DC Greg

Man I have no idea what to think with all this craziness. Who knows how it's affecting the teams. Get the job done, boys. Stay focused.

This is good. It will look cool on TV if everyone is throwing powder. Very uncool if snowballs are raining down on the players and Bills get penalized for it. Sheit.

In the other guy's seat.

This was the scene around 9am. Place is in rough shape. I hope they have a lot more people working in there now.

Now I know we're f@#%$d.

It's a law very similar to SYG. Splitting hairs on that. Not sure how you think the source is biased. It just lists 5 cases and strictly the facts of what each case was and the result. Those 5 are just a sampling. I mean if you want to argue that those are aberrations from the statistical norm or something, that's an argument. But that doesn't make the cases listed in that article untrue. There's also a lot more information available to you with a quick google search on other cases where people were shot while running away, shot when there wasn't an imminent threat to the killer's life, etc. Yeah I agree it probably wouldn't fly in this case. But what you are highlighting has also been disregarded by juries in other SYG cases. There are times when people were shot while fleeing, and they still made arguments like "well they could have turned around and come back, so their life was still in danger" to let the killer off. It happens unfortunately.

Agreed, but reading about some of the crazy cases where people have gotten away with murder in stand your ground states, it shows that there is never a sure thing. Often depends on the personal beliefs of the jury.

Not sure if you've seen some the Stand Your Ground defenses that have worked down there and in other states, but many juries in Florida have very, very loosely interpreted what constitutes "threatened with deadly force". Yeah, we all seem to think from the details of this case it's a straight up cold blooded murder, but I thought that in some other cases and the killer got off with Stand Your Ground. People seem to have wildly differing views on what constitutes a "deadly threat" and what justifies someone in killing that person to "protect themselves" with a firearm. A few examples: https://www.propublica.org/article/five-stand-your-ground-cases-you-should-know-about

Plus they have a stand your ground law in place. Since there was a confrontation before the murder, the killer would have a path to try to get off saying that he "felt threatened" by someone touching his vehicle. Would be interesting to see if that defense worked. But since he fled the scene, he probably would have more trouble claiming stand your ground.

I agree with this 100%. If Hill hadn’t gotten hurt and he is running that route instead of scrub Claypool, that ball is probably right where it needed to be. It’s easy to pin that on Tua, but I think that’s a good example of a terrible WR route.

Thanks! Yeah I remember playing on many fields that were set up with different degrees of slope for drainage before. I just never knew it was called a crown.

I feel like I'm asking a dumb question having seen at least 30 games in that stadium, but what is this "crown" everyone is talking about?

Correct. It’s a low pressure system in the south that will move north on Sunday. We’re in northern Virginia, and it looks like we and most of the east coast will get hammered with rain. Much less certain for WNY. It could be raining during the game, or the system could not make it there until later in the evening. We’ll see how it shapes up next couple days.

He had some nice man to man coverage on a wheel route in one play this past week! Would sure be nice to see some more pressure though.

The vast majority of tickets on Ticketmaster at this point though are individual resale. It's people who are listing them for sale on the platform, not the platform itself. The Bills drop some tickets on there late, and there are probably entities that just speculatively buy a lot of tickets and try to scalp them for a profit. But I've seen the same thing on there... come game day, whatever the baseline lowest price is for the majority of tickets in a section, people will undercut it to get rid of their seats. It won't be a ton less than what they are now, but it will be less. They go quickly though. I'm not expecting to get in for much less than $200, but I do think I'll get some for right around there, hopefully frontish section of 300s.

I'm waiting. No way I'm paying $250 to these scalpers for upper part of 300s. I'll watch from the tailgate if it comes to that. Game is definitely in high demand though. Prices drop on game day itself, depending on remaining inventory. Problem is, cell service sucks so bad around the stadium, it can be hard to make the purchase go through on Ticketmaster at times. But if you wait, the bagholders will lower their ransom.

Lol. Same here. I am excited about what could happen, and I do believe that the Bills have the talent beat anybody. I also know McDermott is still unfortunately ready to turtle up and shoot the team in the foot with a critical coaching/time management blunder at the end of any half. Hopefully they make enough plays before the end of these games down the stretch that it won't come down to McD making critical late game decisions.

