Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

What about Larry Fitzgerald? I wouldn’t give up to much as he doesn’t have many years left, maybe a 4 or 5. The other issue is he’s pretty established in Az and not sure he’d be willing to go anywhere else.

Wow Miami is really piling up the picks. Question will be what do they do with them, pick good players or players that become busts. With that many picks though as they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.

If you read the article a couple weeks back about how the Bills came to pick Allen , McD talked about how he didn't want to select a QB the first year as felt only being HC for 3 months hadn't had enough time to study QB's. Was busy putting together staff, etc. It does imply for anyone who questions it or doubts who was really calling the shots in that draft.

Great to know! So do we play the Pats this year at all?

For KC, that's probably enough and are happy with that.

We were crazy to not keep Duke Williams and should have activated Wade!

So the just of the article was " Hmmmmm.... this is interesting, was it a fluke, or is this something to watch going forward"

Yup release him for a guy who: Got cut two years ago. Couldn't make an NFL roster the past two seasons, not sure if he even was brought to anyone's camp, but hey looked great in the CFL? After the Bills released him 2 weeks ago after looking like from the way people around here talk, Julio Jones or something, 31 other teams all passed on him. And after this success he had in the per-season, probably against many other players who just like him aren't in the league anymore either. Great idea!

OK, didn't realize that. Well as they always say, "Don't let facts get in the way of a good argument!"

True count was the same, but the point was that Phillips snaps were with the other starters in the 2nd half at the expense of Star.

You would think that would create much over use of the elbow? Though I suppose he does have two hands for a reason.

OK LOL This place is educational.

So per the comments in the Athletic article about H Phillips taking snaps away from Star and playing with the "1's " in the 2nd half, anyone know what would be the cap hit on Star if they cut him after this year?

Where is that line from?? I know it but can't remember?

If you go way back the Giants helmet logo use to be this NY where the Y wrapped around the N, looked rather sharp I always thought. But after they moved to Jersey, they started taking heat so tried to remove any NY annotations, and now helmets just say Giants. Though I wonder what they've done during throwback events?

If I were there I'd have asked: "What's with the beard?"

Means people in NYC have more money to gamble with than in Buffalo! LOL And more people follow the Giants than the Bills and the Bills had 4 turnovers last week so were "lucky" to have won.

Keep in mind the word fan is short for fanatic. Anyone who takes the time to post on message boards is somewhat taking things to extremes. How many times does someone get arrested for something, you read about all the evidence, but yet his family says he's innocent. As fans we see things with rose colored glasses and hope. Having said that do agree that many of the national media don't see enough to get a clear picture. This past week, all the write ups about how bad Allen was 4 turnovers, but as some articles did point out, none were the result of poor decision be him and more just dumb luck. The local beat writers do see the team on a regular basis and are certainly more objective than a fan will be.

The thing that's obvious to me is the NFL is alot smarter than you, me and everyone on this board put together and if they could make more money doing as you suggest, why aren't they?

So the NFL isn't smart enough to figure that out. Wow! Sounds like they need to talk to you so you can straighten them out. Always amazes me how so many people here are smarter than all the coaches out there and even the people that run entire leagues. DTV has a monopoly with the NFL because every time the contract has come up for renewal, they'd offer the NFL a boat load of money becasue they know if they don't and they lose ST, their subscriber base will go way down. Though was surprised to read an article the other day that estimates if DTV were to lose ST, they'd lose 10% of their subscribers. I would have expected that number to be much higher. Regardless one thing I'm pretty certain of is that the NFL looked at alternatives and if they could have made more money from some other service, they'd have done it in a heartbeat. On the Sunday Ticket thread there was a link to an article about why the NFL is the last sport to go to a streaming service and why they don't. They like having the games on local networks every week. One other thing different with football than the other sports is MLB package, NBA buy the content from companies that produce and broadcast a teams games. MSG has the Yankee's, Knick's Rangers, NESN has Sox, Bruins, and Celtics. The one exception of games not offered by these packages are any games broadcast to the whole country which essentially are all of the NFL games. Having said all that I do think the next contract may not go to DTV for exclusive rights as sounds like DTV i.e. ATT isn't willing to spend a boat load of money for it..

saw an ad on ESPN, Don’t let DTV take ESPN off the air. Are they having contract issues with them too? Bad enough networks now them too.

Agree saw that to, should have been downed thoughtfully they did go around block chance the Jet could pick it up and no one in front of him then.

there was a timeout called prior to punting so was a stopped clock. I agree punting was the much safer option and smarter option. More field goals get blocked than punts. The one thing I did question though, why not punt out of bounds instead of down the middle. The clock would keep running until the ball touches the ground so I’d think kicking out of bounds could have more hang time thus taking another sec or two off the clock.

As long as DTV keeps rolling up the Brinks truck it will stay there. DTV knows without ST, they will be in deep trouble so to date they've paid out-landish fees to keep it. Will that continue, not so sure as ATT seems to be more cost conscious and will be unwilling to pay for something that's not doing well due to cord cutters. And if it does stop, then likely the NFL will look elsewhere. But as long as DTV is offering them more money than anyone else, they will keep ST. Plus it would cost the NFL a huge amount of money to start their own streaming service, best option for the league is to let someone like Yahoo pick it up, but they will then need to outbid DTV to win it. Or simplier might be for DTV to start streaming ST without a DTV subscription. Maybe it's $500 a year, but that's still cheaper than $100 a month for DTV. I will agree with you in that it promotes piracy. But that's not the NFL's problem, that's Direct TV issue. DTV isn't telling the NFL "we diecided not to pay you the full amount this year due to piracy" So the league still gets all their money.

i feel I'm getting my moneys worth because I only paid half price. Will I renew next year at $70, maybe but not so sure? The articles are very well written, sometimes a bit longer than I'd like, (my leg tends to falls asleep when I sit on the toilet too long) But during the off-season not alot of Bills coverage it seems in that respect BN has much more coverage then. But if you just like sports in general, like reading an NBA article something, then much more worthwhile. Good articles, just not a tremendous amount of Bills coverage.