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Great memory. I had forgotten a lot of that stuff. Looking at how far the Bills have come in the past decade is absolutely WILD. From a toxic, dysfunctional dumpster fire of an organization that had to overpay for middling free agents and whose future in Buffalo wasn't certain, to one of the top franchises in the league -- with stable ownership, front office, and coaching -- which is locked into Buffalo for the foreseeable future. From perennial afterthought in the midst of a 17 year playoff drought to perennial contender that has won the division four years in a row. From never any national TV exposure to some fans complaining that we have TOO MANY primetime games. From a carousel of quarterback mediocrity to having a likely Hall of Famer and undeniably at least the second best quarterback in football. It has been an absolutely wild ride this past decade, and after feeling like we were at the lowest of lows as a franchise, we are now in a Golden Age, only one Lombardi trophy away from it being the BEST era of Bills football in history. Amazing. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Two Bills Drive: Where we're only allowed to post if we feel super great about things, and anyone who dares to make a comment that's even slightly less than ecstatic -- even if it's tempered and reasonable -- gets told all the reasons that they're an over-dramatic Negative Nelly buffoon. GO TEAM!!!

That's the best random meeting story with Kesey anyone could ever hope for. Perfect cosmic giggle moment with the Prankster acid king. Thanks for sharing that.

Sheesh. He's a big dude. Elite wrestler, too. I'm glad you lived to tell the tale.

Oftentimes on this forum, even the LEAST amount of non-positivity is met with an over-the-top response shooting it down and acting bent out of shape that anyone dared to do anything other than sing the Shout song. I simply said it's less than ideal to have our new group of wide receivers dropping passes in minicamp. I didn't say that it was a huge deal, or that the sky is falling, or even that I was particularly concerned. I simply said that it was less than ideal. For such a benign and -- let's face it -- objectively true statement to be met with a "let's just forfeit the season. This ***** board" response, like....c'mon man. I'm one of the most optimistic Bills fans you'll ever find. Go back through my post history and 95% of everything I've ever posted has been positive and optimistic. But believe it or not, it's OKAY to not always be sunshine and roses. It's OKAY to think to one's self "Gosh I wish our plethora of new wide receivers weren't dropping passes, considering our team has been plagued by dropped passes for several years running". It doesn't need to be a THING, ya know? This ***** board...

Minicamp is supposed to be the EASIEST time to catch passes, as there are no pads, minimal contact is allowed, and no one is really going full speed. As such, it's.....less than ideal to hear that the island of misfit toys was busy dropping passes today.

Pssshhh. Easy. I would say that I was just complimenting her on her form.

Today I learned there is a player named Te'Cory Couch on the Buffalo Bills roster.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author and Merry Pranksters leader Ken Kesey faked his own death to get out of serving jail time. He had the Pranksters leave his truck at the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean in Eureka, along with a dramatic "suicide note" ("Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end...") and booked it to Mexico in the trunk of a car, where he hid out for several months with some of the other Pranksters. Eventually, he returned to the States and did his time.

Update: It's Christian McCaffrey

I um...didn't write this article. Just re-posting something I found online. Thanks though. I believe it was specifically written in response to NFL Twitter (where the article's author predominately operates), where ANY discussion of Josh Allen's greatness as a player is immediately met by a chorus of people going "but his interceptions!". I don't think the author's intent is to say that Josh doesn't need to cut down on the picks, but rather that using his high interception numbers as a justification for denying that he's a great player (which a TON of people do on Twitter and elsewhere) is unreasonable, because it ignores all the other ways in which he is great (some of which the author points out).

