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New York State is (mostly) paying for the Bills stadium. It has nothing to do with the city of Buffalo having the money. It was the logistics of putting a stadium downtown and everything that would have needed to be done. Plus the Pegulas wanted it in orchard park near their current facilities (which they will continue to use). As far as Buffalo being broke as the reason for Sabres attendance that is not the case. Bills games cost more and were sold out all season long. It’s mostly the same fan base. The location of the stadium has nothing to do with the fan base. You are acting like the fan base is only the residents that live near the stadium or arena and that isn’t the case. Sabres fans stretch all across western NY and Canada. A big chunk of the Sabres fan base is in Canada. The reason for poor Sabres attendance still has to do with how bad the team was for so long. Fans are slowly starting to come back but there are still an awful lot of fans that just scoreboard watch at most. You know when the Sabres fan base will come pouring back? If/when the Sabres make the playoffs. Hopefully it happens this year!!

yes, i'd say he's really starting to come into his own this season. I just meant hopefully he will outperform his contract like thompson (already) has, to the point where it looks like a steal. Cozens is playing good hockey and i'm happy with this deal. But i wouldn't call it a steal. Yet. Though i do have confidence it will be in time.

Hopefully he has a similar breakout to Thompson and we are saying this contract looks like a steal in a year or two!

Yeah we felt it and heard it here. I didn’t know what it was at first. I heard a loud noise and the whole house shook. I thought a big machine was driving down the street or a plane was flying super low over head at first. Then realized it was an earthquake a minute or two later.

That all star skills competition was so stupid. I was cringing half the night.

I find it amusing how many people admit they know nothing about him but still say it’s a bad hire 😂

yeah, they’ve been one of the top 2 teams this season. The Sabres haven’t been bad, but they have made too many mistakes. Can’t do that against such a good veteran team like the hurricanes. They can’t seem to get the puck by Carolina’s goalie either. Bummer. I really wanted to enter the all star break in a playoff spot!

No. It’s exclusive to switch and Xbox. Xbox bought the game studio that made GoldenEye. I doubt they ever release it to PlayStation. The only thing you could do is buy a copy of the goldeneye remake for wii that came out back in 2011. I saw used copies of it on EBay for $9-11. Or if your son has a jailbroke ps4 he could play it. I don’t know how to jailbreak a console though, so no idea how hard it is to do.

I would too. Who wouldn’t? But it obviously doesn’t work that way. Regular season victories + success usually comes before SB victories. What Bills coach established that type of expectations for the fan base?

You’re acting like Josh Allen came into the NFL as a super star QB and has been one McDermott’s entire time in Buffalo (he hasn’t). You’re also acting like the defense has been trash his whole time here (it hasn’t). You said “wtf has McDermott done here” and “defense him please”. i think I gave a pretty good defense. Our division has not been trash either. In McDermott’s 6 seasons in Buffalo the Patriots have gone 13-3, 12-4, 11-5, 10-6, 9-8 and 8-9 (so, 1 losing season). The dolphins have won 10, 9 and 9 games the last 3 seasons. The Jets have been mediocre. Overall, The AFC East has not been near the worst division for a while. They are somewhere between the middle and top. You also seem to be failing to mention some pretty great playoff wins and just focusing on the few rough losses (and only a couple were bad performances). I’m not saying we shouldn’t question McDermott but acting like he’s terrible is s little extreme. By any measure he’s been one of the better coaches in the NFL for a while now. Ok, let me ask this - were you so down on McDermott before this year’s playoffs? Were you calling him garbage and saying he should be fired when he finished the season 13-3?

weird how high he’s ranked for in game win probability for being so “pathetic” at it… What has he done here? Really? -he holds the best all-time winning percentage of any coach in Bills history -He broke a 17 year playoff drought his first season here. -Helped tear down and rebuilt this team from the ground up. -Built one of the best cultures in the NFL (according to the players). -Has only missed the playoffs once in 6 seasons and that was because it was year 1 of the rebuild. -He’s won the division 3 years in a row. In his 6 seasons here, he’s finished 1st in the division 3x, finished 2nd twice and 3rd once. -His defense have consistently ranked in the top of the league since he was hired, including being #1, #2 and #3. They’ve statistically been a top 6 defense every year but 1 (2020). -His offense have consistently ranked near the top of the NFL since 2020. -He put together the staff that drafted and developed Josh Allen. -He’s won 10 or more games in 4 of his 6 seasons here and won 13 games twice. The only time he ever finished without a winning record was the rebuild year. The Bills have started out the past 4 season with a 4-1 or better record. What other Bills head coach has accomplished more since the super bowl era began? Marv Levy maybe? McDermott has a better record but no Super Bowls. Levy had way more talent to work with though. McDermott may not have made it past the AFC championship game yet. But the only reason we are even a contender is because of what he put together here. It’s amazing how much our standards have been raised to even be able to say something like “what has McDermott done here?”…

Crap. I was really hoping Buffalo would hire Wilks to replace Frazier. He was the guy McDermott originally wanted to be his DC when he was first hired but Carolina promoted him to keep him. I thought with him available maybe there was a chance McDermott would move on from Frazier for him. Didn’t Miami already hire Fangio and make him the NFL’s highest paid coordinator? What am I missing? Did the deal fall through? edit - never mind I see now the deal wasn’t finalized yet.

