Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Does anyone know if Roger Godell knows that TP owns the Sabres? Did he have to dsclose that?

So how does that compare ot the other 31 teams and how's it compare over a four or five year period? Wouldn't shock me to see that many teams have similar amounts every few years. I will grant you it's easier to accept when a team was doing very well, then starts to grow old, so you make some cuts. In this case that's not what happened

So is the coaching staffs fault that Glenn wasn't ready at the beginning of camp. And it turns out that the rookie who filled in for him did so well, it quickly became apparent it didn't make sense to sit him when other spots were also struggling. The only thing you could blame the coaches for at all was their 2nd round pick not looking very well, but he's certainly not the only 2nd rounder to ever fail. While all the changes are hurting them right now, give them two weeks ot have the same players out there in practice and lets see how they look in the regular season. Even then, while you hope they look supper on Sept 7th, it still may take a couple more weeks for them to really gel.

Well the other thing too is as the announcers kept saying, Tampa is very similar to Chicago so why show anything that the Bears could use. On the hand absorb what Tampa is showing you.

Well when you take into account that this is the first game back for Glenn after practicing one whole week. Then you take a rookie who's played all of training camp at left tackle, start him to RT with all of one week of practice. Then as a result of that move, now you move a guy who's played tackle the past couple of years into guard. On top of that you have a last minute scratch at the other guard position and start your rookie 2nd round pick who's looked shaky at best all of training camp. But hey we do have an experienced center! So I do feel that lets give the O-line the next two weeks of practice before I'd agree wit hyou about hem looking real weak.

So using your analogy a busiess wouldn't be able to issue stock dividends at the end of a quarter, or end of year bonuses would not be allowed, no hiring, firing, raises anything while the sale is going on. Those things typically don't stop other than in cases of real small busineses. In principle what you're saying I'm sure is true, for example if the state decided tomorrow they wanted to sell RWS, buying that certainly would changed the value of the asset by a large amount. But even trading for Tom Brady would change the valsue of the asset by very little in the grand scheme of things

Love your idea, can't understand why the Bills don't try something like this?? Oh wait that's exactly what they did last year and got Tuell. So basically you want to repeat the same thing now except this guy won't have had any time to learn the system at all. With any luck by next season he may be as good, or even better than Tuell. The reason why Tuell appears to be the #2 guy this year is having had an entire off season, he had time to learn the offense and his skill set may be better than Lewis. Just like two years ago we had Jackson here and people never understood why he never played a down, you don't bring a QB in late August and expect him to be productive in anyway and Jackson was here even earlier than that. If it's a highly experienced you can maybe get away with it, but not a guy like this who's mainly been playing against 3rd stringers but you need a real experienced highly skilled team around him.

Anyone have a clear line of sight to the Ralph? I believe if it's white smoke it's TP, black smoke JBJ

I got half off ST Max so paying I believe it is around $170? plus $10 off regular bill. I'm still under contract, so hands are somewhat tied. Next summer I'll have more leverage, can easily say cancel as should not be under any contract then. I'm still not happy with my regular bill as some discounts have ended and my bill has gone up around $30 a month since March and in another month another $15 discount will be ending. But the guy told me right now that's the best he can do as the system shows I am still getting these discounts, so none other available. He told me to call back after the $15 credit ends, as they may be able to do something then. Two years ago, I had same thing happen, had a deal all worked out. Was happy with it, but they didn't honor it, so had to call back again and fight some more.

T.J. Graham would be an interesting one from the 2nd group. You'd take a risk that someone might grab him, but I 'd be inclinded to take that risk. Keep him on the PS, if someone gets hurt, then bring him back. Still would be working with the team and up to speed on what's going on. Hairston could be another similar one, hasbn't done enough for a team to really go after him. Does anyone know is the 2nd group optional, in other words can you choose all 10 from the first list if you wish, but this new rule gives teams the option to select two more "seasoned" players in addition??

Yeah but where are you going to fuind someone who is willing to put up roughly 2/3 of the money but not be the voice of the team. JBJ had a unique situation with the Toronto group that allowed him to put up the least amount of money, but stil lbe the managing partner. I think he would have had trouble finding that elsewhere.

http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/mike-ditka-washington-redskins-name-change-political-correct-idiots-081914 Agree 1000% He could probably run for president and win after this! Spoken like only Ditka could! Never liked the guy all that much till today.

It's difficult to project how a say who played say at Louisville really compares to say a guy who played at USC. The USC guy is going up against Bama, Florida, Georgia, and Auburn almost every year, where the Louisville guy was playing U Conn and Cinnci The n along comes a guy like an Andre Reed or even a Phil Simms who played at some lower level program, how will he project? Where as the engineer has reliable data to equate those two situations.

Would have been better if there were time frames given. I'd sign Brandon and Whaley to extensions. With new ownership all bets are off to some level but Marrone deserves at least one more year to show improvement. If there is no improvement, more likely it will be due to bad QB play which while he was very likely involved with the decision to draft EJ, regardless of what the experts on this message board will tell you, it's a crap shoot. There aren't enough good QB's to go around so worth taking a chance on him and cross your fingers. If EJ has a terrible year likely Marrone would be forced to change the OC and Hackett will go. You certainly can make the argument that EJ failed due to bad coaching direction.

How is that on Marrone? Not that I'm condeming him for this, but that's up to Whaley to decide if we're OK or not. Sure he'll get input from Marrone, but roster make up is on the GM Ever since Parcells left the Giants he's another overrated guy who pushes the blame elsewhere and leaves the first time things don't go the way he likes. Hey Shanahan is available, but likely hard to get after his success in Washington. How about a Sean Peyton or Belchick or one of the Harboughs? Only problem is they all came the same route, guy was hired as new coach in some cases took awhile to become successful, others did well quickly but you rreally had no better idea what you were getting when the hire was made. . Bottom line there's nothing to show Marrone isn't just as a good of a coach. The only somewhat legit gripes you can make is on the hiring of his OC and special teams, but even there, lets see where we are at year end.

Agreed, who cares? As was pointed out, they are close by, only see them every 4 years. I'd maybe cancel the one year out of four like 2014 when we do play them in the regular season, but even then you see so little scheme wise, it doesn't really matter much even then.

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?