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homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Dec 30 @ 1:15 AM ET
Tyrod for Bortles. Would you?
- Hatboro_Swords

I think bortles is a bad qb


he gets credit for stats due to garbage time catch up


after saying that, he has 57 td's passing in the past 2 years
and 5 rushing td's
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Hail Satan
Joined: 10.07.2010

Dec 30 @ 1:15 AM ET
I think a large part of it comes down to the lack of organizationl defensive depth.

The guys we brought in at forward are producing at a decent level.

AHL guys like Schneider and COR. Young prospects like Baptiste and Bailey.

Our defenders in ROchester are a joke and the goalies aren't that great either all though I do think Ullmark if he progresses could potentially someday be a reliable number 2 in the NHL

- bluengold12


Yeah. We swung too far the other way, we were stacked at defense, but had no forwards, so we focused on forwards, but are now thin on defense, not as thin as we were at forward, but thin nonetheless.
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
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Dec 30 @ 1:17 AM ET
Tell me you did not just compare fracking to eating the egg of a medium sized, flightless bird.
- BeadyEyedDouche


Chickens can fly. They're just really bad at it.
Wetbandit1
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Dec 30 @ 1:18 AM ET
so?
- BeadyEyedDouche


keep reading.
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Rustmine Ramsum most exciting Sabres klugdragger since Taro Tsujimoto
Joined: 07.01.2016

Dec 30 @ 1:21 AM ET
keep reading.
- Wetbandit1


Still, just look at our depth coming up from Rochester. What have they produced like 2 goals this year? I don't care how young our pro team is, you still need your farm team to perform well. Create a winning culture all around.

Since Pegula bought the team, our losing culture has become a pathetic loser culture.
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
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Dec 30 @ 1:27 AM ET
On the bright side we'll have a good draft choice
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
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Dec 30 @ 1:28 AM ET
Chickens can fly. They're just really bad at it.
- Wetbandit1


Well, there is this: "Many domesticated birds, such as the domestic chicken and domestic duck, have lost the ability to fly for extended periods, although their ancestral species, the red junglefowl and mallard, respectively, are capable of extended flight."

Which is pretty much what I meant. Not that they cannot fly, but that they cannot fly for extended periods of time. I used to own domesticated chickens, trust me, they can hardly fly unless you throw them in the air and let them flutter down or rarely, they jump up to high ledges with a lot of energy and flapping. They mostly hop around and make a lot of commotion trying to lift-off but usually get nowhere.

/end #uselessinfo
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
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Dec 30 @ 1:29 AM ET
On the bright side we'll have a good draft choice
- GERBE!!!75PTS


Late season winning streak and we fall out of the top-5 due to draft lottery.

Book it.
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Dec 30 @ 1:29 AM ET


La Canfora: Bills Owner is clueless and being sold by Brandon & Whaley

“The owner doesn’t know any better. These (Brandon & Whaley) have been the only football people he’s ever known. They’re very good at selling themselves. There’s a political aspect to this. Rex is down there floundering on the sidelines and they’re sitting in the owner’s suite where it’s nice and warm (criticizing the team). It’s a different dynamic. It’s very easy to keep saying, ‘We got the talent here. These guys just don’t know how to use it.’ And look, Rex brings a lot of it on himself. Bringing his brother in – bad idea. Saying the things he says at a lot of these press conferences – bad idea. Not having 11 guys on the field with your season on the line – bad idea. Punting in overtime when you need a win to save your season at home – bad idea. So they’re sitting there saying, ‘Look at this. Look at that. Why aren’t they running the offense this way?’ That’s how it works. Some of their wives are close with his wife. . . . It’s just how it is in this business sometimes.

Doug Whaley will get three head coaches. It didn’t work with Marrone. He took $4 million to leave. Rex lasted two years, barely. The owner was mulling doing this stuff a year ago. And yet, the front office is still basically in tact despite giving up all they gave up for Sammy Watkins and despite trading for guys like Bryce Brown and despite drafting EJ Manuel where they did and despite paying Marcell Dareus all the money they did knowing that it’s a pretty good chance he might not be the same guy after you pay him and he already got himself in plenty of trouble beforehand. You could go on and on. They got issues there. If I’m Bills fans, I’m going to be concerned until I see the decision-makers change.” - Jason La Canfora
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Dec 30 @ 1:31 AM ET
Late season winning streak and we fall out of the top-5 due to draft lottery.

Book it.

