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Yep. He sure was. And here he is, 4 years later and still unemployed… I’m sure he’s had dozens of offers from NFL teams, just not the “right” offer. That’s why he took a job as a DC in the UFL (because, you know, that’s better than just accepting any old NFL job) 😂

I feel just the opposite. I feel like this is the loss that broke me… I really thought this was the year they would beat the chiefs, and now I kind of feel like they never will, at least as currently constructed. Right now, between the Bills always breaking my heart and the Sabres reverting back to a bottom of the league team, I feel like I can’t do this “Buffalo sports” stuff anymore. Chances are I’ll feel differently come next season, but right now I feel like I need to step away for a while. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t really even enjoy watching the Bills play anymore. I just feel nervous all game. I also kind of feel like McDermott has taken this team as far as he can, so until something major changes I’m not sure what the point is in getting my hopes up.

Just leave him in Rochester for the rest of the season! It’s clear he’s not ready for the NHL. They need to stop forcing it and just let him start in Rochester.

I did not miss listening to Gregg Williams talk. I forgot how full of crap he is.

If the Bills want to stick with something like Daboll’s offense, and if Brady doesn’t get the job (which I would hope isn’t a foregone conclusion after the last few weeks), what about Josh McDaniels? We know he sucks as a head coach but he was a damn good OC with the patriots.

Comrie on waivers.

I don’t know. Still seems odd to me. Usually an assistant coach steps in when a head coach is absent.

My whole family had the latest booster back in September or October. We all got the flu shot and Covid booster at the same time. It went fine. My mother, father and myself got the Pfizer booster. Not sure what my sister got. My sister had a bit of a reaction (just feeling flu-like) but she has an auto immune disorder. My parents never felt anything from any of their vaccines. From my experience, I seem to have less of a reaction to the Pfizer vaccines vs Moderna. I’ve had both and neither were bad. With Moderna I got some body aches and felt like I was getting sick for about 12 hours but that was it. With the Pfizer I really had no symptoms besides a sore arm and maybe slight chills. The latest booster shot was probably the most mild for me yet. No symptoms.

🤦‍♂️ If the current “system” this season was Granato’s attempt to play better defense… yikes. I also feel like they’ve already tried creating offense like they did last season but teams have adjusted to Buffalo’s style of play. They just clog up the neutral zone, don’t let Buffalo create off the rush and Buffalo has had no answer to that.

I actually just had one removed from my left ear! thankfully mine was outside the eardrum and was able to be done right in office. Apparently it had been there for many years. I started noticing some pain in my left ear this summer when I laid on my left side, which eventually developed into constant pain. So I tried wax ear drops + flushing with water and that made it worse. Then I went to my primary Dr., who thought it was an infection and gave me 10 days of a high dose of antibiotic. Didn’t help at all. So they referred me to an ENT, but they couldn’t get me in for almost a month (even though I was in constant daily pain). I barely made it to that appointment. I almost went to the ER because the constant sharp pain was just wearing on me. It was like that “bad ear infection” pain. It took 2+ more weeks and 3 ENT appointments to finally get it handled. I was seeing an assistant the first 2 appointments. She originally thought it was an infection trapped behind wax, so she was trying to slowly remove what she thought was wax. She could only do a bit at a time because my ear kept bleeding. So I come back on the 3rd appointment, thinking I’m still seeing the assistant, and the ENT doctor comes walking in with a team of interns and I find out I have some type of growth in my ear. Of course, your first thought is “cancer?”, right? it ended up being a cholesteatoma in the outer ear, which I guess is quite rare. He was able to remove it right in office. He thought he was going to have to schedule surgery but I was able to manage the pain and he was able to remove it. It felt so amazing once it was out of my ear. Suddenly I could hear again and all that pressure + pain was gone.

Ullmark never sucked here. Whoever said that was wrong. https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/u/ullmali01.html He was in the .913 to .917 sv% area, something Buffalo hasn’t even come close to matching since he left, and it’s not like Buffalo played good team defense while Ullmark was here either. Ullmark’s worst ever season in Buffalo was a .905 sv% one season. That .905 is still better than anything we’ve had since he left. I believe the best save % Buffalo has seen since he left was .901 from Craig Anderson one season in light duty spot starts (not a true starter’s workload like Ullmark). Otherwise, all of Buffalo’s goalies have been consistently in the sub-.900 sv% area year in and year out since Ullmark left. currently, all 3 of our goalies once again sit in the .800’s this season. That’s well below league average. We haven’t had anything close to league average since Ullmark. and he wanted to stay here + was very well liked in the room. Adams let him walk over a couple/few extra years of term. To replace him with…. 🤷‍♂️ From the reports I read, Ullmark wanted to stay but wanted a 5 or 6yr deal. Adams was only willing to go 2-3 years. seems incredibly stupid to me to let him walk over 2-3 years of term when you had nobody to replace him with. But hey, he saved Terry a few bucks right? lol edit - sorry, as you can all probably tell, I am not in a good place with the Sabres right now. I think I probably need to stop watching again for a while. Just so bummed to see them back to looking like a joke. This was the first time I was legitimately looking forward to the Sabres season in years.

