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Clearly you’ve forgotten the game day threads before The Troubles.

They also need to trade rostered players to make room for the guys coming in through the trades you are suggesting.

Most of “we” anyway.

The sound of truthi-ness. Helenius seems like he might be our top prospect right now. But he’s still a big unknown. There is value in moving an unknown for a known quantity, especially when success has been so hard to find. It would have to be for a substantial player, but moving even our top prospects needs to be on the table right now.

We are Aldi shoppers. Where we live its the most reliable game in town. In years past we would buy the bulk of our groceries at Aldi, but we bought our meat and some fancy things from other sources. The quality of the other source we used for meat slipped a good bit so we started buying more and more meat from Aldi. We’ve had mostly pretty good experiences. Not great experiences, certainly nothing to brag about, but decent enough for weekday. The Aldi grass fed skirt steak I cooked today was probably the worst steak I have ever attempted to eat. It was rubber at medium rare. Not hard to chew. Completely incapable of being chewed. I do not believe I have ever experienced steak this tough and unchewable. I didn’t even give it to the dog. And yes, I do know to slice this cut thin across the grain. It didn’t matter. In fairness, we have bought alot of skirt steaks from Aldi. A few have been a little tougher than I want. Most have been pretty OK. OK enough that we keep going back to the well. This one, though, will definitely have me looking sideways at the skirt steaks for quite awhile. Yeah, first world problems

I would not be surprised to here that KA is the first GM Terry hired that didn’t object to “Terry’s way”.

Player mix, age, coaching, hell, upper management expectations. Its all been lackluster. Ive said several times recently that every player on this roster would be a useful, productive player on a good playoff team. They would be properly supported in their proper role. Here they are asked to do too much with too little support and too little messaging of success from above.

And, I guess I never thought about it very much, but I am now convinced that Darcy’s firing and Murray’s actions that led to his firing are the result of how Pegula wants to run his business. Add Botteril to the mix, and likely LaFontaine, and Terry has chewed through a ton of front office personnel due to his need to be a decision maker. We’re positively ***** as fans.

If you are following direct orders from the guy with the deep pockets, which I believe was the case here, the only other course of action is resignation. Regarding the general tone of this post, well yeah, the anti-tank crew were preaching that all along.

I agree with this, but I think this is true alongside the trade for Byram also being a win.

What kind of pick do you think Mitts would garner today?

I don’t really agree with this assessment, but then again, I wasn’t terribly high on Mitts as a player. Until the season played out, there wasn’t a chance Cozens got moved. Obviously that changed as the season played out. And I am not convinced Mitts would have been any better in that role. I think KA turned an asset that was lowering in value into an asset that has stabilized at a higher value. And I am convinced currently that Byram is a higher value asset because of the report that many teams have interest, and because of the numbers he put up with minimal special teams time. Mitts is struggling to hang on, and Byram appears to have interest around the league. Did Byram plug a hole in Buffalo? Not really. He was a duplicate skill set to Dahlin and Power, and I would slot him between those two in regards to positive impact on the team. From a team building sense, I don’t think the Byram trade was a good one. But from a getting-the-better-asset sense, the Byram trade was a win for Buffalo. Whether KA can effectively take advantage of it is another story entirely.

Poor wording on my part. I was referring to the timeline of those two events. Weren’t they close in timing?

Didn’t the “suffering” line go with the public release of that graphic showing all the 1st rd picks on playoff team rosters? No way that went out to the STHs without TPs eyeballs on it. Especially given what we know now. I am not sure what the fire-able action was. Darcy also said the owner would determine the extent of the rebuild, and clearly the owner got what he wanted. The way I see it, Darcy was the good soldier at the time.

Ok. Your opinion is different than mine. I don’t see Dahlins points in the Norris voting more than doubling if the team made the playoffs. I just don’t.