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Awesome. None of the 40+ year old basement trolls on this website can walk into a bar and have some anonymous chick walk up to them because of their occupation and offer to "sleep" with them. "Excuse me, I heard you're a call center operator, I want to sleep with you, badly." The vast, by a wide margin, of guys on this site couldn't even muster the mentally energy to dream of such a scenario where you walk out of a bar with a 21 year old girl, even the trolliest of them at 4 am. Sure, this girl is a moron but I'm sure in the afterglow of a super bowl and some drinks, he got what he wanted and he doesn't care less what every anonymous blue and white collar schmuck has to say.

You can just continue to refuse to acknowledge how great the guy is. Dinky dunk isn't good if it wins you a Super Bowl, I'm confused. So the only way that is acceptable to win a SB as a QB is throwing it deep all night? I see you working... if you say the backfield, full of the most cocksure MFers in the league right not was injured, you thereby minimize Brady's role in the win. Got it. Keep building the case against the guy but everyone around him is better because of him, including Gronk, who I loved out of college (U of A homer). I said it before the game and I'll say it again, give me that guy as my QB in a must win game. At 37 he won a Super Bowl. At 37 the beloved Jim Kelly was retired. Outside of your obvious emotional inability to give the guy credit, an improved OL is a must. A TE would be a huge improvement. My line is, we don't have one and can't stop one since Ben Coates was eating our lunch. They are major weapons and a necessary for younger QBs. You can get to the playoffs with this D and a mediocre QB. Need to get lucky and find one or have EJ develop. Get the OL, which gets you the running and takes pressure off the QB to do it all. Get that TE and it becomes better for the QB as well. Coincidence how guys like Kaepernick and Wilson did well right away... behind great OLs with great running games, and in SF's case, a great TE.

Season-ticket holder and die-hard and I wanted the Pats to win. A classless bunch on Seattle only confirmed my disdain for them. Do I hate the whining from Brady? Yep. Do I hate they're in our division? Yep. Am I wowed by how they are coached, how they game-plan, and how a constantly changing group of seemingly misfit parts always seem to work, hell yeah. And that's the part that gets me. They do what they CAN do with what they have, not do what hey WANT to. That's the genius of Belichek. There are a lot of HCs who refuse to adjust their systems to their talent level. They find players with some pretty great skills that everyone else overlooks... like Edelman... and incorporate it into the system. Instead of being focused on speed and height, they consistently take small, fast and quick-cutting WRs and use them more effectively than anyone. Sorry that they're in our division, sorry everyone hates Brady and Belichek and sorry you think they cheat every game ( think cheating, if that's what we're calling it, is way more widespread than anyone would want to believe). It doesn't, for me, take away from what I see between the lines and after Spygate and deflategate with a 37-year-old QB they won another Super Bowl. As a fan with a team bereft of coaching and QBs for 15+ years, I enjoy watching good football and will always root for winning with class over ignorance. Sadly, the NFL is a hypocritical cesspool where players get fined for classless garbage like feigning dropping your pants and taking a dump and grabbing your crotch but celebrates a-holes like Sherman's sideline act calling out Revis. Full national attention for this media-whore not matter what he does, no matter how classless. All that, I wanted the Packers over all of em anyway! Another classy group who does it right. Well because we expect our kids to act with respect and class; and our coworkers; and society in general. I don't let me expectations down because it's football. What other sport is it both celebrated and accepted?

So let me understand this, based on the OP post because I'm too lazy (probably like the author of the article) to read it, but if I am clear, drafting well in 4 out of the first 5 rounds (80%) and 4 out of 7 total (57%) makes you good? Wait, drafting well in consecutive rounds as talent begins to decline makes you good? I thought you could survive on first round studs and seventh round overachievers alone. That's earth-shattering, someone have that guy submit his work to an academic journal.I never thought of it but now it makes sense that the teams in high school that always won dodge ball had great players in the first couple rounds, like the pitcher from the baseball team, and managed to not let the AV dweeb picked last effect them so much, you know, because they get picked off early just like 6th and 7th round picks get cut. BTW, water is wet.

