Albany,n.y.

The last couple of years I've subscribed to the Bills only news from the Buffalo News. It was $35.88/ year. That option is now gone, so if you were a Bills only subscriber the reason you've been getting the daily digital issue via e-mail lately is they switched you to a full subscription. I liked receiving the paper & I now will get the Buffalo News every day for $179.88/year. That's less than 50 cents a day, so even though it's $144 more than I've been paying, I like the idea of getting the entire Buffalo News 7 days a week.

Park cars at McKinley Mall & shuttle people to Highmark to replace some of the lost parking. The mall just sold & is barely occupied. According to an internet search, there are over 6,800 parking spots.

Be careful saying you like boobs on a message board of a team previously coached by Gregg Williams😄

It seems like same old, same old. I was going through the archives & found this from 2018:

Maybe when Polian was around, but gone by the time Brandon took the job.

I haven't read the whole thread, so I may be adding a duplicate opinion, but the tweet that says the Bills might need to look elsewhere to play while the new stadium is being built is ridiculous. They just need to do what's been done in NYC & NJ. Met Life Stadium was built on another part of the property while the 2 NJ teams still played in Giants Stadium. City Field was built on another part of the Shea Stadium land and the new Yankee Stadium was built a block or 2 away from the old one & the baseball continued in the old stadiums during construction. Losing some parking is better than finding a stadium away from Orchard Park to play in for a season or 2. After the new stadium is built, the old one is demolished & full parking is returned. I don't remember any problem with parking at Giants Stadium when Met-Life was being built, just add more available buses to the game or some kind of shuttle from an auxiliary area down the road from Highmark.

If the unvaccinated want to go & sit with everybody else, so be it. But if they are causing segregation & the team is going to lose 10-20k fans per game it might as well be them. They're the ones in danger, not you or I. If they want to take their chances go ahead & let them in but don't segregate them & bump me out of my seat that I bought as a single game. Full capacity should be full capacity, not 80%.

Segregating fans means fewer fans in the stadium. Fewer fans means less revenue. There were 7,271 fans at the Yankees/Blue Jays game Wednesday & 7,288 last night. That's less than half capacity & even when they go to 95% vaccinated & 5% unvaccinated, they'll still only be at 80% capacity. Why should the Bills lose 20% of their gate revenues when they can fill the stadium completely just to satisfy a minority of fans who refuse to get vaccinated? As far as I'm concerned, fill it to capacity without segregation. The vaccinated fans aren't in danger.

He might be able to. The County owns the building & he is the county's CEO. The policies allow businesses to make their own COVID rules. However, his plan might fall apart on the basis that he's letting unvaccinated players in, so he can't say that it's a fully vaccinated facility.

Erie County still wants 100% vaccinations: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/erie-county-if-you-want-to-see-a-bills-game-in-person-you-still-need/article_a0bfc082-cf81-11eb-967d-23fe7b803176.html New York State may have given the Buffalo Bills the green light to fill up stadium seats at 100% capacity without restrictions, but Erie County hasn't. County Executive Mark Poloncarz is not changing his position that the only Bills fans who can attend games in person are those who are fully vaccinated. "Right now I do not have any change to report in our position on the Bills’ fan attendance issue," said Poloncarz's spokesman Peter Anderson. "With well over two months to go until the opening game, it seems reasonable that there should be enough vaccinated people by that time to have a 100% vaccinated attendance." He again repeated the message of county leaders urging all residents to get vaccinated. Whether this directive will change as it gets closer to the official start of the season remains to be seen.

It's a pretty interesting list of teams that drafted the wrong 1st round QB & the next 1st round QB taken proved the higher drafting team wrong. Here's a list. In order to get on the list both QBs had to be 1st round picks and the 2nd QB had to be the next QB taken in that draft. Ironically, the Bills won the battle twice: 2020 Miami-Tua, LA Chargers Herbert 2018 Jets-Darnold, Bills-Allen 2017 Bears-Trubisky, KC-Mahomes 2012 Washington-RGIII, Miami-Tannehill 2006 Arizona-Leinart, Denver-Cutler 2005 SF-Al.Smith, GB-Rodgers 1999 (happened twice) 1st, Cleveland-Couch, Philadelphia McNabb 2nd time, same year Cincinnati-Ak. Smith, Minnesota-Culpepper 1987 STL-Stouffer, Atl-C. Miller 1983 KC-Blackledge, Bills-Kelly 1982 Baltimore-Schlichter, Chicago-McMahon 1979 Cincinnati-Thompson, NYG-Simms

We started in the endzone & by the 4th quarter we moved to the sidelines. I don't recall paying that much, I treated a couple of friends & I think it was about $100 per ticket. The deal was they drove & paid for parking, which I think was $40.

I'm the reason Peterman's only decent game was the snow game. I was in the hospital for that game & didn't see a down. In Peterman's other 3 starts I was at 2 of them (LA & Balt) and watched the other game on TV. Peterman just couldn't play well if he knew I was watching.😄. Here's a funny story about the snow game-after the game I took my phone & was listening to the WGR postgame show in the post surgical recovery area at Albany Med where it's one big room with particians between beds. A nurse yelled at me that it was on too loud & to turn it down because it could be bothering the other patients.

