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Years ago they used to sell out, but now you can get tickets through the week of the game & last season the prices went down closer to the game. I think they're the best place, but I wouldn't put down a deposit since it doesn't appear that the total opening price is even up there yet. Last year they were cheaper than StubHub! . The main problem with buying early is the original asking price is usually higher than the price near the game. The exception was in Arizona for the NE/SEA Super Bowl XLIX where tickets just kept going up & hit over 10 grand and a lot of people got stiffed by smaller brokers. After that I decided it was either NFL On Location or StubHub! only. Fearing that scenario the next year for Super Bowl 50 I bought early (I was committed to going to SB50 since I have family in the Bay area) and paid $4,726 per seat in October from StubHub! and they were around $3,500 by the week of the game.

Some of the Sportsbooks offer signing bonuses for new members. If you shop around you may be able to do a bet at a reduced or minimal risk. Back in January when Caesar's started in NY they were offering a $300 signing bonus & a match of funds up to $3,000. I don't know what they're offering now, but check into all current sportsbooks.

That's exactly what I did online. I put $950 on the Bills to win the AFC at +425 which means I get back $4,987.50. Last year tickets started out over 6 grand but the cheaper seats ended up in the low $4,000s the week of the game. I figured close to $5,000 was what I call "Super Bowl insurance" for $950. The reason I kept the payoff under 5 grand is because Caesar's makes you jump through more hoops if you want to withdraw more than $5,000. Currently the Bills are +360 so "insurance" will cost a little more than what I paid back in February. The odds got lower after KC traded Hill. Buffalo Bills+425 NFL Pro Football Conference Winner Thu 23:38 | 2023 AFC Conference Winner Wager: $950.00 Odds: +425 Return: $4,987.50 Feb 17, 2022 @ 23:38pm

I've seen worse. #1 overall picks who never amounted to anything. Heisman winners who never played a down in the NFL-Charlie Ward chose the NBA over the NFL. Other Heisman winners were busts &/or late round career backups. The Browns did not do Mayfield dirty. They wanted to upgrade from him. Responsible teams upgrade positions. If Watson gets suspended, all Mayfield has to do is grow up & look at what Drew Brees did. Brees' replacement was drafted by the Chargers and Brees sucked it up & played lights out for 2 seasons and then left for NO and had a HOF career. A Watson suspension would be a great opportunity if Mayfield understood the opportunity that he still might have. Instead he's whining about wanting to be on another team instead of looking to prove his value in Cleveland like Brees did in San Diego. His best chance to light it up is in an offense he already knows because if he doesn't go to a new team soon, he'll be behind the learning curve of the other QBs on the new team.

Well his hot wife does and that's probably the real reason he isn't getting much sleep.

Considering the hit rate for 3rd round QBs is 15-20%*, anyone who thinks Willis is a lock to be the Titans next starting QB needs to remember the odds aren't very good. *-based on my 20 year study of drafts in the 21st century where the 3rd round hit rate was 17%.

They're waiting for the new stadium so they can save money on the letters. No need to put them up in a stadium that will be torn down.

I love Bills at 32 & Jets at 2. Odds are if the Jets are bad enough to get that high, they'll be looking for another QB.

A rolling Moss gathers no yards.

When GB was on the clock I crossed my fingers & was yelling at the TV, don't pick Araiza. Then when the Bills went on the clock I started chanting "Punt God, Punt God" over & over again & went nuts when the guy announced his name.

If the Bills are going to have to activate a 3rd QB, they might as well just keep Haack to hold & keep Barkley on the practice squad. We've had 2 kickers before, why not 2 punters?

Beane is a genius-didn't have to trade up for him.

Sam Koch is good but I don't know how much he has left. He turns 40 in August. It's not hang time, it's positional punting-too many touchbacks-not enough kicks inside the 20. I'll still take him over Haack. .

Baltimore just picked him with the pick we sent them Thursday night.

This is what's going to happen: Araiza will be picked in the 4th round right around the pick the Bills traded in the 1st round & Bills message boards are going to have a lot of angry posts criticizing Beane for costing us Araiza by moving up two spots to get Elam when he would have been available at 25.

Thanks for letting us draft Josh Allen in 2018 by drafting Sam Darnold. Who are the Jets going to draft after you trade Zach Wilson after his 3rd season for pennies on the dollar? You better hope that the 2024 draft has a better draft class than last year's. 2024: Jets draft another top 3 QB in hopes that one day they will finally get Joe Namath to pass the torch.

