mjd1001

It matters a bit but on the margins. Players will play for a good organization, a coach they like, and for winning more than they will for the tax rate they play. so yes, it matters but not a lot. Since 2000, look at the most successful teams in the NFL. In terms of success/wins (where the good players would want to play) the best teams are: New England, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Indy, Baltimore, and Philly. Not exactly teams located in areas with low taxes and great weather. Florida, Tenesee, and Texas have no state taxes and (arguably) better weather, where do the teams form their rank in success since 2000?: Houston 29th, Tampa 24th, Miami 18th, Tenesee 13th, Dallas 11th. Run a good organization, win games, get a good QB. Those thing matter a LOT more to the success of your team compared to local tax rates and weather conditions. The facts prove it.

I agree with the original post. I personally am spending a lot more time on the Sabres board than here. Is it perfect there? No, but with the team having lower expectations, there is a lot less anger and angst than here. I think the Bills, the fans, the forum suffer from the curse of high expectations the team now has.

Its hard to argue that the defense hasn't been statistically good, it has. It also, for the most part, has been effective over the past few years. The issue I have is that I simply don't like the style. The 'bend but don't break' isn't much fun for me. I'd rather give up more yards and be lower in the rankings but have a D-unit that makes more big plays and gets more turnovers.

its is so tough right now to make that prediction without seeing the offseason moves. If you give me the Bills vs the field. I'll take the field (other three teams). I still think the Bills are favored, but Miami and the Jets (with a new QB) will be really tough.

Top seed giving you the bye-week is multiple times more imporant than simply being at home. A week off, one less game to win (or lose) means so much more than the location of the game. Good thing is, the #1 seed gets both.

Here is the thing for me. If Josh Allen does take the correct checkdowns, if he does read the entire D before going deep and if a 15 yard patter is open throw it there, if he doesn't take too many chances, he just might have the best stats in the NFL for a QB and be viewed as the best QB. But to me it is more entertaining the way he is playing, and honestly his numbers would be THAT much better if he changed. What he really needs is a tall, super fast WR. Soemone who he can just chuck the ball to downfield on a simple fly patter whenver he wants. Randy Moss type, DK Metcalf. Find someone who may not be a great overall WR who can't run every pattern, but has a top 20 40-yard time and is at least 6'3" tall and give that to Allen for his next birthday toy.

Stuff like this might be the biggest reason why my viewership of sports has fallen drastically in the past couple of decades. Fans, even media members taking shots at other fans and other cities/areas. Some people need that stuff. Some people thrive on name calling and hating on others and it drives them. And don't kid yourself thinking it doesn't happen here, we have many local Bills fans that are the same way, including on this board. Again, some people think it is entertaining. Others actually thrive on the hating. Not for me.

Nothing like having an opinion, and feeling the need to make your point by writing a whole lot of fiction stating how so many people are against you and what you think.

I don't like all the commercials, but I'm 'kinda' ok with how the NFL runs business. If you have people willing to pay for your product, charge them what they are willing to pay. If they will still watch your product while you can take in more money from commercials, then do that. One one hand it is greed, but on the other hand, why would you turn away money/commercials/merchandise sales a a higher price if your fanbase is willing? With that said, It is PERSONALLY for ME a good part of the reson I watch less and less sports. NFL? I watch less than I used to. Baseball and the NBA? I watched a LOT of both growing up and I watch basically zero now (used to watch 100+ baseball games per year, now I haven't watched a full game, start-to-end, in probably 6 or 7 years. Nascar? I used to watch most races but now I watch maybe 5-7 per year. The NHL I somehow watch and follow MORE than I used to, even with the Sabres being so bad for so long, and I don't quite know why.... So it may be true that the ticket prices, number of commercials, monetization of everything is driving some people away from the game. It sort of is with me. But not totally. HOWEVER, it seems for every 'dollar' the lose by me following/watching less, they are gaining a 'dollar' or '2 or 3 or more' with new fans. So, I can't fault them for that. In the end it is entertainment. We can choose to walk away when it becomes 'too much' about the money in our eyes, but at the same time others will not have that opinion. I don't fault anyone for falling on either side of the argument.

I like Murphy. Don't think he's great but I like him. But, same for Brown. Like him. He's not great, but I think he's at least above average. I honestly don't have a preference between them.

Kinda agree, but I can see it both ways. Is Brady right now still decent? Yes. But 2 questions....add another year of wear to the tires, and how much will his play dropoff from this year to next year? Then compare that to what they got with Tua this year. Unless there is some communication with the Team and Tua...where Tua thinks he may be done with football this makes little sense for the Dolphins, and it is a little unfair to Tua.

