SoCal Deek

Is it just me or does Von Miller talk an awful lot for a guy who just got here and was injured almost half the season? Seems like he’s getting very close to becoming a distraction to the franchise-wide foundation, not rent-a-team philosophy, that the Bills have been trying to build.

Time to find another company. 😉

OP: Thanks for putting this together! I asked about something similar in another thread. Yes, I agree with your overall premise. When the smoke cleared I’d say the Bills pretty much decided (or the cap forced them to decide) to stay where they were. Not a bad idea given a 13-3 record and the logical, ready made excuse of 2022’s many injuries. It’s not like the roster is terribly old. So now they head into the draft with only one glaring hole…..they absolutely have to replace a MLB. The rest of the roster, just like every other team’s needs upgrades of course, but Edmunds spot is the only one with a truly untested replacement.

I wasn’t aware but apparently they have a Triple A team now, that’s the farm team for the A’s. I’m guessing they’ll relocate.

Okay people…the Oakland A’s have just announced that they’re in the final stages of moving to Las Vegas where they plan on building a $1.5 Billion, 35,000 seat stadium with a….yep… retractable roof. The site is just a mile north of Allegiant Stadium along the Strip if anyone is familiar with the area. Oakland, another small, working class, original AFL city will have now lost EVERY one of its major sports franchises. (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL). Three of the four will have left in the span of a decade, and all have left over lack of updated facilities.

Sounds like you’re mad as hell and won’t take this anymore!

The Left proves once again that it is literally horrible at humor. I assume this lame cartoon is supposed to be DeSantis? When in fact it’s actually EVERY SINGLE high school principal in America.

Yeah…but do you have a roof?

If anyone thinks a show with a live audience is hard news, I urge them to rewatch the movie Network. 😉 Howard Beal was the best!

Thanks! Seems to be splitting hairs to me. Is it correct to assume an Edge drops off into coverage at times? If not, and all they do is help stop the run or rush the passer, that still sounds like a DE to me.

I guess I agree in theory but the only reason anyone watches any of these channels is for the sensationalism that they stir up. Before they found their niche nobody watched any of them. I’m probably more concerned that we’ve lost the ability to distinguish between traditional hard news and in essence what is nothing more than Op Ed style broadcasting.

Not exactly what I asked, but it still made me chuckle.

I know many on here are all excited about this story (and I don’t condone the spread of misinformation) but I highly doubt that FOX did their own investigative reporting on this story. Most of these outlets just repeat what they’ve harvested from outside sources with little time or budget for source checking and confirmation. Seems to me this settlement opens the door for a litigation frenzy by all sorts or private companies and citizens who get caught up in the 24 hour news cycle. No?

Thanks! So I’m guessing Von Miller would be considered an Edge whereas Bruce Smith was a DE? And if so how do you classify Groot, Boogie, and Epenesa?

It actually comes down to Code requirements for row spacing. If the rows are closer together (less deep) the Code requires that the exit aisles also be more closely spaced. If the rows are deep enough that people can pass by without you having to stand up then the aisles can be much farther apart. That’s called ‘continental seating’, and it’s what you see in modern movie theaters. It seems trivial but it makes a huge difference in seating capacity. For example, the old aluminum bench style seats in the original Rich Stadium were extremely efficient (no armrests) so they could fit many more seats per row. The same was true in all older stadiums dating back to the turn of the last century. The Orchard Park capacity naturally went way down when they installed new individual bucket seats. I’m guessing the new stadium will be ALL individual seats.

Honest question: I see defensive linemen listed as either DE or Edge in most mock drafts…what’s the distinction? Is a DE generally considered less of a pass rusher? Or is an Edge more of Linebacker? Or is it all about the alignment they typically played such as 4-3 or 3-4?

I’m not here to be at anyone’s throat. I’m here for the humorous takes on the seemingly endless number of topics I see being batted around every waking minute of every day. 😁

I’m assuming it’ll have to be steeper. When you build up out of the ground the entire facility needs to be more vertical to both reduce the footprint and stack the structure. That’ll help for those who have trouble seeing over the heads of fans who are standing in front of them.

Rich Stadium has good sight lines because it is a football-only facility, built into the ground without a roof, meaning that the first row can be closer to the field (no track, etc) and the grandstands are generally shallower without the need to be as vertical as in an above ground roofed structure.

I’m aware Tibs. But it must be based on something. This was not a case brought by the government as a means to a greater good. This was brought by one private company against another. I’d be curious to see how they proved the damage.

Not in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Having been to games in both stadiums, they are utterly fantastic!

Pardon for me not reading through all the chatter, but if I understand this case correctly the plaintiff, a private company that makes voting machines, sued because they believe their reputation was damaged? How exactly? Isn’t their primary customer base a bunch of left leaning government bureaucrats who’d have actually increased their sales if the alleged cheating had been true? Honest question…Did a government agency cancel a pending order for their product?

I’m not sure why this is complicated to anyone. You roam in the wilderness for years hoping against hope that by luck or good scouting you can find a QB worthy of paying the really big bucks. Once you have one you lock him into a long time contract and then spend the next decade roaming around that same wilderness but this trying to vacuum up mid level veterans and ‘under paid’ rookies just so you can afford to keep that QB. It’s really that simple. For almost twenty years the Bills were in the first stage of wilderness roaming and now they’re in the second. (Time to turn some draft picks into some on the field contributors! Get ‘er done!)

That’s ridiculous! What good is a downtown roof gonna be when the rest of the stadium’s in Orchard Park?

Weo…I live in California. Believe me when I say that my taxes have and will continue to be thoroughly and relentlessly ‘taken’. On that I feel your pain. If you follow the news we’ve been supposedly building a $10 BILLION bullet train for well over a decade and to date it has managed to travel absolutely nowhere. I therefore recommend you show them big time by going and sitting in that stadium for as many hours as is humanly possible. 👍