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But what would another renovation do for the Bills' long-term viability? They aren't going to sell more luxury boxes, and they're not going to sell more seats, no matter what amenities they add.
I respectfully disagree. The only way the Bills stay is if they win a Superbowl, heck a few superbowls. Everybody saw what it did to the Packers, now they're the real small town America's team. Yeah yeah the PAckers had history but nobody gave a sh-- about the Packers before Favre and the SB...they couldn't recruit black players b/c they thought GB was racist for christsakes!
On a different level think about the hated Pats*...they were packed and ready for St Louis in the early 90s, nobody in that shithole region cared about the team, and then they started winning. Yeah yeah, Boston is a lot bigger than Buffalo (and richer) but they really rely on the whole of New England.
Thats why I don't think the market's tapped out. I bet they could get the seasons up by another 5-10K from the region alone...but the real prize would be nationally. They have to win and get some of that Green Bay small town magic. And think of all the ex-buffalonians we got around this nation? I'm sure their would be plenty of companies who would buy up those suites. Its all about winning.
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O and don't forget the caption at the beginning of the article:
"Bills' future looks as dismal as the Buffalo weather."
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/Ralph-...i/index/a/23233
And since the real Mike Schuster lives in Jersey City, NJ, maybe some people here can drop him an email about the armpit of America.
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Well, some of the stuff he says is pretty on target. And some of it does come off as bashing. Maybe this is why:
http://www.mikeschuster.com/ "Mike Schuster · 1999 Patriots Fan of the Year"
http://sports.espn.go.com/travel/news/story?id=3535062
Kidding obviously
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Apparently you didn't bother reading the article.
A Patriots spokesman said he doubts Brady is aware of Paiva's situation.
Police caught him on surveillance video.
Shortly thereafter, Paiva said he received a call from a Boston police detective.
We DO live in an age of pure and utter douchebaggery, where people throw out accusations and assumptions without knowing or bothering to read the whole story (that's right in front of them).
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_t...rak#articleFull
Maybe you should read the article again. How would Brady not know? he's getting paid $333.33 a month! You're telling me some guys paying him restitution without him having any knowledge of the situation? You're telling me that cops just tracked down a security camera for fun? Brady (or somebody working for him) must have noticed their missing goods and/or checked the security camera and called the police. You think the police just have a special division for Tom Brady? Act on his behalf and watch his security cameras? Somebody has to be the person to press charges against the guy...they can't just go ahead with it without Brady (or again, somebody he knows) saying "yes I would like to press charges."
Tom Brady has every right to go after someone who stole his property, but it is illogical of the Pats PR guy to say Brady had no idea...he's doing his job, covering for Brady until he gets a statement. But anybody that thinks Brady wasn't involved in this is not thinking clearly.
And yes, I think that this reinforces the fact that Tom Brady is a douche. And fourth and 1, get a life and stop messing around with Bills boards. Take Mr. Weo with you.
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The reason I say it's a laugh is, before they started winning regularly this century, they weren't even "Boston's Team".
The NFL's first plan to "regionalize" a franchise...
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Why wasnt this just added to the Bills Loaded at WR discussion instead of wasting people's time?
http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=91284
Mods, please close.
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this idea sounds a lot like "we're bringing the fullback into the offense" last year, and "our goal is to pressure the QB" the year before.
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We are 24 out of 32 when strictly talking about NFL rankings. Sounds about right...in fact maybe too generous.
Now in the stadium experience, that obviously doesn't make any sense. If we all remember correctly, SI did a story on stadium experience (or an equivalent), and I think we were like 5-6 in the NFL (which pissed a lot of people off). But now were 102 overall and 26/32 in NFL? This sounds strictly like it is talking about not having a new stadium, which is a stupid way to analyze game experience. I doubt it takes into consideration tailgating, and they probably rank how home fans treat away fans...which I remember was what hurt us in the SI poll (sounds stupid if you ask me).
But basically, these are just all in jest, and these rankings don't mean much, especially when you have similar rankings done by different sites and they come up with radically different views.
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this is what happens when fairies create sports jerseys
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This is what I don't understand...
Here's the raw numbers for total amount spent:
http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/06/26/moneyball-nfl-style/
For some reason, he has the Bills at 27 when they've spent more than the 5 teams in front of them. Anybody understand this? Typo? There aren't any other instances in his article where he has teams ahead of them with more money. Unless its supposed to be 83 instead of 93.
I think this is a big deal b/c 21 out of 32 isn't half bad, since we have the second smallest market in the league. Even at 27, we're still outspending 4 teams with bigger markets.
