Albany,n.y.

Here's a different point of view. You have an internal candidate who is already familiar with the job, the players & the organization. Why go outside the organization & start all over again when you feel you have the right person already in the job? I've seen a lot of people promoted from within during my career. Most of the time they knew they were the only serious candidate and only the interviewees who knew nothing about the job weren't aware that the chosen candidate was getting the job in spite of other interviews to meet certain hiring requirements. All the interviewees other than the chosen one participated in sham interviews. Another reason is you don't want your chosen candidate taking another job due to uncertainty.

Carson Palmer retired & they had no long term answer at QB, so they felt that they had to draft a QB. If the Bills had lost out on Josh Allen, at some point early in the draft, they would have selected a QB. The Browns, Jets, Bills and Cardinals all had boxed themselves into a corner that made it necessary to draft a QB in 2018. The class was supposed to be the best since 2004 and each team had made alternate plans if their top guy was already drafted.

I love when some media hack tries to revise history. As you stated, Arizona traded up for Rosen, they did not stay put. Arizona wanted to trade up for Josh, but the Bills had more draft ammo. Arizona was 15th with one 2nd round pick, the Bills were 12th with 2 second round picks to offer. Arizona never had the draft capital to compete with the Bills. I remember a lot of draft graders saying the Bills gave up too much for Allen while applauding Arizona for trading up 5 spots (same number of spots that the Bills moved up from) in order to beat Miami to Rosen.

In Mularkey's case he was already the coach. The team decided they wanted to stick with him. So, when a team decides they want to hire the interim coach full time, isn't every other interview a sham interview? The only reason Tennessee had to put on the dog & pony show was the Rooney Rule, which at times forces teams to conduct interviews in spite of having already chosen someone within the organization. Recently the Bills had to do the same thing before hiring Dorsey as OC. Internal hires where one candidate is the obvious choice should not be subject to a rule that makes a team interview people from outside the organization just for window dressing.

Actually, not so dumb. Keep him this year, franchise him next & either keep him & sign him or trade him next year & know what place in the draft the team they're trading him to has. If I was running Seattle I'd keep him re-sign him & if I want a QB I have 2 1sts (one which may be very high) & 2 2nds to trade next year & have my QB & #1 WR.

Atlanta will give us another draft pick if we leave Moss out of the deal.

It's a different battle in the NYC metro area. The Giants and Jets crossed the Hudson into another state. Same fan base, just a different part of the metropolitan area, not very far away. The Yankees threatened NJ too. NYS didn't want to lose another team to NJ. In Buffalo not only would the team move out of state, but they would be abandoning their fans. Unfortunately the newspapers in the eastern part of NY don't understand the Bills situation and are against the Bills getting a new stadium. Suddenly they act like if the government isn't making a profit it's a bad deal. I've always though government was supposed to be nonprofit and serve the people of the entire state, not just the loudest complainers in Albany and NYC.

Peace Bridge security has issued an alert to watch for potential bridge jumpers.

Because even a Ferrari needs a tuneup every now & then.

To outstupid everyone else on 4/1.

The NY papers & the Albany Times Union newspaper are crying like they just got carjacked. I hope the decision makers don't block it. The papers keep ignoring the fact that the Bills owners are TENANTS and will not own the stadium.

Thanks for the info, I thought agents got 10%. For 3% or less, he's foolish to be negotiating his own contract. I once heard an opinion that criticized Lamar in 2018 saying that an agent would have prepared him better in marketing himself for a higher draft spot. If that is true, he's been costing himself $ for over 4 years already.

That never happened. Josh kneeled down in victory formation in the last minute.

Lamar might be the smartest of them all-let the other QBs hire agents who gets a % of their contract, have them set the market & then go in asking for his market value. The lawyer will go over the contract at a fraction of the cost. He could even give the Ravens a 5% discount & still pocket more money than the guys with agents.

How about that, hundreds of millions of $ to help build the stadium will be coming from the Seneca Nation casino revenues.

Question: How many coaches who defer in the 1st half, also defer in the 2nd half? Answer: NONE! You don't defer unless you have the option of getting the 1st possession later in the game. Logic says choose the option that has the possibility of more possessions. If you both score and the game is tied the team that took the ball can win the game with the team that deferred not having another possession. Give me the possibility of a 2-1 possession advantage in overtime every game.

So the new policy is project who will have the #1 pick in 2 years & award the draft to that city.

The problem was that 6-7 years ago there wasn't an engineering study that said the stadium was feasibly beyond repair. Once a safety issue was introduced it was a much easier sell than in 2015.

Time to send that Ford to the junk yard.

CB & RB 1-2.

Baker? 1st day is his wife & him moving into a new stadium.

They should make a deal with McKinley Mall for extra parking with shuttle buses.

The team is prohibited from speaking to any other municipalities until September so all the paperwork can be done without other municipalities trying to beat it with a better offer before all the legal stuff is finished & signed.

My TV froze before Smith got on the stage. The odds that my TV had a glitch right at that moment are pretty low. Now I don't know if it was my local station or Verizon doing the censoring, but I never saw the slap because my TV was frozen.

I don't believe it was staged. In my broadcast it was edited out with an Oscar logo, but that may have been my local Albany station doing that since I've read stories where the person sounds like they saw it live. So did some see it live & others didn't? At the time I had no idea what happened and had to find out after the show on the internet.