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You're way off on the odds. You have the Bills at 100/1 to win the AFC. I did what you said for 2 or 3 seasons (not this year) and I'd put down around $1,000 and the odds I got were around 4/1 to 6/1. I called it Super Bowl insurance and like most insurance plans (other than health) that are used to prevent a one-time big expense like if your transmission goes, I spent the $ and got nothing back. I gave up, but instead I just saved enough in 2024 to be able to go with what I put in the bank. Edit: I looked up the 2024 opening day odds & the Bills were +475 or 4.75/1 . $200 would have gotten you $1,150 ($950 profit + your original $200)

The last years of Ralph were brutal, and they didn't improve until Russ Brandon stopped being involved in football decisions. A bad organization can turn around if the hire the right coach & GM even with a medaling owner as shown by the Bills of the 1990s. Now eventually the owner will mess things up again (like firing Polian because he disparaged Ralph's daughter), but there can be good years even with the worst of owners. If the Raiders luck into a good coach & QB, they can win with Mark Davis, but it won't last beyond the QB's time with the team.

No matter if you think it has anything to do with race or not, the numbers look bad for the NFL. Of the 6 coaches fired this season, 3 were minorities, 50% of coaches fired. Since 2010 13 coaches have been 1 & done and 5 of the 13 were minorities (38%).

I'm waiting until the clock hits 0:00 in the AFC Championship game & then it's right to the computer. I'm torn between paying the big bucks & doing the full NFL On Location with hotel for 15-17 grand, or trying a cheaper way like spending Saturday in Houston & taking morning flight to N.O. The best hotels are all taken by travel agents & the NFL. Be careful booking a hotel in N.O. Read the reviews 1st, some are pretty dreadful.

I didn't do anything. I wanted the Bills 2nd & 3rd stringers to lose to the Patriots to hurt the Pats draft spot & by doing nothing, it worked! I'll go back to my pregame personal pizza vs Denver.

Any NFL team can turn things around with the right QB & O-line to protect him no matter who the owner is. It probably won't happen in 2025 for the Jets, but if they are bad enough, or get enough draft capital to move up, they can start to turn things around in 2026. Vrabel is going to a team that already has their QB, probably NE. No chance he joins the Jets with Rodgers & no QB of the future.

Cribbs had an interesting journey. He was disgruntled with his contract with the Bills-almost from the beginning. He had a yard bonus in his contract & during his rookie year he had a shot at getting it in the season finale & the Bills sat him as he got close in order to avoid paying the bonus (anyone who was around then knows the saying Ralph is Cheap is 100% true). Then in his 3rd season he sat out the beginning of the 1982 season, returned and before the 1983 season began signed with the USFL but played out his Bills contract in the 1983 season after signing the future USFL contract. He played all 16 games & then played the 1984 & 1985 seasons in the USFL after the Bills lost a lawsuit that tried to stop him from playing in the USFL. He got into another contract dispute in the USFL in 1985. He walked out but returned. Then as many USFL players did after the 1985 season, he go out of his contract & went (back) to the NFL. Since the Bills owned his rights, he eventually rejoined the Bills during the 1985 season. It was during his time with the Bills in 1985 that he put the prison bars on his locker as he was trying to get traded. It worked as the Bills traded him to the 49ers. For the record, Cribbs returned to the NFL in 1985 & the USFL, even though they played their last game in 1985, didn't fold until 1986 when they "won" the anti-trust lawsuit vs the NFL in the Summer of 1986 but got $1 in damages, trebled to $3. After the verdict the USFL let their remaining players sign with the NFL, but Cribbs was already back in the NFL the year before.

The Bills basically gave up a 3rd for a half season of Amari Cooper. If the Bills win the Super Bowl in part because of Cooper, nobody will deny it was worth it.

Let's get real. The Patriots pulled their starting QB for their 6th round 3rd string QB early in the 1st quarter. What happened is Milton played like a veteran starter, not a 3rd sting rookie & against the Bills backups the Patriots had little opportunity to lose the game with Milton basically taking over the game. He was the best player on the field Sunday. No matter what either team's coaches were trying to do, Milton slammed the door shut on any possible tank. If Milton had played like Mike White, the Bills would have won no matter what McDermott was attempting to do. The next question for NE is, what to do with Milton. He's not going to be playing ahead of Maye, so the best they can do, barring a Maye injury, is to showcase him in preseason & after 2 more seasons, hope to find a deal for him similar to when they traded Jimmy Garoppolo to SF.

I voted yes in the poll that asked if I am confident in McDaniel & Grier. I also admitted my favorite team is the Bills. We should all vote & pretty soon they'll be an article "Bills fans give vote of confidence to Dolphins coach and GM"

Found it : Like Yogi Berra, he unintentionally entertained fans and reporters with humorous malapropisms. He often praised his team’s “work ethnic” and talked about making decisions on the “spare of the moment.” After a loss to the New York Jets, he said a long pass play had taken “the sails right out of our wind.” That still ranks as his all-time best, and wound up being repeated in a post-game press conference years later by another beleaguered Bills head coach, Mike Mularkey. https://rbj.net/2014/10/10/nothing-like-a-good-sport-malapropism-to-lighten-the-mood/ I vaguely remember some wise guy sportswriter at the time suggesting Mularkey was morphing into Hank Bullough.

