SoTier
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On 6/7/2025 at 9:57 AM, Low Positive said:
He acts like most people don't already have subscriptions to most of those services. I already have Alta Fiber (cable), Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, and ESPN+.The only thing I have to subscribe to is Sunday Ticket and I can get the student rate. Talking about the price of services that stream games as if the only reason that people subscribe to them is to watch football is like including the price of buying a car in your calculations of the costs to drive to Chicago. Sure, if I didn't have a car it would cost around $20,050 to drive there, but because I have the car for other purposes, the drive costs a tank of gas.
Exactly. The original tweet made a mountain of a mole hill.
- Since I live in the Bills' "territory", I get to see every Bills game via OTA stations without an antenna because I have cable.
- ESPN is included in my cable tier. My cable system (Spectrum) also offers NFL Red Zone on a sports tier which provides TD plays from every game live or within minutes for a monthly fee. I start it before the first week of the regular season and end the subscription when NFL Red Zone finishes for the season ... 5 months max.
- Several other services have monthly plans, including Netflix. Depending on the schedule, you might only need to subscribe for 2 or 3 months.
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I subscribe yearly to Peacock because it's so cheap, and I get to watch the Tour de France live.
- I use Amazon Prime's free shipping (and free returns) so often that my savings on shipping pay for the subscription.
Of course, someone intent on watching every NFL game live (I personally don't believe that's actually possible for a person to do) probably doesn't have many other interests.
Besides, it's physically impossible for a person to watch every minute of every single NFL game live even if the technology is there to do so. Even with split screens or multiple tvs, you can't divide your attention equally every minute to all the games, so you're going to miss something. NFL Red Zone (available from my cable company on s sports tier for about $10/month for 3 or 4 months max) works well, plus NFLN has replays of many games.
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I saw one of my ruby throat hummingbirds today. She was flitting around the solomon's seal near the front deck. Usually, the hummers don't show up until the hostas start blooming ... or maybe I just don't notice them because the solomon's seal in the backyard is pretty far from the house.
I've also had purple finches and goldfinches show up at my feeders this week as well as a beautiful female hairy woodpecker (hairy woodpeckers look like downey woodpeckers, only much bigger and with a different shaped beak). I think that this might be the same woodpecker that hung around my feeders most of the late summer and into the fall last year since hairies aren't nearly as common as downeys. She was probably a young bird last summer, and figured my neighborhood was a good place to raise a family.
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RIP, Loretta.
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Bengals
Oops!!! I knew it was one of those Ohio teams!
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28 minutes ago, finn said:
Well, as with life in general, the hair-pulling and regrets do have the benefit of helping avoid similar mistakes in the future, at least supposedly. Maybe evolution selected for such a high-degree of guilt, bitterness and regret in our species because it takes that much to penetrate our thick skull to not make the same mistake twice. I assume Beane has an outcomes-assessment review in place where his staff considers why they made the mistakes they did, going back years. I'm sure it's more efficient than hundreds of pages of posts declaring how idiotic certain picks were. But, given the thick-skulls theory, maybe reading through the thorough roasting here is what it would take to persuade him not to draft players like Boogie Basham and Cody Ford.
In any even, go Keon! I really, really do not want to spend the next ten years despairing how we could have had Ladd or Xavier.
The draft is a crap shoot. First and second rounders bust all the time. How many TSW sages were convinced that Beane drafted the "Wrong Josh"? I missed out on being in that group only because I wanted a) Baker Mayfield or b) Lamar Jackson. Nobody really knows how these kids are going to turn out.
BTW, Cody Ford is still playing in the NFL. The Browns recently re-signed him for 2025 IIRC.
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9 hours ago, DJB said:
How is it any different from those that defend Beane and or the Coleman selection?
Nobody has started a thread defending Beane or Coleman and has refused to let this thread fade away.
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How long are some TBD posters going to keep beating the same dead horse?
The Bills didn't draft McConkey or trade up to get Thomas. Deal with it. All your continual whining changes nothing.
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6 hours ago, Gugny said:
This goes beyond OTAs.
I’m close to 40 years into my Bills fan hood.
The difference between him and Super Bowl winning QBs is work ethic.I will most certainly not give it a break.
Well, I got your fandom beat by considerably more than 20 years, but you sound the cranky senior with a sour view of all humanity younger than you and your cronies.
You have no idea what Brady or Mahomes' work ethics were/are compared to Allen's. You just want to diss Allen because the Bills didn't make the Super Bowl, you're still po'd and you need another scapegoat because Kincaid and Coleman have already been burnt to a crisp.
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10 hours ago, Gugny said:
We don’t need Kincaid to live there.
We need Josh Allen to live there.
There are Tom Bradys and Patrick Mahomeses.
Then there are Josh Allens.
The ones who put in the work win the rings.
Period.
Allen was in Buffalo for OTAs just days before his wedding.
He's not at the OTAs this past week because he's on his honeymoon.
