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Albany,n.y.

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  1. Duke had more catches in one game than Foster had all season.
  2. Not even close Foster played last week and did nothing on offense. Meanwhile Duke outplayed Foster in the same game.
  3. Grier made a great case for Carolina bringing back Cam Newton.
  4. Those tickets sold late (sometimes picked up for charity) to assure lifting of the blackout now go unsold since the end of the old blackout rules.
  5. Luck is never coming back. His family is more important to him than the NFL.
  6. Player & coach with the Bills.
  7. I'll take Allen because Watson doesn't know the Bills playbook and at this stage would have 2 days to learn a new offense.
  8. I'm expecting a win, but I wouldn't bet on it. Houston is so erratic you never know if they'll play like champs or chumps until you see them on the field on gameday. If we lose I'll still see it as a step forward. Last year Baltimore got knocked out in the wild card round and this year they had the NFL's best record.
  9. Allen wouldn't have fallen, Arizona really wanted him & he would have never made it to 12. The Bills didn't like Jackson as evidenced by the leaked draft board that had Rosen, Rudolph & Lauletta on it as the final 3 but no Jackson. Obviously, in hindsight even the biggest Allen homers (like me) will admit we shouldn't have traded the pick to KC & either drafted Mahomes or Watson. The problem is, by not firing Whaley immediately after the season & putting his replacement in there in January, the Bills were not prepared to draft a QB to be the face of the franchise in 2017. If you need to blame the Bills for not getting Mahomes or Watson, blame Pegula for not having a GM in place well before the 2017 draft. It was well known in the Buffalo media (or at least by Jerry Sullivan who said in April that Whaley was leaving) that Whaley was dead GM walking. Basically with the structure they had in place, they were not about to saddle the new GM with someone else's QB selection.
  10. 8 picks were 2019 only. The extra Ford pick was giving back the one we stole for AJ McCarron & the Knox pick was for our 4th & the 4th we got for Reggie Ragland. So I still think the 2019 draft was pretty amazing. The reality of the Allen trade is more complicated: Glenn to Cincinnati to move from 21 to 12 and then trading pick 12 along with our own 2nd pick & the 2nd we got from LAR to rent Watkins for a year. So technically it was 4 players, 3 actual draft picks-may turn out to be the steal of the draft. Edmunds was traded by taking the extra 1 we got from KC the year before & throwing in the 3rd we stole from Cleveland for their 1 year rental of Tyrod Taylor. With the exception of his last 3 picks in 2018, Beane has been great handling the draft. We drafted 2 players who look like keepers in the 7th round last year & found at least 1 more starter in the 2018 undrafted free agent class. Just think: in 3 of the 4 player trades you mentioned Beane moved a draft pick that he acquired by trading a player on the final year of his contract.
  11. After reading the article I have to say Beane is killing it in the draft, hitting on mid-late rounders as well as the early guys. The mantle as top GM was vacated when Ozzie Newsome retired after the 2018 season (that is after his 2018 draft class made the 2019 Ravens the AFC best team based on the regular season record) and Beane is right up there reaching for the torch Ozzie left behind. The 2018 & 2019 draft classes are the type you look back on after a Super Bowl win and point to those drafts. We already have 4 starters from the 2019 draft (although Ford may end up at guard) and 3 other players with promise & a guy on IR who we'll see next year. Not bad for 8 picks.
  12. It could be worse, imagine what a cluster it would be if they had drafted Josh Rosen #1.
  13. Other father son possibilities: Dan Aykroyd, Rich Eisen Billy Crystal, horse trainer Chad Brown
  14. He's Gilbride's son, same 1st name different middle name so he's not Jr. He's 40 years old, the ex-Bills OC is a lot older (obviously). Edit: I just found out his father, Kevin B. Gilbride is the head coach of NY in the XFL.
  15. I remember there was a lot of fan support on the switch to Peterman. There was also a lot of fan support the following September when Peterman was named the opening day starter. I had mixed feelings the 1st time, since Tyrod was on a pretty bad streak & most of us figured we had nothing to lose with a QB switch. I did respond to one poster who wanted Peterman to be careful what you wish for because he could be a lot worse than Tyrod, but I was still optimistic at the time. Funny thing, I went to both the Chargers game in LA & the Ravens game in Baltimore. Maybe it was me who messed up Peterman's mojo? At the Chargers game Peterman was so bad I called up a fellow Bills fan friend at halftime and we were making jokes & laughing at how bad he was.
  16. The trade was a wash for both teams. With the pick Carolina took Rashaan Gaulden. He lasted a little over a season & a half & was waived. He's now with the Giants. Whose to say the Bills would have done better, but one of the best drafting teams over the years, the Baltimore Ravens, had the pick right after Carolina. One of the reasons the Ravens are the top seed in the AFC this year is because with the pick after Carolina in the 3rd round they took their leading receiver this year, TE Mark Andrews, who led all TEs with 10 TD catches.
  17. It's only ex-Bills. Every other team either has players they signed as rookies or ex-Bills on their rosters. Without the ex-Bills, the league wouldn't have enough players.
  18. Not according to this article: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/12/30/report-all-signs-point-to-washington-hiring-ron-rivera/ Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team’s interview with Rivera is more of a “coronation” and that all signs point to Rivera being named the team’s new head coach on Monday. The team can move quickly to hire Rivera as he fills the need to interview a minority candidate under the terms of the Rooney Rule.
  19. I like this psychiatrist joke: My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
  20. The RAVENS fired Belichick. The Browns moved to Baltimore & fired Belichick. The current Browns didn't play until 3 seasons after Belichick was fired, I wouldn't call moving a team "sold to Baltimore"
  21. I think Rivera is considered a Rooney Rule qualifier by himself.
  22. He'll start. 3 handoffs & on to Barkley.
  23. Ask Marv Levy and the players on the Super Bowl teams that would rest the starters & lose the season finale & then roll in the AFC playoffs.
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