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I went to bed after 21-7 even though it was early. Exhausted and not wasting time. DVR just in case. Then delete. D didn't show up in the first half. O didn't show up in the 2nd half. I guess that's balance ! OL was terrible. Falcons just blitzed and Bills folded. 4-2 with lots to work on. That's a bottom 5 D right now. Johnson playing well inside. Walker shows. The rest aren't producing.

Pegula has owned this team going on 15 years and is 0 for in making the playoffs. Not once has he apologized to the fans for this mess or taken any responsibility. There is the culture right there. Continuous poor hire after poor hire that has damned this organization for a decade and a half. It starts at the top. I honestly don’t know how he walks around with his head up when he’s been the biggest failure of an owner in NHL history. I’ve stopped watching the games. If they aren’t serious about being competitive then they don’t get my time anymore.

It’s mimicking the Sabres season 😁

It's difficult to believe otherwise. I bet some AHL teams could beat them. Even Rochester.

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The fans that show up should dress in inflatable character costumes like the Portland protesters, and thoroughly mock the absurdity of it all.

Vrabel made his name with a prime Derrick Henry. He's overrated. An average coach who is hyped up as one of the best. Maye, unfortunately, looks legit.

The offensive line was also getting dominated for much of the game. And then Cook started cooking in the 3rd quarter, so of course we abandoned him in the 4th.

Adams is trying to reduce the number of negative posts.

It is all quite true to this day. Ryan McLeod is still young and is at least top 9 and can handle a top 6 role in certain situations. But the FACT is he was not top 6 on a Stanley Cup finals team in Edmonton. Zucker was top 6 in his prime years at Minnesota but was not in the recent years before coming to Buffalo. Look at his career stats. Both are good hockey players that benefitted from more ice time, power play time, and playing higher in the lineup than they did on past teams. They can probably be top 6 on a wild card playoff team, but I specifically referenced contenders like Florida, Avs, Vegas - the top tier teams.

How can you be so successful as a business man without knowing basic leadership? This guy sucks and I’m wondering if actual intelligent people made the business moves for him.

It’s da Bills fault. TBD specifically.

Title is the whole subject. I’m using an iphone, Safari browser. Damn, but pages have been slow to load the last couple of days. Anyone else?

I still don’t view him as a center. He’s a sniper. He’s a lot more like Victor Olofsson than people want to admit. He has a little more grit but not a ton.

They just aren't and haven't been a "team" since the tank. I don't have an issue with Dahlin as a captain, the guy cares, and you can tell after 3 games that he is not a happy dude getting frustrated watching it all unfold. They're just a bunch of players, some good, some with traits, but nothing cohesive.

The first two sentences are a friggin genius interpretation. I want to bear your children.

This just isn't true. Last season, Zucker (and McLeod) would be 4th on Florida and Vegas and 3rd in Colorado for forwards points. He/They is basically borderline 1st line player (by raw numbers). I say this because there is often a perception that a first line palyer is 100 points, a second line player is 70 points and a third liner is 50+ and that just isn't true. Tuch, Tage, Zucker, Norris, McLeod is genuinely 5 top 6 forwards. Our issue is depth - Quinn, Benson, Kulich, Doan, Krebs need to step up and the whole forward group needs to player better defensively. The Sabres have actually played pretty well for big chunks of the last 3 games. The issue is that they didn't break through, and then would often give up a goal or major chance on the counter attack and it would sap their will and momentum

... is the incredible depth of lowness the reason why the Sabres had to sign that castaway/cast-off goalie (Georgiev (sp?)) to an NHL contract rather than a PTO? the agent said: "Buffalo?! Pffff. Okay. But not a PTO. An actual contract." Because what other team would have signed a guy under those circumstances to anything other than a PTO?

The city is broke, the county doesn’t want anything to do with the arena, and the state just gave Pegula a boatload of money for the Bills stadium. It will either be a scaled back Pegula funded renovation, or get comfy in the arena as it stands today.

Here is the issue and I believe I mentioned this before. Anyone wondering if McD or BB should be let go, can forget it. IMO Pegula has made such a mess of the Sabres that even if he thinks he should fire one or the other, paralysis would set in, and he will do nothing. Reality…Josh Allen is saving McD & BB year after year, and on occasion when he is not superman, all of a sudden McD & BB don’t look as good.

Some enterprising Sabres fan needs to make a version of this Bears shirt

Adams getting an extension positioned as “one more kick at the can, this time (this, this, THIS time) for realz, is at least as likely as him getting canned

Yup, that's it. Pegula has to step away fully and give it to someone. He won't, but he has to. This is why I assume it'll be Jarmo. He's already here. You can argue that he didn't get it done in Columbus, but at least he's an experienced GM and hopefully learned from the mistakes he made there. But if they don't fix the culture nothing will change. The lack of effort and the lazy plays resulting in giveaways show you that the culture is totally broken. There is no excuse for that and those people need to go. The standard has to change and the bar of acceptability has to be raised. Not having a competitive camp started this. Merit didn't earn you a job on this team. All jobs were predetermined. That sends a bad message. Now you see Ruff will bench Kulich because he's not performed to last year's level. Oh my, what a shock, a young kid given too much too soon having a drop off. That never happens. So sure, Kulich should be down the line up but he's a kid. Admit you put him in a bad spot. It's your fault not his. Meanwhile Quinn, who has performed even worse still plays and he's older and has had more time to figure it out. So what does that say to them? It's all broken.

And without any action from him to the contrary there’s nothing left

Hoping your owner wants to win at sportsball is not a strategy.