He was extended through 2028 before this season started. He's not getting fired. He wins with Tua & loses when Tua is injured. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-coach-mike-mcdaniel-signs-contract-extension-through-2028-season/#:~:text=The Miami Dolphins will be,NFL insider Jonathan Jones confirms. The Miami Dolphins will be keeping their head coach around for a while longer. The team signed Mike McDaniel to a contract extension that will keep him in Miami through the 2028 season.

That was Hank Bullough: After a recent loss to the New York Jets, Bullough talked about a certain play as being the game's turning point. 'That really took the sail out of our winds,' he said. Other mixed metaphors from the mouth of Bullough compiled this season include: -'The spare of the moment.' -'I have to teach these guys the work ethnic.' -'We keep beating ourselves, but we're getting better at it.' -'He's making improvement throwing the ball where he's throwing the ball.' Another famous Bullough line was mumbled when he was asked to rate this year's crop of college running backs. 'Well,' he said, thinking about Bo Jackson and Napoleon McCallum, 'you've got that Jackson kid at Auburn and that Bonaparte kid at Navy.' https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/12/20/Buffalo-Bills-Coach-Hank-Bullough-is-earning-a-reputation/8196503902800/

Darnold had a lot of injuries during his time in both New Jersey & Carolina. This is his 1st fully healthy season as a starter.

Van Pelt already fired too: https://www.audacy.com/weei/sports/patriots/patriots-fire-oc-alex-van-pelt-after-one-season

As a Bills fan, my first thought was tough break for the Doughboy. Odds are he's out of a job too.

They switched off the Giants game to Bills @ NE. I can't remember the Giants getting kicked off home TV in Albany before. 506 UPDATES: Hartford CT: NYG-PHI to BUF-NE (Fri) Pittsburgh PA: BUF-NE to NYG-PHI (Thu) Albany, Utica and Binghamton NY: NYG-PHI to BUF-NE (Thu) Cedar Rapids IA: CAR-ATL to BUF-NE (Thu) Johnson City TN: HOU-TN to CAR-ATL (Thu) Lake Charles LA: CAR-ATL to HOU-TN (Thu) https://506sports.com/

I wouldn't count on these picks. The Bills signed free agents too. The SI writer seems to have forgotten the Bills FA signings & is only looking at the Bills FA losses.

The only reason the Bills have never won 14 games is that Marv was smart enough to save his players for the playoffs & lost the season finales in 1990 & 1991 after going 13-2 through 15 games. Considering there is an extra game, Sunday is as meaningless as it gets. I'll go with Marv's methodology.

White is definitely 1 of the 2.

If he is one of the 2 PS call-ups he can play any time as long as he's designated as active for the game.

The 1997 Falcons are a bad example. They lost the season finale after a winning streak. We're talking about teams with bad records hurting their chances of a top 5 pick late in the season, not an up & coming team that got hot mid-season & was 7-8 going into the season finale. When the team sucked, I looked big picture because there was nothing going well with the present team & odds were there were going to be wholesale changes before the next season, so there was nothing to carryover. Before 2018, the last time the Bills had meaningful late games with a team out of the playoffs was 1987, when the team was trying to build around Jim Kelly and what turned out to be a bunch of HOFers. Even though they lost the season finale in Philadelphia, it was important for them to gain some momentum for 1988. During the drought years all it was, was a bunch of meaningless games at the end because the roster just simply wasn't good enough & there was no QB to build around with. You can always find an example where late season wins are more important than draft position on an up & coming team, but most of the time the bad team isn't going anywhere unless they can get some better talent.

The Giants originally chose DeVito over Lock to save money: https://www.si.com/nfl/giants/big-blue-plus/why-giants-went-with-tommy-devito-over-drew-lock-at-quarterback-01jd02j6txaf Had Lock been named the starter, there would have been little chance of him earning the full $3 million in incentives at this point in the season. But with seven games to go, there was a good chance of him picking up at least a third of those incentives, which would not have been good news for a cash-strapped Giants team.

Those meaningless wins you rooted for really built great momentum during the drought years. I can't think of one Bills team where the momentum carried over post- Kelly & pre-Allen. The only time those games matter is when a team is developing a franchise QB. No doubt the 2018 season finale was important as it began Josh Allen's domination of the Dolphins, but from 2012 to 2014 the Bills either won the season finale or the game right before the season finale. Each time the Bills had a new starting QB the following year: Fitzpatrick 2012, Manuel 2013; Manuel 2013, Orton 2014; Orton 2014, Taylor 2015. When your team is on a QB carousel, there's no such thing as building momentum for next year, when you'll have a new QB.

Mac Jones boosted the Patriots % and the only way he should be a pro bowler is if he gives up football and spends hours practicing at the lanes.