Heavy Kevi

Here we go again, Icebowl... You show up at a cancer ward and complain about a hangnail. Yeah, I'm sure it sucks losing Rodgers for the year, but don't pretend to understand or share our "heartbreak". You are a franchise of winning rings with elite long-tenured HOF QB's. We are a franchise of snakebites, unlucky breaks, and infamous failures. You are comparing apples to meercats, and it's borderline disrespectful.

Well, that pretty much sums it up. I could not vote, since there is not an option for "all of the above". In my opinion the NFL has gotten "a little big for their britches", figuring they can do whatever they want and people will just blindly follow. You can't blame them for this, it has worked up to this point, but starting just last year, the jig is up. People are getting turned off, and are turning it off. The NFL is hemorraging fans and popularity, and it's hard to point to just one thing.

Yeah, a percentage of their salary makes the most sense.

Eh. That's like fining me $15. Lynch clearly doesn't care. He never has. He is a dynamic player, but I was happy to see him go. Just another entitled rich person, who thinks he's above the rules. And maybe he is.

The Era of Entitlement is upon us. I'm not a fan of the writers at BN, so I won't pay for it, but obviously they have to keep the lights on somehow. I have had questions about the viability of brick and mortar newspaper company in this social media driven world, but it's hard to argue with the facts. If it would take a site 1000 clicks to get to a few dollars, it makes massive sense to move to a subscription model. Even if they lose a ton of readers, the remaining paying customers will generate more income. For what it's worth, I would pay a subscription to TBD.... SDS I wonder if TBN would give you a price-break per user if you included BN access on TBD, if TBD was a pay site, or if there was a "premium" TBD option with access to more features and paywall content. Like if you charged the same $3 they do, but they gave it to you on a group-rate basis of, say $1 per user. Bladeforums.com does something similar, you can pay to be a "gold member" wherein you get better access to knife makers and suppliers, as well as being able to sell (member-to-member marketplace for tickets/memorabilia?). Just a thought. Seems like a captive audience that is already deemed itself their target market. Regardless, message boards (this one for Bills) are the best source of info and analysis. Tons of dumb-dumbs, but a fair share of coherent, productive, and sometimes expert members of the community.

I did, and he does. You say he "drove his shoulder... with all his body force". That is the statement of untruth here, perhaps you should rewatch. The "force" was nothing that resembles his full "body force". Come on now, don't just stick to your guns for the sake of sticking to them. When confronted with real info, the best course of action is to concede.

I don't believe he intended (nor did he) "drive rodgers to the ground". He clearly let up, and yes he landed on rodgers, but that is definitely a clean play. No question.

Parity right now is a illusion. Some great teams are laying early season eggs, but will come around later in the year. And yes, of course the league wants the pats in the sb... the zebras are Kraft's collective personal "gimp". I would venture a guess that the teams we thought would win, will win their divisions. Does anybody actually believe the steelers, pats, and chiefs won't win their division? I doubt it. I could not care less about the nfc. That only matters if we were to make the super bowl.

Realistically a 2nd is probably top of the market. But I doubt we get that. If we do move him it will probably be for a 3 or 4 depending on the team (3 if they are a good team, 4 if not) I don't believe he will be traded though. Real tough to get a draft pick in return this early in the season, most teams want a player that can help them.

Well since twitter and facebook are the sewer of society, I would say they are not fair representations of the general sentiment. People hate the Packers because they win, plus they hit the ever-elusive "double franchise qb" whereas they have 2 elite qbs back to back in Favre and Rodgers. I always root for all the big teams to lose (pats, cowboys, packers, steelers) mostly because a HUGE portion of those fanbases are fair weather bandwagoners that don't know jack. Packers are the least objectionable though as they play far away, aren't in the conference, don't cheat, and never beat us in a super bowl. And though few years back, I have never seen more opposing fans in our stadium than GB fans that day. Was fun talking **** to all of them at the end, too....

We have a winner. Trying to be a martyr, and get his name out there. If not for kneeling, he would fade away into obscurity, and there wouldn't be hollywood elites, rappers, media, and leftys using him as their poster boy. I'm sure he loves that. If he actually wanted to play, he would not have walked away from his contract, or allowed his g/f to spear the Ravens deal. If he really really wanted to play, he would probably give up the schtick.

