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Last week. Just a dumb thing to say after a pre season game. He may very well turn out to be a stud. But I’m glad he was less than great today after that.

“It was actually kind of slow to me” - Justin Fields, talking about NFL game speed. ”9/19, 80 yards, 2 sacks” -Justin Fields against the Bills 3rd and 4th string defense.

Right, that’s literally the point. , Jim Kelly was 10 when Kelly’s Hero’s came out. And was in his mid 20’s when the reference was made. Now we are using the the same Kelly’s heroes for a guy who was negative 25 years old and doesn’t even share a name sake. So I made a joke about changing mid-90’s to early 2000’s pop culture references.

Ah, I just sort of thought “mid-90’s” and rolled with it. I think there are only two that are pre Josh Allen birth. Reservoir Dogs and Saved by the Bell.

Can we not be that fan base? Imagine going to KC’s or TB’s board and seeing that. We’d be taking about how absolutely insufferable they are.

Can we at least get something more culturally relevant to JA17? The movie literally 50 years old. At the time the Jim Kelly poster was put out, it was nearly 20 years old. And the poster was done 30 years ago. (What a very Buffalo thing to do. “Hey we did a thing over a generation ago. Let’s do it again but with the new guy”) Ideas that are also 20 years old but way more relevant: Its Always Sunny in Buffalo Josh Meets World Saved by the Josh Allen Josh Allen: End Game (not 20 years old) Wet Hot Josh Allen Summer Josh Allen Dogs Saving Private Allen Master and Commander (that one works on its own) Men Who Stare at GOATs

Im too young for Butkus and Nitschke. So I can’t talk to where those guys land in relation to Bruce. I will say Bruce is the all time sack leader and a payed DE in a 3-4. Is unprecedented. I am tempted to give the edge to Bruce there because of it. But no way I put Ray Lewis over Bruce. Not in a million years. Ronnie Lott was great, maybe the GOAT safety, but I take a DE over a DB all day in any era. Reggie White, LT, Bruce? All three were so different in the same era. We’re splitting hairs.

A couple of fine Canisius HS grads and Bills Mafia members, being real poo holes about older women wearing masks alone on a train. Ryan Bartels and Nick Sam. Class of 2012 I believe.

Groot seems to be having a good camp. Basham can kick inside too. But I read this and can’t help but think of JOK in this defense.

My general thought is, the defense will live and die by the front 7. (Crazy I know) But we have depth issues at DB and have invested a poop ton into DL and LB. the secondary depth will continue to get worked if we don’t start hitting on those draft picks and FA$$$ in a very big way very soon.

Thinking about this today. The Bills defense was relatively mediocre last season as a whole. Given the continued investment in this years and past years drafts, what are the expectations for the front 7 this season? Is there a line for pass/fail based on draft and salary cost? We have invested: 3x 1st round picks in Edmunds, Oliver, Groot. 2x 2nd round picks in Basham and Epenesa A major extension to Milano. 3rd highest paid DL in the league for 2021 (source: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/breakdown/)

You're crying about his crying, about others crying about vaccines. So now I am crying about your crying, about his crying, about others crying. Shut it down mods, this is getting out of hand.

That is a good one. Also the Arkells are another great Canadian band.

Because the Goo Goo Dolls are not a good band. They're from Buffalo, so the city embraces them as we do all things Buffalo, regardless of actual quality.

I listen to all sorts of music, and everybody you have used so far. You could go a totally different direction and start using Biggie, Jay-Z, Wu-tang, etc.

There is a bit of pressure on the FO and the front 7 to perform. I like Beane, but we are investing a TON into this group over the years in salary cap and draft picks. Last year we had one of the most expensive groups in the league. We have somewhat reduced that cost. But have signed Milano to a big contract and invested 3 firsts, Oliver, Edmunds, Rousseau, and 2 seconds in Epenesa and Basham. At some point that type of investment needs to start paying off. Granted two of those picks are this years. There is still time.

I agree with everybody that Tre is too low and Beasley is too high. The constant bummer to me is the disrespect Poyer gets. There is a strong argument to be made he was the best player on our defense last year. I don't see him getting top 40 so unfortunately I would guess he misses this list all together this year. At the very least I would have been thrilled to see him swapped for Beasley at 96.

PM is one of the best in the game, my favorite of all the sports guys.

I admittedly did not watch the game, but I actually thought that Mac Jones looked meh going through the highlight real. I thought he did a lot of staring down of receivers. Going against the 1's, I think he gets torn apart. People aren't making fun of the QB as much as they are relishing in the potential struggle of the Pats. The last 20 years have been rough.

I don’t know man. The ticket line is like herding cattle. I was amped for this season and have tickets to a few games. We have states where there are almost no hospital beds. I was in the hospital early this year at Albany Med and my doctors and nurses were upset that Buffalo was letting 15k fans in. I was excited to be in the stadium, but it feels dirty given how many are still struggling. If I go at all I will probably mask up the entire game. I’m not trying to end up back in the hospital or send somebody to an icu bed.

Labatt, Labatt, it's gotta be Labatt! That was funny. Curious if Labatt can snip that for use on social media. Wasn't there an issue with Manning and AB after winning his last Super Bowl.

At a bowling alley with my family. It was blacked out due to sell out/black out rules back then, so that’s what you did. You found a place with a 30 foot diameter satellite. Adults could drinks. Kids could bowl. It is nice that is gone. But there was something sort of nice about doing stuff like that back then.

I think you caught this before my edit.

Has anybody paid attention to the expected/adjusted cap year over year on spotrac.? It is listing the cap in 2026 as $600M. If that is the case, this JA contract is a STEAL! edit: I most definitely read that wrong. That’s the Bills cap space assuming they don’t renew or sign anybody from 2021 to 2026.

Huh? Leonard got 5 years $99M. Add a 5th year to the deal you laid out and her is right there.