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Given the perceived strength of the prospect pool, I thought it was all but universally agreed upon that the Amerks have largely underperformed expectations. They have had huge gaps in their game.

Hiring a HC against your GM's wishes then firing a HC without consulting your GM is bad ownership. This is a 14 year pattern with Pegula and the Sabres. That is a really bad excuse for the Pegula run Sabres.

Marrone walked, Russ "Don't let Rex leave without a contract" Brandon, and then Doug "nobody told me we fired the HC" Whaley. That is very dysfunctional and mirrors the Sabres.

That was my take when Golisano was shopping the team. But that was also when the Sabres were averaging 99%+ attendance without a standing room only section. Now the Sabres are regularly bottom 3-5 in the league in attendance and the Buffalo region is still a top 5 market. Pegula isn't giving any money to the league in terms of revenue sharing. He is a loss. If anything I think those two things together is proof of concept that the league doesn't need a team in Buffalo to get viewership.

Does Terry Pegula have 17 hour meetings about one single player on the Bandits roster? I don't think Terry spends 17 hours a year talking to Tavares, let alone in a single sit down about a single player, like he does the Bills and Sabres.

The point is that Pegula's most successful franchise is the one he is arguably the least involved in. He does sit in 17 hour meetings with the Bills. He does actively meddle with the Sabres. He doesn't show up to anything for the Bandits, and they have been largely free of any of the dysfunction he had with the pre-McBeane era Bills and his entire time with the Sabres. No, I don't want Terry involved in anything. I wish he ran every team like he does the Bandits. Just ignore it and let the professional sports people do their job without a peep.

Frankly, I am impressed he can throw left handed.

Do you think John Tavares has to have 17 hour meetings to review one single player? I honestly don't think Pegula has spent one hour over the course of the day pondering what to do with one single Bandits player.

The BIlls aren't going anywhere, but the pre-McBeane Bills were as dysfunctional as the 14 years with the Sabres. My point about that was that I am not looking forward to that era of Pegula's ownership. I have little to no faith he is capable of rebuilding the Bills org if needed.

I said the Sabres are on their way out. The reference about the Bills was about being a pro sports owner without McBeane managing the Bills. Nearly every sports venture Pegula has been apart of sans McDermott and/or Beane has been a disaster. That includes the Bills.

To no surprise to most Terry has started to pull out of Rochester. First he renegotiated his lease at Blue Cross Arena shortly after signing it. Pegula claimed it was purely business. Dissolving PSE after Kim fell ill. Saying it had nothing to do with moving on from either team Then he actually pulled out of operating the arena. Pegulas team said that the teams wer safe and he was just out of the arena management game. Now his other NLL team is for sale. Buckle up folks, because the Sabres are on their way out. And if Terry doesn't hand the Bills off before he can run them into the ground they're on their way as well. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/lacrosse/2025/06/23/rochester-knighthawks-looking-for-new-owners-after-pegula-divest/84319445007/

I have long hated mcD's ST roster spots for guys who don't play enough minutes on either offense or defense. But man, Hollins ST work last year was wildly under appreciated by both the entire league and Bills fans. Easily one of the best if not THE best ST'r in the NFL last year. He is worth every penny of that NE contract here. Buffalo should have kept him.

Can I ask where and what procedure? I just had a friend have UB Neuro tell them that double cervical disc replacements arent approved by the FDA which is entirely false. There are three FDA approved disc manufacturers. The one thing I would tell anybody having spinal surgery is to go to a major spine center to have it done. The education and skill gap between UB Neuro and say NYP/Weill Cornell mught as well be the tmgrand canyon.

Originally I was mad at this, because at $6M the Bills should have gotten this done and let Max develop. But I saw a report that he signed for less in Baltimore to be with Lamar, his college teammate. Nobody else really stood a chance.

"I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me" It's wild when you encounter some of these guys who are meh at pro/big time college sports in the wild. Like Keon is likely the best guy at like 95% of courts he steps on by a wide margin on ut isn't that good compared to the guys we watch on TV. I've had a couple buddies skate with AHL players who've never put on a sweater for an NHL team and they say it's borderline disrespectful how much better they are. Lol

He didn't just play basketball his whole life. The dude was a D1 basketball player. How many dudes do we see in March sitting out the tournament because of a dunk? And this is Keon just dunking on air, not other real life humans playing defense

Imagine writing a post about "early playoff exits" in order to prove a point that a team that has missed the playoffs two years in a row. I guess you're right. If you miss the playoffs more than you make the playoffs I guess you can't have very many early exits. But to your point, since the Bengals have decided to go this route of 5th year options and tags they've made the playoffs zero times. I don't think anybody disagrees that the Bills need to do more to address weapons around Josh. That includes the draft and money. They absolutely do But if you asked me right now to trade the other 52 players on the Bengals not named Burrow for the other 52 players not named Allen I would laugh you out the door. I'll beat this drum over and over again, great QB's who want the payday have to do more with less skill talent around them. The $50-60M deal has to cover the deficit in spend elsewhere

The Bengals have not made the playoffs since 2022. They've missed 3 of 5 years since they drafted Burrow. Trying to conflate the overall functionality and success of the Bengals FO because of one SB appearance is silly. They've haven't just largely underperformed expectations for the majority of Burrows career, they're getting him destroyed out there by giving him trash at the OL.

At the same time the NFL is basically the last remaining major sport without a fully guaranteed contract. So NFL owners want them to play the most violent sport in America, with the least amount of GTD(%) and then give ownership the ability to nope out of the rest. Make the defaulting clause league wide and move all contracts to guaranteed.

Put some respect on that would ya. That is the father of future 2025 Illinois Highschool Player of the Year, Tremaine Edmunds, to you!

To be fair, Barkleys contract is a little wonky to describe. He got a two year extension with 2 years left, and had 4 dead years on top of that. Tough to wrap your head around how much he is paid when he has just as many void years as he does playable years in his deal. Does he cost the Eagles $18M per over those 4 years? No. But he does over 8 if you normalize the void years. Normally I don't blink at void years, but it seems strange to have a guy listed on spotrac for 8 years and then not play for half of that. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/25097/saquon-barkley

The Jalens contract hasn't hit the cap yet. He carried $13m last year. My totally uneducated opinion is that unless Hurts becomes a much better passer I don't think he carries the eagles once the bill comes due. The Bengals paying Burrow, Higgins, and Chase nearly $100M in 2025 cap space is really bad business. They're lucky Burrow hasn't had a career ender with all the hits he's taken. That's the kind of spending a team should do with a guy on a rookie deal/early into his extension.

Lolz. Burrows contract isn't really the issue here. He isnt Dak or Lawrence. He's a top tier QB being paid the market rate. It's a franchise that has put waaay too much priority on pass catcher and not enough on pass protection.

Joe Burrow has to have maybe the worst QB skill: OL protection ratio of all time. Absolutely criminal. It is insane to me that the same franchise that invested in Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins is also responsible for ruining their QB.

I think my rep told me that that area is actually public and can enter on GameDay. There are two security checkpoints. One to get into that parkway area which is public and then the ticket gate. Early security could be a disaster.