SoTier

It's common for the surgeries on the eyes to be a little different from each other. My second surgery (right eye) felt a little "scratchy" at first but it's fine. The laser surgery in office, if necessary, only takes a few minutes. I was able to drive myself home afterwards.

Some drafts are just like that. I think the 2000 draft was also notable for lacking in many outstanding players.

Cry me a river for the Fish.

Players today know their worth. They also know they have a small window to secure their post-NFL financial futures, so they are willing to play hard ball with ownership, especially when they play positions where salaries have exploded in the last 2 or 3 years. Trubiskey looked significantly better in the pre-season than he did in Pittsburgh or even last season with the Bills. I think that the Bills roster is considerably better than many on TSW think it is, and Trubiskey helps make it better. He's highly unlikely to be able to win 5 or 6 games if Allen was out, but I think he could lead the Bills to 3 or 4 wins out of 6 games, depending upon the opponents. I don't think any team with a high caliber starting QB like Allen could ask for much more if their backup QB has to play a string of games.

Thanks for the definition of INCEL. Since I spent 2/3s of my life in the previous century, I'm sadly ignorant of current slang. I finally figured out that something that's "dope" is really good.

I only went back to 2018, but the Jests tradition of picking busts goes back decades.

All Bills fans want a Super Bowl win, but most realize that there's no guaranteed path to getting it.

I don't know about. I think the Jests might just be the most inept QB evaluators in the NFL. The Jests traded 2 2018 second round picks and their 2019 second round pick to Indy to take Sam Darnold at #3 overall in 2018 ... with two future NFL MVPs, Allen and Jackson, still on the board. Then they gave up on Darnold and traded him away to Carolina after 2020 so they could use the #2 pick in 2021 on Zach Wilson. In 2023, the Jests traded picks #13, their second round pick and a sixth rounder for Aaron Rodgers, the Packers #15 pick, and a fifth round pick. Wilson was traded to Denver in 2024 for a sixth and a seventh round pick. In 2025, they signed Justin Fields as a FA for $30 million over 2 years. In 2024, Darnold took the Vikings to a 14-3 record and made the Pro Bowl.

Is there evidence that the Bills never made an offer to Dolac? He was an UDFA, so he could go to any team. Maybe he always dreamed of living in LA. Young people in their twenties frequently want to move elsewhere, especially if they've gone to college in their home towns. I went to Nebraska for graduate school for that very reason. I remember the "bad old days" when the Bills rosters were sprinkled with numerous undrafted players. Rarely they hit the jackpot -- OLer Jason Peters is a future HOFer -- and occasionally some became pretty good NFL players like DB Jabari Greer and RB Fred Jackson, but most never became more than backups. I think the currrent Bills simply don't have room on their roster for many UDFAs. IIRC, the MAC was more highly considered by NFLers 20 plus years ago than it is today. Pittsburgh took Ben Roethlisberger in the first round of the 2004 draft.

Injuries are a reality of the game. Every team gets them. Maybe the Bills get their share in setbacks early, and get everybody back healthy for the playoffs which would be a big positive!

I also think that a young QB who aspires to becoming a HC, working with a great QB in an excellent organization would be a priceless apprenticeship. Both Kevin O'Connell and Kellen Moore are among the former QBs who never did much as players but learned the game as backups.

I don't think it ever was intended to "help" bookies. Just the opposite. It would prevent gamblers capitalizing on knowing that a player was definitely or unlikely to play in a game when most did not, and betting accordingly. It also lessens teams' ability to hide how available players are for upcoming games.

2025 is the two hundredth anniversary of the very first project in the US that used public monies an infrastructure project. It was the Erie Canal, aka at the time "Clinton's Ditch". New York State footed the entire bill. The canal opened up the entire state west of the Mohawk Valley. What had been economic backwaters became boom towns as the canal terminus moved west between 1817 and 1825 when it reached Buffalo. In 1825, Buffalo had a population of about 2500 souls. By 1832, the population jumped to 25,000. It was one of the richest cities in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. Why do you assume that the Bills won't find a successor to Josh Allen? As long as the team owner is committed to winning football games rather maximizing profits, it's likely the team will find some success on the field. Most NFL teams do. FTR, most of "the general public" has been priced out of buying season tickets in most NFL stadiums for a couple of decades at least, and that includes the Bills.

OLers don't count. The talking heads haven't anointed Brown a "elite", so he isn't in the minds of most fans. If the Chiefs could have found themselves even a decent LT in recent drafts, they'd probably have 5 Lombardis in a row.

Some people can't trust themselves to be optimistic, so they walk around fearing everything is a sign of trouble to come.

I don't believe that the CBA requires that health/injury information be made "public knowledge". The CBA may require that players sign waivers and give their teams their medical information, but that doesn't give teams the right to release that information to the public without the individual player's consent. I think that Vrabel has a right to be unhappy with someone telling the press the severity of the injury.

I will say that Mitch has looked better this pre-season than I expected. I don't think he's starter material, but I think he'd be okay for a game or so.

When a well-appointed Subaru Forester can top $40k and a Ford F-150 twice that, a $100 million for a yacht isn't getting you anything too fancy.

I don't think this story is based on anything but the "news" site attempting to create a controversy where there actually is none. What constitutes "some fans"? IMO, any number greater than 2 constitutes "some" since 1 equates "a single fan" and 2 equates to "a couple of fans". Look at the responses on this thread. The "outrage" about Pegula's yacht is so miniscule, it's virtually non-existent.

Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. The Eagles won Super Bowl LII with Nick Foles as their QB. Update: there's been no update on Tre's injury from the Bills.

Trubisky and White are what they are: backup QBs. No team is making the playoff with either as their regular starter. They would not be starting for the Bills, either. Give McDermott a competent starting QB -- a Sam Darnold, a Geno Smith, a Trevor Lawrence -- and he would take the Bills to the playoffs if the rest of the team was as it is now. Coaching can only take a team so far. It can't make up for late season/playoff run injuries to multiple starters.

Don't confuse people with facts; their brains might explode from exposure to too many of them. Who, exactly, is "Bobby B"? Another poster trying to deplete Bills Mafia with a surfeit of facts intended to make weak brains explode! B0000000!!!!

Even today, northwestern/north central PA east of I-79 and north of I-80 is sketchy for services like gas stations, restaurants, and cell service if you're off the interstates. Frequently, what appear to be villages or cities on maps frequently turn out to be a half dozen houses, a wooden church, and a volunteer fire department at the intersection of a gravel road crossing a paved road.

There are three exposed areas of large boulders within a few miles of I-86. From east to west, there's Rock City Park near Olean, Thunder Rocks in Allegany State Park near Salamanca, and Panama Rocks near the little village of Panama. Panama Rocks is privately owned.

IMO, the Bengals are much more interested in profits than in winning football games. They got to the SB four years ago, and that's apparently good enough for owner Mike Brown. He's poured most of the team's resources into the offense while kicking their best defender to the curb. I guess Brown's theory is that an aerial circus will so mesmerize the fans that they won't notice that the Bengals are losing games because their defense can't stop an old woman using a walker.