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Back Water is right. That discussion centered on how Josh can't rely on film during the game planning/practice process. He mentioned for example, that he would see something on film and expect the rush to come from the right, when in actuality, because teams play the Bills differently, the exact opposite could occur.

I stand corrected. It appears that the theme parks and resorts drove revenue this quarter. Charter is also making money. So I have no sympathy or patience for either of them.

They both lose. Neither side is blameless in this. Having said that, Disney has stretched itself too thin, losing money on their myriad projects. They want to make it up in TV revenue. Charter loses credibility when they constantly raise rates of the consumers, so their arguments also wear thin. I'm p'od at them both.

I'm not so much worried about the Bills game since I'm a local. However, I am a huge college football fan and this skirmish between Spectrum and Disney is ruining my bliss. I spent a good part of my morning and afternoon putting together a spreadsheet with all the Streaming services and their channel line ups to see what I would miss if I switch from Spectrum and move to another service. No service gives me everything I got with Spectrum. The closest is Direct TV streaming, but there are tradeoffs with every service. In addition to the sports channels, I love the History channel and locally MSG where I watch One Bills Live and an occasional Sabres game. MSG is only available on Fubo and Direct TV...but I could just listen to it on WGR radio. History channel I found is available along with a number of other channels on a service called FRNDLY TV for only $6.99 per month...so I could work around it's absence on Fubo and YouTube. My point is that this exercise simply makes you think about your TV viewing habits and opens your thought pattern to other options should push come to shove. In doing that, platforms like Spectrum run the risk of folks realizing they could easily bail and go elsewhere, especially since they have eliminated much of the bundles of the past. Disney likely won't lose customers if they transfer to other platforms, but some may also think twice and just do without. The longer this dispute goes on, the more one sees how much they miss the Disney and ESPN channels. College football is on more than just ESPN. Last night, I watched on Fox, CBS Sports, and PAC12 and watched some pretty good football.

If you're using your ESPN plus login it won't be blacked out. If you normally login using Spectrum as your TV provider, you won't have access.

I was watching the NC state v UCONN game on CBSSports and switched to ESPN for Florida v Utah only to find a blank screen. It took a few minutes to realize it was a Spectrum Disney dispute that impacts a lot of channels I watch on Spectrum. Coming at the beginning of college football season really bites. Spectrum just raised prices too. Both Disney and Spectrum are to blame with us customers caught in the crosshairs. Hopefully it will get resolved soon. Either way Spectrum will raise our prices, as will all the streaming services. So for tonight, I'm between CBSS and Fox (which is showing Nebraska v Minnesota).

He still has to take his physical with the team. Beane mentioned he is coming.

DJ Dale was not on the confirmed Bills list. I think he was reported in error.

I think we also have to take into account where the Bills draft relative to these top ten picks. The Bills draft in the 20's when many of the "sure fire" picks are long gone.

They aren't exactly in midseason form when it comes to website updates.

I believe they do.

Yes. It must have been a reporting error. We signed Vickers to the PS not DJ Dale. Both are DTs. I was surprised when I saw Dales over Vickers. Vickers had a better camp from what I understand. So...we officially have 14 on the PS with 2 vacancies. One for Kirksey and the other for the QB.

Beane mentioned they are working on signing a QB. Kirksey needs to take his physical, that will put 15 on the PS with one vacancy. 16 total.

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Doesn't surprise me at all. Watched their last preseason game and he played late into the second half. Doesn't get separation in his routes. He's not crisp.

According to Beane during his interview on Saturday, Bernard will be back soon. Temporarily. He'll be back tomorrow after they stow Shorter on the IR.

There was a woman who called into One Bills Live today (She goes by the name of Marie and is a regular caller.) She suggested all of this and of course, Brown and Tasker disagreed.

Beane is "damned if he does and damned if he doesn't" on this board. Boogie was playing well in the preseason...but against second and third string players. No one liked the Epenesa or Basham picks...because neither of these guys were Von Miller. However, if you watched college football, both were solid pass rushers and were predicted to go in the top 3 rounds of the draft. For the Bills, we rotate our lineman, so we need depth on the D line (which BTW at the time was devoid of players). When we got Floyd in the off season, that meant likely not all of our current pass rushers would make the team...even with Von on PUP. So we trade Basham...who has been maligned as a wasted pick...but not for anything great. (If he hasn't been that great, what would you expect?) Had we just released him, folks would have complained we should have traded him "and gotten something for him." So Beane did trade him and freed up a bit of cap space in the process. Beane is not perfect...but I'm still happy he is our GM. This team is better because of him...not worse...even with "failed" draft picks.

Chris Brown actually said the source (which I actually saw on Twitter) was not anyone he had heard of and questioned the reliability. However I do agree that both he and Tasker concluded it would likely be Miami...and pretty much for the reason you cited.

Sanders has been sidelined with a groin injury. I'm not certain Hubbard or Blackshear could carry the backfield if Sanders goes down.

Phins are definitely in the mix. I'm just spit balling but do you think Frank Reich would like him in Carolina to benefit his young QB?

So you put him on the practice squad, and say he still needs more time in his recovery.

I'd keep Cam Lewis over Damar Hamlin at this point. As much as we loved Damar, he was awful versus the Bears, missing tackles left and right. Lewis gives us more flexibility and is a harder hitter when tackling.

I'd take a 3rd or 4th to take Peterman off their hand.

Some guy...who knows...obvious dolphin fan, posted on Twitter.