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I was thinking the same thing about the broadcast team. Pretty sure we got blown out every time they covered us. Not superstitious, just not easy listening to Romo easily dissect defenses when we stick with plays that aren’t working. On pregame he said he expect fournett to run 20-25 times. I have been a bills fan since. 1963, went to Super Bowls 27, 28 , and miss that era so much. I couldn’t make it to wing it last night ( live in Jax as FP / er doc since 1985) but I used to go to that same bar back in the run of superbowls. Glad so many people have made it down.
I am am worried that the things we are poor at are their strengths. Our strengths are running and this is a tough defense with a good front 4 and great cbs. Throw in Dareus , st doug , posluzny (forget spelling ?, great guy who pit hurricane shutters on windows of my friends house during Irma ) , the town is going to turn out despite what you think. I was at the playoff game when Tennessee came down after the music city miracle and slaughtered the jags , but my point is the place was crazy and really loud. Visitors bench is 10yard behind the visitors and I sat 8rows from that bench on the forty for several years. It is loud and they will be really up for this game. If the Bills can just not get behind more than one score we might do it. But heart and a good story only goes so far You need talent and other than shady , we don’t match up against that D well. Here’s hoping the Bills Mafia has something to cheer about. ! God I really hope so ! But my brain is just telling me the jags will come out running and our passing game won’t go anywhere like usual.
Go Bills. A guy from Ohio who lives in Jax and loves the Bills.
Maybe once we can actually pull off a miracle ourselves ! Good luck guys
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8 hours ago, yungmack said:
Ball-less response by McD. He should have been highly pissed and demanding Gronk be suspended for 4 games and the refs fired. Should announce he's flying to NY in the morning and demanding a meeting with the Commish. But, no, he goes fully robotic automatic response
This response gives me an early insight into how the Bills will fare under “ the process”. Is this the type of guy that nspires players to play hard or ” run thru a wall” for? He is disappointed and defends Gronk by saying I know he’s a better player than that! What a joke of a response and the hoody is thinking we will continue to out physical this,team. If fact after the game Burkehead said they discussed being more physical during halftime. This milk toast answer by McD I think tells the team he is not really going to stand up for his players but is more concerned about looking pc, analytical , and always under control. I can’t see Marv levy standing there and saying something that weak if Kelly or odomes was hit like that. This guy has looked confused , managed time poorly, done unexplainable challenges and has shown no ability to make adjustments during a game, at least in this limited sample. I’m getting less impressed with each performance like today by the offense and team as they play without passion. They won’t do anything when they play in New England because they will be out of contention and getting ready for vacation.
Does this guy seem inspiring to you? Whoever mentioned the Jauron comparison was right on.
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7 minutes ago, PlayoffsPlease said:
Are the Bills bad or just not really good?
6-6 is decent.
Losing to the Patriots is hardly rare in the NFL.
But the 4 out of five losses, with the one win being against an apparently hapless Chiefs team seems pretty bad. Can't really figure out where this team is at.
They are what their record shows, or worse ,so doesn’t matter how you label them. They are a very average team in a weak conference and they are no where near even being competitive with New England or Pittsburgh. I will say they have overachieved with this horrible roster. They have ONE elite player , McCoy , and they are average or below average at almost every position. I did forget hauska who is elite this year. I am sure as a team they are in the bottom ten of almost every stat category ,or they will be after another pats game and two games against a dolphins team that can score more than out usual one td or less a game.
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Made a nice goal line stop that I saw. He is looking at least as good as Preston Brown. I saw at least three runs where Brown was just driven out of his gap resulting i big runs. Check around the league. Quite a few ex bills doing well with other teams.
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On 11/30/2017 at 4:52 PM, BILLriant said:
I think the best option is to Poach one of Minnesota QBs like Bradford if he can get healthy enough and still draft one in the first round. Bradford would give them a quality player to let the new guy learn under and he wont stay healthy for an entire season so our New guy could take over without a controversy
On 12/2/2017 at 12:39 PM, Mat68 said:No their flyier is on the bench with 5 ints.
Bradford is done. On Ir. Can’t stay healthy. Gil Brandt on Sirius said his body is shot. At best he might be a backup q.v. but won’t start or possibly even play again. I trust Brandt. Pretty good history of knowledge to back him up.
I am am wondering about our talent evaluators. Besides Dareus et al , why do so many bills ex players or cast offs do well with other staffs? Ragland playing well. ( imho more upside than Preston) , lee taken off our practice squad looks like a rusher we desperately need. Even kailin clay playing better for panthers. Throw in hogan,Woods, gillslee,Gilmore , even nickel Robyn for rams all doing ok or much better than with bills who brought in only throw away player with maybe exception of Benjamin if he gets healthy. Then we use Tolbert in role he is not meant for. DiMarco has done? Humber still in more than Milano. Tate still allowed to eturn almost every ko where we end up starting behind the twenty every time and stats show it’s harder to score from 20 yd line or worse. Marcel is loving it down here in Jax now who have a tremendous defense. Geez, this type of constant poor talent evaluation is really embarrassing. Yes they hit on white , possibly zay. But how does a guy like lee in a need position exposed on the practice squad? Mcbean not appearing all that. Great so far. If he doesn’t go for a legit qb in this draft armed with the picks he has, then I think he wiil continue the futility. This is a qb driven league. Let’s hope he makes a bstter call than he has with his failed roster moves this year.
