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Let's look at Russ Brandon... because as they say in the Army: There's no horse dead enough that it can't be kicked some more.

I think McBeane et al. will be calm. If draft things don't roll right, the fall back plan will be another year of Tyrod, which while not great, it's not a GM career killer.

I just read another op-ed (Bills road map to trading up) that said the top 4 picks are good enough. I'd be OK if the Bills traded into the top four for Mayfield/Rosen/Darnold. Agree with the tone of your post: don't freak out if the football people do their thing, and that thing may not be a QB.

Smokescreen. Moving from the cesspool (from a family point of view) of New England, to the land of milk & honey is a no brainer. McD is postured to be the next HC of the patsies.

Buffalo is an NFL town. To wit: the #1 TV ratings for the Super Bowl---and the better regular season attendance (those who actually go to the game) than many teams in wake of kneeling-gate. Yet again at the Spring meetings, the league will say that Buffalo needs a new stadium to pull their weight as a partner. I hope Pegs tells them to pack sand: Buffalo does more than it's share pulling in viewers and putting butts in seats, with ticketing and licensing revenue probably exceeding at least 4 other teams.

I don't think "drafting around" someone who later turns out to be stellar is a gaffe of infamy. It's just a garden variety oops. Despite pundits that make it seem like you can evaluate players to the tenth of a degree--the draft is pretty much a crapshoot. Also, I don't think the future success of a traded player is gaffe of infamy. Who cares? They're gone. What is important is the production you got on your end of the trade. Bills most frequent gaffes of infamy, IMO, come in awarding star money contracts to players who turn out to be mediocre at best. That's a gaffe of infamy because the player had a track record and the future is somewhat predictable--you should have known better---and you louse up future year salary caps.

"The house that Waufle Built" .. no one ever said. Now, Waffle House... that's another subject.

This dude is a textbook exhibit of 24 being the new 18. (Adolescence these days starts at age 10 and continues to 24, scientists say)

Also remember, this forecast was Vegas oriented. Bookies make a line that tries to get equal numbers of people betting each side. Bookies then make money on the transaction cost. In different words: Vegas odds are what the bookies think the betting pool will think. In the end, Vegas odds are usually close to the truth, but sometimes they can be skewed by popular and unpopular teams. I hope I made sense there.

Edelman .. small spaces .. I couldn't stop this reply https://deadspin.com/tinder-girls-icebreaker-just-!@#$ed-edelman-no-lie-1683702726

Improve..? The coaching adjustments between the first and second half.

31 teams end the season on a bitter loss.. it's highly probable the Bills will be one of the 31 for a while.

Yes.. as OP suggests, we need the career game from TT. But bbt81 ... you point out hot headed DB's, then propose to counter them with a hot headed passing plan. Sun Tzu would not approve. Nor Russ Brandon lol lol

538 also predicted HRC for President.

Private Santiago had no code.

Yep. Important. I translated to the first round to chart data so people can observe the slope of the curve, decay of value, as the picks progress. Chart tells that "there are first round picks and then there are real first round picks." The chart also lends semi-credence to those who complain that the Bills can't even lose the right way, always ending up 8-8 with a pick in the teens. I say semi-credence, because I believe tanking introduces a locker room culture cancer worse than the benefit (think of a hockey team we know). Anyway, I'm opposed to the Bills trade-packaging any first rounders to move up. It's nothing but car salesman's screw job. If they can't get a good QB with the picks they hold, then they should go free agent and pay the big money---use their first rounders for positions of need, which there are many. If the Bills trade away picks and end up with the next Ryan Lief, they loose the fan base.

Attack Pegs? Were it not for Pegs, major league sports would be absent from WNY. You'd be arguing over the starting QB for UB. Were it not for Pegs, downtown would have zero value and suck money out of our pockets (property values be a many tentacled beast) You'd be arguing who pays demolition costs for blighted blocks of canalside. How about: attack Overdorf who gave overpaid contracts like candy on Halloween. Sure Dareus is good; but he wasn't worth the "contract that ate the Bills" hence he was cut How about blaming Whaley, Rex Ryan and brother... they sacrificed the Bills future hard and reckless, drove the Bills like a cheap rental car. Thrills now, maintenance for the next sucker. Blame Pegs if you want. But it's not like cheap Ralph. Blame Pegs and you'll be lonely crying those tears.

Poor Dolphin game attendance demonstrates that University of Miami football is the #1 interest in Miami. University of Miami had a sellout home game yesterday. The Hurricanes beat Virginia, 44 to 28 at Hard Rock Stadium. It was a raucous crowd. NFL has some serious image problems to repair.

Second half 5-3, overall 10-6 I see going undefeated at home, and winning one of the road games. Update 19 Nov: I was wrong

August 1996. I was just returned from overseas assignment with my 486 COMPAQ desktop and a blistering fast 9600 baud dial up modem. I was in a scary Comfort Inn (or Econolodge) at Rt 301 and Rt 50 in Maryland.

I'd like to see Coach be a practical WNY'r. (Canada too). Layers. A Goretex shell with Buffalo Bills marketing PLUS a separate underliner of whatever warm material. That's TWO, two marketable items in one. I'd buy.

Patton read Rommel's book, and exclaimed after a victory in the desert to the effect "I read your book, you magnificent bastard" ..to Rommel. So Rommel is the Mag Bastard, Beane is GEN Patton. Yes? In any event, an awesome trade. Hadn't seen anything like it since the 3-way trade which brought Cornelius Bennett to Bflo.

Sammy is a diva who aspired to the NY-DC-LA-DALLAS markets. There is no amount of money that would have kept him in Bflo. I'm glad we got something for someone we were going to lose anyway.

...I ready your book.. We have the GEN Patton of GMs.