A few points: 1. The architectural fetish in WNY always amazes me. Design is personal and one's perfect building is another's garbage. I don't care what it looks like, the design will have minimal impact on it's functionality and profitable. Actually, I would suggest the non-functional design elements are added costs above utility costs. Frank Gehry is garbage in my mind, he arrogantly puts himself above the community, designs buildings out of context, like many starchitects. Many of his buidligns are fraught with problems because the function poorly. You don't have build it ugly to impress... ask Sullivan, Wright, Yamasaki, etc, 2. Yes Buffalo was a once great city. Yes the biggest and best urban designers and architects worked here. But it's the 50th largest region now and economically depressed. There are few developers and businessman willing, no matter the community, to spend more to make the same profit. We're a selfish, narcissistic, (see Facebook, Twitter, 26.2 bumper stickers), conspicuous consumption society. Most businessman want to leave their mark on the Forbes richest list. That's their symbolic gesture to the community. Few wealthy billionaires want their buildings to be known by who designed it, not who owns it. They want their name on the facade. Maybe Pegula is not that guy but if public dollars are expended, the perception that is gets spent on design details rather than utility will be problematic in this shrinking region. 3. Convention centers are a bigger loser than a stadium. Buffalo will never compete for major conventions against San Diego, Orlando, Tampa, Vegas, Atlanta. It's a typical "hey everyone else is doing it, why be original, we'll just copy it" bad idea. The place would be empty from November to April. Don't do it, bad idea. Why compete for what are essentially a fixed number of annual conferences against these places.

Not a fan of the guy but I without question LOVE this act. I hate the media's belief it's entitled to both access and to answers from anyone and everyone, especially when it pertains to sports. Media was initially founded to be the eyes, ears, and voice of the people to ensure the govt was open, responsive, and accountable. If a politician played this charade, it'd be aggravated because ostensibly the media is there on my behalf and I want answers for how my govt is run and money spend. Sports, we as fans aren't owed jack squat. I don't care if anyone talks, ever.

Speed isn't a skill set. If it were a lot of 5'10" WRs this team has drafted would be all pros. Can't wait to move on from Spiller. Lacks the true skill determined expected of legit feature back, namely vision, willingness to cut up field into a hole, toughness, strength, and occasional pass blocking. He's a niche player that this team outside of Gailey couldn't utlize.

Sherman's a classless idiot. Hate Brady all you want, seems to a popular emotion and waste of energy my most here but this picture speaks a lot to the kind of idiot Sherman is. This is the guy everyone thinks is awesome? He does that to a Bills QB and it's ok? Everyone seems to love brash, **** talkers (I won't get into the pyscho babble of what kind of person does that) but I'll take the calm, cool, collected and confident player who doesn't berate opponents or reporters after the game. It lacks class and the best medicine for this joker will be when he's old and slow and irrelevant and some WR with the same pathetic human qualities like Dez Bryant gets in his face. Keeping my fingers crossed for a blowout of Seahawks.

I was just going to start a thread on this joker because he exemplifies the my hatred of the Seahwaks. I am a season ticket holder and I watch the Bills only, I don;t have time to pay attention until the playoffs because the NFL as I've stated endlessly is a garbage league that my favorite team plays in. But here's a guy I've literally never heard of, no exaggeration. He's a 6th round nickelback out of Northeastern Louisiana State with ZERO career INTs and 7 PDs in 35 games making $600,000 and he's calling Gronkowski with a $5.5m salary and 3 All-Pro selections not that good. Got it, the modern era where talking means more than skills. Whatever the coaches on that team feed these morons has them over-believing their own bios. Classic case of the whole is more valuable than the sum of individual parts. Save your money pal, you're going to be a even bigger nobody working a real job after you get cut, hopefully mowing Gronk's lawn and his car like Biff. My only hope is that Gronk eats this twits paycheck and the Pats destroy this team and the most overrated QB in the modern era.

