Offside Number 76
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Just now, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:
I wonder how this affects Pitt travel plans? Did they already leave for Buffalo, I'd guess not. Will they now stay home till Sunday, but then risk having a hard time getting to Buffalo, or will they fly in Monday morning? That creates an unusual travel plan which could mess with them.
Do they fly? I know, for example, that the Giants take busses to Philly and a train to Washington.
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14 minutes ago, Bills!Win! said:
The nfl never used to have 4 afc teams all play on the same day in the playoffs. They would always switch it up. Stupid.
That's because there were not more than 4 AFC teams playing on any given weekend. Now there are 6.
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As of noon today (Jan. 8), for a single night (Saturday):
Marriott Millersport: over $1000.
Hampton downtown: over $1000.
Marriott downtown, Westin downtown, Embassy Suites downtown: No rooms available.
Millennium: Reservation system not working.
This is real money coming in to Erie County. At least three of those hotels are owned by locals, and one is owned by the Pegulas. The people spending this much on hotels will spend a lot on dinner and drinks, Uber and such. This is good.
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56 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:
It would also be within a 40 miles radius from any direction of the stadium that you would have to take into account. It may not be thousands. But there are a lot
I'm familiar with what the word radius means.
We don't have the hotel rooms. It's not close.
I've already demonstrated, with citation, that Buffalo has 1% of what's needed. If you think the other 99% of rooms are within 40 miles of Rich, even WITH Canada, which the NFL wouldn't count because of the Detroit situation years back, I'd love to see your data.
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24 minutes ago, BillsPride12 said:
I love the Bills...and I love Buffalo....but the people that keep dreaming there's any remote possibility of Buffalo hosting a Super Bowl are completely out of touch with the reality of the modern NFL
Right? I don't think people understand the enormous amount of infrastructure needed to pull it off. Detroit couldn't handle it last time they hosted; we sure can't.
We *might* have the infrastructure for NCAA basketball regionals (round of 16). But even when we host opening round games, it gets a little tight. The biggest sporting event I've seen here was the 2011 World Juniors, and everything downtown was booked solid--as were several of the suburban hotels and a number of NF hotels. (2018 drew significantly less interest.)
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2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:
So, of all the hotels in Western NY with multiple floors, there's only 2300 rooms in the most populated area of WNY? I find that hard to believe. A few hundred rooms a hotel and there's got to be a few thousand hotels between Orchard Park and Niagara Falls as well as other areas south of the stadium
I think you overestimate the capacity of these hotels. The Embassy Suites might look big, for example, but I'll bet it has only about 150 rooms. The largest hotel in Buffalo, the former Hilton and Adams Mark, now called the Buffalo Grand, has 400.
My figures come from Visit Buffalo Niagara, which ought to know. https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/majority-of-buffalos-hotel-rooms-booked/71-ebd86012-b73a-4d58-8f69-ed768d206c03
And there are not a few thousand hotels in the area. Not even close.
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8 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:
I never understood the "not enough rooms" thing. I think I heard there needs to be 200,000 hotel rooms available within a 40 mile radius from the stadium. You mean to tell me between Orchard Park, all of Buffalo and downtown Buffalo, Amherst, Niagara Falls, Canada and all other areas around the stadium that they can't find 200,000 hotel rooms? 40 miles is a long enough distance and in just Downtown Buffalo alone would have a lot there already
There are 2,385 hotel rooms in Buffalo. This includes tiny boutiques as well as large hotels, and it includes the entire city, not just downtown. That's roughly 1% of the total needed. I don't think the other 99% can be found in the surrounding area even if we include NF Ont.
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12 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
The QB 90% of Bills fans called "the wrong Josh."
I will admit to being one of them.
7 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:Better roster? I mean in every big loss we can point to our biggest players coming up short.
Sure. And so can every other team. But some teams have coaches that make the most of the plays where balls aren't dropped, routes are run correctly, blocking is perfect, etc., and McDermott is not one of those coaches. If the players are playing A- or B+ football, which is fine because I don't expect 11 guys to execute every play perfectly, McDermott's coaching is a C or a C-. He is the most easily identifiable problem.
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1 hour ago, Dr.Sack said:
Post link in response below. Don’t have time to search.
Not my problem, Leon. Either look at the post or shut up. No wonder you name yourself after Seals instead of Smith, you lazy man.
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On 10/16/2023 at 2:48 PM, Dr.Sack said:
The K-Gun was certainly not 12 formations. 11 personnel. I remember Thurman saying 12 plays. It wasn’t that multiple formation wise. It was beauty in simplicity and execution.
I posted a link to the actual playbook. Not sure what would be more authoritative than that.
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10 hours ago, Dr.Sack said:
Thurman did say the K-Gun consisted of 12 plays. It’s the speed and relentless tempo that wore teams out. Right now it seems we are snapping the ball with seconds to go on the play clock. That’s not uptempo and I think we could use that intermittently to keep defenses gassed.
It was 12 formations, not 12 plays.
And I generally agree that they could take a little less time to get plays off--even at the expense of time of possession.
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4 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:
When I looked at the schedule, I thought it was a lock we'd get Bills @ NE on 10/22, but Ch 6 will be showing Washington & NYG next week at 1:00.
It's been a while for me, but wasn't it the deal that one network would carry AFC home games, and the other, NFC? Is CBS not carrying the Bills game?
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How about a game *almost* won on a tacky-tack PI call in Cleveland?
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10 minutes ago, Gregg said:
Are you getting the Jets - Eagles at 4:25.
Yes we are. And that's going to be a complete blowout. It's also going to be my nap between the 1pm games and the Bills game, so personally, I won't care.
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I can't imagine most of us want to watch out-of-conference Seattle against 2-3 Cincinnati, but that's what we get at 1pm on CBS instead of rooting for Carolina against Miami, or watching a tiebreaker matchup atop the AFC south between Indy and Jacksonville.
Fox doesn't have anything interesting at all in that time slot, so I guess SF at Browns is the best the league can do.
But why is our CBS affiliate carrying a game that few of us could care about?
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Just now, UKBillFan said:
The Steelers were also happy to offload him.
And how are they?
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I don't see a reason not to.
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1 minute ago, Success said:
Not that there aren't concerning things going on.
A dozen penalties in a half is concerning. And meaningful, even if preseason.
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They named a Sabre after former RB Curtis Brown.
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29 minutes ago, Clyde Smith said:
I'm at work. How far are we from the next pick?
It's really starting to look like about twelve months, give or take.
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1 minute ago, Mynamemike said:
Why we giving up next years capital? Not a fan of that
Gaining next year's capital.
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19 minutes ago, BigBadBills said:
Fire Fraizer and bring in Reich
Yeah, because Reich is going to fix a defense. Have another Genny.
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34 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Based on the Bengals scoring 17 on O today?
Maybe based on the Bills D allowing 24 today. With Thompson QBing the fish. The Bills need to be better.
Game Postponed! - To be played Monday at 4:30pm
in The Stadium Wall
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Yep--the Athletic I think?