21. Bears $495.57
22. Falcons $493.07
23. Bengals $491.06
24. 49ers $486.40
25. Chargers $485.46
26. Broncos $485.40
27. Bills $493.71
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As each day slips through my fingers... I come to grips with the reality that I'm the A-hole in this equation. Owners and players make the money, I spend it. Owners and players reap the rewards, I suffer(9 yrs). How many in the BBills organization really care? 5-6?
Yet here I lurk day in and day out hoping for a shred of positive reassurance. Then Pisa goes to the bears on a one yr deal. (Meanwhile K Ellison is somwhere LA scorin azz.)
But hey thats how the wheel turns.
Prediction: Dicky J goes 10-6, misses the playoffs on a tie-breaker. Keeps his job, Has a "great" off season/draft in 2010. goes 6-10 in 2010. Gets fired. We start over with Romeo bum Crennel who will bring back the 3-4 (10yrs too late). The team goes 5-11 and becomes Canada's problem.
Yet here i lurk
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I dont know how they will work out the safeties, but I believe you will see McKelvin and Corner at CB(unless Youboty stays healthy) and Whitner and Byrd at S. They could play around with them at either position and see what works best. I think they are going to be a very versitile bunch by the end of the season.
+1
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One thing I am certain about: Jax Bills Backer is the smartest human being in the Jacksonville area.
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Some of that list is baffling!
I agree with most players listed except these 5:
4. Jamal Lewis
7. Ty Law
11. Keith Brooking
16. Olin Kreutz
19. Eric Moulds
I would take any of these guys for an entire decade all day, all week and twice on Sunday. Those are 5 of the best players in the NFL in the 2000's....WTF?
Discounting Moulds because he finally slowed a bit after 2000 is garbage. I'll just pretend he never played form 1998 - 2000 than. Great logic ESPN.
4. Jamal Lewis: Lewis is remarkably inconsistent for a guy who is supposed to be a big, bruising back. When he rushed for more than 2,000 yards in 2003, he gained a lot of that yardage on a few long runs. The Ravens led the league in rushing yardage that year, but were tied for ninth in rushing first downs. (As an added non-bonus, Lewis fumbled nine times that season.) Lewis has never finished in the top 10 in running back DVOA. Compare that to Marshall Faulk and Priest Holmes (five times) or LaDainian Tomlinson (three times).
7. Ty Law:The Jets signing Law last year was a far bigger story than a player of Law's level should merit. At this point, Law's a fourth corner on a good team. Although he had 10 interceptions for the Jets in 2005, Law allowed a mediocre 7.2 yards per attempt and was 80th among corners in stopping players from gaining first downs. Law was certainly not overrated during the first few years of the decade, but as a physical corner, he has been a liability since the league re-emphasized the "Polian Rules" regarding bumping at the line.
11. Keith Brooking: A good outside linebacker whose skills don't fit well as a 4-3 middle linebacker, but year after year he was forced back into the middle by injuries to other Falcons linebackers. His biggest problems came in pass coverage, one reason why the Falcons ranked among the worst defenses against opposing tight ends for the entire decade.
16. Olin Kreutz: Like Brown, Kreutz is a fine player, who made the Pro Bowl six straight years because the only other consistently good center in the NFC was Matt Birk. It isn't like the Bears are known as one of the league's best pound-up-the-gut running teams.
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I don't know I thought it was all very strange. You know these football geeks though, they have their strange made up stats and apparently Moulds came up on the list. Funny thing is, him and Chambers are the only WR on the list. I get chambers...they guy shows up sometimes and most of the time he doesn't.
But Moulds? I always thought he was clutch, always went over the middle. Arrogant? What WR isn't, save for Lee Evans. It sounds like the knock against him is percentage of passes thrown to him that were caught. But how reliable of a stat is that when you have Rob Johnson, AVP, and Billy Jo Holbert throwing you the ball? I am really baffled at this list...
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I can't see the full list on ESPN, so I'll go by your report.
Let me get this straight....Eric Moulds is on the top 25 most OVER-rated list for the decade?
Who the f**k put this list together?
McGahee and Brown belong on the list, but Moulds even being considered over-rated is absurd. Maybe the person composing the list was jealous because his girlfriend thought E was hot or something. Penis envy goes a long way!
1. DeShaun Foster:
2. Michael Vick:
3. Chris Chambers:
4. Jamal Lewis:
5. Adam Vinatieri:
6. Reggie Bush:
7. Ty Law:
8. Stephen Alexander:
9. Dante Hall:
10. DeAngelo Hall:
11. Keith Brooking:
12. Flozell Adams:
13. Simeon Rice:
14. Terence Newman:
15. Ruben Brown: Certainly a good player but nine Pro Bowls? Playing for the Bills in the early part of the decade, Brown was basically making the Pro Bowl by default every year because the best guards were in the NFC.
