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Rumor has it that the Bills will be eliminating paper tickets for season ticket holders and replacing them with a scan card for this upcoming season. Does anyone have any details on how this will work for selling individual games?

9/8/2013 Bills 21 Patriots 20. 8:50 remaining in the 4th quarter, 3rd and 1 at BUF 49. Johnson drops 1st down and likely would have gotten close to FG range with a catch. 11/27/11 Jets 28 Bills 24. 0:35 remaining in the 4th quarter, 2nd and 13 at NYJ 47. Johnson drops 1st down at the 25 and would have likely scored a GW TD with a catch. 10/2/11 Bills 20 Bengals 13. 8:30 remaining in the 4th quarter, 3rd and 1 at the BUF 47. Johnson drops 1st down at the CIN 47. With catch, Buffalo moves close to FG range which would have made it a two score game. (To be fair, this was likely a blown call, cleaner catch leaves no doubt though.) 11/28/10 Bills 16 Steelers 16. 10:30 remaining it OT, 1st and 10 at the PIT 40. Johnson drops GW TD in the end zone. With catch, Buffalo wins in OT. 4 late game drops that had a pretty big effect swinging wins to losses.

The AFC is extremely weak. There will be a 9-7 wildcard. We need to have at least 8 wins going into week 17's home game against what will hopefully be a Jets team running for the bus. The way I see it until then: 4 "outlier games" against good/bad teams that we split (@NE @HOU TEN JAX) Split vs MIA Three coin flips (@IND, STL, SEA in Toronto) So you need to take 2 of the three coin flip games with Indy being the most desirable for tiebreaker reasons. Certainly plausible that we get to 9-7 though it looks a lot more realistic if Ralph doesn't sell the home field advantage against SEA.

Preach brother.

When people say they're concerned about Kuechly's speed (despite the fact he ran a 4.58 at the combine *after* putting on 5 pounds of muscle) it's just a politically correct euphemism for their concern over drafting a white LB, right?

He ran a 4.58 at the combine which was 4th fastest among LBs. He's considered the best LB in pass coverage of the past few drafts. How is his speed still a concern?

They threw his way ten times against NE. He caught 5. He made some big plays against one of the worst pass defenses in the NFL, but he still didn't make a few more tough catches. Even the one ~40 yard catch he had againt the Pats should have been a TD, but his footwork was poor. The offense has been very successful against three bad defenses and poor against a decent defense. I think we need Jones to play much better (or upgrade the position) to score consistently against better defensive teams. He isn't a deep threat, he doesn't make tough catches, and he drops some easy ones. So what does he bring?

The #2 WR spot on this team is an issue. Of our five main receiving targets, Donald Jones is last in catch percentage by a significant margin despite having the second lowest YPC (theoretically, players with lower YPC should have higher catch percentages as their targets are shorter/safer plays) on the team. Nelson is a natural slot reciever and Stevie is by no means a burner, so we need the #2 WR position to stretch the field. Jones isn't doing this and he's consistently not making the semi-difficult catches in traffic. This offense is going to need a reliable speed receiver with the ability to at least make the safety respect the deep threat in order to score against better defenses. Through 4 games, Jones isn't bringing very much to the table. C T Y C% Y/T Y/C SJ 24 36 314 66.67% 8.72 13.08 DN 22 30 251 73.33% 8.37 11.41 DJ 14 29 149 48.28% 5.14 10.64 FJ 13 17 147 76.47% 8.65 11.31 SC 11 14 97 78.57% 6.93 8.82

It could have made a gigantic difference. IIRC, it would have been 3rd and 1+ (Welker was more than a yard short, truly a bizarre call). BB is too smart to go downfield in that situation as an incompletion would leave the Pats* with a game-on-the-line 4th down. He would have in all likelihood run the ball or gone with a conservative pass to pick up the first there. It would have basically set the drive back a play and ten seconds. They probably don't score before the two minute warning and they probably are forced to go for the onsides kick. Simply making the right call would have substantially increased the odds of a victory since an onsides kick is such a low percentage play. But we should have won regardless.

Roscoe dances around and shifts direction 8 times on a punt return where he has a ton of room. It leads to an inevitable block in the back. McKelvin fights for an extra yard rather than putting his knee down. It leads to an inevitable fumble. That's what happens when you take guys that scored a ten on the Wonderlic.

It’s shocking that an organization with a 100 year old owner that insists on constantly interfering with day to day football operations and decisions is dysfunctional. That’s pretty much the standard recipe for success in the modern NFL; I can’t understand why it’s not working here. HOF baby!!!

John Wawrow was the one that posted a colleague at lunch said these things. I'm guessing he wouldn't have posted that if the "colleague" was the copy machine repair man.

And yet that same person just said that someone else he knows (also "in the know") says that Vick is in the area. But maybe he's just seeing the sights.

According to Wilson's article in TBN today, Karl Malone fathered Bell with a woman that was 13 years old when Bell was born. (Malone was a sophomore in college.) That means he knocked her up at 12 or 13. Classy.

I'm sure the list is far from exhaustive, but it includes a hockey HOFer, a NPOY college basketball player, and a 5 time Olympic gold medalist. How high profile are you looking for?