Albany,n.y.

After seeing this question, I'm ready to label Bills Daily a bust.

The Jets @ Washington, which ordinarily would be a CBS game, is on Fox & the Giants have a bye, so we're getting the Bills @ Miami game on Ch 6 in Albany. When I looked at my schedule in the NFL Record and Fact Book, it said the Jets were on CBS, but both my cable guide and the Albany Times Union has the Jets on Fox & the Bills on CBS this Sunday. So we're getting another game at home that I wasn't counting on.

When I used to go to a lot of games & brought a radio with me WGR550 was on a delay to match the TV broadcast and WWKB1520 had the game live so that fans in the stands could listen. Since the game is in Cleveland, I don't know if the game will be on 1520 since there will be no fans in the stands at New Era who need to hear what they are seeing live.

If you went through the archives you'll find the most unpopular guy in Buffalo is the OC . Then when they go elsewhere, they become the it guy in the league. Remember all the anti Greg Roman posts when he was here?. Now he's the genius behind Lamar Jackson in Baltimore. In Buffalo they called Kevin Gilbride "Kevin Killdrive". Then he went to the NYG and got a Super Bow ring . Amazing how they are always bums i Buffalo and heroes at their next stop. Maybe it's not the OC but what he's got to work with. If you told anyone the Bills would be 6-2 halfway through the season the fear would be Daboll would leave for a head coaching job at season's end. Yet now 6-2 isn't good enough for the Run the OC out of town crowd.

So if they only beat losing teams they'll go 10-6 and make the playoffs with another year of growth and experience for Allen's development heading to an off-season with lots of cap space. Works for me.

I guess the NFL already informed the Jets & Dolphins that their 12/8 game won't be getting flexed. ? One area of confusion about the week 16 game is the NFL has been all over the place when the deadline for the decision is. The Bills schedule that I printed before the season says after week 8 the decision will be made & we're already past that.

That statement about my higher opinion was the pre-season opinion that I need to change as I need to change my preseason opinion of Baltimore. Overestimated the Jets, underestimated Baltimore.

14/20 for 160 yards gets it done on a very windy day. Everyone seems to forget that the winds can change a gameplan. More running, less throwing. If anything the game shows that the team learned that on a windy day they need to run the ball more than. The Bills had almost double the running plays they tried vs the Eagles and threw 41% fewer times vs Washington as they did the prior week vs Philadelphia. So anyone who quotes a stat line on a windy day & claims it won't work down the line needs to understand weather conditions better & be glad the Bills learned from the Eagles game to run more on a windy day.

When I was out in California, we drove through Albany California and I was looking for a portal that could save me a full day of flying, but unfortunately I never found it.

Teams always lose games they should win. Remember the 1992 Bills? They lost games to the Colts & Jets they had no business losing & it cost them home field. I remember the only road AFC championship game in the Super Bowl era was that year in Miami because of the 2 losses vs what at the time were bad teams.

The Jets beat the Cowboys 3 weeks ago & just lost to Miami, so we have to approach individual game predictions with caution,. Still, there's no way the Bills win only 2 games the rest of the season unless they get a slew of injuries. Before the season on another board I broke down the reasoning why I thought this was 10 win team. Here's what I said: Definite wins 1 of Jets games, both Miami games, NYG, Cincinnati, Washington, Denver, Baltimore (Anyone who thinks Lamar Jackson is winning in Buffalo has lost their mind), Split among road games at Tennessee & Cleveland 9th win, 1 more win in games against New England (2), Philadelphia, Dallas, & Pittsburgh. As of now it looks like we're still on schedule to win 10. So far my opinion of Baltimore & Jackson may need revision as well as my higher opinion of the Jets. Flip another Jets win & give the Baltimore game a loss & we still win 10 games. I still think we can win 1 of the games vs NE, Dallas & Pittsburgh, with the most likely win vs Pittsburgh, There's also a good chance we beat Cleveland this week & exceed my expectations on the Tennessee/Cleveland split. I still think we beat Denver at home. So if we beat Cleveland, we don't even have to win one of the 3 games remaining against the teams that appeared to be the toughest games before the season started to get to 10 wins.

I'd rather have a QB who wins 75% of his games (like Allen has done this season) and drives the short sighted stat boys crazy than a QB who loses more games than he wins but puts up a bunch of 300 yard games because he threw some picks early & is playing from behind. Every time some stat boy starts a thread quoting QB stats, he needs to be reminded that the most important stat is Ws in the standings.

You could stub a toe.

Doomed to repeat 1988. That means no Super Bowl this season.

Shout became Bills Digest. This year I bought a digital subscription to Bills Digest. Unlike Shout, they do 1 every 2-3 weeks & not every week during the season. I used to subscribe by mail & then when I stopped I could get a copy around Albany. A few years ago they stopped selling the paper in Albany. I noticed they still print them & saw them in Tops when I was in Buffalo this weekend.

Everyone who has played NE has lost. So you're basing everything on one game.

I was in club seats and stayed indoors until after the anthem was played. Most of the people were sitting at tables and didn't stand nor did they remove their hats. I was surprised that even though we were at the game, most of the fans who stayed indoors through the anthem treated it like they were sitting at home and watching it on tv.

When the Bills were looking for a new head coach (eventually choosing McDermott) the one candidate I was totally against was Lynn because I wanted all ties to Rex Ryan to end. Lynn was too close to Rex IMO to become his replacement. I wanted a clean sweep of Ryan's mess.

The only player they would have forewent a QB for at #1 was Barkley. If they wanted Nelson they could have had him at 4, he was drafted 6th. Also if they had taken Barkley, they wouldn't have drafted Chubb, who is nowhere near the player Barkley is. Barkley is a once in a generation RB.

The Giants O line is decent. The main problem is a rookie QB who is holding on to the ball too long.

What Cleveland should have done was to draft Barkley at #1 and take their highest rated QB left at #4. They would have been able to get either Allen, Darnold or Mayfield to go with Barkley.

Montana played for KC after SF before retiring. Some of the great QBs ended up playing in other cities in their waning years: Montana, Namath, Unitas, Favre, P. Manning, A. Manning,

It was Amtrak. Here's something from 1997 (It failed to mention the stops in Schenectady & Utica). The trains ended in the early 2000s. On one trip some guys who got on in Albany (Actually Rensselaer) created so much trouble they got kicked off in Utica on the return ride & got arrested with the cops waiting for them as we pulled into Utica., https://buffalonews.com/1997/06/28/bills-schedule-five-amtrak-express-games/ The Buffalo Bills have announced five home games for "The Buffalo Bills Express," an Amtrak train bringing fans from Eastern New York into Buffalo for Bills' home games in 1997. The games are: Aug. 31 vs. the Minnesota Vikings; Oct. 5 vs. the Detroit Lions; Oct. 26 vs. the Denver Broncos; Nov. 2 vs. the Miami Dolphins and Dec. 14 vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars. All are Sunday afternoon games beginning at 1 p.m. The train, which begins its round-trip journey in Albany at 6 a.m., will depart from Syracuse at 8:30, and Rochester at 9:50 before arriving in Amtrak's Depew station at 11. From Depew, the registered passengers will board 22 buses that will transport them directly to Rich Stadium in Orchard Park. Buses will depart from the stadium 40 minutes after the game ends. Upon arrival in Depew, the train will begin boarding for immediate departure. The cost of the round-trip tickets, as well as one game ticket in Section A-Club Level is $75. A train ticket only will cost $38.