Lv-Bills

Well, I can't really argue anymore, because everyone is trying to act like it's still 1988 and that era of football. NFL football somewhere near LA will be a success because it's now "in" to be there, and people in LA love to be "in". That will be one of the strongest franchises going. Everyone knows it, they just don't want to admit it. Plus, anything not named the LA Coliseum will be just fine for those folks out there. Unfortunately, the NFL is becoming a money grubbing joke and an NFL team will thrive in a city like LA that isn't a good football town. It's how the NFL model is now set up. Maybe when the salary cap is gone, a league like the UFL will gain ground, and the 22 or so small markets in the NFL can move there and challenge a depleted NFL. Not gonna happen, but it would be cool, if another league could give the NFL a run.

There's no way in hell, LA has only 35,000 people in the stands for an NFL game. No way. And even if, for some reason, that would happen, they would still be generating more revenue, most likely, than 20 other teams in the league because of the prices they are going to be able to charge.

Even as an addition to this, Colin Cowherd (who I can't stand, but some reason I was listening) was talking about the hits on the actual ESPN website each day. It was last year during the NFL and MLB season. He said something ridiculous like NFL stories and pages get hit something like 5 million times a day. College football was second at like 1 million, followed by MLB with like 800,000. I wish I could remember the exact numbers, but I can't. It was something that drastic. I also remember Steve Czaban or whatever that guys name is talking about how hard it is to ever steer his talk shows away from the NFL any time of the year. He said it's almost like pulling teeth trying to get callers to talk about anything else but the NFL or to some lesser degree, college football. Football is about the only sport that has fringe viewers at this point.

Yeah, mainly because of the economy. Please. TV ratings are incredible. Other sports dont' even exist anymore compared to the NFL, and merchandise is through the roof. The TV contract is now unreal, NFL coverage dwarfs everything ALL year even in the off-season. There is the NFL, and there isn't a close second except maybe college football, which is outdrawing the MLB playoffs in the primetime. Neither are close to the NFL.

This is a whole different era than when LA had a team before. The NFL is more popular than ever, and games in LA will sellout easily. Everyone here acts like LA is the only team that struggled at the gate back then. Arizona's attendance was awful, Indianapolis was never on TV because of blackouts, and neither was Atlanta. This era of the NFL is more popular than ever, and LA will have no problem supporting a NFL team. None.

What's now kind of scary about this is that they are getting very brazen by claiming a team is coming there. The NFL hasn't denied it either. And, for some reason, the national media hasn't pressed this issue. And as crazy as this sounds, because supposedly they are already getting verbal commitments for suites with no problems, they might be even targeting TWO teams. There are now a few articles out there that they are targeting the Bills or Jags as team one, and the Chargers, Raiders or Niners as team two. They are supposedly planning a complex that will put Jerry Jones palace in it's place, and would like to fill all 17 weeks of the NFL season with games there. If some of you are still dumb enough to think LA isn't going to have a team in the near future, you are just hiding your head in the sand. Let's just hope it's the Jags.

Jets, Dolphins and Pats fans obviously.

One of the dumbest articles ever. That Monday Night Booth is terrific if you ask me.

Yep, they've been playing this for a couple of weeks on WGR. I was absolutely rolling when I first heard it. Great stuff.

I think Bell has played pretty well. The fact that he's hurt kind of hurts evaluating him, but I think he's done pretty well considering he was just thrown in there. Hell, he still may end up playing more games this year, than Peters played last year.

Voted - Still three.

I saw that, but I would have fired another 2 or 3 while he was walking away, just to let them know that I'd be bringing those questions to the next PC that they have.

I actually agree with this. He should have followed up those stupid answers with even more direct questions. They need to start going after Brandon too.

I stay over in Niagara alot of times too. Just make sure you remember, alot of people now forget, that you must have a passport or passport card to come back to the US.

Thanks for the help. Everything seems to be OK now. Maybe it was programming in my system after I called or something, who knows. I was extremely nervous only because I'm having a smallish 10 person tailgate this Sunday and just wanted to make sure it was in HD. I was reading some horror stories in week 2 of the season on some message boards. Anyway, thanks for making me feel better about it.