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They better start questioning Frazier. Wtf defensive scheme is he running and why is Preston Brown , Humber both still on the field. When was the last time we made a tackle for loss, especially from the lb position. Hyde and Poyer are getting killed facing running backs with a full head of steam coming untouched into the defensive backfield. There are gaping holes and at least once I saw brown being pushed out of a play by a running back blocking in the area where Preston started the play at. Since taking Milano out the lbs can’t drop, can’t cover, and sure as hell are not plugging gaps. Worst play I can ever remember by a bills team and that’s saying a lot. How does a defensive minded head coach see this d and d coordinator as acceptable right now.?
Unfortunately the the line is also a catastrophe now . They look ok starting a game ,eg the drive with shady scoring. But after that they were looking like an old line and resulted to typical holding penalties. I don’t see how you fix this slide. It’s both sides of the ball. It really does look like they may lose out. Every team they play coming up is playing at least competitive fotrball. Bills are no better than the Browns right now , and actually the Browns gave the jags a good game today. Team is being completely out coached They have enough talent with good coaching to at least not be blown out like this. This is a historic collapse and even clown Rex didn’t suffer blowouts like this. He must be laughing all the way to the bank as he deposits Pegulas money. Bad time to be a bills fan. I mean bad millennium!! This is hard to believe. BBFS.
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Arm strength/ strong enough arm , maybe in place of Seinfeld reference .?. Nice job tho!
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I know Dareus was good at taking on double teams and gap control , yet I find it hard to believe his departure was responsible for
what we witnessed the past two weeks. I say this because we had already won games with Dareus being in on what , 20-30% of the defensive snaps? The first game after the trade I think we won and people on here were posting about how much we didn’t miss Dareus. So how does a team that was performing acceptably for 7 weeks against the run completely fall apart?
I think some personel changes helped contribute to the poor performances. Humber returned to the line up, looked slow, no Frazier admitted this week his hand injury is an issue. Milano had come in and played with a lot of energy and hunger , and he contributed a pick 6 and also was in on other turnovers. He was coming on and I think reinserting Humber just because he was cleared was a mistake and took a lb off the field who was playing very well.
I also think the absence of Gaines has hurt the run defense as well as his ability to play zone coverage well. I can think of multiple time S seeing him come up to either make tackles or keep rbs from gaining the corner. Wright is nowhere near as good in run support. Against the saints I saw him try to throw his left shoulder into Ingram , not even attempt to wrap up , and Ingram bounced off for a larger Run. I think those two personel changes are just as if not more important than losing Dareus.
One other issue I think we have all seen is how many missed tackles occured during the past two weeks. That was not happening before. I believe thee team was buying into all the hype over the turnovers they were getting and it was being covered everywhere. Any show on the NFL Network and every pregame or post game show kept talking about the huge turnover differential. There was a ton of hype about it before the jets game. It was during that game that it was a recurring issue with no one actually making a secure tackle Before trying to strip the ball. The lbs and safeties were especially guilty of this the past two games. Result has been multiple broken arm tackles and the turnovers that were coming from secure hits FOLLOWED by a second player causing a turnover has suddenly dried up as now the players have gotten away from the basic tackling they had been doing well. That mindset was evident even in the first Saints drive and continued all day. I think it’s obvious the D also was affected by the multitude of three and outs and that also allowed the Saints time and again to have excellent field position while it seemed like the Bills O was always starting behind its own 20. The game had already been decided before the history making 24 straight run plays by the Saints and it just looked like the D wanted the game to end and no one was sellling out to make a stop at that point. The secondary was gun shy after facing untouched rbs hitting them play after play. I also think white , who had been burned at least three times recently, may be playing the run softer not wanting to give up plays behind him. He had been playing more aggressively I think playing the run before getting burned for the three big plays. Not a big issue but maybe combined with the personel changes and poor offense had finally lead to the perfect storm of shame we witnessed.
I can see the O improving this week under Peterman. It can’t do any worse ! That alone has to spill over to help the D. I am encouraged that McD made the switch as I doubt any prior recent coach would have had the balls to make that change right at this point. Great move ! We don’t have a history of playing well on the west coast , and with San Diego’s d being 6 th against the pass and Rivers playing , I think it’s going to be a hard win. Hopefully they have stressed tackling and gap control this week and not harped so much on turnovers. It would be encouraging to see Gaines and Milano playing more. I also hope we don’t keep bailing the Chargers offense out with stupid , undisciplined penalties after we did manage to stop them in three downs. While I agree we don’t have elite talent on our D , I still think we have enough talent to compete and since Rivers is unlikely to scramble , hopefully we will rush more than 4 and go after him some. One side note; I read that the Chargers are preparing for Peterman to just be a pocket passer. It would shock me but wouldn’t it be amazing to see Dennison use some rollouts , or some RPO because Peterman looks like he can do more than only be a pocket passer. I doubt they will be emphasizing to keep him in the pocket like they have done to TT.