The difference is that nearly all cyclists were dopers. It was both common and expected, in particular among the top teams with the best riders. It was as dirty a sport as there. Armstrong like the patriots was the biggest target but also the most arrogant, and therefore a target. Actually Armstrongs dismissive attitude, mainly to the media, was similar to Belichek. There's another point here... I would bet that most NFL home teams try anyway possible to get an edge and as suggested above, and I mentioned in another thread, inflating the balls to the lowest psi in a warm stadium room so they deflate slightly in the cold, if that's what your QB wants isn't cheating as much being smart while playing within the rules. If they somehow deflated them illegally, that's a different story.

Totally overblown. Get the results first. Good read today on PFT about the impact of cold air over time on a ball. In theory, it's possible that IF the Pats inflate their balls to the lowest possible PSI, that by halftime, in 50 degree, rainy weather, the wet balls would have lost their originally inflated PSI, which presumably was done indoors 2+ hours before the game. If Brady prefers the low end PSI and as science states is clearly true (I know forums aren't the place for science and critical thinking but rather vitriol and emotion) that air pressure decreases with temperature, this is entirely possible. What's more, and I admit I haven't read everything, I think testing the Indy's sidelines balls would be necessary. Afterall, cheating is about giving one team and advantage over another, right?

There is a payment plan option, forgot how it works. A good ticket rep can help. I don't buy parking passes because I park off site, which I can in and out of easier and quicker. So if you're looking to get out early for a 3 hour drive home, you might want to consider avoid trying to get close to the stadium. The closer you get, the harder/timelier the in and out. In your case, not tailgating and getting there late, I'd find a lot on the outskirts and walk a little bit. You might be able to select a seat(s) now and put a downpayment on them. That'll get you the best available seats now and then after renewal, maybe you can upgrade? It would seem to me, and I am not certain, they they'd be selling seasons all year for seats that weren't seasons the prior. Someone might know better than me tho.

I'm cheering them on. Can't stand Sherman, Lynch and their schtick.

Lopez is a college prof and should know better then to compare a guy with 14 starts to Brady, Manning, etc. It's statistical significance for EJ is about zero.

I'd take Rodgers over Manning but Brady at his peak over anyone. Not one wills a mediocre team to wins better than him.

This only supports my argument so I'm unsure what your point is? I stated that "relocation" was not an option and the proposal you speak of is a replacement on site that would allow existing residents to remain. It's a geographic question, not a question of the type of housing. Political affiliation has nothing to do with this, I'm an unaffiliated voter because I think and refuse to align myself with party dogma. Housing isn't, and should never be, a political issue. It's a human issue. Even so, it has not been "proven" that urban renewal projects need to be torn down and rebuilt with different options. Despite the failure of some, many have been successful. I don't trade in generalizations and stereotypes, it's a folly worthy of others. Some fail and some work. Context matters. What has failed (however you suggest we measure failure) in Buffalo probably won't fail in NYC because NYC isn't a dead and dying deindustrialized city with excessive population decline, economic contraction, and continually growing rates of poverty and segregation. The Bills get me away from these conversations, which is why I turn to them as a refuge from the day to day social, economic and political discourse. My point was that no politician anywhere is going to support a project that relocates already marginalized populations and sells the land left behind to regional business elites. Cobblestone is north to south, the most north to south of any of them actually. So I'm not sure. Exchange is almost dead on east-west. South Park and the Ralph were more southeast to northwest a la the current stadium. My guess still is shadows.