Meh. I would prefer the Bills brought themselves up to the level of a playoff team, rather than the rest of the league being so bad that we have a chance. This season is massively boring. Football is dying. Right in front of our eyes. First boxing, then baseball, now football. Only one sport can be king at a time, and the course of over regulation, poor product, and off field/sideline issues are decimating the ratings.

Yeah, besides him opting out on his own accord, if he were good he would have a job. Owners/coaches are fine with the BS if the player is any good at all. If anyone needs confirmation of this, see Joe Mixon, Ray Lewis, Tom Brady (multiple cheater evidence destroyer), Mike Vick, Brandon Marshall, etc, etc.... He is putting on a clinic on how not to get a job. And he's brilliant at it.

I guess I get it why they will keep Tyrod in... But I am generally in the camp of when you know a player is not the answer, there is no point in dragging it out. I think you give TT the chance to make the playoffs, but if/when we are eliminated, 5 should be done for the year. It just makes so much sense to see what you have in Peterman, and get him some live action. After all, next year he will be competing with a 2018 draft pick. Really wish the NFL had a farm system so we could see Peterman play in "the minors".

If they got rid of sammy for locker room/character/availability reasons, Bryant will NOT be a Bill.

And the hockey hasn't been much better. Forget the golden age, these are the dark ages.

There are news sites that aren't trash?

And his scouting report reads "Hands catcher outside the hashes and snatches it away from his frame. Swallows ball into his frame to protect it when working over the middle"

Awesome. Bill freakin' Murray Not much of what Dylan has done can be classified as singing imo. Saw him at CMAC about 10 years ago (just to have seen him), and wow... so, so bad. If you want to hear what he's like when he actually sings, it's surprisingly good. Check out Dylan singing "Girl from the North Country" with Johnny Cash https://youtu.be/dyN-ya3rCPwnevermind the video is a scene from some chick flick.

Yup, he'll sign for $50 and a bag of cool ranch doritos, hoping to get a ring.

Nonsense? I seem to remember him converting 3rd downs with scrambles. We may have had "help from his passing", but we beat denver and atl because of the defense.

Perhaps they don't believe any help would actually net results, or that the team just isn't good enough to make the tourney? Idk, but I feel like any team who believes they can make it would make a move when our entire receiving corpse is gone/hurt/pathetic. Especially over the bye week. Def not any type of tank though, imo.

Tyrod plays a game that bolsters his passer rating. Holding the ball and taking sacks isn't factored in. 3 and outs are not factored in. Yes, he makes some great throws, but an equal amount of true head-scratchers. The games when he is most effective, it is his RB skills that make the difference. I am not trying to beat down tyrod, he has done fine for what he is, but lets not pretend he is actually in the top 10 of QBs. I still think we can win with him, but he will never carry the team, do it on his own, or scare teams with his pocket passing. If you keep him in the pocket, he is very very average.

I disagree with this wholeheartedly. Despite my opinion of cousins, he is a legitimate starter, and I wouldn't even mind if Buffalo made him the highest payed player. Fact is, ANY qb worth a half a pile of dog **** would become the highest payed player in FA, and many teams would be wooing him.

Yay, another thread telling me why how I think is wrong. Nevermind that we can't score points, and have no wideouts. Nevermind that even the run game isn't working. Nevermind that we couldn't beat a 1-3 team with a +3 turnover margin. We got 3 wins, it's all gravy. Obviously McD is steering us in the right direction, but I don't need to calm down, this ship has some real choppy waters ahead before the smooth sailing. Playoffs with a team that can't score just isn't happening, not this year anyhow. I did not expect to be good coming into the season, but the pats losing got everyone's hopes up. If we hadn't lost Matthews, Clay, Gaines, etc I would agree, it's just a loss, but it's more than that. We need skill players to survive. If Shady goes down we have literally nothing, and he is now the entire focal point of opposing defenses so won't be as effective (in an already down year for him). If we don't materialize a WR or pass catching target of quantifiable difference, this season is a wash.