Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

With 9 active DL got to expect a couple out. Like was mentioned earlier, a couple of Bills can move inside too.

About a week ago, You Tube TV which I have announced that unless they reached agreement with NBC Universal in next few days, all channels would be dropped including NBC. But they also announced as long as the channels were out, they were going to reduce the monthly fee by $10 I thought that's a good deal, could get Peacock for $5 and save $5 per month. Unfortunately they settled within about two days. No idea if the fact that they offered to reduce the rates caused them to settle faster or not, can't imagine a reason it would, but never know.

I see there were other emails using "vulgar terms" to describe Goddell and also ripped other team owners. Based on what was bleeped out, the vulgar term was pretty tame

Yes Cleveland could have taken him, would the Jets' have then taken Mayfield, maybe. Denver was ready to trade with us till Bradley Chubb fell into their lap, so highly unlikely they'd have taken Allen as they weren't looking for a QB. Could the Bills instead have ended up with Darnold, maybe either him or Mayfield. Either choice wouldn't have been terrible. McD stated he didn't want to take a QB in 2017 as he hadn't had enough time to study them. If he had known Maholmes were to end up the way he did, maybe he'd have changed his mind, but at the time he had alot of questions, maybe almost as many as Allen had going into the draft. Most of the time backing into the draft means you lose your last game, but still get in. That wasn't the case here. The Bills game ended about 20 minutes prior to the end of the Bengals game. So if the ending times were reversed, would that mean they didn't back in? Every year, the last week of the season, things change, teams get in and others get out. I guess last year Cleveland and think it was Indy both backed in as if Miami had beaten the Bills they'd be in and one of those two out. Don't recall anyone talking about Cleveland backing in. In fact the only way any team ever makes the playoffs is by another team losing either this week or last week, or maybe 2 weeks prior. But if according to you a team losing means that you backed in, then every team in the league backs in every year. Regardless winning 9 games with that talent in 2017 was still impressive whether they made the playoff or not.

Agree, Allen has changed things. McVay and to a lesser degree, Shanahan also have had good QB play. The defense has been up and down, one year good, another not so good. The D may have been better too as without Allen, not as likely the Diggs trade gets down, so more picks. They also may not have traded up as high to say draft the other Josh which could have left more picks that year too.

Watching the Jets game and all the off-season gushing over Robert Saleh made me wonder what will they think of him in 3 to 4 years. He was the sexy hire, but will he actually be any good? So got me thinking about the very un-sexy hire by the Bills in 2017. I found a few articles ranking the hires and for the most part McD was ranked near the bottom of the 6 hires. Some of the articles ranked the Marrone hire above the Bills. Found only one article that liked the McD hire. Here's a comment from Fox Sports: The Bills didn’t retain Anthony Lynn as their full-time head coach after making him the interim head coach for Week 17, which was a bit of a surprising move. Instead, they opted to hire former Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott. It’s not that it was a bad hire, but with all the issues the Bills have in the front office, and the lack of success they’ve had for the past two decades, McDermott likely won't bring the quick turnaround they need. At the very least, he should be able to turn around the defense, which was inexplicably bad under Rex Ryan. What’s unclear, though, is how much of the Panthers’ defensive success was McDermott’s doing and how much was the fact that Ron Rivera was the head coach. We’ll find out relatively soon, but the bigger questions for McDermott loom on offense. Will the Bills’ dominant ground game continue without Lynn? Will he be able to continue Tyrod Taylor’s development as a quarterback, if Taylor returns next season? These are two of the biggest questions McDermott will have to answer. This article ranked McD 5th and Lynn 3rd. Another article from NFL.com ranked Lynn the #1 hire and McD last. Two of the hires that season were Shanahan (29-35) and McVay (43-21) compared to McD (38-26) Goff also had one season under his belt when McVay was hired so that likely helped his record some the 1st year. Overall nothing to complain about much when looking at McD's record compared to them. Lynn and V Joseph are both gone. The other "great hire" think it was in 2016 with Pederson and the Eagles, another one who's now on the un-employed list. At the time was hard to argue with most of the articles as many here too were not all that happy with the McD hire. But interesting how many of the hot names, while great coordinators, never worked out as head coach. Will Saleh join that list. This year CBS ranks U Meyer as the 2nd best hire!

Yeah I was thinking Jones was prior to McD being here, but was informed was McD's first draft prior Beane.