I've thought the same thing about Josh's rookie year & career. When I hear clowns in the national media who almost never see Josh play cite statistics from his rookie year & 2nd season and say he came out of nowhere last year, I go crazy. They are clueless to the fact that in his 1st 2 years Josh's stats didn't match what we were watching in games-a player who willed his team to a lot more victories than the roster was built for that season. For Josh to get 5 wins as a rookie in 11 starts with no OL or WRs was pretty amazing. After seeing Josh as a rookie, in his 2nd season I was all in & made some good money betting the Bills over win totals & to make the playoffs. The stat boys never saw it coming, but last year, when the stats finally caught up with what was going on on the field to me, and most likely you too, it was no surprise.

I think it's ridiculous to hate on another QB just because you like your own QB better. As you said, you don't know him personally yet you "can't stand" him. Personally, I don't hate any opponents players because the better they are the more I respect their excellence. It's pretty obvious that the guys who do know Mahomes, his teammates, respect him as a person & a leader.

Why would anyone hate on Mahomes?

On at least one of the interceptions, the scoreboard flashed "Nixon for President"

I think Sam Bradford's problems were more with his own body than his O-line. The guy was a rich man's Rob Johnson. He was drafted off a year where he lost most of the college season with multiple injuries. I think Sam Darnold's problems at WR were worse than his O-line. He had 1 decent receiver & they let him (Anderson) go to Carolina as a FA. I believe that 2 things happened in Josh's rookie year: 1) Management was blindsided by the loss of both Incognito & Wood and since they were going all in for a QB, using a lot of draft capital to get up to #7 they couldn't fix the OL or get any decent WRs. It was worse than just no O-line since the WRs were the worst group in the league. 2) AJ McCarron was so bad in camp, that Nate Peterman appeared to be the better option. The Bills planned on sitting Josh for at least the 1st half of the season, but McCarron's & Peterman's failures blew up that plan. When Orton retired Marrone quit rather than be stuck with EJ. If the coach didn't want a QB bad enough to quit, that should have told Whaley something. Now it was pretty slim pickings in the 2015 draft as every QB, including the top 2 picks, busted or drastically underachieved. So you can't blame Whaley for passing on any QBs in 2015 in the draft. When Rex came in, he was the driving force behind the Tyrod signing after hearing from his Baltimore connections.

If you go back through the archives, you can find posts of people who were adamant that a team has to build its OL before going for a QB. Others were totally against using a 1st round pick on a QB. Many times I would reply that you get the QB 1st & build around him and the best place to find him is in the 1st round of the draft. I was glad that when Beane came here he stated his intention to do exactly what people on my side of the arguments wanted.

I would have traded Duke Williams for him...just to stop any more Duke Williams posts by some Bills fans who have always overrated the Duke.

Whaley obviously had a change of clothes because he was wearing a suit at the press conference. You can criticize Whaley for a lot of things but waiting until the press conference to put his suit on goes a bit too far. Other than that, great video, thanks for posting it. On the other side, I believe if Rex Ryan had remained as coach the Bills would have drafted Watson and today we'd be going nuts because right when we finally have a Super Bowl contender the QB would be facing a big suspension or worse & we'd be relying on Mitch Trubisky to get us to the Super Bowl.

Phil Simms once missed the final 10 games of the 1983 season when he messed up his hand by hitting an opponent's helmet.

Not if they had stuck with Fitzpatrick another year or 5 instead of releasing him after Buddy stuck his foot in his mouth during the fake phone call. However, the 2014 QB draft wasn't much better with Carr, Garoppolo & Bridgewater as the only QBs who didn't bust. The 2015 QB draft was bad too, with Winston & Mariotta going 1-2 and a bunch of no names after them (Siemien was the best of the rest, chosen in the 7th round). The 2016 draft was a little better, but the Bills drafted C. Jones 4 picks after Dallas picked Prescott. So, in hindsight, getting rid of Fitzpatrick was a pretty dumb move. Matt Barkley will be back!

QB draft choices are always iffy. In the top 10 it's about 50/50. Once you go past the top 10 the odds of finding the answer at QB drop. I did a study of QB draft choices for a 20 year period from 2000 to 2019 and found the following. In order to be considered a success a QB had to become a long term starter or have a long backup career like the two 7th rounders, both former Bills , Fitzpatrick & Cassell. The success rate results: Top 10 53% Rest of 1st round: 36% 2nd round: 24% 3rd round: 17% 4th round: 10% 5th round 0% (over 30 busts) 6th round: 10% 7th round 5%

The Pegulas figured that out & after a disaster of an end of season press conference after the 2016 season put a gag order on him & wouldn't let him speak to the media until after they fired him. Remember, on the day of the 2017 draft McDermott spoke to the media & Whaley never said a word.