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  1. nfreeman
    I don't either. For example, I think Grigorenko was never going to be a good NHL player. However, I do think proper development can help a prospect realize his potential more quickly and more completely. Zemgus is 23. If he has more to give, there's plenty of time for him and Wowie to figure out how to extract it.
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    This raises another interesting question -- how much rope do McD and BB think they have? And how much do they actually have? Surely they're aware that TP has shown a fairly short fuse with coaches and GMs of both of his franchises -- do they not think they are at risk of the same fate if the team delivers 2 crappy seasons in a row? Especially if Mahomes turns out to be a star and/or if Dareus does the same for another team?
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    Zemgus will be an interesting test case for Howie. He's got size and speed and generally seems to have the necessary tools, and has shown flashes over the years, but has been more or less completely ineffective for the past couple of seasons. OTOH, it's hard to imagine a worse environment for a young player to spend his formative years (age 18-22) than the one provided by the Sabres for the past few years. Did that environment ruin him? Or was he never much of a prospect to begin with? Remember that Darcy drafted him -- and Darcy was terrible at drafting forwards.
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    That opinion on Aud Smell is also reasonable (heh). However: at what point does it become the right move for the Bills to dump Dareus and take the cap hit? I believe the next time he fails a drug test, he's suspended for a full season. What if that happens? Or what if he just continually misses meetings, is late for practice and generally doesn't buy in?
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    2 very valid opinions. There does appear to be an increasing drumbeat from the Bills' FO indicating that they are seriously considering dumping him and taking the hit.
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    The cap hit for next year is what I was referring to -- i.e. if they decide now to burden themselves with a $14MM hit for next season (which I think is the cap hit regardless of whether he is traded vs cut), they are really in ZFG mode -- and arguably to a foolish degree.
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    What to do with Dareus is an interesting question. If they dump him and take that cap hit, they are really in ZFG mode.
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    OK, I like Taylor Swift as much as the next guy, but...
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    Abso-freaking-lutely, and rightly so IMHO.
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    My wife and I have been re-watching Mad Men. We are in the middle of season 3. What a great show.
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    Nicely done. I've been trying to put my finger on what exactly is so off-putting about an unacceptably high percentage of Jeff's posts, and you nailed it. Liger's "mansplaining" description is also pretty apt. Jeff -- you need to turn it down from the current 9.5 to about a 5, and you need to stop repeatedly congratulating yourself about being right about a rookie QB based on his first preaseason. It's bothering too many people.
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    I'm not saying it's OK. (And certainly I'm inclined to defend my kid and his friends, who are all good kids.) I mentioned it mostly to point out that while the racial/ethnic/sexual orientation slur/insults of prior generations seem to have faded from usage, this one lives on. Whenever my computer acts funky, my tech support guy recommends downloading the free malware detector from malwarebytes.com and running a full scan. It's generally pretty effective.
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    This is nonsense.
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    Boys -- you're really flushing logic down the tubes here. If Mahomes is as good as the QB the Bills draft in 2018, then the Bills should've drafted Mahomes -- because then they would've had a (presumably) good QB for another year. And there are multiple ways the Bills trade could blow up in our faces.
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    On the QB/Mahomes question: there is a whole lotta pretending to know Mahomes' future going on in here by posters on both sides of the issue. I think everyone can (or should) agree that: - Mahomes may or may not turn out to be a good NFL QB - it's very difficult to forecast Mahomes' future NFL success, or for that matter that of any other college QB - the Bills have done an awful job of addressing the QB situation over the past dozen years - the Bills should've devoted more high draft picks to the QB position over the past dozen years - it would've been highly defensible for the Bills to have drafted Mahomes - if Mahomes turns out to be a good NFL QB, then the Bills made a mistake in not drafting him - if Mahomes washes out, but White turns out to be a good DB and whoever the Bills get with KC's pick next year also turns into a good player, then the Bills made a good move in making the trade. Bottom line: there are huge and unverifiable assumptions underlying both the "the Bills screwed up again by not drafting Mahomes" and "the Bills made a smart move in not drafting Mahomes" positions -- and the ceaseless and repetitive pretending otherwise in this thread is becoming tiresome.
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    I can't speak for 11, but I'm guessing he means that Bogo is going to have a big bounceback season. I'll hearken back to the words of the greatly-missed X. Benedict after the Myers-Kane-Bogo trade: he spoke highly of Bogo and said that Bogo was better than Myers.
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    I'm kinda optimistic on Marco. I know people here have differing opinions on Garth (I generally like his stuff, although he's certainly whiffed on a number of things), but here's his 2 cents: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/GARTHS-CORNER/Scandella-less/6/87137 Have the Sabres ever had a guy named Marco before? In any case, there's a real possibility that he could elevate Risto's game, allow McCabe to anchor a very strong 2nd pair and generally be a significant difference-maker in team construction terms and hopefully #fancystats if not #simpletonstats. And I'm getting psyched for hockey season too.
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    No. Plenty of posters here think the Bills are incompetent, and no one else gets the reactions that you get. Listen to the feedback you are getting. Don't assume the problem is with everyone else.
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    Very nice.
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    This is out of line. ...but there is some truth in this. There is something in the tone of Jeff's posts that is off-putting, and leaves room for improvement. I will note that there is absolutely nothing wrong, IMHO, with the "the Bills can be presumed incompetent until they prove otherwise" perspective.
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    FWIW, my 17-year-old son and his meathead friends -- most of whom come from highly PC families and all of whom live in a highly PC community -- call each other "retards" all the time.
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    Outstanding.
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    Me too. I'm confident Marty will be a real upgrade. My preference would've been for Marty to have become the color guy, with Razor at rinkside as the 3rd guy.
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    I don't think he's right, but the last 15 years or so certainly provide ample justification for his conclusions. Bottom line is that until they prove otherwise, the Bills have earned the presumption of incompetence.
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    My 2 cents on Nylander: - I do not expect him to play much in the NHL this year. He's only one year removed from his draft year, he did nada in Rochester last year, and he wasn't drafted by the JBott/Howie regime, so they are not invested in him. I suppose it's possible that he could have a tremendous preseason and force his way onto the roster, but we have no reason to expect this to occur. - If he somehow does make the roster, I could see him on the 3rd line if the Sabres go with 3 scoring lines as they did in the Roy-Max-Vanek days. So if their 3rd line includes, say, Reino and Kane, I could see Nylander as the RW on that line.
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