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Thanks! I think we are staying near downtown if I am not mistaken, but will check these out to where we are at!

Hey guys, As a lot of you know from a thread a couple months ago, I am coming to Buffalo for my first time for opening day against the Steelers! My now fiance bought us tickets to come and I couldn't be more excited! I have a couple of questions was wondering about... As a first timer, what is the best place to go experience Bills Mafia tailgating? Do I need to buy a ticket or anything to get into those areas like Hammers Lot or the Grass lots? I got a lot of advice in my last thread on things like where to get wings, but who has the best Beef on Weck? We plan on doing at least one find dining spot, any recommendations for that? I hear we need to try some pizza too...what is the cant miss pizza spot?

I like both Auction and Snake. The issue with auction is that it takes so much longer to complete a draft. Every one I’ve done has taken twice as long as a snake draft every time. I’m not in any this year, but that’s because everyone in all four of the leagues I’m in keep voting against it when we vote to switch. They are either long time leagues, so they don’t want to switch or they have never done one and feel they would be at a disadvantage if they did against those who have done them before. But I do like both personally

In the league you have Tannehill, is Jamie’s Winston available? If so, grab him as a backup. He is going to put up a top 10 Fantasy season at QB this year. I have drafted 3 leagues so far, in 2 of them I have both Diggs and Allen, in the other one (which was my first draft of the year) I have Stafford and Winston. Like you, I did not expect a massive QB run early. When I was on the clock in the 6th, the only 2 QBs left were Stafford or Tannehill. Now for me, I targeted Stafford was a QB target to grab later as my starter, but thought I’d do that at like round 9, but got forced to grab him early at 6. Stafford is going to push for 5000 yards this year, so I was happy to snag him, just wish it was later. In every other draft, Stafford was still on the board in double digit rounds. Which is a little crazy to me, because when Stafford had weapons he was a perennial top 5 fantasy QB despite being on bad teams. I think he returns to top 5 status this year with receivers again, a better OL, and McVay.

DONT TAKE ALLEN NUMBER 1 OVERALL. If you are playing fantasy football for fanhood of your team, fine, but playing Madden would be cheaper. If you’re playing to win, you would be a fool to take Allen first when he will certainly be there in the second round unless your whole league is Bills fans. Take Christian McCaffrey then take Allen next round.

Hell no haha

Well as much as I love Bruce, he is not even the consensus best DE of all time, let alone best overall defensive player all time. Bruce Smith is top 10 all time Defensive player, but best ever...that title belongs to Lawrence Taylor until someone knocks him off that pedestal. Aarron Donald is on his way to making his own case for the top of that pedestal though. If JJ Watt body had held up, he was on a path to make his own case for a long time, but ultimately injuries derailed that path. But if Darnold stays healthy mostly throughout his career, he will have a case for sure.

Actually Manning only had one bad downhill season, his final season. He fell off a cliff...he was elite every year up to that final season...ironically, he won his 2nd SB that year behind the Broncos D and Run game, and he was the lowest rated passer for a winning SB QB in history and was ranked I believe 31st in the NFL in passing that year as well during the regular season. Year before, they were a dominant arial attack still.

Nick Wright makes money on the Bills fan base getting their panties in a wad over his trolling of the Bills. People here keep falling for it. He is not a real reporter and has no credibility what so ever. People here keep falling for it. He is a shock jockey, nothing more, nothing less. People here keep falling for it. Stop. Giving. Him. Attention.

Yeah…no. No disrespect, but this is terrible take. As much as I love Kelly, he isnt sniffing the top 5 all time, let alone better than Brady. And I grew up watching him play, he’s the main reason I became a massive Bills fan having never stepped foot in Buffalo. Your reasons why he’s better than Brady too are pretty weak and flimsy. Brady > Kelly Manning > Kelly Elway > Kelly Young > Kelly too Rodgers > Kelly as well I mean Mahomes is already better than Kelly and Josh is on his way to be as well. I love Jim Kelly, but he’s going to have a hard time of making the top 10, and no way is he In the top 5. I think somewhere between 10th and 20th all time is the right range for him. Despite being blasphemy to say so around here, Brady is the GOAT. The only QB remotely close to a claim is Montana. Third is a distant third to those two. My top 10 would be Brady Montana Rodgers Young Elway Unitas Manning Brees Marino Graham Personally I have Kelly in the top 15. You still have guys like Big Ben, Staubach, Starr, Aikman, and so on too that will garner votes as well in the top 15.

I dont want to see him go, unless he become detrimental to the team. As of right now, I can't say he is or isn't being that. He said some really stupid stuff on Twitter, but until I see him actually do something that puts his teammates availability in jeopardy, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he will do right by his teammates. Outside of his twitter comments, everything else about him suggests he is a team first guy in every other way and well loved in the locker room. Social media is just toxic in general.

Because it was a math equation based on you citing specific numbers lol.

I disagree. The fanbase here has always under appreciated the value Star brings, and I think they are going to see that this year when our defense makes a very noticeable improvement with the only major change being Star is back. His ability to eat space impacts the edge rushers, Oliver, and our LBs...and the success of our front 7 substantially impacts the pressure put on our secondary. Im not saying Star is some sort of irreplaceable elite player, but he is very good, and not as easy to just replace as I think you alluded to in your post.

