SKOOBY

I seem to attract the same attackers that spend their time complaining on my threads. If you don't like what I post, avoid it. If you can't stay away, it's because of your own curiousity & the intrigue of the topic. I don't post like everyone else and try to keep it a little different. Different to some of you is retarded and challenging, so avoid me and stay simple.

What color is the sky in your world??

There is more than one group in the mix, I feel that it being based on friends buying the team / Ralph leading with his heart, the team stays in Buffalo. If the other groups spend a huge amount more than the friendly group and the state incentives cannot make it up, the team is gone. The local income / population is not making major city money and saying ~7% of the population needs to make the money to afford the tickets is just silly. We have to face the reality that the area has been financially challenged for far too long to think it's going to change soon.

Is the income potential of the locals, just like Ralph said. Ralph mentioned that there is not a strong enough economy currently in place to support a normal NFL ticket price, based on someone else owning the team & the initial expenses of buying a NFL team. So what he was really saying is (in the nicest way), a majority of the people that live there are incapable of doing much past menial work for menial wages to earn a normal professional living and even if they could the jobs are just not there in the first place. Sadly, upon Ralph's death I think we lost our team unless Ralph sells it ahead of time to a group capable of holding out for a better time. After 30 + years of local depression, who knows when that will come as well.

You could of included it your post but choose to shoot at the person who posted this information. Thanks for the update and the positive ideals you have brought to us.

91% of the time the team with the best divisional record won the division, so that pretty much says that with everything being equal (similiar schedule) we should end up on top if we beat our division rivals. Up until the 2002 season, we had 5 divisional opponents versus the 4 now. So in the 1988-2001 seasons, this theory doesn't hold as much water as the 2002 and up until the present (even though when we had the best divisional record, we won the division). Since we all have a similiar schedule (minus a few games), our results against our non-divisional opponents should be at or near equal with the rest of the division. In ~9% of the time, the team not doing as well in the division beat a team that did the best. That just tells you how individually important those games are and the need to prioritize those games. Our utter failure against NE / NYJ & Miami last season was just completely unacceptable and cannot occur again if we want any chance of post-season play.

Never said I was a member, I just said my score is above what they consider a level to join their club. The grapevine is long here and confusing to some.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/05/12/...tend-minicamps/ The annual scheduling conflict between Ohio State’s late graduation date and the NFL academic rule will keep a few high-profile rookies from attending upcoming minicamp sessions. The rule that doesn’t allow rookies to attend workouts until after their respective colleges’ graduation ceremonies will affect Arizona Cardinals first-round running back Chris “Beanie” Wells and St. Louis Rams second-round linebacker James Laurinaitis, according to Mike Sando of ESPN.com. It stands to reason that the rule would also affect the schedule of New Orleans Saints first-round defensive back Malcolm Jenkins, another former Buckeyes star. Ohio State’s graduation is set for June 14, which means that Laurinaitis will reportedly miss 14 days of offseason practices. Under the rule, which seems antiquated to me considering that most incoming rookies aren’t enrolled in school for the spring semester while preparing for the NFL draft, Wells won’t be able to practice with the Cardinals until he reports to training camp.

The thought of actually winning a divisional game and why is pretty perplexing to some here and obviously wasn't a clear focus for the Bills last year. I merely am pointing out that without the best record in your division, your going to lose the division 9 out of 10 times in a 4 team divisional format. So going a step further, those games are the key to post season play based on the current situation. Complaining about writing styles, verbiage & punctuations and not discussing the points made makes you individually look like a lost child when the adults speaking. Listen more and respond with something productive and you might actually be looked upon as midly understanding the whole concept past the surface.

We literally need to do everything we can to change that, henceforth why I posted this. I would focus all the guns at the teams that victories against directly increase our chances of post season play. If they go down, we go up is the real rule of thumb we need to live by.

I'm tired and it's been a long day, forgive me for my transgressions / grammatically incorrect vocab.

If we would of beat the NYJ / Miami both games last season & just split with NE, we would of won the AFC east. We didn't win even 1 of 6 games last season against a divisional opponent, so we never really had a chance to realistically make the playoffs.

No, statistically those are the one's that lose you the division.

It's MENSA +.

Execution is more important than preparation. NFL teams prepare for what they see and the better coaches like Bill B. put a completely different approach on what they run. Adjustments during the game help determine the outcome, along with the talent that we field. Our offense is set to run strong this season, getting good leads against divisional opponents to start the game and playing them hard will raise our chances of making the playoffs. We have the talent to play with just about anyone but our divisional games count like 1.5 games at a time. I know this concept is difficult to grasp but your going to have to think about the stats first & how history has shown a 91% chance of better divisional play equaling success.

Brother 9 out of 10 times is not usually, it's pretty much always.

I think we have to do more to help assure our victories against our divisional opponents, obviously a majority of victories against them will lead to much greater chance of winning the division or making the playoffs. Divisional record is the first tie-breaker after common record.

I think almost any good NFL team can go .500 with only a few full days of game planning for a non-divisional opponent, which would obviously give us a near 11-5 record (which normally leads to the playoffs)

Since they switched the divisions to 4 team per in 2002 here are the inter-divisional results: 2002- Every team with the best divisional record won it's division (8 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2002.html 2003- Seattle with a 5-1 divisional record (best divisional record) lost it's division (7 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2003.html 2004- St. Louis with a 5-1 divisional record (best divisional record) lost it's division (7 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2004.html 2005- Washington with a 5-1 divisional record (best divisional record) lost it's division (7 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2005.html 2006- Tennessee / Carolina with the best divisional record lost their division (6 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2006.html 2007- Every team with the best divisional record won it's division (8 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2007.html 2008- Every team with the best divisional record won it's division (8 out of 8 won their division): http://www.supernfl.com/standings2008.html So the team with the best inter-divisional record wins the division over 91% of the time based on the 4 team divisional format. 1-9 shot in the race against all opponents for all of you that like gambling & you know not to bet against the 1-9 shot.

It's redone but you obviously got the point. You cannot realistically win a division without defeating your divisional mates a huge majority of the time. The higher your winning % inside the division, the greater the likelyhood of you getting a much higher seeding.

If we can take care of our own divisional foes, their difficult schedule will take care of them. Miami has the hardest schedule & NE / NYJ are there as well, so us really beating them needs to be our primary goal. If we can somehow manage to defeat them in the 5 out of 6 games we have to play them, the AFC east is ours (along with a home playoff game). The rest of our schedule will take care of itself. I think the Bills need to start gameplanning literally weeks in advance of our AFC east games & focus on our opponent that week only briefly a few days before. That way when the AFC east game week comes up, we already had a few days of practice in for them and can refresh instead of renew. It may sound crazy but mathematically speaking, we can't win them all. 1990- 7 out of 8 possible wins in the AFC east - Result #1 in the AFC east: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1990.htm 1991- 7 out of 8 possible wins in the AFC east - Result #1 in the AFC east: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1991.htm 1992- 6 out of 8 possible wins in the AFC east - Result #2 in the AFC east: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1992.htm 1993- 7 out of 8 possible wins in the AFC east - Result #1 in the AFC east: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1993.htm Looking outside the box here, the Bills winning any less than 5 AFC east games will probably give another AFC east team the division title. The goal this year, focus on winning in the division and let the rest take care of itself.

I often wonder if I even need to wake up if that happened.

When does a NFL team win the SB and move?? You can charge more for the tickets if you field a winning team, especially a SB champion team. Winning it all keeps the team in Buffalo, let's do it.

Row row.

Wasn't me, I just saw this thread.