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Burning a 3rd round pick on a RB makes me sick to my stomach. Use a 4th or lower, or get one somewhere else. Maybe sign whoever gets cut in training camp.

Not to mention the guy pegged to go at 5 may prove to be substantially WORSE than the guy who goes at 27. Stuff like that happens every year. "Ranking" is a suggestion. Didn't know we were on a first name basis with the GM.

This is true. It's just not widely reported.

I thought you were going to discuss straight up eliminating ST from the game itself, which I'd be interested in pursuing. But if your point is simply that our administration GREATLY over-values the importance of special teams, you are dead on correct! It's all part of that classic, old school, football guy mentality, that these guys all learn in the game bubble from the same people, and then kick around in the bubble for the remainder of their careers. It gets passed from one generation to the next in this way, and is handed down as "football knowledge." Like so many aspects of the game, we now know that is all BS. Data says otherwise.

Judo isn't going to help his situation at this point. He's already had too much brain trauma. And if he doesn't miss ALL OF NEXT YEAR, it will get worse, not better. Enjoy the judo!

I would get rid of that dawn dish detergent. That's not made for washing your car. There are about 100 million specialty car products out there from many different brands that offer everything you need. Also, not sure how often you truly wax your car, but if you're doing it more than MAYBE once or twice a YEAR, you are simply putting wax on top of wax. Which doesn't hurt your car, but it doesn't help protect it anymore than it already is, as well. And washing/waxing cars by hand, though necessary, is a pain in the ass!

American penis size ranks 59th in the world; yet another category in which we are definitely not number one.

Miyagi-San, this story promised so much more than it actually delivered! Sorry! Guy sounds like some sort of weirdo. I'm surprised you thought about it enough to create the post. Just let it go! I was hoping this story was going to involve a trio of call girls, a whip, and a bottle of gin.

Here, here! This is a solid idea. For all intensive purposes, we can't hit first round picks anyway. They're coaching department just can't get the job done for some reason. I like the crew assembled, but for some reason, there record just isn't good. Who knows, maybe we'll do a blockbuster trade and give away all our picks, and then this will all be mute anyway.

I guess you are talking about McDermott referencing the Japanese Kaizen approach to business---focusing on constant improvement. I have to disagree here. Just because he wants to get better and is trying to get better doesn't mean he will get better. Though in his defense, he HAS gotten bette at certain in-game tactical sorts of things. Others, he has remained horrible at. We still have no smartly designed, effective, call review system in place, which is indefensible.

Hard disagree. If that's your way of sayin "he's really good" I agree with you. Dan Marino was really good too. Played in the big dance in year 2 of his career. Never won a ring. To name one comp. Nothing is guaranteed and a lot has to come together to win it all, especially with our in-game coaching staff, which remains a liability.

I was going to respond to you with the bolded, until you wrote it first! This is dead-on in my opinion. I have been saying this for several years now. Making the OL better makes Josh Allen better, which should be Mission Numero Uno!

First off, never move up, move down. More picks are better than a higher pick. Second of all, moving up assumes these teams have perfect knowledge of the talent pool out there, and have accurately ranked players, such that in order to get good players, you MUST pick early. That's simply not true. There are classic, historic mistakes made all over the place in every draft. We don't need to trade up. We need to figure out how to find and assess true talent, regardless of where frigging Mel Kiper ranks it. Agreed and if we look at the evidence and history, what are the odds of this playing out? You see why I am pretty confident we'll regress somewhat next season. The question is how much.

It's McDermott. He's your classic, ultra conservative, old-school, "football" guy. These guys preach "win in the trenches", "ground and pound," the wild dangerous foolishness of going for it on 4th down, and MASSIVELY over-value the special teams game as being "one=third of the game." It's not. In fairness, McDermott has grown as a coach and has overcome some of his timid nature during games. His record for going for it on 4th down in particular is pretty darned good. But it'll take forever to totally transform him into a current, 21st century football mind.

