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  1. Jacob Bryson clears Waivers and was assigned to Rochester

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    5 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

    Now who was it that told me at the end of training camp that they should trade him because he would definitely be picked up on waivers? Come on fess up, I forget which one of you it was but I know you're out there...........................Was it you el tigre? Wish I could remember. 

    To be fair, waiving a guy at the beginning of the season vs. 1/3 of the way through where he only made the line-up for 3 games on a bad team is different.

  3. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    14 hours ago, Taro T said:

    IF the Bills win out, they are nearly a lock for the playoffs at this point.

    It looks like the teams ahead of Buffalo have 18 games total remaining between them (including KC's and Baltimore's games) and not counting the Fishies Bills game.  There are 5 games between 2 of those teams (Cincy at KC, Cleveland at Cincy, Cleveland at Houston, Houston at Indy, and Miami at Baltimore).  

    Saw a scenario laid out by Kevin Massare stating this was the only way for the Bills to win out and miss the playoffs.  

    His scenario went:

    Cincy beats Pittsburgh, KC, and Cleveland;

    Cleveland beats Houston and Jest;

    Indy beats Atlanta, Vegas, and Houston; 

    Miami beats Dallas and Baltimore;

    and Baltimore beats the 9ers or Pittsburgh.

    Leaving Cincy, Cleveland, Indy, and Buffalo all at 11-6 with Baltimore and Miami ahead of that.  And presumably Buffalo loses all the tiebreakers.  But even with all those teams even with or ahead of Buffalo and KC doing whatever taking their division, the Bills still could still be in 7th.

    BUT, Jax can also end up at 11-6 without playing any of those other teams and they beat Buffalo earlier.  IF that happens and all the rest of that occurred as well then that would make Buffalo the 8th seeded team missing the playoffs.  

    Provided KC loses to Cincy, it doesn't matter what they'd do because they'd win their division or lose it to another team that would have fewer wins than the Bills that would then win the division.

    But, if Buffalo wins out, there need to be 14 other games that all work against the Bills to keep them out of the playoffs.  And depending on who would have the tie breaker between Baltimore and the Bills, there might need to be 1 of 2 other games also working against the Bills.  (And, no, didn't bother to factor in the potential of ties.  Don't care THAT much about this stuff.)

    So, it's close enough for government work to say, if the Bills win out they're in.

    It's going to be such a shame when the team lays a giant turd and loses this week.

    12 hours ago, Doohickie said:

    You bring up an interesting point.  All time leading QB rushing touchdowns:

    1. Cam Newton - 75 TD
    2. Josh Allen - 49 TD
    3. Steve Young - 43 TD
    4. Jack Kemp - 40 TD

    Considering the eras of the players above him involved, Kemp (and Tobin Rote 3 behind him) must have been something else considering no one else in the top-10 are played in that era.

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  7. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    Posted · Edited by MattPie
    softened my opinion up a bit, lol

    56 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

    Well, I think most NFL observers would say Reid is a great coach.  He's accomplished more as a HC than McD has, but Reid's been a HC for 25 years, while McD has been one for 7.

    Taylor is pretty well regarded too, although he has a career losing record.  It's not crazy to say he outcoached McD in the playoffs last year, but I don't think that it's inarguable either.  The Bills had a very difficult year last year, with a number of very unusual events hanging over them.  Could a different coach have righted the ship and beaten Cincy in the playoffs?  Possibly, but I don't think we can be sure either way.

    I too would like to see better and sharper end-of-game execution, and it's fair to hold McD accountable (although several of the end-of-game debacles have been freak occurrences that I don't think it's fair to blame him for -- the Kyler Murray hail mary, JA's fumble in the end zone vs Minny, etc.).  I just think that that is one of many elements that a coach should be evaluated on, and that he shines in most of them.

    Let's see what happens this year.

    It's early to call McD great. As someone else said, good to very good right now. Few people outside Buffalo would remember McD for his work to date; that's not the sign of a great coach. Right now, McD's legacy *is* late-game bad decisions. Frankly, so was Andy Reid's until KC (from my memory of him in Philly).

    The 7 vs 25 argument is, well, unconvincing. There are far more coaches that had 7 good years and disappeared than the few that won it 18 years later. Maybe McD gets there someday, but the odds are not in his favor.

  10. Do you care about the Sabres anymore?

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    1 hour ago, nfreeman said:

    I won't stop caring about this team, which is in my blood, though unless and until it becomes clear to me that they have stopped trying to be a real NHL franchise.

    1 hour ago, Carmel Corn said:

    Unfortunately, YES.....it's like a disease though.  I moved away over 30 years ago, but the Sabres are in my blood.

    The lifespan of a red blood cell is approximately 4 months, so if you can go cold-turkey over the summer you should be free of this affliction!

  11. Do you care about the Sabres anymore?

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    I pulled away around 2017-18 maybe. I still care enough to hang out here and watch the 10-minute highlights most of the time, but if SDS shut the site down I wouldn't go looking for a new community to talk Sabres. There was a gap in there of a year or two where I didn't come here nor watch anything but I'm back to daily now.

  13. Levi sent to Roch

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    On 12/11/2023 at 8:12 PM, Quint said:

    I'd have to say that playing Levi three times in a row, after bringing him up from the AHL after losing Lukkonnen to injury is a real indictment on Comrie.

