Albany,n.y.

Home. If the game isn't on TV in Albany then I go to OTB's Clubhouse Race Book. There I get my own booth with a TV where I can listen to the sound instead of being at some sports bar where you can't hear what the announcers are saying. I still like going to games although I'm down to about 1 a season in Orchard Park and a road game. This year I get to go to the 1st 2 games of the season because Met Life is the closest stadium to Albany.

I never want to see Matt Darr on a list of possible pickups ever again. He's the worst punter the Bills have had this century.

He was quite the star on his high school team in real life. Here's his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O'Neill O'Neill was born into an Irish-American Catholic family in Youngstown, Ohio.[4][5] His mother, Ruth Ann (née Quinlan), was a homemaker and social worker, and his father, Edward Phillip O'Neill, was a steel mill worker and truck driver.[6] O'Neill attended Ursuline High School before transferring to Worthington High School and winning a state championship, earning the name Ed O'Winner and winning a football scholarship to Ohio University, where he majored in history, also joining the Mu chapter of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.[7] O'Neill left Ohio after his sophomore year; he spent more time playing sports and partying than studying[7] and also feuded with his coach. He transferred to Youngstown State University, where he was a defensive lineman. While an undergraduate, O'Neill pledged Delta Sigma Phi and was initiated into the Delta Sigma chapter there. Rumors abound that he was an avid partier.[6] O'Neill was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 but was cut in training camp.[5][6][8] Later, on Married... with Children, O'Neill played a former high-school football star who had failed to make it big and constantly reminisced about his "glory days" at Polk High ("I once scored four touchdowns in a single game"). As part of this theme, former Pittsburgh Steelers great and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw also made two guest appearances on the show. O'Neill was also a substitute social studies teacher at Ursuline High School before becoming an actor.[6]

Here's the upside: Every one of them will always have the memory of having tried something that was their dream. The smart ones will always cherish the moments when they can always say they tried to be a professional football player. Some will use that to get a foot in the door at lucrative careers. One of the most successful cuts in an NFL camp is actor Ed O'Neil who went on to star in Married With Children & Modern Family.

They really just took a low risk flyer on him. They took their original 2nd rounder, packaged it & traded it down & got a 2020 2nd rounder and then sent the lower 2nd round pick to Arizona. Very low risk considering their original 2nd helped get them an additional 2nd in the next draft.

Does he plan on buying the team?

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When Ch 23 (Spectrum Ch 8 in Albany) was having technical difficulties with the pregame show I looked for an alternative & found one. Then they got the game on, so I linked it before I went into the living room to watch it.

https://www.buffalobills.com/watch-live-games/web/pre/en/2019-pre-4-vikings-at-bills-en Note: It wanted location settings in Edge, but it worked fine in Chrome.

https://www.buffalobills.com/news/how-to-watch-vikings-vs-bills-preseason-week-4 Direct link to game: https://www.buffalobills.com/watch-live-games/web/pre/en/2019-pre-4-vikings-at-bills-en

I heard this on the radio a couple of days ago- In the NFL the most important ability is availability. Carter was unavailable way too often to be counted on. Injured in back to back preseasons.

He probably had a bad day at the races. The guy's a bigger horse racing degenerate than I am.

The Bills may have hit on both 7th rounders. Top teams hit on lower round picks.

The only McDermott the Bills are firing is Conor.

The biggest thing the NFL people have over anyone writing about the draft is that they've actually interviewed the guy in depth. I would say just about every top 10 QB spent significant time with team management before the draft. We know the Bills were on the phone with Allen for a long time the day of the draft talking about his teen nonsense. These writers, especially ones like the author here who looks like he lives in his parents' basement, have never spoken with any of these guys except maybe to ask for an autograph or selfie. They know nothing about the minds of these guys. Murray will never play in the CFL. He'll go back to baseball.

The fact that the writer was surprised Allen was picked 7th shows how little he knows. Almost every mock draft had Allen higher. The only surprise was that he lasted to 7th.

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We are the only team besides the Giants who have their preseason games on local TV.

I looked at the schedule & it looks like we'll get at least 8 games on home TV in Albany in addition to every preseason game we get this year. Also all playoff games through the Super Bowl will be on home TV. Games on home TV 9/8 @ NY Jets 9/15 @ NY Giants 9/29 New England 10/20 Miami 11/3 Washington 11/10 @ Cleveland 11/28 @ Dallas 12/29 @ NY Jets Unknown-@ New England-game time/day TBD after week 8. No TV 9/22 Cincinnati 10/6 @ Tennessee 10/27 Philadelphia 11/17 @ Miami 11/24 Denver 12/8 Baltimore 12/15 @ Pittsburgh

He hasn't been in the league since 2013.

I would say most, if not all of us, who have been to a large number of games at some point used published data to get to the W-L totals. I doubt anyone starts off with a log after their 1st game. I knew what games I was at because I've either gone to 1 or 2 games in some seasons & those are easy to remember, or like many years, I went to every home game. With a record like that it's pretty easy to go to a published source to get each game's score. I finally converted my hand written log to a spreadsheet. The replies to the question helped motivate me.

The reason I think the guys who were never on practice squads are irrelevant to the topic is because there's one important element about getting on a practice squad that the non-practice squad players don't have. In order to be placed on a practice squad, a player has to be waived & clear waivers. Now, as someone mentioned earlier, a lot of GMs are guessing when they draft/sign a college QB, that is not the case once the player is in camp & you see what you've got. Since QBs are treated like gold, if a QB shows potential in camp/preseason a team will be too afraid of losing that player by exposing him to waivers & the rest of the league. It was no accident that NE kept 4 QBs in Brady's rookie year. They saw enough that they weren't going to take any chance that someone would put in a waiver claim. The same is true with most rookie late round or UFA QBs-if they show enough potential so that the team is afraid of losing them to another team, they won't get cut-hence, they'll never be on a practice squad. That's why a guy like Romo, who was an undrafted FA is not a viable answer to the original question. Nor are all the other undrafteds mentioned.

I have a problem with the accepted Moon story that racism & nobody willing to take a shot on a black QB is why he went to Canada. My evidence against him is that the same year Warren Moon came out of college, Doug Williams, a black QB out of Grambling, was drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft. Moon signed with the CFL before the NFL draft was held. Moon never gave any NFL team a chance to take a shot on him.

You're right Warner was never on the Rams practice squad (or any other teams)

And neither ever spent a day on a practice squad. The question wasn't about undrafted QBs, it was about practice squad QBs. Also anyone who answered Romo is wrong too. I found 2 more legitimate answers to the question besides Matt Hasselbeck. Both Jake Delhomme and Marc Bulger spent time on practice squads early in their careers.