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I genuinely despise the design as well. It’s not a joke when I say that these are the two images I picture when I see the renderings: Nothing about it seems great. Everything about it screams “average”.

Sigh. I truly cannot believe we are building a stadium without a roof.

1) Tim Graham can be a jerk sometimes but he and Dunne are seemingly the only Buffalo media members willing to publicly speak on PSE’s private matters. Everyone else is too scared to upset the only business in town. 2) The fact that the son-in-law was “fired”, which is very different than resigned, implies that something not great happened. Graham wouldn’t have used that word willy-nilly. 3) The rosy picture that PSE painted when they first rode into town on white horses is being severely eroded in recent years. From the PSE slide-deck release that prioritized the families lifestyle, to the firing of every executive they ever hire, to the disaster that is the Sabres, to now this. As time moves on, I genuinely am becoming convinced that McDermott is keeping this operation stable. I don’t agree with all of his coaching decisions but he is clearly a good man and leader of men. Yeah… Terry is the last owner I think of when I think “loves the limelight”. He won’t even give a once-a-year press conference.

So you’re saying they made smart moves. Im not sure how this refutes my point. Huh? Burrow is not on a rookie deal. His contract is larger than Allen’s.

We do have an elite QB, but he is only accounting for 8.5% of the teams cap. And he accounted for less than 5% the past two seasons when we were also having cap struggles. As an example of why this excuse holds no water, the Chiefs have an elite QB as well. And have won 3 of the last 5 Super Bowls. Yet they still have over 20 million of cap space. Another example: The Bengals also have an elite QB. And we’re in the Super Bowl 2 years ago. And have beaten us twice in a row, including one of those times in the playoffs. They have $23 million in cap space.

How did we get into that cap bind.

Here is the scale model of the seating. You can see how steep it is in the upper levels. Also shows how the roof covers a larger portion of seats than the renderings imply. The 100 level seats appear to be the worst in the stadium in my opinion.

It’s how I feel at the moment but I do need to reevaluate in a few weeks. I’m miserable right now with work stress and it may be clouding my judgment.

You’re starting to get at where i’m coming from. NFL front offices don’t have “experts” in my opinion. Not in the sense that one can be an expert in chemistry, for example. Meaning, a static profession where there are rights/wrongs/factual data that is objective and doesn’t change largely depending on the opinion of each person you ask. For example: A neutral Oxygen atom has 8 protons, 8 valence electrons and 8 neutrons. There is no disagreeance among experts because the fact is static. Ask every Chemist expert and they will all say the same thing. This is not the same in football - you can ask 50 scouts how good a player is and they will have 50 different opinions. You can’t be an expert in that. Especially when you’re wrong 70% of the time. But i’m on a flight to India and no one wants to read us squabble, so you may have the last word. Goodnight and Go Bills!!!

Yes, by virtue of what football is, non-experts who spend considerable time doing their homework can guess at nearly the same rate that “experts” do. Keeping in mind that “experts” are just normal people like the non-experts, except due to connections they are able to be paid for it.

How many of Brandts prognostications failed as a percentage basis compared to NFL front offices? Because NFL front offices fail up to 70% of the time as well.

That would be quite the forum! Just imagine it… ————- Joe: Beane did a splendid job. Bob: He sure did Joe! What a splendid job he did. Mary: Oh my goodness it was super splendid. Joe: Indeed, more splendid that splenda! Bob: Do you think Beane prefers splenda? Mary: I bet he does! After all, he did a splendid job. Joe: Remember last years draft? He did a stupendous job then. Bob: Oh yes, very stupendous last year. Gary: Sorry i’m late to the thread everyone. Has anyone mentioned how stupendous last years draft was? Mary: Oh yes Gary, it was stupendous. Doug: What about the year before that though? It was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Joe: Indeed!

I would like to see some non-anecdotal data for this assertion. A few years back an analysis was run on the Bills draft record during their drought. Nearly 20 years of data. In that span, it was shown via analysis that if the Bills front office had simply followed a publicly available player ranking (think: Kiper, McShay, etc), they would have drafted more impact players than they actually did. A similar one was down for Oakland I believe. Thats right - the professional NFL front offices of multiple teams, with access to dozens of scouts, in-person interviews, and player data galore, was beaten out by a generic player ranking list. Too many people buy into the “expert” fallacy. That simply because someone does something for a living, that they are better at that job than someone who doesn’t do it for a living. It’s not always accurate.

There was no insult intended. Apologizies if anything I said was taken that way. I was simply stating that you must not have seen Greeny defend the Bills nearly non-stop for 3 straight years now if you're going to say that he can't be objective about the Bills. Greeny, Simms and Brandt have been the most outwardly spoken Bills defenders of the past half decade. That's just a fact. What he said about the trade is spot on in my opinion. Beane has some question marks right now about whether he actually IS a good GM. I used to think he was. But he has made many many many blunders that have set this time back. From signing a 33 year old Von Miller to a massive deal, to letting KC jump us and take McDuffie (leaving us with Elam), to trading one of hte leagues best Guards to Cleveland for a bag of peanuts, to swinging and missing on Basham and Doyle and Fromm and Joseph.

Yikes.

Greeny has been backing the Bills for years now. If you have been living under a rock, I can understand not knowing of Greenys defense of the Bills but here they are: I'm not drawing any parallels. I didnt want him. I simply posted that the media is destroying the Bills for making the trade and rightfully so. You don't trade with the team you're trying to catch. Klingons don't trade with Romuluns.

We disagree greatly. I do not agree that trading a 4th for a 3rd is a “steep price”. Many people think we gained a pick - we didn’t. We just moved up a bit. Had they actually paid a steep price, I would have been far more okay with it. There is also 0 evidence that they still get Worthy without us. Maybe they would have or maybe they wouldn’t have. The fact that they made a trade signifies that they did NOT think Worthy would have fallen to them.

I mean, the actual Tyreek Hill was passed over 32 times in 4 different rounds. So the fact that 27 teams passed over him doesn’t mean much to me. That being said, I really didn’t want Worthy either. I just don’t want us to hand KC who they want.

That’s partly what scares me.

Maybe so. But it’s everywhere. Not just on NFL Memes. ESPN, Bleacher Report, The Ringer, FS1, etc. Im going to just avoid media for the next week.

No way to know. But even if they would have, it shouldn’t have been through our handing him to them. We are the joke of the NFL right now. Seeing stuff like this everywhere (and Greeny was a Bills ally all last season, defending us when no-one else would): Im not one for cussing, but it pisses me off.

I hate the position. Not the player.

He definitely does seem very capable of making catches from any angle and plucking the ball out of the air. That may be more valuable to the team than separation, But I gotta tell ya - Allen’s best season came when Daboll was scheming guys into separation.

I would send you to what I told Gunner. Here, i’ll copy/paste it for you: I recall an analysis done several years ago where it was shown that if the various Bills front offices of the drought (close to 20 years of drafts), simply followed the public sentiment of player grading (McShay, Kiper, etc) the team would have drafted more high caliber players than they actually did over that span. That was incredibly eye opening to me, and showed that the NFL GM’s who had done thousands of hours of game review know not much more (in terms of predictably of success) than the guys watching significantly less.

Huh? The conversation you quoted had nothing to do with the Bills picked. It was talking about trading with the Chiefs.