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Multiple unbiased national NFL analysts and writers have called the Bills' roster the very best in the NFL from top to bottom. Beane has an AP NFL Executive of the Year award under his belt. The Bills have made the playoffs 4 out of 5 years that Beane has been general manager, after having missed the playoffs for 17 straight seasons prior to his arrival. The Bills are the betting favorites to win the Super Bowl this year. How is this even a discussion? The proof is in the pudding. The pudding, in this case, is "one of the best rosters in the NFL, perennial playoff contention, and Super Bowl betting favorites". But sure, let's engage in advanced analysis and arcane thought experiments for another 10 pages.

There's just something about the combination of a garish Starter jacket, a mesh-backed trucker's cap circa 1991, and a pair of Zubas that screams "haute Bills fan fashion". 😅

Best safety duo in the league. Not disputable.

You’re on the wrong side of history! 😆 Just look at this hideous beauty 😍:

How are they sounding to your ears these days? I feel like Bobby’s guitar tone has gotten better, less tinny sounding and abrasive than in recent years. Ive been wondering if there’s more than meets the eye with Billy’s increasingly frequent absences. I know he said “pulled muscle”, but…a little worrisome. Glad they’ve pulled out Sing Me Back Home for this tour. I just listened to every show from ‘72 recently, and this song was often the gem of the show in which it appeared. Underrated tune. Enjoy the remaining shows!

Thanks for the link. I'm well aware that getting rid of golf courses wouldn't solve the Colorado River water shortage. Golf courses are still dumb and wasteful of resources. I stand by that.

Given the water shortages already occurring and soon to intensify, golf courses — particularly those in the southwest and on the west coast — are stupid and wasteful. The land and water would be better used in almost any other way.

Thank you, Canada, for Norm McDonald, Jim Carrey, Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, Mike Myers, Neil Young, Seth Rogen, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Lorne Michaels, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Chris Jericho, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Tim Horton, Celine Dion, and poutine.

I'm not sure if this type of post is allowed, it being promotion of another website and all. If not, I apologize, and please delete it with the swiftness. Otherwise, I just thought everyone would want to know that you can grab whatever Bills gear you've been eyeing. 25% off, today only at NFLshop.com. Just scored a sweet (and kind of ugly in a wonderful way) Starter jacket. Who doesn't love a Starter jacket?

It WAS horrible. I'll never forget the ease with which the Steelers' front four destroyed the Bills' o-line that day. As I walked to the car after the game, I also distinctly remember thinking "If we don't win the Super Bowl this year, our second corner spot and offensive line depth chart will be the reasons why". While I can't EXCLUSIVELY blame those things for the loss in Kansas City, they both damned sure contributed in a big way. I also felt that this loss-that-should've-been-a-win against an AFC opponent would cost us big time in terms of playoff seeding. Again, unfortunately, that line of thinking was correct.

Worst of all time, never to be defeated: Bills vs Broncos, 2007. I was at this game. The Broncos scrambled the field goal unit onto the field and Jason Elam kicked the game winning field goal JUST as the last second ticked off the clock, causing the Bills to lose a game they should've won. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY...Kevin Everett was paralyzed in this game. It's the most scary, horrific, deflating thing I've ever seen on a football field. All of the opening day excitement was sucked out of the crowd in an instant, replaced by a scared, hushed silence. All of the momentum and energy was sucked out of the team, as well. The loss was heartbreaking, but I didn't even care about the outcome of the game, because what we had just seen on the field with Everett made sports seem really insignificant in comparison. I felt like the season was over after that game. The Bills would not recover. How could they? Just awful.

Yeah, Ospreay is awesome. When I watched a bunch of NJPW a couple years ago, he was still a super junior, and a huge face at that. Much smaller, much more of a high flying, luchador wrestling style, really popular with the Japanese audience. He bulked up considerably to join the heavyweight ranks, and subsequently his wrestling style changed and he became a great heel. It's cool to watch how great he still is, considering he underwent such a huge change. Here's the final from the 2019 Battle of the Super Juniors tournament with Ospreay against Shingo Takagi, who is now a huge star in his own right. Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer broke from his usual ratings system to give this one 5.75 stars. The commentary is in English, for what it's worth. I know you don't know the story/buildup to the match, but if you ever just want to see an incredible wrestling match and see what Ospreay (and Shingo) are all about, check it out. Undoubtedly, without the recent Okada/Tanahashi/Ospreay/Omega era of NJPW, there would be no AEW. The Okada vs Omega series of matches, in particular, and Jericho's run in NJPW, I think, are what gave Tony Khan the idea to start AEW. (It's weird that this match video is hosted on Facebook, but anyway): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=826528288196319

Did you watch Forbidden Door? If so, what was your vote for "best match"? I thought that it was a really good show, despite all the injured wrestlers that weren't able to appear and how that altered the booking plans. I really liked the opening trios match with Jericho/Suzuki/Sammy vs Eddie Kingston/Wheeler/Shota. Didn't expect that to be among the best matches of the night, but it cooked. Ospreay vs Cassidy was the other one for me. The crowd in the United Center was awesome and really took the whole show to another level, IMO.

