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Per WalterFootball: "Unfortunately, McGough broke his collarbone in the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl. That injury prevented playing in an all-star game and could restrict his pre-draft workouts." Yikes!. Now there's a bowl game I wish I'd watched...

More like McGolf outing....

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/01/defining-generations-where-millennials-end-and-post-millennials-begin/ "Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 22-37 in 2018) will be considered a Millennial...."

Close.... Alabama: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=100751 UCLA: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=110662#admsns

Shut up and dribble...

This thread's almost a mirror reflecting the psychological makeup of "pro-Rosen" and "anti-Rosen" posters. The kid's a QB, not a rorschach test....

Good thread...

Man, that's a lot of words that have absolutely no relation to who Ralph was or how he ran the team....

Yeah, just shut up and dribble...

Man, if that's your litmus test the world would never have had history books, newspapers or TMZ...

The clear solution from your radar graphics is to build a land bridge from the U.S. side of Lake Erie over to Point Abino to act as a snow fence (like the ice boom, in a way) so WNY wouldn't get dumped on as much!!

Flip that to Da'Ron Payne and be very satisfied....

Shouldn't this be titled "How does Baker Mayfield watch the draft"?

If you've ever been on the course, you'd know why it's so revered. It's almost un-worldly beautiful. In a world full of shitt, it's like being on another planet if you're a golf fan. The ne plus ultra of any sporting event I've ever been to...

Isn't EJ Manuel a +275? And Carson Wentz +274?

The Sabres should sign this guy. Can't be worse on breakaways than Lehner...

Apt comparables...

I like his competitive fire but I also want to see a mature, "ice water in the veins," ability to ignore distractions attitude in my franchise QB. This kid seems to be all drama, all the time...

Seems like it. May be just wishful thinking if they have to use those picks in a QB trade.... Kid sounds like he'd be a good fit: http://www.nfl.com/draft/2018/profiles/dallas-goedert?id=2559850

Here are a couple of tidbits on Marv: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/03/05/Bills-give-Levy-contract-extension/2146668149200/ "Levy, 62, had two seasons remaining on a contract he signed in 1989, and estimates are that his annual salary increased from $300,000 to about $500,000." http://buffalonews.com/1992/07/08/bills-11th-in-profits-for-1989-financial-data-disclosed-at-trial/ "Other interesting tidbits from the financial statements were the 1990 salaries of Bills head coach Marv Levy ($322,917) and Polian ($296,000). It is known that both have received substantial pay increases since. Thanks to the Bills' Super Bowl appearances the past two seasons, Levy now receives about $700,000 from the team, while Polian is above $500,000. Jimmy Johnson of Dallas was the NFL's top-paid head coach two years ago at $1.4 million, while Philadelphia's Buddy Ryan was at the bottom of the list at $298,000."

Link? That's not what I recall to any degree... Here's a blurb from Knox's autobiography: https://247sports.com/nfl/seattle-seahawks/Article/Chuck-Knox-The-Last-Hard-Man-Part-Two-104245798 ”Ralph Wilson was a non-meddler, all right. He had ignored this team right to the edge of chaos. Correct that. They had long since passed chaos.” – Chuck Knox "Knox’ Bills played to type – a team in upheaval with dissatisfied players and less-than-optimal ownership that desperately needed leadership. Knox was to provide that leadership again. He first unloaded an unhappy O.J. Simpson on the San Francisco 49ers in a groundbreaking trade which gave Buffalo the draft picks that would later, through use or trade, acquire running back Joe Cribbs and Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. In his five years in Buffalo, Knox created a two-time playoff team from a moribund franchise with a pathetic scouting department and an absentee owner. And it all ended, incredibly, when Wilson refused to give Knox a raise after the 1982 season." Or this blurb, which puts Marv's 1990 salary of $300,000 into context: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/08/sports/football-owners-salaries-focus-of-nfl-trial.html "The highest-paid coach in 1990 was Jimmy Johnson of Dallas, who was paid $1.433 million. That was Johnson's second year as an N.F.L. coach and followed a 1-15 year as a rookie. Miami's Don Shula was second, at just under $1.1 million, about $100,000 less than what San Francisco's Bill Walsh was paid in his final season, 1988, when he won his third Super Bowl."

Hopefully Rogers was giving him tips on how to play in small, fan-obsessed markets with crappy weather after Halloween...

Well, Rex does know a lot about 'windy'...

No doubts whatsoever that Ralph won the lottery with Polian. He clearly didn't know what he had when he gave the GM title to a wet behind the ears pro personnel guy standing in the hallway after Terry Bledsoe got canned. I wouldn't be surprised if Ralph even knew Polian's name at the time. Ralph had little affinity for head coaches before Marv, who was more renaissance man/scholar/generational buddy than any HC before him. Marv more than anything may have caused Ralph to change some of his ways during the Super Bowl years...

While it pains me to support Sully's argument, I'd agree that Ralph didn't like to spend money on the front office or other organizational aspects of the team. He'd pay up for proven players, like the HOF guys you mention, but even then it was like pulling teeth. Andre's contract fights with the team were legendary. What's most galling is how little faith Ralph put in paying for coaching talent. Chuck Knox was the only time he really broke down and signed a name guy who could've had his pick of NFL jobs. The lack of quality coaching magnified the weak rosters we fielded during multiple runs of mediocrity. As far as GMs, Ralph lucked into Polian, so he gets no credit for that hire from me. At the end of the day, it's clear that Ralph was an odd duck. In his younger years he was very mercurial and always seemed to be battling with someone. He mellowed in his old age and became a lot closer to the players and day-to-day aspects of the team. Still, his greatest achievement was simply keeping the team in Buffalo...