I saw this article from noted Josh Allen defender (though not a Bills fan, per se) Jarrett Bailey. Thought it was fun enough to share, and what the hell, it's the slow part of the offseason, so...enjoy! https://atozsports.com/buffalo/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-turnovers/ The laziest argument in sports today is the one that Josh Allen naysayers make when they say "but... but... the turnovers." Yes, the Buffalo Bills' alien cyborg was second in the NFL in interceptions in 2023. However, when you look at interception percentage, he wasn't throwing much more interceptions per attempt than many other quarterbacks who many media members drool over because of their underneath passing efficiency. Allen threw an interception roughly every 32 attempts in 2023. For comparison, Tua Tagovailoa threw an interception every 40 attempts and was fourth in the NFL in picks. Brock Purdy hovered around the same number of interceptions per attempt. But, since most fans of opposing teams just like to point at turnover numbers, I'll give them a few more numbers to point at since they'll be too busy eating boogers to do the research for themselves. Since 2020 (including playoffs), Josh Allen has three seasons in the top 20 of all quarterbacks in that span in terms of touchdown passes. Patrick Mahomes is the only other quarterback with three seasons in the top 20. How about yards since 2020? Allen also has three seasons in the top 20 of passing yards since 2020. Only Mahomes has more with four. Allen's 137 touchdown passes are the second most in that span only to Mahomes. His 36 rushing touchdowns are second amongst quarterbacks with only Jalen Hurts having more. And his 174 total touchdowns in the last four seasons are the most in the NFL. What about game-changing plays? Well, if you look at PFF's big time throws, Allen led the NFL in that category in both 2023 and 2022. He finished second in 2021 and fifth in 2020- he is the only quarterback in the NFL to finish in the top five in big time throws in each of the last four seasons. Even when Allen is under pressure, he's still amazing. He has two seasons that are in the top 10 in terms of passing yards per game under pressure- Justin Herbert is the only other quarterback with two such seasons. He also has two of the 10 best seasons in terms of touchdown percentage against pressure. The only other quarterback who can say that is Russell Wilson. And while throwing past the sticks against pressure, he has two of the three best seasons in the last four years of any quarterback with at least 100 attempts against pressure. So the next time someone says something about Josh Allen and his turnovers, show them these numbers. Because it's evident they don't dig any deeper to see that there has been precisely zero quarterbacks doing what he's been doing over the last half-decade. And every argument against him is the same argument because there is nothing else Allen haters can point to. It's lazy. So. Damn. Lazy. Is Allen perfect? No. But he's a hell of a lot closer to it than just about every other quarterback in recent memory. And odds are if you are reading this and you aren't a Bills fan, your favorite team's general manager would trade their first born child if it meant having Allen as his quarterback.

Echoing others: I don't think Beane will be acquiring any players via trade, but I could see him trading away a player or two for draft picks. Kaiir Elam and an interior lineman (Will Clapp?) would be my most likely candidates.

Right. Hence my "context clues support this hypothesis" comment. My point is that this thread states it as fact. As yet, it is not fact. It is a guess and a rumor until officially announced.

How is this thread still a thing? The NFL refuted this. Jacobs admitted he was misinformed. Both teams will be wearing green.

...But in all seriousness...Shakir is about to have a breakout season, and thanks for posting the link.

As of this moment, this would be classified as a rumor. The official cover athlete has not yet been announced. MLFootball (Along with JPAFootball, Dov Kleiman, etc) are horrible content aggregators that just re-post things from other accounts with language tweaked in a way that is designed to get maximum engagement. Also known as "engagement farmers". They're trash. Everyone should unfollow them. Burrow may very well end up being the cover athlete -- context clues here certainly support that prediction -- but it has not yet been announced.

/Thread. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/josh-jacobs-apologizes-for-misinformed-statement-about-wearing-green-in-brazil Packers running back Josh Jacobs has apologized for spreading misinformation about the NFL’s preparations for the Week One Packers-Eagles game in Brazil. Jacobs said on Chris Long’s podcast that players weren’t supposed to wear green while they’re in Brazil, as a safety precaution because it’s a color associated with violent gangs. The NFL has said that is inaccurate, and now Jacobs has acknowledged as much. “Damn I was misinformed,” Jacobs wrote on Instagram. “Sorry Brazil see you soon.” The misinformation apparently stemmed from the game’s venue, Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, where the home soccer team Corinthians tells its players not to wear the color green because it’s worn by rival Palmeiras. But it doesn’t apply to American football teams playing in the stadium, and there will be plenty of green on the field and in the stands for the Packers-Eagles game on September 6.

You and me are on opposite pages here, Mup. The Penn State away jersey is my favorite in all of football, with the home jersey being close behind it:

I don't know much about Xs and Os. I'm just excited to drink a quart of moonshine, play dizzy bat, and sacrifice myself to the pit.

With how much the league has relaxed the alternate jersey and alternate helmet rules... Every day that the Bills don't get in on the act somehow is another day that they're pissing away free money. Whether it's the 90s throwbacks or some alternate, Oregon Ducks style one-off, the team has a great opportunity to do a thing that's fun for fans and also allows them to sell a bunch of new merch. It makes too much sense NOT to do, and yet, so far, they haven't done it.

To hear Dolphins fans tell it, Claypool lit it up in practice there, too. It was when the pads came on that things changed. It's nice to hear he's been doing well in the OTA settings, but I won't get excited until I see him doing the same thing in camp and preseason.