I think two things are true. 1.) The Bills' depth at outside WR is not good. If Diggs or Davis go down, the remaining options are undesirable. 2.) Not many top offenses in the NFL have good depth at outside WR. There are very few teams who, if their #1 or #2 receiver go down, are going to be able to insert a backup and not miss a beat. So I agree with @ScottLaw and others who say that our outside WR depth is not good overall. On the other hand, I can't point to very many good teams who DO have great depth at that position. Personally, I'd like to see them take a chance on Will Fuller. I realize that he has been a walking injury himself. IF -- and that's a big "if" -- he's healthy, he'd be a good flyer to take. He's a quality deep threat and is still 28 years old, as opposed to Sanders and Hilton and Jones, who are all on their last legs.

I know there used to be a pro wrestling thread on this forum, but I couldn't seem to find it. Any AEW fans out there? I was a diehard wrestling fan as a kid, but found the modern product unwatchable for the past 20 years or so. A couple years ago, I started watching some New Japan matches and then watched an entire G1 Climax tournament and loved it. Because of the language barrier and other factors, I didn't begin following it regularly, but it showed me that I still love pro wrestling, just not whatever that drivel is that WWE puts out these days. Fast forward a bit and I decided to check out some AEW matches after seeing how impressive their roster had become. I loved what I saw, so I wound up going back and watching basically all of the best, most well loved/reviewed matches from the organization's inception in 2019 up to today. It has reminded me of exactly what I used to love about pro wrestling, and has re-ignited my love for it. For the first time in 20 years, I'm watching a wrestling show every week (Dynamite on Wednesday nights) and enjoying it a lot. Just finished watching Forbidden Door, the cross-promotional PPV with New Japan Pro Wrestling that was held on Sunday. Incredible show with some incredible matches. Anyone else out there buying what Tony Khan is selling?

Sometimes I wish Kelly, Thurman, Bruce, and the rest of the Bills alumni were around a little bit less. I get serious "Prom King who peaked in high school and never left the small town he grew up in, instead remaining there as a local celebrity and owning a car dealership" vibes from them. It's like thanks, guys, for everything you did, but the city and fans have been stuck on the early 90s Bills for a quarter century now. Enough is enough. ESPECIALLY now that we have an exciting new era of Bills football. I don't need to see, read about, and hear from Jim Kelly every other Sunday. God bless the man and his family, and thanks for the memories, but at some point, enough is enough.

I like tofu, so long as it’s been prepared well. I look at tofu like I look at a chicken breast: if you don’t do anything to flavor it, if you just cook it straight up without using any spices or marinade or sauce or anything, it’s not gonna be very good or taste like much. When it’s been marinaded or rubbed in spices or battered and fried or baked golden and covered in sauce, it can be damned good. Unfortunately, far, far too many places serve tofu basically plain and/or poorly/improperly prepared, and then it’s gross.

Season 10 of Curb might just be my favorite of all time. The season long plot with Mocha Joe, Larry opening a spite store, Larry and Richard being put in "the ugly section" of the restaurant. I generally/mostly prefer the earlier seasons, but season 10 was a real high point for me. Just really funny from start to finish. At its highest moments, I like Curb as much as I liked Seinfeld. Overall, both are in my top five all time comedy shows, and barely a day goes by where I don't quote or reference one of them.

I disagree entirely. There were scores and scores of classic Seinfeld episodes that continued to impact pop culture well into the final season. Not only that, but the fact that Seinfeld is still so heavily syndicated on TV today, 33 years after its debut, speaks to just how popular it still is and how well it holds up. Some classic episodes that happened AFTER season 3 -- and there are many more, but I'll just list a few: The Bubble Boy The Contest (voted the best Seinfeld episode of all time) The Implant The Junior Mint The Puffy Shirt The Marine Biologist The Soup Nazi The Rye The Yada Yada The Serenity Now The Strike (Festivus episode) The show probably peaked somewhere between seasons 3 and 5. Once Larry David left after season 7, the show changed quite a bit, with Jerry Seinfeld taking more of an active role in creative. It became less mean/cynical and more absurdist/cartoonish. Still, despite the changes and passing its peak, it remained funny and highly culturally impactful right up until the end, as evidenced by the MASSIVE hype and interest around its finale. I, for one, saw the series finale in a packed movie theatre. I can never remember a show in my lifetime that still gets quoted as much almost a quarter century after it last aired as Seinfeld.

