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I couldn't find the quote, but it seemed to me that when Ralph fired Tom Donahoe he came as close as I'd expect. He apologized and said it was an embarrassment. I think he was talking more about how the fans were treated, but it was not great football either.

I just started listening to podcasts especially Locked on Bills two weeks ago. It's between 30 and 45 minutes. One day power week is a question and answer session. Sorry, not sure which day. But one of the days after the Vegas game I think it may have been the first question was to explain the difference between gap and zone blocking. I think the day before is his all 22 review where he said the bills seem to have stopped trying to force the zone blocking scheme. Worth a listen if you want to understand it better. Very interesting listening to these podcasts and how the different ones say complete opposites. Not on blocking, but other things. Joe Marino from locked on Bills said Bernard played pretty decent against the Jets, Buffalo rumblings said he was awful. Marino said they schemed to give Brown lots of help against Crosby and when they didn't he was taken to town. Sal said they didn't give Brown help. I don't watch those things closely enough to judge who is right, but overall Joe Marino seems to know his shxx so I tend to believe him more.

As was said by someone else above, he's on the practice squad. He can sign anywhere to the 53 man roster.

Sad. Always enjoyed listening to him on Sirius XM. Haven't heard him there for some time and was assuming his health had declined to where he was no longer able, but never heard for sure. Before hearing him on XM, I had never heard of him. Always knew of Tex Schram as the GM and didn't realize Gil's involvement. Hearing from him over the last many years on the radio I came to understand and now wondered who was more responsible, Tex or Gil, for the Cowboys being good for so many years.

Not 100% accurate per Sal (heard it around 11:30 today). Teams can make an injury settlement. Then, they need to wait three weeks (I assume three games at this point but he said three weeks). After the waiting period they can sign with any team. Sal suggests that this is likely what the Bills plan to do with Barkley and in the meantime sign another QB to the PS.

Of course, because obviously noone ever settles frivolous lawsuits.

Unless what was said originally, that Haskins was crossing am interstate on for, was false, I don't care if the driver was speeding, the family should not be entitled to get money for it.

To other's points, seeing him at the home opener last year was great! My father turns 99 in two weeks and like Marv, is still in great shape but clearly has been slowing down over the last year. He still cuts his grass and my shovel his driveway if he's in Rochester and doesn't want to wait for the plows to come but now only walks a mile or so at a time whereas two years ago we went on a 4 mile walk together. I was hoping to take him to training camp next week, but he's flying back to Florida the same day as we were going so that's not happening, he did go last year however. Going back to Marv, I've wanted to mention this for the last year or so but wasn't going to start a topic on it, this seems like as good a place as any. I was watching the series finale of a Tim Allen TV show called Last Man Standing a year or two ago. In the show, Tim's classic car was stolen. In response, his character said the following poem. Most Bills fans likely know that Marv posted this in the locker room after Super Bowl XXV (Giants/Wide Right). Unfortunately Tim's character attributed it to Ronald Reagan instead of giving the Marv (or the original author's) reference: "Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said, A little I'm hurt but not yet slain. I'll just lie down and bleed awhile, And I'll rise and fight again."

My brother lives in Pittsburg and went to the event. His kids grew up in Fox Chapel which I believe is a suburb Northeast of Pittsburg. Although his four boys grew up there, they have remained diehard Bills fans their entire lives.

My account manager emailed me back and said there was an issue with the website, so I don't think they poorly worded the email, but that they didn't set up the rules properly in Ticketmaster or however this is done. Regardless, he said he put the tickets I wanted in my account. I didn't see them there so I went into Ticketmaster at 1 and easily got the tickets I wanted.

I had the same problem others have. It said six tickets per practice, up to two practices. Got six for 7/28 and wanted two for 8/10. If I had done it in the other order, would have been ok with only four for 7/28 and just told two friends I was bringing, sorry, couldn't do it. Unfortunately, I decided to do the six first.

@newcam2012Excellent list of concerns, it kind of depressed me because I can't disagree with most of them no matter how much I want to. I agree with @BADOLBILZthat based on recent history, we are the best team in the AFC East and I don't expect enough of those concerns to go the wrong way for us to make us lose the division or not be a serious Super Bowl contender.

As I said in other posts, I switched to You Tube TV from DirecTV around 2.5 years ago. I always found it very easy. However, sometimes it does "spin" for a bit and it's almost always much slower to fast forward than with a regular DVR. I think that may have more to do with my Visio TV than my internet connection or You Tube as it works much better with a FireStick. But, it's great service, unlimited cloud DVR, many great channels, and MUCH cheaper than cable or satelite. I think you'll get used to how to use it very quickly.

I've had YTTB for the last 2.5 years. It allows 5 logins for family members (I see your comments that it's only two for the Ticket, I'm talking regular YTTV). I use it in Orange County CA, Rochester, Syracuse, and Milwaukee. But to use outside of my home area which is Rochester, each user must login from Rochester every three months. I do this by setting up an email for my family members that's only for YTTV and logging in to YTTV from each of these emails regularly.

Yup. Always hate having to wait the extra day to see the Bills play. But, opening week having to wait to be the last game played just sucks!

I'm pretty sure I heard an interview with Ron Raccuia on Friday where he said those prices were "on the ballpark".

