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Jet skis aren't any more inherently dangerous than most motor boats. Like a car, jet skis become dangerous when people ride them recklessly. It's not like Hines was sky diving or bull riding.

Yes, he/she/it is. I'm a GMFB fan, and yesterday they made their predictions. All of them had the Bills in the playoffs. Jason and Peter picked the Jets to win the division while Jamie and Kyle had the Bills taking the division. They picked either the Chiefs or Bengals to go to the SB. None picked Miami The analyst who now does the power rankings for NFLN ranked the Bills #5 early in the preseason and #3 most recently. IIRC, the Vegas oddsmakers still make the Bills the favorite to win the division. Not all "experts" think the Bills are also-rans.

Yes. If you can watch your ABC station via Spectrum today, you can watch the game on Monday on Spectrum. Your local ABC affiliate isn't owned by Disney.

The last Jests player whose bold prediction actually came true was Joe Namath's claim that the Jests would win Super Bowl III in 1969.

Don't sweat it. Brain farts happen to the best of us ... I speak from experience!

Hearing this, my first thought was maybe Sauce ought to wait until the Jests actually win something before he compares their defense to one of the greatest Ds ever.

Success as a college HC is all about recruiting -- players and assistant coaches. Sanders has a big edge in recruiting over many first year collegiate HCs not only because of his NFL fame because he can point to the success he had as an HBCU coach.

There's another thread on this topic. If you are a Spectrum customer and can get programming on ABC, you should be able to see the Bills on MNF since the game is being broadcast on both ESPN and ABC. If ABC is blacked out, then your ABC station is owned by Disney, so you will have to find a work around to see the game. The other thread has lots of suggestions.

It took them years to get rid of Snyder in Washington.

Pickett started poorly as a rookie but showed considerable progress late in the season. He has looked good in his limited play in preseason (and not just against the Bills). He doesn't have to be Josh Allen to be a good/excellent NFL QB for Mike Tomlin's Steelers. This is my take as well, especially the AFCN. I think that the Ravens and Steelers are closer to the Bengals than the Jets and Fins are to the Bills, particularly because of Harbaugh and Tomlin. If Watson resurrects his early form, Cleveland can become a formidable force in the league, capable of beating any team because their D is damn good. NE doesn't have nearly the talent that the Brown have. The Patriots are always "in the picture" with Belichick as HC, especially in divisional games.

Best first round draft pick New England ever spent!

It's entirely too early to decide this question, so I didn't vote. Both could be successful, both could fail, one could fail and one succeed. If Watson recovers his early form, Cleveland will win a lot of games and most Browns fans will be forgive him for his past bad behavior. If Wilson resurrects his career, all will be forgiven in Denver, too. If one or both fail, my guess is that some heads will roll in the organization(s).

The "battle of Lake Erie" with any two of the three teams from cities on the lake would also be a contest between two teams that have never won a Super Bowl. A Browns-Lions Super Bowl would be a match between two teams that have never been to a Super Bowl before.

Exactly! For the record, three backup QBs led their teams to SB victories: Earl Morrall (Baltimore Colts, SB V), Jeff Hostetler (SB XXV), and Nick Foles (SB LII). There have also been several QBs who'd best be described as "journeymen" or "average" who took their teams to SB wins, including Mark Rypien( SB XXVI) and Trent Dilfer (SB XXXV).

The ABC affiliate for Buffalo (WKBW channel 7) is still available to Spectrum subscribers (me). I think this is because Spectrum picks up the ABC feed via WKBW rather than directly from Disney. Unless your local ABC station is owned by Disney, you should be able to get the Bills game next Monday even if the dispute isn't settled.

How, exactly, is Rodgers "a good fit in New York"? Aside from doing celebrity things around town to dazzle the media, Rodgers has done nothing to fit in with the Jests. The team has done more back flips to accommodate Rodgers than a gymnast prepping for the Olympics, including hiring his favorite former OC as their new OC and adding several Rodgers' pals to the roster. The NY media and Jests fans are smitten with visions of Lombardis dancing in their heads because Rodgers deigned to appear in a preseason game for the first time in five years and looked "good" against the Giants' 2nd stringers. We'll see just how good a "fit" for New York Rodgers really is when reality shows up beginning September 11. Rodgers and the Jets seems much more like Russ and the Broncos than Stafford and the Rams or Brady and the Bucs. Both the Rams and the Bucs were solid offensive teams with good OLs when they added their new QBs. Even Brady didn't receive the royal treatment afforded to Wilson and Rodgers by their new teams and the local media when he arrived in town.

I'm optimisitc because for all the whining about the Bills "tough schedule" in 2023, all of the AFCE teams face similarly tough schedules. All the teams face 6 games against their AFCE rivals, 4 games against the AFCW, and 4 games against the NFCE teams. That means each team has 3 games different from the teams its rivals play. The Bills play the Jags, Bucs, and at Bengals. The Dolphins play the Panthers, Titans, and at Ravens. The Jets play the Falcons, Texans, and at Browns. The Patriots play the Saints, Colts, and at Steelers. All the AFCN teams are going to be really tough outs, so none of the AFCE teams are finding easy pickings here, especially since all the AFCN teams will be at home. The Bills may have a tougher schedule, but it's surely not significantly harder than the schedules of their AFCE rivals like so many doomsters worry about.

If he's healthy, why wouldn't Allen be at/near the top of the QB rankings when the FO has given him more and better weapons and added better players to the OL?

Her name is Jamie Erdahl, and she is much better than Kay Adams.

Actually that was an offensive explosion compared to the epic Bills-Brown stinkeroo on October 11, 2009 when the Browns beat the Bills 6-3 after Parrish fumbled a kick off, enabling the Browns to kick the winning FG. Derek Anderson threw 2 completions in 17 attempts for 23 yards and 1 INT. The Browns didn't even have 200 yards of offense. The Bills passed for more yards and ran for almost as much as Cleveland, but Trent Edwards was intercepted once and Roscoe Parrish lost two fumbles, including the one that led to the winning kick for the Browns.

Suck it up, Buttercup. As a long time Bills fan, I survived the Bills struggling to win 2 games all season long. I survived 0-for-the-1970s. I survived HCs who were so incompetent that the players mutinied (Hank Bullough) and HCs whose aim was not to lose by too much (Dick Jauron). I survived a #1 overall pick who refused to play for the Bills (Tom Cousineau). I survived watching players the Bills developed into stars leave for other teams over and over and over again. I survived a football organization that that put profits over winning for a decade. I'll worry about the wheels falling off the Bills' juggernaut when I actually see the wheels coming falling off.

So, you can't know if you're doing your career/profession/job better or worse today than you were the day you started unless somebody's done an "objective study" of your progress or lack of same? My guess is that your supervisor doesn't need to study a dataset to figure out whether you've improved since you were hired or not.

Some posters need to improve their reading comprehension. Sorry, HappyDays never said that playing center was easy. Sorry, but HappyDays never said that center wasn't important, either.

Why are you surprised that some on this MB think Dorsey can't improve? There are pages upon pages of comments in multiple threads already consigning the 2022 draft class to the bust pile. Our window has closed. Beane can't make good picks in the first and second rounds. The Jests and the Carp have better rosters, etc etc etc ... Sometimes I have to go back and check that the Bills actually did go 13-3 last season and won a playoff game given the litany of "the sky is falling" chants that seem to be overrunning this MB.

The window closed when Beane failed to draft Creed Humphrey ... //sarcasm