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Only 3 more games left at the Ralph…
That's No Moon replied to Awwufelloff's topic in The Stadium Wall
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Yeah, the longer the better.
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Only 3 more games left at the Ralph…
That's No Moon replied to Awwufelloff's topic in The Stadium Wall
I remember going there to watch the Bisons with my dad in I guess 1985? Steve Christmas, Darryl Boston, Joe DeSa, and Jerry Don Gleaton were on that team. The Butcher catching foul balls that rolled off the net. My introduction to The Earl of Bud! I can continue if you'd like. lol Randall Cunningham would be ridiculous in the modern NFL and Buddy Ryan's treatment of offense was criminally bad even at the time. -
Although I was way farther away, I also thought that Bruce had a sure sack/safety. How Cunningham was able to get away from that was remarkable.
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Agreed about the defense and turnovers. But no, last year's offense was much more consistent, and just plain better. A lot better so far. Last year we had three games all season where we scored 20 points or less. Hell, we scored 29 with Trubisky at QB in the last game. This year, four games. So far. Last year eight offensive turnovers total, and only one game with more than one. This year? Suffice it to say that we've been worse. Inconsistency far beyond what the offense showed last year.
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Yup, I saw that on the replays. But live, in the moment, from behind the play, it looked like a miracle by Cunningham. Bruce was bearing down on his blind side like a white shark and somehow he ducked under it...
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Its OK for the Bills to be a run-first team
HappyDays replied to First Round Bust's topic in The Stadium Wall
I think the point is that our offense is built to play like it did against Pittsburgh, not like it did against Houston. Of course I still question what will happen if/when we get into a playoff matchup where the opponent shuts down the run and gets a lead on us which forces us to pass. But the way our team is built we need to live with pounding the run and throwing primarily to TEs and RBs until absolutely necessary. Our best pass play right now is PA shot where we check it down to the RB or a leaking TE. So everything needs to build off of the run game. It is not an ideal offense by any means but it is our best path forward. -
I thought it was favorite moment not moments….I’m gonna need a page or two.
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Only 3 more games left at the Ralph…
That's No Moon replied to Awwufelloff's topic in The Stadium Wall
Houston comeback game. Dad wanted to leave. You never leave. The time in the summer of 1989 that my grandfather took me to pick-a-seat day to buy my own season ticket, sitting all by myself, 4 rows behind the rest of the family. He called my Dad at work at work and talked him into it, I swore to every deity I could think of that I would pay for it myself, and Dad agreed - somewhat reluctantly. I had my own ticket from 1989-1995 and cut a ton of grass and shoveled more snow than I ever want to think about shoveling again. That worked out well. AFCCG v. Raiders 3TDs in 77 seconds v. Denver Bills/Dolphins 9/14/2014 - first game after they announced Pegula was buying the team and they wouldn't be moving away. I don't live in WNY anymore and it wasn't in the plans to go to that game but when that announcement was made the whole family felt like we had to go. Also the first game I brought my then 8 year old son to. He lost his mind when Spiller had the KO return for a TD. I responded to some thing for the Buffalo News asking why the team was important to you or some such and they called me on the phone and asked some questions. I told them the story from #2 and some stories from being a young kid sitting by himself in a pretty wild place at a wild time and they put it in the paper so that was kinda neat. Bills/Cowboys November 18, 1984 - I was 6, the team was terrible, and I was only able to go to games that year because they were so bad my mother didn't want to go so Dad took me. They won that day when they weren't supposed to and hadn't won a game all year. It felt like the best thing in the world. In retrospect, my Dad is/was pretty cool for letting me do that. November 18, 2001 - Jim Kelly Wall of Fame day. The first time I brought my wife, then girlfriend, to the stadium. I drank WAY too much, the Bills lost to a long Rian Lindell FG for the Seahawks, and it was the day I knew I found the right girl. 2024-25 playoffs v. Denver. My now wife and my Dad and my younger son came. Dad wasn't really a tailgate guy when I was a kid so I made him try it now that he's old. Did ski shots with my 74 year old father in somebody's driveway. The homeowner was dressed like a referee and throwing flags at Broncos fans. If that was you, thank you. Bills/Raiders Divisional Round, January 1994. Air temp 0, -32 wind chill. I never felt cold that day. Bills/Phoenix 1990: It was raining, sleeting, and blowing what felt like easily 30mph. I got wet almost right away, stayed wet the whole game, and froze my ever loving ass off. The sleet was moving across the field in sheets in the 4th quarter and I was shielding my face with my hands because it felt like getting sandblasted. I'm going this week with my Mom, Dad and 15 year old son and I'm trying to go to the Eagles game and Jets game also. I really want to sit in my former seat for the Jets game. I got close to it for the Saints game but not quite. I need to walk over to 311 this Sunday and see what the new number is on my seat. I thought I knew what it was but I was wrong. It used to be M6, row 10, seat 111. My family had M5 (the sections used to split in the middle of the section for you youngins - it confused the hell out of people), row 6, seats 7, 8, and 9. Anyhoo. Na'zdrowie and Go Bills! You aren't the only one with a similar plan my friend. -
Just remember to bring him some flowers and visit him when we bring it all home
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Watching my brother after the Bills clinched the AFC East in ‘88, when the fans stormed the field and tore the posts down, I’m in the stands, my brother is on the field playing tug-of-war with a length of the net with a stranger. They’re tugging back and forth and all of a sudden he falls back and disappears into a heap of people out of sight. I’m waiting to see him and thinking “aw fudge, he’s hurt”. After a couple seconds he pops up shoots his arm up in the air holding the net like Hulk Hogan winning the WWF title.
