CodeMonkey

You said hopeless not me. I just don't see it this season, but someday it has to happen. Pretty simple actually if your head isn't clouded by too much emotion.

75 minutes for me usually, I record and strip out commercials and halftime and watch witht he family during dinner (PS 4:00 games suck!)

Someday they have to break out of it. The drafting system of the NFL is designed such that 16 year playoff droughts shouldn't happen in the first place. But I don't see it this year, journalists (ignoring Sully who would probably find a way to piss on a 16-0 season) might not either.

And last year it was "Ah yes! 15 years. That means everything in 2015." right, and the year before that ... Hey it's preseason, time to drink the koolaid if you so choose. But not everyone chooses to is all. And reporters shouldn't, in my opinion.

Haven't you heard, they are supposed to say at least 10-6 and playoffs. If they don't they are hacks. Saying what they really think will not be tolerated, particularly if it is in the range of what the Bills have done for the last 16 years.

Yes it is.

Maybe these NFL personnel people just like Rex. Maybe they really feel Rex is good at his job. Maybe they don't burn any bridges for their own careers. Who knows. The proof is the body of work over his career, and more importantly to Bills fans, how he does this season. We can only hope for the best.

Rex's agent might spin it that way. But his record is what it is. He was > .500 his first 2 seasons and <= .500 since. For the 7 years, .482. But it's another year and hope springs eternal. He has his brother by his side and all the wings and beer they can want. It may be a last stand and maybe not, but with Rex it won't be boring.

That's been correct for the past 15 seasons or so. Every season the team "looks solid" and "11-5 to 12-4" and "end the drought". Maybe it will happen this year, but 7-9 to 9-7 IMO is where the smart money is yet again.

Tasker tries hard and he has improved a lot the past few years, but he is brutal to listen to which is one reason he hasn't been snatched up by a major network to work regular season national games. Preseason for the Bills you get what you get.

Buy a soft drink or a snapple, dump that crap out and keep refilling the container with water. If the Bills cared about their fans they would provide, or sell at cost, cups for people to use for water. Particularly on kids day when it is so hot. Actually that would be a nice kids day promotion, every kid gets a bottle of water when they enter the stadium that they could reuse during the game. That's about my cost per game as well for my family of 5 (we don't sit in the clubs). There are so many more important things to spend my money on so we just watch the games commercial free during dinner and go to one preseason game. Usually the kids day game but skipped it this year. Just too expensive to justify for me (regular season). But junk food being considerably less expensive than healthy alternatives is a problem nationwide not just in NFL stadiums unfortunately.

The Ralph forever.

Hopefully the long term injury party is over.

"Buffalo Bills linebacker IK Enemkpali will miss the entire 2016 season after suffering a torn ACL in the team's preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts. " Would have linked, but it was in bleacher report.

I think the Sabres will be better this year, but they are still a couple years from being good. It takes longer for kids to develop in hockey and the Sabres are still a young team. But they are finally headed in the right direction in my opinion. The Bills, we'll see.

They'll keep raising the price so long as people keep paying it. I sure would in their place. When (if) people stop paying the price will come down. Bars might have the games on?

I completely disagree. If the past 16 years have taught us anything, it's that hard core Bills fans, of which there are a great many, don't require results to stay loyal including financially. 16 year "drought" in full effect, ticket prices I think went up for most, and how many season tickets were sold for the upcoming season? Bills fans may piss and moan to high heaven, but at the end of they day they will always support the Buffalo Bills.

Most Bills fans will accept it. For a lot of Bills fans it really doesn't matter if it's 1 year, 16 years, or 26 years, so long as they remain the Buffalo Bills. Others will snicker about koolaid season being in full swing. That's what we do my robotic friend

These two posts work together. Expecting a full stadium even when the team sucks (such as 0-16) is irrational. But is also expected by the league and a lot of fans.

The NFL is so ridiculous in this way. More coaches than starting players.

People know what goes on in private lots at Bills games. If you don't want to be a part of that, you park n a stadium lot. But others above are right, this is strictly about the Bills, and even more so the NFL, continuing to be embarrassed by the drunken moronic Bills fans like the ones who were on YouTube and worse. But I agree that they should be honest and state it has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with the behavior of Bills fans.

Except for the fact that how you maintain high levels of corporate income over a long period of time is by building very loyal fan bases across the league. Once you have that base, expansion outside of north america becomes at least feasible. I know that due to frequent conflicts with the other NY teams, the Sabres had their own channel here in Rochester (and I assume Buffalo) where the Sabres games were broadcast which would be a regional only channel on cable. However streaming opens the door for them to fairly easily (from a technology standpoint anyway) make it available that way. I would suggest contacting MSG about it. If enough people request it, you never know. But if they don't think there is a market for it they won't do it.

Well that's where you are wrong. It does not show even a little how strong the fan base is or how bad they want it. Just that it is stupid enough, pathetic enough, and drunk enough to do it. It would be embarrassing to say the least to see that happen just for making the playoffs. But that said, it would not surprise me if at least a subset of fans in attendance did it. But to me this discussion is academic. I don't see a path to a home playoff game this coming season without something extraordinary happening.

That really is the question, isn't it. History says a resounding NO in my opinion. But my opinion matters not. One thing it will not be with the Ryan brothers, is boring!

That would be a disaster from a marketing perspective. Rex Ryan's biggest strength by far is his personality. Rob too albeit to a lesser degree. Having the Ryan brothers in Buffalo and having them shut up would be like owning a Lamborghini and never taking it out of the garage.