BillsFan4

Appreciate the response! and I know you’re not a conspiracy nut 😂 I enjoy reading your posts. As to the bolded, I agree, and I understand what you’re saying. It makes sense to view it that way with their previous history of being so calculated, and then with how they leaned into it in the embedded episode. I guess I still just don’t see the strategy in them generating headlines for clicks while also putting a bullseye on Beane’s back. That just doesn’t seem like something Beane or the Bills would do. I know it’s an entertainment business but the Bills have never been ones to create drama for headlines under this regime. My feeling is that he just lost his temper. I don’t really think it was a good look for him, but I also don’t think it’s a big deal either. Yes, very much. It’s been cool to see him continue to evolve as a head coach.

Not gonna lie, I enjoyed seeing McDavid roast Eichel in OT 😂

Curious why you think the Bills would plan a stunt like that? What would you say their reason for it was and what do you think they had to gain from it? (genuinely asking, not trying to be a jerk). Beane is definitely not the type to do it just for headlines. If he did it on purpose I feel like there would have to be some strategic reason for it and I can’t think of one that makes sense to me. Personally, I feel like it just created drama with no real benefit to the Bills. I also feel like it puts a target on Beane’s back if the wide receiver room (or Allen) struggle this season. The clip of him going on a rant about WR’s will be played on an endless loop if that happens.

He was actually banned, along with Stan Bowman and Al MacIsaac. https://www.nhl.com/news/joel-quenneville-reinstated-by-nhl-can-resume-coaching All three were reinstated by the NHL in the summer of 2024. Bowman was hired pretty quickly by the oilers (24 days after he was reinstated) and now obviously Quenneville was just hired by Anaheim. But he’s been out of hockey for the last 4 years.

Lance Lysowski is reporting that Jason Karmanos is not likely to be back next season. https://buffalonews.com/sports/professional/nhl/sabres/article_e462baa5-8494-4a09-9688-6c2d370433f2.html

I feel like I don’t really hate any NHL teams anymore because it’s been so many years since the Sabres had any meaningful rivals. The hate has kind of faded to indifference. Years ago I would’ve hated the idea of Toronto winning a Cup. But now I don’t know if I care. Their fans are die hard too, it’s been a long time since they won anything meaningful and they’ve been through a lot of heartbreak. They still aren’t my choice to win the cup but I’ll be happy for their fans if they do. I am rooting for a Canadian team to win it this year though, just because it’s been so long since Canada got a Cup and I know how much it would mean to the country. The team I want to win it all is the Winnipeg Jets. They are the smallest market in the entire NHL and the #1 team on no-trade lists. If they can win it all it’ll be a nice middle finger to Kevyn Adams and his palm trees/taxes comments. 😂

I truly don’t understand the love Adams has for Appert. He was a below average NCAA coach and while he did have some success with Rochester, the Amerks look much better this year without him. And his power play work for the Sabres was pretty awful this season. Yet he seems to keep gaining more power in the organization.

Yeah he had some pretty public spats with coaches last year. This move has nothing to do with rebuilding and everything to do with recouping assets for a player they weren’t going to re-sign and getting him out of the locker room. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6310136/2025/05/07/cowboys-george-pickens-steelers-trade/

Or Pittsburgh now that they traded Pickens. They have DK and a bunch of unproven guys.

such an unserious organization. Almost every team that had a down season made some type of change in their front office or coaching staff. Here we are, year FOURTEEN without playoffs and the only person they let go (so far) was a strength and conditioning coach. Adams was never even qualified to hold the GM job in the first place, and now here we are 5 years later and the team he put together is no better than the one he took over. It may be worse. It certainly has less top line talent (Eichel, Reinhart, Montour, Ullmark). Yet he will be back for year 6, based on…. what? Certainly not merit. If Kevyn Adams got fired today, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that he wouldn’t even get a single GM interview with any of the 31 other teams in the league. I’m not even sure he’d get asst. GM interviews. Things are going to get really ugly if they have another bad season next year. Guarantee we will be dealing with more core players demanding trades. From what I’ve seen and read it sounds like we are already approaching that point. I don’t think the players have much faith in Adams either.

thanks for pointing that out! It did make me feel a bit better seeing Boston and Philly both get knocked back 2 spots too. Especially Boston. That knocks them back to #7 and Philly out of the top 5. 😁 lol I am actually happy for the NYI fan base too. I’m glad to see a new team win the draft lottery for a change and NYI fans are die-hards. They deserve the excitement. As for the Sabres, I’m hoping they can trade the pick for a good player to help them now. Being at #9 likely means being into the 3rd tier of prospects in this draft as the top 2 tiers are said to be only about 6 players deep this year (assuming the top 6 are gone by pick 9). I was hoping a guy like McQueen might fall to 7 but I’m not sure he makes it to 9. I don’t want to see Buffalo trade the pick just for the sake of making a “win now” trade. But if the right player is available I’d trade the pick in a heartbeat.

The Sabres had a 6.5% chance to pick #1, a 6.7% chance to pick #2, a 44.4% chance to pick #7, a 36.5% chance to pick #8 and only a 5.6% chance to pick #9. So of course they land the #9 pick. 😢 lol

Because Morris can’t block anywhere near as well as Hawes. Personally, I think this is a better use of the TE#3 position. With already having Knox and Kinkaid, I’d much rather have a specialized TE like a Lee Smith than a guy like Morris, who can block + catch but doesn’t do either especially well.

I wonder how he’s feeling knowing that he would have went to the eagles with the next pick… lol. Maybe he’s happy because he has a much clearer path to a starting role in Cleveland?

That was awesome. Happy for this kid that he got his draft moment and I love that he stuck around and made the best of the situation. I just became a Barryn Sorrell fan.