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11 hours ago, Steptide said:
Just adding some fuel to the fire. Don't tell me Peterman can be worse than Tyrod. I see alot of runs here
Thx for posting this. I had not seen him play much ( and I am originally from around the Pittsburgh area but now live in sec Jacksonville) and that is a great show of his athleticism! How do we get #85 tho?!! Lol ! That guy has some speed , hands ,, good yac! One poster made a valid point about the saints d having prepared for Tyrod and so that helped account for Peterman looking good at the end of the game. Well, why not throw Peterman in for a few series at least so that defenses have to prepare for something other than this predictable Dennison playcalling? I say that as I sit watching Cam Newton running the offense we should be running with Tyrod. When cam runs he plays better. I’m not a professional offensive coordinator but I’ve watched the Bills since 1966, slept in hotels better than holiday inns, and I could be more creative than Dennison. I’m looking forward to seeing more of peterman. Seems like a wasted opportunity when your starting qb standard has a game completing ONE pass to a wr, and 60 yds or so for a game total.
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10 hours ago, Maynard said:
Yeah pretty tough to evaluate, but I really like what saw there. I know the Saints were not prepared for him and were in a soft defense, but the anticipation and reads were great. Gotta remember that Peterson hasn't had full go in and out practices with the first team too. If I'm the coaching staff I make the change now, giving Peterman full reps with the first team. Give him time with KB, Clay, and JM and we could be pleasantly surprised. It's time to move on from Taylor. I really don't see how it hurts anything either. If the game is too much for Peterman and we break him....oh well. He's a 5th round draft pick after all. We then take another QB early next draft that best fits our system and let the rook and Peterman battle it out.
I agree with you. The NFL has changed and I don’t buy into this crap about playing a rookie QB too early can damage his confidence and career. If all teams folllowed that , someone like Prescott would have been left sitting on the bench after Romo got hurt in favor of using some journeyman player who has been in the league. Find out what you might have. The offense is an abysmal failure for the majority of this season. If Peterman can’t handle it ( hard to believe he could be any worse that TT NOW) then so be it and you use those draft picks to get a legit QB. MAYBE Peterson actually does perform close to what he looked like yesterday and I don’t see how that would not get some energy and passion back in this team. No way to deny that D quit yesterday or at least resigned to the fact they were getting their ass kicked. Watch the lackluster arm tackling , punching at the ball without wrapping up. They aren’t making the tackle first and then having a second man try to dislodge the ball , they just keep going for the turnovers. Getting some offensive production and actually scoring or playing with a lead and not from behind every game may get some passion back in this D.
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21 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:
Disagree. Just because you only get one TO does not mean you give up 300 yards rushing. How does that make any sense?
Something happened in the locker room. Guys don't believe in the process anymore.
I really think you’re on to something here. Was just watching Steve Young and Charles Woodsen on MNF. They were discussing all the turmoil that has happened with the Dolphins this year , even Gase calling his offense garbage. However, the Dolphins are 4-4 despite all the things like losing their starting QB, a coach seen snorting coke, bringing Cutler in. Young and Woodsen both pointed out when the team is facing all this mess or adversity, it all depends on the leadership capabilties of the COACH to overcome and get your team playing up to their potential despite the issues. They both noted how the Dolphins players are playing with passion still , and the players have also given credit to the OWNER as being extremely supportive making sure they each have things they need to help develop a winning culture. Young and Woodsen went on to say they do think there is a real change in culture with the Dolphins because of Gase ( remember ,this guy really called the players out and who thought after he called his offense garbage that with a win tonight they will be 5-4 as well) and his LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
MAYBE , this really does speak to what’s going on in the Bills locker room and McD,’s ability to connect with the team as a leader. When you have players saying they have no answers and they may end up 5-11 if this keeps going on, kyles statement of no energy the past two games, the terrible offense and play calling , no adjustment by the D to get pressure on the qb and having the ball run down their throat 24 straight plays yesterday , I think it’s a legit question about McD’s leadership ( perhaps even the owners interaction since it seems both the bills and sabres are struggling), and after after watching him look so passive on the sideline and then his shell shocked apppearance he had during the postgame interviews may speak to him being a rookie head coach in over his head right now. He didn’t even appear to be angry about what had just happened. I’m sure he is but his external appearance wouldn’t generate passion in my mind to want to play hard. I can’t see someone like the pats coach or Gase being so passive and almost meek after those two ass kicking loses. How can you explain those lackluster performances and all we saw was passive behavior from the players and staff. It’s just a question or theory, but when two previous hof players say it really is about the coaching and leadership in truly changing a teams “culture” , is this an early warning sign that McD’s constant talk about the process is not really a style that motivates passion and accountability in a team ? Another game like the previous two and I think the Peter principle may be true with McD having risen to his level of incompetence. I’m interested to see how the team reacts against the Chargers.