Damn, odd, now it's not there again. Now, I only have a 712 channel and no 712-1. UGH. LOL. If I just hit 712 on my remote it shows the Bills game in the HD channel. If I scroll through on my TV guide thing, it's not there. Direct TV is thoroughly pissing me off this year.

My model number of my receiver is: HD - H20-600 My Superfan just kicked back in and now I'm seeing the Bills HD game on 712-1 on my TV Guide thingamajig.

Fezzer, I know you are the DTV guru. I watched the Bills on MNF in week 1, and I have been to the last two home games in person, so I haven't watched my Sunday Ticket yet. Question..... I was one of the people that they cancelled the Superfan for, but I called today, luckily reading all the horror story articles about the Sunday Ticket starting in week 2. It's been restored. I'm still frightened that I don't have the right receiver to get the MPEG-4 signal or whatever it takes to get HD. I just have a standard HD receiver that I got about a year ago. How do I know that I have the right receiver to get the HD signal? My tv schedule is currently showing the Bills on channel 712 Sunday with no 712-1 for the HD signal of the game. Am I screwed this week?

It's nice to be right sometimes, and knowing that football isn't all that complicated a game that some people here make it out to be. I was dead on about what I saw last week at the game. From Peter King's GAME PLAN article today I quote from Sean Payton: Same thing with Williams' defense. The Saints are a base 4-3 defense, but in 61 defensive snaps against Buffalo last week, they ran zero 4-3 plays. Williams used three defensive lineman, sometimes in a base 3-4, and sometimes not, for three reasons: to cause confusion for a Buffalo line playing three first-year starters, to be more multiple against the Bills' no-huddle offense, and to be prepared to max-cover the Bills' downfield passing game. On 25 snaps, he used three down linemen with only two linebackers and six defensive backs. "I think we could have played eight quarters and Buffalo wouldn't have scored [an offensive touchdown],'' Sean Payton said this morning. New Orleans won 27-7, the only Bills' points coming on a touchdown pass on a fake punt. As I said in my post, the Saints doubled Evans and/or Owens on EVERY play last week. That's what max coverage is folks. As I said, I didn't watch the line, but they had our only two guys that could make plays blanketed. It sucks that our coaching staff couldn't counter. Seems like Trent is being very well prepared by his staff to me! Sickening.

No one has stopped the Saints offense all year. Fact. Why not take the ball, and make them play catchup once? Why would put the best offense in the NFL on the field right off the bat? I would have taken the ball, in this game only. The Saints unit that could dominate the game, in turn, got the ball, and set the tone of the game instead of us doing it. Seemed gutless to me.

Again, agreed. The routes sucked if you asked me, because nothing was quick. Everything took time to develop, and that doesn't work if you are doubled. And then yeah, Trent seemed rushed, so everything worked in tandem to create failure. I'm only stating what I saw out there with my own eyes. No one was able to solve it, and that was the sickening part.

When he decided to defer to the second half and give the best offense in the NFL the ball first yesterday? I mean, I'm sure he deferred, because it's "what every coach does". Seriously though, the Bills win the toss, and we give them the ball. The best offense in the league effectively takes the ball, shove it up our asssses, and take the crowd right out of the game. Would anyone else have taken the ball first, besides me? This may be a bad question now that everyone knows how bad the offense played, but seriously, why would you give the ball to the Saints out of the gate?

I'm guessing, but I'm pretty sure that's why the Bills stayed in that two WR set most of the time, because it took away the safeties from run support. I can't remember which drive it was, but I think it was the one out of the gate in the second half where Jackson was having success, because the Saints had their safeties so far back. I think that was the one. I don't even want to think about the 4th down call, hell I just wanted to get this off my chest. I thought about it the whole 9 hour drive home! LOL I like this team.....I hate this staff.

Agreed. I'm just saying that's pretty much what our boys couldn't solve yesterday. It happened ALL game long. I don't agree on TO's laziness though. Run your friggin routes every play.