mjd1001

There are a wide variety of interests and tastes on shows.... Moonknight was OK, to me maybe a bit below average. She-Hulk was certainly not award winning writing, but I enjoyed it...it was 'entertaining'. Falcon and Winter soldier isn't a favorite of many people, and got middling reviews, but I thought it was one of the best Disney,Marvel series I have ever seen. WandaVision? I watched one episode, half of the 2nd and it felt so 'cheezy' to me I almost felt embarrassed to watch it. Awful in my opinion. Loki was good. Not great, but good. We've given up on the movies...I'm not sure if it was one of the Thor movies or a series of 2 or 3 that were actually bad in our opinions, we are pretty much done with any marvel movie up to this point.

Fun to read this thread. I can view things from 2 different points of view. The argument/point that the Baby boomers have led us down this path in a lot of ways I can relate to....and the boomers can't/wont relate to some of the challenges young people go through I can see. ON the OTHER HAND.... I'm pretty sure my daughter or no one she knows reads this forum so I can post this. My wife and I like many others grew up in our 20's working 2 and sometimes 3 jobs. When in college you work a full time job. Over the summer or right after college you work 2 or 3 jobs, 70-90 hours a week (at times) if you want to save up money to buy a home. I know not everyone did that but many did. A few years ago our daughter was in her very early 20's. My wife and I were watching a show on tv about 9 or 10pm and it was a comedy and we were laughing at it. Our daugher STORMED downstairs, angry look on her face, looked at us and said "Can you two BE QUIET? I need to get sleep because my job is MAKING ME WORK over 40 hours this week!" I think she worked something like 45 hours that week.

If someone is driving like a total idiot, won't let them in. In every other case it depends.... Big truck or SUV? Nope, not letting them in. Car? probably letting them in. Its not that I'm someone who hates Trucks and Suv's.....just if I'm going to let someone cut in front of me, its not going to be someone driving a 6 foot tall wall that blocks my visibility of what is going on 2-3 or more cars in front of me. A car I can see above, around, or through much better than a huge truck/suv.

Neither movie is one I want to see badly. If I had to pick one I'd go with Oppenheimer, but its likely we won't see it in the theater...I usually draw the line at 2 1/4 hours for a movie lenght to watch in the theater. 3 hours for a movie, add 20 more for previews...just too long for me to sit in a seat in a theater. Wife wants to see Barbie so I'll probably give in and go see that with her. Oppenheimer will be a must-watch, just at home in a few months.

I feel the exact opposite way. As a kid when they went to the red helmets, I thought they were awful, never liked them, and when they went back to the whites I thought it was the best uniform thing they could do and wondered why it took so long.

Diggs and his cryptic tweets a lot of people try to figure out what he is saying...not a big issue. Diggs leaving Minnesota the way he did....not a big issue. Diggs yelling on the sidelines...not a big issue. Diggs not being at day one of mini-camp, not a big issue. If any other players did any one of those things, it would be noted but not a big issue. THE BIG ISSUE is that he did/does all 4 of them.

Do you not read or you just dumb? I said he's probably top five, but I guess your man-worship of Allen is so great that you're just going to take offense to the first part of what I said and not read when I said something was even more probable than that. Read what I said. I said he's likely a top 5 quarterback in this league. Don't just cherry pick something and then make a comment back to me because your fragile ego must need to do that. Telling someone to put a dunce cap on is just a juvenile. You deserve this response

I'm not sure I'd say its much of a team friendly deal. Allen is consenus top 10 QB. Probably a top 5 guy in the league, but he sure isn't the undisputed #1 in the league. He's getting paid only about 4% less than the consensus top guy in the league, and to my knowledge every other deal ahead of him (per season) other than Mahomes was signed after his...which is what happens in the NFL, the latest contract is usually higher. So its not really a team friendly deal. Its a fair deal, but when you are getting paid almost as much as the top guy in the league its not like he took $8 million or more less per year than he could have gotten.

I give the nod to Peyton Manning as a better QB than Brady. I can't take away the cheating from Brady (without the cheating, would any of those 1 score superbowls have gone the other way, or would they have not even made some/most of them?) Not to mention I have heard and read quite a few players talk about playing them at the peak fo their careers, and say something like "when you played the Patriots, you were afraid of the entire team, when you played the Colts, you were afraid of Manning" or "You know Brady was good, but he didn't keep a Defensive player up at night like Manning did". But mostly, I give Manning the nod because of the cheating by the Pats. As far as Marino, as much as I HATED him as a player, I wonder what kind of numbers he would have put up had he played 20 years later. I don't consider him the 'greatest ever', but I cannot really tell someone they are totally wrong if they thought he was.

I have no attachment to Oliver other than how good he is on the field. If you can get something of value for him, go ahead and trade him. If not don't. Right now, I'd say don't trade him, view him as a free agent you signed on a 1 year deal to try to be as good as you can this year.

how is his footing? Against the Bengals, the entire team, but especially the offensive line looked like they were trying to get footing on ice while they got pushed around.

Edmunds was a big part of a D-unit that was highly rated in regular seaons, but ultimatly pretty bad in the losses you had in the offseason. His fault? No, but against top teams your 'highly rannked" D-unit isn't much better than an average D-unit. Would have loved to keep him, but that money is probably better spent on the OL protecting Josh and making the offense even better.

I would rather have Edmunds than not have him. BUT I'd rather spend $18 million per year on the offensive line than on Edmunds.

I'm fine with it if they lose both. I'd prefer they find a way to keep Edmunds, but if the production they get is less than what they pay, let him go just find a replacement. Poyer I have no problem with at all. I'm not saying a rookie or free agent will be BETTER than him, but even at a supposed 'cerebral' position like Safety, the NFL has changed just in the past few years where you might be better off with more youth and speed/athleticism on your back end than someone who is a 'decent' athlete but who's strength is above the shoulders.

What does he mean when he brings up 'business' We don't know. Often times when players hold out, when players put pressure on a team to get a different contract, when players leave the team they were with for another team, their respons is something like "its just business' or "its a business decision." Again, is that what Diggs is doing here or what is the reason behind his tweets? We don't know yet. But there is another side to that story. From a fan's point of view and from a teams point of view, 'just business' is not overplaying a player in a salary cap league. It's moving on from a player/contract when, or slightly before, the ratio of what you are getting is less than what you are paying out. As a fan only, liking a 'team' or a 'jersey' or the 'name of the front of the jersey vs the name on the back of a jersey' can also be a 'business decision' that we invest, not in dollars but in our time and in choosing how we interact with the team versus how we interact with the player (cheering for them on the field or discussing them off the field). If a fan wants to support Diggs and wants him on the Bills long term and buys his jersey, fine, that is part of being a fan. But the other side of it can be said that he knows putting stuff out there like that will get a reaction from the fanbase, and for those who say 'who cares' or "16 pages of this" and think people shouldnn't be talking about it...well, talking about stuff like this is what message boards are for.

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.