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Well one blowout maybe a fluke; two BLOWOUTS is a disturbing trend , especially when one of the blowouts was by a jets team that almost every analyst agreed was less talented than the Bills roster. I get McD needs another off season to acquire more talent, but what I am beginning to see is a flawed process in coaching and personel decisions. I am not willing to just give the coach and Gm a full pass because “ they don’t have their players for their scheme” They are responsible for the decisions to part with young talent , and they are the ones who have shown such tunnel vision so that we have Tolbert ,DiMarco ,Wright and Johnson here. How many more passes in the flat to Tolbert can you take? The rams were bottom dwellers last year but getting rid of Fischer and landing a talented head coach along with some former Bills and now they are a good looking team. Badobilz is correct, you don’t have unlimited time to demonstrate you are at least progressing. We are seeing a team regressing and what I am interested to see is how does McD Handle this mess now. I can’t remember two worse performances than what we witnessed the past two weeks. That’s not just a lack of talent , it shows a team not being able to adjust , using excuses about playing on Thursday because it “ didn’t give us time to prepare”, only to actually do worse with more time to game plan and getting clay,Benjamin playing was supposed to give Tyrod more options and open up the run game again. You have a serious offensive scheme flaw when you still have not scored a TD yet in the first quarter 9 games into the season!
So i have a hard time given the past two historically bad performances ,that all we need is players for McD ‘s system. We were out coached on all levels badly; we were never in these games unlike earlier in the season. We got all those turnovers but how many times did we settle for FG’s or just three and out offensive series? Also we continue to hear prior nfl players like Romo and Barber commenting on poor Qb play, no sacks or qb pressures, and watching us drop into soft zone coverage knowing that rushing our 4 d lineman and resisting to change things that aren’t working , is not a way to instill confidence that the “process” is promising. The past two games McD has not looked like he has any answers except for cliche coach speak. Hearing the same old BS that “ I have to coach better or we just have to come together and we will learn from this “ continues the rhetoric we’ve heard during the drought
Hey , I’m ok with losing this year until we do actually get a Adequate QB ( this is the first time with these repetitive terrible offensive results I firmly believe Tyrod is a huge problem and he can’t be salvaged) , but what is disturbing is how bad we look now and how we are showing no ability to do any game time adjustments . I think it will be telling if McD is willing to allow Dennison to continue on with this play calling that produces only in garbage time. . Will McD get involved after watching Frazier to continue with this only rushing 4 and letting qbs keep converting 3 rd and 15 or 20 while also playing so undisciplined with offside or personal fouls that repeatedly bail out the opponent resulting in sustained drives ? He may not have all the talent he needs yet , but he is still the head coach and hopefully he is capable of demanding accountability from his staff and the players for the product on the field. Time will tell , but if we see more play like the past two weeks , I can’t see his process being successful. Other teams have shown it’s possible to do quick turnabouts in today’s NFL and it’s hard to sell tickets to watch what we did these past two weeks. ( obviously I mean to include the gm as well). It’s hard to not “overreact “ after seeing back to back absolute blowouts. If the offense keeps underperforming for two more games , then I think you have to find out what you have in Peterson before the draft. Man that was tough to watch today! ?
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4 hours ago, Lurker said:
Things change. The twenty-somethings I know would never tie up their Sunday's by gluing themselves to TV. That's old fashioned. They're much more into doing/experiencing things and or interacting with other people on their free time. Being a spectator is what the old folks do.
And after the crappy NFL Europe games we've seen, it's not likely the NFL brand of 'entertainment' will supplant soccer on a global stage...
I respectfully disagree. I don’t know what 20 year olds you are hanging around that are “ doing / experiencing things “and don’t like being spectators. ( if your children are like that I commend you as a wonderful parent truthfully) How do you explain the multimillion /billon dollar video game industry. People are making a living in their 20’a playing video games on places like Twitch tv with millions of viewers and thousands of subscribers sitting for hours playing or watching others play. Why are we seeing e sports being broadcast on tv? If anything this generation is less personally engaged and they will be spectators as they continue posting on Instagram etc even while at games. Do you see college football which is also huge money and funds large universities athletic programs just disappearing.? Not in our lifetime.
As a doctor who has done literally thousands of pre-participation physicals , I can factually tell you every year there are several parents who get angry and will even go to another clinic if I fail someone who needs further evaluation for possible life threatening conditions if they play. And I am just ONE dr who goes thru this every year. I do believe education and income levels come into play, as mentioned previously because of the POTENTIAL of a scholarship or more. There will always be parents and their children who will disregard any medical information even at the high school level where no money is involved who will do anything to play or get their children involved for social and fiancial reasons. I have seen it consistently. I have told parents your child could be at risk for sudden DEATH without further evaluation or they have something that does instantly disqualify them, and those parents become irate and many times try to work around the PROVEN MEDICAL RISKS! If they will disregard the risk of SUDDEN DEATH, why would anyone believe the far down the road risks of CTE would dissuade them?