That was definitely not your teacher! It was mine! Sister Mary Gerald. I was taught by a lot of nuns going back to about 1976. The funny thing is, it was always the generation before me (i.e., parents and parents of friends) that talked about the "old days" when the nuns would straight up beat the crap out of kids! My crew didn't do that. Though I did have to do things like go stand in the corner facing it for like 1/2 hour...write things like "I will not throw things at my fellow students" 500 times on multiple sheets of paper, and we even were still doing the thing where you stand facing the chalk board trick and you had to touch your nose to the chalkboard for a while. Without question, a good number of them were frustrated lesbians totally confused and unsure of how to deal with their own sexuality. They end up hating themselves, and as a result, every thing around them. In fairness, you had the good ones, too, who actually wanted to be nuns, and were very spiritual people. Sister Roberta, 2nd grade teacher, African American woman from South Carolina, remains the best teacher I've ever had, and I have a post-graduate education with lots of teachers. And a genuinely beautiful person. Sorry for this digression, but I just finished my morning coffee and I'm revved up.

I am a night owl anyway, so it's easy for me to enjoy these west coast games. Caught all of it last night. Especially in the 2nd and 3rd, we were absolutely FLYING. We are such a fun team to watch when we are on our game. There is more talent on the team now than we have had since 2006, which was the best Sabres team I have ever seen play. We might be better than 2006, once these guys fully develop. Guys like Samuellson, Power, Cozens, are all excellent now, but NOT CLOSE to their ceilings. Same for Tage Thompson for that matter. Then you have the kids who are still trying to find their games consistently, but promise so much. That's guys like Peterka, Krebs, Quinn. And I haven't even mentioned guys like Tuch, Girgs, Skinner, and Dahlin who are in the proven camp as being excellent players now. And we have the best salary cap situation in the league. The future is bright. It would be so much fun to see these kids play a playoff series THIS YEAR. The building would be packed and the crowd would be in a frenzy, despite the last decade. And I wouldn't be surprised to see them break out those black goat head sweaters, which I absolutely love, and which we wore in....2006.

Great post. I have been a hardcore Red Sox fan since about 1980. For years, it was nothing but failure, and the fanbase was convinced the team was cursed. Like the baseball gods were out to get us because things never worked out right for US. Then, after decades of incompetence, racist roster choices, completely neglecting the concept of base running, and way over-emphasizing HR hitters, the team got lucky when they hired Theo Epstein as GM. A whole bunch of really smart decisions later, and we had our WC in 2004. And then more followed. Bad Bills luck will hopefully some day take a back seat to sheer competence. No doubt the administration, flawed as it is, is the best we've had since Polian. So I guess there's still some hope!

I've seen a few in there. I agree it is a wonderful experience not to be missed. And the colosseum in Verona is much better preserved and complete than the big one in Rome, to boot. Smaller, but more complete and it gives a better impression of how it was. But admittedly, I'm a hardcore opera fan; had season tickets to the National Opera in DC for years. Sat across the aisle from Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell. LOL Here's the inside:

I'm relieved. I think the Bills would LOVE to re-sign him and probably had it as a top priority, but if Edmunds is going to chase the money, there is no way we can stay in the bidding. THANK GOD. Frees things up fore more important positions. Not necessarily; he's far from irreplaceable and he's not hate only fast LB out there. A lot of Edmunds supporters are going to get an education when he is replaced with someone else, and the D marches on more or less the same.

You aren't the only one. 🤷‍♂️

He's not bending his knees enough to generate that sort of leap, and humans can't jump that high anyway. Isn't there a known vertical jump for the guy from the combine? Just looked it up; 40.5" which is pretty fantastic! In the video he's jumping like 5 feet however.

Chychrun doesn't make any sense for the Sabres IMO. We already have him.

Never heard of it. Don't live under a rock. But I'm not into computer stuff.

Not sure how "famous" he is, but I went through high school at St. Joe's and graduated with Vaughn Parker in 1989. He was an all NY State phenom football player; went to UCLA; got converted to OLman; drafted by SD Chargers; played for many years as the starting left guard for the Chargers. I can still see him walking down the hallway at school, wearing khakis, a button down, and a tie...and being a head taller and way bigger than anyone around; he was like 6'4" and 280 as a teenager.

Of course luck is needed; our problems last year didn't stem from a lack of it. Funny how Bills fans overlook stuff like this and then talk about how we are victims of endless bad luck. I am inclined to think that next game against the Bengals would not have been the walk in the park we all thought it would have been at the time of the 13 seconds game. But there is no doubt Josh was playing as well as he can play and as well as any QB can play and it was looking like our year. Then of course there would have been the issue of beating the Rams. Not sure that really was our year, but we had a really solid shot at at least a SB appearance.