Albany,n.y.

I type pretty slowly and this often happens to me. By the time I post someone has mentioned something similar.

No. I don't miss the incompetence that plagued the team for many years. Now in December I'm thinking Super Bowl. Years ago I was hoping for more losses so that 1) The Bills would get a higher draft choice &/or 2) The bad management would get fired or quit. Actually they went hand in hand-I didn't trust the management to draft the right players, so I was hoping they would be drafting so high it would be a no brainer who to pick. Yet, team history showed that even with a top 5 pick the Bills would screw it up. The last 3 top 5 Bills draft choices all had one thing in common: When they were with the Bills they were lazy guys who didn't take their job seriously. Watkins, Darius & M. Williams were all massive underachievers. I blame the guys who drafted them more than the players themselves. The players had character flaws that should have been evident pre-draft. Add to that the last 2 1st round QB picks before Josh: Trading up for JP Losman & then boxing themselves into a corner & drafting EJ Manuel as the top QB in a year that was among the worst ever QB classes. Beane showed me that with good management draft position really doesn't matter. I learned that lesson in 2018 when I thought that by drafting 21 & 22 the Bills had guaranteed more years of QB hell. When Beane moved from 21 to 7 and ended up with the best player in the draft, I learned that with a good GM you don't need to bottom out like I always thought the Bills had to do. I still remember that even after the Bills moved up to 12 in 2018, I was resigned to a bad fate when the Jets moved from 6 to 3, guaranteeing them the chance at a franchise QB. Fortunately, the teams picking ahead of the Bills weren't managed very well (only 1 of the GMs from the 5 teams that drafted before 7 is still on the job) and we got lucky nobody ahead of pick 7 saw the potential the Bills did in Josh Allen. In summary, I prefer planning for Super Bowl Sunday in December than planning for the draft in December.

I saw that & it matches my Verizon guide, but I'll wait for 2 things. 1st when the official 506 maps come out & then if it's still the Jets, I'll be looking for possible request by WRGB to CBS to change it to the Bills. I figure we've got until Friday if the original map shows the Jets & I expect a change if that happens. However, since it's two 2-0 teams battling for the division lead versus 1-1/0-2 I expect to see Bills at Miami on the 506 map & the WRGB website on Wednesday. Worst case scenario, I go to OTB & get my own booth & watch the game with the sound on (as opposed to many sports bars that don't play the sound).

Cousins is the ultimate looks good on paper but not on the field player. Very mediocre but he puts up enough stats to look better than any other .500 QB in black & white. Too bad he's not very good in color.

Ken Johnson AKA Pinto Ron will soon be on ESPN's Monday Night Countdown getting a ketchup & mustard bath. They just showed Elvis waving his guitar while standing on the roof of a vehicle.

Better tell those people headed out to Highmark to turn around and go home since the game is now in Nashville.

I'm listening on the My Tuner site & this clown is giving out the game "for free" on a recorded message at an 800 #. He claims to be a pro then states Tennessee is at home, making them a home underdog. This "pro" doesn't even know where the game is being played.

Carolina @ Giants from inside Met-Life Stadium.

I see this was merged with LeBron James haunted by the Browns passing on Josh Allen twice. My first thought was Cleveland haunted by LeBron leaving the Cavaliers twice.

I don't have the suspense gene, I have the opposite-When I'm watching a movie at home, I'll go on the internet & find out the ending before the movie is halfway over. I'll know what happened & not care.

I'll have to wait until tomorrow to watch it since I don't have Amazon. I'm recording the replay on the NFL Network which starts at 12:15 AM.

I can't wait until Tua sees the contracts that his fellow class of 20 QBs Burrow & Herbert get and demands the Dolphins match those for him. 😄

I think Ballard has assembled a good roster & has hit on a good amount of picks. Unfortunately, they've never figured out how to replace Andrew Luck. The 1st year (2019) they were stuck because Luck retired too late for them to look for a QB. Since they felt they are in win now mode, they went the veteran route in 2020 with Rivers, who called it quits & put them back to square one. For 2021 Reich had too much input into the decision to trade for Wentz, it cost them their 2022 1st round pick, a bad mistake. Now it's back to the Rivers route going with Ryan at the end of his career. Their win now attitude has put them in QB hell with 5 different QBs each of the last 5 years. That's no way to win. Eventually, they're going to have to figure out a way to get a young QB in there who they can project for a decade and not go year to year hoping to squeeze 1 more productive season out of a QB on the downside of his career. I don't know if Ballard has the guts to do what Beane did in 2018, assembling enough draft capital to go all the way up to 7 from pick 21 by moving 3 other players/picks to get there. The Colts are too good to be picking high enough where they'll finish unless they get very bold or luck out like GB did with Rodgers years ago. The other option is to let Ryan go after this year & bottom out next year with a bum at QB like they did when Peyton missed the season & they were able to suck for Luck. However, the coach & GM both got fired as a result of that bad season.