This is probably the first set of OTAs Allen has missed in his career.
Give it a break.
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15 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
Kincaid vs Oliver as this year’s TBD whipping boy
I don't know about Kincaid being the TBD Whipping Boy of the season ... it seems to me that Keon Coleman might have the edge here.
14 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:I'm not sure why people don't recall why Kincaid fell out of favor. He was HORRIBLE in the playoffs. Even the one long catch he was credit for in the Denver game was clearly a drop that they got away with.
Oh, please! The TBD mob had their pitchforks out for Kincaid even before the season started, starting with all the complaints that the Bills should have drafted Sam LaPorta.
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1 hour ago, Alphadawg7 said:
Thank you!
The myth of Trent Edwards is wild to me. I remember that season when we started 4-0 and I started a thread stating if he doesn't play better we would miss the playoffs. I got flamed left and right because we were "4-0" - albeit we had just beat 4 of the worst teams in the NFL. Trent had 1 TD in each game...our Def/ST combined for more TD's over that 4 game span than Trent had himself. And we barely beat 2 of those really bad teams that year.
He wasn't good, all he did was just not make mistakes while we beat the bottom feeding teams and let our defense/ST help carry us to wins. Soon as our defense and ST stopped scoring TD's we couldn't win a game with the president of Dakota Fannings fan club at the helm.
He was never good. He showed some potential as a rookie, then created false hope when he wasn't doing a whole lot in a hot 4-0 start against bad teams where our D and ST were scoring an unsustainable amount of times, and then just went on to never improve from what he had been.
And the injury myth still persists to this day for some as the reason he stunk
"Captain Checkdown" never learned to read defenses ... which is why he earned that nickname. He was the perfect QB for Dick Jauron (who believed in playing not to lose games by too much) because Edwards was good with throwing a 4 yard pass on third and 5 and then punting. Jauron disliked Losman because he (Losman) tried too hard to make plays and win -- IOW, he took risks, which Jauron hated.
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8 hours ago, Jalan81 said:
I would say it just didn’t perform when it ultimately absolutely needed too.
8 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:It's an issue of not forcing defenses to defend the entire field. Even McDermott said we need to attack more vertically.
The issue was that the Bills defense wasn't good enough to stop KC from scoring more points than they had scored in any game in 2025. No team has beaten KC in the playoffs without the defense getting after Mahomes and limiting Kelce.
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15 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:
Rapp saved us so many TDs and games last year by never giving up on plays. The guy is one of the only people we had that plays with general aggression. He was probably my favorite player on the miserable Defense and was never appreciated even by our own fans. Safety WAS a problem last year but it was the other guy.
I thought the biggest problem for the Bills last year was WR. /sarcasm off
13 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:Schatz is the guy who once called Allen "a parody of a NFL quarterback" and also said, "the idea that Josh Allen could become an elite NFL quarterback pretty much defies math.”
I can't say I trust his judgment.
I can't blame the guy for his poor prediction about Allen since I was skeptical about Allen, too. Many were. As a rookie, Allen's most notable traits were his leadership and his willingness to do whatever he needed to do to win. To call Allen's improvement from his rookie season to today "impressive" is a huge understatement. It has been awe-inspiring.
9 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:We have Josh Allen, Dion Dawkin, Cook, and Benford, we are now accustomed to guys being top 5 or even all timers. Good time to be aBillsfan.
I remember a time within the last two decades when Rapp would have been the best player on the team.
9 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:Bishop right now can't beat out Forrest. BUT... he should be given every chance throughout the year.
You don't know that; the team hasn't even had any mandatory workouts yet.
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2 hours ago, Ya Digg? said:
Unpopular opinion, but let’s be honest, Dion is the epitome of “love him if he’s our guy, hate him if he’s on the other team.” Think about the clientele on this board, if Dawkins played for another team, he would be called obnoxious, overrated, he should just shut up, blah blah blah. We know him, we all love him, but yes, his personality definitely turns other fan bases off
While what you say is true about fans, this list is supposed to be based on how players perform on the field, and the guy who put it together is supposed to be a professional. Tyreek Hill has a less than endearing personality but that doesn't diminish his play on the field.
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6 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
Good god. It was sarcasm of Beane's WGR call. WR is the most concerning position going into this season and whether the WR's step up in the playoffs will pry determine our fate......again.
How the defensive line and defensive backfield develop during the season and perform come playoff time is much more likely to determine the outcome of the Bills' 2025 season than anything else. Teams beat the Chiefs in the playoffs when their defenses get after Mahomes.
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1 hour ago, Mango said:
On the useless ladder it's about one rung lower than One Bills Live.
Given the ages of one Terrance Pegula and Ralph C Wilson, I'm astounded that neither could figure it out.
The MB was shut down before Pegula purchased the team IIRC. I think it was just part of the evolution of message boards.
