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Yeah well, the point holds true. No one knew how Incognito would play on his return and we had other question marks on the OL as well. It turned out OK, but the team had no way of knowing that when they spent big on an RB, TE and QB.
Oh and as far as inheriting those other contracts: Regier was responsible but Pegula kept him around and allowed him to exascerbate the problem. Just because he didn't start the fire doesn't mean he didn't throw a lot of fuel on it.
The biggest problem with regier is at the end, he was making mistake after mistake. But up till about 2006, he was shrewd and hitting on alot of his moves. Remember, he got briere for gratton and gilmour/Dumont for grosek. Yeah, the writing was on the wall when he kept kotalik over Dumont in 06, and Grier was upset at the front office when he left, but for a while, regier was actually good.
Yeah well, the point holds true. No one knew how Incognito would play on his return and we had other question marks on the OL as well. It turned out OK, but the team had no way of knowing that when they spent big on an RB, TE and QB.
We know now and he played great, so we can assume about the same this season or better plus TT has another year of seasoning. Our Defense needs to step up big this season & if that happens, we hit the playoffs.
Pegula is NOTHING like Snyder. Pegs prefers staying in the background; Snyder...well, he can't help but talk to the press.
End of discussion.
John Hemingway(facing certain death): I want to see Buffalo win the Super Bowl.
David Coltrane(threatening John): Nobody's going to live that long, pal.
-The John Larroquette Show, "A Dark and Stormy Night", 4/12/94
When will the bloom finally wear off the rose and fans see the flaws in the Pegulas. They are the prototypical rich people who buy sports franchise as toys when they have no clue what they are doing.
The same year we got Leino, he signed Ehrhoff and another expensive D man (can't remember and too lazy to look it up). Then we had limited cap space for a couple years until it became painfully obvious that we had to break it down and start over. The is only the second time he's had both a decent core and cap money to spend in the same season with the Sabres.
However, he did the EXACT SAME THING with the Bills last year: McCoy, Clay, Tyrod, Incognito, Harvin.... He went all in on fancy new toys that didn't yield results.
The guy's had two opportunities to spend big with the third coming tomorrow. And he's gone all in both times.
Exactly. Ehrhoff, Regher, and Leino were all signed by Regier under direct instructions of the ******ed new owner.
Now he has ROR who he pays tons of money and who goes out immediately and gets into trouble. Then he gets Evander Kane who spits in his face too. Yeah. Pegula is a great owner. Not.
Pegula is NOTHING like Snyder. Pegs prefers staying in the background; Snyder...well, he can't help but talk to the press.
End of discussion.
You're talking about attitude. I'm talking about spending on players. On the former, I agree. Pegula is not like Snyder in that regard. On the latter, they are very, very similar.
So the only acceptable options are Plan A and nothing?
Once again, we didn't get what we wanted. The only acceptable option is to think things through and be reasonable with what they do next. Once again, Pegula has only been active in FA twice and he overspent both times. So, I'm not convinced they can be reasonable.
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