I was wondering when he would start getting OC interviews. Not surprised John Harbaugh is the first one to do so. Really hoping we don’t lose him!

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/dear-buffalo-dahlin letter to Sabres fans from Rasmussen Dahlin.😍 I love that these young guys are finally getting to experience what Buffalo Sabres fans are truly like. They’ve been hearing about how great we are for years and years now, but they rarely ever got to actually experience it. Now that the team is playing so good and winning back the fan base they finally get to see what a hockey crazed town this is. Oh I so wish they make the playoffs this year and get the full experience!

Maybe I’ll feel differently by the start of next season but as of now I’m kind of at the point where I feel like we’ve gone as far as we can with Frazier as DC. I feel like we’ve seen his ceiling and I’ll expect another heartbreaking playoff loss if he’s retained. Add to that the Bills cap situation for next year and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the team regress. Too soon to say though before we see what moved they make.

I didn’t see any of it. And I’d say it’s quite different from a player on the opposing team, that was on the field when Hamlin almost died, very publicly taking a jab at Hamlin on Twitter. I don’t like KC fans though. For the most part they seem to be jerks.

They can back it up, eh? 😂 personally, I like athletes that are more humble. I want them to be confident, don’t get me wrong. I want them to feel like they can beat anyone. But let your play on the field do the talking. To trash the bills after kicking their ass? What’s the point besides to rub salt in the wound? For me that type of thing turns me off. I don’t even like it when our players do it. Show some class. and taking shots at Hamlin on Twitter is completely over the line.

KC can’t protect Mahomes right now and he can’t move in the pocket or escape. The chiefs are in trouble here. Cincy has the momentum. KC making all sorts of mistakes. As much as I hate KC I’ve also been very turned off by how obnoxious Cincy has been. I was planning to root for them to go all the way but I just haven’t liked how they’ve acted since the Bills game. Eli Apple taking jabs at Hamlin on Twitter. Burrow, Mixon and other Cincy players talking trash about the Bills after their win. Cincy players acting super cocky before this game. Burrow wearing a shirt that said “sorry in advance” (for the win). Bengals players all saying it’s their destiny to win the super bowl. etc etc.

Yeah that performance gave me flashbacks of Robin Lehner in the shootout. 😂 I knew as soon as it got to the shootout Buffalo was losing. UPL was getting caught out of position all night overplaying pucks. He still made some big saves for Buffalo but he just seemed a bit off his game last night. Buffalo played a good game overall though, and 7 out of 8 points on a tough road trip is huge.

Hey, just FYI there is a trick to get Game Pass Ultimate for $5 a month for up to 3 years at a time (it’s not really a trick. Microsoft even advertises it. I’ve done it twice already! just recently did it again last month). You have to let your game pass totally expire. Then add Xbox live Gold to your account. I buy the 1 year for $59.99. You can stack up to 3 years of Gold if you want. Then go and buy a month of game pass ultimate. It will convert all of your remaining Xbox live gold subscription to game pass ultimate at a 1:1 rate. So you can get game pass ultimate for $60/yr. I currently have 3 years of GPU that I paid $180 total for.

This team sure is a lot of fun to watch! They’ve definitely sucked me back in at this point. I’m starting to really love this new core of young players and the culture/mix seems infinitely better than the previous young core. I feel like this team actually has a bright future again.

They just completely overwhelmed Winnipeg. It was awesome to see!

McDermott has assembled most of the staff on offense, defense and special teams. A new coordinator might bring in an assistant or two but it’s McDermott’s staff. Look at when Daboll was hired. IIRC I think he brought in 1 coach, an assistant o line coach. Same with Dorsey. McDermott hired the new o line coach and offensive assistants (like Shula). I don’t think this firing tells us anything about Frazier.

I’ll be happy if they can at least just stay in the race. Don’t 💩 the bed down the stretch when the pressure is on and I’ll consider it a good step forward. But obviously it would be awesome if they grabbed a wildcard spot!

Watching San Francisco play makes me wish the Bills were that well coached. Every year they are a contender no matter who’s under center.