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One of the interesting things with Baker is you always hear the Browns fans defending him and many in sports media trumpet that he is not to blame, but former teammates say nothing. If the Bills traded Josh Allen 2 years ago before he fully blossomed, Shady etc would have made some positive comments about Josh. The silence has been and remains curious.

This was an interesting breakdown on the impact of Tremaine Edmunds. I am not for or against Tremaine other than I want him to do well to help the Bills win. The person used data to make some points, based on what Tyrel Dodson stated about Tremaine. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2022/7/5/23169554/fact-checking-tyrel-dodsons-claims-on-tremaine-edmunds

And gave a bit of an update on Kim "She’s doing a lot better now. That’s why I'm here. If she wasn’t doing well, I probably wouldn't have come. I flew out Wednesday last week, and within that time she was in a really good condition, where I felt like everything was fine, and I felt like my family had everything under control. She’s progressing and she’s been doing rehab,” said Pegula, who faces Harriet Dart of Britain next. “I felt comfortable coming here. But that’s why I didn’t play any warmup tournaments.” https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Pegula-almost-didn-t-go-to-Wimbledon-now-she-17274807.php

https://www.profootballrumors.com/ is not bad either. They have most of the same stories as PFT without the editorializing about how crappy the NFL is and how I need to read Florio's book. He has become like Peter King .. half information / half opinion on non-football things

In fairness it never mentioned whether you could make the playoffs with a dumpster fire roster like in 2017, which somehow miraculously he did and aside from an obvious bad call on the "block' we would have beaten Houston with said dumpster fire team barring a missed FG.

Malik Williams has been released after the signing of Tavon Austin https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/06/03/bills-waive-malik-williams-with-tavon-austin-signing-official/

Here is the actual hit if anyone wants to see it.

A write-up by Syracuse.com that discusses this. My very favorite part was this quote “I’ve loved all of the places that I’ve played, I really have...but nothing compares to the City of Buffalo, not even close,” Fitzpatrick said last summer. He may have been a Harvard grad, but who he is more so is one of us ... a Blue Collar, Bills Mafia guy.

When you a superstar a team will "deal" with this and wait for you to come back. When you are a player at the bottom of the roster like Andre Smith .. you end up cut.

It is the politics - if I want to listen to politics I am not getting on a sports channel, but more so the contrived arguments. Everybody is given a point to defend and get overly loud defending it even if it is makes no sense. In the old days they had sports and sports highlights .. and that was about it. It was great TV

This is what happens when you have a star .. people are going to compare to him … who is the next Josh Allen, how does QB A first year stars compare to Josh Allen. To be honest I did the same thing with our list of mediocre QBs before Josh. I still think you can’t say for certain what Tua is going to be at this point. At the end of the year with the new offensive weapons he will need to make a leap or he will confirm what some suspect that he is just a guy

Answers the tough questions .. best wing place beyond Bar-Bil, would he rather fight a Isaiah sized Grizzly Bear or a Spencer Brown sized Koala, fav and least fav road game location (fav is not surprising), and discusses many other topics. Josh Starts at 19:30ish and goes to the end (30 mins). The Ferguson brothers are pretty entertaining. Nice casual listen.

Case has been dismissed. Now on to football. https://clutchpoints.com/bills-news-von-miller-secures-big-win-in-revenge-porn-case/

50% of the 1.2 billion dollar endowment goes to Detroit and the other goes to Buffalo. One problem is they have 20 years to spend it and the endowment grew to 1.9 billion from investments. For those upset that the state and county are paying a high price for the stadium .. this should take some of the sting out of it. https://www.yahoo.com/news/riverwalk-park-plants-spend-1-100020994.html

And here to convince you all that OTAs do have relevance on how someone will perform in the regular season is a thread from our very own TBD stating how impressive Josh has been to that point for the team in his rookie season. Lot's of talk about how great he would be .. only problem was it was the wrong Josh lighting up Arizona (some of it is comic gold). I say wait for the first several games of the regular season to decide.

