HardyBoy

I always say Go Bills to anyone wearing Pats gear and chuckle, going back about three years. Does that count?

I went to high school and college in Rochester. Crazy how much you don't really notice the lack of sun in high school (at least I didn't) compared to when you're on college. High school you're basically inside all day and then it's dark. College you have a bunch of free time and can just stare at how cloudy it is. Something about the structure of the days made it very different. Maybe it's that in high school there was always someone to talk to either in class or I'm the hallway or whatever. College you are alone a lot more even if you have a lot of friends. Also, if you go right by the lakes it tends to be a lot more sunny iirc. We used to go to Webster Park in Rochester a lot on Sunday mornings before Bills games to go sledding or walk on the trails/by the lake and it was always sunny and I don't think it was because we'd only go on sunny days. The warm air comes off the lake and it takes a few miles for it to cool down and turn into clouds. Anyway, I lived in Boston after college and it was pretty cloudy there too in the winter. Then I moved to Ft Lauderdale and if it was cloudy for two days straight I'd start getting depressed because that's how much sun you get there. Live in Raleigh now and it's pretty much the same...so much sunnier in the winter!

more than a few have said they wouldn’t let their kids play though.

Mounds isn’t drought era though is he?

What do you say, "get off my lawn!" probably! Now if you were commenting on people saying expecially instead of especially I'm with you. Every generation does things with pronunciations and such, you just notice it because you're not talking that way because you are no longer cool my man (don't worry, neither am I).

That's what people don't get about the Dan Le Batard show...it's a parody of basically skip bayless and way to serious sports talk by people who most likely never even watched the game they are talking about.

I think it probably was about him researching the offensive coordinator more than the fact they drafted a qb even.

The td tre gave up was scheme. He wasn't beat after the snap, they beat the entire defense before the snap. Really hard to make huge sweeping judgments on a drive and a half, especially where the defense has taken a couple drives to lock down consistently. That said, I have eyes, I see what it looks like as well. Just saying I'm sure there was a plan to scheme Tre into being effective and it certainly wasn't to have him playing with outside leverage and no inside help on that td.

Haha, it was something that was more nuanced than how I put it for sure.

That's awesome and I bet there were a bunch of people who wished that they were able to take a train to get to NYC from where they were with the southwest cluster going on! Wait, was your first show Merriweather this summer? Did you get an If I Could in each of your first two shows you lucky jerk?!?! Pretty much the only song I'm chasing (not sure why other than it's amazing) and I missed it by one night this summer (was at Raleigh the night before MPP). I've seen them I think 32 times and that was the closest I came other than when they played it in Worcester for the summer 2012 tour opener, but i had moved from Boston to Ft Lauderdale that January so wasnt there. I saw them 8 times each in 2009 and 2010 while living in boston, then only once in 2011 cause I got married that summer, and then moved to Ft Lauderdale in Jan 2012 and basically stopped seeing them for a while (dont be too sad, a lot of good live music in south Florida, especially in the winter/early spring, and there is a huge dead scene down there and a couple incredible dead tributes, but big shows don't typically make it down there too often). Live in Raleigh now though and there is so much music to go within a five hour drive, it's crazy...five hour drive from Ft Lauderdale gets you still in Florida. Forget about me, hope you had fun!!! I absolutely love TAB, so much fun (and back to me)...my first show since Feb 2022 (that was a Heavy Pets show in Boca, which if you haven't checked out The Heavy Pets, you're welcome) was TAB in Wilmington and they opened with Drifting...I am a much much better person when I have live music in my life and I definitely had some tears in that moment.

Nice!!! Did you get a chance to catch any of the other shows in the run?

You might not like the genre, which totally fine, but that band is full of extremely talented, prodigy musicians who are incredible at improvising and what they are playing is really hard. They also sell out multi-show runs at Red Rocks in minutes and have won Grammy awards (like the real musician grammy awards, not the ones awarded based mostly on overall record sales, radio play and marketing).

