DonInBuffalo
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"funny" can be very subjective. Movies that some people find hilarious others might find "eh". For example, I thought The Hangover had a few amusing scenes, but overall it didn't do much for me.
Used Cars is my favorite. The scene where they cut into the Presidential address is an absolute classic.
Others that come to mind, not in any particular order:
Animal House
Neighbors (Belushi's last movie)
Slap Shot
Caddyshack
Police Academy
Porky's
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You underestimate Jerry. That's what the satellite lots closest to the stadium charge:Jerry Jones of Dallas with Highway robbery for charging, per Dallas newspaper, $75.00 for parking for the first round playoff game in Dallas.http://www.arlingtoncowboysparking.com/
$67 for the back of the lot, $77 for the front, and $82 if you want to tailgate. Looks like that's the same price they charge during the regular season.
http://www.cowboystickets.com/parking.html
For the game yesterday, they were still selling parking passes for two lots. One was $100, the other $150. Presumably the other lots were already sold out. For the NFC Championship game, parking prices range from $110 to $295. If you want to tailgate in the stadium lots, you need to park in specially designated areas:
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The replay system doesn't allow challenges on judgment calls. IMO this is a very good thing. Most penalties are judgment calls, such as holding, or pass interference. If you allow replays on calls like that, you're pitting the judgment of someone watching a replay vs. the one of someone who was observing it live. You're asking the replay official to make decisions such as "in your opinion, did that constitute holding?" That opens up an entirely new can of worms, and isn't how a replay system should work. Replay should limited to much more cut & dry scenarios.you should be able to challenge ANYTHING. you should be able to challenge until you get 2 wrong. each time you get one wrong you should lose a timeout. -
The draft sites that I've looked at say that Bradford and Clausen are the only QBs worth considering taking that high.
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Probably more like 20-25 at least. Let's do some very simplistic math:I always wondered with an 820 million dollar asset ,why you couldn't borrow the 270 for the estate tax against the team and pay it off bases on profit. 1o years would clear it up maybe quicker- Assume the Bills make about $30 million in profit, after taxes, per season.
- Assume they take out a loan for $270 million at 5%.
- So almost half of your profit goes to paying interest you've accumulated that year. You only have about $16 million to pay down the principle. So there's no way it would get paid off in 10 years.
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and a $270 million estate tax is a problem for the wilsons? the team is worth over a billion. ralph paid, what, 2 million to buy the team? how about his other businesses? he has to have WELL over a billion in assets
Actually, he paid $25,000 for the team. 50 years ago, $2 million probably could have bought you a NFL franchise.
$270 million in taxes is a problem for pretty much anybody. I'm guessing that if you exclude the Bills, his entire estate isn't worth anywhere close to that much. So on top of factors already mentioned, if he left the team to his children, they would have to sell it just to pay the taxes they owed on it.
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I agree, and he has no excuses, since the roster was stacked full of people who played almost exclusively on ST. (Wendling, Corto, T. Johnson, Parrish, ... )Special "Forces" this year, were not what they once were.There was a big dropoff this season, especially in some of the earlier games. I noticed on a number of occasions early in the season when they didn't have the proper personnel on the field for a ST play, and they either had to run somebody on at the last second, or call timeout. That's just lack of preparation on April's part. It's his job to put together all the teams, after the 45 man roster for Sunday has been determined. If anybody assigned to one of the teams gets injured it's his job to identify the replacement and make sure he gets on the field.
In addition, some of the problems that McKelvin and Parrish had also have to reflect negatively on April. It's his job to give McKelvin last minute instructions on that kickoff in the NE game. It's his job to remind Parrish when it is/isn't a good time to be taking unnecessary risks.
On top of that, mistakes were made that weren't corrected. One obvious example is Byrd getting called for the same penalty (unsportsmanlike - pushing somebody out of bounds and not letting him back in) two games in a row.
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He has three daughters:
- Linda was the first female NFL scout. She had cancer and died last year.
- Christine does merchandise consulting for the Bills.
- Edith has no involvement with the Bills.
They have their own lives/careers and aren't interested in becoming NFL owners.
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If you've got some other candidate for CEO, I'd be interested in hearing it - but Russ Brandon somehow managed to sell a whole bunch of jerseys and a whole bunch of season tickets with no talent on the field. He'll continue to do that from the CEO position. Brandon takes decisions away from Ralph. Nix is in charge of Sundays.
That's what I took out of it too. Now the entire football operation can be run without Ralph being involved in any day-to-day capacity.
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Here are the ones I could find, leaving out special teams:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_NixHere's the wiki link...no names but he did draft a lot of pro bowlers
Tomlinson, Antonio Gates, Drew Brees, Lorenzo Neal, Jamal Williams, Shawn Merriman, Marcus McNeill, Nick Hardwick, Kris Dielman, Angelo Cromartie
Seven of them have been to multiple Pro Bowls.
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There are 4 teams with less than 4 wins.
There are 2 teams with 4 wins.
There are 3 teams with 5 wins.
There is 1 team with 6 wins.
So, without knowing the tiebreaker, which is strength of schedule, we know for sure that the Bills will draft somewhere between 5-10. If they lose, it will be somewhere between 5-9, if they win it will be somewhere between 6-10. Let's assume for the sake of argument that Washington loses at San Diego, and Chicago beats Detroit. Assuming that scenario, if they lose, it will be somewhere between 6-9, and if they win it will be somewhere between 7-9. While it's possible they could lose out on an elite prospect by dropping down just a few picks, IMO it's not particularly likely.
