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That's what I thought so since you beat me to it, all I have left is the snark I was going to include in my post: Next thing we'll hear about Harry is he running around naked threatening to jump out a window.

The person most responsible for stopping the Jets offense last year was GM Joe Douglas. Gase was a horrible head coach but his GM did him & especially Sam Darnold no favors by assembling a bad roster.

Yes, but he's rich & never lets the kids forget that.

When I want to call someone the word that was filtered out, I just call him a Jauron & everyone knows what I'm talking about like "Belichick can be such a Jauron"

Maybe Marrone was, although technically he came from Syracuse University and most of his recent jobs were in college & at the time the criticism was when he was NO's OC Payton ran the offense. As far as Williams & Mularkey, there were much hotter assistants than either one of them. When Gregg was hired it was only after Marvin Lewis basically said his wife wouldn't let him go anywhere near Buffalo. Lewis was the top choice & the Bills settled for Williams. When Mularkey was hired, pretty much on the cheap end compared to others out there, the talk was that Donahoe hired Mularkey rather than someone else because he wanted a coach that could not gain enough power to push him out like what happened to him in Pittsburgh.

Every time I see someone using QB stats I'm reminded how meaningless they are-EVERY ONE of them. QB rating 87 vs 67-I'd take Allen's rookie year over Tua's 10 times out of 10 because he looked so much better with the game on the line than Tua, whose coach never trusted him with the game on the line. 5 wins in 11 starts (The Houston loss was really on Peterman) was a virtual miracle with the 2018 roster. 11 TDs vs 10 TDs passing to nobody. Tua total TDs produced when adding in rushing TDs by the QB 14, Josh 18. Sometimes a QB with guts throws more INTs than someone playing it safe (see Johnson, Edwards & Taylor for examples of Bills QBs afraid to throw the ball). It's worse when the minor leaguers he's throwing to can't run proper routes like the 2018 Bills WR corps(e). From the very start Josh Allen was, is & always will be miles ahead of Tua. Tua sucks and always will. There's a good chance the 2022 Dolphins QB is Deshaun Watson if he stays out of jail.

Sean McDermott is the only first time coach in Bills history with a winning record. The most successful Bills coaches prior to McDermott all had prior pro football head coaching experience. All the 1st time HCs failed. I think the main reason is because Ralph did not believe in paying top dollar for an unproven coach and the hot assistants weren't about to take less money to come to Buffalo with an owner who liked to "make suggestions" to his head coach. Instead we got coaches who got promoted within like Jim Ringo and Kay Stephenson, and when Ralph went outside the organization, he ended up with coaches like Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey, & Doug Marrone.

Bruce was in the Bills locker room, not another team's. He was saying that when you are trying to win as a team, nobody cares what you do off the field (unless, like Bruce it leads to a suspension). This is not true in all locker rooms. I read a story when Glen Parker was with the Giants he had some problems with some of his more religious teammates because he is an atheist.

Even though I've been to 3 of the last 4 opening days where they let fans in, they were all road games. The good news was I was able to be at the R. Rich tailgate in a bar in Baltimore for 2 of them. I haven't been to a Bills home opener since 2013, so I'm looking forward to the tailgating.

The biggest change between the AFC championhip game & the Super Bowl was home field advantage. KC had it against the Bills, Tampa had it against KC. When Tampa won the NFC before the Bills/KC game I was pretty down thinking that Tampa would be unbeatable as the only team with home field in the history of the Super Bowl. If the Bills make it this season, the team I don't want to face is the Rams.

I watched the Libertarian party debates in 2016 & came to the conclusion that he was out of his mind & I never wanted to buy anything from someone that bat *hit crazy.

I remember the night game in Pittsburgh against the Duck where the Steelers were favored. I couldn't believe it, all I could say was Josh Allen vs Duck Hodges as I raced to the casino to bet the Bills on the money line.

PFF's rating is based on a Pole who told them he thinks Josh will regress. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-pff50-ranking-50-best-players-nfl-2021 40. QB JOSH ALLEN, BUFFALO BILLS Allen was spectacular in 2020, but it was such a giant leap forward from his previous baseline — his overall PFF grade jumped from the mid-60s to 90.9 last year — that the smart analysis is to expect some degree of regression, given what we know about player development at this level. It was certainly a breakout season, but players rarely maintain a development curve with a trajectory to the moon year over year. Allen’s most impressive improvement came in terms of accuracy, where he went from a player with an adjusted completion rate dead last as a rookie to ranking fifth in the league in 2020.

