SoCal Deek

Must be a decent length line of players and their agents queued up in the corridor outside of Beane’s office.

McD like all employees has one goal…staying employed. The status of his position is up to Pegula. And from what I’ve seen between the Bills and Sabres I’m guessing Terry doesn’t want to rock the Bills boat right now.

Okay that’s it! Nobody gets to defend Rex Ryan! That’s a bridge too far. 😂

Correct! I know he’s offering his spin. I find it amusing what he chose to spin about. You on the other hand jump to his defense every single time.

How is this thread limited to what he said to the media when he specifically commented about his play calling? I expect spin from EVERY coach. Even from the last place team. Based on your take we cannot comment on the coach because what he says in an interview is strictly off limits.

Shaw…I couldn’t give a rats butt what he says to the media.

In a word….YIKES! The ‘problem’ is in the eye of the beholder Shaw. If fans want to get to and/or win a Super Bowl then there’s most definitely a problem from their perspective. Am I having more fun winning more than losing? Sure! The problem is I’ve grown weary of the same level of achievements. While I’m willing to gamble on the HC change before we reach the expiration date on our Franchise QB, you (and others) clearly aren’t.

Let’s see if I understand it: The Team enters into a 4 year, $40 million contract with a player, but they agree to pay him only $5 million for each of the first two seasons instead of the $10 million it averages out to. If the two sides agree to either part ways or the player is cut, the Team still owes him the remaining $5m for each of those first two years, and therefore that remaining $10m would count against the next year's cap even though he’s no longer on the Team.

Bingo! I had a Business Partner who’d consistently return from new project interviews and report that he came in second…again. He was very well intentioned in his efforts but consistently one step behind the competition. His preparation was excellent but when it came to being in the moment he simply had a problem ‘closing the deal’.

I’ve said it many times on here. I believe McDs heart is in the right place but he keeps failing in the critical moments year after year. It’s just possible that he’s plateaued at the playoff contender level we’ve all witnessed. Good, of course, but not great. You eventually run out of seasons and excuses for failing to get over the hump. And, I have no idea why the fake punt even enters the conversation. It had NOTHING to do with why they lost that game. So I’ll continue to cheer like crazy as I have for the last 60 seasons but I don’t sense that the current brain trust is ascending towards anything much more than we’ve seen over the past few years. Again, really good, and very fun, but not great.

Was I not clear?

What I read in McDs comments is that he is out of ideas. Feels to me like his strategy is to go another season hoping our opponent screws up at our time of need.

Yikes! All I can add is that NEITHER the Bills or Chiefs are dependent on their punter to win them football games. They just aren’t.

It’s been a lot more fun than the drought years but I have literally zero expectations of them making a Super Bowl (let alone winning one) under the current leadership group. So I’m just enjoying the Regular Season success.

What Frank Reich doing next season?

Aren’t we landing on the moon today?

Terry has his hands full with the Sabres. I got to watch the game yesterday against the Ducks as it was televised out here in SoCal. That team is an utter mess…..still! Unbelievable

I’d be looking at the D Line coach with a magnifying glass. We cannot keep drafting these guys and then dumping them back on the street year after year. Groot has all the tools to be a very good NFL edge rusher. And I’d say the same for Epinesa. Neither of these were small school ‘project’ picks. Who’s teaching these young men how to adapt their skill set to the NFL? (For what it’s worth, AJE was a beast in college and then some genius at OBD told him to shed 100 pounds.)

I'm no Cap expert, but this version of the Bills is not like the drought-era version where it was clear that guys were coming to WNY for an easy pay-day with little, to no chance of football success. Fast forwarding to 2024.....There's something wrong somewhere in the Locker Room, Front Office, or Coaching Staff if/when guys like Diggs don't want to play in Buffalo where a playoff run is a virtual lock. So, I'm of the mindset to keep him, along with the rest of the already under-contract 'talent', reworking their contracts, with the Front Office convincing these veterans that reducing today's paycheck allows the Team to acquire more talent around them, while spreading their compensation over a longer number of tax years. A true win-win.

I will say it again. The Bills had the ball in Chiefs territory late in the Fourth Quarter...at home, with the chance to take the lead and go to the Championship Game. Milano would've been on the bench, along with the rest of the defense. The Bills (and their coaching staff) had one job to do at that critical moment....keep the damn ball, and not give it back to Mahomes. They failed once again! Our injuries had nothing to do with it. You cannot go back and relitigate the entire season. They were right where they wanted to be in the end.

You want Congress to investigate the NFL? For what exactly? The NFL, like other sports leagues, operates somewhat differently from other business models, for sure, but they still exist in a basic capitalist environment. I suggest you think of the NFL as a chain of franchised restaurants; not as 32 separate, competing restaurants. And while it might seem that they have a monopoly in a specific location, that's also not true. For example, just a few years ago, the LA market had no teams, and now the 'Corporate Office' decided that they would have two. As we've seen, Teams not unlike franchise restaurants, are opening and closing locations quite regularly based on the perceived market.

With that logic why not limit seating to 30,000? It’s a balancing act just like it is for other businesses that rely on seating….like restaurants, movie theaters, etc

With very exceptions the days of super large stadiums have pretty much gone extinct. The movement is towards a better experience with a smaller capacity. And that’s all because of the television contracts you cite. This isn’t difficult to understand.

I’m not sure I agree. The price of tickets is more related to the price people are willing to pay for them than it is to the price of the stadium itself. I mean what’s to keep the Bills from raising prices now, in the ‘old’ stadium? It’s not like there’s another place that a WNY fan can go see an NFL game. And what good does it do the team to play in an empty new stadium?

It’ll be a significant improvement over the current stadium as the end zones aren’t open. The entire new stadium is taller and much more enclosed.