justnzane

I'd rather us keep the talent and the minimal amounts of depth we do have. As this season shows, the Bills got decimated by limited depth at certain positions, which have been adversely effecting the team's performance.

My wonder is why they don't expand the roster for this game like baseball and hockey do. There should be 4 QBs, 4 RBs, 1 FB, 6 WRs, 3 TE's, 10 OL= 28 Offensive Players, 14 front 7 players, 10 secondary players= 24 Defensive Players + 5 Specialists= 57 Players. This would be an improvement over the 44 players (counting the long snapper) in the sense that less wear and tear, and more players gaining deserved recognition. There is no reason 1 Strong Safety makes it per conference and 2 Free Safeties do, in an era where many teams keep 5 safeties active on game week.

There is a difference between honesty with tact and trashing a young struggling QB. Sully is outright sour in Bills wins and worse in defeat. He contributes in the negativity that surrounds players and the team as a whole; thus making players and coaches think twice about working hard in this town. By turning a fan base through negativity towards the players is hardly productive for anyone except Sully.

You wouldn't take Bellycheck? You need a coaching staff that is able to scheme to the players' strengths and the opponents' weaknesses. I disagree with that talley as they were multiple times that he didn't have enough time to step up in the pocket. I would say 3 were on the line and Tyrod for the rest.

The OP may be a little too complimentary of TT, but as far as today goes, the loss goes in quite a few spots before him. The lines couldn't block and shed blocks, The tackling was poor enough to make Bell look like a greased pig, the receivers dropped balls at crucial times, and bad penalty on the FG to lead to a 1st.

That is just it, in this world, you should be able to go home even if you are a dick. You should not be killed on the road, over a minor dispute. You are the one turning this into a 2nd amendment issue. Most Americans believe in the 2nd amendment's existence and need. However, most gun owners believe that a firearm should be used for last resort protection, hunting, or other sporting practices. Based on what has been reported, I see none of that applying here.

He may have began a confrontation, but not every confrontation should go to guns. McKnight didn't deserve to die because some immature a-hole can't let **** slide.

If the players were under contract for the 2016 season up north, I'd imagine that they can not agree to terms with an NFL team to finish out the season.

The NFL is losing the interest of the fan, in part because the commercial breaks are too frequent due to the way replay reviews are executed. Most reviews can be done quickly and efficiently from league offices or some official in the stadium watching multiple replays quickly and relaying it down to the ear piece of the referee. This would speed it up as opposed to a geriatric ref running 80 yards across the field to look at 3 or 4 replays, make a conclusion, and then waddle back 80 yards to make an announcement. The game also runs longer due to more passing as that leads to more incompletions, which turns a 3 hour game into a 4 hour one quickly. For the Browns v Ravens game on 11/10 only 5.66 million viewers watched that game. That is terrible, when you consider that the Big Bang Theory had triple the amount of viewers and the O'Reilly Factor had a similar amount of viewers, in competing time slots. The Patriots v Seahawks game 3 days later had 22 million views and the Bills v Seahawks game 3 days earlier had 11 million. So, a bigger part of the problem is that the matchups on TNF suck, and cause the ratings to be as lower than a Bills game, or other SNF and MNF games, as well as O'Reilly and Bazinga. After it has reached its zenith, you can say that statement infinitely as the sentence is in its past tense

You are telling me that the commissioner of the league can't lobby for change in said league? Really? Goodell has more power than you think. Suspending numerous players for a substance that is socially acceptable by a majority of the country is bad business, and he knows it. The heroin epidemic is in large part due to Big Pharma pushing doctors to prescribe oxycodone and other similar drugs at rates far beyond necessary. This led to a number of people checking into rehab such as Rush Limbaugh, Brett Farve, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Cindy McCain among countless others. Unfortunately, many people often transition to heroin from oxy and vicodin, which in turn has left far too many dead. Weed is not the answer to the problem, but it is a much safer stopgap than prescribing legal forms of heroin to players.

Even if they aren't smoking for pain control, it helps. Our society is geared to prescribe expensive opioids to pain patients. Unfortunately, the overreliance on these drugs has created an epidemic of heroin junkies who were productive healthy, relatively clean citizens before. I have witnessed this too often with young people OD'ing or committing suicide in response to these types of addictions. Weed is by far the safer option. Goodell has a ton to do with what substances are banned, as he can push the agenda for policy changes as the commish. Eh, I forgot about that until you brought it up. I nothinged him as a Bill, and hold no grudges as the business is cruel in general.

I think that the illegal contact rule would be worth revisiting as I believe if they allowed contact down the field on receivers, you'd have less deep zone coverage, and less players being dismembered by a player sitting back in zone and making a read. As far as PI calls, the officials should be talking with officials off the field in a studio to discuss questionable calls as well as replays.

As much as I am inclined to bash on a random Pat*, I cannot fault any player for smoking weed. The pain management aspect of weed is smarter than taking the synthetic heroin that the doctors prescribe. The fact that a handful of NFL states have fully legalized pot and more have medicinal laws in place, show that Goodell should re-evaluate the rule.

Well on read-option, they do. But that is not the case for the majority of the plays.

Star Wars Episode 1- John Williams- Duel of the Fates coincidentally, the soccer team I like, Tottenham Hotspur, comes out on to the pitch to this song as well. Also, this song is one of the few things I'll praise from the prequels. The imperial march is also appropriate for being a Bills fan in many years, IMO

Bill, the players do get compensated heavily for having their brains to be turned to soup. They just don't get taken care of when they are discarded to the scrap heap afterwards.

He is an energy player. Some people do a lot with little reps and are useless as 3-down players (see Mario Williams last year and this year)

There is no functional plan to move to London as the novelty will wear off of as they realize how horrible the Jags and this will be hidden by Tottenham's stadium being only 62,000 seats once it moves there. You can't expect the owners to want to travel to London for regular season games, especially if they are in the same division. Playoffs would not be a logistical nightmare as well By giving Europe a minor league with mid-major college-like attendance, you can grow the game across Europe and place value on building on youth leagues over there to globalize the game. This would be more efficient long-term than the money grab of London. The Toronto experiment is not the best comparison given the proximity of Toronto to the continental 48.

If the NFL wants foreign exposure, the right thing to do was keep NFL Europe going as a feeder, and allow the locals to learn the game. This loss leader would do much more for the future of the game than parading the ****ty Jaguars in Wembley or Tottenham every year.

Pepe

You guys are nuts. As professional athletes, they are generally brothers. They'll play hard, and put it behind them afterwards. They are friends off the field and foes on it. At a certain point, you have to let things go and know that the players do not take things as hard as you the fan does. This is a defense mechanism as it allows them to move on to the next game. So, don't get your panties in a bunch over two friends showing respect to each other.

They do. Frankly, there should be no running to the review booth. It should be done like hockey where somebody at the league office makes the decision. This should be expanded to bogus calls and egregiously missed calls.

Rastro, can we please agree that our first priority should Valium second priority alcohol third priority banning cell phones from 2.5 miles around the stadium to prevent deadspin's weekly column P6 banning dildos and cocaine from the stadium?

I want what you are smoking. Our pass rush is fine, our secondary is not.

McCoy missing wasn't the problem. They lost for these reasons: 1. The play calling offensively was atrocious in the first half as Gillislee was running wild, and yet we were passing too often. 2. The receivers couldn't catch a cold in an elementary school nurses office. 3. The defense couldn't get off the field on 3rd down 4. The officiating was very one sided on the calls and non-calls that contributed to points for New England. This was most evident by not even reviewing the J. Williams touchdown, before he scored again. 5. Tyrod has been awful in his accuracy most of the season.