Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

If they really had the #1 overall, likely there will be some QB next year with that high a draft level that could trade with another team for a bundle of picks

Recall one of the funniest things I saw was someone was using a cardboard carton from a refrigerator as a pot-a-pottie. One side was cut like a door After the gamed ended happened to walk by the same spot, the carton was gone, but could see a big wet spot on the ground.

So the fee for bus lot parking is going up from $60 to $100 per bus and a permit will be required. So with around 40 to 45 people per bus the old fee would have cost around $1.50 per person, now it will jump way up to $2.50 a person. And somehow charging each person on the bus $2.50 each, they somehow think that's going to reduce unruly behavior?? Was there an extra zero missing maybe on the report?? For $1000 a bus could see it having an impact. Those bus trips often buy up the lower end zone seats which I think are some of the worst view seats to begin with so if it did decrease the bus trips, they may have trouble selling some of those seats too. One this new policy does seem to prove, The Bills must be missing Russ's marketing prowess.

I'm sure last year no one thought the Giants would end up #2 overall, so who knows but do agree he's way underselling the overall talent

I read the article on ESPN before I ever saw your post, just went back and read it again to see was I missing something. My initial reaction before I ever saw your post was, boy if I were Cleveland I'd be worried about Mayfield big time. I didn't see anything wrong with what was written that it had a negative slant. He was inaccurate on his first pass then threw a bad Int, then marched the team down the field and threw a nice fade pass for a TD. And you feels that's overly negative. WOW!! Think you need help! Have you been to all the OTA's? How do you know he hasn't thrown half his passes into the dirt? I'm not in any way against Allen, hope he does great and don't in any way knock the Bills for drafting him, infact of everyone they could have picked, the only one I may have picked ahead of him was Darnold. But if an article likes this makes you this defensive of the guy, think you need a new hobby.

Guess when you're playing with the 3rd string there aren't that many opportunities to start with, so everything you do is reported.

From what I saw all of the paragraphs were written by the local ESPN reporter who covers the team, so Rodak is as "local" as the rest of them are. So are you saying it's fake news, he didn't throw the interception? Or that you who I'd assume unless you're actually Sean McDermott posting didn't actually see him at all somehow knows better. You don't take criticism well do you, even when against something as remotely related as the team you're rooting for. Starting a thread because you don't like what someone wrote about your favorite team is pretty laughable.

So last year I did often log on to Reddit to make sure it was working and could watch the game in anticipation of to quote you " !@#$ directv" and I did at years end. Every time I tried, could watch every game. My only question about Reddit was that a one year thing or has it worked reliably for past years too. Hoping it works fine again.

You find it hilarious, the NFL thinks of it as smart. One thing I know about the NFL is they are not stupid and they will always figure out how to make the most money they can. I'd say with about 99.99% certainty that has looked at all the providers and have got offers from them in the past whenever they are looking at extending the agreement and have determined that giving DTV exclusive rights yields the biggest pot of money to them. As soon as they split the pot up a couple things will very likely happen, DTV's bid will drop substantially and DTV may be out of business soon after as their subscribers will drop alot without them having the Ticket. IMO one of the main things that keeps DTV going particularly these days with all the cord cutters is they exclusive rights deal with the NFL. So they way over bid everytime the contract is up to keep it that they are the only game in town. Do I like it, no, do I wish the NFL did as you suggest and offer it to cable too, absolutely, but as long as DTV offers to pay them way more they they will get by splitting it up, it ain't happening. Having said all that, I also do think the days of DTV getting 100% of the rights may be coming to and end as the NFL may be figuring out how to create their own digital broadcast network for streaming all the games, effectively leaving out the middle man, Yahoo, Amazon, DTV, etc. I know I'd certainly rather pay say $400 even $500 a year directly to the NFL for all the games as opposed to maybe $100 a month to DTV which in turn maybe hands $150 of that over to the NFL as it would save me money in the long run. Can't see them wanting to split up rights as the entire cable/satellite thing is dying so why split things up to go to something that is in trouble anyway? And BTW at the end of last season I dropped DTV, bought a TIVO, recording OTA and pay $26 a month for Sling. So will be scrambling this fall to find the games online someplace myself.

When you consider how many of the top QB's in the NFL were not top draft picks, makes me feel better about the likelihood of success for Allen as shows the media and all these draft wizards really have little idea who'll be good and who won't.