I think everyone would agree with the 2018 draft being an A+, Prisco in his regrade of 2019 draft (reasonable amount of time to judge) gave the Bills a B which I think is fair. Buffalo Bills 2019 Grade: B The Skinny: They had eight picks, and three are starters heading into the 2022 season. They are first-round defensive tackle Ed Oliver, fourth-round tight end Dawson Knox and third-round running back Devin Singletary, although he will be pushed by this year's draft pick, James Cook. Oliver has been good, but not dominant. Second-round offensive lineman Cody Ford is a backup, who has started at times. How I did: I liked the pick of Oliver, and he's been a good player, not a great one. I didn't love the pick of Singletary in the third, and he's just been solid. I did like the choice of Knox. New Grade: B It sounds just okay, until you read the review of the other drafts. 5 per Prisco were better, 3 were tied with a B grade and the rest (23) were worse and in some cases much worse than the Bills. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/regrading-the-2019-nfl-draft-bill-belichick-goes-from-perfect-to-failure-49ers-improve-from-c-to-a/ Then there is the other thing to consider .. there is almost nobody on the team from before Beane joined and yet we were one screw up away from hosting the AFC championship after having gone to the AFC championship last year. This is the definition of what it looks like to have a great GM. No offense to people like @IronMaidenBills, but I think the group that thinks Beane is replaceable need to reevaluate.

Is also a musician that before NIL went by the name "Lucky Bill" when he performed ..seems appropriate https://wvmetronews.com/2021/07/02/marshall-football-player-will-ulmer-no-longer-lucky-bill/

I want Safety Cam Lewis to get an actual training camp invite from his try-out, so I can see Cam Lewis (CB) and Cam Lewis (S) tackle a player in a preseason game just to hear how the announcers would handle it.

Bills have best rest differential in the schedule for next year. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/05/13/nfl-schedule-makers-gave-bills-a-key-advantage/

It is 55 minutes, but Ernie and Charles are awesome. Josh starts at 15 minutes in and goes for 15 minutes. Josh's music choices The Match - will be called by Charles, Earnie and JJ. Watt Relationship with Mahomes Charles on being a pseudo-Bills fan and the Bills fans Charles on Josh Allen being cheap Playing in bad weather - Josh hates it but likes the advantages he gets from it. Nice interview and Charles and Ernie are great at engaging the conversation.

They based it off of the number of searches for teams by country https://wyrk.com/buffalo-bills-popular-nfl-team/ using the same methodology (for what it’s worth) we were 13th in the US. Winning and having a baller QB does a lot for a football teams image

ooohhhh that's nice .. I like it.

Current team only: Allen - Winter Soldier (it just fits though it hasn’t stuck) Singletary - Motor Dawkins - Schnowman Knox - Buddy “Party Doll” Knox - have to be a 50s music fan to get the reference Bates - Rick Mackenzie - Lil Dirty Shakur - love the suggestion someone made above Lil Shaker Rousseau - Groot Miller - Karate Kid per him https://predominantlyorange.com/2014/06/21/von-miller-reveals-nickname-demarcus-ware/ Oliver - Big Ed Basham - Boogie White - TreDay poyer & Hyde - Dr. Porter & Mr Hyde Bass - Big Leg Tyler Bass Araiza - Punt God others that need one desperately: Davis Milano - too bad Cookie was taken

It is mind blowing to think that even 2 years ago nobody would be thinking .. oh the Bills just got player X .. it is not fair to other teams .. we are in the twilight zone and it is awesome

He identified his top 5 .. not slam dunk top 10 picks, but the ones that when you did a little you realize it is an amazing match write-up is here: https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2022/05/buffalo-bills-made-sneakiest-good-draft-pick-of-2022-nfl-draft-says-rich-eisen.html actual video clip with all 5 is here skyy Moore to chiefs was number 2, Cook to Bills number 1