sullim4
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The idea of holding season tickets with PSLs? I wouldn't entertain the notion even if I lived in Buffalo.
Buying single game tickets a la carte to the ones you actually want to see in person, and maybe visiting an away game or two would have much more appeal to me and would be significantly cheaper. I suspect a lot of people are thinking along these same lines.
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I really hate this schedule - as a fan traveling from the west coast, I would really prefer to avoid night games and I prefer to avoid the end of the season due to the possibility of getting stuck or having flights cancelled due to snow.
If this is accurate, it eliminates everything other than New Orleans, Kansas City, and Tampa Bay. I have a conflict with the 11/2 date so that means an NFC south matchup.... yuck.
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It sits on a valuable piece of real estate.
I could see a deal where someone buys the property deeply discounted in exchange for making the needed repairs and renovations. The city would take a hit on the value of the property on paper, but the alternative is to have the team walk away from the city and end up with a venue that sits empty for 350 days a year.
I will say the economics of that venue are a lot harder to justify now that cross border traffic has plummeted.
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1 hour ago, Gregg said:
They can still start the season the week after Labor Day. Instead of the Super Bowl being played on the 1st Sunday of February they can push it back to the 2nd or 3rd Sunday. February is a slow sports month anyway as all you have is the NHL/NBA regular season. The 18-game season was always going to happen as a 17-game season is just dumb. As far as overseas games the NFL is trying to grow the popularity of the game in other countries, and it looks like it is working. More $$$ for the league so they will continue doing this.
I suspect the NFLPA will get a second bye week out of an 18 game season with more international games - so it'll actually be a 20 week regular season. That will cause the NFL to move the Super Bowl to Presidents' Day weekend and push up the regular season to labor day.
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During Trump's first term, Ben Shapiro had a pretty good explanation of why Trump was being a complete moron about the trade deficit. It is worth the 3 minute watch, it was noteworthy enough to me to remember it almost 8 years later:
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The one thing that's in play which helps the networks - the NFL's antitrust exemption. Expect significant political blowback if Sunday afternoon games do not remain on free OTA tv.
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Vrabel and Diggs seem incompatible to me longer term.
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Hah, that's our anniversary.
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25 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Joe Marino of Locked on Bills feels that keeping Von takes snaps from a younger player the Bills might draft or sign. I can see the point.
This would be the reason I would get rid of him.
I don't see him as a "cancer" or a problem in the locker room. I don't think he's the most upstanding human being, but I also think for the organization he seems to be well liked and he is trying to make a deal to stay. I think you reward that, especially given the Cook situation where he may hold out for more money. Also understand that as the season goes on... perhaps Miller's snap count goes down and you start plugging in younger talent.
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4 minutes ago, RiotAct said:
and then fans are graciously allowed onto the field to tear down the goalposts and remove chunks of the artificial turf to take back to their man caves!!!
You wish - these will end up in the BFLO store for $99 per piece. Perhaps alongside the seats and a very limited number of troughs from the men's rooms!
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2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
The last game at Highmark/Ralph Wilson/Rich Stadium will be a national game.
That would either mean it's a playoff game, it's game 272 (NBC SNF Week 18), or they finish the season on the road.
Personally I am hoping for a meaningless game against the Dolphins that isn't nationally televised, after we've clinched the division.
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A few thoughts.
CBS has fought tooth and nail to keep Chiefs/Bills each year. So much so that it is at the top of the list of games they want to keep the past few years, and as a result, they sacrificed some terrible doubleheader slates late in the season with the more desirable AFC games going to NBC and ESPN. I just think the other three networks would rather feature big market NFC teams like Philadelphia or the Rams. I could be wrong, but I think CBS gets this one again sometime in late October or early November, especially since 4:25 standalone games draw a ton of eyes. It is similar to the 90s when CBS and then FOX always got the Cowboys and 49ers in the late window.
I agree that Miami finishing the season in Orchard Park is the most appropriate way to finish out regular season games at Rich Stadium. I suspect the Bills will request this if they can and I don't see why the NFL wouldn't grant it if they can make it work. I think the chances are high that they will be at home in Week 18 regardless of whether it is Miami, New England*, or the Jets.