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2 hours ago, SirAndrew said:
It’s really cool to hear some stories of posters who became fans because of Allen. I think there’s many people who don’t post here that might never admit to not being fans before Allen. Buffalo always had a devoted Bills fanbase, but I think the fanbase outside of WNY has definitely increased. It seems that upstate NY is now Bills country. Fans always existed, but I’ve noticed the disappearance of Giants and Jets fans in upstate. I remember when Syracuse television networks would broadcast Giants and Jets over Bills games that occurred simultaneously.
I lived in the Albany area during the Glory Years. The Albany network affiliate always carried the Jests rather than the Bills and sometimes even the Patriots even though both teams sucked as badly as they've sucked the last couple of years. They got so many complaints that they decided to have the fans vote on which team they would show, which the Bills of course won, if not necessarily because there were so many Bills fans but watching a crappy team lose week after week doesn't appeal to many people.
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1 hour ago, DJB said:
Unfortunately if Coleman doesn’t take a step and Beanes addition of Palmer fails miserably, the 2026 draft is very weak for the WR position
2027 WR is stacked however with J Smith WR OSU likely the first overall pick.
Since the Bills are already doomed before Memorial Day, why not plan for the 2026 and 2027 drafts just like in "the good old days" of the Drought Era?
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13 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
I look back with quite a lot of nostalgia now at the drought. An era when every regular season win felt like a massive achievement. Especially if we beat anyone half decent. Now the regular season games often feel very routine and I kinda miss that jeopardy.
Having a great team with a superstar Quarterback is definitely better, don't get me wrong.
I cannot find anything nostalgic in the Drought. It was painful, especially for someone who had season tix for several years during it. It did make me appreciate how special the current team is. I never take any Bills game, especially the wins, for granted.
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2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
I’ll stay out of this one because I’ve said my piece on this many times. Are we now questioning the validity of PFF? While we might not always agree with them, we can’t act like they don’t have credibility because we don’t like the data. All 32 NFL teams use their data. We can argue that receivers not getting open didn’t play a role in Josh’s inaccuracy down the field. We can’t argue that the people producing the data aren’t credible.
I wasn't questioning the validity of PFF data. I was questioning the use of it by the OP as ammunition in his crusade.
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My current dog is mostly an Australian Heeler/Australian Shepherd named Leroy Jethro Gibbs that answers to Gibbs. I found him at an Amish farm, but didn't buy him that day because I had a road trip to an event at RIT planned the next day. Somebody had texted me while I was on the road that I should name my new pup Jethro, which didn't impress me. Then on the way home, we passed the Thruway exit for Leroy, NY. Being a fan of the early NCIS, what else could I name my new little boy but Leroy Jethro Gibbs??? By sheer chance, naming Gibbs after the lead character in the original NCIS is a perfect fit because both have kind of "unique" personalities. In the case of my Gibbs, a lot of it is related to his genetic make up: he's OCD when it comes to balls (he will fetch balls until he drops, and he also hoards them); he hates rakes, mops, and brooms as well small wheels on baby buggies, lawn mowers, etc. trying to get them to stop; and he "smiles" when he meets his favorite people (a notable trait linked to Heelers). While Gibbs will chase squirrels and woodchucks, he's not a killer; he tries to herd them. He's also very vocal, letting the world know when he's unhappy, especially when he can't go everywhere I go, but also when he's playing with various squeaky or chew toys. He also takes his job as watch dog very seriously, not just at home, but at the local dog park, while walking in the neighborhood or in the park. The world is full of suspicious things like pigeons, flapping laundry, boats at the ramp across the street from the dog park, etc that he needs to warn me about. He also sings to sirens and joins his besties at the dog park in community howls.
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1 minute ago, Another Fan said:
That X post is a perfect example of how much over analysis goes into the NFL by amateur "analysts" with too much time on their hands.
Fixed it for ya!
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Find another dead horse to beat. This one's past putrid.
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I'm with @rusty shackleford on the differences between Northtowns and Southtowns. I have family who live in both areas, so I frequent both.
IMO, the only problem with the Southtowns is the heavy snow. The solution to snowblowing as you age is to hire somebody to clear your driveway and sidewalk (if you have one). You can find almost all of the same shopping and dining options in the Southtowns as you can north of Buffalo. The village of Hamburg is very walkable.
The biggest problem with the Northtowns is the traffic. What good is having all kinds of options for shopping, dining, and entertainment within a 1-2 mile radius when it takes you 30-45 minutes to get there? Kenmore and Williamsville are both walkable villages, but you will still need to brave the traffic for most shopping and dining.
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Keon Coleman success by route - Not pretty
in The Stadium Wall
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McDermott didn't have the same defense in the last 2 playoff games against the Chiefs. Coaching can only go so far when the defense is limited by injuries (2023) and a lack of talent (2024), but continue pushing your agenda against him since you seem to need a convenient whipping boy. McDermott is going nowhere in the foreseeable future.