That Aud Smell

Good stuff here:

We oughta cross post this in the PSE Creative thread. Solid content. Find the good personalities. Come up with a goofy idea. Let it rip.

Merely an honourary one, I hope.

Hmm. Really? Careful there. Let us not tempt the hockey gods.

Well, I'm definitely unsure of what you're saying, then. My point is as stated above: Peterman's demonstrated himself to be spectacularly incapable of playing QB in the NFL. (And there is no shame in that.) The fact that McDermott and his coaches on the O-side of the ball have failed in putting together a modern NFL offence doesn't, to me, suggest that Peterman's lost out on an opportunity to become an NFL QB (because he was drafted by and played for McDermott). On the contrary, the fact that McDermott selected and then believed in Peterman as an NFL QB is symptomatic of the incompetence that McDermott has exhibited with regards to offence in the NFL.

The idea that Peterman would have performed about the same in that game is laughable. I understand and even agree with people having some sympathy for the guy -- Sal Capaccio at WGR spoke well to the issue -- but I'm perplexed by the emerging narrative that Peterman could have been, might still be a good NFL quarterback, and, to this point in time, has had that opportunity dashed by McDermott & Co. Also: The Jets D is dispirited from what I can tell, but they have some decent personnel on that side of the ball.

They have 4 of them listed on the teams' directory pages. Maybe it's been the Sabres' improvement, but I haven't noticed much that's irked or disappointed me in a while on this front. And I vaguely recall thinking they'd done some good stuff, too.

Whoa. Was it AKA the Rolston Centipede?

I'm getting those excited feels. Last time the Sabres made a run, they were drawing, in part, on the experience of a group of guys who had sucked diesel fumes together in the A and had great success.

Peak Connolly is among my top-10 favourite Sabres of all-time. So much fun.

McDermott’s bad with the O. But, Holy Moses Jesus in a Christmas basket, he’s not Peterman-might-actually-be-good bad with the O. A washed up journeyman off the street came in and did stuff with the same plays and personnel on a week’s notice.

Potshots at N. Peterman from J. Peterman are weak sauce, but hardly bullying. Words matter. Their meanings matter. Peterman is not being bullied there. He’s being mocked in a mean spirited, and fairly unfunny, way.

STH price?

I remember that guy.

Yeah - I sorta got this tangent started on the wrong foot. SDS's remarking that the Bills FO and coaches may have information, experience with Pryor that we don't have, which info/experience were negative, is a very reasonable supposition to make.

And, frankly, thank goodness for that. And by that I mean both that (1) it's encouraging that this market would still support such a bedraggled club to that extent and (2) it's encouraging at this market would not continue to sell out that arena given the team's recent performance.

Those would presumably be grounds for termination. But @SDS was intimating that there are non-public/unknown reasons that would excuse Benjamin's performance, or otherwise contextualize his continued presence on the roster. My bad. I read that wrong. SDS is pretty clearly talking about Pryor. Which - pfffffff. Whatever. The guy's pretty obviously a problem child.

That's fair. Did someone say upthread that this game was like the other side of the coin from that Rangers game earlier in the season? When those two games are taken together, we can see that the team is getting what it deserves.

I reckon so. That guy's ability to keep that team churning seems like a form of black magic.

And what might ... [Paul Harvey voice] the rest of the story ... entail?

Last night’s win was just this side of a fluke. A fun fluke, but a fluke. If you simulate that game 10 times, TB wins 8.5 times (ha). So, 17 of 20. 85 of 100. Lots of work for this team to do; lots of growth needed.

Seeing the Bolts report about calling up Cernak reminds me: When the Bolts are in town, you'll see a LOT fair number of SYR/CNY Crunch fans in the building (with their Bolts gear). Which I have always found fun. Those are some serious fans.

Bills released Pryor. Not Richard. The guy whose first name I can't spell.

As I understand it, playing slow doesn't refer to quickness in smaller spaces. It's more about how (quickly) the player processes the game and how (well) the player makes decisions on what to do with the puck and/or their positioning on the ice.