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Browns @ Bills R 23 Jerome Boger U 115 Tony Michalek HL 24 Tom Stabile LJ 123 Ed Walker FJ 43 Terry Brown SJ 56 Allen Baynes BJ 112 Tony Steratore

Granville Island Lions Winter Ale. Tried this on a trip up to BC last month and really liked it.

... or, why not do it in Cleveland on Monday night? Cleveland is closer to Buffalo than Detroit...

Week 8 - Bills @ Jets - WIN Week 10 - KC @ Buff - LOSS Week 11 - Bills @ Fish - WIN Week 12 - Jets @ Bills - WIN Week 13 - Browns @ Bills - WIN Week 14 - Bills @ Denver - LOSS Week 15 - Packers @ Bills - LOSS Week 16 - Bills @ Oakland - WIN Week 17 - Bills at NE* - LOSS

Walt "Just give it to 'em" Coleman...

Safety alert...

Manuel's accuracy and vision are both terrible. The OL isn't helping him but even when he has time, he has neither of those things. I don't see how anyone could say he is a legitimate answer to our QB problem.

My lord, will either of these teams be able to do anything but punt?

It was in HD for me on DirecTV... it's either your affiliate's fault, or TW's fault. Not CBS or the NFL.

This game seems so similar to this one: http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=281019002 Let's hope the result is the same, but the rest of the season turns out a lot differently...

He played well enough to win today, which I think is a major step forward for this team. But, I'm a little concerned that the offense couldn't score touchdowns in the red zone today. You can't kick 5 short-range field goals (and miss another) against a good team and expect to win.

I'd like to see more touchdowns, but what we are seeing is encouraging if they can keep it up week after week.

Ummm.... am I the only one looking at that play and wondering if Watkins fumbled out into the end zone?

These announcers are HORRIBLE. They keep messing up down and distance, keep confusing Spiller with Dixon, and have called the "Bears" the "Bills" on a number of occasions. I mean honestly you could get two random guys off the street and they'd be better than these two clowns.

In the "old" days of 8-10 years ago, I felt like there was a lot more leeway given to posters with respect to creating new threads. I actually liked this a lot, because other forums that I used to frequent (NYYFans, anyone?) turned into 3 or 4 stream-of-consciousness megathreads. It was always a struggle to get news and gauge reaction to it, because you'd end up starting at the end of the thread, and then go back 5-6 pages until you found the first post that broke a particular news story. I can't tell you how much I hate doing that - you end up reading a bunch of comments that 'spoil' the original post you're looking for and it's extremely disincentivizing to do. I'd much rather click on a new thread entitled "Trump drops out of the bidding" instead of needing to click on the "Sale of the team" thread, and then sort through all the irrelevant posts that aren't related to Trump, and then find the post about Trump dropping his bid, if it even exists yet. If there are two clearly duplicate threads? Sure, close/merge the dupes. But, threads still need to have granularity to them if you want to encourage discussion... otherwise yeah, no one is going to bother clicking through mega threads to find the bits and pieces of conversations they'd like to read and contribute to.

I'd be totally fine if they sold the name. Rich Stadium, anyone? Has a certain ring to it.

As has been said in a number of other threads, Pegula initially threw a lot of money at the Sabres, in the hopes that it'd translate into wins. Think Villie Leino and Christian Ehrhoff. He then doubled down on Darcy only to find out that he was one of the problems. The whole LaFontaine thing was pretty bizarre too. I think he realized his mistakes and has them on the right path. Build through the draft, get a good group of core players, pay them if they're good. Supplement that with some solid FA signings once that core is together. I've been happy with Murray so far and I think he was a good choice for GM. With respect to the Bills... I think he leaves the current administration in place to the end of the season. I think Russ is canned no matter what, but Marrone/Whaley's jobs lie with Manuel. I think Terry sticks with them if Manuel demonstrates solid consistency throughout the season. Otherwise I see him cleaning house and starting fresh.

I guess Crayonz, Sammy, and Carl have been busy in their absence from TBD? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2672636/Get-ready-Googlebot-Search-giant-start-selling-humanoid-robo-firefighter-winning-military-robo-olympics-contest.html

I took that train once from Albany. It was a terrible experience - you ended up meeting it at 6am at Albany/Rensselaer and got to the stadium at about a half hour before kickoff via a bus transfer from the Transit Rd station. Then you got right back on to the bus after the game, fought traffic, and took the train back - arriving back in Albany around midnight. The number of drunken fools on that train trip back... my lord... After that, while I still lived in the area, we always drove to the game. Got back around 10pm instead of midnight and didn't need to deal with a ton of riff raff.

We'll see. This is the same guy that spent $7B on aQuantive (and subsequently took a $7B charge on earnings a few years ago as a direct result of this purchase) and wanted to buy Yahoo for $39B back in 2009 (current market cap = $34B). There were a ton of other deals that he made that were duds - I could go through the list but each one was a dud. He's a nice guy - he works out at the pro club in Bellevue with the regular joe-type employees and he ate in the cafe with us... but a good businessman, he is not.

Ballmer is a doofus. I work at Microsoft and have seen his handiwork - he had no business being CEO. He got the position solely because of his connections to Bill Gates. God only knows how he managed to stay for 13 years as CEO. The difference in culture at the company since Satya Nadella took over has been striking - a breath of fresh air. I don't see why his management of the Clippers would be any different. The stupidity begins with the $2B bid for the team.

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I gave him a 'D' based on the team's on-field performance. I don't doubt RB's effort. I don't buy the "Russ is cheap" talk (more like Littman is cheap). I think Russ is a good man. If I was judging him solely on his desire and work to keep the franchise in Buffalo, the grade would be higher. But I don't think you can excuse him from the team's poor performance over the last 5 or 6 years. Tom Donahoe was hated by many, including myself, but that game we blew against the Steelers' scrubs in week 17 of 2004 was Donahoe's team and is the closest we have been to the playoffs since the RJ/Flutie era. Brandon's teams haven't gotten to anywhere near that level of success (i.e. controlling your own destiny, even if you fail to clinch, in Week 17). I think a lot of the blame has gone on the coaching and while that blame is deserved, there are several decisions made by RB that have negatively impacted our ability to compete: - Bills in Toronto Series - Team has a ton of dead cap space tied up in players like Fitz. - Inability to sign top FA talent, particularly in the secondary (Clements, Greer, Byrd come to mind). - Making large, "splash" type moves with the little cash Littman gives him. Example number one in my mind is the Terrell Owens signing. - Spending Ralph's money on extending Jauron's contract mid-season. - We still do not have a legitimate, proven, franchise quarterback. The last time we even had a proven quarterback on the roster was ten years ago with Drew Bledsoe. Again, I don't think Brandon is a evil guy like Donahoe. I think he wants to win... but I haven't seen any evidence that things are changing. I feel like the Watkins move is another "splash" - in my mind you only trade to the top 5 of the draft if you're drafting a franchise QB. Watkins is a good player but I wouldn't have spent two #1 picks on him. In my mind, Brandon's job depends on the success of Watkins and the team as a whole... and while I hope the team performs, I still "haven't see the baby" so to speak.

Really hate this trade. Giving up next year's #1 when Evans would have been available at 6 or 7 is foolish. We very likely traded two top-10 picks for #4.

BILLS TRADE WITH CLE!