Heavy Kevi

Misleading thread title. Bills will be 2 or 3 if they win out AND get help. They can still win out and be 6 or 7 seed.

It wasn't about style points today, just a W after blowing a load on the Cowboys. Next week I'll look for style points though. Don't want to limp into the playoffs.

Excellent thread and strategy talking points! I hadn't considered that previously, but I think you are absolutely right. The smart move is in deferring in playoff OT. Either way I hope we don't go to OT any more this year. These McD coached Bills have been abysmal in ivertime.

No problem at all. Teef can carry on when your blowing snot 🤧

I'm taking a stand for ROI

Nice recap, Jack. I am going to need all 3 streams for the bar, but anyway... I missed the part where SoCal and Teef offered to do play by play over the phone! I think that's the ticket. @teef @SoCal Deek hit me up GameDay at 867-5309 But if I find myself in Mississippi I'll drop by Bill's for the Bills All good guys. I started this thread with a fair amount of frustration about peacock and put it forth as hyperbole. I expected to get flamed. The surprise is the nearly 20 pages. Lol. And I even admitted in like page 2 or 3 it was hyperbole. I'm not actually going to skip the game. I am shocked more people aren't frustrated about this, though. That is true. It is rediculous. Frankly I'm surprised that YouTube (Google) isn't pissed. What's the point of Sunday ticket now, "you get a pretty healthy majority of out of market games. No promises though" -- But the ABSOLUTE BEST PART (speaking 100% truthfully) was the TONS of DM's I got on how to watch the game. Offers to let me use one of someone else's streams, links to sites/feeds, invites to watch parties, and even a text from a friend offering to come to his house this weekend. All of the schitt-talking is just the internet. I wouldn't have started a thread like that if I couldn't handle some ball busting lol. Keep it sweet, Mango Aww, shucks 😊 I'm not as tough as that though, I will catch the game somehow... Prob not on peacock tho. But the point remains unchanged. It IS outrageous. It IS a money grab. It is a gateway drug for more of this by the NFL. You hit it. It's 6 bucks this year, how much for the next one? And as much as illegal feeds feel like they are "fighting the man", it probably encourages more and more ppv football games because NFL has to get revenue from it somehow. I've probably gotten the most schitt from talking about the taxpayer funded stadium, but I will beat that drum every time. When we provide millions of taxpayer dollars into the bank account of a billionaire team owner, how in the actual frick do they not show games over the air?

Don't expose the hyperbole, Jack Embrace the outrage.

Idk, even huge companies like NFL have bad ideas and abandon them. This ppv regular season football could fail. I'm just a grain of sand in the desert, but just like the straw on a camels back, at some point it only takes one more and that camel is dead.

Oh, yeah. Business is king. Of course I'm paying for it at the bar, so I can show it there. ROI is a thing, and it's not lost on me. It's separate, though. I don't want to sit in the bar. I want to watch at home where I already pay for several services that should deliver this game.

Lol To be fair, it's one guy. But yes, Dolphans are dumb. They have 3 teams with winning records coming up on the sched though, so... He'll only have another week or 2 to talk trash. Let him have it while it lasts.

Sure it is. Money is fungible So when we pay for the stadium, we're really just putting that amount of cash into Terrys pocket. So the team is subsidized, not just the stadium. Completely relevant.

One thing at a time. Pharma is next.

That's not the point though. Illegal streams are everywhere. Of course. Half of the responses to this thread have basically been "steal the game" That should say pretty much everything about the state of the situation. It's rediculous. I don't want to "steal the game". I don't want to wade through pop-ups, deception, and risk viruses. It shouldn't be this hard to legally watch a game in my local market, especially a publicly subsidized one.

It is sour grapes. I pay towards the stadium with taxes I pay for spectrum (2 locations) with sports package I pay for Sunday ticket I pay for Hulu live But none of those things get me the game. Your not sour about it?

Good post. What you are actually seeing imo is just a change in delivery. Netflix and Hulu rocked the boat and shook up everything. But now spectrum is switching to streaming. No more cable. No more cable boxes... Just streaming boxes. Also look at fubo, Hulu live, and YouTube tv. That IS cable these days. And the big guys (spectrum/Xfinity/Comcast) will just adjust to the times and provide their services that way. We've already seen subscription fatigue affecting the BS streamers (like peacock and Disney), and it's precisely why there is no free trial offer for this. In the past, tons of people would justjust get the free trial and cancel.... And it never really moved the needle for those services as far as long term subscriptions go. So peacock figured they'll make no such offer, and force this game into basically being ppv since only 9 Americans currently subscribe to, and pay for, peachicken

It's not really cable though, is it? It's over the air that's supposed to be provided to local markets. This is even more true with the surge in taxpayer funded stadiums. It's against the spirit of community funded stadiums to pull a money grab like this! Make everyone else pay, sure... But everyone in NY subsidizes the Bills and therefore it should be on locally

Yeah I mean I own restaurants and work until midnight most days. It's not 1950 anymore where every job is 9-5

I own a Bills Backer bar. That's not the point. They don't though. They did up until a couple weeks ago, but not now. They made the cutoff significantly before this game on purpose to stop people from being able to watch for free. But I pay taxes that are being taken to build the stadium.

I have watched every game for decades. Literally. Even gotten free trials of fubo, downloaded apps, got up at absurd times to see London games, etc. But this game isn't on LOCAL ROCHESTER MARKET because piddly little peacock is trying a money grab. All the other "exclusives" had free trials, were simulcast on a real network, or even in the case of prime- everyone already has it. But peacock, tiny little bullschitt peacock with nothing worthwhile to offer? The NFL not only isn't afraid, they actively don't like us. So I can't. I just can't. Sure, I could afford the subscription; but I can't positively reinforce negative behavior by the NFL trying yet another way into fans' pockets. They will take our tax money to build the brand new stadium for a billionaire, but we can't even watch the effing game. Pathetic.

No different from an OL jumping because the defender is on the neutral zone. Do everything to win within the rulebook. Call it embarrassing if you'd like, but this is Josh getting us a free 15 yards a decent amount of the time.

I am in Rochester coverage area and Bills is ALWAYS on.

Just what I was thinking. Dallas coming off a huge dominating loss Miami coming off a huge dominating victory And the Phins still haven't beaten ANYONE with a winning record.

Boy if the Bills can play like a buzzsaw going into playoffs.... anything is possible. The whole league doesn't want us to get in at this point.

It's still not a big enough lead Keep after it! Can't let them double dip

Good stop to force 3 Foot on the pedal!