I wasn't offended, I remember it was split about 50/50. Many of the people who loved Josh I didn't list because there was no reason to list a bunch because since it was around 50/50 you could easily match it as you've done here. The problem in the media was the anti-Josh crowd had the bigger mouths & became more memorable, while people like Pete Prisco, who said the following (below), were drowned out, especially by the guys at WGR: There were many on both sides. My 1st response was to my belief that there was no clear majority as most likely to bust. If you had said many people thought Josh would bust, not most likely to bust, I would have let it go, but I don't think there was a clear majority one way or another. As far as draft analysts, my favorite one, the late Dave Te'Thomas, had Josh on top in 2018. Prisco: 7. Josh Allen, QB, Wyoming Grade: A+ They get the best QB in the draft and they had to go make the move to get him. Love the trade, love the pick.

I replied to the fact you said Kiper is passe and nobody listens to Schein. That has nothing to do with my opinion of either one of them. I used them as examples of high profile personalities that had a high opinion of Josh. If you love them why did you basically say they're they're irrelevant when they both get high enough ratings to stay on the air? Questioning your statement that I quoted in this post's 1st sentence is hardly a twisted panties response when I disagreed that guys who continue to be employed for years by high profile networks are irrelevant. Guys who are passe and that nobody listens to don't remain on the air. The networks move on from them looking for higher ratings. That's a fact, not my opinion.

Mine is based on the fact that both are employed by major sports networks. Schein by both CBS sports and SiriusXM. Kiper by ESPN. They get high enough ratings to stay employed while you think that just because you don't agree with them they're irrelevant. That an opinion with no basis other than your feelings, which makes it a baseless, ridiculous opinion. Mine is based on the fact they each have enough of a following to stay on the air, internet, and employed.

Just because you don't think much of Kiper or Schein doesn't make you right. Your opinion is baseless. They wouldn't be employed if you were right. Now go back to reading clowns on the internet who live in their moms basements, because to you they're the relevant ones. I stand by my statement that the real experts. NFL scouts & GMs didn't consider him most likely to bust.

Not really. There was a split in the media. Some like Kiper & Schein loved him. Some like the ones we've posted before hated him. In the NFL front offices, there was a lot of support for Josh Allen. The Bills traded up because they had to or they would lose him to another team. No player in the top 10 in the draft is considered most likely to bust by the real experts, the NFL GMs & scouts. Sure there were some analytic stat boys living in their moms' basements who had access to internet sites who wrote anti-Josh articles, and of course the WGR clowns who weren't happy, but to compare their thoughts about the 7th overall pick in the NFL draft to opinions on an undrafted kicker is ridiculous.

You can't miss FGs with such a great holder & not get cut. 😁

That's why I'm going to NJ this weekend to see Carolina @ NY Giants.

After Denver my pool is down by 39%. Lost 148 out of 377.

Brandon, you're delusional. That may be your line to get to in Denver's thin air, but you weren't in Denver. No player in NFL history has ever kicked a ball that far in an outdoor stadium that is not in Denver, and that was only done once in Denver. So your line was a ridiculous overreach. .

Hackett called a 64 yarder "field goal range". The 2 longest kicks in NFL history are a 64 yarder in Denver & a 66 yarder indoors in Detroit last year by one of the best kickers in NFL history Justin Tucker. Hackett then doubled down & said he would do it again. The ST coach needs to tell Hackett that 64 yards is not FG range. If he has to take his shoe off & bop Hackett on the head to get his point across, he needs to do that.

IK Enemkpali. I didn't know how to spell it either, I had to look it up.

I'm old enough to remember Geno Smith with his jaw wired shut and the guy who punched him ending up in Buffalo because Rex Ryan was serious when he said he wanted to build a bully.