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I always laugh when teams insist on playing sound effects over the PA when the team is playing like crap. Nothing like hearing that bell for a first down when you're down 56-10 late in the fourth quarter against the Patriots on Sunday Night Football almost ten years ago.

Pegula is a Western Pennsylvanian... if you think he isn't taking this loss hard, think again.

Hunter was wide open on that play...

I'm all for firing Rex tonight, but you're going to have to fire Rob, and Thurman is Rex's lackey. So, who runs the defense for three weeks? Ed Reed is another Rex guy... is there anyone on staff that could do it for three weeks?

I really do wonder if they can beat Cleveland.

Can we please get a grass field, Terry?

This is an embarrassment...

Please fire Rex now...

If they lose today... I don't see why you wouldn't start Cardale Jones. Cleveland is the weakest team in the league, if he's going to play any team that gives him the best chances of success, it's that one.

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By that point, we will have been eliminated from playoff contention. That's when the Bills win to lower their draft position, silly.

I do wonder... what would the trade market be like for TT? What do you think other teams would offer for him?

Watkins can't stay healthy. You can certainly make the case that Taylor's lack of accuracy forces his players into situations where they expose their bodies to injury... but yeah, if the guy isn't consistently playing, he isn't good enough.

Taylor has decent leadership skills and can run with the football, but he can't identify open receivers and his accuracy is garbage. His major improvement over Fitz is that he won't lose you the game with costly turnovers... but he isn't going to win you the game with his arm. I don't think the jury is still out on him - he is an average quarterback that won't lead a team to the playoffs on his own. He needs a dominant defense or a multitude of skill players on offense to get the team to the playoffs - McCoy alone won't cut it and Watkins isn't good enough. I think they should bring him back next year, but I also think they should draft someone and bring in a FA to compete for the job.

You have to be successful on both challenges to be awarded a third challenge.

Past Bills teams would have lost a game like this - one that's in late November, against an inferior opponent, and at home. It was great to see them win this type of game for a change. Oakland will be an interesting test for them - it is the hardest game left on their schedule. If they find a way to win next Sunday, I think they have a decent chance to snag that sixth wild card slot.

Vegas could support an NFL franchise but I question the ability of the team to attract local fans. It'll be another strip attraction like Celine Dion, Blue Man Group, etc. You will get people in Vegas for the weekend but how many local fans are you going to attract? It's a transient town that sees a lot of people moving in and out. Until a domed stadium is built, I really question their ability to attract people for preseason and early regular season games... having visited in August when the temperature was 110, you'd have to pay me large sums of money to sit out in the stands in the sun to watch a game. The preseason games could be played at night, but unless they plan on playing the first few weeks of the regular season in primetime when it begins to cool off, I think it's going to be a really hard sell.

The most powerful position in the Bills front office... you get to dictate the annual marketing gimmick to the GM to get the fans excited!

You don't live in Seattle. After having put up with this crap during Pete Carroll's tenure, I frankly hate the Seahawks more than I do the Patriots*. It all started with the fake punt in Toronto for me.

Simple, the tickets aren't expensive enough. I've lived in the PNW for the last 10 years or so. I'm going to the MNF game next week at CenturyLink. I paid over $350 for each seat, they are lower deck seats around the 25 yard line, about 20 rows up from the field. The cheapest seats (standing room only) are going for $200 a pop. The Bills aren't exactly a hot ticket here, either. MNF draws a few people, but otherwise, it's an obscure opponent that hasn't been in town for 12 years. In Buffalo, for a similar caliber game (vs Steelers), those 25 yd line seats are going for about $150 less, at $200 each. The cheapest seats are under $100. If you raise the price, it will weed out the riff raff that permeate the stadium. The problem the Pegulas face is that they will price out legitimate fans in the process.

I wondered the same thing... in the past, these threads usually had defenders of the crazy behavior. Not so much anymore. I will say, however, that the stadium experience in the club seating is a lot safer and far more enjoyable. The price of the tickets weeds out the lowlifes, and the drunks that do make it in are of the happy and fun-loving variety rather than the angry and violent ones. The ticket holders tend older and are life-long fans; I've had great conversations about the Bills with random people in the club lounge area several times. If you sit outside in your seat, rather than in the club, you still feel like you're part of the action.

I would wager to guess that both the woman and the man were drunk, or at least, I would hope they were. This kind of stuff is sadly not a rare thing at Bills home games. I'm not a teetotaler, I'm a fan of craft beer, wine, and liquor, but the repeated incidents at Bills games are clear cases of alcohol abuse by alcoholics. It's just a matter of time before the team gets sued over a serious incident. The team could fix this by: - Denying entry to anyone obviously intoxicated. Strictly enforce this. Use a portable breathalyzer for anyone that denies it. - Ban consumption of alcohol in the parking lots, and have either Erie County or the Town of Orchard Park pass an ordinance to ban outdoor alcohol consumption in the surrounding private parking lots on game days. I really don't want to see this, but I don't know what the alternative is. WNY's drinking culture is a big part of the reason why this is happening. - Further raise the price of alcohol to limit demand.

Make that 2-8 in games officiated by a crew led by John Parry. Penalty situation went down exactly as I suspected.

I know it is not the popular opinion, but with the current jerseys looking so similar to the throwbacks (don't get me wrong, I love the current uniform), I'd love to see them switch the throwback set back to the 1990s uniform.

John Parry is not who I would have hoped for... the Bills are 2-7 in games he has officiated as a referee. His crews tend to call ticky-tack penalties on both teams. This does not favor undisciplined teams like the Bills. Random fact: Jeff Seeman is the son of former NFL referee Jerry Seeman, who officiated Super Bowl XXV.