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Hijacking the thread a bit here, and then I will back out of the topic, but I actually think that the Bills have emboldened Terry on the hockey side because McBeane manage him so well that he thinks he is the reason for the Bills success. I think that McBeane convincing Pegula to draft Allen was the turning point for managing the organization and Pegula. They without a doubt put on a masterclass. Everybody is sort of wowed by McBeane sitting down and spending 17 hours (with Pegula in the room) to watch literally every snap Allen took. But it's insane. There are so many moving parts to prepare for the draft. Preparation that begins and is on going for a year before you get to that point. "Because we want ownership behind this" and "just to go through ownership" was the most telling quotes from Beane in that story. I don't believe for one second that in stable organizations like the Baltimore Ravens that Eric Decosta has to sit down with Steve Bisciotti to for 17 hours, and watch every single snap from a QB prospect right before the drat in order to "get ownership behind" the GM and HC's pick for the QB position. What I do believe is the mountain of evidence of Pegula's flat management style that he has amassed from 2011 - today with the Sabres and 2014-2018 with the Bills. Where anybody can bring Terry an idea, and if he likes it he pulls power from his senior executives (ie. HC and/or GM) and pulls the trigger. And I believe that the reason for that 17 hour meeting with Pegula is mostly because it was required of McBeane to change Pegula's mind rather than that meeting being a super normal occurrence for teams with their owners just before the draft.

FTFY

No. This won't be true for anybody outside of the club seats and premium lower bowl seats. The rest is just plain wrong. Nobody sees face value in the outside market unless you're a season ticket holder. I don't think you understand the current STH discount. I've never once sold any of my ticket in the last 5 years for even close to what my ST cost breaks down to. They always sell for atleast 1.5x. And I would be 3x-ish on games like Baltimore or KC. (I've checked( I missed two games last year, Jacksonville and San Fran. I sold both of those for over $250 and my ST cost breaks down to just under $100 per ticket. If the team tanks post Allen, maybe things will be different. But barring catastrophy I would lose like spend almost my whole PSL for my seats in year 1. My rep told me that the new stadium won't have any seats owned by vivid, StubHub, game time, etc. that they would be PSL only and any tickets in the secondary market would be resale from PSL holders. It came up because I specifically asked about other events. If we hold Taylor Swift, or Monster Jam, or whatever I wanted to know if I had the option to buy my tickets like you can in Dallas. She told me that I didnt own the seat but PSL holders would get first dibs before public release. To which I kicked back about stub hub etc. and she said they weren't allowed to purchase.

Was there no remote option?

That's what Sabres Space has been until the last 10 years. Now it's mostly taring and feather Pegula. (Which he 100% deserves) I don't think Ralph or the Bills ever saw the mass contempt that Sabres fans have for Pegula and the team at the moment.

I actually have Baker at 6. Josh Mahomes Lamar Burrow Shedeur Baker

But for me they told me I couldn't get closer than the back couple rows inbewteen the 35's in the upper deck. It is super strange. The cost increase wasn't prohibitive for me.

She deserves the Sabres.

In my town one of my council people's father is serving nearly 5 years in prison for defrauding millions of dollars from people in a ponzi scheme. She grew up mega wealthy, is totally inept at basically everything. She is also a theif facing charges for literal theft from a store here. The literal reason she gave was that she had somewhere to be, didn't want to wait in line so just left with a cart full of stuff. She wasn't stopped by an employee. Rather County Sheriff's we're outside waiting, put her in cuffs and booked her. A friend of mine at the stores corporate HQ said that that is protocol if it's somebody they've caught on camera before but couldn't stop. So likely a repeat they identified when she walked in the door and they called the police to wait outside. But my least favorite thing about her is that she lets her daughter scooters around town in Allen, Rodgers, Wilson, and Mahomes jerseys. (If she was on a bike I'd put a stick in her wheel). Like way to keep your generational trash going by just raising your family to be a bunch of bandwagoners. They've now claimed the Bills and go to the occasional game. I see it all over social media comments and photos. And now I have to share my favorite team with this super insufferable human. So yeah, thanks a lot Josh.

