, largely because of the unpredictability. If you stumbled onto any Hallmark movie while channel surfing, you'd instantly know how it will progress and end (so I've heard) before you switch over to the NFL Network channel. Football, possibly more than any other professional sport, has a high level of uncertainty throughout the 60 minutes. Numerous variables. A multitude of things that can happen. The big problem with officiating is the inconsistency in how different crews call penalties. Some are flag-happy. Others let minor infractions go if they determine it didn't effect the outcome of the play. Maybe the best officials who see everything are the ones we see as the worst. It's highly unlikely anything is 'fixed'. If it were, we'd have known long before some publicity-seeking journeyman RB made it a headline.

Don't count on it. If the Chiefs stay on their current trajectory, they'll be fighting for a wild card spot. The presumption that we'll meet the Chiefs again is leftover rhetoric from preseason prognostications. The Chiefs may not make the playoffs or may possibly be away from the cozy confines of Arrowhead when the playoffs commence. It would be nice to get them in Orchard Park in January. Time will tell.

Not to minimize the accomplishments of Diggs, Bass, etc....but does it seem that never-before-recognized statistics are just being made up arbitrarily to suit a narrative? Yards/catches, etc in a season, game, career have always been metrics for individual achievement. But when they start with: 'over the past 15 games, covering 2 seasons, in temperatures between 35 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit, after a bye week, only 3 other players have ______________ (fill in the blank).

What drives me nuts is when the official throws the flag well after the play is obviously over. The receiver will have a mini tantrum and throw his hands up in the air, at which point, the official pulls out the flag. Are some of these officials that indecisive that they're influenced by a whiny players' reaction? Brady and the Patriots were masters of getting a huge yardage in critical situations by throwing long and drawing a PI penalty. Brady could throw it just short enough that it became a contested ball and all his receiver would have to do it stumble and cry to the nearest official, and lo and behold, here comes the laundry. How many close games did the Pats end up winning with that strategy? Not quite cheating, but not exactly good sportsmanship either.

I find it amusing that her voice is so annoying to Buffalo natives. She has a thick Inland Northern working class accent that is prominent all around the Great Lakes, including Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Milwaukee. Her Chicago accent isn't that different from those found all around WNY. When I hear callers to local Buffalo radio shows, I cringe listening to their Sowt Bufflo ahhksents. Maddy does have a youthful tone to her voice, but that's not any fault of hers, and shouldn't take away from the content of her statements. Is there any broadcast commentator that everyone agrees on? The woman does her homework and is an enthusiastic supporter of the Bills. I don't find that she parrots the host at all. As far as her awards and lunchtime trivia games go - what do you expect. They're trying add a little light fun and fill their 2-3 hours, 5 days a week. If you don't like the shows, don't listen.

I think it's a coincidence. The offense and special teams let us down against Pittsburgh.

For all the wing places that get high grades such as Gabriel's Gate, Bar Bill, Duff's, etc. - what makes their wings better than those from other wing places?

I feel like that's something my wife would have said immediately before I turn the sound up on the TV

I think the point was that there are (amazingly) adult Americans who can't differentiate between an entire state and Manhattan. Do these same people think the Seattle Seahawks play in the nation's capital? I love those man on the street segments where a correspondent goes to college campuses, Venice Beach, etc., and asks basic American history questions such as, "what year was the War of 1812 fought?" Blank stare. Confusion. I get that the segments are edited for entertainment, but there are a lot of ignorant dumb-asses out there who have zero curiosity about anything outside of their little world.

I realize that defense wasn't the big problem this past week, but still I wonder how far the team can go without an All-pro level impact player as part of their defensive front 7. Don't get me wrong - I believe the Bills have good players in those positions. Just not anyone approaching the level of the Watt or Bosa brothers, Aaron Donald, Kahlil Mack, et. No game changers that opposing offenses have to plan around. The Bills have targeted the front 7 with top draft picks that last 4 years, starting with Edmunds, but so far, none of those players are a household name that puts fear in the hearts of the other team.

So, if I'm from out of town and already purchased a non-refundable airline ticket, a game ticket for the Washington game, recovered from Covid in August, and don't need the vaccine or am at risk (pregnancy, etc), I'm screwed. I'd like to see the Erie Co. exec cite Covid-related statistics from the gathering of 70,000 on Sunday* that warrants the abrupt change in policy that may leave some ticket holders high and dry. * guarantee there will be no proof of outbreaks caused by attendees of Sunday's contest.

I guess if anybody asked about my Bills, I'd have to reply, 'yeah, they won the Superbowl. They're world champs....but with an asterisk. They had to get in the playoffs as a wildcard. Another maybe next year moment [sigh] ".