In addition to finding an O coordinator and getting that right, he should also cede all in game head coaching decisions to someone else. Maybe just someone in the headset, but when to call timeouts, when to challenge, when to go for it, etc. If we had someone who could manage those critical calls, especially at the end of halves, McD could stay there as a figurehead. If that makes the people who don’t want to see the poor multimillionaire who ended the drought lose his job, great. That graphic they showed last night told the tale… since 2021, Bills are now 9-14 in one score games. 22-1 in all other games. The reason they suck in the clutch is bad coaching. It’s an unfortunate reality we’re stuck with.

I certainly agree he has no feel and usually makes decisions that cost the Bills in those situations. It’s gotten worse, not better over his career. You’d think he’d learn. I’m thrilled about the win yesterday and glad they have something to play for. But McD has already dug this team a huge hole this year. It’ll be amazing if they can climb all the way out to get to the playoffs. If not, he should (but probably won’t) be gone.

When he steps down in the best interest of the team because he's in over his head and singlehandedly losing the Bills games, I'll wish him well. Right now, he's stealing from the Bills and sabotaging the best chance we've had at a Super Bowl since the early 90s. Enough is enough. He's a multimillionaire and has been duly compensated for his time here. Let someone else take over who can actually take this team to the next level.

Yeah, but those are coaching legends who don't crap their pants when the game is on the line and have 12 men on the field, call timeouts that help the other team, throw dumb challenge flags, have the defense out of position and generally unprepared, have the offense take a knee, and everything else that McDermott does to lose games. I could care less about this hit piece and whatever aspects of his personality are being discussed here. I don't care if he's a jerk or a saint, I care if he can coach. And at this point, he has proven THAT HE CANNOT. He is SINGLEHANDEDLY losing this team games with his cowardly, deer-in-headlights coaching in any tight game. Enough is enough. That's why he needs fired, not because of any of this crap. It's remarkable how obviously bad he is whenever the game is on the line. He's the anti-clutch and everyone knows it. Dump this hack already.

Yeah that’d be swell and yes the offense looks improved under Brady and yes Josh Allen is a superstar but… Sean no nuts McDermott is still the head coach. If any of these games are within one score late, he is going to blow it. It’s clockwork. So unless the Bills blow out all their remaining opponents, McD gunna find a way to McD unfortunately. We can write this on the tombstone for the 2023 Bills playoffless season.

Agreed. They are a great team talent wise who can blow teams out, and because of that, there's nowhere to lay the blame for their inability to finish games in crunch time except on McDermott. Some of his coaching failures are painfully evident even to casual fans (12 men on the field to lose the Broncos game for example), some are nuanced and we have to speculate on player v. coach failures (his defense's consistent inability to come up with a stop on the last drive to win it), but with so many at this point, he has to take responsibility for all of it. It's his team, and when the game is close and on the line late, they/he choke. Most teams, especially good ones, do NOT choke with anywhere near this level of consistency. Something's bad, bad wrong in McDermott's leadership for this to keep happening. And he has not owned up to any of it recently. He never places blame on himself or his leadership, and it's infuriating. This is just my personal opinion, but I believe you can see it all over his face when the game is close late. He gets that pained look in his eyes and just seems lost and overwhelmed. You can really feel him trying not to lose instead of knowing how to confidently go for the win. It's pathetic. I tried to make excuses for him for so long thinking his culture was important, but at this point, the emperor has no clothes. The players, especially the veterans, have to see this crap and know, too. There won't be any winning culture much longer when they come into camp next year knowing that many of them are elite at what they do in the NFL, while the highest ranking person on the team is scared, inept, and at the bottom of the barrel in the coaching ranks. Who could be motivated to keep playing for that year after year?

He's also often defeated in close games and any time in-game head coaching decisions are required. Let's hope the Bills talent can overcome the inept coach by winning by multiple scores! That's how we do it in Buffalo. We like to handicap ourselves with a complete doofus of a head coach. Then if they win, you know the team REALLY played well. Best of the best of the best with one arm tied behind our backs. Ultimate bragging rights.