- BeadyEyedDouche


TM is good at tanking I think he'll do a mini tank for us at the trade deadline
CaptainRivet
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 12.26.2008

Dec 30 @ 1:31 AM ET
Wish I had popcorn for that backreading.
BeadyEyedDouche
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Dec 30 @ 1:31 AM ET
TM is good at tanking I think he'll do a mini tank for us at the trade deadline
- GERBE!!!75PTS



Shocking twist: This season was a stealth tank and he told Girgensons he would let him walk as a FA this summer if he took Jack out before the start of the season.

just an e2 though
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Dec 30 @ 1:32 AM ET
Wish I had popcorn for that backreading.
- CaptainRivet

I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn

and it's non dairy

homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Dec 30 @ 1:32 AM ET
La Canfora: Bills Owner is clueless and being sold by Brandon & Whaley

“The owner doesn’t know any better. These (Brandon & Whaley) have been the only football people he’s ever known. They’re very good at selling themselves. There’s a political aspect to this. Rex is down there floundering on the sidelines and they’re sitting in the owner’s suite where it’s nice and warm (criticizing the team). It’s a different dynamic. It’s very easy to keep saying, ‘We got the talent here. These guys just don’t know how to use it.’ And look, Rex brings a lot of it on himself. Bringing his brother in – bad idea. Saying the things he says at a lot of these press conferences – bad idea. Not having 11 guys on the field with your season on the line – bad idea. Punting in overtime when you need a win to save your season at home – bad idea. So they’re sitting there saying, ‘Look at this. Look at that. Why aren’t they running the offense this way?’ That’s how it works. Some of their wives are close with his wife. . . . It’s just how it is in this business sometimes.

Doug Whaley will get three head coaches. It didn’t work with Marrone. He took $4 million to leave. Rex lasted two years, barely. The owner was mulling doing this stuff a year ago. And yet, the front office is still basically in tact despite giving up all they gave up for Sammy Watkins and despite trading for guys like Bryce Brown and despite drafting EJ Manuel where they did and despite paying Marcell Dareus all the money they did knowing that it’s a pretty good chance he might not be the same guy after you pay him and he already got himself in plenty of trouble beforehand. You could go on and on. They got issues there. If I’m Bills fans, I’m going to be concerned until I see the decision-makers change.” - Jason La Canfora

- GERBE!!!75PTS

same case can be made regarding the sabres
Wetbandit1
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Dec 30 @ 1:42 AM ET
Well, there is this: "Many domesticated birds, such as the domestic chicken and domestic duck, have lost the ability to fly for extended periods, although their ancestral species, the red junglefowl and mallard, respectively, are capable of extended flight."

Which is pretty much what I meant. Not that they cannot fly, but that they cannot fly for extended periods of time. I used to own domesticated chickens, trust me, they can hardly fly unless you throw them in the air and let them flutter down or rarely, they jump up to high ledges with a lot of energy and flapping. They mostly hop around and make a lot of commotion trying to lift-off but usually get nowhere.

/end #uselessinfo

- BeadyEyedDouche


Yeah, but they're not flightless like an Ostrich is flightless. I've seen chickens fly, like you said it's not really flight like an eagle can fly, gliding on thermals, but they can still fly. Turkeys though, at least wild ones, holy hell, they can fly, and they make one hell of a racket when they do. It was in the fall sometime, I was 15 or 16 maybe, and my buddy and I were out in the woods behind our houses playing paintball, and as we were walking to the spot we heard this immense noise directly above our heads, we thought the tree was falling right on top of us, we looked up, to our certain death only to see this massive turkey alight from the limb he was sitting on and somehow fly away through the trees. I nearly shat myself.
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 07.01.2016

Dec 30 @ 1:47 AM ET
Yeah, but they're not flightless like an Ostrich is flightless. I've seen chickens fly, like you said it's not really flight like an eagle can fly, gliding on thermals, but they can still fly. Turkeys though, at least wild ones, holy hell, they can fly, and they make one hell of a racket when they do. It was in the fall sometime, I was 15 or 16 maybe, and my buddy and I were out in the woods behind our houses playing paintball, and as we were walking to the spot we heard this immense noise directly above our heads, we thought the tree was falling right on top of us, we looked up, to our certain death only to see this massive turkey alight from the limb he was sitting on and somehow fly away through the trees. I nearly shat myself.
- Wetbandit1


Dude, no joke, Wild Turkey are nuts. I remember one winter walking out on my back porch at my then Parents' house and pretty much had the same reaction when as I walked outside, about 30 Turkey flew up from the brush and into a tree just off the ravine out back. Maybe 20 feet away from me. One of the coolest things I ever saw, especially when they all took flight pretty much exactly how you described except imagine it was a whole flock.