Here in Atlanta we're getting a AFC/CBS 1:00 game. Pittsburgh and Buffalo ?? 2 potential playoff powerhouse teams. Oh no. Instead, we get 2 teams with a 2020 combined win total of 5 games, the Texans and Jaguars. Yes, locals are treated to the electrifying Tyrod Taylor slinging it for the Texans. Maybe because jags # 1 draft pick Trevor Lawrence is a local kid, they went with that game. Is our local CBS affiliate going to bump top contenders for Trevor Lawrence all year? Who knows? Just glad I have the NFL Sunday ticket.

I don't know if you were responding to my post from just before yours. My statement clearly said AFC Championship game, not SB.

What problems? Just do it! I think the people involved create their own problems. How hard is it? Other major cities either don't have the volume of problems Buffalo seems to have or if problems arise, they solve them quickly.

Why does every project take soooo long up there these days? The Empire State building took 13 months to build with 1930s technology. Why does it take 6 more years to complete a 60,000 seat open air stadium? Maybe if the people involved hadn't been dragging out endless feasibility studies for umpteen years, the cost to build could have been far less than what's now projected and Buffalo could be ready to host the January 2022 AFC Championship game in the shiny new facility. I'm in the metro Atlanta area where they've built 2 baseball and 2 football stadiums in the past 28 years or so. That's hardly more time than the period since the Flutie era of the late 90s when the first major renovations to Rich were happening. For all the money spent on renovations and upgrades to the current stadium, I'd guess they could have built one similar to the one being planned. Is it politics or just business people who have some financial incentive to drag this out? Or just stupidity? By the way...how's the signature Peace Bridge coming along?

Not exactly. Tony Chapman was the original drummer (briefly). Charlie and Bill held down the groove while Keith could do riffs, fills, and weaving with Brian, Mick Taylor, or Ronnie. Keith was never a straight-ahead rhythm player. The amazing thing about the Stones live performances is that they're always right on the edge of the whole thing falling apart, but they always manage to keep it together. Have seen them 3 times. Twice in the 70's at Rich, and 2015 at Georgia Tech stadium. Last time I went with the Mick Jagger look-and sound-alike from our Stones tribute band. Since the show was work related, the tickets were tax deductible. 🙂 here's the tribute

872 mi. Northern Atlanta metro are 'burbs. It's about a 13+ hr drive.... unless it summer construction season. In that case, add at least another hour or two. Haven't driven it in at least 10 years.

Eball, if you're still in the Atlanta area, you can come over and watch with me. Which part of this mutli-county sprawl do you call home?

Not to mention convenience. With Directv Sunday ticket. It's on any TV in the house (that's connected) at the same time. It's on our big flat screen in HD that can be viewed by a whole room, not on a personal cell phone or tablet screen. With Sunday ticket, we have time-shifting flexibility, using our DVRs to record and start the showing after it's started (skipping through commercials) and having immediate access to review the recorded game. I don't understand the lengths some people go through in an attempt to get over on Directv. It's a wonderfully convenient service. Take it from someone who didn't live in WNY when the Jim Kelly era began and was starving for any broadcast or info that was available as the team became respectable. There was no home satellite service or sports bars to show your favorite team. I had to wait for a morning recap in USA Today. Later, we could subscribe to one of the weekly Bills newspapers that always showed up 3 weeks after the game it reviewed (if it showed up at all). I've had the Sunday Ticket for over 20 years. Compared to those bygone days, it's a luxury to sit at home in the fall with the fireplace going, roast in the oven, pets curled around our feet, wearing the same ragged sweats that we put on Friday after work, and tune in to Bills' football. Far better than the sports bar experience. I love my Sunday Ticket.

Maybe it was your approach. I haven't paid for Sunday ticket for several years*. On top of that, I'm usually offered additional credits and programming benefits to retain me as a customer. There were a few times when I wasn't being given the deal I was looking for and had to try a different CSR at a different time. * a couple of years ago, had to upgrade receiver and get Genies. That came with a 2 year commitment, which took away some negotiating leverage. Had to pay discounted rate for the ticket that year. Well worth it still. I'm always polite and respectful when dealing with the reps. Frequently getting into (sincere) personal conversations with CSR that ease the business aspect of it. For some reason, I've had better luck dealing with reps who are stateside - where I think most Customer Retention reps are located. This year, I didn't even have to ask. I was one of the longtime loyal customers who is automatically receiving the ticket at no cost. Even though I don't think DirecTV has been as responsive since AT&T came into the picture, they're generally still better than most company's service departments. AT&T is no longer running the show. Maybe you've just been unlucky or could be your demeanor was off-putting to the person on the other end of the line. Enjoy the 2021 season! Now, let's watch some Bills' football !!!