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  1. 10 minutes ago, 78thealltimegreat said:

    This seems like a much easier schedule at first glance but who knows how these rosters and teams will look. 

     

    Nothing is easy when our coaches have their heads up their collective rear ends

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  2. First time to FedEx for a game and it was a blast.  Our crew drove down from Harrisburg PA (2 hours) and hit one of the private tailgates.  We were actually there too early since they weren't opening any lots until 9 AM

     

    The crowd seemed like 60% Bills fans and we were way louder than the WAS fans at all points in the game.  Our section in the upper deck was 90% Bills fans

    Stadium experience was a joke - couldn't hear anything on the mikes, scoreboards might as well be from 1995, and the team's attempts at firing up the home crowd were hilariously poor.  I'd forgotten that some teams still have cheerleaders

     

    The best was after they scored that meaningless FG at the end and they actually set off a couple of fireworks and fired up the marching band.  There were literally next to zero home fans left at that point, but we all got a good laugh out of it

     

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  3. I like to leave Rochester by 7 AM so that I'm at a private lot off California Rd by 8:30.

    That helps me avoid the lineup of cars that pile up waiting for the stadium lots to open at 9:00

     

    Based on what I saw two weeks ago, you absolutely have to budget more time this year with the construction.  There just isn't the same amount of total spaces to go around as there used to be.  

     

    This Sunday, with the weather and the opponent, count on a similar situation

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  4. I was way more pumped up the last two seasons, but maybe we got too high too early last year.

     

    2022 definitely taught us about how long the season really is, and how hard it is to be peaking at the right time.  

     

    So maybe we'll just not be as great of a regular season team this year, but have improved mental energy and fewer injuries by the time we get into January.

    Once we're there - anything can happen!

     

    But yes, let's also beat the snot out of Rodgers and the over-hyped Jets this evening!

  5. We have a good sized group driving in from Harrisburg PA.  There's a big Bills Backers tailgate being run by a local group called Fans of Buffalo through EventBrite

     

    $79 all you can eat & drink with breakfast buffet, BBQ buffet, etc

     

    We went to a similar event in Baltimore last year and it was well worth it!

     

    But I agree that it's potentially going to be close to 50% Bills fans at this game - which is great!

     

     

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  6. I bought my first red jersey for this year (have 5 blue ones in reserve)

     

    Broke my usual guideline of going with established players and went right for Dalton Kincaid

     

    I think he's going to be a monster and buck the usual trend of our high draft picks not being huge contributors during Year 1

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  7. 15 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

    Can’t figure out the dolphins strategy - they get rid of great players in their prime who are going to cost money, mincah, tunsil. Then use the savings to break the bank on declining assets past their prime, Chubb, Ramsey. 

     

    Your mistake here is believing that they have a strategy instead of just a series of half-assed scattershot moves

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  8. 38 minutes ago, Beast said:

    Though I appreciate letting us all know that is one season I want to forget.

     

    I'm fascinated - how do you feel about the other 60 seasons that we didn't win a championship?  

    Do you have any memories of back-to-back 2-14 seasons in 84 & 85?

     

    Personally, I liked winning 13 regular season and 1 post-season game.  Yes we didn't get to the Super Bowl, but I choose to remember the year fondly.

     

    And before you nitpick, I was in attendance for the post-season debacle vs the Bengals.  They sucked

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  9. 5 hours ago, Whites Bay said:

    Anyone who says they didn't leave the game is bordering on lying, because people were STREAMING out.  Including my brother any myself.  But he has always been the die hard that waits until the last play, and said "Let's stand here (on a handicap area) and watch."  And it just started happening.  It was biblical.

     

    I was 18 at the time, and there with 6 of my buddies.  

     

    We never even thought about leaving

     

    And I keep the ticket stub in my wallet to prove it when necessary

     

  10. The piece that disgruntled fans here seem to lack awareness of is exactly how hard both Beane & McDermott work to get better at their professions.

    They are open to new ideas, trying new things, and actively focusing on improving their own deficiencies in the off-season

     

    This isn't guys like Jeff Fisher, or Marty Schottenheimer, or Marvin Lewis, or Mike McCarthy who might have had some early success and mostly fiddly-farted their way through the last 2/3 of their careers - fans and pundits KNOWING that these guys weren't going to get any better or ever sniff a SB

     

    My point is that both guys, and especially McDermott are putting in the hard work and effort to keep the stability that they've built the last 6 seasons while making the changes and enhancements that are needed to improve and keep giving us shots at a ring.  

     

    Each and every frigging year

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  11. At our local Bills Backers bar, early on we adopted saying "OK Zay!" whenever he made a play. 

    They were few and far between, so the tone of our exclamation ended up being more surprised than excited. 

    As if it was a reminder that he was actually still on the team and taking snaps.

     

    I re-watch a lot of game on NFL Network from the 2017 and later era, and still chuckle and shout "OK Zay!" at the TV when he makes a catch.

    Alcohol definitely helps my enthusiasm there...

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