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To protect himself - I heard he was wearing a dress and using the ladies room - better hurry and check the ladies room also - let us know how that goes! 😂

Don’t know if he is done, but he is hurt again. Knee buckled needs an MRI after the swelling goes down.

I highly doubt it. The current stadium was not a catalyst for anything and there is less in the area now. With no other destinations - any bars/hotels have to live on essentially 9 dates a year - it is not going to work. They need something on the property that drives business the other 340 days. A couple of big casinos, several new businesses moving there from other locations, a nice music venue for smaller concerts, an outside summer league soccer team to play in the stadium 25 times during the summer, etc. The stadium with NFL can not support anything else in OP - it never has and it really won’t.

Play time this weekend for Josh - should be zero. I would hope for a couple of limited series week 2 and nothing at all Week 3. That gives the O-Line a week to gel with everyone back before protecting Josh in live action and then a couple of weeks after the week 2 game for players to get treatment and ready for the Rams.

There has been no growth or anything built around the stadium since it opened and there is little reason to believe anything successful would be built with the new stadium as the new stadium changes nothing in the dynamic. There is nothing in the area to drive weekly business to the area. It is why downtown was the answer if you want to build around the stadium. There are already 30+ bars and restaurants scattered around Pearl, Elmwood, Delaware - that survive on Weekday business traffic and Friday/Saturday night party traffic. If you have the established infrastructure that survives without the Stadium- it would enhance and add to it with 11 more weekends of huge crowds. When the stadium was decided back in OP - you are basically just building a stadium - you lose surrounding revenue because nothing will survive long in a rural community that has nothing except 1 day a week for 11 times a year. They could build a great Hotel on ECC property and a great Hall of Fame, but the Hotel would have to survive on being full about 1/4 of the year and nearly empty the rest of the time - not a long term sustainable plan.

I am totally different, but I enjoy Turner, but the rest of the Cover 1 team to me are horrible listens. After a game looking for content- I struggle to listen to Tompsett and Quinn. I don’t find either of them to provide much of anything. Anthony Prohaska to me ruins the Turner listen. His voice is bad and he adds nothing. When Nate was paired up with Turner - it was fine, but the current pair is sub par. I want to like Marino with the daily podcasts, but he just sounds horrible. I can listen every so often - especially around the draft, but I can not make him a regular listen. The nice thing is there is a ton of content- the difficulty is a lot of it is garbage 90% of the time - with a few gems thrown in. I just wish Turner would pair with someone else as his content is stellar.

This is such a limited part of the story. She was in the hotel room and they were all involved because some other stuff was going down. They had been drinking heavily and got a group of young girls up to the hotel room and then things started going wrong when she did not cooperate. She acted badly, but Hunt was a total arsehole and not only shoved her once - the shove he gave to his friend that then immediately knocked her sideways was nasty. In addition he kicked her maybe not hard, but there was no reason for it. The entire situation could of been handled by hotel security, but there would have been many questions about what was going on. It is a big part of his history and will always be a part of his character. It was bad enough that a team with multiple players with violence against women and children cut him and it allowed a scummier team to sign him.

This division throws me. I top to bottom it is not a great division. I voted for Dallas, but would prefer Philadelphia - I just thinks Hurts is super inconsistent and is not really an NFL level QB. Dallas with McCarthy will lose a bunch of games they could win, but I feel similar about Hurts. If Washington or the Giants had anything on their rosters - I might step outside of the top 2 and take a shot, but when I look at those rosters - I literally gag.

Look at the decals - it is the same kit as on the white helmets. 2 blue stripes flanking a large red stripe down the middle. This would take the Bills staff like 30 minutes or less to put together. They just needed a red helmet lying around. This is not a different design from the regular white helmets. Just as Josh rolled out a Red over White uniform last year that he knew we were not using and then talked about his love for the scheme - I think this is Josh having a bit of fun.

It wasn’t 2 blue stripes - it was the same decal kit as on the white helmets, it was a strip of 2 blue and a red stripe down the middle - the red was just hard to see on the red helmet. Josh did not have something different made or unique decals - they just fitted a red helmet with the current decals. It was nothing but a bit of fun and is not some kind of prototype or planned helmet. It is just a red helmet fitted with the current kit used on the white helmets - nothing more.

If you look at the Red Helmet - you can see the Red between the 2 blue stripes is a sticker - it is the same 2 blue stripes and red center that is on the white helmet. The Red Helmet Josh had used the exact same coverings that the white helmet used - just placed on a red helmet. It was not a preview or a prototype, but it could be used to gain some idea how fans would react, but if they go to red helmets - it won’t be what you saw tonight. That was a throw together using the current helmets kit and needed some type of white to off set the color, but the current decals do not have the white incorporated. We know from past scrimmages- Josh likes the Red uniform and my guess is he likes the Red Helmet - so my guess is we will see something shortly, but not this coming year because the Bills have stated it is not part of their 2022-23 uniforms.

Totally agree - that is part of why it looks wrong. They said it was just Josh doing this - I think he loves poking little fun at things.

