SoCal Deek
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There’s nothing to see here. It’s the natural evolution of things. Sure, Major League sports have become more expensive as they’ve become more and more popular. This has been happening slowly over many decades. But “corporations”? I think not. It’s nothing more than a business model. Some car manufacturers target higher end customers. So do some restaurants, and clothing stores. But….there are plenty of options to attend entertainment events (sports, theater, etc) that are not super expensive. For example, I regularly attend college games of almost every sport that are actually FREE. It’s competitive and a ton of fun.
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I’m definitely old. I don’t recognize a single name on the Patriots list…not one.
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11 hours ago, Just Jack said:
@SoCal Deek, I've wondered would there a plan for how the seats are laid out by color. Pretty sure it's not Jim Bob just grabbing whatever he feels like and installing it.
Yes, it’s all laid out originally by the architects and then detailed in the shop drawings created by the seating contractor. While the design is random, the installers are following a seat by seat ‘map’. Believe it or not, in the old days, prior to CAD we would have had a spotter with binoculars on the other side of the stadium bowl signally to the installers which color they want where. Crazy, right?
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7 hours ago, Ga boy said:
Got that. Asking about shadows on field during game.
Shadows will of course vary depending on the time of the day and month of the year, but they’ll definitely cover some of the field at times. Not as much in September as they will in late December when the sun is lower in the sky.
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2 hours ago, Ga boy said:
Have there been any renderings of shadows/shade on the field caused by the canopy?
Renderings? The video fly overs show the real thing. The roof is done.
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3 hours ago, K-9 said:
In your experience, how many new stadium construction projects are at 100% completion contractually even though the facility is ready to be played in? I imagine there are project elements that don’t involve the building itself at all, like landscaping etc.
It varies. It’s more to do with how far out in advance they started. I always say to the Owner and Contractor “the one date I cannot change is today”….there’s always a finite number of days until Opening Day.
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3 hours ago, eball said:
First view of the seats! Seems as though they really are putting in a “splatter” pattern of blue and red like the renderings depicted…looks cool.
Thanks for sharing. A few things to note:
1. You can see how fast the seats go in. Just a month ago they hadn’t even started installing them.
2. The progress on the exterior metal paneling is a concern. It’s a long way from done, and Winter is coming. On a related note there, you can see the top curved piece of the paneling is solid (not perforated). It closes the gap between the last row and the roof. That solid piece keeps the wind out of the interior.
3. I’ll be curious to see if the grass goes down this month. On my tour, the Contractor said they were targeting October.
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To get us back on track, the Bills are about to get THREE defensive players in their starting rotational roster. These are guys who aren’t playing at all right now. Which means we therefore have THREE defensive players who are currently playing major snaps for one of only two undefeated teams in the entire league. There aren’t any other teams that need a defensive starter? Seems to me that’s the place to look for Trade Deadline moves.
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1 minute ago, eball said:
I have a feeling that all of this “finishing” work will be stuff that not many attendees will know about or even notice…I think you’ve noted in this thread previously that the remaining work after “substantial completion” is akin to a punch list after closing on a house.
That’s somewhat correct. Substantial Completion is defined as the point where the Owner “can occupy the project for its intended use”. Punch List pick up is a bit later down the road. For Substantial Completion there may be items that have yet to be installed. For work to be defined as a Punch List item it’s supposed to have been installed but needs to replaced, refinished, or repaired.
I hope that helps.
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27 minutes ago, BillsPride12 said:
As a local in WNY I know of a few people either working on or connected to the stadium project and I am hearing the same thing across the board from all parties. There's alot of stuff they are behind on in there right now. But yeah it will definitely be ready to open in 2026
It’s not at all uncommon for Trade Subcontractors to hold this opinion around this time in a project partly because there are more Subs on site now than ever before. With ‘finish’ work starting on the interior spaces there’s work going on seemingly everywhere around the site. Add to that the push to get certain critical tasks completed prior to winter and I’m sure it can seem overwhelming to the Trades….but I’m also sure the General Contractor has a plan and a schedule they’re working with.
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1 minute ago, FireChans said:
Which means we may need to open a roster spot by trading a running back for a late round pick?
So we’re going to deplete the offensive side of the roster by three positions? Sounds like a plan McD can get behind. 😉
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1 minute ago, FireChans said:
Unless we are running 6 DL packages, we aren't getting two defensive starters around the deadline. Larry O and Hoecht aren't starting over the other guys, they will be rotational pieces.
Whether they’re starters or rotational pieces, the League isn’t going to allow us to expand our roster up to 56.