Damn! You beat me to posting the same thought-I type too slow.

If Carolina gets Mayfield all they have to do is sign Josh Rosen & they can have all 3 2018 1st round QBs who their drafting teams didn't want.

Big difference. The Bills dumped Fitzpatrick before the draft & only had Tarvaris Jackson, Kevin Kolb & Aaron Corp signed for 2013 before the draft. None of them were around by opening day. Jackson & Corp were released & Kolb was on IR. So the Bills panicked because they had to draft a QB. The Giants have 2 QBs who have been starters multiple years. No they don't. Fromm is gone. https://www.bigblueview.com/2022/3/16/22980961/giants-opt-not-to-tender-exclusive-free-agent-offer-to-qb-jake-fromm

So if the Bills win the Super Bowl because of a more balanced offense & fewer designed QB runs which keeps Josh fresh, who is going to give a rat's behind about a 5th year option years down the road?

Joe Buscaglia makes a good case for Hall in his final mock draft: https://theathletic.com/3275674/2022/04/28/bills-mock-draft/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983 The pick at No. 25: Breece Hall, RB, Iowa State Close second: Lewis Cine, S, Georgia In my only other Bills seven-round mock draft, over a month ago, I had the Bills taking Breece Hall, and I’m sticking with it because of Bills logic — not general draft logic. They have yet to add to their fastball in a significant way this offseason, and giving them a player like Hall adds an entirely different dimension to the offense. He’s a home run threat, he’s a pass-catching threat, he has upside in pass protection, he has excellent patience and vision for the zone scheme they’re likely to run more in 2022 and he can make people miss in the open field. The Bills often go for something they don’t have in the first round, and they have no one even close to what Hall could become, and there is no one else like Hall in this draft who fits everything they’re looking for at the position. It’s not about running the ball more; this is still a pass-first operation. It’s about becoming an even more dynamic offense that doesn’t have to rely so heavily on quarterback Josh Allen with designed runs. It’s minimizing the risk of their MVP-level quarterback missing games. Coach Sean McDermott has stressed having the threat to run at all times to help the passing game. Devin Singletary has been fine, but he lacks game-breaking ability and he’s in the final year of his contract. Hall checks way too many boxes to ignore. He would become an electric option on RPOs, and the screen game would actually have life. Just as important, his presence would dissuade the opposition from running the big-pass-play-preventing two-high defense that’s in vogue now. And for those who hate the idea of taking a running back in the first round, I don’t think the Bills are as worried about it as everyone else. General manager Brandon Beane acknowledged that the team had running backs, plural, with first-round grades over the last four years. Last year, after he was selected 25th by the Jaguars, Travis Etienne said he believed he was headed to Buffalo at No. 30. Beane said they would take the player if he added a dynamic skill set the Bills didn’t have on their roster. Hall is that guy. Bills 2022 mock draft class PICKPLAYER 25 Breece Hall, RB, Iowa State 57 Nick Cross, S, Maryland 89 Joshua Williams, CB, Fayetteville State 130 Joshua Ezeudu, IOL, North Carolina 168 James Mitchell, TE, Virginia Tech 173 Jordan Stout, P, Penn State 185 Brandon Smith, LB, Penn State

There were so many spectators at the stadium it hurt the TV ratings.

In 2019 the Bills were playing the Steelers & the Steelers were favored. I looked at the matchups & said "Josh Allen vs Duck Hodges" I then raced to the casino & bet the Bills on the money line.

They're pumping in fake crowd noise. I'm not sure if it's just on the broadcast or over the PA at the stadium. Either that or all people on the sidelines have been instructed to make a lot of noise since there are more members of both teams combined than fans in the stands.

If it's such a well known belief, there are a lot of GMs who didn't get notified. In the last 10 drafts 16 RBs have been selected in the 1st round, 4 in the top 4 of the entire draft. In the 20s, where the Bills are drafting, 4 have been drafted in the last 4 drafts. So I guess it's almost anyone but the NFL GMs. Here's the list: 2021- Harris (24), Etienne (25) 2020- Edwards-Helaire (32) 2019- Jacobs (24) 2018- Barkley (2), Perry (27), Michel (31) 2017- Fournette (4), McCaffrey (8) 2016- Elliott (4) 2015-Gurley (10), Gordon (15) 2013-Paterson (29) 2012-Richardson (3), Martin (31), Wilson (32)