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Albany,n.y.

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  1. Whoever made the decision to draft Tua over Herbert shouldn't have a job in the NFL.
  2. I got a lot of heat from the Brohm supporters when I tried to explain that there was no way that our management at the time was capable of outsmarting the best GMs in the league by signing a guy off GB's practice squad who they didn't even bat an eye for when he was waived before his 2nd season. My theory was that QBs are treated like gold by the NFL GMs. Teams don't release a 2nd round QB one year later and no waiver claims come in unless the film (mostly pre-season) indicates he's a bust. I said at the time how can anyone believe Russell Brandon could steal a guy with GMs like Ozzie Newsome & Bill Polian not having made a waiver claim earlier in the year. The funniest replies gave Buddy Nix the credit as if he could ever outsmart all the GMs. The closest thing to Brohm since then is Josh Rosen who up until he failed with 3 or 4 teams, his die hards still were waiting for him to emerge. The bottom line is the actions of the GMs in the league can give you a pretty good idea if a highly drafted QB is a bust when his 1st team dumps him. The ones with any potential left don't land on practice squads. The only exceptions are late round QBs or free agent QBs who can sometimes be far enough under the radar that a team can sneak him through waivers. But a 1st, 2nd or even a 3rd round QB who gets dumped within 2 years with virtually no interest around the league isn't going to be anyone's answer. I'm so glad we are light years away from fans getting excited with a QB signing off another team's practice squad.
  3. I saw -7.5 earlier today, but either way it's a bad beat. That's why I stay away from spreads like this. The only Bills game I've lost in 6 games since legalized betting started in 2019 was a six or 6.5 spread vs the Bengals in 2019 when the Bills squandered a big lead and won by 4. Just like the Tampa bettors tonight all I needed was a field goal for the money.
  4. He was taken with our pick, but I'd rather have Josh Allen. Truly a trade that worked out for both teams. Tampa won a Super Bowl with Vea and we will win one pretty soon with Josh.
  5. I curse at home but usually don't at the stadium. I used to go to every home game but now I'm down to a home game & a game in NJ & sometimes Baltimore. I also used to go to a non-Bills game a year in California but haven't since 2018. One time I was in the upper deck in the early 90s & got mad & yelled out "Where's the f'n defense" I got a lot of nasty looks & comments & learned to cut out the cursing at games. I doubt I'd get that response today since the crowd has gotten a lot ruder & cruder than it was 30 years ago. There was a time in the 1988 when I was in NE & the Patriots fans started throwing beer cans at me after I stood up & cheered a sack by the Bills. I then got up looked at the security and screamed loud enough for the whole section to hear me "They're throwing beer cans at me, if one of them hits me I'll sue your f***ing stadium." They ignored me & pretty soon after I had to leave my friends & join a group of Bills fans where it was safer to sit.
  6. It's more about geography. We will get the 4:05 games in Albany if the Bills or Jets are playing at 4 & the other team didn't have a 1:00 CBS game. In some rare cases they might even show the Patriots at 4 when neither the Jets nor Bills are available. It's usually 1) Jets, 2) Bills & a distant 3rd for NE, but this season the Jets have been so bad & the Bills so good that we're 2-0 head to head in broadcast decisons between the 2 teams. Cleveland is close enough to Buffalo to send the Browns game there when the Bills aren't playing in the afternoon. I suspect the same would apply to when the Steelers are in the same situation.
  7. Don't you know that Josh was inaccurate? The Nicks are going to cling to his 57.7% completion percentage vs KC when they compare him unfavorably to Zach Wilson and all the other bums who can't carry Josh's jock.
  8. Please take hands of Clay off the list. One of the things the list shows is that when people were saying no free agents want to play in Buffalo during the drought the reality was that no free agents wanted to play for a losing team in Buffalo. Before & after the drought players wanted to come to Buffalo to chase a Super Bowl ring. Nothing attracts free agents more than a franchise QB like Kelly, Allen & to a lesser extent Bledsoe. Remember, at the time they signed Hyde & Poyer were very much under the radar.
  9. I've been watching the LAC closely this season. They have 2 major weaknesses: 1) Their run D is below average. You can run on them all day long. 2) Their kicker doesn't belong in the NFL. The guy has missed 4 extra points & can't be relied on. As a result their coach, Staley, is going for it on 4th down instead of kicking any FGs that are not chip shots. So far Herbert has been bailing him out, but that can't continue the whole season. Eventually his kicker is going to cost him a game or 2. Their only loss, by 3 points to the Cowboys, Vizcaino missed a 44 yard field goal at the end of the 1st half.
  10. I'm rooting for the Chargers every game until they get their 11th win & I get to cash my futures bets on them to go over 10.5 wins. After that if they're close to the Bills for home field I'll root against them every game.
