yungmack

Which of the first six are definite losses?

They're not going to start 0-6, so there's that. Come on, the first 6 opponents are the Ravens, Jets, Cards, Pats, Rams and Niners. You really think the Bills will lose all six? Wow. Here's the situation with the team right now: Full OLine will be ready for the regular season, Shady will starting and have Bush and Gillislee behind him. The starting WRs should be healthy and the TEs are coming along nicely. Essentially the O is missing Karlos and a rookie RB. And oh yeah, we have that Tyrod guy. O looks very good to me. The main area of concern then is the D and justifiably so. No doubt the loss of Dareus hurts some, compounded by Lawson missing a game. But it's not like there's a tremendous drop off without them. Better to have them, sure, but it's hardly grounds for doom and gloom that we don't. LB situation is worrisome and has been all off season to me. Right now DBs look solid. So if the Bills get just okay, middle of the pack performances out of the D, and the O hums like it should, there's no way the Bills go 0-6. At worst, they go 4-2. Of course, all my optimism is based on there being no further serious injuries nor any more suspensions.

So does the King Ranch down in Tejas. Sorry, couldn't help myself.

It's from Newsday. Long Island, ya know?

Way too soon to tell. Current injuries to the OL, linebacking still not settled, haven't really seen ST in action, some concerns on my part with S and CB depth. I'll wait to see who's healthy the week before.

I about jumped out of my seat when I saw the announcement crawl across the bottom of the screen. I've been worrying that the FO was reverting to Ol' Ralph mode and about to be penny wise and pound foolish. Tyrod checks all the boxes for an upper echelon NFL QB save one: size, and here I mean bulk more than height. It's a concern.

It amazes me that you continue to sincerely try to inform people who have proven to have Knowledge Resistance Syndrome. I mean the kind of "fan" still blaming Whaley for trading UP to get EJ, for bringing in only about a hundred QB flops for backup tryouts instead of two hundred, and for being such a mook he thinks TT is qualified to be a starting NFL QB. Oh, and don't forget Brandon for letting Cookie Gilchrist get away.

Just like I was there. Thanks, Astro.

Perfect.

You seem to have missed the Bills of the last few years: going sideways is always an option. Finally, an honest report on the real state of the BIlls (NB: I bet some people take your post as factual).

No, Rex won't be fired in the off season, but he might be fired sometime during the season if not before opening day.

Thanks for the morning laugh.

I look forward to them.

Wha? If there is a part of Woodie's game he's noted for, it's route running.

Do not under estimate the power of being pissed off. Wilder was pretty good at FSU. If he can get back to that with the added motivation, who knows what he can do.

That was Rex, blaming the players for his incompetence.

Lovely post.

CBs are the new LTs insofar as their perceived value, which is why they are getting the huge contracts, and the price is going to continue to soar. So if the Bills give Gilmore a top three-to-five contract now, it will likely seem a bargain in 3 or 4 years.

The gps isn't quite in our asses yet,but it's close if your smart phone is in your back pocket. That little device is accessed all the time, and by lots more interested parties than the local gendarmes. Computers in your car store all sorts of info that is now frequently being taken by way more than your mechanic. Big Everybody is now watching. Welcome to the machine.

Lots of very good ideas, which would make it a lot better game to watch. For myself, I would add two rules which I think would make the game a lot more interesting. First, the QB should have to personally call all plays. No signalling from the sidelines, no speaker in the helmet. My second proposal is that once a possession begins, no substitutions are allowed on either side of the ball, except for injury, until the O elects to punt or try a FG. Both would put the game back in the players hands and eliminate the one trick ponies. Coaching strategies would also have to change. The heart of the roster would be better all around players. I think these changes would make the game more fun for both players and fans.

The history of policing has always been about faithful service to whatever was the Establishment of the time, from the local Lord, the king, or the rich and powerful of today. Their job is always to preserve that power by keeping "the peasants" in line,to ensure those with the real power have peace of mind, and a safe and pleasant life. So long as you don't threaten that status quo, so long as you obey the rules of the powerful, their minions will generally leave you alone. Unfortunately, if you do threaten the powerful, as did, for example, those who tried to organize into unions (a direct threat to the Establishment), you will be faced with the full force of the powerful, which, in the case of their "muscle," the local police, meant beatings and, not infrequently, death. If you belong to a group that is regarded by the powerful as being Other, you will be treated as suspicious ,threatening and thus more heavily and harshly patrolled by the "authorities." At different times, these groups have included the Irish, the Italians, the Slavs, Catholics, Jews, Chinese. All these groups are still treated with suspcion and even hostility in different parts of the country, and in some circles of the powerful.You will be kept in a particular part of town "with your own kind" by laws, by banking "understandings," by CC&Rs, and by the police, until your group has enough power to take control of the levers of power (and of the banks, and courts, and the police, who then do your bidding). But from the very first colonial days, there has been one group seen as irrevocably outsiders, as permanently inferior, and as an irredeemable "threat within," and that is black people. New World slavery differed from historical slavery in that it had become unthinkable to enslave fellow white people who were, after all, Christians and "civilized." Africans, however, were seen as savages and regarded as sub-humans, far behind in evolution, so it was okay to round them up like stray cattle. And from the beginning, there was fear among the powerful that they would rise up and murder their "masters." Being viewed as both innately violent sub-humans AND with justifiable grievances has meant being consistently policed harshly, forced into special zones, and punished severely at the slightest sign of of "uppitiness." And historically, the tip of the Establishment's spear has been the police. And just so, the anger, hatred and violence of blacks has been directed at the police. Meanwhile, the authors of this situation, the rich and powerful, remain above the fray. They get to tsk tsk the behavior of the police (as if they weren't doing their bidding!), set up commissions, punish a cop here and there and, in the end, making sure that those who threaten their way of life remain constrained though under more acceptable disguises, such as "preventing terrorism." That's the current false front of The Establishment for the wholesale assault on the Constitution and our rights. That's the excuse given for recording all our phone calls, emails, purchases, google searches, plane flights, etc. And it is the excuse they use to crush, for example, the 4th Amendment, the excuse they use to enter private property during which - surprise! - they find signs of other sorts of "troubling behavior," the sorts of things "our betters" don't care for. Those who fall back on the excuse of "So long as you're not breaking the law, who cares what the cops do?" are complicit in the destruction of the rights of everyone by their sniveling subservience. You are the ones good old Ben Franklin warned us about when he said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." And that is precisely what is off-putting about "patrolling" private property with the reprehensible excuse that it is about keeping us all safe from the "terrorists" when it is the police and the Establishment they represent who are the greatest threat to our freedoms, our way of life and, yes, to our very lives themselves.

Why do you avow that they are the same people? Great post. Rex brought TT to town? Jeez, I thought Whaley did, based on the recommendation of his Pro Scouting department. Will this September be when you watch your first Bills game with Tyrod?

This goes immediately to The Troll Hall Of Fame.

Tremendous story. Dunne keeps this up, he won't be w/the BN much longer. Sullivan must despise him.

aargh.