Heavy Kevi

Haha... We got nothing No offense No defense No special teams And we can't even tank worth a shite To slightly modify Dennis Green's rant "They are who we thought they were"... A 6-8 win team and a draft pick around 10th

We are still (right now) 5-3, anybody want to get in one more "relax" before the season ends?

I'm torn. Clearly he didn't want to be here, but this could essentially end up being alot like the Jason Peters trade.

Scary stuff. Last week put our backs against the wall. Let's see how they respond, it will tell us alot.

Ah, yes. Touche sir. My point remains about it losing popularity, I was just trying to back it up with numbers. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9630782 This article points to some of the reasons. Also makes my point about nostalgia given that 50% of baseball fans are over 50.

Well since CTE is directly linked to brain trauma, and you take less head trauma in MMA, I would argue you don't need a long term study to apply already known outcomes. There are many unknowns about CTE, but the cause is not one of those things. It is fair to say MMA is safer, at least from a CTE perspective. My $.02 I get your point, but it is a fact it is much less popular than it used to be. Also 162 games a season, 72 mil is less than 15,000 per game. Hockey draws 17,000 per game, and the NFL per game numbers are over 68,000

Most of the scary things about MMA are fallacies. They are due to politicians that know nothing and propoganda, some of the UFC's own fault. They used to market it as "no holds barred' even thojgh it was never the case. It was much closer then, but now it is regulated and one of the safest contact sports you can partake in. Like 716 said, MMA wounds are usually superficial, so they look dramatic because of all the blood and broken bones, but they aren't taking anywhere near the head trauma of a boxer. Broken bones and cuts heal fully and obviously you would rather break a finger or leg than get brain damage. Lol. Baseball had it's moment, and it was a long time ago. Being one of the most boring sports ever, it would be difficult to get a major increase in fans. I believe it is mostly nostalgia that holds together the MLB these days.

MMA is much, much safer than Boxing. A knockdown in Boxing, where the fighter will continue to take hits, is usually a kO in MMA. Fighters in MMA take alot less famage, can have longer careers, amd a much rexuced CTE danger.

Yeah I agree with this. That's why I said long and slow. I don't expect it to ever completely go away, but to take a major hit. Perception is big, and will lead parents to disallow kids from playing. Obviously the choice to be poor vs hurt yourself + money is something that won't change, but after they retire the tune changes. Once the cash is in the bank and the house and car are paid for, that's when they start to talk about it, and I could see it influencing lots of prospective players and/or their parents. If there is another option (college or tech/office jobs that pay well), I believe more people will start to take them. The one big thing the NFL has for it's longevity is the popularity of fantasy football. Will give it a "safety net", or some type of popularity floor. This is also a fair point. Kids these days don't even watch tv. If it's not on a smartphone and part of social media, they aren't interested. Even if they follow on their phones, internet, etc it will make the rating drop bigtime, leading to loss of revenue to the NFL (already happening). Also, I don't know many young folks who have a 3.5 hour attention span regardless of how it's delivered.

I think Bob Costas is right. CTE not only hurts the players, and will scare off tons of new talent, but also forces unpopular rule changes. Prospective players don't want to play as much, and viewers don't want to watch as much, as well as costing the NFL hundreds of millions on it. Gone the way of boxing. It will be a long, slow death by a thousand cuts.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taxes-nfl/nfl-opposes-u-s-republican-tax-plan-on-stadium-funding-idUSKBN1D72PP https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/nfl-kneelers-lose-big-tax-subsidy-in-gop-tax-plan http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/19622965/senators-introduce-bill-prohibit-teams-using-municipal-bonds-fund-stadiums I provided a few links to tell each side of the story. Link 1 from NFL's perspective, link 2 from conservative perspective, and link 3 from July where a Dem and a GOPer supported killing the subsidy. Basically blocks teams from using municipal bonds amd could be a death knell to the public funding of new stadiums. About freakin time from my perspective.

Ah, a little cranberry juice will clear that right up. This really happened? Hilarious

Quoting Miko Grimes is like quoting Alex Jones Only with somehow less credibility.