PHI/BUF has 4:25 FOX written all over it. FOX hasn't gotten an A-list Bills game recently... they got the Rams and Seahawks last season but neither of those teams is a top 5 opponent. It feels like FOX is due to get one and this one specifically makes a ton of sense.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Tampa Bay, and Pittsburgh feel like candidates for SNF and MNF. I think we get someone like the Jets on TNF this year.
One of the middling NFC games, maybe the Carolina or New Orleans ones - will be eligible for a Saturday flex to NFL Network in December. It seems like this happens a lot to us.
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17 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:
This proposal is way, way too much power in the hands of a ref.
It's like letting a ref throw a flag to allow a team to automatically convert an onside kick.
I think they need to treat the 4th and 15 (or whatever) sort of like a PAT in that the offense must convert it, because I agree with you that this proposal is begging for phantom holds and DPIs. If there's a penalty... you retry the conversion after the penalty is marked off. For instance, if the ball is at the 35 on 4th and 15, and a defensive hold is assessed, there is no automatic first down and the 4th and 15 conversion is now attempted at the 40 - 5 yards down the field.
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1 hour ago, MikePJ76 said:
they have had critical injuries on defense each of the last 3 playoff losses.
Its hard to beat good teams with your top corner out every year plus all the other injuries.
A lot of this has to do with the type of players that the coaching staff and Beane plug into the defense. They tend to have speed at the expense of size and durability.
I get it with the injuries but imo some of this, in particular the linebackers, is due to the particular players that fit the scheme. Injuries to undersized players are now a problem and thus I think it's perfectly legitimate to question whether the scheme needs to be re-evaluated.
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I was in El Chalten, and slept through it fighting a cold.
Hiked Fitz Roy/Laguna de los Tres the next day. I'd say I got the better end of that deal.
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How is that not a delay of game?
I have watched football for 35 years and I have never seen that at the 2 minute warning.
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1 minute ago, Mikie2times said:
No huddle is creating problems for them settings up those blitz packages
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Last offseason, I booked a trip for this year to Patagonia for hiking over the Super Bowl because I was so confident that the Bills would be fighting, at best, for the division this year. They'd be lucky to win a wild card game. On Super Bowl Sunday, we are in a small town called El Chalten that lacks reliable cell service and has no landline-based internet. ESPN Argentina will be carrying the game in Spanish and it is not clear whether our inn gets it or not.
This of course means the Bills will be playing. I suppose the pro is that I won't have to listen to Tom Brady's color commentary.
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Just now, Gregg said:
Woody is known to get involved. He was the one who wanted Rodgers. Both JD and Saleh wanted Carr but were overruled by him. How can you keep him out when he is the owner and can do whatever he wants.
You make it a condition of hire and write it into the contract that the GM and/or HC have final say over roster composition and the cap. I'm not saying it will happen... but IMO that's what it is going to take for the Jets to have success with whomever they decide to run the football operations of the franchise.
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15 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
Glenn to the Jets would be another great move for the Bills by a division rival. Nothing against the man, but I dont think its much of a groundbreaking hire. It will be same ol same ol in New Jersey. And will be that way as long as you have a Woody making decisions.
I still worry about Brady to New Orleans. Seems like a well connected no-brainer. Hoping the Saints dont want to wait 3 weeks to make a hire. McCarthy would be a good land for them.
They need a McDermott type coach to change the culture and keep Woody out of the day-to-day decision making. I agree that Glenn doesn't seem like that kind of person. Ironically I would have said Saleh might be a few years ago, but we know how that turned out.
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This is a very good development.
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Blakeman and Hochuli IMO are the most likely to see CC assignments at R. There is an outside chance of Scott Novak potentially getting an assignment as well.
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I am hoping and praying that Shawn Hochuli does not end up at Arrowhead next week.
That's the biggest wild card we're gonna have to deal with.
Alternate helmet to be revealed July 22, per Buffalo Rumblings “source”
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Give the people what they want...