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What hit? That was interference.

It isn’t a plan. As Thorny likes to mention with some frequency, every team in the league gets 7 new opportunities to add new young talent to their team every year. When noone wants to come to your organization, there is little alternative, so you roll with those 7 league granted chances and see if snake eyes doesn’t come up this time. And you try to sell them to the fanbase as a plan.

How backhanded a compliment is it that I invoke Hanlon’s Razor here? I have little doubt that it is a combination of the two at play.

What was KA’s line? We talked to a number of candidates? I bet those conversations were short. And not by KA’s design. Until shown otherwise, my belief continues to be that TP had so thoroughly polluted the reputation of this team that good players with options, and successful coaches and GMs with an actual market for their services, that are concerned about maintaining that market, will not come here. Period. And that is the root cause for the extreme reliance on build from within, inexperienced coaches and GMs, and a fear of the FA market in general. Of course, EEE only exacerbates this. Lindy Ruff is a hail mary signing of a coach with loyalty to the team and fanbase, that is at a point in his career where there is no next job to worry about. Seeing the fan vidoes of Lindy does not give me the optimism it gives many of the others. I see an old guy who is at the point in his career where he should be doing PR appearances and events, not going through the demands that head coach in the best league in the world needs to be doing. If the Lindy Ruff hiring fails, there are no options available to KA. And therefore no options available for TP. This could be a dead end, one way street. That is why I do not fear a new owner. If Lindy fails, there are no credible options for Terry and Kevin. Bleak, I know. But that is what my gut tells me.

My theory is Lindy had to be talked into this, and agreed out of a sense of loyalty to Buffalo. There were no other established, successful coaches that wanted the job.

We already flipped a coin to either chase a cup or lose the franchise. We lost that one. This choice is the same. There is literally nothing to lose at this point.

Oh hell yeah. What are the potential outcomes of a sale? 1. Awesome owner. Committed to doing what it takes to change the culture. Brings respect to an organization that used to have huge respect. Hell yeah, gimme some. 2. Crappy owner, just looking for the long term investment. Ok, so nothing changes. Whatever. Eventually apathy sets in and noone cares. We’re not that far from this now. Push. 3. Owner that moves the team. Just speeds along number 2 anyway. I see no downside and nothing but upside to an owner change.

If you knew what you were missing you’d bail now LOL

Trending downward….

Looking forward to the MSG+ review. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, we won’t get fooled again.

Hittin the good stuff early, I see.

That ratio is gonna swap fast if Boston’s season starts to go to hell.

Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder.

I am starting to think Rosen is a 2 contract NA pro and then has a lengthy career on the other side of the pond.

Oh, so NOW Rivet has an opinion worthy of respect!

Fuhrer was a non starter. Dont give me that look. It was low hanging fruit.

Seems straightforward. If we lose a C to injury, Krebs rotates in. If we lose a winger it’ll be Kulich or Rousek depending on role.

So here we are, on the precipice of Iran launching ballistic missiles towards Israel. Shits getting real. There are no good guys here, just innocent victims.

Yup. I got dinged by this 2 seasons ago.

I was hopeful that MSG plus would be an acceptable solution when it was announced. The lack of an option to stream games at a price that I value has definitely contributed to my reduced interest in watching this team. Between the price and PA’s reports on the quality of the stream itself (and of course the quality of the content being streamed), MSG plus hasn’t been a good value option. Being in market I am left with pirated streams or not watching. Pirated streams have been a pain in the ass IME and often too frustrating to pursue.

I thought I heard on Friday that Buffalo was on pace for a month long average of 68 deg, which had never happened before. Did Saturday and Sunday blow that?

As a casual fan I can’t hep but wonder if the Bills spent so much energy trying to build a team to beat KC that they built a team ill prepared for Baltimore.

There was a ton of change, but one of the biggest changes most of us wanted to see wasn’t one of them, a bonafide top 6 forward. That would have been a huge confidence booster. New, old coach - does he still have it? New bottom 6 - are they at least equal to the sum of their parts? Or are they products of their old systems? A couple of carry over additions from the trade deadline to blend in. Does Byram fit what Ruff wants to do? There are alot of variables from the previous edition that are being thrown into the Vita-Mix. I got nuthin. We’ll know by Thanksgiving.

He’s Kjell’s son. He’ll likely have more Kjell’s game. Rangy, steady, calm. Not an aggressive, physical game. Coaches can’t paint new leopard spots.