The last couple of years I've subscribed to the Bills only news from the Buffalo News. It was $35.88/ year. That option is now gone, so if you were a Bills only subscriber the reason you've been getting the daily digital issue via e-mail lately is they switched you to a full subscription. I liked receiving the paper & I now will get the Buffalo News every day for $179.88/year. That's less than 50 cents a day, so even though it's $144 more than I've been paying, I like the idea of getting the entire Buffalo News 7 days a week.

Park cars at McKinley Mall & shuttle people to Highmark to replace some of the lost parking. The mall just sold & is barely occupied. According to an internet search, there are over 6,800 parking spots.

Be careful saying you like boobs on a message board of a team previously coached by Gregg Williams😄

It seems like same old, same old. I was going through the archives & found this from 2018:

Maybe when Polian was around, but gone by the time Brandon took the job.

I haven't read the whole thread, so I may be adding a duplicate opinion, but the tweet that says the Bills might need to look elsewhere to play while the new stadium is being built is ridiculous. They just need to do what's been done in NYC & NJ. Met Life Stadium was built on another part of the property while the 2 NJ teams still played in Giants Stadium. City Field was built on another part of the Shea Stadium land and the new Yankee Stadium was built a block or 2 away from the old one & the baseball continued in the old stadiums during construction. Losing some parking is better than finding a stadium away from Orchard Park to play in for a season or 2. After the new stadium is built, the old one is demolished & full parking is returned. I don't remember any problem with parking at Giants Stadium when Met-Life was being built, just add more available buses to the game or some kind of shuttle from an auxiliary area down the road from Highmark.

If the unvaccinated want to go & sit with everybody else, so be it. But if they are causing segregation & the team is going to lose 10-20k fans per game it might as well be them. They're the ones in danger, not you or I. If they want to take their chances go ahead & let them in but don't segregate them & bump me out of my seat that I bought as a single game. Full capacity should be full capacity, not 80%.

Segregating fans means fewer fans in the stadium. Fewer fans means less revenue. There were 7,271 fans at the Yankees/Blue Jays game Wednesday & 7,288 last night. That's less than half capacity & even when they go to 95% vaccinated & 5% unvaccinated, they'll still only be at 80% capacity. Why should the Bills lose 20% of their gate revenues when they can fill the stadium completely just to satisfy a minority of fans who refuse to get vaccinated? As far as I'm concerned, fill it to capacity without segregation. The vaccinated fans aren't in danger.

He might be able to. The County owns the building & he is the county's CEO. The policies allow businesses to make their own COVID rules. However, his plan might fall apart on the basis that he's letting unvaccinated players in, so he can't say that it's a fully vaccinated facility.

Erie County still wants 100% vaccinations: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/erie-county-if-you-want-to-see-a-bills-game-in-person-you-still-need/article_a0bfc082-cf81-11eb-967d-23fe7b803176.html New York State may have given the Buffalo Bills the green light to fill up stadium seats at 100% capacity without restrictions, but Erie County hasn't. County Executive Mark Poloncarz is not changing his position that the only Bills fans who can attend games in person are those who are fully vaccinated. "Right now I do not have any change to report in our position on the Bills’ fan attendance issue," said Poloncarz's spokesman Peter Anderson. "With well over two months to go until the opening game, it seems reasonable that there should be enough vaccinated people by that time to have a 100% vaccinated attendance." He again repeated the message of county leaders urging all residents to get vaccinated. Whether this directive will change as it gets closer to the official start of the season remains to be seen.

It's a pretty interesting list of teams that drafted the wrong 1st round QB & the next 1st round QB taken proved the higher drafting team wrong. Here's a list. In order to get on the list both QBs had to be 1st round picks and the 2nd QB had to be the next QB taken in that draft. Ironically, the Bills won the battle twice: 2020 Miami-Tua, LA Chargers Herbert 2018 Jets-Darnold, Bills-Allen 2017 Bears-Trubisky, KC-Mahomes 2012 Washington-RGIII, Miami-Tannehill 2006 Arizona-Leinart, Denver-Cutler 2005 SF-Al.Smith, GB-Rodgers 1999 (happened twice) 1st, Cleveland-Couch, Philadelphia McNabb 2nd time, same year Cincinnati-Ak. Smith, Minnesota-Culpepper 1987 STL-Stouffer, Atl-C. Miller 1983 KC-Blackledge, Bills-Kelly 1982 Baltimore-Schlichter, Chicago-McMahon 1979 Cincinnati-Thompson, NYG-Simms

We started in the endzone & by the 4th quarter we moved to the sidelines. I don't recall paying that much, I treated a couple of friends & I think it was about $100 per ticket. The deal was they drove & paid for parking, which I think was $40.