For being such a big bird, they can fly pretty far.
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
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Joined: 10.07.2010

Dec 30 @ 1:51 AM ET
La Canfora: Bills Owner is clueless and being sold by Brandon & Whaley

“The owner doesn’t know any better. These (Brandon & Whaley) have been the only football people he’s ever known. They’re very good at selling themselves. There’s a political aspect to this. Rex is down there floundering on the sidelines and they’re sitting in the owner’s suite where it’s nice and warm (criticizing the team). It’s a different dynamic. It’s very easy to keep saying, ‘We got the talent here. These guys just don’t know how to use it.’ And look, Rex brings a lot of it on himself. Bringing his brother in – bad idea. Saying the things he says at a lot of these press conferences – bad idea. Not having 11 guys on the field with your season on the line – bad idea. Punting in overtime when you need a win to save your season at home – bad idea. So they’re sitting there saying, ‘Look at this. Look at that. Why aren’t they running the offense this way?’ That’s how it works. Some of their wives are close with his wife. . . . It’s just how it is in this business sometimes.

Doug Whaley will get three head coaches. It didn’t work with Marrone. He took $4 million to leave. Rex lasted two years, barely. The owner was mulling doing this stuff a year ago. And yet, the front office is still basically in tact despite giving up all they gave up for Sammy Watkins and despite trading for guys like Bryce Brown and despite drafting EJ Manuel where they did and despite paying Marcell Dareus all the money they did knowing that it’s a pretty good chance he might not be the same guy after you pay him and he already got himself in plenty of trouble beforehand. You could go on and on. They got issues there. If I’m Bills fans, I’m going to be concerned until I see the decision-makers change.” - Jason La Canfora

- GERBE!!!75PTS


Yeah, the Watkins trade was bad, he's an excellent player, but one we didn't need at the time. Bryce Brown? Really? Such a nothing that I forgot that he played here, I'm pretty sure we needed a RB because all of ours were hurt though. And can you imagine if they let Dareus walk? Come on, that would be way bigger than paying him.

I refuse to believe a self made billionaire is being duped by Doug Whaley. Russ Brandon is an excellent salesman, look at all the tickets he sells, but he's not pulling one over on Pegula. So either Brandon wanted Ryan or he didn't you can't have it both ways. Pegula wants to win, winning makes him more money. He's not going to sit up in his box and let guys criticize the team they put together and not do anything about it. He's not stupid, he's an engineer ffs.
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Dec 30 @ 1:55 AM ET
Wish I had popcorn for that backreading.
- CaptainRivet


It's not me this time
Wetbandit1
Vegas Golden Knights
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Dec 30 @ 1:59 AM ET
Dude, no joke, Wild Turkey are nuts. I remember one winter walking out on my back porch at my then Parents' house and pretty much had the same reaction when as I walked outside, about 30 Turkey flew up from the brush and into a tree just off the ravine out back. Maybe 20 feet away from me. One of the coolest things I ever saw, especially when they all took flight pretty much exactly how you described except imagine it was a whole flock.

For being such a big bird, they can fly pretty far.

- BeadyEyedDouche


Yeah, they have giant wings to glide really far on. A lot more nimble in the air than you would think too to be able to fly through the trees like that, I mean it was fall so there were no leaves on the trees, but still. It obviously takes a lot of energy for them to get off the ground though so generally they walk around.

I went turkey hunting once, I almost felt bad for the poor bastard. My cousin set out a decoy and when the turkey heard the call he came strutting in thinking he was about to get lucky, and turkeys have superb vision so they can spot colors and movement really easily, he was off to my right, so I had to bring the gun up and turn almost 90º to get a bead on him, but he didn't care/was totally oblivious to us, he was getting laid. I still shot him. He tasted real good. The only time I've ever gone hunting. I hurt my knee a couple years later, so I can't traipse through the woods anymore. Can't say I miss it that much. My ass went numb after about 5 minutes sitting on the ground at the base of a tree.
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Dec 30 @ 2:11 AM ET
And that girl that does the hosting needs to be hotter
Wetbandit1
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Dec 30 @ 2:16 AM ET
And that girl that does the hosting needs to be hotter
- GERBE!!!75PTS

GERBE!!!75PTS
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Dec 30 @ 2:27 AM ET

- Wetbandit1


The sabres game host lol
Wetbandit1
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Dec 30 @ 3:01 AM ET
The sabres game host lol
- GERBE!!!75PTS


Ahh, well it could be the (frank)ing Why Guy.
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 07.27.2007

Dec 30 @ 3:40 AM ET
And that girl that does the hosting needs to be hotter
- GERBE!!!75PTS

When the franchise fixes this everything will be ok.
feetontheair22
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Tampa doesn't suck, FL
Joined: 02.01.2011

Dec 30 @ 4:44 AM ET
Will paul hamilton ever admit the problem is Byslma??

It seems like everytime this dude opens his mouth to explain why the Sabres are awful its excuses...players don't do this...players don't do that....

paraphrasing: "MAYBE there is a disconnect with the coach...but that can't possibly be it.."
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