16. Olin Kreutz:
17. Willis McGahee: He thinks of himself as a superstar back, but so far he's nowhere close. In five seasons, McGahee has never ranked higher than eighth in the NFL in rushing yardage or 14th in DYAR. He's also had very poor receiving numbers. Last year, for example, McGahee's 24 receptions included four that actually lost yardage and two others on third-and-eight plays that each came up six yards short of the sticks.
18. Nate Clements: Is he an above-average cornerback? Yes. Is he worth the roughly $7.25 million per year the 49ers agreed to pay him during the 2007 offseason, the largest contract ever given to a defensive player up to that point? Um, no.
19. Eric Moulds: Moulds was the best receiver in the league in 1998 and one of the best in 1999 and 2000. He then spent most of this decade riding that reputation. FO metrics score him as below-average for five straight years from 2001 to 2005, but Moulds kept insisting he was a No. 1 receiver, and the Buffalo coaches kept treating him like one. He finally accepted himself as an older, slower possession receiver when he went to Houston in 2006, and then he had his best season in years, catching 74 percent of passes.
20. Freddie Jones:
21. Damien Woody:
22. Roy Williams (safety):
23. Jammal Brown:
24. Travis Henry: Henry had 4.1 yards per carry or less in five of his seven seasons (exceptions: 2002 and 2006), and his numbers would look even worse except that he had the advantage of playing a below-average schedule of run defenses in five of his seven seasons (exceptions: 2004 and 2005). He has never finished higher than 23rd among running backs in the Football Outsiders DVOA ratings.
(Honestly, we could have just forgotten the other positions and done a list of 25 boom-and-bust running backs whose impressive fantasy football totals were primarily the product of lots of carries instead of above-average performance. No other group of players comes close when it comes to being overrated.)
25. All Denver punters:
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The Blue Jays aren't even an American team. Plus growing up, the Blue Jays were (and still aren't too much) on TV but you could turn on the TV and find the Mets, Yankees, Cubs, Braves almost every day. Plus the Mets now have that stellar AAA team that plays in Buffalo.
That one made me laugh.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=4269800
Five former Bills are on this list...pretty funny.
On Moulds had how many different QBs, coordinators, coaches during his time in Buffalo?
And maybe Travis...we had the worst O line in football during his time here.
Clements...shut down corner in Buf...wasnt worth his contract, I get it.
McGahee and Ruben...of course we've talked about Ruben in buffalo on this for years, my only surprise was he wasn't higher.
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You guys see who wrote the article? Bucky Brooks....remember him?
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had......had a crush. Prolly until he found out she was married. *LOL*
TO could take em...
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this whole deal sounds like it was cooked up by TO himself for his tv show.
Exactly! Everyone needs to calm down about this silly situation in July. The man has a TV show on a channel where all programs are invented drama. He's got episodes to filll...I'm sure this will all be in the supposed "reality" show.
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Well insider has this...
The next AFC franchise building blocks
Paul Posluszny should emerge as an elite LB this season
Paul Posluszny, LB, Buffalo Bills
Another middle linebacker, Posluszny would likely already be one of the AFC East's Ultimate Building Blocks had he not fractured his forearm three games into the 2007 season. In what effectively served as his rookie year in 2008, Posluszny showed signs of becoming an excellent middle linebacker. He made 14.7 percent of his team's plays on the ground, eighth among 4-3 middle linebackers; furthermore, he made tackles in important places. He had a stop rate of 54 percent, meaning that 63 of his 116 plays prevented the opposition from achieving a "successful" outcome on the play (defined here as gaining 40 percent of the needed yardage for a first down on first down, 60 percent on second down, or 100 percent on third or fourth down); that figure was sixth among 4-3 middle linebackers.
He has still some work to go as a pass defender and as a pass-rusher, but the Bills count on him primarily to be an elite run-stopper at linebacker. If he's not quite there yet, he very well may be after this season.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=4248108
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About a thousand or so WNY jobs at Yahoo would be a welcome move.
I thought they were saying 100-150?
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The only reason an owner can't own another sports team is if it's in a current NFL market. I.E. Jerry Jones couldn't buy the N.Y. Knicks but he could buy the Dallas Mavericks. So Checketts owning the St. Louis Blues isn't a problem as long as he keeps the scRams in St. Louis or moves them to LA. If Checketts buys them then they will probably stay in St. Louis.
I know this is a rule that the NFL has, but where does Stan Kroenke fit in? He has a 40% stake in the Rams, but he owns the Nuggets and the Avalanche, where the Broncos play. If that doesn't violate the rule, I don't know what does. Unless the rule specifically states that you can't be the majority investor in both...
Rian Lindell:
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Ever since that Steelers game, he's scared me every time he's lined up.