To my point earlier about ownership issues, here's the ownership of the Cobblestone site. 6 of the 15 parcels are easily acquired, the others are smaller and likely easily acquired as well. The other two sites have way more ownership issues and that becomes time consuming, costly, and offers the potential of protracted legal wrangling. And the use of eminent domain is in all likelihood a possibility. It's very easy to state what site offers the best options from our perspectives but the complexities of design, infrastructure, land acquisition, environmental constraints, community input and blow back (I can already hear the preservationists whining about the cobblestone streets), oh yeah and cost make any suggestion of a selected site laughable. They may very well have a preferred site (the Pegulas) but that doesn't mean that's where it'll end up. Any suggestion of removing the Perry Projects indicates a lack of an historical grasp of the failed promises and epic failure of urban renewal. Because this project will certainly require political intervention, either directly through subsidy, or through assistance in land acquisition, it's unlikely any politician would get behind it. Further, those projects were built with federal monies and don't you think the feds, who have the largest black eye from the so-called "federal bulldozer," will step into this and agree to let them be demolished and the residents relocated. I think that site was off the table from the get go.

And as an anti-domer, I don't like this option for that reason but do like its geographic location. However, I would argue that the other two locations could have positive spillover affects on a their surrounding areas and therefore more of an overall impact than jamming it next to the arena and canalside where development is already happening. Thinking from that regard, one of the other two sites, in particular the Exchange site, may have a more overall positive impact. I will add that it also has the least number of parcels and the ownership there would be easier for acquisition than the other two sites, both of which include Paladino owned parcels. The two parking lots between Mississippi and Columbia are owned by the City. The larger lot north of Perry is owned by ECIDA. And WNY Hockey owns three lots between Columbia and Michigan. From an acquisition standpoint (cost, time, legal) this would be the fastest and cheapest.

Don't know but I'd venture a guess that it has to do with shadows from adjacent buildings that may project onto the field. The harbor center is tall and west of the proposed site, meaning it would project late afternoon shadows in the fall east onto the stadium. That's all I can come up with. Also could be the same issue southwest with the General Mills buildings.

Depends on how much the have to spend out of their own pockets. I just reviewed all the land ownership for the three downtown sites and Paladino's firm owns a lot of the South Park and Exchange sites. The one issue that is problematic now is that this was a publicly funded analysis that just identified potential sites, which will drive up acquisition costs for the owners and state, assuming they may have to get involved and use eminent domain to take properties from holdout owners. Who really wants to deal with that maniac when he knows you want his property?

Hard to argue. Not a spiller fan. He refuses to understand that yards in the nfl have to earned up field because you can out run everyone around the corner. I can't stand his frustrating style. Hope they save the money and draft a RB late or can do something with Brown, Jackson, and Dixon behind a much improved line.

