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Albany,n.y.

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  1. He won't be the same, he'll be better with his rookie season experience behind him.
  2. In my pool this week I took Pittsburgh over Jacksonville. We have 36 left & the most popular games are the LAC over Jets (18) & Minnesota over Dallas (10). The reason Pittsburgh was so low was only 6 of us had Pittsburgh left to use. I was going to use them 2 weeks ago but once SF got hit with all their injuries & Covid I used GB against the Niners on the Thursday night game.
  3. This week's choice in Albany is unbelievable. The teams that get support in Albany, in order are Giants, Jets, Bills & Patriots. So you'd think with 2 of the top 4, we'd either get the Patriots-Houston game at 1, or as in past years when they weren't 0 for, we'd definitely get the Jets at 4. No-we're also getting Pittsburgh/Jacksonville at 1 with no Jets game at 4. The good news is it looks like our local CBS station has abandoned the Jets and we'll get the Bills/Chargers game next week & it bodes well for the final vs the Dolphins. It looks like all the rest of the games will be broadcast across the nation.
  4. I didn't get to WNY until 1971, so Maguire was before my time, but my best memory of him was in 1986 he was on the NBC pregame show. At one point in the season the Jets were 10-1, and he said they wouldn't win another game that season. The Jets lost their final 5 games and every week Maguire would get an I told you so moment.
  5. Last year I took a bus trip to opening day at the Jets. A Jets fan in front of me started criticizing Josh with the usual inaccurate stuff. I got so mad I told him Josh would end up in the Hall of Fame.
  6. My sister is 72 and has lived with the same guy for about 22 years. I doubt she or any football players would be interested in dating each other.
  7. My favorite draft guru Dave Te' Thomas had Josh as the best QB prospect of 2018: https://www.bigblueview.com/2018/4/21/17264242/nfl-draft-report-josh-allen-cream-of-quarterback-crop-2018-nfl-draft-sam-darnold-josh-rosen Cream of the Crop -- Josh Allen, Wyoming While Allen is likely to go high in the draft, this projection is based on his pro football potential. Yes, there are still quite a few rough edges to work out, and those that compare him to Carson Wentz are missing the boat (Wentz is much more advanced), but he does have a Joe Flacco-like arm and the Matt Ryan ability to change a game with his arm. All he needs is patient coaching.
  8. Yes, it was a force out. I was thinking of those other 2 games too, I was in the same seats all three games. At least you can't say I jinxed the Bills yesterday. I was thousands of miles away.
  9. In 1977 I lived a mile and a half north of the stadium. I went to the 1st 2 home games of the season & got drenched walking home in at least one of them . The Bills were horrible that year & I didn't go to any more games. I used to go to Hamburg to do laundry on Sundays with a radio to listen to the game. I would drive past the stadium & it was pretty empty those Sundays in 1977.
  10. I was in the stands, sitting in the opposite endzone club level seats. We left the stadium pretty dejected.
  11. You can't have a top 10 without opening day September 12, 2004 vs Jacksonville. Bills up 10-6 with 2:18 left. They're at Jags 33 and instead of letting Lindell try a 50 yard FG, Mularkey chooses to punt and take a 5 yard delay of game penalty to move the ball back to the 38. Moorman fails to hit it inside the 10 & the Jags start at the 20 yard line. With 1:18 to go the Jags are 4th & 14 on their own 34 when Clements let Jimmy Smith catch a 45 yard pass to the Bills 21. Eventually the Jags get 4th & goal from the 7 with 4 seconds left. Leftwich hits Wilford on the last play of the game for a TD with 0:00 left and the Bills lose.
  12. The Giants are getting better every week. This is not unusual when a rookie coach comes in and has a slow start and then things start to turn around. I think they have a decent shot to win the NFC Least.
  13. The Steelers & Bills are lucky: Both teams had franchise QBs fall in their laps. Pittsburgh had a bad season and got lucky the year they drafted Roethlisberger because Bills GM Tom Donahoe wanted him but could not trade up ahead of Pittsburgh. My guess is he just wasn't offering enough. When it comes to getting the QB you want, a smart GM does whatever it takes & Doesn't worry about draft value formulas. Donahoe failed, much to the delight of his former team. The Bills man all along was Josh Allen. They got lucky when the Giants went RB at #2 in the 2018 draft. That made it possible for the Jets to draft Darnold. If the Giants draft Darnold, the Jets draft one of the 2 Joshs. Maybe they pick Rosen, but we'll never know. The Jets had to go QB that draft after the trade up. So the Bills get doubly lucky & shoot for pick 7 after a deal with Denver falls through at pick 5 because they wanted Chubb. They're also lucky that John Elway apparently wants no part of Josh Allen. Because Elway chooses Chubb over the trade, the Bills get to keep their other #1, which would have been part of the Denver trade. While they get lucky Josh falls down to 7, they also are lucky because they are prepared. The other team that wanted Josh was Arizona. Fortunately due to Beane's trading of Sammy Watkins and then trading up to 12 with the Glenn trade, the Bills are much better prepared to trade up to 7 than Arizona whose pick after the Glenn trade is 3 picks lower than the Bills pick and they have only one 2nd round pick. .
  14. I read somewhere that a practice squad player can only play in 2 games and if they want him in more, he has to be signed to the active roster. If that's true then in order for Jackson to play, they're going to have to sign him. The Bills have an open roster spot.
  15. No, those Bills haters chose the guy who Minnesota took with the Bills 1st round pick instead, even though Diggs is much better. I guess they still haven't gotten over Josh Allen & the Bills management proving them wrong.
  16. If you look at a lot of the names I've seen on the internet as dead people voting the names are very common. I just sarcastically went to what I though would be very common names. I saw a meme saying that the late boxer Joe Frazier voted. I can imagine there are a lot of Joe Fraziers around, especially with parents who were fans of the boxer who have the last name Frazier.
  17. It's currently .28%, that's more than 5 times the .05% margin .
  18. Hillary conceded the day after the election. Obama invited Trump & Biden invited Pence to their offices & released all transition funds & data to Trump. The Republicans were the ones acting immature, refusing to ever tell Trump when he was wrong because they knew he wasn't mentally stable enough to handle it. The fact that he is now living in an alternate reality from the rest of the world, continuously saying he won an election he clearly lost and the Republicans continue to give the baby his bottle shows who the real losers are. Fixed
  19. The taxpayers in Georgia are paying for the recount, not the GOP. Biden leads by over 14,000, too much for any recount to overcome.
  20. John Smith died over 100 years ago & now Trump's lawyers have proof that John Smith voted in 2020. Also James Jones, who they have a picture of his grave, voted in 2020.
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