Albany,n.y.

He's a bust-just couldn't make it at the next level. No reason to add him to the mix when he's no better than Davis Webb, who already knows the offense. Rosen is a prime example of fans who "saw him play in college" and expected big things. The problem is the NFL is so much faster than college that until the guy actually shows he can play it doesn't matter what he did in college. It's so difficult to determine the bust factor on a lot of QBs because the players they face in college are not NFL caliber & until they face the real thing, you just never know. From the reports, Rosen's biggest problem is his inability to read NFL D's. As a result, he'll never be anyone who can push a starter and for our team to waste their time on him is totally unnecessary. Now if Beane wants to put him on the practice squad over Fromm, I wouldn't object, but he has no business anywhere near the active roster.

Tyrod is in his 10th year in the NFL and has made millions of dollars-not bad for a 6th round pick, and he has a Super Bowl ring from his days backing up Joe Flacco. He's overachieved his whole career in spite of a limited amount of talent. He must be very well liked among his teammates to last this long. He & Fitz have done more with little than most backups/part time starters. Both are starting opening day-amazing!

I don't see Jake Fromm anywhere on this team, not even the practice squad.

One thing for sure-there are fewer injuries going into opening day since they're not exposing players to injury in preseason games. I think the # of injuries in the early part of the season will be the same.

Frank Gore might be the Jets head coach by the start of the 2nd half.

https://nesn.com/2020/08/nfl-rumors-details-of-patriots-frustration-with-qb-jarrett-stidham/?fbclid=IwAR0KrjWejk9X2dgKXcgAywlhSQHyvOrPor5i9FkzJz9xVNl2vu1ohOoBPqw What did the Patriots expect? They got lucky with a once in a lifetime player in Brady & think they can just dial up his replacement in the middle rounds of the NFL draft. Stidham is what he is, at best a career backup who is likely to be out of the league in a few years. He's their Peterman or C. Jones, a flyer who won't work out.

Poor Duke Williams, no place to go after the Bills cut him.

Real Sports did a feature on him. I can't find a video of the whole segment anywhere but if you're more internet sophisticated please link it.

This should get interesting when there aren't enough tests for all the civilians & the players are getting tested every day.

They flashed "Nixon for President" on the scoreboard opening day at Rich vs Miami after an interception.

Bruce won the game for his team.

Part of celebrity HOF team.

From the AFL Championship game before Super Bowl I "Bills in Super Bowl, Chiefs in soup bowl." If I recall it correctly, it had a drawing of a soup bowl with KC players in it. It's that banner that years later put me on a crusade to show that they called the 1st game the Super Bowl. Here's the proof I found in the Buffalo library:

When I saw this, this is the 1st guy I thought of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Smith

There's a huge hole in the pie Mrs. Lombardi baked and set down on the table.

The reason for the current IR rules is because certain teams were stashing players on IR rather than exposing them to waivers. The Polian/Levy Bills teams were among the most notorious abusers of IR-they would find a late round pick who they felt needed seasoning, stash him on IR for his rookie season & save a roster spot while maintaining the player. There was an old expression "get a concussion" in the final preseason game so that the team could IR the guy. The league felt it was unfair to the other teams that these players weren't being exposed to waivers, as all practice squad members currently are before landing a PS spot.

If they want to play the season with the virus continuing, they're going to have to treat the virus like an injury, with one change. They will have to change IR rules so that a player can be put on Covid-IR where they can return when healthy & be able to sign a replacement player. It will truly be survival of the fittest, but most NFL seasons come down to that. I see teams losing players to Covid-IR similar to the 2019 Jets season. When Darnold & then Simien went down, their season was shot, but they still had to play their games with whatever QB they could find on the streets. Lots of free agents in & out every week but seriously, as long as there is 100% survival rate among the players & coaches, the season will go on.

I think this is a poor list. A lot of the guys you rate on the top part are much more highly thought of around the league and locally in their teams' cities than how you rate them. To answer your last question: It's pretty obvious they didn't win enough to be retained. Only 2 of the 7 weren't benched in season.

Never in the same day, but I once did a trip where we went to Cleveland for a Bills game on Sunday & a Giants@ Indianapolis game on Monday in 1990. I also traveled to opening day in Buffalo vs Miami in 2010, came home that night & then went to the Baltimore @ Jets game the next evening the weekend that Met-Life Stadium opened.

220 Bills home games 36 Bills road games-most in NJ but multiple games in NE, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Farthest away game in LA (the Peterman game) 4 Bills Super Bowls in neutral sites. Total 260 Bills games attended. Bills record in those games 154-106

But once you translated it into gallons it was significant. I lived in the Riverside area at that time (right over the city line in Town of Tonawanda) and used to go to Canada to gas up. I even bought a Peace Bridge coupon book so I could save more money & I only had a 10.5 gallon tank on my VW Rabbit.

Brent calls the Raiders games on their radio broadcast. I'm guessing he'll stay on since he lives in Las Vegas & was commuting to broadcast the games in Oakland.

I don't agree. Yes the pure record was better 6-2 vs 4-4, it was more a function of opponents than road/home. The finale was a tank & do you really think they would have played a better game in Baltimore than OP?

I counted one more bar game: if the schedule as shown in the latest issue of Bills Digest is correct, week 2 the Giants@Bears game is on CBS. So unless they messed up plan on week 2 not being on local TV. Also since I think the Patriots will suck, I doubt we'll get the week 8 game on Ch 6. However, I think we'll get the Raiders game because the Patriots don't get games over us unless they're playing the giants or Jets.

Sammy 100 years from now: