May Day 10

Cant have this guy starting again. Physically unable to play in the NFL

Lots of norris' points come on the pp. I wish they sabres had someone coaching our special teams. Appert really should be coaching Buff State or SUNY Oswego. I don't expect the pp to be any more productive. The sabres are treating the symptoms and not the problem.

Seems like a bad trade. My friends from Ottawa seem to think that Norris is a hit away from retirement. Cant keep his shoulder healthy

They are actually worse than the year before adams took over 5 years to go backwards

Watched elimination chamber... or much of it. I thought it was very decent. Girls match was excellent, men's was pretty blah until the end... which was awesome. KO vs zayn was good too and the return of randy orton.

The craziest thing were the old smoking areas that would be set aside in the '00s. At halftime it would be absolutely packed and you would see so much/the most drought-era hijinks

Bass rebounded quite well and made some big kicks. Kicking all over the league seemed uneven last year.

I had some doubts, but this has been a smashing success for the NHL. It has infiltrated the main stream. Its great that fist fights were the backbone of that (and shows why Bettman has resisted out-lawing fighting). Im one who doesnt mind the ASG for what it is. Same goes with MLB too. Some kind of international tournament seems like it should be a permanent replacement though, I agree. With how this has gone its a no-brainer. Its a good way to increase participation from 32 teams. Also you get to host it in multiple venues. Possibly even work a 4(5?)-way skills competition in there too.

The team has as favorable of a travel schedule as I can remember. Id like to keep it that way. Id also like them to stay away from the dubious laying surfaces (although whats worse? Tottenham or Met Life?)

I strongly suspect that this will/would lose its lustre if it is a regular thing. The US/Canada thing was a result of NHL players not being able to represent their countries in quite some time and a whole generation of stars at the ready. There are international tournaments in the years to come, better tournaments that are more inclusive than just NHL players that make it better (Finland will be much stronger, as will Russia... well, Russia will be in the tournaments I think). Plus you get some other nations like Slovakia. We will have Olympics and World Cup. This tournament will (rightly) seem like small potatoes after that and I can see a lot of players opting out. This "Four Nations" thing wont nearly come close to re-creating what we have this year IMO. It would need to change. Playing the International card is something the NHL needed/needs to do though. The strong footing overseas is something unique to the sport that the other major NA sports don't have. It brings out all sorts of possibilities.

I wouldnt boo an anthem. Just feels like bad mojo. I honestly dont blame canadians for booing though to be honest. The sitting president has recently stated that he wants to make their country the 51st state. I would think we would be pretty pissed off too if the shoe was on the other foot.

Lindy has always been a wimp. Wimpy player and a wimpy coach with wimpy teams. this is the outlier incident.

The Bills got started right. Their 1st ever pick was an absolute bum Richie Lucas.

Geoff Hangartner was really bad as C. It was as if a fan won a contest to play center for the bills. They couldn't even do shotgun because it was a guaranteed bad snap

Cyrus kwanjiou (sp) Dockery was super terrible too

Actually. It would be funny if he went somewhere and led that team to the playoffs.

I kind of hope he eats $20 Million of the Chiefs' space next year. He looks his age out there. Maybe he can sting you in a game here and there... but I wouldnt take him for $20 million.

I know when Pegula bought the team, he scrambled and read a bunch of books about hockey. He also had a few conversations with Jim Devellano that have been cited (like in Nolan's book when he says that Pegula said something like "Jim Devellano once told me that if you are going to be bad, then be really bad). I am convinced that he heard or read that toughness and fighting have no correlation to winning and success. The organization as a whole have rejected tough play throughout his ownership, and that philosophy has been accelerated through the Botterill and now the Adams regimes. To the defense of that, the rejection of toughness dates back into Regier's time. While it is tough to pick out "toughness" in analytics and stats. However, hockey can be a brutal and territorial game. Teams enjoy the physical night off they get from the Sabres. Every time the Sabres manage to crawl back in any sort of chase, and has a semi-important game, the opposition grinds them into dust. If they ever did manage to qualify for the playoffs, Im not sure they physically survive into the 4th game to get swept.

It would have been tough. I believe our o line would have stood up better and Allen dealt with the pressure a little better. The bills would have run the ball more than like twice too On d it might have been tough. They would have sold out to stop Barkley, but I think Smith, brown, and goedert would cause mucho problems

I thought Andy Reid ate too many cheeseburgers this time and pooped his pants all over the super bowl. Got out-coached. 3 rushing attempts in the first half, and 2 of them in a row near the end. Just kept trying the same ***** and watching mahomes ramming his head into a wall over and over

This game could really be 40-0

I'm kind of glad the bills didn't run into this buzzsaw

Chiefs refusing to try a rushing play is the story of this butt kicking.

Are the Chiefs not allowed to run the ball? Terrible play calling imo

Just looked up some stuff. I hadn't realized he was a DB coach for the Bills in 1985. His first gig. He played at Yale. Was a 3x all American. I knew he played S for the Lions in the 70s. He also had a stretch with the Bengals. He won coach of the year in 2001 for the bears. Lost his only playoff game. Jauron was a Marv Levy pick. It makes a lot of sense. A really smart and even keel coach. Levy also was on record saying he wanted him as his DC in 1992 and 1993