You're comparing Billy Strings (especially that song to yakety sax)...opinions are one thing, but that's quite a take for sure! He actually has a metal background (I'm assuming you're into death metal). All good, like what you like. I actually didn't really appreciate metal until fairly recently. They play really fast, which is cool and what I appreciate, though I personally prefer silent spaces in the rhythm and I have a really hard time finding nuance within metal, like where's the dynamics?... I'm sure it's there, but it just sounds like all 16th and 32nd notes non-stop. See, youve hurt my sense of self by what you said, so now I need to give you my arbitrary non-credential credentials! I've been to multiple hundreds of concerts big and small in my life, I love live music as much as anything, I played instruments in school from first to 9th grade, I have been playing guitar for the last almost 10 years (I'm 39), I appreciate how fun it is to play with a distortion pedal and I feel like I have a good ear for music across genre, but if I'm going to go on the heavier side of things I more prefer more musically interesting stuff (Rage is very interesting, but there are gaps in the sound vs death metal). I'm open to learning I'm wrong, but man your billy strings take is a take.

Haha, appreciate the information and definitely helpful for people! I was more poking fun at whoever it was that a few years ago was claiming it was literally better to have lost to an NFC team than to have beat them in terms of making the playoffs. He was saying the bills were better off having lost than won...funny how last season the bills had such a weak conference record against such an easy strength of schedule and it's flipped this year...one score games I guess?

I'm listening to a lot of Billy Strings these days as well. The energy that this song brings (Away From the Mire) and the lyrics about promises not coming through and still persevering. Edit: Don't be thrown off by the somewhat chilled out start and the acoustic instuements...this song doesn't have the big distortion, but it brings it once it gets going.

This has been a go to pump up song for me for a while. I love everything about this:

Disagree, but I mean you're obviously right. That said, week by week, priority by priority. The next attainable thing and only thing the bills can get without any help this week is getting the two seed. If the ravens winning helps the bills hedge a loss this week and still get the two seed if the ravens go all in next week to get the division then let's go ravens. I'm genuinely confused in general how the bills didn't lock up the one seed, because of that loss to the Vikings. I thought losing to an NFC team is supposed to help your playoff seeding...

Yeah, I was hard wrong on them having no chance of making it back yesterday.

I wanted them to bench allen after the Jets game, but not because I thought he deserved to be benched for his play, but because I felt the rest of the offense needed to figure crap out and Allen was going to go into hero mode if they didn't and get himself long term hurt. I wasn't turning on anyone, I had confidence they'd figure it out, just please stop putting the key piece of the next 10 years (hopefully) in positions where he is taking on waaaay too much responsibility.

I know, that's what I'm saying. I don't think a nfl team's insurance company is signing off on them driving into Buffalo before it is safe to do so. I think once it's safe to do so it will also be safe to fly into the airports.

Obviously the buffalo airport is closed. My point is I think it is highly unlikely they drive from Rochester to Buffalo today. By the time they will be able to drive in by bus, the airport is very much most likely going to be open. So to me the choice is fly to Rochester, get stuck there, and ultimately fly to Buffalo Monday or just stay in Chicago and fly into Buffalo Monday.

Yeah, they're not driving into buffalo until then either. What insurance company that insures an nfl team and all those salaries is going to sign off on that one exactly?

So if you're the bills, do you fly to Rochester even though it's looking super unlikely they're boarding a bus, or just stay in Chicago? My thought is probably get as close as possible and then figure it out. They can still fly from Roc to Buf if they can fly from Chicago to Buffalo.

At least I didn't bring up no goal right It's relevant though. Have the steelers had a .523 season under Tomlin? I'm just saying the narrative seems to have turned to how great it is to be a Bills fan and yes, getting to watch Josh Allen play for your team is amazing and we are so lucky and it is so fun. They're portraying bills fans as a quirky die hard bunch. The fact that your 5th highest qb that played meaningful snaps has a .523 winning percentage and just the huge, huge gaps between the qbs on that list other than Kelly and Flutie and Flutie played like two years and that was right before the Brady era shut things down, just like the early Shula era. Yes we have a great time and we put on appearances, but no, deep down we are not ok and that's OK, it's who we are. It's what makes us great as fans, but the re-framing by the national media has been interesting to watch.

So basically everyone else is under 500? I think that part has really been lost the last few years is just how rough it had been for huge stretches of the history. 20 straight loses to the dolphins, something like 15 straight to the Pats, a 17 year playoff drought and just so many heart breaking losses (not just games like 13 seconds, but some of those drought 7-9 seasons had really gut punching things that happened that prevented some pretty talented teams from taking advantage of getting hot at the right time and squeezing into the playoffs. Then who knows, look at the giants and those Mario Williams teams had the line talent to go on a run like that. All that is talked about now is the "Bills Mafia" being crazy and whatever they keep rehashing. Can they please stop rehashing that and start rehashing the pain and anguish please.