  11. So who is it going to be this week? Jerry Hughes wants to show these youngsters he's still got it.
  12. The map now has all of NYS getting Chargers at Ravens ! https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2021&wk=6
  13. They've got a chance when the new stadium is built to do it quietly. Just leave him off the new wall.
  14. So being a bigot & an a-hole is worse than being a murderer in today's NFL. Or maybe Tampa is much more sensitive than Buffalo.
  15. Any rating that says Rob Johnson was a better Bills QB than Jim Kelly was always worthless.
  16. I'm always against QB stats. Here's another one you can toss-Completion %. It's one of the things the clowns who claim Josh was bad his 1st 2 years cling to. Well look at this week's games. Josh completed 57.7% of his passes this week in spite of the fact that he played at an MVP level. Josh ranked 26th out of 30 QB in completion percentage, behind even Zach Wilson who stunk up London. Another MVP level performance, that by Justin Herbert ranked 21st this week at 60.47. Meanwhile, Jacoby Brissett, whose Dolphins got smoked in Tampa Bay was 12th at 69.23% while getting intercepted once & sacked 3 times and Mike Glennon, whose Giants got trampled on in Dallas ranked 16th at 64% while throwing 2 picks.
  17. It's offensive to the teams the Bills are whupping because when they play the Bills in Buffalo, they keep getting reminded that they're getting a beatdown every time the song is played after the Bills score. Let's keep offending the opponents all the way through the Super Bowl.
  18. Whatever Schneider did or didn't do has nothing to do with the fact that the team was named by a white supremacist whose intentions can only be viewed as sinister based on his racist life. Knowing the founder's history of hatred, Schneider should have folded earlier. Since the team was named by a bigot who in today's world would be driven out of ther league just like Sterling was forced to leave the NBA, the original intent has to be questioned. A general rule is err on the side of caution. That's what was done in the case of removing a name created by a known racist.
  19. Dan Schneider didn't come up with the name & the facts are he is the owner who REMOVED the name from the team. So your assertion that someone is blaming the guy for the name who removed the team name, as well as removing the original owner from the Ring of Fame and website, is totally illogical.
  20. Considering that the original owner & founder of the team was a flaming racist, I doubt he named them to honor anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Preston_Marshall As a result of a "gentlemen's agreement" promoted by Marshall, NFL teams did not sign black players until 1946, when two teams broke the agreement. Marshall refused to do so, claiming that integrating the team would cause the team to lose fans in the Southern United States and his team was at the time the southernmost team in the NFL.[15][16] He said that "We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites."[5] His refusal to integrate was routinely mocked by Shirley Povich, a columnist for The Washington Post, who called him "one of pro football’s greatest innovators, and its leading bigot."[17] Marshall unsuccessfully sued Povich for $200,000 after a critical article.[18] Marshall downplayed the issue of integration, saying "I am surprised that with the world on the brink of another war they are worried about whether or not a ***** is going to play for the Redskins" and doubted that "the government had the right to tell the showman how to cast the play." Marshall had a long-running feud with Redskins shareholder Harry Wismer, who favored integration.[5] In 1962, United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy issued an ultimatum: unless Marshall signed a black player, the government would revoke the Redskins' 30-year lease on D.C. Stadium (later known as RFK Memorial Stadium), which had been paid for by government money and was owned by the city government. [19] Marshall selected Ernie Davis, Syracuse University's All-American running back, as his top draft choice in the 1962 NFL Draft. However, Davis refused to play for the team, and was traded to the Cleveland Browns for All-Pro Bobby Mitchell, who became the first African American to play a game for the Redskins.[20] Marshall became an enthusiastic supporter of Mitchell.[3] The Redskins only had three winning seasons in the 23 years between the 1946 integration of the NFL and Marshall's death in 1969.[18][5] On a television show, Oscar Levant asked Marshall if he was anti-Semitic, to which he responded: "Oh no, I love Jews, especially when they're customers."[5] In June 2020, a statue of Marshall was removed from the grounds of RFK Stadium after it was defaced and vandalized following the George Floyd protests.[21] The same month, Marshall's name was also removed from the team's Ring of Fame at FedExField, [13] with the team also deleting all references to him on their website and removing his name from the history wall at the team’s training facility in Ashburn, Virginia.
  21. The list is all top 25 rookies rated by the writer, it is not odds of being named Defensive Rookie of the Year as the top rated player is a Center.
  22. It's a top 25 rookie list. If you open the link I responded to you'll see the list. The1st 10 or so get paragraphs & then the others are listed by the author's rating.
  23. How many games will they need before putting Spencer Brown on the list?
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