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Today's Race in the Tennessee 7th
SCBills replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I think I read Blackburn only won that area by .5% a few years ago. Not sure what the true makeup is as I doubt it’s as low as that or as high as what Trump did. And Republicans certainly need a gameplan for next year. I’d agree. The party in power usually gets rocked and Trump has spent most of his first year being the world’s President and not focusing on our economy. That said, Republicans are the working class party. I know you don’t want to hear that, but they are. Democrats are the party of the “educated”, wealthy and poor. They vote. Politics, in many cases, replaces religion or family as their reason for being. Republicans vote when they’re supposed to.. midterms and general elections. Special elections and off year elections, it’s a friggin nightmare trying to get these people to care. -
Game week thread - Bengals at Bills (flexed to 1pm ET)
Goin Breakdown replied to BillsFan619's topic in The Stadium Wall
Anyone say "championship" yet? It's a standard go to. -
Only 3 more games left at the Ralph…
Mike in Horseheads replied to Awwufelloff's topic in The Stadium Wall
That will be my best memory, my uncle died that Friday and then there was the joy of blowing out the Raiders. I was sure that was the year.... -
I was on the 30 yard line, Eagles side of the field. It was a jump ball, one Eagle vs 2 Bills defenders. The Bills defenders crashed into each other and the Eagles.WR had a wide open path to the end zone. But the Bills were up something like 24 -3 at that point.
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Great interview
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Tua isn't bottom tier, nor is Dalton. Nor Rodgers, though maybe he's approaching it. The fact is, only about 1/3 of the QBs in the league are top tier. Most teams face groups like that, a third top tier and two-thirds who aren't. There are exceptions, especially in divisions with a great QB group, but this is how it looks, on average. Dunno. But everyone should. There is no one stat, beyond wins and losses, of course, that tells the story perfectly. But when it comes to isolating the performance of an offensive or defensive unit, season yards may be the best one. Of course, you have to look at all the stats, at the whole story. But total yards is absolutely a key stat.
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worked concessions there in the early 90s... some core memories while working include the 1990 Championship beatdown of the Raiders, the Houston comeback, the 1993 Championship game, and meeting OJ in the stadium i think 1991 or 92, shaking his hand with the leather gloves on. they kept track of cups, not amount of beer, so we would fill large ziplock bags with labatt blue and sneak them out of the stadium lol. As a kid in the early 80s, my first game they played the Steelers sat in the endzone with my Aunt who was a superfan, guy next to me puked on my arm haha. The Gregg Bell 90y TD run against the Cowboys, Bills won that game iirc as huge undersogs. A bone chilling sub zero game against the Raiders late 80s maybe... and so on. so many great memories!
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Being at 51-3 was the most giddy moment of my Bills fandom. Being at 30-13 (1993 AFC Championship), the Thurman 3 TD game, was the sweetest. (I didn’t make it to the comeback game, and back then I didn’t even get to watch it on TV.) The most incredible moment not by the Bills was when Randall Cunningham ducked a SURE safety by Bruce and threw a 95 yard touchdown. I was sitting in the end zone right there.
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I don't know, I'd feel pretty confident in the 2nd matchup. That loss was a learning lesson for the coaching staff. A lesson they immediately instituted the following week against Pittsburgh. If the offense had done the exact same thing against Houston - pound the rock, pass almost exclusively to TEs and RBs, ball out of Allen's hands in 2 seconds, extra blockers on every play - we probably win that game. I have no doubt that will be the gameplan if we face them in the playoffs. I'd also add, take the points AKA kick FGs at every opportunity. No team is beating Houston throwing the ball all over the field. So our offense's weakness in a weird way neutralizes their strength. They're maybe the only team in the NFL where our small ball philosophy is actually the best approach to beat them. You don't need to win a shootout, just outlast their offense.
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Yea, any claim that we need to go 12-5 to make the playoffs is insane. 11-6 will be totally fine.
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Overall they've been good, very good, really. But really inconsistent. That's what they've got to iron out. One bad game in the playoffs and the season's over. Part of it is that we look like a different team when we have Kincaid and Josh Palmer on the field. But will we, when it counts? It's an interesting season, but I feel much less confident for later in the year than I did the last couple of years. I could see us winning the Lombardi, and I could see us out in the first round.
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The Todd Collins comeback game was one of my most memorable, in an otherwise forgettable year….