To me, the issue isn't about whether a player is vaccinated...its more about guys like Cole intentionally boasting how he wont follow protocols away from the facility. And I hope now that they are all together at camp, preseason, practices, etc...that the staff and his teammates have at least gotten through to him in that regard. They have the freedom of choice, so now just be responsible and follow the safety protocols laid out that come along with that choice, and make no mistake about it, those responsibilities are still important. There is a go fund me account to help a woman I knows recovery who yesterday just got out of the hospital after being there 6 weeks and even on a ventilator after getting COVID. She was also already vaccinated, but the Delta variant hit her hard. Sad part is, the only reason I know her is because she hosted the funeral reception at her house for my friend Brian back in June who died from complications and damage caused by COVID that he had a year earlier and had been on life support for 19 days before passing. Brian was a die hard Steelers fan and I will have a patch on my Allen jersey in his honor when I am in Buffalo at the game week 1. A few members of my staff in Denver right now have COVID, and all of them are also vaccinated, but they are still pretty sick at home for several days and now feel like crap despite all being under 35 years old. Someones kid brought it home from school they think is how they got it. Point is...vaccinated or unvaccinated...COVID is still dangerous. So if you are choosing not to get vaccinated, thats is 100% anyones choice and I support that. But don't be irresponsible towards your staff and teammates by completely disregarding the safety protocols put in place to help protect the team and support their goals of winning a championship. And again, hoping that side of Coles attitude towards it has improved now that he is around his mates and the facility.

Yes I do think there is going to a large gap between number of carries of Singletary and Moss. And the Packers 2 backup RBs last year, Williams and Dillon are better than Moss and Brieda...and they still had a wide split in GB. Moss will get touches, as he’s a good RB too, but I think Singletary is going to play much more of a lead back role than people think with Moss handling more inside running and down and short stuff. Brieda I am not convinced is going to see a lot of gameday action now that they kept Taiwan Jones just because I am skeptical they will keep 5 active RB's on gameday. They only kept 4 before, and Giliam I expect will definitely be active given he is also the emergency TE. I get it, people are hung up on last year. But I think the Singletary we saw as a rookie is a MUCH better representation of who he truly is as a RB. Coaches flat out said last years lack of camp and preseason hurt some players and specifically referenced Singletary and the impact it had on his conditioning. And Singletary responded and came back to camp in the best shape of his life and seems determined to put up his beat season yet and prove he’s a starting RB. He knows this is his year to do it given they considered taking yet another RB early this past draft and signed a Vet in Brieda too. So yeah, I can’t see them taking him out of games constantly if he’s playing great and hitting near 5 ypc again.

Im a math guy, and this is exactly how I think about this situation and what spurned my post. Good post!

I wasn’t comparing them talent wise, I was referencing the amount of carries it took to get to over 1000 yards. You said you can see Devin getting 200 carries, and Jones got 190 and eclipsed 1000 yards. And Aaron Jones YPC last year was the same as Singletary rookie year. Not about whose better, it’s a simple math equation based on the numbers you just said.

Aaron Jones had over 1100 yards last year on 190 carries And yeah TDs may get vultured

QB is hands down the most difficult and complicated position in all of team sports to play.

To be clear, I also expect us to have multi score leads a lot this year with how explosive our passing offense is and how much better I think our defense will be compared to last year. So I just think we are going to see more carries than people are expecting, not because our offense changed or isnt working correctly. Beane and McD have both discussed the need to improve our overall rushing attack as well, so I can see us starting to chew clock once we get up to keep the D fresh as well. To be clear, Devin only needs like 12 carries a game to reach 1000 yards based on his career average. Its not as far out as I think some think it is.

I know, I know…we are a passing team and have a RB by committee type approach on paper. But…I think we are going to see Devin actually be used more as a lead back than people think. Moss will also still get touches, with Brieda likely being peppered in some too. But I think Devin will average around 15 carries a game. And with his career YPC of 4.8 YPC that would put him at 1152 yards on a 16 game season, and 1224 on a 17 game season. Ive been drafting Singletary late in FFL because he’s been available in every draft I’ve done in the later rounds with Moss always going ahead of him too. But barring injury, I think that Devin is going to out touch Moss by a bigger margin than many expect. And to be clear, that’s not a knock on Moss by any means, I just think Singletary is going to be a break out player for us this year. People forget in his rookie year, despite splitting carries, he was in the top 10 in most 20+ Yard runs, and averaged over 5 YPC. Last year, coaches talked about how lack of camp hurt him, especially conditioning. Well this year he’s in the best shape of his life and I think he looks substantially better so far than he did last year and is going to be our most effective RB with Moss working more to spell him or down and short situations. Brieda, if active on game days (skeptical you they will have 5 active RBs on game day) will be more of a receiving back in passing situations.

Calling it now: Zay Jones still sucks.

From what I have seen, they don't seem to be too concerned about McKenzie or Phillips availability week 1. My guess is they are both on track to be ready week 1.

Is there a way so each level isn’t just the same rocket? Like the icon literally is what indicates what level you are versus Having to click it and go to their profile to see what level they are? Maybe us HOFers get like a gold ring around our profile pic or something

I don’t think it was about Hollister so much…more like they just seen Knox struggle with consistency catching the ball and liked the idea of a vet to push him if he didn’t improve with that.