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Albany,n.y.

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  1. Fangio wins 2 games in a row with a rookie QB & he thinks he's Don Shula.
  2. The Ravens are the old Cleveland Browns, not the Indianapolis Colts, so if you want to find out the last time before last Sunday, you have to look up the Browns @ Buffalo. The results are the Browns had won in Buffalo on December 7, 1986 and didn't return until October 21,2007, when they did as the Baltimore Ravens.
  3. That was the same thinking about a rail thin 211 pound QB who was under 200 pounds part of his senior year in college. Now I know he doesn't run around like Jackson, but he's now in his 20th season. I've learned over the years not to look at a young player and project his NFL longevity, especially using his weight as a guide.
  4. I put 9 units on the Bills money line @ +108 & 5 units on the points (+2) @ -110. Total wager 14 units, possible return 28.27 units. Lines don't move from 2 on Wednesday to 7 on Sunday without a QB change.
  5. If he fell from the sky and landed on a rookie free agent contract we might consider it devine intervention and sign him. Wasting a 1st rounder on him. NO!
  6. How many games and how many players are left from the last few losses? This is one of those meaningless stats when teams go years without playing each other at the same place. Even the stadium is different than 44 years ago. 44 years ago Joe Ferguson was the QB. I not only doubt he and any of the Bills QBs who played in those losses are playing Sunday night, I'm sure none of them are. Most of the players on the field Sunday weren't even born when many of those losses occurred for the past 44 years.
  7. I was watching on a small black & white TV in my apartment on River Road in Tonawanda, just over the Buffalo (Riverside) city line. I have no memory of the game itself, just Howard Cosell telling the story of John Lennon's shooting with his final sentence in Howard's voice "...dead on arrival." I didn't get a color tv until I moved out of River Road into an apartment in Kenmore where I got cable tv for the 1st time in 1981.
  8. Nobody is ruining Darnold, he is what he is. Rosen is a bust. Arizona realized it early & dumped him ASAP. Miami took a low risk flyer on him, trading their original 2nd rounder & getting 2 2nd rounders back.
  9. Do you understand I was replying to what I bolded? You should understand why I bolded it. NY in their names means NYC, not NYS. The rest of your statement has nothing to do with my reply, so your logic on the rest of the post is irrelevant.
  10. If we follow your logic, the Buffalo Bills don't play in Buffalo. It's been true ever since they moved from the Rockpile to OP. The Giants & Jets stadium in closer to NYC than Orchard Park is to Buffalo.
  11. Jerry should fire the GM who put this team together? This just in: They're not that talented.
  12. Put him on already so I can go to sleep. It's 12:37 AM already. I mighty give up & just record it if this goes on much longer.
  13. The whole point of being a fan is that you don't have to act like an adult. It's a release from the daily drudge of the real world. A fan gets to dream the dream and forget about things for 3 hours on Sundays. Throw any kids off your lawn today?
  14. Josh Allen he gets better when the game is on the line. It was said of the Super Bowl era Bills they hated to lose. I feel Josh Allen hates to lose even more than they did & won't screw around Super Bowl week when the Bills are in the game (the sooner the better) PS: Only player jersey I ever shelled out the $ to buy since I figure he'll be around a long time.
  15. It couldn't have happened. Cleveland was only taking 1 QB, Barkley was going somewhere in the top five. That leaves a maximum of 3 QBs taken in the top Four. So Denver was either going to trade pick 5 to us or take Chubb. Indy was sold on Nelson, that's why they traded with the Jets and no or lower. So any way you shuffle the QBs 4 QBs taken before the Bills pick of trade up couldn't happen. What would have happened if Allen, Mayfield and Darnold went before 5 is they wouldn't have traded up. Then with either 12 or 22 they're stuck with Rudolph since Arizona makes the Rosen trade. If that had happened we would be in the market for a QB this offseason. Or they might have gone with Peterman in 2018 and had the #1 pick in 2019.
  16. I only had to go out once this entire year to watch the Bills-the Bengals game. I missed the Tennessee game entirely because I went to the Minnesota/Giants game in NJ & I went to the Eagles game in Buffalo, planning the game because it wasn't on TV in Albany. All other games were on TV, although I went to both games in NJ vs the Jets & Giants. For Thanksgiving I secured a spot at the table where I could see the TV. We were eating dinner around 3:30-4:00 PST, which put the game in the 2nd half.
  17. The difference between a really good QB & a really bad one is about 10 games. Just look at the 49ers before Garoppolo, with Garoppolo, then without him last year & now with him this year. Look at Indy with Manning, the year he was out & then Luck's rookie year.
  18. It's called a Programmatic Non-Fit (You got Mossed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbucaWZXjcw
  19. With the flexing of the Pittsburgh game the final tally in Albany is that we got 13 of the 16 games on TV (as long as one has NFL Network). Every game in November & December ended (or will end) up on TV at home without having to leave the house to see the Bills. Most TV games since the 1990s. We even had 2 games chosen over the Jets this year.
  20. They got 1 game. We had Thanksgiving & week 16 national game on NFL network. The reason is we won 6 games last year & Vegas had us projected to be under .500 this year. The majority of network people looked at predictions that the Bills would be no good. In addition, a lot of our games featured lousy opponents. Nobody was about to put games like Bills/Miami or Cincinnati on in primetime.
  21. I wouldn't go that far. People in Baltimore & NY/NJ are saying the same thing. This is starting to look like the class of 1983 which produced 3 HOF QBs. Denver, Buffalo & Miami were all satisfied with their QBs and each fit his team the best. Right now Allen, Jackson, and Darnold are playing at a high level, getting better as the season goes on. The Ravens, Jets & Bills wouldn't trade their QB for anyone else in the class. Even Mayfield may be added to this group. The only 1st round QB looking like a bust is Rosen who Arizona dumped after 1 season and now he can't get on the field with 2 win Miami. It could also be compared with 2004 where E. Manning, Rivers & Roethlisberger were chosen & the Rosen of that class was our own JP Losman.
  22. The Albany Empire will go down as the final Arenaball champion. I used to go to the Albany Firebirds games years ago during the Bills AFC dominance in the 1990s and joke that the last game I had been at was the Super Bowl & how much a drop-off it was going from the Super Bowl to an Arena game a few months apart. I never went to any Empire games in the 2 years they were here.
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