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Albany,n.y.

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  1. I went Allen for both 1 & 2. Why aren't Mahomes & Watson on the list? Mahomes definitely would be #1, with a tough choice of Watson over Allen for #2.
  2. World Series:https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/world-series-2020-location-texas-globe-life-field/134iv8q772gwi16omsl7r5d347#:~:text=Are fans allowed at the,capacity to peak at 11%2C500. Are fans allowed at the World Series? Major League Baseball has allowed fans at Globe Life Park for both the NLCS and now for the World Series. They're allowing capacity to peak at 11,500. The new ballpark can hold approximately 40,300, so that allows fans to be scattered throughout seats at about a quarter of capacity. Tickets for the World Series were solid in pods of four for the purposes of social distancing. Most secondary ticket sale sites offered tickets in pairs. The ballpark is also filled with hand sanitizing stations and signs with reminders about masks and social distancing.
  3. The thing that most people forget is that among the reasons Kelly didn't want to sign with the Bills is because the plan was for him to sit a year or more behind Joe Ferguson. While the money & location are always mentioned, this never is.
  4. It is Saskatchewan who are the Roughriders. Ottawa was the Rough Riders. Not even close to the same name🤣
  5. Nope. That was the Giants who picked Hilliard at #7. The Jets moved down to #6 & traded that pick to Tampa, who then traded it to Seattle who took HOFer Walter Jones. The Jets picked 8th & took LB James Farrior. I remember that draft because it's the only draft I attended in person. My parents scheduled a 50th anniversary party that Sunday and I had to spend the weekend in Long Island. Since my parents didn't have cable, the best way I could see the draft was to go. My father took me to the railroad into NYC around 4:30 AM.
  6. When I graduated college (1975) I didn't have much of a say because the economy was a mess. I didn't work a full calendar year from 1/1-12/31 until 1981. Now I almost made it in 1978, but I got fired in December and it took another year & 1/4 to get back my career. Ironically, I'm probably one of the few who actually went back to Buffalo to resurrect my career. I eventually had to leave in 1982.
  7. Don Shula's last game as a head coach.
  8. A larger more mobile Brett Favre, especially at the 3 year point of their careers
  9. This reminds me of the 2004 NY Giants. They had rookie QB Eli Manning and veteran Kurt Warner. Warner started the 1st 9 games. The Giants were 5-4 and put the ball into Eli's hands. Now the difference is it was later in the season & the Giants had just lost 2 straight after starting the season 5-2 with Warner. The Giants wanted Eli to get real game experience even though he wasn't ready and as Warner proved in Arizona, he had plenty left in him. Eli lost the next 6 games before winning the finale, looking totally lost until his 5th start, where he finally showed flashes of being an NFL QB. It looks like Miami is more interested in the future than this season, just like the Giants were in 2004.
  10. Eagles already have 1 win & a tie. The only place they'll catch the Jets is in an airport.
  11. They have no chance playing Washington & the NYG twice this season. They already hedged their bets on Wentz by picking Jalen Hurts in the 2nd round last year.
  12. Washington starting Kyle Allen is their admission that they're in in the Tank for Trevor derby.
  13. Indy is a suicide/survivor pool nightmare. I lost one of my 2 entries in a pool I'm in on opening day along with 47 others who picked them to beat the since winless Jags and 12 people have Indy today.
  14. During his playing days I said the sooner he gives up the NFL & goes into tv the better for everyone involved. If he wanted to make a career of football, he had all the tools necessary for a long career in the booth or studio.
  15. If the Bills lose Monday night some around here will think there's no tomorrow.
  16. Before the season started I went game by game & had the record 11-5. So far I've picked every game right in my pre season predictions. Unfortunately, I had them losing to KC to go 4-2 before winning 3 of the next 4 to be 7-3 going into the bye. The final 2 losses were @ SF & @ NE and right now I think the SF game can safely be put in the W column.
  17. Rosen is on their practice squad. Either party can end it in a second. Darnold has a much better shot of being a decent NFL QB than Rosen. The league has basically voted Rosen off the island after seeing him play.
  18. A wise choice is to use the Jets opponent any week you can.
  19. Bill O'Brien before he got fired. Now it's too late.
  20. Jake is the equivalent of a baseball player whose position is LEFT OUT.
  21. We'll get 10 games in Albany this year-it may go up to more if the Jets continue to be unwatchable. I used to go out for the other games but this season I've been using internet streams combined with Redzone & WGR's broadcast on its website. The stream is about 1-2 minutes behind the game, so if they switch to the game on Redzone, it's way ahead of the stream. The biggest problem with the internet stream is I can only watch it on my Kindle since my laptop's virus protection blocks it as a malicious website. I don't watch those streams on my desktop ever since I lost a computer that got infected after watching a Bills game years ago. I never watch questionable stuff on my main computer. The laptop is an old Windows 7 & I don't care if I kill it. I had Spectrum for the last 2+ years and the final straw, after they raised me $42 on my 2nd anniversary with them, was when they took Redzone away from my gold package & wanted another $5. I had switched from FIOS when Spectrum gave me a deal that Verizon couldn't match. I tried switching back to Verizon earlier this year & they weren't coming into the houses so I waited a while. Once the football season started & they pulled the Redzone from my package I found out Verizon was now going into houses & I switched back. I got the Redzone & EPIX back & I'm paying $45 less per month. Even if Verizon raises me, I'm never going back to Spectrum.
  22. It's a combination of having to be the QB of the 2018 Bills a team with one of the worst O-lines & virtually no receivers. As a rookie his top 2 receivers were Zay Jones who I'm amazed is still getting playing time in Las Vegas & Robert Foster, who is now on GB's practice squad. The other part is the learning curve playing with new WRs, RBs & O-linemen to start his sophomore season. What's even more stunning is his play this year where he hasn't thrown any INTs but is tagged with one because of ref/replay incompetence. He has definitely grown up from the raw rookie who arrived in 2018, but the team around him that year hurt his "on paper" view.
  23. We traded up for our franchise QB & LT. You trade up for a player you strongly believe in. One of the best trade ups in NFL history was for Jerry Rice. I prefer trade ups better than trade downs. You know the player you're getting in a trade up. A trade down is buying a pig in a poke.
  24. Here's some problems: 1) Gilmore wanted out & he was gone the second the Bills didn't franchise him. 2) Drafting Mahomes looks obvious now, but the Bills weren't about to saddle a new GM with a QB he didn't pick 3) Nobody would start at 21, move up to 12 & then still have to trade 2 1st rounders and a 2nd to pick a guard. Nelson went #6, the Bills deal with Denver was for the draft choices I just mentioned-just look at the complaints about taking Ford to play G in the 2nd & you want to move up above 5 for Nelson. Sorry not feasible. I'll pass on making a statement on your WR suggestions because too many things have happened by the time it was time to use their 2020 1st rounder.
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