I personally believe contact / tackle football should not be available below the age high school. Just like rules changed in little league baseball to limit how often a child can pitch because of risks associated at the elbow , some changes are necessary to protect children from parents who will ignore proven science. I’ll give you one other analogy why football won’t disappear tho. I went into medicine knowing there are risks asssociated with the lifestyle , eg long hours ,stress, high divorce rate, exposure to body fluids that are potentially lethal. I did it because I loved the science of it and I loved being able to help families at periods of crisis, and I also hoped to make a decent living given the sacrifices the profession demands. I don’t make millions of dollars as a family practice / er doc. Some people just do something because they love it and if you add the potential life changing money, there is no way the sport fades because of lack of interest by younger people. I don’t see them as more active either. Why do we have a national epidemic of childhood and youth obesity and diabetes occurring now at ages I never saw when I finished my residency in 85. The medical facts and literature don’t support your premise of young people being more active. Quite the opposite. I’m not trying to be argumentative or be an A## to you. Just posting 30 years of experience. Go bills.
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21 hours ago, Bad Things said:
Hmm... I've pretty much been coming here since day one, in the mid to late '90's.
At that time I was living in Colorado, in the middle of Broncos territory and needed to get my Bills info. Before the internets, the only place to hear about the Bills was the old Shout! newspaper, and from Chris Berman during NFL Primetime.
Are there any posters here that used to be affiliated with the Shout! newspaper? I always looked forward to finding a new copy in my mailbox.
Anyway, the internet came about and so did TBD. Thank God.
That said, I've been visiting the site just about every friggin' day, from many locations around the world. I can just imagine how much work time and productivity I've wasted all those years. Sad.
Wasn't this forum originally affiliated with a newspaper, (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, perhaps?) before it became it's own stand-alone website and forum?
If anyone remembers the history of TBD, I'd love to hear it.
Let's go Buffalo!!
Great stuff! I have been a bills fan since ‘66 approximately. My dad was watching a game on tv and it was the jets v bills. He was for the jets and I liked the helmet , name ,and had fun rooting against my dad that day and have been with the bills since. I had forgotten about Shout ! I got it with pro football weekly to follow the nfl and actually played fantasy football back then and used those two papers for info about who to start. Actually won a city wide league in Jax being a bills homey and had several bills on my roster. I still have most of the shout papers and all the sports illustrated mags with the bills Super Bowl coverage on them stored in a storage unit. I don’t exactly remember finding TBD, but like many of you I joined back in 2001! I think you beat me by a month according to our profiles. Have been here ever since. Thanks for reminding me of Shout. !
I developed some some close friends on here including #89( Cindy) and cablelady ( Harriet ). My father passed from lymphoma in Jan 2002 and I posted about it here on TBD , , and #89 reached out with her sympathy. That part I will never forget. TBD has helped during rough times and so many fabulous hours giving me insight from some great people on the board. Scott has always been amazing and I can’t thank him enough for being my first source of all things Bills. Really love the people here and check in daily. Funny thing is I have been a bills fan all these years , actually went to SB’s 27 and 28 which I was able to take my parents to before my father passed ( Mom still alive in Ohio at age 91!), yet unfortunately I have never made it to Buffalo to actually take it all in live at least once. So still have that on my bucket list !
OP, great topic! Thanks for that and to Scott and TBD for years of fellowship thru all the ups and downs of being a Bills fan for life!?????
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Pretty funny article by Florio. Didnt see this posted elsewhere, apologize if I missed it. Main thing is how getting rid of a coachlike this and actually getting a coach who is not a headline seeker,but just embraces his job and where he is.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/10/26/more-revisionist-history-from-rex-ryan/
Doing this from an iPad and not sure it came across as the correct link. I think it is , maybe try copying to your browser. Again from Mike Florio.
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How the hell do you compare a 2 yr DB like Darby who has no discipline issues, a relatively modest contract, and just was not a good fit for the defense with a 6 year veteran who is one screw up away from a full season suspension, grossly overpaid (highest paid), and gives almost no effort?
Comical.
We were lucky to get a sixth rounder (conditional fifth) for getting out from under that dumpster fire. It makes us better by jettisoning a locker room cancer. This team is all heart. When your highest paid player is a half ass, that is not a plus
You missed my point or question, which is how do you make the Bills better NOW with an open roster spot. I’m not arguing he shouldn’t have been traded but he has had at least a history of several good seasons and Darby had one as a rookie. I was just wondering why we might not have added or gotten something like Gaines ,Matthews , etc
Obviously Jacksonville has the need or they never call. Fans down here are just as fed up with lousy teams as we are as Bills fans. Their owner has been widely criticised here for never spending money to actually field a competitive team. They obviously think they are playoff worthy and felt the need for a move now. I don’t think we were bargaining from a weak position which is what the results look like to me. I never stated the Bills were worse without MD, just asked what move would you consider with an open roster spot and current needs now !!!