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Without making a single move the Bills are slated to get two defensive starters at or around the Trade Deadline (maybe three if you count Mad Max). So we need to trade a running back for a late round pick?
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9 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
What a cool story. What a great thing to do for a Bills fan.
I don't have a big red book. The details of games and seasons get away from me. But I have plenty of memories.
Not sure if you can still get a copy of that Big Red book, but I’m betting you’d cherish it. It’s the most detailed history of the Bills that I’ve ever seen. I wish they’d publish a new edition that picks up where the first one left off.
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Hey Shaw…congrats on the book! I’m curious if you have the big red hard cover book that covered the first 35 years (I think) of Bills history? It included a statistical game by game summary of every game in Bills history up to that time. Your story reminded me that for Christmas one year I gave my dad that book, and inside it, I pinned personal notes and stories/memories of each of the important games we attended together since I was a little kid. My Dad is now 92 and having suffered a significant stroke this year is unfortunately a mental shell of the man he once was. But….he still has that big red book of memories on the shelf in his room.
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4 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:
Did IU play Ill recently? I remember a scrimmage with a team in orange uniforms.
Nah…the Illini didn’t play a game two weeks ago. 🙄
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4 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:
I went to Indiana for college. It was more a chair throwing kind of place.
The Hoosiers? Those bastards!
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37 minutes ago, MiltonWaddams said:
Sounds like you should be a professor at Cor-not University!
They do have an excellent School of Architecture.
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20 minutes ago, Old Coot said:
Nothing much to quibble with here. A spot on analysis, Shaw.
I do have a comment. I have an amorphous dread (it comes with being a Bills fan -- hope for the best; expect the worst) of the Bills "playing down" to their opponents. It's mostly on D but also the offense. The O is scoring 30 points a game but the points come in spurts; it's not a consistently productive O.
Hopefully both O & D will improve as the new bodies gain experience.
Your post got me to thinking because I know exactly how you feel…..so I looked it up. The Bills have played 16 quarters of football this season. They’ve scored points in 15 of the 16. (The lone exception was the second quarter on Sunday.) I’d say 15 of 16 is pretty darn amazing.
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1 hour ago, fergie's ire said:
Ahhh, beating George Seifert's record. I always remember George Seifert because as a kid I was a huge Cornell football fan. Seifert was fired as coach after two years with a record of 3-15. Who knew he would go on to such great things at the NFL level?
Cornell has ‘huge football fans’? Who knew? 😉
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If he doesn’t know we’re playing the Patriots at HOME this Sunday, how much stock can I put in his weekly picks? 😳
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15 minutes ago, PaattMaann said:
I think some people here have absolute insane expectations for our defense, especially after just 4 weeks where we have seen two of our best defenders missing multiple games (ed and Milano), our 1st round CB not taken a snap, and two major offseason additions suspended for the first 6 games and not playing. LOL. Oh and we have a top 10 pass defense.
FACTS:
McD defenses have ALWAYS been soft on the run, BY DESIGN! We want you to run the ball. Please, run the ball all you want. We would rather have you run than have explosive pass plays. That. Is. What. We. Want! You will never see this defense have big space eating DTs who are dominant against the run, thats not who we draft, thats not who we sign.
Our defense thrives on negative plays and takeaways. We are OK giving up yards because we are hunting for a negative play that puts the opponents behind the sticks at some point and the drive stalls out. We are looking for turnovers, and ALWAYS get them. McD defenses have been causing turnovers regularly since his arrival in Buffalo (and before that). It isn't an accident, it isn't a fluke. It is preached and practiced. It is successful. You know what stat is the most predictive when it comes to wins in the NFL, TURNOVERS!
The defense this year has not been as bad as many think. For some reason many have whack expectations. We just held a team to under 20 points and under 300 total yards, under 150 passing yards. You do that and your going to win every game. It does not matter who the opponent was, its a week to week league and every team is going to give us their A+ effort.
Against the Patriots
We will do what it takes to win the game. Will they run on us? Sure, see above. Will we get a turnover, and likely a timely one, Sure, see above. It doesn't have to look pretty, it just has to get the job done.
All of that may be true, but it doesn’t stop me from getting an ulcer watching them….BY DESIGN! 😉
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Ha! The Jets are bad….again.
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Well done Shaw. I have to admit that I hadn’t ever considered the lack of preseason as well as you summarized it here. The first four games have lined up nicely for our Bills and if you look around the league it’s obvious that many other ‘good’ teams have yet to get their feet completely under them.
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Field Logo & End Zone Change for Tomorrow?
in The Stadium Wall
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It’s isn’t difficult to change the artificial field graphics. They literally do it once a week at Met Life and So Fi stadiums where two teams share the field.