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Look on the bright side... Sal Capaccio will be working overtime tomorrow to make it sound like it was a great game, so driving to work will be entertaining. My takeaway is it's preseason. Nobody really cares about these games except the fringe players trying to win a roster spot. All these games are is 3 more chances for guys to get hurt.

The Rodgers experiment in NJ will either go great or it'll be an unmitigated disaster. I don't see an in between case. I think Rodgers is going to be very good there. As far as trading for Bahktiari I just don't see the point. They guy is never healthy and if he manages to get through a game he's out the next 8 weeks.

I don't follow college football that closely, so although I knew he was a star in college I guess I never realized how big of a star he was. To me, he comes off as an unlikeable tool even in this film. The part about him not enjoying his NFL stint was interesting. I can only imagine inserting an obnoxious entitled party dude with an enormous ego and absolutely zero work ethic (and seemingly proud of it) into a room of competitive professionals who basically live work and breathe football wouldn't go over very well. He wasn't happy in Cleveland, almost right away. Poor kid had to actually go to work for once, and his teammates didn't worship him for doing keg stands. It was a little hard to take, honestly.

especially when with 53 players on a team, plus coaches, there is always some narrative the league can celebrate

If there was a dome included you can be sure the cost overruns would be even bigger

I think the Bills new stadium is perfect for WNY. Football belongs outdoors.

Sadly, the Bills got dominated in the Washington and first Dallas Super Bowls. Refs weren't really a factor. Those teams were like going up against a Pro Bowl squad that cared about the game.

Rodgers could very well have an MVP type season. Same with Allen, though. I could see the Bills and Jets being the teams from the AFC East in the playoffs. I think it's going to become quite clear that Green Bay's recent success was largely due to Rodgers. He had mediocre (or worse) coaching his entire time there and an openly hostile GM who seemed bent on messing with him and not building an offense. Not to say Rodgers isn't a weird guy, but things got personal there and pride got in the way. Green Bay is about to be bad for a long, long time, and it will be hilarious to watch, not because of the fans, who are great overall, but because of the arrogance of the organization.

Rodgers is going to be very good on the Jets, but it might take 5-6 games for them to get clicking on offense.

This could be a dumb question, because I don't follow the thumbtacks. Is that Titans stadium actually trying to look like a turntable because of the music city theme?

I don't believe there is any league-wide conspiracy. If there was, the Bills would have been scripted to win a Super Bowl at some point, probably #4 vs Dallas. That said, NFL refs, more so than any other sport, have incredible power to swing a game and have it at least be debatable if they were so inclined. A team might score 24-30 points, split between 4-5 scoring drives. the rest of their possessions are punts or turnovers. All it takes is a timely holding call on offense (which can at least be debated as to whether it's ticky tack but there's always enough there to say "well, he did hold"). It doesn't even need to be on a scoring play. An 8 yard gain early in a drive on 2nd down becomes 2nd and 18 instead of 3rd and 2. That can wipe out a drive. Suddenly those 24 points a team would have earned become 17. Maybe the penalty happens in the first quarter and nobody even remembers it. But it could be enough to swing a game, especially between 2 great teams where the games are so close.

That's pretty crazy actually! Time flies... Except the month of February.

Florio has been losing his mind every winter at the absolute travesty it is that EB doesn't have a HC job. Congressional investigations, revisiting the anti trust laws, forced sale of teams, it's all on the table until the NFL comes down to earth and makes this right. I would trust Florio before I would listen to a bunch of players who worked with EB on a daily basis. All this means is that his players are also in on the giant league wide conspiracy.

Belichick is a great coach, but having Brady for 20 years made him seem like he was head and shoulders above everyone else when really he's "just" a great coach. Turns out, he isn't smarter than everyone else in the league after all. If Sean Payton or Andy Reid had Tom Brady for 20 years he would have won 6 rings also. Maybe more, who knows. It was over a 20 year span. Bruce Arians won a SB with Brady at QB. Other coaches would have won a lot of games and a lot of rings too. Now, that's not to say Belichick isn't great, he is. Or that just (insert name here) would have had the same success with Brady. Give a McVay coffee fetcher like Lefleur Brady and he might not even have played in a Super Bowl. Would Dick Jauron have won a ring with Brady? Maybe, if given 2 decades... Still, Belichick's defenses won the first couple of Super Bowls for that dynasty. He deserves a ton of credit, and it wasn't "all Brady." But he could basically do anything he wanted and as long as the game was close Brady and the refs had it handled in those last 2 minutes. It's how it goes in sports. Belichick has the hardware, but is he really the greatest coach of all time? He's the guy who put Matt Patricia in charge of the offense to "help" his young QB after all.

It's better than not having the kickoff at all. Still, with the way it is now the kickoff is almost pointless. Every kick goes into the endzone and gets touched down. As far as the 1, 2, or 3 points after a TD, words cannot express how much I hate that idea. It cheapens the game, IMO.

90's throwbacks with red helmets would be cool to see, for sure! Generally, I like the throwbacks that teams have, but I would hate to see teams end up having a handful of different uniforms and color schemes that they constantly shuffle between. Tampa's throwbacks are awesome! I have no idea why they ever changed. They were unique. Plus every team doesn't need a black uniform when it's not in their color scheme. The Cardinals and 49ers are the worst offenders in this. It's one thing if the Saints, Ravens, Falcons or Steelers do it, because it's part of the team colors already. When you're the Cardinals and your colors are red and white you don't need to copy Atlanta's uniforms.

I don't think Rodgers is in decline at all. Green Bay kept adding to the defense and relied on rookies for WR last year. Plus I think he just wanted out Lefleur, like McCarthy, are HC because of Rodgers.

Reid is a better coach than Belichick. The difference is one had Brady for 20 years and one had decent but not elite QB talent until recently. Reid still won a lot of games over many years with journeymen at QB. Belichick has done almost nothing without Brady.

I had a dream a few days ago that the Bills/Jets opener ended in a 40-40 tie. As much as a tie would not be good for the division race, that would be a heck of a game to watch!

I actually have a theory. Diggs gets into Buffalo Monday, Listens to early summer WGR on the radio. Becomes ill. So this is him throwing them a bone. Instead of "how do you feel about Eichel winning a Stanley Cup?" it'll be all Diggs all Day.

I hope he doesn't have some injury concern that wasn't addressed after the season because he stormed away. There has to be a better answer for this than "he's mad at Josh Allen or Dorsey." I mean, really?

To be fair, if you're considering those as separate items then maybe both don't make his top 10. But as one item: "caring about the fans and WNY" I think there's a very good chance we make his top 10.

I'll just say that I love Diggs' passion and emotion. If we're being honest, wasn't he saying exactly what a lot of fans were, especially during the playoff loss? I'm not saying it was the most professional way to go about it, and I don't agree with leaving the stadium before the post game meeting and having to be coaxed back in, but I also get it. Again, don't agree, but understand the volcano of emotions, and I was just watching the game (and the last few of the season). The guy wants to win for the fans and this city so badly and sometimes that emotion gets the best of him. Hopefully that can be addressed so that we can get to winning in 2023. I just hope Diggs is OK personally/health wise.

Diggs said in an M&T Bank commercial after the season (the series where he catches and throws footballs to random people in their kitchens and on their sidewalks) that he would see us fans on the other side, which I took to mean he was taking a break and would be back. So I'm not worried. I got word straight from the source.

I was shocked to see him get this extension. But good for him and I hope he plays well enough to justify it.