dorquemada

You're right. I hate to say it, but the Bills built a better team just selecting 7 DBs every year.

Correct, but they won't. Not because TP is afraid to make a move, but because it'll make Buffalo a toxic destination for the kind of coach we would want to lure here, and we'd end up with another Marrone. Mind you, I'd take last year's coaching staff over this one. Last year we wont most of the games we were supposed to, except for maybe the Oakland game. I also just realized looking at last year's record, we had a .500 or above record all season. Rex is quantifiably worse than Marrone.

old blighty

Can't seem to answer the single question I asked, well done. When the waitress asks if you want soup or salad, do you call her a lazy stupid ass? It's a good defense mechanism for someone who can't understand words and context. ok well I withdraw this comment based on your last post. Long day at work today dealing with govt employees

You're spot on. The NFL gauges success by a single metric, all else to the side. That metric is, how much money did we make? If DTV pays the NFL $1.5b per year for the Sunday ticket (number from memory, could be wrong?) that basically means that each game played is around $3m. If Yahoo or google or Amazon offered them $3m and one cent per game, I can tell you exactly what they would do, and wouldn't lose a moment of sleep in doing it. The best hope is that the streaming is otherwise a disaster (tech issues, lots of complaints about the quality of the stream, whatever) and that they think better of it, but I think it would have to be a really bad reaction for the league to stop going down this path. Sure, for people who are already set up to stream, or for the sociopaths that actually want to watch the game on their phone. Maybe I'm an outlier, but most people I know who are NFL fans want to watch on a TV and want to keep the screwing around with the TV/laptop/new device to a minimum.

Wow you're something. Let's use 2 examples, maybe you're a visual learner; Family 1: Long time Bills fans, live in Denver, CO. Have had DTV and Sunday ticket for 10 years. Not huge media consumers, but like watching football. Do not have a firestick, Roku, Chromecast, etc. The do have a previous generation gaming console. Family 1 is used to seeing what time the game is on, and either recording it, or planning on being in front of TV. Family 1 sees that game is on early Sunday (weird!) but, doesn't quite catch that it isn't on TV. They turn on the TV Sunday morning and lo and behold, damnit no game. Quick look at your phone and see what channel it's on. Oh wow look it's streaming on yahoo.com. Gee honey can we do that on our TV? I really want to watch the game. Welp, I'm not sure! Let me see, oh the PS3 is saying it needs to do a system update to get onto the PS NEtwork. (45 min later) ok it looks like we can get online. Point the browser at yahoo.com Oh look it needs a different plugin that isn't supported on the Sony browser. You know what, eff it, lets go out to breakfast instead. Lather, rinse, repeat a million times. Family 2: klos63, generally unpleasant personality, tends to watch games by himself, doesn't mind making his living room look like a server room, damnit the cat stepped on my laptop and paused the stream now I have to get up and there's potato chips all over the floor, but I can be smugly self satisfied that this is way better than just turning on Directv and watching the game, like most people have done for the last 20 years Now, do you think there are more NFL watching households that match Family 1, or Family 2?

Weird it's almost as if we've already accounted for those people...who already have a TV and dish and sunday ticket, and watch like most people do, but now when they go to turn the game on Sunday morning will be told to "click on yahoo.com" we should just give them you're number, you seem like you're a really smart guy, brimming with answers. For people who are already set up to stream content over IP, yeah, sure. That's not most people. It WILL be most people, in a few years, but I expect that come mid day Sunday there's going to be a lot of pissed of fans that weren't able to watch the game (or, might have been able to, but tried for a minute or two and said the hell with it). I don't think it's a mistake that the NFL let yahoo stream the game between the Jags and Bills, will probably keep the interested parties to a minimum.

So you're as bad at reading as you are at posting. "Oh, just go buy a firestick, oh, just plug your laptop into your TV" sure why now, that's all way better than just turning the TV on. My point was, and I believe I expressed it clearly, though for the remedial reading crowd I guess not clearly enough, this is dumb to add a bunch of steps for the average fan to watch the game. If you think the average NFL fan, particularly those who aren't tech savvy, are prepared to watch the game on Sunday, you're nuts. My parents, who are 300 miles away, will not watch the game, unless the go to a neighbors house who are already set up with streaming apparatus. Sorry this is so hard for you to understand, I'll type slower next time.

