thewookie1

McCoy and a 5th for a 3rd from TB?

Here's a theory...... What if there was a trade in place but somehow Antonio Brown nixed it thus causing this whole mess.

I would retrofit the present stadium in OP. Mainly for two reasons, cost and infrastructure. It wouldn't be as expensive to renovate Rich Stadium as it would be to build a new stadium. Right off the bat just the land acquisition and utilities being set up costs a lot and a downtown stadium would require a lot of space Even more so would be the infrastructure required to make it work. Sabres games are bad enough with 30+ min wait times, now multiply that by 3 or 4 and just imagine the gridlock. The state would need to pour funds into Buffalo just to build infrastructure with the stadium itself being a separate funding enigma. Parking would be ridiculously expensive. And Buffalo's public transit is rather tiny. An inner-city stadium would likely kill tailgating which is effectively one of the primary draws for Bills fans year in and year out and or reduce it to a degree that would make it nothing special. Buffalo Bills fans are an older average crowd (season ticket wise) and still have some struggles with paperless ticketing; how will that demographic deal with price hikes and travel time increases? There isn't enough of a young rich crowd to pick up the slack thus we'd likely see the Bills crowds shrink by a great number as tailgaters stay home to party and some of the older crowd just stay home lamenting of days gone by.

We still need him, plus I just really want to see Whaley beg for forgiveness. He's 34, but he hasn't played since he was 20; and he's still very versatile in his uses. Knowing our luck though he'll sign with the Pats and help them beat us.....

Id be tempted to sign Fred to a short term contract for Week 1, or if he doesn't get picked up put him on the practice squad. I'm a tad worried about McCoy being unable to play and having to start a rookie RB with a 1st time starter QB. Doesn't spell success. Granted Whaley may have burned that bridge, although Fred would play for the fans I'd think.