Albany,n.y.
-
Posts
9,159 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Gallery
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by Albany,n.y.
-
-
Let's stop with the no Sammy, no Josh stuff. The Bills were originally going to trade picks 12 & 22 & a 2nd to Denver for the 5th pick. If Tampa had demanded the same trade, does anyone really believe that the Bills would have risked losing Josh? I don't.
-
6 hours ago, PirateHookerMD said:
Hes better than Carter for sure at this stage.
Jimmy died.
-
1
-
-
22 hours ago, DaggersEOD said:
I’ve read (here actually but can’t recall the poster) that the best thing to do is bet $200 when the season starts for the Bills to win the AFC Championship Game and the Bills to go to the Super Bowl.
Payout is around $20k, which would cover the cost of going to a Super Bowl.
Obviously doesn’t help this year, but I expect to be in the Super Bowl hunt for a few more years minimum!
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)
-
1
-
-
34 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
Ownership seems to be a prevalent problem in teams and their dysfunction.
Thank god for the Pegula’s.
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.
-
1
-
-
51 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Another minority coach fired after one year. A bit surprising from an organization that has a very very good track record of hiring minority coaches.
I thought it was a weak hire in the first place, but what other head coach would have done any better with that roster???
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%).
-
3
-
-
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.
-
1
-
-
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.
-
On 1/4/2025 at 8:23 PM, billsfan89 said:
While I think Vrabel is actually a solid choice for the Jets but even if they manage to get a good coach in there I just don't think they will turn it around unless the owner stops meddling in the teams operations. Woody Johnson has turned into the 2000's and early 2010's James Dolan and the Jets are just as dysfunctional as the Knicks were.
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.
-
1
-
-
51 minutes ago, JP51 said:
He did, I remember he put Prison Bars on his locker lol... then he went to the USFL... when they folded he had to come back here ... that I am sure made him happy.
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.
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
-
36 minutes ago, BillsShredder83 said:
I know nobody is trading a 2nd and 3rd to win a SB, when clearly the Rams were and did. Also, they didnt 'get rid of him'. They went all in at the tradeline knowing hed be a rental. Go ask Ram fans or the front office if that trade was worth it!
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.
-
2
-
-
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.
-
1 hour ago, Big Turk said:
Also got a QB with a torn hip muscle apparently...
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"
-
1
-
-
57 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Him too
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.
-
1
-
-
He was extended through 2028 before this season started. He's not getting fired. He wins with Tua & loses when Tua is injured.
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.
-
4
-
-
2 hours ago, Big Turk said:
Or as Mularkey once said took the sails out of the wind
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.'
-
3
-
-
38 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I never thought Mayfield was a bust. I think, and always thought, the Browns made a mistake moving off him. Baker can play. He isn't a superstar but he is a good starting Quarterback. I have to say I did think Darnold was a bust. Not necessarily just after the Jets but after a promising start when he flamed out with Carolina I thought that was him done. Huge credit to him. He got his chance this year and he seized it.
Darnold had a lot of injuries during his time in both New Jersey & Carolina. This is his 1st fully healthy season as a starter.
-
-
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)
-
1
-
1
-
-
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.
-
2
-
-
8 hours ago, Gregg said:
Winning this game or not isn't really important for the Bills unless you consider no Bills team in their history has won 14 games in a season. The best the Bills have ever done is 13-3. I agree with you about coming out of this game with no injuries as that is the most important thing for the Bills. After that I would like to see a win and get to 14-3 and have 2024 Bills as the only Bills team to win 14 games in a year.
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.
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:
No need to elevate Mike White. Mitchy Biscuits will be fine and Allen could always go back in to hand the ball off.
White is definitely 1 of the 2.
-
3 minutes ago, Beast said:
If he dresses he will be an emergency QB as Allen is getting the start.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.
-
15 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
you have the benefit of hindsight. In the moment, there is absolutely a benefit to try to build and keep winning down to the end, for purposes of momentum, culture, player development, playing hard for each other, and learning how to win, etc.
The best example of that was the 1997 Falcons. Pretty bad team. Meh QB in Chris Chandler. Started like 1-8 or something like that, and then won a bunch of games to end the season. That momentum carried over to the next season when that team went to the SB.
I guess separate and apart from that, I am not here as a fan to play the long game, which usually doesn’t work out anyway. Just want to see my team play hard and win right now. The draft stuff will take care of itself.
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.
LA wildfires
in Off the Wall
Posted
It's gotta be at Met-Life. That's the only way they'll ever be a playoff game there.