Also anything you say about how Dareus was affecting the lockeroom or being a cancer or whatever derogatory Name you use is nothing more than your uneducated subjective assumption. Unless you work for the BILLs or you are doing their laundry or somehow have access to the locker room and can give me quotes from players complaining about him , just projecting your thoughts doesn’t amount to any truth. Obviously we all agree he was not appreciated by the current coach etc ,but that at least is proven fact. I merely suggested it’s POSSIBLE Dareus helps solidify a defense competing against us for a wildcard spot and I just wondered if perhaps we might have gotten a little more. This is not directed at you but rather other posters stating things that 1) probably not true 2)don’t add to further any discussion
They just now discussed the trade from the jags standpoint in the media here in Jax. They are last in yards/ carry in the nfl yet much better against the pass. They understand the risk and his history ( including his good history) and the beat writers feel like this was a “great move and possible steal” . Knowing Jacksonville’s weakness with the run, maybe we could have done better than a 6 th round. It is a plausible and not comical premise. Thx for your insight.
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Wow, I am not surprised he was traded, yet I am surprised we didn’t get someone like Yeldone ( rb) thrown in with 6 th ,possible 5 th round pick. That’s just my opinion comparing to what we got for trading Darby who doesn’t have the experience that MD has. The other thing that slightly concerns me is that the Jags have a very good pass rushing front 4 so adding Dareus will help shore up their run D since I think it’s evident he is not going to be relied upon for sacks at this point. The jags are much like we are this year, relying mostly on their D and we might be competing for a wild card spot this year if both teams keep playing at their current levels. I am good with getting rid of MD given his play now for the Bills, but would have rather seen him traded to a team not in contention for the same wild card position. MD will quickly find out there is no being late for anything given Coughlins presence back down here, so we can hope Dareus continues to be Dareus which is possible, or he finds out it’s pretty easy to get into plenty of distractions believe it or not in Jacksonville. It’s not the same place, red neck, good ol boy town it was when I moved here from Ohio in ‘85 to start my medical Career.
How do you guys think this will make the Bills better this year ? Just asking as a long time Bills fan; I don’t think the cap space means that much now or next year,and with an open roster spot who would you like to see added? We are really thin In the D backfield which I think will hurt us this week unfortunately. That seems a likely move to me even with the glaring receiver need as well. They probably need bodies there despite the latest addition cb who will take some time to fit in the current scheme. Any news on Streater since the workout? I think he would get snaps more quickly ( wr, special teams) having been at training camp, as opposed to someone from a different practice squad for example. Lots of smart posters here and I’m jus interested in your thoughts ? ( I haven’t seen any other moves yet, so sorry if I missed that )
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Yes sadly not all patients respond to Remicade/anti-TNF drugs. Your sister made a brave choice and one that a lot of my patients who have not responded to medical therapy eventually wish they had made years earlier. Fingers crossed for her that she does well!
Hi Dr Piratehooker! Good information from a specialist is priceless. Always like to meet a colleague on here. I am Board certified in Family practice , from Ohio, but been in practice since 85 here in Jacksonville. Did solo Fp a lot of years and lots of procedures including many files Sigs. Never got old or boring since it’s surprising how much pathology you find on asymptomatic pts for screening. After a lot of years in family practice ,director of rehab and eating disorder inpatient programs, I did however tire of what medicine has become under third party payors. Really is about numbers now and not so much about personalization of care that drew me to FP in the first place. Finally I sold and became a regional director for Solantic urgent care in Florida. It was started and owned by the infamous Medicare fraud man, owner of HCA , and now governor of our state, the infamous Rick Scott. I loved urgent care because every moment you never knew what would walk impn the door and medicine became exciting again. However, there is never enough money for people in power and I whistleblew on Scott using my credentials to bill full charges for Medicare patients even tho they were seen by arnps with no doctor on site. I had lawyers from Washington show up in my driveway one morning and the interviewed me for 16 hours over two days. I definitely had indisputable proof. Turned all evidence over to their investigators and somehow things “ disappeared”and rick went on to beat McCollum that year to become governor! I moved on to be a director for another urgent care chain until in 2014 when suddenly without prodrome both my arms went numb and left leg gave out while during a shift. Turned out to have 4 cervical discs that had pinched my spinal cord at c4/5. Underwent 4 level anterior decompression so I wouldn’t become a quad ; went ok but damage to my cord resulted in terrible parenthesias and complete numbness of both hands and some permanent loss of balance. Tried to go back a month after surgery but I couldn’t keep up with all the computer documentation and couldn’t feel lumps etc or do fine suturing on patients. Finally I am facing my career may be over at age 60 but I miss seeing patients so much. It was such an honor to have people choose me to care for their families and no other feeling comes close lto that that. Sorry this wasn’t football but appreciated your input on the use it TNF inhibitors etc. what a change from my days in residency in the early 80’s when surgery was almost a given with all chrons patients. Nice to meet a fellow doc and bills fan,and I hope you and your practice are well!, Time flies. Not long ago I was at SB 27and 28 watching the 2 of the 4 losses in person. Crushing but what a time to be a BILLS FAN! Sure misss those days as well. Take care and hope to talk / chat more soon!