So did Sully officially take the buyout too, reading through here saw a couple of posts stating something like "hear Sully is leaving too" didn't see anything too official sounding unless I missed it?? Wonder if last Friday was the deadline for employees to sign up for the offer, thta's why both announced the same day?

Didn't see it mentioned here in the responses, not to sound morbid, but there's a pretty good likelihood sometime down the road Kim will become the sole owner of the Bills and Sabres as she is almost 20 years younger than Terry. So being involved with all these committees is good for her. Even as soon as 10 to 15 years down the road, Terry may say I've had enough of all this I just want to relax and play golf or fish or something, Kim you run things from now on! She certainly is a much better speaker than Terry is too. Don't think he likes the PR part of his job very much.

Watching Four Falls of Buffalo made me a shed a tear to two. That was kind of a highlights of many things already mentioned. On a different but similar theme also shed a tear watching Requiem of the Big East Both brought back many a memory.

Teams and players re-do contracts all the time, when a player far out plays the contract, the player will ask for more money and the team will give him more money prior to present deal expiring, or they say no to which the player plays out the contract and often then will leave via FA for another team. Just as here the team asked for a pay cut and he agreed. So either both agree to the same action or they don't, then you move on. In a perfect world what you're saying is true and if the players want to end asking for more money, then the Bill's stance would be un-called for, but that's not how things work.

This list is likely true, however the one thing we have no way of knowing yet is how much did TT make these guys look worse than they are. Between not throwing to WR/TE and when he did throw often not very accurately, who knows how productive they may be with a good QB, and not saying AJ is that guy either as we just don't know.

Certainly agree with you in the "seasons to follow part". Edmunds is still only 20, other new and less experienced guys too. Long term, 2019 will be solid, this year can see some growing pains unless Edmunds really comes on fast, but his age does make me worry a bit that will still take him a year or so to adjust to the size and speed around him.

It does vindicate the Bills FO too from the point of all these people who were screaming for the Bills to make a trade too back in March, they gave up less and still likely got who they wanted. If they had say traded up to #2, would they have taken Darnold, or still taken Allen? Cleveland did help them out by not taking Chubb allowing them to trade up lower.

Think what made things go downhill was RW hiring Marv as the GM. Don't think Marv really wanted the job, he left in a couple of years leaving RB as the next GM. Don't think he really wanted the job either. With both of them think the biggest issue was they others make the decisions and just try sand get a consensus. With RB may have been a case if the choice worked out, he'd take the credit, if it failed, he'd be able to blame others.

The problem I see with this deal is highly unlikely Cleveland would trade the #4 overall for White. you'd likely have to give up at least one of the 2nd rounders if not maybe also a 3rd.

Agreed comparing Unitas to EJ would be stupid, (gee look who thought of that one) The game hasn't changed that much from 97 to now to say it's a stupid comparison. I understand when someone doesn't see things your way stupid people don't know what to say.

I'd agree with Washington from your original list or Kyle Williams, one of them likely will be gone as they just have too many DT on roster doubt Shaq will go as he's cheap labor, on the other hand Lorax could be gone due to salary. Maybe Holmes and/or Ducasse too I'd agree with.

Makes you wonder, lets assume he turns out to be a pro-bowl type of player. 3 years from now, will you say the Bills (or insert any other team name here for different player ) were smart or lucky. Smart in that they waited until the 4th round to pick him knowing he wouldn't be picked earlier, do teams have good intel to know when player will be selected? Or just lucky that they got him and he turned out great. If you really knew he was going to be great, why take a chance on waiting until the 4th round when someone else may grab him first. Was NE really smart in 2001 drafting Brady in round 6 or just lucky no one else took him prior?

Exactly how many did he drop that hit him in the hands? Yes he did drop some thrown right at him, but TT did nothing to help him or any WR by often throwing passes that are hard to catch and just not throwing much to WR in general. Lets put it this way playing with TT didn't help him any. Moulds 32 receptions for 342 0 TD Jones 27receptions for 316 2 TD Not much different between the two

didn't someone famous do that a year or so back, replied to his own post, maybe in twitter was it??

Little data?? I'd think that he was one of the top college WR would equal or trump one year with the Bills with a QB who didn't throw much to WR and when he did oftne wasn't that accurate either. Granted he did drop a fair amount particularly early in the season. But hard to explain how a guy could have 158 catches in one season in college and now feel that he has bad hands. It could be his speed doesn't translate to the NFL, but hard to forget how to catch the ball. I recall Eric Moulds didn't do a whole lot until around his 3rd year and fans were calling him abust, give him some time.