He's so tall he has to be one of the best WR's. Plus, our defense will be unstoppable with Michael Jasper in at DT.

That's great, but obviously there IS a huge bandwagon for your cheaters. The folks that live in Boston are diehards of all the sports, but it's the tens of millions of fair weather bandwagoners everywhere else in the country that gets me. If you are born and raised in western NY, or anywhere else really, and are a Pats* fan, you are a piece of rotten dog ****. I don't like you folks from Boston, but I don't fault you for being a fan. But don't you have anything better to do than troll Bills message boards?

Fake news. Bills have made no statement, contrary to the thread title. Just another clickbait headline.

You make some great points. I was a big NASCAR fan for quite awhile, but now I only watch on night races, Bills byes, or when it's the only sport in season. My favorite drivers switched to Ford and now I just can't root for anyone. I feel like I'm cheating on the drivers rooting for someone else, and I simply cannot root for someone in a blue oval. The Winston cup, Sprint cup, Monster cup, Nationwide series, xfinity, etc... It's rediculous with no continuity. Rule changes like crazy, and as you pointed out FS2 is no mainstream channel. I do reject Jauronimo's assessment of being percieved "asinine" or "not a sport", but understand why people who don't know think that. The real intersting things and strategy in racing do not translate well to the viewer. They are about science, drafting, aerodynamics, tire/gas/pit strategy, psi, tracker bars, etc. And none of those things are particularly demonstrable, so it takes a racing educated fan to see the intracacies. This does not help NASCAR at all. Add to that there are too many ovals, they need some more road courses. NFL is hosting a clinic on how to run a massive national pastime into the ground. Teams moving, pathetic referees, rule changes, etc are killing them. There is good news for the NFL though, and it lies in precedent from the MLB. MLB managed to be the biggest fall of an American pastime, and has fallen in popularity more than any other major sport ever has. The good news is that the 17% drop in popularity of MLB over the years is still more viewers than NHL, NBA, and NASCAR have combined. The NFL will.continue to fall for awhile, but when it hits a plateau, it will still be a high one. The NFL isn't going anywhere, but the NFL as we know it is already gone.

It's not even Thanksgiving yet! How many !@#$ing times can a person hear jingle bells, deck the halls, etc before going crazy? I think the walmart in my town will find out.

I think it's pretty simple: if we win the next 2, we can get in. We need to have 7 wins going into the final 5. Would be nice to sweep MIA and NE but I just don't see it. We can split with them though, and I think we need 10 wins or 9 wins and beat LAC.

Ughhhh. I hope you are wrong. But history is on your side.

Yeah I didn't mean all the picks, but I would imagine it takes a 1st-2nd-3rd, or 2 1st's. Maybe Tyrod and a 1st and 3rd. Given his lack of availability though, I don't see Beane rolling the dice on that one. Stakes are too high, but I guess it depends on how McD and Beane see Tyrod.

They can have them all. Franchise QBs almost never change teams (when young), and it would be a bigtime trade package. Would probably include Tyrod actually. That said, I would be shocked to the core if he was a Bill. I think there's a better chance that he changes his name to "Bill".

Call me crazy, but I think we break that on Sunday. Just a feeling. After a putrid outing last thursday, and 10 days of festering anger, the Bills should rebound bigtime. If they are for real, at least. They are a much different team at home, and I think they will make a concerted effort to get KB to make an impact, for morale purposes if nothing else. If our past games vs Brees are any indication, the key is getting in Brees' throwing lanes. Force him to throw without seeing the whole field, or go for batted balls and tips. If we manage to bat and tip balls, our opportunistic ball hawking secondary could capitalize. To me, it's really our only legitimate hope defensively.

As much as Tyrod frustrates me sometimes, I will admit I often think we should take the "Alex Smith" approach with him and let him start for years hoping he puts it all together at some point. And sometimes the anemic 3 and outs make me want to smash something. I guess I'm a bit bipolar about Tyrod.

Hmmm.. A hamburger sounds good too. Yup, definitely hungry. Not sure if I would be able to draw any better though...