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I think a telling statement is when McDermott pointed out there was a “silver lining “ with the injuries as he discussed missing clay for weeks. He stated it gave a chance for 5 rookies to get substantial playing time. If he is putting the spin of seeing a silver lining when you have just lost your leading receiver and best offensive mismatch for game planning , I believe that signals they don’t plan on bringing any significant outside players in and the only possible change I see might be if forced by sheer lack of bodies they have to bring up a player from our practice squad. Adding any other ps players rather than ours is unlikely to reallly benefit since they wont know the offense and who is just sitting on a ps anyhow that could jump start this mess of questionable offensive play calling ,experimentation at the 5th game with offensive line combinations that make no reasonable sense with “healthy” scratches of prior starters, and a limited qb who is a good scrambler being forced to be a pocket passer by defensive planning or our own offensive philosophy? If you are standing there seriously saying that there is a silver lining after watching 5 weeks of a passing attack that ranks 31 st in the league even with Clay and Matthews present for 4 of those games, then you are willing to stick it out the remaining of this season with the decisions made in the preseason when these problems were already evident and choices were made to trade players for draft picks. To give away picks now would make those prior moves appear foolish and I don’t see McDermott or Mcbean being willing to lose credibility so soon in their tenure.
I also can’t see any scenario of trading ShAdy because you have a locker room full of veteran players who do want to win now and that type of move would not go over well given he is the only playmaker left on the offense. The defensive players aren’t idiots and they see the lack of talent on the other side of the ball so try keeping them buying into the process if you completely dismantle the offense now by looking toward the future. I think some of them would even question the commitment to this season if by some crazy chance Peterman replaced Tyrod this early in the season. McDermotts actions say it all. They already tried to just go with Philly Brown as their wr move and would have stuck with him had they not had a shortage of corners this week. I bet they place clay on Ir with him being the possible one player eligible to come back later in the season ( however as a physician I am pessimistic he will return this year with a meniscal tear , mcl sprain that could possibly be a high grade sprain or partial tear, while already having problems with his other knee ). They may possibly bring philly back and stick with O’Leary and Logan so they know what they have at TE before the draft. I am impressed by the defense, happy to be tied for first in the division, yet it’s frustrating to see how any decent production from the offense might actually make us a playoff contender this year. I would be very surprised to see any trades or new acquisitions based on McDermott’s statements so far.
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There is no question we are using an unacceptable group of receivers even when healthy. Injuries took away the only two respectable playmakers with clay and Matthews gone. Why they continue to force feed zay into the second receiver position is hard to understand. He is a rookie who is understandably mentally having difficulty adjusting to the nfl and high expectations for him. I think trying something like even putting Logan Thomas in the slot with O’Leary on the field as well ( assuming clay is out for awhile which appears a certainty), and using Holmes or a call up from the ps might help take the pressure off zay. We are getting almost zero production from him so he needs to be on the field less for now. Why we have Kaelin Clay still on the roster is a mystery to me. It seems such a shame to lose a game where teams with 3 turniovers have a 10% chance of winning usually. The season is still so early so why not adjust when the trend is obvious ?
I like Tyrod but history doesn’t lie. As one article pointed out he has won one game when down more than four points. His record is also dismal whenever he throws over thirty pAsses. When you know if you get behind more than one possession you have almost no chance of success , it’s foolish not to consider some change. Heck at this point I would even start Tyrod but if he gets behind why not bring in Peterman when history says we will certainly not come back with Tyrod. I would keep Tyrod starting but the leash should be getting shorter with each performance like today. The classic Tyrod play was not throwing to an open Logan Thomas in the flat on time and then throwing it away. That is a trait he has not changed despite coaching emphasizing that point. I really do like this team and feel they are way ahead of where I thought they could be. So why just settle for the Status quo on offense IMHO?
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Hi guys, long time bills fan ( since 60's and. Went to sb27, 28 cuz " they cant lose 3,,,er in row" (f#@$ cowboys forever!), and because I had my first practice ever in the building right under the group who origininally were behind bringing the jags to jax, I was a season club ticket holder of jags for 6 years with seats 5 rows behind visitors bench on 32 yd line praying to see the bills come down.. they never did. My last year as jags ticket holder was year of music city bull crap so I was 16 sec from being able to see the bills come and beat the crap out of the jags for the SB as the bills d under wade was amazing that year. So i sat thru the jags getting killed by the Titians who went on to lose to the rams that year. Was my last year as jags ticket holder since it interfered with me watching bills games, bills never came down here during that time until the following year !). Just mention as background to my thoughts.
So i think having watched all these guys over the years, this is going to be a good thing for the Jags. I really would have loved to see coughlin with the bills. Remember he does know how to build a team from ground zero . He was working two years building the structure before the first jags season. He put that organization together. He brought in Boselli, jimmy smith , Fred Taylor, got Brunell from Green Bay and remember sadly who put an end to Kelly's career and the bills home playoff win streak. Tough to watch as a bills fan in jax. Problem with coughlin back then and what led to his firing was he was so dictorial, (like players being made to keep helmets on in practice at all times in 90 degree plus temps , crazy stuff ) that eventually he lost the team and was known for never talking to players. He woke up with the firing and was a different coach with the giants by all accounts I have read. He does live here and is amazing with his generosity (jay fund) and he is a two time SB winner endiing the Pats undefieatd season and just for that I will always be grateful ! He is softer but still commands respect and discipline and he sticks to his Vision of how to win. He will be great helping turn this directionless organization after his departure, back around. The other gm is a young guy like Whaley, who I think will learn tremendously under coughlin. Actually i see this as a very smart move by Kahn. This guy is a good owner and also done many things to develop a vision for a struggling downtown Jacksonville.
