TheFunPolice

Oddly, I'm really enjoying this game

Yup. I wish this game could live up to its hype, but Brady and the Bucs are going to outscore NE's popgun offense, and it won't be close.

If it goes into the offseason a lot of teams will be interested and have capital.

Urban Meyer is about to have a flare up of "health issues" that resolve just in time for the winter recruiting trips in his new job at USC. I think a lot of the legendary college coaches benefit from having completely stacked teams that overmatch most opponents. Win a big game or two and you're undefeated for the year. Do that for a decade and you're a legend. In the NFL, doesn't work so easily... Doesn't mean you're not a good coach. But maybe many of these guys are just good, not legendarily amazing.

Plus the Eagles and Dolphins could each send a former Alabama QB to Houston in the deal. I'm not sure who I'd rather have... Maybe Hurts?

I am so locked in for this game you can't even imagine, although some of you probably remember my incoherent weekly meltdowns about the Patriots when Brady was there so it might not come as a surprise. The Patriots were the sound in the middle of the night, the monster under the bed, the unknown terror lurking around every corner, the wet blanket on fun up and coming players and teams. Anything great anyone did never mattered, because Brady would throw 368 passes a game to Edelman, who would be wide open every time, and they would go 17 plays in 12:30 to score a TD. Rinse and repeat. Plus, NE cheated a lot and Belichick was always miserable. Put simply: For me, Brady and NE made football a lot less fun for a long time. Life was easy back then: NE=bad. But here we are... Evil vs Evil. Villian vs. Villian. Nightmare v Nightmare. And really, it's 100% a fair fight. Belichick made the choice to let Brady go almost 2 years ago now. Belichick has had 2 entire offseasons to retool the team to his liking. So, there is really no way to say "well, the Patriots aren't really up to the task" without that being 100% totally on Belichick. Thus, if Brady comes in and embarrasses NE in blowout fashion then it would be 100% proof that Brady > Belichick. After all, this is truly Bill's team. This is his vision vs. the QB he didn't want 2 years ago. No excuses. Who will I root for? I honestly couldn't tell you. I won't actually know until I see the game. But my gut tells me that I would enjoy seeing Brady humiliated by Belichick's defense more than I would enjoy seeing Brady and Gronk run up the score in Ne and all of their "fans" cheering for Tampa over NE.

Makes sense, thank you!

More and more the NFL is becoming a product for TV I want open air because it looks amazing on my 72 inch TV while I'm sitting on my couch in my Bills gear sipping good beer and munching on good food with a front row seat. Except for places like Sofi, domes look like the game is being played in a basement. It's awful. Nothing worse than a beautiful blue sky fall day in Orchard Park and the game looks like someone put down that cheap green outdoor carpet from Lowes inside of an airplane hangar and invited 2 NFL teams over.

Bills were smart... The price only goes up

What happened with the bird example? Did they just re-do the pitch and not count it?

Jimmy G has zero pocket awareness

You know Schopp from WGR is a little bummed right now. This was supposed to be the week he could finally go all in on his "this is who Allen is" theme

In Patriots country following on the game tracker or whatever you call the thing that comes up when you Google NFL scores... Anyway.. why did you mention collar bone?!

To me, that's the biggest concern. So much of this game is mental, and he's got to get that under control.

Anyone complaining about tax/public money going to the stadium should remember that 1.1 billion dollars of their tax dollars went to Yankee Stadium. Why should WNY suffer to "prove a point"?

I want a long-term, rock-solid commitment from the team if I'm NY/Erie County. I need 30 years.

An open air stadium with covered seating, if done right and with lots of bells and whistles to make it not only cool for fans to be there but with some things unique to Buffalo would be incredible. Nobody wants to pay more, we all agree on that. However, the big-time league involves big-time prices. Our QB just signed a quarter of a billion dollar contract.

An additional $30 per ticket would move the Bills from #32 to #16-17, right at the NFL average of $104 per game. I think the market could bear it. You're telling me that if tickets were $104 instead of $74 on average our crazy, passionate fanbase would stay home? I don't buy it. One thing the pandemic proved is that people will pay the price to get the things they want.

I agree that in a perfect world they wouldn't exist. Also, if I was Jeff Bezos I would have purchased the Bills and built a world-class stadium myself and still had $100 billion. But in the NFL you either pay the price or the product goes away. We have to decide whether we are willing to pay the price as a fanbase and community.

I'd be aggressive with the pricing on PSL's. Strike while the iron is hot. Make the experience world-class and field a winning team and people will come.

YES! After decades of being irrelevant I want the Bills on the biggest stage, with the A-team of broadcasters and all the national attention. Otherwise, what's the goal? You don't "sneak" into the Super Bowl.

Ticket prices will go up, but IMO there is more pricing power in this market than the team has been trying to tap. If a ticket costs an extra $25 that isn't going to dissuade many people from going, especially now when the team is good. This is actually the perfect time for this.

How much money could this actually raise? If it's just a couple of million (yes, I know that sounds odd) it doesn't seem worth it.

I must be in the minority, but I LOVE primetime/night games! That's when the top teams play and the stakes are highest. Isn't that where you want to be? 1PM Sunday is nice here and there, but that's Jaguars vs Texans territory.

It's really odd... But hey, if they want to do that good for them.