No, I'm actually a Senior Systems Engineer, I suspect I've forgotten more about tech then you're likely to ever know, particularly when it comes to IP and what goes into globe spanning data network. Thanks for asking though, punk.

Does Yahoo have a 'channel' on fireTV? Most of the time devices like that are pointed at things like netflix, youtube, so on, but don't have a browser function. Maybe the newer ones do? Right, again, *I* can do that, and YOU can do that. I don't expect my parents are up for the hassle. By virtue of the fact that we're on an internet forum, there's a certain level of technical sophistication present. There are a lot of people that wouldn't know 16:9 from a hole in the ground, much less HDMI and signal splitting. The NFL has made watching this game sh1ttier by any rational standard.

Yeah I have a browser on my smart TV and the PS4 has one as well. The problem with a lot of web streaming is they require proprietary plugins to the browser... that wont work on TV based browsers typically just IE, Chrome, and Firefox, maybe iOS Safari. I'll boldly predict a lot of frustrated and pissed people Sunday morning.

yeah sweet it'll be like working another 3 hours...sitting at a desk watching a monitor, way better than my leather couch and 65" 4k tv

full disclosure, I work for AT&T, but have *no* insider info when it comes to plans with DTV and the Sunday Ticket. I work in the Government Services segment so don't have any direct exposure to the plans on consumer... having said that.... The model seems to be now to chop content up into easily digestible pieces that can be streamed to any connected device, and offered ala carte. These days, a connected device can be anything from a smartphone to a TV to a tablet to a PC. I believe we'll see, in the next few years,not only a full PPV model for NFL games on a freemium basis, but an escalating price model based on popularity of the team/game. The freemium piece might be, you can watch the entire game in low def for 'free' or maybe the 1st quarter in HD, then have to pay for the rest, or to get it in HD. You might also pay more to watch cowboys/giants than bills/jags. I can see why my employer would want to do this. AT&T hasn't lasted 140ish years by losing money. I hate the whole thing though. I don't want to stream the game, and watch it on my ipad. That sucks. How am supposed to watch the game this Sunday with my family? nobody wants to sit around a 10" ipad, so maybe everyone watches it on their own ipad. yeah, very social, and having 4 full def streams going over my broadband connection should work just great. On that note, I'm not going to watch on Sunday. I'm thinking the game will suck anyways, and I don't really want to disrupt my normal sunday morning routine just to be disappointed again.

The Bills success this year was mostly predicated on the Defense. Fix that and we're fine. I mean, Rex is saying the right things (my defense isn't working, blah blah blah) but can a tiger change it's stripes?

lol. Marrone's only successful mindgame ever, against his former team. What if Marrone tried the double reverse psychology, and mouthed "mess up" to EJ... I think EJ short circuits and we'll see a puff of smoke above his head

Oh, please, not that! let me try again... THE BILLS WONT LOSE AGAIN THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR TEAM AND HAVE SO MUCH TALENT THAT OTEHR TEAMS SHOULD JUST PANIC AND FORFEIT THE GAMES

Basically if the Jags show up, they can count on the Bills penalties outgaining the Bills O. EJ's soft spot is that he cant carry the team on his back, which he'll have to do because even though the Jags are terrible, they'll be able to score at will against Bills ricepaper thin D

meh. if, if, if, if, if. the bills hired a dopey coach and have a roster full of delicate flowers. if they win 3 more this season, we should all consider it a success.

If the queen had 2 balls, she'd be the king

I for one am really glad that we kept Hogan around. He's not made of crystalized sugar and gentle winds like the rest of the receiving corps (ok not robert woods). That and he catches everything throw at him.

The difference is the Bills have a coach who obv. hit his head hard at some point in the preseason. Thats an injury that's hard for the rest of the team to overcome

A good example of somebody attempting to quantify something, but completely borking the relationship between the variables. This is what Statistics is class that never has any journalism students in it.

I agree, we should let Sammy play on the DL

This really is a litmus test game. If the Bills come out strong, and don't make a lot of dumb mistakes and penalties, I think 9-7 is probably achievable. If they look lifeless, except for when they're committing field-flipping personal fouls, then I think probably 6-10 is the best we'll get this year, or any year under coach Rex

Over the last 15 years, nothing helps a team get well better than playing the Bills