Getting smoked by a bottom 5 team in the NHL… 🤮 although the Sabres aren’t that far from the bottom 5 themselves. They currently sit 8th last. So, pretty much same as always. This season clearly wasn’t “all about winning”. They added nothing meaningful to the roster in the offseason and banked on “internal growth” even though pretty much every player on the roster had career years last season. What were the chances of not only repeating that, but bettering it? Eventually Adams is going to have to do something meaningful. His only meaningful trade was Eichel and Reinhart, but both of those he was forced to make. and if these players truly love Granato as much as they say, they better start showing it because their play is going to get him fired.

I was going to say the same thing. McDermott hired Joe Brady for a reason. As soon as he was hired, I said “he was hired to be our next OC after Dorsey”, as it seemed obvious that’s why he was hired. I figured he would be groomed to run the Bills offense then take over if Dorsey moved on. and now I almost wonder if McDermott kind of wanted Brady all along. if this ends up being “one of the best offensive coordinator situations in the NFL” (still TBD) I don’t think it’s fair to say the Bills “stumbled” into it.

From ESPN: In a pool report, referee Carl Cheffers said down judge Mike Carr saw Toney lined up offside. "Ultimately, they are responsible for wherever they line up,'' Cheffers said. "No warning is required, especially if they are lined up so far Offside where they're actually blocking our view of the ball. "We would give them a warning if it was anywhere close, but this particular one is beyond a warning.''

From ESPN: In a pool report, referee Carl Cheffers said down judge Mike Carr saw Toney lined up offside. "Ultimately, they are responsible for wherever they line up,'' Cheffers said. "No warning is required, especially if they are lined up so far Offside where they're actually blocking our view of the ball. "We would give them a warning if it was anywhere close, but this particular one is beyond a warning.''

This may have already been posted. It shows how far Offside Toney was much better than the screenshot with the deceiving blue line. how spoiled are Mahomes + Reid that they think this call should have just been overlooked? offensive Offside has been called a lot more frequently this season (I think this was the 12th time)

I really hope they are able to find a way to bring Floyd back next season.

Holy moly, talk about disfunction… Reich never stood a chance win Tepper meddling. https://theathletic.com/5105215/2023/12/06/carolina-panthers-frank-reich-firing-david-tepper/ There’s a lot more details in the story. Any coach with options would be nuts to take the head coaching job in Carolina. I don’t see anyone having success there with Tepper meddling so much.

Seems like the typical Kevyn Adams trade… low cost, bottom of the roster replacement level acquisitions. lol Hopefully we only gave up future considerations. He was on waivers earlier this season and has played more in the AHL than NHL this season.

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

Well, that rochester stint didn’t last too long… he played a whole 2 games! lol Probably has to do with Comrie looking like dog **** in both his starts. Maybe they felt the competition with Levi was pushing UPL more too? Levi did look good in Rochester but again he only played 2 games. I’m not really understanding the point of sending him down. Unless they felt he just needed a couple good games to get his mojo back?

Yeah, I’ve already kind of lost interest again. Not totally. I’ll flip the game on to check the score, and will maybe watch a bit if they look decent. But I haven’t sat to watch a whole game in a couple weeks now. such a shame. They were finally winning the fans back and now they’re pissing away all that progress they made with the fan base. I don’t know wtf happened to the fun to watch team from last season 🤷‍♂️

I’m glad to see them make this move. It needed to be made. Now we have 2 goalies, like normal teams and they can start getting into a groove playing games instead of trying to rotate 3 goalies. Plus, like you said, playing so infrequently wasn’t helping him. Now he can hopefully play more often (though it looks like he might enter a similar 3 goalie rotation in Rochester). I think this sends the right message to the Sabres players too. This season isn’t about development, it’s about winning.

Detroit Red Wings signed Patrick Kane to a 1 year, $2.5 million deal. Fine by me! I was nervous about Buffalo signing him after the hip procedure he had. I don’t think any NHL player has ever been able to come back from it. Iirc the most games played by someone who had that procedure is 30-something games (?)

It’s great to see him playing so well. I know it feels like he’s been around for quite a while but he’s actually still young for a goalie (24yrs old). Ryan Miller didn’t become a starter for the Sabres until he was 26. I hope he can grab the #1 job and run with it! If he keeps playing like he has been, Granato needs to start using him more like a #1. I know they want to get Levi games but he’s struggling right now and the Sabres can’t afford to develop a goalie at the NHL level. If UPL and Comrie keep consistently out-playing Levi they need to bite the bullet and send him to Rochester, where he can get a #1 workload.