cba fan

I would like to thank all those who contributed to this thread. It helped me learn something. I never knew you could by vote bots to swing twitter polls. Fascinating it is allowed.

you sound a little worked up yourself.

not sure what you watched last year but Bills went 2-2 vs Fins and Jets.

Everyone knows that. At least anyone who spends any time researching it. It dose not mean this new stadium or renovation is not going to happen. It 100% will happen. Then this stadium can join the long list of public projects and expenditures that do not return well on the investment. Like roads civic centers schools walmart supercenters etc etc... selling bonds to fund large projects and sometimes very small ones also is a colossal waste of taxpayer money that only bankers appreciate as they make virtually no risk guaranteed profit from interest. If only the founding fathers knew how mucked up this kind of spending was to become they would have enacted some language in our constitution either fed or state that require all spending to be not borrowed. Make the gov't's save money and invest it in money making accounts and then can only spend that for the big projects. This would have made surplus budgets the absolute norm since this country started and fixed a lot of our financial problems. EX: in my area a permanent 1% county sales tax hike was enacted to build a massive new jail and court rooms. Approx cost 50 million. Tax took in 12 mill a year. They then immediately sold 50 million in bonds that will take 30 years or so to pay off if they do not extend them like they usually do. all they had to do was wait 3 years(probably less) or so until the tax had accumulated many millions and then hey guess what. No taxpayer money sucking bonds would have needed to be issued. They would have had plenty of money to pay cash for start of construction at about 2 or 3 years from sales tax start.

it still has that new sound smell.

you are joking. Thanks for that. lol no one would say a GM who had mixed results doing his job could in any way compare to the vile *****head soon to be in jail Smollett.

I don't disagree with you. Maybe not his race as much as his LGBT group. Or his Hollywood group.

you are correct about it being a degrading joke. I too share your outrage with vigor. Never in a million years has Whaley ever done anything, so stupid, so vile, so rotten, that will set back his race for decades, like Smollet did. I hope he gets a hefty fine and rots in jail for the proper amount of time as the courts see fit to understand how low he is.

holy O's is that logo you speak of a real thing? Makes me want to cry.

hell it's the Patriots. Why would that matter. Bill and Kraft have basically done the same or arguably worse.

well yeah......he is a Patriots fan right now.

That is all true. What many are saying is AB should have picked better. He will be past his prime when Raiders start winning again.

oh crap. I completely forgot about the OTB. SMH. In IL they have them and I drive by one all the time. Thanks.

Do you think stadiums would have separate single location sports book in it? That would be the only way the odds would change when Bills fans bet Bills. Like at a dog or horse track. All self contained betting. I would guess the final look of in stadium sports gambling will be on a much broader scope. That some existing sports books would put satellite shops in the stadiums that would run on game day and also during the week as part of a big sports bar club restaurant juggernaut type setup. Like internet based betting sites like fandual or youwager sportsbook etc etc........ or even an existing sports book in Vegas allowed to open satellite shops. NFL then taking a cut of profits. I could see NFL partnering with a sports book or two and have them in every stadium. This would make the line stay current to all bettors around the country and even international bettors and not just crazed fans at one stadium. I would think that would work best for all. I would not bet if it was self contained at stadium and if the line would change like in greyhound betting right up to kickoff. No way. Stupid.

we can only hope. I am really pumped to see EJ Gaines again. Poyer Hyde and White seemed to really like him as they were a bit salty/sad when he did not resign after his one injury plagued year in Buffalo. Bills do seem to have picked a lot of guys coming off injury or who are injury prone. So safety in numbers it appears.

use of "into" precludes needing to make that long winded explanation for clarification. #1 If you are just trading back from say 9 to 18. That would be stated as: The Bills are trading back, in the first round to pick #18. #2 If you trade assets to get a 1st rounder like pick #26, as you want a good player falling, that would be stated as: the Ravens are trading back INTO, the first round for pick#32 to draft Lamar Jackson." #3 (you would say "back INTO" if you already used a 1st round pick that year like Ravens did.) You would drop the word "back" if you had no 1st round pick that year. Who would be the target trading back, in the bottom of the first round?:::::::::::::: That means #1 Who would be the target trading back into, the bottom of the first round?::::::::::: That means #2 Who would be the target trading, into the first round?:::::::::::::: That means #3 proper comma placement helps also. That's my long winded explanation. Thanks for reading. lol.

It has potential to get very very funny if this season goes well for Bills and Raiders go 5-11. Perfect example Doc Brown. Thanks......lol.

lol........... considering that location is rent controlled, and basically low end projects, it all makes more sense now.

never a fan of teams winning on gimmick plays. on-sides kicks suck. hail mary's suck. lateral plays on end of game kickoffs/punt returns suck. (and the massaging of the rules allowing multiple fumble recoveries advancement not allowed in real play) any team that clearly outplayed/dominated an opponent should not be subject to losing by some super low % gimmick play. I know many like the chance to see that, and the drama/entertainment value it provides, but it rewards luck over skill IMO. Not a fan at all. It is the equivalent to those trivia games where each successive round is worth so many more points then the previous round that in almost all cases the last question answered correctly determines the winner. Stupid as *****.

weed. Then skittles. That is how Marshawn Lynch did it. Allegedly.

100% agree no one should tell him to kill himself. But Rodak and his media supporters needs to toughen up. This is normal when a fan of your biggest rival(NE Cheatriots) gets assigned to be your beat writer. WTH did they all expect.

lol...looks like he did not run for a reason and looks like he is running nowhere fast. Pass. NFL needs speed. If Bills want a slow RB, trade for Howard from Bears. They have seen enough of his non-breakaway speed.

Not true. Not true at all. experience channeled the right way certainly helps no doubt but the world is filled with experts who know more, and are able to teach more, than many who have actually played or experienced any task we are talking about. Good coaches see things players can not see as they have a completely different angle, and mental point of view, to the plays and see the big picture. Players are involved in heated close in one on one battles and can not always see the finer points of playing until they watch film and have it pointed out by coaches. other EX: EX: military, martial arts, hand to hand fighters, etc etc teachers, there are many who can train you to effectively subdue and kill when appropriate human threats and yet they themselves have never killed anyone ever. EX: Hall of Fame coaches Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, Bill Walsh & Bill Belicheck never played any NFL or significant football. EX: Manhatten project nuclear bomb scientists never built or detonated a nuclear bomb in battle. How could they possibly have known everything needed to build one? my point: Everything ever accomplished in this world was done by someone who had never done it before. I totally discount the argument people throw out in a fit of rage "well you never did it(or went through it) before so how would you know" card. That is pure BS. JMO

this is prime moneyball moves. Upgrade incrementally for less cash then big splashes. As others posted the line went from having 1 above avg player to 3 now. That is a very big upgrade and they are not done yet. Draft or even an unexpected trade could up the ante on talent more yet.

starting RT or swing Tackle/Guard if Bills draft high for RT and rookie RT grabs the job in preseason.