When I hear statements like "revenue generation" I immediately wonder "who" is expected to increase the revenue generation? It seems to me, based on some simple math assumptions that a debt free stadium with 40,000+ season tickets holders, close to 2100% club seat and suite occupancy has to, even with some of the lowest ticket prices, generate a good deal of revenue. Increased revenue does not equal increased profit because you have to account for the money Pegula would have to spend to build a new stadium. So if he spends $700 million to build a new stadium to make more revenue, he's now got to jack prices through the roof to get to the current level of profit from the existing stadium. That brings me to the next question.... "who" fills it? Let me be clear, this region is still stagnating and has been since 1970. The regional population (two counties) has declined since 1970 while the Erie County population has basically been unchanged. Businesses continue to leave and those opening are lower end services and retail. So who is willing to spend more, much more, so Pegula can actually make more profit than he is now when he has zero stadium debt and will incur debt with a new one? PSLs anyone? Not this season ticket holder. It comes down to opportunity costs for these guys. If they spend $700M on a stadium, they expect a return they could get spending the same $700 on another investment. Typically a 10% return is viable (I know a major multibillion dollar company where no project is considered without a 15% return). So is the Bills make, as some had argued, $30 million a year with no stadium debt and need to make $70M (10% of a the $700M stadium investment) that's $40M a year from the stadium, which in this market seems highly unlikely. If that return isn't possible, it brings us to private profit and socialized debt. When league owners seek new stadiums and cry poor for govt help, it's not that they can't make money, it's that they have an expectation to make the same level of profit they did on the old, paid off stadium. In order for them to do so, they need the govt to step in socialize debt to ensure the return they expect. So before we anoint Terry and Kim Pegula as saviors, let's see how this plays out. Here's what's happened to the NFL, and we can see it with the Sabres already. It's become a spectator sport for the wealthy. They've sterilized the environment for the wealthy who consume Sabres games conspicuously as a status symbol. I used to go a ton as a young hockey player, sit in the oranges and upper blue and enjoy the atmosphere of all dedicated, involved passionate fans. Now a Sabres game is a social event. More talking in the stands than anything. Women dressed to the nines spending the night on their phones. The atmosphere sucks. But its sold out because its a status symbol, no more no less. That is the model Jerry Jones has employed and by many accts, his ticket prices are so high they owners sell their seats to out of town fans who want to make the trek to that place just to see it. It's a tourist attraction and made Jones millions (of course with a handout). But the atmosphere has suffered and the longstanding fans who can't afford it got pushed out. So the model is to sterilize the atmosphere to bring in the high enders who just want the status that comes with it and are willing to pay the high prices. Good for business, yes. But many here are clamoring for a new stadium because they think it's just gonna be the same vibe and fans in a new stadium. It won't. Not even close. It hasn't happened for Dallas or either of the NY teams, in particular the Jets. As a fan, I don't need a new stadium. I spend 3 hours in a seat staring at a field. I don't need expensive microbrews (I love em but don't need em), I would never eat at a game (who the hell tries to eat chicken wings at a game or better yey what self-respecting Buffalonian would waste their money). I don't need a multimillion dollar scoreboard just dedicated to fantasy stats. I don't need my eardrums shattered at every whistle by the blaring music. I need a seat, a field, a the team I'm rooting for. I've said in a few posts... you look at the EPL model. These guys are playing stadiums built in the late 1800s that continually get updated. For many, tickets are super high priced and super hard to get. The culture of the sport is what matters. Here it's the culture of consumption and constant stimulation that is ruining the stadium experience. In fact, I laugh at people who say soccer is too boring. Read this and tell me what's boring: http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/pie-chart-actual-football-watching-nfl-game-vs-replays-commercials-etc/I guess that's why they have to divert your attention... you're paying thousands of dollars a year for 8 games that each have 11 minutes of game action. That's 88 minutes of action, or less than one entire EPL game, which by the way can be viewed commercial free in less than two hours.

Let me just say that there is zero chance whatsoever that a stadium could be designed, put through the environmental review process, and constructed by fall 2017. So many things would have had happened by now that it would have been public, most likely land assembly via acquisition. The local media would have picked up on those transactions and it would have been know. Levi Stadium construction started in April 2012 and it was open in time for 2014. That would mean construction would start this April to be open in 2017. The environmental review process will take months and if someone decides to be a pain in the backside, like any of the single-issue local obstructionist groups like we tend to see when major projects are announced (New Millennium Group or preservationists or Joel Giambra), and sue or be overly cumbersome, it'll take more than a year. So beside the fact this story looks to be written ba 10 year old and from a website apparently 10 people read, administratively, it's an impossibility. And if there is a new stadium in the works, I have a very good feeling I'll hear about it!!!

I know the difference schematically between the 3-4 and 4-3 but does one fit the current personnel better? I hate the idea of the constant back and forth, in particular how the team has drafted. Last year they drafted Preston Brown based on a 4-3 and the prior Kiko based on a 3-4. I don't pretend to understand how different players fit one over the other!!!

I agree on the hyperbole but "land on his feet" is a pretty broad brush stroke that doesn't due much to argue against a DIII future!!! You should have suggested what (or where) you meant by land on his feet. Maybe he "lands on his feet" as the new head coach at national DIII Champion Wisconsin-Whitewater. That's a pretty prestigious job, what is it 6 of the last 10 DIII national championships? All kidding aside, he'll end up on some staff as a position coach in the NFL or have to return some lowly college program like Syracuse.