Agree. It's speeding. In CA I normally go between 85 to 90 if the traffic will allow and am passed by cars going much faster. He was polite to the officer and didn't try a "Don't you know who I am" with him.

Get over it already. I really don't get why you keep arguing your point. First of all, the post does NOT say that Dallas was definitely taking Kincaid, even your first post said, "I keep seeing everyone saying Kincaid would have been gone like it's a fact." I think it's pretty obvious, this being a message board that likely Jerry Jones is not anonymously messaging on, that when people state he would have been gone, it's their belief, not fact. Everyone who has responded to you has stated this in one way or another. There are two things that matter: 1) Beane BELIEVED he needed to trade up if he wanted to be 100% sure that he got his guy. 2) If in a few years, it was a good pick. If he's a bust, it was a bad decision. If he plays 10+ years for the Bills and is a HOFer, it was a fantastic decision even if Beane was wrong about Dallas taking him or some other team trading up to take him. If he's somewhere in between, then depending on where between and how other players he would have traded down to take, it may or may not have been the right decision. Trading up for Josh Allen was a great decision. The Jets trading up for Darnold wasn't. The Cardinals taking (did they trade up for him?) the "Right" Josh, wasn't. Chicago trading up for Trubisky wasn't but if they had taken Mahomes instead when they traded up... By the way, in addition to those here and Beane who thought Dallas likely wanted Kincaid, as was said above Beane was on Moving the Chains on Monday. Later on Monday they replayed part of the interview on Late Hits with Alex Marvez and Bill Polian. Bill said that based on Dallas' war room shown on TV, with all the down faces, it seems almost definite that Dallas was targeting him. So no, none of us knows for a fact what Dallas' plans were, but so what? Whether it's the draft, poker, or any negotiation, you try to read your opponent and take your best guess as to what their plans are and if there's a bluff involved. You make your bet accordingly and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.

I was thinking last night while many were pointing out that we now have two TEs with DK initials that back in 1989 we introduced a new offence named "K Gun" which was named after our dynamic pass catching TE Keith McKeller. Now of course we have two more 'Ks'.

You did. Maybe 40 times. We get it. Wjy not give it a break already and either say "told you so" in a year or two or, more likely make believe you never objected to the pick.

I heard Minn told Cousins they aren't extending him so QB could be it.

I posted about this in Gunner's QB thread. I saw Bryce play in late 2019 on high school. He was amazing throwing for over 500 yards in the semi finals on under 3 quarters of play. I completelu forgot about him until last month even hearing all the draft talk, didn't remember his name.

Living out of the area makes you a prime candidate for Sunday Ticket or finding a Bills Backers Bar like I did for years.

Almost every game from 2010 to 2019! I moved to CA before the 1993 season. I went to a bar to watch all the games for many years. Started taking each of my two kids when they turned 8 weeks old (1998 and 2001). Made friends there that I still have today and my kids are still friends with their kids. But, by the time my son was about to turn 9, he was involved in youth sports and I started doing a lot of volunteer work on weekends for youth soccer. Also, the Bills Backers groups I had been involved with weren't doing much anymore and the football was not very good. I got DirecTV and Sunday Ticket. I DVRed every game, and watched later on Sunday evening. It's very easy in So Cal. to not know what the results of a football game are, you actually have to search to find out (or have notifications turned on from BuffaloBills.com, TheAthletic, etc.). In 2020 I was working near Syracuse, the Bills were good again, and I started watching live again and now wanted to watch live. Got Seasons tickets and watch all games live again. Now I'm back in CA and trying to decide what I'll do this year for the games I don't go to. Get the Ticket? Watch on delay again? Or, most likely, go to a local bar and watch with Bills fans!

Thank you for the evaluation, Gunner. I've been wanting to post something for a bit but wasn't sure where to put this LAMP. You gave me the perfect opportunity! First, I don't follow college at all. I start to listen to the draft talk but rarely watch videos of the prospects. That being said, of course I've heard about the top QBs and typically base my opinions mostly just be hearing what the talking heads and other fans like you say. So, hearing mostly about Bryce Young and CJ Stroud over the last several months, I wasn't so sure what to think. Then, when my son was home from San Diego State U. a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned to him (who follows even less than I do) about the two QBs and he told me that Bryce Young was local, went to Mater Dei in Orange County CA. I reminded him that we went to the semi-finals in late 2019 and saw Mater Dei crush Mission Viejo (his school). He said Bryce Young was the QB we saw. I remember posting about going to that game and what I saw in Bryce. This is what I posted on December 30, 2019. I made the post primarily because “Super Cade” was the honorary captain for the Mission Viejo team but then added what I saw in this HS QB, Bryce Young: “By the way, at that game, Bryce Young, the QB for Mater Dei was amazing. He threw for over 500 yards before they pulled him, I think in the 3rd but may have been early 4th. The first play of the game was a 53 yard strike, second play was called back due to illegal receiver downfield but was a completion to what would have been a touchdown. He had 7 touchdown passes and many amazing throws. He's going to Alabama next year and I can't wait to see how he does with SEC competition.” Of course, since I don't follow college football, I completely forgot about him until the recent talk and even then didn't put 2 and 2 together until my son and I started talking about the draft. https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/221957-new-espn-story-on-“super-cade”-also-featuring-josh-allen-darnold-watson-mahomes/?do=findComment&comment=6293641