By having more depth than a lot of teams that had players on that list. By having players that COULD have made the list but missed out by a very small amount likely (Allen, Diggs). By the players who made that list being rated 10 on a scale of 1-10 and the Bills simply having no '10s' but a lot of 7s, 8,s and 9s.

Turn this into a partial buy week. Get up on them early, put them away in the first half. Let the clock run down most of the way, reduce total plays. Get the backups in there as soon as you can.

Take away a draft pick also. a 2nd next year sound about right to me.

Not going to happen. Very few fanbases, very few people are humbled anymore. As a defense mechanism, they will say or do anything other than admit being wrong or being humble. Some of what I expect Miami fans to say: -He still has some better stats than Allen... -We'll be laughing when Buffalo loses to KC again -Our team is better in every other way. Plus we live in Miami, Brady/Rodgers/Anybody we want will come here and then we'll beat you both times next year -We live in Miami (posts pictures of beach with palm trees), you live in Buffalo (posts pictures of snow) so we win (of course it is a defense mechanism for their ego, many of us USED to live in Florida and moved away because we hate the 7 months of oppressive heat) -its the Refs fault (just because EVERY fanbase has people who say that the whole time) -Our HC is young, he needs to learn, but when he does he'll be great. -Get Tua out of here, If it wasn't for him we'd be undefeated with the rest of this team! They might, MIGHT admit they aren't as good as they want to each other, or on their own forum (where of course no other fanbase will ever read) but if you confront them as a 'non dolphins fan', you'll get some variation of the above.

I think with Tua, there is a middle ground between Dolphin fans saying he was MVP caliber earlier in the year and them wanting to burn his jersey now. How about this, Tua is better than last year. Tua is an overall slightly above average QB. But he's not very good let alone great. The weapons they brought in for him are helping him look better overall. I don't think its any more complicated than that.

I'd say the other poster is having the hard time, if you take things back to the beginning of our back-and-forth, he was the first one to respond to me argumentatively.

Exactly the point of my post. People like you cannot fathom the fact that others don't like what you like. Your fragile ego somehow needs to 'tease' others, as you say, with pictures of what you like thining others do the same. You don't get that others don't like what you do. Can't see outside of your own narrow point of view. Thanks for proving the point...I guess

I really, really try not to engage on social media, but people in general from Florida are really bad. Complaning about the weather here, posting pictures of a sunny beach in Florida...etc. They just don't get that some of us actually LIKE a good portion of the winter. I lived in Florida for the better part of a decade. Moved back to the Northeast after (since then I have been living either near Buffalo or Boston). I'll give them that by the end of February/early March I am usually done with the cold temperatures, but in all honesty for us, we love the climate in the Buffalo area for 10.5-11 months of the year. In Florida I hated almost every day from May through the middle of October. Its like the people in Florida think they actually have something better and are 'getting over' on us up north and they don't get that to most of us, we have the better end of the deal.

Who would be voted MVP if the voting was based on the season so far? Might be Tua. That isn't right though. Who IS the actual MVP? Mahomes.

It has nothing to do with the technology, it has to do with the COST to implement that technology. After that first sentence in your reply, the rest of you post is not worth responding to, let a long even reading.

As others have said, in Munich, they actually get very little snowfall. It is rare for more than a couple inches to fall at a time. The type of roof/canopy that can be put on a Stadium in Munich is totally different than what would be required to support snow and ice in Orchard Park.

As others have said, it doesn't work well. The OL is terrible at run blocking. It was bad run blocking 2 years ago, it was bad last year, its bad this year. Sure, they may have a game or two where they are decent, but this offense moves the ball best when Allen throws, not when giving the ball to the RB more than half the plays.

Oh, and by the way, he has been 'figured out' by putting a LOT of pressure on him and giving him less chances to score? Great thing no one else was smart enough to figure that out, apparently that blueprint was never tried before. Geez. Having the Jets ACCOMPLISH that doesn't mean they are the first team to 'figure out the blueprint'.

Keeping the ball out of someone's hands is the most overrated expression ot there. What it does is limit to the total possessons that team has, doesn't make them any worse...but it also limits YOUR possessions by 'shortening' the game. When you play a star/superstar offense, 'keeping the ball' out of their hands should not be your strategy....instead doing what you do the best to score should be. Giving the bills less possesions isn't doing much for you if you don't score yourself. The bills lost not becuase you kept Josh on the sidelines for a few minutes more....the bills lost because when they did have the ball they didn't execute.