Albany,n.y.

Player & coach with the Bills.

I'll take Allen because Watson doesn't know the Bills playbook and at this stage would have 2 days to learn a new offense.

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I'm expecting a win, but I wouldn't bet on it. Houston is so erratic you never know if they'll play like champs or chumps until you see them on the field on gameday. If we lose I'll still see it as a step forward. Last year Baltimore got knocked out in the wild card round and this year they had the NFL's best record.

Allen wouldn't have fallen, Arizona really wanted him & he would have never made it to 12. The Bills didn't like Jackson as evidenced by the leaked draft board that had Rosen, Rudolph & Lauletta on it as the final 3 but no Jackson. Obviously, in hindsight even the biggest Allen homers (like me) will admit we shouldn't have traded the pick to KC & either drafted Mahomes or Watson. The problem is, by not firing Whaley immediately after the season & putting his replacement in there in January, the Bills were not prepared to draft a QB to be the face of the franchise in 2017. If you need to blame the Bills for not getting Mahomes or Watson, blame Pegula for not having a GM in place well before the 2017 draft. It was well known in the Buffalo media (or at least by Jerry Sullivan who said in April that Whaley was leaving) that Whaley was dead GM walking. Basically with the structure they had in place, they were not about to saddle the new GM with someone else's QB selection.

8 picks were 2019 only. The extra Ford pick was giving back the one we stole for AJ McCarron & the Knox pick was for our 4th & the 4th we got for Reggie Ragland. So I still think the 2019 draft was pretty amazing. The reality of the Allen trade is more complicated: Glenn to Cincinnati to move from 21 to 12 and then trading pick 12 along with our own 2nd pick & the 2nd we got from LAR to rent Watkins for a year. So technically it was 4 players, 3 actual draft picks-may turn out to be the steal of the draft. Edmunds was traded by taking the extra 1 we got from KC the year before & throwing in the 3rd we stole from Cleveland for their 1 year rental of Tyrod Taylor. With the exception of his last 3 picks in 2018, Beane has been great handling the draft. We drafted 2 players who look like keepers in the 7th round last year & found at least 1 more starter in the 2018 undrafted free agent class. Just think: in 3 of the 4 player trades you mentioned Beane moved a draft pick that he acquired by trading a player on the final year of his contract.

After reading the article I have to say Beane is killing it in the draft, hitting on mid-late rounders as well as the early guys. The mantle as top GM was vacated when Ozzie Newsome retired after the 2018 season (that is after his 2018 draft class made the 2019 Ravens the AFC best team based on the regular season record) and Beane is right up there reaching for the torch Ozzie left behind. The 2018 & 2019 draft classes are the type you look back on after a Super Bowl win and point to those drafts. We already have 4 starters from the 2019 draft (although Ford may end up at guard) and 3 other players with promise & a guy on IR who we'll see next year. Not bad for 8 picks.

It could be worse, imagine what a cluster it would be if they had drafted Josh Rosen #1.

Other father son possibilities: Dan Aykroyd, Rich Eisen Billy Crystal, horse trainer Chad Brown

He's Gilbride's son, same 1st name different middle name so he's not Jr. He's 40 years old, the ex-Bills OC is a lot older (obviously). Edit: I just found out his father, Kevin B. Gilbride is the head coach of NY in the XFL.

I remember there was a lot of fan support on the switch to Peterman. There was also a lot of fan support the following September when Peterman was named the opening day starter. I had mixed feelings the 1st time, since Tyrod was on a pretty bad streak & most of us figured we had nothing to lose with a QB switch. I did respond to one poster who wanted Peterman to be careful what you wish for because he could be a lot worse than Tyrod, but I was still optimistic at the time. Funny thing, I went to both the Chargers game in LA & the Ravens game in Baltimore. Maybe it was me who messed up Peterman's mojo? At the Chargers game Peterman was so bad I called up a fellow Bills fan friend at halftime and we were making jokes & laughing at how bad he was.

The trade was a wash for both teams. With the pick Carolina took Rashaan Gaulden. He lasted a little over a season & a half & was waived. He's now with the Giants. Whose to say the Bills would have done better, but one of the best drafting teams over the years, the Baltimore Ravens, had the pick right after Carolina. One of the reasons the Ravens are the top seed in the AFC this year is because with the pick after Carolina in the 3rd round they took their leading receiver this year, TE Mark Andrews, who led all TEs with 10 TD catches.

It's only ex-Bills. Every other team either has players they signed as rookies or ex-Bills on their rosters. Without the ex-Bills, the league wouldn't have enough players.

Not according to this article: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/12/30/report-all-signs-point-to-washington-hiring-ron-rivera/ Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team’s interview with Rivera is more of a “coronation” and that all signs point to Rivera being named the team’s new head coach on Monday. The team can move quickly to hire Rivera as he fills the need to interview a minority candidate under the terms of the Rooney Rule.