    To be honest, I think it's *kinda* normal with a young goaltender. He may be better than your backup, but you send him to the AHL so he's playing 50+ games instead of 20. I remember the Sabres doing the same thing in the past, although I can't recall who it was. Comrie certainly looks like the 3rd best of the 3, but that doesn't mean you send him to the AHL to have Levi play once a week in the NHL.

  17. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    1 hour ago, Broken Ankles said:

      The shear irony in this game is incredible.  On the Chiefs side, their complaining about a 5 yard penalty, that was clearly a penalty to define the loss is comical when less than 10 months ago, the won the Superbowl on a questionable penalty that in fact confirmed the win. As noted above, they had three other chances to get into FG range. 
      On the Buffalo side, we were waiting for a 2 minute drive defensive meltdown, which has been the only reason this team was not 9-3 coming into this game. And we saw it.  The blitz decision (and execution thereof) yielded one of the all time greatest plays to go ahead late in the game.  Except in the record books it never happens, but for what I can only describe as a Billsian blunder.  This type of error could only happen to our team right?  But yet it not only happened to another team, it happened to them, against us, helping preserve a victory.  Seriously ironic *****. Maybe a cosmic thing happened on Sunday where we all transported to the Bizzaro world. 

      Happy the Bills got a W, but would have liked to see it done in a cleaner and less controversial way.  

     

    Dare I say, the Chiefs lost in one of the Billiest ways I think we'll see this year.

    54 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

    Add that Frank Wycheck died on Sunday.  He was the guy who threw the famous (infamous to Buffalo) Home Run Throwback lateral on the kickoff of the Bills v Titans game.  Many reviews and replays have been analyzed of this play, which looks like a forward lateral and illegal.  

    I think your Bills-colored glasses are on (and I realize I'm in the minority here). There's at least one replay that pretty clearly shows the ball going backwards. Certainly not enough to overturn the call on the field. The refs/review got it right, as much as I wanted it to be the other way.

     

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  18. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    22 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:

    Confirmed: In 2019, McDermott gave a speech to the team where he cited the 9/11 terrorists as paragons of coordinated teamwork. Incredible.

     

    More importantly, McDermott copping to this specific story lends credence to the rest of the reporting in Dunne’s piece.

     

    14 minutes ago, inkman said:

    Well it seems like if they give this dude enough rope he’s gonna hang himself.  Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end. 

    I don't know anything but the two quoted posts. But if someone in the Bills org was sitting on this until an opportune time to get rid of McD, this would be it.

  20. The even randomer thread

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    2 hours ago, shrader said:

    I’m am so glad I work from home. The presentation I’m sitting through right now and just walked out of the room on, I couldn’t do that if I was there in person. 

    This sounds ridiculous, but I was in a meeting with camera on earlier. It was a great meeting, but damn did I really wish I could have gotten up to make some tea. Working at home has me so spoiled, lol.

  21. Eric Robinson acquired by the Sabres from Columbus for a 2025 conditional 7th Round Pick

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    28 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

     

    Well I looked.   Sure, I can see some diverse draft selections in the past few years, not much over the longer term.

    Speaking of tired narratives, how about the one concerning the Sabres best in the league prospect pool? 

    Why can't a team with the "best prospect pool" provide a capable replacement for 4th liner Zemgus Girgensons?   They called up Biro, Kulich and Rosen.  None of them are suited for that job.   We are replacing Girgensons - so what happened to Rousek, Murray, Cedarquist, Kozak, or anyone else? 

    As it stands, Robinson should be a very decent 4th line filler forward on lower level teams.  And he might even be free so he fits the efficient, effective, and economic model.   Now that is great news!   Terry should give Kevyn a Christmas bonus! 

    I think the Sabres probably still have the best prospect pool in terms of talent, but not for building a complete team. I wholeheartedly believe in Best Player Available, but the second part of that is you need to be willing to trade some of those players for other equivalent quality players that bring something else to build the team. If seems like we're stuck at that point. Some of these guys, as much as we all like them, need to be turned into good gritty forwards and D for the Sabres to improve.

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  22. Posters who became fans during the drought—why?

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    Posted · Edited by MattPie

    13 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

    Which is why I need 2nd, 3rd, even 4th teams to root for. 

    I cannot imagine what it must be like for someone who only likes the Sabres over this last decade. That has to be absolutely brutal. 

    In my case, you start falling away. First, it was cancelling NHL tv (it being kinda terrible helped), then I took a long break from this site. I got sucked back to visiting here in the last year or so, but I'm really questioning that now too. You just find other things to do.

    (My avatar dates from the tail end my fandom before the break)

    13 hours ago, Thorny said:

    I wish I could do that. But for me, my first love wasn’t hockey. My first love was the Buffalo Sabres. They introduced me to the game, not the other way around. I’ve been a fan literally longer than I can remember because of my dad: there was no choice. I don’t really give a sh*t about hockey, truly, beyond the Buffalo Sabres. And that’s me being candid 

    Same, at best when I was really into it in the mid-2000s, I'd watch a game on TV on mute while listening to the Sabres stream (before I had Center Ice). I'd sometimes watch other playoff games, but not really. If it isn't the Sabres I'm not *that* interested.

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