Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I do that look too, you are correct. With a little make-up.... you never know??

So why's the flight come from Detroit prior to leaving Buffalo to go to game? Only thing I can figure is Detroit is on of Delta's hub's so they keep spare aircraft there for charters??

Plus I doubt that would even be enough to jump that high. If we had maybe the 8th pick plus KC could get there with that.

I think Smith may be the smarter QB, just doesn't have all the physical skills of the great ones. Bledsoe had the skills, but struggled to make the right pass. But of all the QB's who struggled with the mental part of it, Bledsoe was still one of the better ones, but just not quite as good as say a Brady, Rodgers, Elway, etc. But do think Bledsoe was much better than Smith overall

Watkins had 3 seasons of either missing games due to injury or being very ineffective when he played. I've seen people argue he only missed 11 games in three seasons and 8 were in 2016. OK that's fine, but how many other games did he do nothing and the thought was that was due to him playing nicked up. People can't have it both ways with Watkins, either was was always hurt, or he must have really just sucked as so many games that he did play in, he did pretty much nothing. Matthews on the other hand, when he was traded top Buffalo, one of the comments I read was that he never missed any games due to injury. Looking at his career stats shows him only playing 14 games in 2016, looks like he missed the first and last game due to injury, but that was it. So the Bills traded for a guy who only missed two games over carer for injury, he comes here, has been banged up all year and your blaming that on the Bills, they should have somehow known. As far as Sammy playing all year. I've said that since September. He will likely play all year even if nicked up as this a contract year. I'm convinced too if he had been with the Bills all year he also would have played through any minor nicks this year. Trouble was while he played all season, didn't put up any great numbers 39 receptions for 593 yards, that's probably his worse year on a per game average.

But Woods left as a FA, rumor was he wanted to go t oa west coast team so not likely we could have signed him unless grossly overpaid for him. So can't fault the Bills for losing him. Watkins will be interesting based on his comments about wanting NBA type money, etc. While I agree with most comments here about him getting middle of the road type money, does Watkins get that or is he going to be holding out for OBJ type money as he feels he's worth that. Actually Beckham's contract will also be interesting as another guy who has some baggage. It also will be interesting to see how hard the Rams go after him. Or will a year of seeing him up close every day make them realize he's not worth it. If the Rams do let him walk, it's rather telling that the Bills did make the right move in dumping him when they could.

Not surprising as don't believe Jax has a large number of season ticket holders to start with. So many more tickets likely on sale for this game compared to others. I live in NC and was at the Panthers game in Sept, Many Panther fans were complaining about how many season ticket holders sold their tickets to Bills fans. While that can happen in the regular season, not likely to happen post season as the season ticket holder will mostly all go to a playoff game. But here in Jax, don't think there's enough season ticket holders to start with.

How many teams can have their starting QB get knocked out and even make the playoffs? How'd Green Bay do this year without Rodgers?

I don't know, I think it's Bellichick who's the brains of the outfit. He was even able to win with Matt Cassell the year Brady was hurt.

Well if they flipped the games, then the Steelers would get the advantage. Why shouldn't the team that has the best record get the advantage. The likely outcome is the winner of the KC game which is being played on Saturday will go to NE anyway so makes sense to me in how they scheduled it.

Somewhere back on the first page or two of this thread or other similar threads at the time, there's a couple of posts from me, complaining about the $3 charge. Not so much that they are charging, but the basic concept, seemed to me they'd make more money making the sites/pages/links all free, but have ad's on them. Since then have read enough articles that have shown me they do make more money charging a subscription price than they would through ads. So if that's the case, then have no problem with them charging and up to people to decide if they want to buy or not. As far as charging for what use to be free. 30 years ago it wasn't free, you needed to buy the newspaper. Now yes there is much free content available, but often from TV and radio outlets which really aren't directly competing with written content, so easier for them to give it away as may even drive people to watch their programming.

Kind of funny, they only have one more win than we do and won the division with ten wins, and had a relatively weak division overall, but yet they appear to be a much stronger team than we are. The first half of the season BB played like he did last season, but the past 5 or 6 weeks, he has looked very good, good enough that Jax may not even go after a QB in the off-season. Two big strengths their defense and Fournette which is something we've struggled most of the year to stop.

Likely you'll see in the off-season he gains about 20 pounds of muscle. Last few weeks he faded even more, but also may have been due to hitting the rookie wall. Playing six months straight at a much more intense level every day is more than you see in college.

Schottenheimer was 4 times?? wow just looked up the teams, forgot about a couple of them.

Yup that worked thanks!

Maybe, or maybe not, lots of guys have failed with multiple teams. DelRio is the latest, Fox has been fired 3 times now as HC. That likely ties some record, as don't think anyone has been fired 4 times??

When I click on the link it states "The media could not be played" What am I doing wrong? Noticed this on a bunch of Twitter links, same thing happens to me.

The risk in that is by the time you wait for the ball to travel 10 yards easy for the kicking team to wipe you out with the first guy and the guy behind him dives on the ball with no Bills around. Honestly I just think it's the law of averages has caught up with the Bills on this one.

Could be that going to this zone blocking scheme just took him longer to get it than others. Or even that those around him took longer, but the mistakes by others to the uninformed eye appeared to be on Vlad, but really were someone elses fault and he just took the blame in some instances. Or just overall the entire line now gets this new scheme.

Could be or the more likely scenario is that for all these times you think you know more than people who do this professionally for a living, you really don't. The truth is you just know much less than you think you know.

Kind of funny how all the little kids are just doing nothing. Probably thinking when I scream like that I get in trouble. I do wonder if KW had told the Bills he is retiring and that was why they ran that play with him for the TD

Every years there are multiple threads talking about what a tough schedule we have this coming year. When you factor in that you come close to playing the same schedule every 3 to 4 years, how can you have the toughest every year?? Then after all the complaining saw a thread in late Oct commenting that maybe we need to dismiss the wins against Atlanta and Denver. LOL so first we have the toughest schedule ever, then once you win the games the opponents weren't very good.

I think the biggest reason for Sammy being healthy all season was simply the fact that this is a contract year for him, so he played through all the nicks and bruises that in the past years he'd sit out for. Contract years always seem to improve players health.

I've heard/read the same. Each year roughly 10% of NFL officials are "re-assigned" or let go. But as someone else pointed out, you better have a better option for replacing him with, else you've made a bad situation worse.

Up until the Jets and New Orleans game I was in favor of bringing him back next year and using all the draft picks and free agency to surround him with talent. But after watching those games, realized it's time to give up. You're probably correct TT was only bad in 25% of the games, but in the other 75% he was never good either. He just wasn't the main reason for the loss, but did nothing to help pull out a win either. I also would agree that's it's hard in fact very hard to find a franchise QB, but not that hard to get better at QB. Maybe not super bowl winning better, but better. And then if you go back to my comment about using all the draft picks and FA to get better overall talent, you could likely win with just a little better QB play. IMO TT has two main problems, holding onto the ball too long and accuracy. If he just had one of those problems, I do believe he'd be OK as QB and could get team into playoff and would likely agree with your statement that it's hard to get better than him. But with both those problems, no not hard to get better by a noticeable amount, maybe not Tom Brady better, but still better.