I like this psychiatrist joke: My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

The RAVENS fired Belichick. The Browns moved to Baltimore & fired Belichick. The current Browns didn't play until 3 seasons after Belichick was fired, I wouldn't call moving a team "sold to Baltimore"

They should begg Gregg to come backk.

I think Rivera is considered a Rooney Rule qualifier by himself.

He'll start. 3 handoffs & on to Barkley.

Ask Marv Levy and the players on the Super Bowl teams that would rest the starters & lose the season finale & then roll in the AFC playoffs.

I remember watching those games thinking that if Kelly had remained healthy, Reich would have never been exposed and by playing it cost him millions in free agency. So instead of getting a big free agent contract, Reich had to settle for a spot on expansion Carolina as a bridge QB to 1st round pick Kerry Collins. I'm not sure whether Reich just didn't age well and was basically done at age 33, or that he was never that good but was able to look good when surrounded by great players in their primes like Reed, Thomas & a pretty good O-line. Either way, by 33 Reich was no longer worth franchise QB money on the open market.

Punting or placekicking?

Here's the good news: There were no holograms on the XXVI tickets (look at the ones you had that got you into the stadium), as there were on the XXV tickets. So unless you had special tickets the tickets you lost weren't real. Like one of the other people in this thread, I thought Minnesota was great. Minneapolis & St. Paul turned the cities over to the Super Bowl fans. There was no need to even rent a car with the shuttle buses going into both Minneapolis & St Paul, opening the HHH dome for fans on Saturday to get around the stadium & get souvenirs that I didn't have to carry with me on gameday, the ice palace in St Paul, NFL Experience in downtown Minneapolis, shuttle buses to the game from the motels, etc. Best of the 4 Bills Super Bowl cities.

I was in the end zone where the kick was headed to. Sec FF Aisle 62 Row 44 Seat 16. What was interesting about my seat was that I was either the last or one of the last of the Bills fans in my row on the left side of the row who had bought the Disney package. To my right were the Giants fans who had bought the Giants travel agent package. We all got along well, probably because of the combination of the war and the fact it was a tight game compared to what at the time were typical Super Bowl blowouts. I was never a Norwood fan and after he missed the kick I turned to the Bills fan next to me & said "Maybe they'll have the guts to cut him now" Here's an interesting story about the tickets that year. For Super Bowl XXV, the NFL decided to scalp the tickets themselves. They took tickets out of each team's allotments that would go to the lottery winning season ticket holders and assigned them to NFL hand picked travel agents. For the Bills that agent was Disney travel. The Giants had an agent too, I don't remember who it was. Originally, the tickets were supposed to be an option to season ticket holders who lost the ticket lottery. I had split seasons with a friend that year & had to use the account in his name to buy my Disney package, although I was able to buy it in my own name. Eventually, the season ticket holders willing to pay a minimum of $1,165 for a ($150 base price) ticket, a few souvenirs & lodging ran out & the remaining tickets were available to the general public. There was a higher priced package that included a flight out of Buffalo, but I chose the no-flight package. While the winners of the team lottery could pick their tickets up at Rich stadium on Monday, those of us who bought the Disney package had to go to The Aud on Tuesday morning to pick up our tickets. After I got my ticket I drove home to Albany and I must have stopped at every Thruway rest stop where I would go into a bathroom stall and stare at my Super Bowl ticket before going back on the road. Overall, there was such a backlash to the NFL scalping their tickets through travel agents that they stopped doing this after Super Bowl XXV. One of the reasons that I didn't buy the package that included the flight was that the flights were out of Buffalo & I wanted to fly out of Albany. Originally, I had booked a flight with Eastern Airlines to a city near Tampa at a low price that I didn't have to pay for in advance. I was leaving for Buffalo on Saturday before the AFC championship game. At 9PM Friday night I turned on Larry King on CNN and he opens his show that Eastern Airlines just went out of business. I then went scrambling on the phone & booked a super saver flight round trip to Orlando on Delta. The only problem was I had to pay them by the next day. Before going to Buffalo I had to go to the Albany airport & buy a non-refundable flight on Delta. Basically, I was betting the $158 I paid for the flight that the Bills would beat the Raiders on Sunday. There were a lot of question marks going into the game. There were rumors throughout the week that the game might be postponed due to the war. To someone like me that was torture since I had scrambled to come up with enough money to pay for the Disney package, the flight to Orlando, 2 motel nights in Orlando outside my travel package, and a rental car (I was eating at places like McDonalds that weekend). If the game wasn't played as scheduled I was screwed. Fortunately, they played the game on schedule. Otherwise my only other option would have been to ask my friend who still owed me the failed season ticket lottery money refund to wire me the money if I got stuck in Florida longer than originally planned.

Yes it's on Ch 23 in Albany. I think all the stations across the state on the Bills preseason network are showing it. Tons of Hunter's Hope commercials.