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Hammer must have of Doctor in Business Administration. Pure genius. He is the inventor of the Personal Parking Spot License (inspired by the Personal Seat Licenses). I say, Buffalo has not held on to fan tradition by choice. I'd say there are few corporate dollars in town to start a corporate tradition, so the fan tradition continues because it isn't being squeezed out by corporations. You are right, the NFL wants the Ralph to be corporate--just the idiot owners refuse to see it's just not here. Ooo.. better get that liability insurance. You know some drunk fan is going to pee on, or brush up against it while having hammer lot sex.

In order: 1. More time w/families = less time in the stadium buying NFL merchandise 2. Fewer commercials = lower league profits 3. Good point, but I think 1 and 2 will outweigh 4. Not sure > intensity would happen with professional players. Maybe with fans.

I'm OK with treating Tyrod as breakout, with one proviso: the Bills have an escape clause and can get out at the end of next season if Tyrod isn't very good.

Point well taken. JK was not an obvious Blfo guy (at the time). But he certainly turned out to be. But Kaep seems to be the anthishtesis of a Bflo guy. RG3 also. They seem Hollywood. SJ... you may be right. My memory of SJ signing has faded. I do loves me some SJ performance.

Forgetting the football skills and attitudes... Kaep doesn't seem like a Buffalo NY kind of guy. Fitting into Bflo is a Bills intangible not to be overestimated. TT fits.

The problem is that success in college = wildcat offense. Wildcat offense does not = success in the NFL. The speed and athleticism of NFL lineman (OL and DL) defeats wildcat offense. As many posters have suggested: you need developmental QBs. That would bridge the gap from college/wildcat to NFL. Or, another league. Jim Kelly developed in the USFL. Kurt Warner developed in the arena league and NFL Europe. A place is needed where QB's can grow after college.

Well the username "simpleman" would support the theory that he generalizes people into boxes. As he did in his post. Simpleman: taken on a shallow year to year perspective, you have points. I suggest you expand your view to a multi-year plan. That's where the there is.

The chance of broken contract is 1%. That's how contracts work.

I believe you are correct. The effect of signing bonus's. I want a signing bonus. Free stuff! I'm writing a sternly worded letter to my senator. We should all get a signing bonus.

So, it appears... The path to success = draft well which means you rarely sign FAs because you drafted well --AND-- you get extra draft picks because you only lose players (not gain) in FA. Invest more in scouts!

You don;t even know what a write off is.

Ya. The RW stadium bowl is 1+, some enhancements in fan experience, I could see it going another infinity years. Otherwise.. look at the macro-economics of the USA, and I can see WNY as a victor if they keep their spending under control. The US economy is (all economies are) on a long term down-slide. Don't tie yourself down with a crazy palace downtown stadium deal.

The whole post, a nice vignette (a fancy word for descriptive story). Thanks. I suggest, you, and I, and others, will be priced OUT of a downtown stadium. AND... there are very few to price INTO a downtown stadium. Terry Pegula and the pols know this. Without a positive economic miracle, a downtown stadium is DOA.

Well said.

I'll take my HP reverse Polish notation calculator over the respectable TRS-80. RPN is the way to go. Likes me some Poles girls as well.. Edit: I likes me some Poles ladies... I'm getting older

FL yearns for the days of Marino. We yearn for the the days of Kelly. It's about the same. It's all for show.

This is a VERY good sign for the future. A highly sought after free agent re-signed with the Bills... because.. pause.. he liked the club.. he liked the community.. he expressed loyalty. We, fans, need to keep this going forward.

What puzzles me: Miami was in bad cap position before signing MW, now their cap locker hurt must even be more. They have Zero room to do anything but draft.

You are in the minority. It's hard to take, I know. I suggest the minority of this board doesn't know the 80's. My football appreciation was born of 1980's Van Miller radio broadcasts. I remember them like it was yesterday,

Good stat find. The following Q is: was his lack of pressure due to motivation issues, or declining ability? A holistic view of his career suggests motivation issues. Bruce Smith could take him to the woodshed and transform him from primma donna to HoF athlete.

The confliction in your post is noted. Wow.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000642408/article/mario-williams-close-to-deal-with-dolphins Sucks for Dolphins. But there will 2 games a year Mario will be motivated for. That's not a good thing. Motivated Mario is a force. The other 14 games a year, he is overpaid.

5 mil, 3 years --- sounds on the low-ish end == like a hometown discount. What do you guys think?

Best on the field football: the 1990's. The rules on holding and interference weren't so onerous then. It was the era of a "balanced run and passing attack," which I find more interesting than the pass happy NFL, facilitated by fussy holding/interference rules that often times seem arbitrary and poorly enforced. (OTH, the freakish speed and athleticism of today's players is amazing and fun to watch) Best off the field football fan experience: the last 10 years. Social media (message boards, twitter, et al.) make much more information available, faster info emergence, and access to multiple opinions and interpretations of it. Corollary to today's fan experience: it's 1985 your source of information are the beat reporters of the one newspaper and maybe a few television/radio stations. The analysis and discussion you have with the limited information is with the same two winos you see every night at Al's Gin Mill in Lackawanna.

I doubt it. But wouldn't it be nice? Peyton was a very mental-football player. I don't doubt for a moment he could convert his field-mental-skills to football-ops-mgt-skills. But it won't be in Buffalo. He will get another ring as GM somewhere.