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As far as Marone, I hated him as a bills coach for all the reasons we all watched, and when the pu$$y walked from the bills, i was happy and thought good riddance. We all know he appears to be an ass personally , and coughlin was always seen like this in his time here. Who better to stand up to a bully than someone with documented Super Bowl success, who was that same personality before his reevaluation of his style and life. Coughlin is not some tired 70 year old. I bet he is in better shape than many of us and he is tireless. PLUS he still has PASSION that has sustained and is not phoney rhetoric like the Ryan hype. Marone will have someone to answer to who he will respect. Who would ever respect Whaley et al? Making more and more sense seeing why Marone left the mess that is now being exposed at OBD. So sadly i do believe the jags will be a contender well before the bills can right this deep deep dysfunctional mess.
Which finally brings my long post (forgive me since i help all this in for years) to the billls. I have no idea who can help fix this. I really hoped Polian would come back and if you listen to him on Sirius, you know this guy is a true master of the big picture of an organization and can verbalize that so well. ) . I dont have any faith things will change with Whaley still there. I see this as a huge mistake by the Pegulas when they had a chance to clean this up and perhaps attract a good candidate. Unlikely anyone except those wanting their first shot will want to walk into this situation. When Kelly is even calling the team out nationally, i think this has reached an all time low in my 40 plus years of following the bills, at least in the modern era of the salary cap. One thing i know for sure after watching him here for 4 years, is that Bradley is a disaster. He may have been an ok D.C. Once. But he was the most inept coach I have ever seen. Nice,nice guy. IMHO, too nice to be brought into a locker room where rookies like Lawson are even calling out the trash efforts we have seen the past two years. So if Anthony is hired and would bring bradly in, that already tells me he is not forward thinking and i would not see how anything changes with the pathetic d we witnessed. I see us not getting coughlin as a loss; here we go again in the same learn on the job mess we have all watched over and over. I would however be happy to at least watch the team if Frank was brought in. Who could not get behind THE MR COMEBACK?. Lets see, but it hurts watching this mess now and I think those who criticize coughlin just because of age will wish he had come to the bills when the jags beat us to Respectability. Thx for tolerating a long post. Frustrating supporting the bills for so long and watching close up as another once poorly run franchise like the jags look like they may even prove how it is possible to not continue accepting mediocrity.
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I have the same problem found the Washington broadcast on 225 Sirius radio. Listening now. Bills up 3-0 first quarter. Hope that helps.
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I am a family practice doctor and also do emergency room work, and I see this type of injury all time. Your son experienced a contusion to his large bone in the leg called the tibia. This is a very large bone and is extremely hard to break. The smaller bone on the outside of the leg is called the fibula, and is easier to break, but it doesn't sound like you're son got hit there. Because UIC area, and there was no swelling, I don't think that there is a hematoma present. A hematoma represents a collection of blood under the skin and is common when you sustain a hit to the area, but is associated with swelling and a persistent lump. Because your son's pain is resolving and he is having no difficulty walking, I don't think x-rays would be of any benefit. The numbness is due to bruising of superficial nerves in the area and medically is called a neuropraxia. This doesn't have any long-term consequences, and should resolve anywhere from one to three months at most. As long as he can run without difficulty, and I think it's OK participate without any extra padding in the area. If he does start to have any difficulty walking or persistent pain an x-ray might be necessary. Hope this helps and to a bills fan there's no charge.
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Thanks for the feedback; tried not to be to emotional and just wanted to think of some constructive ways of righting this ship. I think we can turn the offense around if Clements or someone else (Wyche) adapts, but the defense that was to be our backbone is failing terribly. We just get no push in the middle, and this is dragging our ends and secondary down as well. If we could pick up Winborn from the 49'ers, who sounds like he just got caught up in a problem with the way the new staff was using him, I would seriously consider going more to a 3-4 to have better playmakers on the field. I think we might get a better rush that way without having to keep sending our safties or corners in blitzes. Also with the Spikes injury and Posey being in his last year of his contract next year, Winborn would be a good fit. We could also then use our draft picks to fortify both lines. I also think we really need to watch Vincent's play. He may have finally hit a wall, and he looks slow and out of position frequently to me. Might even consider putting Greer in there for more speed, or if we continue to tank, consider getting Leonard some playing time. This is a critcal time for TD to make a move, as we are about to lose the season.
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Rough day in Jax. They are showing pics of the shooter , a David Katz from Baltimore. He is shown holing a BUFFALO BILLS #17 jersey that says madden champ on the back. Apparently he lost earlier in the two day madden tourney. Didn’t get to see much of Bills debacle today in Jax as all covereage during game was devoted to this story. Sad day and hard image to see the kid holding a Bills jersey up. Local news is that other than 4 who died at scene will live. Just thought I would post because I couldn’t believe the guy was holding the Bills jersey in the photo they are showing of him. Hope this is not foreboding or upcoming season esp after that o line performance.