Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Yeah sounds like that's the problem this guys going to have. I suppose he could always tell them, they just built a 20 story building on the southwest side of my house, honest! Take a picture of the Empire State Building, email it to them and say see here's proof!

There's two things that haven't worked out well for him to change the results, coach hiring and QB's selected. For both of these things though not certain how much he was really involved with either. Did he approve of the choices, yes, but there were others making the actual call who he likely deferred to. And looking around the league in both these cases, it's more a crap shoot to get the right guy than being real good at the selections. Money isn't the answer either as look no further than Dallas or Washington.

My thoughts were by now we'd know if something was going to happen this year, so as has been stated, we may be OK.

To answer your question, how to get the online only version, that's easy lie alot! There are three very simple basic questions they ask you. Do you currently get DTV? Can you get DTV? Have you ever had DTV at this address? As long as you answer no to all of them, you're fine. However you do need to give them a credit card and if the credit card has the same address as a former subscription had, they may figure out what's going on and not allow it. Do they really care, I'm not sure, maybe as long as you answer no, legally they are in the clear to give it to you. But it also may be they would care as they also can figure out they are losing a DTV subscription by allowing online only. I believe it was 3 or 4 years ago, I went this route, answered no to all. The second question, could I get reception, well in my area at that time the locals were not in HD yet, so as far as I was concerned then the answer was no I couldn't get it. Was a newly built house so no former subscription was ever in use at this address. Did they care, maybe maybe not, was still money to them, and wasn't able to get any kind of deals either for online only paid the full price. As far as the service was, it was OK. as the season went on the streaming got better. (I believe this was the first year they had the online version). There were limitations, you could watch four games at once, but not in full screen mode so were looking at four postage stamp sized screens. There were all the buttons supporting full DVR capabilities, but none of them worked at all. Maybe by now these things have improved??

I've seen this written here a number of times, maybe it's always by you or by others too, but can you explain how a guy who graduated from St John Fisher and worked many years for the Rochester Read Wings is a Syracuse guy? I don't see any connection??

Thought I read someplace that Petuant grew up on Grand Island?? I agree he should stay, along with DW.would be shocked if TP made a change.

Because home run hitters strike out alot. Some coaches are OK with the guy who strikes out alot (i.e. negative yardage carries) but hits the occasional home run too. Other coaches want guys who are contact hitters and can count on that consistently make contact (i.e. Bryce Brown). I believe Marrone prefers contact hitters. Healthy is great if part of the reason he stays healthy is you're afraid to use him much for fear of breaking down.

Well you could argue that by looking for a new franchise QB after only two seasons, makes the carousel keep spinning. How exactly do you pull out all stops to find that guy? Likely there are 32 GM's waiting on your answer as they don't know how themselves, other than to rub a rabbits foot and hope you get lucky. (See Tom Brady) Yes there are the Andrew Lucks who come along, but for every Luck there are around three Ryan Leafs out there. That's the problem, there are 32 teams and about a dozen top shelf QB's! With a great team built around him, you can probably get away with someone between #13 and maybe 22. (see Russell Wilson) And two years may or may not be enough to determine if this guy can be another Wilson, depends alot on the team around him. So rather than give up to quickly you'll want to give him every benefit of the doubt first before starting over again.

There's also an issue that's been brought up that estate taxes are due 8 months after death which would put that date in November. What I'm not certain on though is would there be any estate taxes due on the team until it's sold. How do you know what's it's true worth is until its sold? Or do they tax the estimated value now and rest is due upon the actual sale price?

There were more than enough problems with SJ way before Marrone ever got here, so don't try and blame this on him. Is this the thrid coach that SJ had here in Buffalo, was he here in the DJ era, I believe so? The only way Marrone goes after this season is a complete meltdown and a new owner cleans house, but would be surprised if either happens. Likely Marrone gets one more year no matter how bad, but has to make staff changes like can Hackett or the ST guy.

I think we have super #1 in the making, a guy who has played like a high skilled #2 previously, but also has had some issue, and another young guy who could become a very good #2. In addition a couple other WR's with very good unique talents, one with blazing track speed, and another who just doesn't seem to know how to drop a pass. A better title for this thread may have been "do we have the #1 WR corp in the league" To that question I'd probably respond, we may have it in another year or so, could be much sooner if the light bulb goes off even a little bit with EJ.

