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  1. That Aud Smell
    I was at the game. Sorry if this was addressed upthread: That crowd had *plenty* of liveliness to it (yes, on a Saturday night). The home team was just god awful. I’m about forever done on this chicken-egg debate of crowd noise and team’s quality. I couldn’t believe how bad the team looked. Then again, that squad is almost at tank level of AHL quality players. The winning goal was such a sad thing.
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    I'd thought Botterill was, more than anything, a smart game-theory-ish asset-manager. I'm sure he can do some talent evaluation, but I think he's more an exec who's going to figure out how various pieces fit together, this season and beyond. Nice.
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    Hear, hear. Hell yeah he could have had. Something is deeply wrong with that guy.
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    Benching Tyrod is tantamount to benching or trading Lehner or *Eichel*? Sheesh, for different reasons. I’m more on board with the trading Reinhart scenario.
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    It's the 2017 AFC. There ain't much cream. A deeply flawed AFC team will probably make the playoffs. Query whether that's what the fans really want. Maybe they do. We do disagree then. I had thought this was pretty widely agreed on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrPrqqTiHw Agreed.
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    I hear you. That's exactly what the conclusion must be: They think the rookie gives them a better shot at getting into the playoffs. I hope they're right. I tend to doubt they are.
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    ^ Thanks for stopping in @shotgunner!
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    He certainly had enough games to show what he had. The hanging chad, imo, is that the Dennison scheme was NEVER going to enable Taylor to succeed. I'm not even saying Taylor was/is capable of meaningful success in the NFL, but I think he might have been (be) given the right situation. I almost didn't get past #1 since his long ball is a demonstrated strength. Not that it means too terribly much in the overall scheme of a successful QB, but he can mos def put air under it and hit a guy in stride. I agree that his inaccuracy on normal throws and his inability to facilitate YAC are things that most likely doom him as a QB1 in the league. I agree with the take that Beane and McDermott are gutsy for doing this now. Whether they are stupid for having done so remains to be seen (and isn't necessarily tied to what happens this season).
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    I’ve been a pretty casual watcher so far this season. The happened with McCabe?! It was entertaining, I’ll grant. FGMTM was selling a bill of goods, yeah. I don’t find myself needing much comfort re the -bres (say it burz), but I do appreciate the sentiment.
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    Tyrod is limited. But he can be effective. And he is a horrible fit for a Dennison offence.
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    I saw mostly the second half of the game (most of second, all of 3rd and OT). I understand saying that they competed. It looked to me like the Penguins were running (skating) them out of the building most of the time.
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    Holy Christ - it sure looked that way when I watched that video of his throws in garbage time against NOLA. It was jarring how zip-less the ball looked.
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    A tad over-stated for my taste, but that may echo a point re how game planning seems to have led to the team's successes. The games against ATL and OAK seemed like games that -- almost by chance on some level -- the way the Bills staff planned wound up matching up really well against how the other teams' staffs planned. And I'm sure execution played a role, as we hear over and over from McDermott.
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    Peterman should be okay so long as the defense and special teams can recover 3 fumbles against the Chargers.
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    I’m not buying it. It’s a whack a mole approach, sure. But then that forces your neighbors to take similar actions. Until such time that the geese are persuaded to congregate on public unimproved land. Exactly. I’m all for management of nuisance geese, btw. The green space in the City of Tonawanda along the river (forget the name of the park) is mostly unusable because of all the goose poop. Oh, and hey. The land I’m concerned with is public in nature. Cheering Golisano is worse than cheering for the house in gambling — it’s cheering for a house that is reasonably thought to be crooked.
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    ^ The effing truth. I won some primo seats as part of a silent auction a few years back -- covered, heated, etc. So I took my fairly aged father, who used to take me to frickin' Jets games in December when I was a kid and we'd sit in the upper deck. Dear Lord. All was well getting into the stadium; we arrived early and parked as close as we possibly could. Getting out was another story. The Bills won, so that was cool. We waited in/around our seats to avoid the rush. And even with that, we still almost caught a beer can in the head on our trek back to the car (not intentionally, as far as I could tell).
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    23 back with 15. I didn't watch much over the weekend. Is that new?
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    The Golisano thing is pretty breath-taking. From what I had read (not much), part of the problem is that he's only at the property intermittently throughout the year. And when things are quiet on the grounds, the geese congregate and defecate. But, as Chz suggested, ... DUDE. Buy a couple of high energy herding dogs and loose them on the grounds. And hire someone to handle and care for the dogs; that person can generally oversee the dispersal efforts. My sense is that if a landowner disrupted the geese's visits for a long enough time, the geese would just stay away. Golisano is a grade A arsehole.
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    Well, they played a good game against the Caps about a week ago. So ... Let's go, Buffalo!
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    The Bills are just trending back toward what they were at the beginning of the year. They had some good fortune that made them look better than they are -- turnovers (especially fumble recoveries) were a big source as was some good luck with how certain teams planned for them and how they in turn planned for the opponent (Atlanta seems like a prime example). Before the season started, I figured them for 7-9 or 8-8 -- that's about where I think they'll end up. It does sting that they got gashed up the middle yesterday, after Dareus was traded. But I've read and heard from sources I trust that Dareus was largely loafing around anyway, not buying in, and only occasionally showing flashes of what he can do -- I'm not sure how much help he would have been in those games.
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    Reinhart loafed it back on one of the EN’s. I say pair him with Jack to pump the value and then move him. Knee jerk? Sure. But something is rotten with this core.
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    Confidence. It’s a motherfukcer.
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    Eff it.
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    Oh, man. You are in danger of having the *one* beer I absolutely cannot stand: No beer.
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