Hate the blue strips on it - looks wrong. Give me the Whites all day - every day.

I hear you, but the guys they draft and look good in this system do not pan out with other teams. The Bills find guys that fit their system and get lots of help being allowed to be aggressive.

Snyder is on-going and Kraft was doled out prior to the new CBA. The NFLPA will have little to go on and with the recent suspension of Ross and team punishment- I think the window is even smaller. Heck even Snyder with his original findings lost control of the team for a couple of months. I still think Watson should be suspended 6 games for each person that came forward - give him 144 games and after the 8 years - the Browns still have to deal with the contract. The Browns should not be allowed out and Watson should not see the field through the rest of the 2020’s.

To me - this is a very scary moment in Jets history. It actually reminds me a lot of Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz in Boston and I hate Baseball, but everyone was saying those guys were done and they were trying to unload the contracts and no one wanted to take the players even cheaply. Then bang they figured it out and suddenly the team got good again around them. I am hoping and praying someone goes and takes Becton out of NY for pennies on the dollar because there is enough talent that if he puts it together could make them tough and combine that with a lot of youth and to me the Jets can be a scary team. I want talent to start coming off that team because there is talent there and I do not want any teams really challenging the Bills for the division for the next 15 years like the Pats had. Give them all Rebuild after Rebuild.

I will be very interested in watching this play out. In year 1 of Edmunds and Milano as the LB pair - the Bills did a ton of double “A” gap looks and blitzes that were very effective. The issue seemed to become that it was mostly Milano that was effective and soon he would get blocked and the effectiveness decreased. If Bernard can show the ability to blitz like he did in college - He and Milano as double “A” gap blitzers might give another aggressive wrinkle when needed.

MGK - The issue I think is middle ground. I have been in all levels of management and each of you make points that are correct. The issue I have is Bruce said ~ there are guys I am praising in meetings that I fire the next week. That is terrible management if you are praising a guy in front of his peers and then firing him the next week - it is a terrible look. What you said is different - not criticizing a person in front of peers is very different than praising a co-worker or a player that you have issues with and want to move on from. I think from McD - praise in the media is a real thing. He does not heap praise out and when he does I think it somewhat means something.

Although I agree in principle with this. I think @GunnerBill called it more correctly. I expect that the majority of Beasley’s catches still go to the slot guys and is broken up along a 40% Crowder, 35% McKenzie, 25% Shakir - getting McKenzie to career numbers (as you said not real hard). I think McKenzie will be used more as a true WR this year. I think some of the trickery catches he had stay with him, but I expect Cook will get a bunch of those. Cook will also get a significant portion of those catches that went to the combined RBs last year with Singletary getting the reduced number. I also expect Davis to get most of Sanders targets - plus a few extra and the targets as a 3rd wr that Davis got last year go to additional Knox targets, OJ Howard, Shakir, and spread amongst RB, 3rd TE, and Gilliam. The numbers are there to be distributed and who gets what will be interesting to see. I expect that McKenzie’s targets and yards per target go up and he is used more like Beasley than he has been in the past. I think Cook starts to fill the McKenzie role with some trickery due to his better vision and RB body.

I think this is 100% correct. I think Cover 1 did a nice job after the regular season win in KC - showing how the Bills were mixing up the coverages, but doing a lot more tight man with White on the outside and Taron in the slot and then playing a more aggressive zone on the other side with much less space and tighter windows. It allowed Taron and White to play outside leverage and keep their eyes on the ball more and force the plays into the zones if needed and gave protection to Wallace. It allowed Hyde and Poyer to move up and be more physical and limited Edmunds zone size allowing him to be more set. The loss of White on Thanksgiving limited the ability to mix coverages as well as before. Dane played well at times, but he was easily tricked by double moves and Wallace was just to slow. That forced the Bills into standard 2 deep coverage to protect them - which they play very well, but allows really good QBs - Brady, Mahomes, etc to pick them apart. I think they are hoping that Elam and White allow that same kind of switching of defenses to better match-up and perhaps better protect the weak spots by switching up where those weak spots are. I think they believe aggression on the outside with talent will make the #1 defense even better this season.

You have got it backwards. Ferguson was colorblind - hence the change to red helmets. It had nothing to do with Kelly - the helmets were already red when he arrived.

Don’t mind them at all. Can’t stand the bBears, but the combination is way better than the Red - especially the Red on Red the Bills have worn.

If it is/was the same offense and terminology - I have no issues siting him, but with a new OC and several new offensive coach’s - I would like to see him get a couple of series to work on communication within game. Getting calls from the OC with real crowd noise, timing of the calls coming in, where the OC is comfortable (booth versus sideline) and how that impacts communication with JA. Work those things out with a couple of drives in pre-season - rather than finding out against LA that something does not work in the set-up and it costs you.

Totally agree - it is just nice when the mods have them set ahead of time - so everyone knows where to post before the game day stuff rolls in.

Totally agree - kind of like game day or the draft - pre-make a thread that opens for each day and have all of the relevant tweets and talk go in there.