In a way I'd like to see a team in Toronto with the Bill's in Buffalo just to see attendance go down the drain in Toronto as soon as they start losing. Blue Jays and Rapters draw well when winning, All Toronto wants is hockey. They'd much rather see the Sabres moved to Toronto as a 2nd team than the Bills

I'd be surprised if new ownership fires Whaley unless the owner has an experienced GM person he's real close too. Marrone, possibly, but likely would also get one more year. I do see Hackert going unless EJ improves. I've posted in other threads where people are crying that when EJ fails this year we don't have a #1 next year to get a new QB. instead what will happen is, if EJ looks real bad and regresses, likely Hackert would be canned and they bring in another OC who runs a different scheme supposedly more suited to EJ's strengths.

Kind of funny to read this quote. This would be the first time anything has been kept quite! The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the sale is private.

It's rather funny that a person to who called the OP retarded and stupid didn't understand the premise of the post. Talk about putting your foot in your mouth! Likely if EJ totally flops this year, they'll blame it on the OC and bring in another one for next season. Whaley isn't going anywhere unless the new owner has a guy all picked out. Marrone maybe but even him, I'd bet gets another year with agreed changes to his staff.

So where would Terry P be in the pecking order of owners net worth?? Near top, bottom, Is he worth more than RW?

Lets just assume for the sake of argument you're right, So the new owner puts a stop to it as you suggest. What makes you think he won't be then making the decisions instead. That was one of the big knocks on RW getting too involved. So you're not OK with Brandon making decisions but would be ok if it were say Donald Trump??

I've said this for a long thime, there are 32 teams in the league and about a dozen really good QB's, then another dozen, so-so like Dalton, then the remaining teams play musical chairs hoping to strike lightening in a bottle. Often teams with the so-so guy three years later are in the bottom third as he either doesn't improve or regresses so then they start all over again. And often those eho have the elite guy were more lucky than good in finding him (see NE) That's also why you don't give up on anyone too quickly as you know the unknown may be even worse. Unless EJ plays absolutely horrendous this season, likely they will more blame it on the OC, replace the OC and give EJ another shot next year. Which is good news for those ripping the Bills for not having a #1 next year to use on a new QB if EJ fails, as doubt they'd use it in that direction next year if they had one unless his play completely regresses.

The one guy from the Superbowl team could it be Hull?

On a somewhat related concern, seen this happen a number of times of the years, Glenn comes back, kind of rushed back, and gets some type of season ending injury. Would the same thing have happened if he had been in training camp all season, who knows. So wouldn't shock me to see Henderson become the starting LT for the bulk of the season by default. Long term, would be a good thing for the team. He could become the next Jason Peters, kind of comes out of nowhere to become the starting LT. In this case, it's not exactly nowhere, there is a bit of a story behind it all.

I think it's basically that this process has no hard fast rules. The Wilson Estate can make them and change them to some extent as they go. The deadline was a soft deadline. I've also read they've re-opened the bidding. My take on that is to somehow include Golisono in the next phase. These are also non binding bids. Even though Terry P supposedly bid $1.3 bil, he can submit a final binding bid for $800 mil if he wants. I have not seen anything that has confirmed the Toronto group is out, all I've seen is that two groups have supposedly been told they are still in the running and the Toronto group's status is unkown, so many are taking that to mean they got cut. I suppose we could start a new thread titled; "the Turk has visited BVJ"

He was the #1 on the Bill's that was the problem. His play wasn't up to true #1 standards and likely never would, but by default he was the #1 here. So since he was our #1, going to S, them calling him a #1 is true. He may look much better there too as likely alot less pressure on him now too.

I've noticed this year at least in training camp there's been much more coverage and articles from the Syracuse Post. I like that as I'm from out of town and they (hate to say this too loud and give them ideas) don't seem to have this ten free articles a month limit like the Buffalo News and Rochester D&C have. I read more of there stuff plus the AP articles from JW and The guy from Olean Bud Pollack is it? Many of the articles are about the same story as the other papers are covering anyway. Thank you Syracuse!!

I've been saying this for awhile, based on what we've heard about terms of the lease if true that anyone who even smells like they want to move the team from Buffalo an injunction could be sought to stop the sale. While the other NFL owners want to get as much money as they can, they also don't want to approve a sale to a person/group that is going to create a long drawn out court battle either. So doubt someone like JBJ would be approved. Assuming he's the high bidder the difference between his bid and the next highest may not be enough to be worth fighting over and the same can be said for Mary Wilson. I also doubt the team is going anywhere.

From what I recall one of the terms of the lease was that if the Bills were to be sold to an entity who even remotely considered moving the team an injunction could be brought to stop the sail. I'd think enough has been said about the Toronto bid and moving the team that would be easy to get an injunction based on that term. I'd also think that threats of injunctions and long drawn out legal battles the last thing the other NFL owners would want to agree to would be the sale of the team to someone who is likely to create court battles.