Seemed like ages ago he was drafted!

Yes but wasn't Jones drafted prior to McD and Beane?? OK never mind, see McD was here when drafted, no Beane yet though. No wait, Beane was calling McD from Carolina and telling who to pick. I recall reading it hear.

Just curious, which are the two you're referring to?? The only ones I can think of are Ford and Joseph the LB?

I recall a guy back in the 70's when they'd show title boxing matches a week or two later on ABC Wide World of Sports, bet his wife $20 who'd win the fight.

The other issue is whichever network has the 4:25 game this week it's Fox would have a cow as wouldn't want Sunday Night Football going up against their game and also Fox wouldn't want to lose viewers for the beginning of their game as still watching the end of game on Fox, even if it is Giants V Dallas

They're 6th as a team, that's pretty good. With all the depth they have, players are rotating in and out so much, likely makes it hard for players to get enough snaps to be high on the list. So overall not concerned that only one Bill on list. On another note see Franlklin-Myers is #10 on the list. After reading another thread many here ripping the Jets for giving him a big contract.

IMO the win at Pitt was just as big a win as this one could be as was the Thanksgiving Dallas game. They were later in the season too when you kind of more needed the win.

All based on what you see around you only with people who have no other options but to tailgate outside. So they are crowded restaurants, hmmm..... must mean people are interested in going there! I assume you never go out to eat as you don't know what's on the menu. As far as people not there 4 to 5 hours prior to a Sabres game, do you go door to door in every restaurant and check to see if empty? Are they going to go 4 to 5 hours early to restaurant, not likely, but nothing wrong with that either. But they may be there one to two hours early eating someplace. Sure people like to tailgate and many probably more than half would continue, but maybe not for every game and some may like the options and some may prefer it too. For someone going to game maybe just with one other person, they may prefer the restaurant options. But you're just dismissing it based on nothing to compare against. I'm sure there are some other cities with bars and restaurants within walking distance of stadiums that do very well but also tailgating nearby too. Your logic here is as sound as flipping a one sided coin and every time it comes up heads and then making the statement: "See heads always wins!: You're comparing against nothing.

Yeah you never know, by year end Chargers could easily win division, but a Bills win Sunday night gives them home field in playoffs over Chargers. Where if Bills lost, Chargers still won division, but now also have home field.

Pretty big statement top make with no data to back it up! Sure not everyone wants to go to a restaurant, but a good number may if they had the choice especially in December when snowing or raining real hard. Today they don't have the option so no way of knowing. Actually one could argue, do people tailgate at Sabres games? Or do they go to restaurants? If so that proves that's what people really want. Does this really prove anything, no! But is a nice way to use some data to back a preconceived conclusion.

Agree! I read the article in the BN and all I got out of it was yes they looked at three sites in the city. It would look rather poor if all you have is the Bills stating they want to build a stadium next to Highmark and the state comes out and says "OK sure!" So they are looking at alternative sites, nothing in the article talked about costs or conclusions. So then when the state decides to build a stadium next to Highmark because it makes the most sense economically, they can say they looked at many alternatives too. And the firm doing the study gets $150k for coming to same conclusion as the Bills already did.

For the record I didn't start either one!

No the other thread for the defensive game plan. We need two separate ones!!

Yeah recall it was usually always the same person who posted it, didn't remember the name and couldn't find last weeks. So decided to post it myself and added a couple comments to keep him on his toes.

Yeah, but Dallas and NY have much larger numbers so will out draw the average fan in the end. Plus the late games go through dinner time on east coast. If the game doesn't involve the Bills I'll likely miss an hour of it anyway. So if you go with teams with biggest fan base, they won't turn it off as they're devoted. Even the "good game" can turn into a blow out which the average fan then may turn off.

Someone must be asleep at the switch this week, not yet posted!! Tough to get good help these days! https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2021&wk=5 Not as big a deal since Bills playing Sunday night, but still like to know what games I will see. I may have to move to San Fran late Sunday afternoon!

No actually he's a real smart guy who is talking to Bills fans of all ages with the brain of the 15 YO you're describing. The more he talks 15 YO's react and post and click and at the end of the season, maybe he'll thank Bills fans for helping his ratings go up.

Well Allen sat for the 1st half of his 1st game, that's about the same!! LOL Mahomes did though come out firing on all cylinders immediately as a starter whereas it took Allen two full seasons to get there, so is a difference.