Isn't it crazy how different this place is when we're winning. If this was mid draught the OTA thread would already be like 14 pages long as we all scower to try and cling on to some minute detail about a player being our sole source of hopium. Now it's just like "meh, we're good, I'll see you in September"

A lot of wonky language about the PSL's. Like I'm hearing stuff like 80% of STH are signing up. But I'm also reading that the number of PSL's sold is pretty low. We carried a book of tickets through one of our jobs for a decade. One of us left so we lost our seniority and we started over up in the 300's. Which I enjoy. I see more football. Anyways I had my meeting and pulled the trigger, but the only way to get between the 35's was in like the 4th last row? My rep told me that there was nothing anywhere closer?

Also, maybe we got this out of the way early? A girl can dream.

On the useless ladder it's about one rung lower than One Bills Live. Given the ages of one Terrance Pegula and Ralph C Wilson, I'm astounded that neither could figure it out.

In the grand scheme of blue cheeses across the country La Nova's is probably a top 10% blue cheese. But again the stuff on fairy is way different than the stuff on transit. The stadium stuff is garbage. But do we really think Bakersfield, CA has any worthwhile blue cheese?

I agree. I grew up on Lawrence Pl. Then lived on 19th as an adult/late 20's. There is only one La Nova as far as I am concerned.

I totally agree. All any of those places have to do is become the official pizza/wing sponsors of the Buffalo Bills. Honestly, with multiple locations, I wouldn't be shocked if Bar Bill throws their hat in the ring at some point. But they probably don't have the "family money" that the Todaro's do.

McD seems to play some favorites, no doubt. Elam isn't nearly as bad as some posters make him out to be, but he wasn't as good as he needed to be here in Buffalo which likely made it hard for him here. I hope he finds some success. Seems like a good dude. I will keep beating this drum. This team continuously needing to re-draft positions in the top 100 paired is a huge reason why this team has not been able to get over the hump. Singletary, Moss, Hines, Cook. Then Basham, AJE, Rousseau. Coleman then burnt a third on a washed up Cooper. It isn't that you can have too many pass rushers, or cheap RB's/WR's, or too much talent for that matter. It is that they keep going right back to the well in short order because the first one they grabbed didn't get it done.

Maybe we remove kicking all together. Make all kicks a throw. Any completed pass of at least 40(?) yards you get to keep the ball. That way the receiving team doesn't know if it is a "kickoff" or onsides kick. Also narrow the goal posts to like 3 feet. Don't yell at me, I am just an ideas guy.

Ther are allowable trace amounts. I have friende who are power lifters and some of them see doctors who also see NFL players.

One thing to note is QB contracts. Sure some guys got paid like Hurts, but they aren't in the meat of their deals yet so they can pay everybody. Then on the other end you have the Bengals who paid Burrow and paid their WR' and they're all messed up because of it. Buffalo, KC,and Baltimore have a much greater balancing act. Stafford and the Rams are a bit of an outlier. All that said, McBeane have just missed too many times with pass catchers in the draft. And their insurance on devoting resources to pass catching backs that they don't throw the ball to is maddening. Honorable mention to TE's as well.

Also worth noting that NFL players have and allowable amount of trenbolone in their system. LoL.

Dude is gigantic. Looks like he is suddenly the size of Tremaine Edmunds. I'd be shocked if he wasn't on the juice. Surprised this clip came from the NFL'S official social media. The entire comment section is about steroids and Jose Conseco jokes. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16LuHpfbQt/

I could be wrong but I think players have to play both sides of the ball.

That is a blanket statement that doesn't take into account QB pay/cap hit. I'm not saying not to help Josh and get more WR. We should. But he actually seems to be right in line with the other QB's "help score" who also received a major pay day. There's nobody with a bigger "help score" who makes more money than Allen. I'll be put a little bit of an asterix on Hurts because his cap hit hasn't begun to come due. I have to question a "help score" that has Chase and Higgins as a negative. Lolz. But if you want to trust it, Allen seems to have as much help as Tua does and they have Waddell, Hill, and Achane.

I think there is a chance that the new coach is Deion. Pre-draft I thought there was a chance that Prime either replaced whoever Shadeurs coach was the next season, or he takes over and trades for him. I believe that a lot less post draft. The league seems to have spoken and the general consensus around Deion is "STFU". But I wouldn't write it off completely just yet.