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2022/6/27/23182118/non-superstars-who-could-shape-2022-nfl-season The 10 Non-Superstars Who Could Shape the 2022 NFL Season Talent at the top of the roster is required for a Super Bowl run, but so is depth. And these difference-makers could determine whether their teams are playing into January, or watching from home. By Steven Ruiz Jun 27, 2022, 6:30am EDT The list of NFL superstars who really drive their team’s success isn’t terribly long, and virtually every player on that list is a quarterback. But even the best quarterbacks can have a hard time overcoming significant roster deficiencies, as evidenced by the 2021 Chargers, who couldn’t parlay Justin Herbert’s elite season into a playoff spot. Star talent at the top of the roster is a prerequisite for a Super Bowl run. But a talented second tier can be just as important. With that in mind, we’ve identified 10 non-superstars who could shape their team’s 2022 campaigns and be the difference between a disappointing year and a deep playoff run. Let’s start with the team that has the best odds to win it all in February. Gabriel Davis, WR, Bills Davis has been the subject of a heated debate in the fantasy football community over the past month because his average draft position is skyrocketing. Those who support that trend believe his four-touchdown performance against the Chiefs in the playoffs was evidence that he just needed an opportunity after being stuck in a crowded receiver room during his first two NFL seasons. The skeptics seem to think that performance was an aberration, and point to his underwhelming overall production as definitive proof. The Bills didn’t give Davis a ton of snaps last season, and he’s been targeted just over 120 times in two seasons. He also dropped 15.9 percent of his targets in 2021, per Sports Info Solutions, which was the third-worst mark among receivers with at least 50 targets. That’s bad! But this isn’t: Davis finished 28th in the NFL in expected points added per target (and led the Bills), he finished second in explosive play rate, and he led the league in first-down percentage. So even with all the drops, the 23-year-old’s targets were an efficient source of production for Buffalo. Davis’s film also matches with that conclusion. In that Kansas City game, Davis showed some impressive route-running chops for a man of his stature. The first of his two crunch-time touchdowns came after he dropped a Chiefs cornerback with a quick hesitation move: https://streamable.com/xrvkd2 On the second, he used his large frame to lean into his defender before cutting in the opposite direction, instantly creating enough separation for Josh Allen to find him for the go-ahead score with 13 seconds left: https://streamable.com/rs7q0q Earlier in the game, Davis deployed his speed and beat Juan Thornhill, who ran a 4.4 at the 2019 combine, in a race downfield. Allen took care of the rest: https://streamable.com/jwu99b That performance gave Buffalo’s front office enough confidence to move on from Cole Beasley and Emmanuel Sanders this offseason and elevate Davis to the no. 2 spot in the wide receiver pecking order. But there isn’t a whole lot of depth behind him—and that puts even more pressure on the third-year pro to make the leap. Isaiah McKenzie and Jamison Crowder form a nice pair of slot weapons but can’t play outside in two-receiver sets, something the Bills will use more of now that they have a second tight end in O.J. Howard. And the two perimeter options behind Davis are Khalil Shakir, a fifth-round rookie, and Jake Kumerow, who owns just 23 career catches as he enters his age-30 season. The Bills will go as far as Allen and the passing game takes them. And if Davis has a down year, they might not have enough to get through a loaded AFC.

I liked the finale. The crew from the “show about nothing”….gets arrested for doing nothing. We get to see see all the classic side characters again. The series ends with the same conversation in which it began. Even in the finale, they kept to their “no hugging, no learning” ethos. One thing I’ve always wanted to know; how did people WANT it to end? For all those who said it ended poorly, what ending would you have preferred? What could they have done that would have pleased everyone? It always seemed to me that people didn’t like the finale because it wasn’t a happy ending, but a happy ending would have been so un-Seinfeld. And what would that even MEAN in the context of these characters?

I suppose liking sour cream makes me a bit of a hypocrite with regard to my cottage cheese critique.

Ive been told several times to “give it a few seasons”. That it really gets going in like season 3 or 4. I’m sorry, but if it takes that long for a show to get going, maybe it’s just not that good of a show? Boring. Overrated. Yet routinely hailed by many as one of the greatest shows ever made. I don’t get it.