Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Sounded a little bit like it may be a rental?? I'm guessing there was too much negativity and controversy that the kids were hearing in school and other places, which is why they left and went back to a place he and the kinds while much younger did liver prior.

Certainly some recency bias, but other things too, when people think of the Bills they think of a team that lost 4 straight SB's and because of that, weren't the most liked team. And Bruce didn't exactly have this all embracing personality either and had the drug issue. Put all these things together and the results aren't shocking.

Yes I can see how the Peacock "experiment" is going, but it's the direction all TV is going in. This isn't just sports, it's all types of programming. Unless they eliminate all Sunday afternoon NFL games being shown on your local affiliate, the bottom line is you can watch the same number of games now as you could 30 or 40 years ago. So why does the DOJ need to look into this? And maybe someday the Sunday afternoon games will be gone, but do think that will still be a long ways off, but if/when that happens, it will be happening along with all other non sports programming too.

But how many games a year will the Bills actually be shown on Peacock or Netflix, likely at most one. Could always buy a one month subscription and then cancel and as a new customer, probably get Peacock for $2.99. I think I've had Peacock for about 3 years now, got six months at $2.99 when that ran out and the price went up to around $10, I canceled, and they've offered me another six months at $2.99 And it's not just the NFL or sports going to Peacock, there's plenty of other shows going there too. One of the more popular NBC shows, The Traitors is exclusive to Peacock. Like it or not, it's the future direction of TV.

I don't work for the league. I just don't like all these people who feel entitled and normally the entitled spend money like it's going out of style. In this case the entitled are complaining about having to spend money on something that they have even more of today for free than they received 30 years ago, but that's still not enough, they need more.

Agree, people are complaining, it looks great politically, "we're looking out for you" but as someone posted, likely once the DOJ is done with this it will cost even more. There are many ways to watch out of town games for low cost if that's what someone wants.

If you live in Buffalo you can watch every game as it's on local TV, all you need is an antenna. So it's the NFL's fault that people moved all over the country and need to be able to watch whatever game they want for a very low cost?? They still can if they buy ST for under $500. So the only games they'd need some other service for is Thursday night and the 1 or 2 games a year on Peacock. If the fan moved from Buffalo then that's the price they need to pay, or if they don't want to pay, move back to Buffalo. Most of these people have these services for many things beyond just watching Bills games and if they did buy the service just for the Bills that's pretty dumb on their part. They could always just buy a subscription for the one month the game is on that service. If they moved from Buffalo back in the 70's they wouldn't have even had an option to watch the Bills games. I feel really bad for these entitled people. Think there's plenty of more important things for the DOJ to be worrying about than this!

So 30 years ago or so everyone could watch 2 games on one network and one game on the other network every week for free. Monday night games may have still been on ABC back then? Now everyone can still watch 2 games on one network and one game on the other network every week for free. The difference now is the league gives you many other options to watch more games for a price, but you still get basically the same for free. Maybe the only difference is the Monday night games have moved to ESPN, but ABC still carried close to half the games. Plus you get the Sunday night game for free which didn't have years ago. So basically it sounds like the DOJ wants the NFL to give away more than they ever have for free. Sounds like one of these things where politicians bring up some alleged injustice to make people happy, but while you can fault the NFL for alot, hard to see what the issue is here.

So two comments: Is this really legit or some AI generated photo and story? I've read stories of Josh Allen catching a man who fell 20 stories too, doesn't make any of it true. Recall back in late 60's on Yankees think it was Fritz Peterson and another player swapped wives. You could look at that at being the ultimate team player!

I think he'd beat out Cushenberry because the Bills, as most teams favor their draft picks. Cushenberry also is only on a one year contract. VPG still has one more season after this. If it's close to a tie, tie goes to the draft pick. Or VPG could be thrown into some package trade, him, Coleman, etc. for something??

Think he would beat out Cushionberry, but sure where he places after that??

I'm not it was the primary reason for his departure, but likely was a contributing factor

You don't know this to be true, you're just assuming or believing what you wish. Before this off-season I tended to believe it too. My take on it is Pegula isn't stupid, he knows what's going on and who was pushing for people. The fact that he did what he did tells me there is some truth to what's being reported that McD would say no to certain players as they didn't fit hit "choir boy" look. I'm sure Beane didn't draft anyone he absolutely was against, but may have altered his board some to align with what McD wanted and while that's not totally unique either, McD''s reasoning maybe wasn't valid for doingthat. Agree on Daboll but there was also Frazier and Farwell, neither of which was fired, but left and never heard exactly why and always sounded like there was more too it. Think there may have been a 3rd like that I'm forgetting about. The difference too between a Belichick type coach and McD was BB has a reputation for being way over the top, while McD has the opposite reputation as being an outstanding human being, but maybe behind the scenes that wasn't so true. That would make McD more of a phony while BB was true to his word. Recall over a year ago hearing here about the Tyler Dunne column that was being touted by the anti McD movement as reason to get rid of him and what a disaster he was. At the time I didn't read it and didn't think moving on was the answer as hard to improve on his record, odds say it's easier to get worse. But after he was let go, between hearing some of the comments made by Pegula who admittedly is a PR disaster, but doubt he just made things up, I went and read Dunne's article and after reading it, felt there were too many things that were so wild, they couldn't have ever been made up. I've always lived by the instinct that when you hear something that is just extremely outrageous and hard to believe anyone would ever do such a thing, it probably is much closer to the truth than anyone realizes as nobody would ever make up something so crazy simply because very few would ever believe it. Dunne's article fits that to me, such crazy things stated, much of it has to be true. Will the team do better this year, who knows, odds in favor of getting worse, but also don't think McD was the saint many both in the media and here particularly after he was fired.

I was not expecting McD to be fired, initially didn't think he deserved it, but after reading everything that came out, do believe there was more issues behind the scenes with him and he wasn't this great wholesome person he was made out to be. You can read Tim Graham columns who doesn't like Beane and takes shots at him whenever her can or there's the Tyler Dunne side of things that rips McD to shreds. Likely the truth is somewhere in the middle though many of the things Dunne mentioned are too wild and crazy to make up so do believe there is more truth there than he was ever given credit for. Sounds too like McD got along better with the players than other coaches, that was where he seemed to have more issues in getting along with others. On top of all that he couldn't get the team beyond certain things and a couple of huge mistakes at critical times. The biggest argument I made prior was when you look at McD's record, it would be hard to find someone to do better, but reading everything after the fact made me realize a change was needed.

Think he would have needed to have won a SB to make it to the wall as he just hasn't been here long enough to base it on length of service. Marv Levy was here much longer and got them to 4 SB's plus was a much more likeable figure. It was hard to find folks that didn't love Marv with the exception of members of the Chuck Dickerson fan club and Chuck himself. Probably could add Schoop and the Dope to that list, but they hate everybody. When you look at the names on the wall, it's hard to find anyone up there that wasn't liked for various reasons. Even a guy like Hanson, made the wall not for his standout play as much as for longevity reasons. McD also has way to many haters to be put up there as would become too controversial of a topic and I'm sure the Bills wouldn't want a name up there being constantly debated strongly about whether he belongs.