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Fewell responded to a question in his press conference, saying that the fact that Brohm was throwing to Hardy in practice in previous weeks would have no impact on whether Hardy gets on the field on Sunday.
If Hardy does play in 3 WR sets, I'm assuming that most of the time TO would be in the slot.
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Ironically, Schobel was under contract through 2009 when he approached the Bills in the summer of 2007 to discuss a contract extension.
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Looking at the opening day roster for 2000, I see a few more names worthy of consideration:
John Fina, Peerless Price, Phil Hansen, Ted Washington, Sam Cowart
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Actually, he left college two years early.Good work PSaunders.There is no doubt that he hasn't lived up to our expectations of what we were hoping. Having said that, he did leave college one year early, didn't have all that many starts over there to begin with and is still way too skinny to be effective.
He has the athleticism, burst, work ethic and mojo to be a good player in this league. I for one havn't given up on him, and I would hope that he adds another 10 pounds of muscle for next year.
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That's amusing. Since the players had the day off, I doubt if anyone knows who is starting.NFL Total Access just said Brohm is starting.FYI
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As of right now, it's very possible that neither Trent or Fitz will be able to practice this week. So the Bills needed to sign another QB just to be able to run a normal practice.
Brohm is entering his 5th week of practice with the Bills. It makes sense to have him take the 1st team reps, and start, over someone who hasn't even been with the team for over a month.
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Umm they cant. All they could do is match the offer he got from another franchise. Way to know what your talking about though.
Based on the reading I've just finished, I tend to agree with you. Practice squad players are free agents who, generally speaking, can negotiate a contract with any team at any time. The only restrictions I've found are:I'm calling BS on that one. Come up with a link because I've found nothing of the sort in the rules. Why would there ever be a rule that the team that has a player on its practice squad cannot sign the player to a contract of whatever length & salary it wants? Way to make things up though and state them as facts.- teams can't sign a player off the practice squad of their next upcoming opponent if it's less than 6 days before the game.
- teams that sign a player off another team's practice squad must keep him on their active roster for a minimum of 3 weeks.
Generally speaking, players that are signed off of practice squads are signed to the league minimum. So it would be unusual for a bidding war to occur when a signing occurs.
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Quinn. Every article I read specifically stated that he would coach the game.Humm. Who is coaching Cincy against Florida now?I feel sorry for the players on that team. They go undefeated, get invited to a major bowl game, and their HC quits on them and leaves for ND before the season is even over. Then their OC/Interim coach signs with UB, so he's a lame duck now too.
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I don't recall reading any article which specifically claimed that offer was ever made. Based on everything I read, I reached the conclusion that all the numbers being thrown around were coming from Shanahan's side, essentially identifying what his asking price might end up being. I wouldn't be surprised if there was little to no discussion of specific financial terms in the meeting/presentation with Brandon and Shanahan.If you believe the news stories, the Bills offered Shanahan $50M plus a piece of the Bills, which is more than any other coach gets paid. And he still didn't accept. So what else besides taking family members hostage?PTR
IMO one of the reasons Jauron was fired midseason was because Ralph wanted Brandon to get a jump start on looking for a "real" GM. From both a business and personal perspective, it would have been really tacky to do that essentially behind Jauron's back while he was still coaching here.
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I wonder how good Brohm could be, since in two years he couldn't make the Packers 53 man team.
I don't think either of those is completely accurate. He made the 53 man roster last season, as the 3rd QB, and never got on the field in the regular season. I just checked the gamebook at nfl.com for the Packers week 1 game this season, and he wasn't listed. So he didn't make the final 53 this season.Brohm did make the Packers team 2 years in a row. Brohm was actually put on the Practice squad once out Defense took some beating and needed to make room for roster spots. With Rodgers and Flynn already on the roster, QB was a position where our depth was of least importance.I just finished watching Brohm in the preseason game played earlier this season. While it's only one game, I didn't see much of anything that left a positive impression. He didn't throw down the field (i.e. more than 10 yards) very often, but when he did more often than not it was a poor decision, poor throw, or both.
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Let's get back to reality here. On opening day next season, Marv will be 85 years old. If he was the HC, he would break the all time record for oldest HC in the NFL by more than 10 years. Being an NFL HC is an extremely demanding job. During the season, 70-80 hour work weeks are pretty much standard. I would be very surprised if Marv was even the slightest bit serious about coaching again.
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Let's look at Fewell's coaching experience:
1985-1997 Bounced around as a position coach (mostly DBs) at various colleges.
1998-2002 DB coach for Jacksonville. Jauron was the DC in 98.
2003-2004 DB coach for St. Louis.
2005 DB coach for Chicago.
2006-now DC for the Bills.
He has the Bills playing better than they were under Jauron. That's not saying much. There's nothing about his resume that's particularly impressive, either.
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Go to Time Warner Cable's Customer Support website and send them a message stating that you are dropping them as a service provider and going with someone else because they don't televise local Bill's games. For my area the website is https://www.timewarnercable.com/northeast/a...us.ashx?menu=25
Switch to someone else. If enough people do it, you can be that will light a fire under their butts.
You don't understand. It's the NFL's policy, not Time Warner's. The NFL doesn't even allow TW affiliates outside of Buffalo to bid on the rights for games like this.
Time Warner doesn't carry NFLN because the NFLN is trying to strong-arm them into carrying it in their basic package, even though for 350+ days out of the year they have nothing of interest to the general public airing.
Packers Robbed...
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One thing to keep in mind:
As soon as the ball came lose, any/every official that was looking at Rogers followed the ball instead. So it's perfectly understandable that they never saw the facemask grab, no matter how blatant it might have been.