HardyBoy
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2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
They didn't have a super short rest vs Atlanta. They played New England on a SNF and then Atlanta on the road on MNF did they not? They actually had an extra day...
Haha damn you, I tosses Atlanta in there because I knew it was an off Sunday game and made an assumption...I was at a networking happy hour event tonight and had a drink or two...haha I was soooo close to making my point
Atlanta was a bad loss, but at the same time the bills are a very reliant on a good game script team that also ironically is not always great in the first half...it's very confusing, but I was definitely not right about including Atlanta in there
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56 minutes ago, boater said:
The problem is: you don't know which Bills will show up.
The Bills who manhandled the Chiefs or Panthers--or the Bills who collapsed at Texans/Dolphins. I would score those two versions of the Bills very differently.
Crazy humid game and super short rest on the road is what happened against the Texans and Dolphins and Falcons...
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Having high level qb play on a rookie contract...
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8 hours ago, Pete said:
“The Bills offense needed a drive. The unit had struggled throughout, but with 2:48 left in the game, the reigning MVP got the ball back at his own 18-yard line.”
just like Bills offense last 2 playoffs at the end of the game, and they struggled then too.
Waddle for a 2026 1st would have solved that. Miami agreed. Beane wouldn’t pay 😡
Beane might be anticipating a non zero chance that the wheels fall off this season (with the dline injuries they might have already) and 2026 might be the highest they're drafting in a while and for the foreseeable future...not saying they won't trade that pick, but Miami was probably valuing it at the very end of the draft and they would get much much more value when it's a known pick if it's in the mid or even upper 20s.
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18 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Hancock is mainly coming in at safety on passing downs. Lewis is playing dime. It could be it just "coincided" with JoPo going in. I suspect not though. I suspect a proper vet who actually knows football is making a significant difference.
Ah Hancock and yes I knew that somewhere in my brain
do you think his issue was more run defense and getting confidence there allowed him to start just playing on passing downs and not think as much on those downs?
I guess, how does Poyer playing help Bishop on clear passing downs when Poyer is not in the game typically?
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13 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
I think it is pretty high. The issue was a pretty low floor and until JoPo got in alongide him that is what we got. But no question - Bish has been great the last 4 or 5 games. Very optimistic now for his future.
Bishop, Benford and Hairston is three nice young building blocks in that secondary.
He's playing well when Lewis subs in for Poyer too though... I'm not saying Poyer definitely isn't the reason, but shouldn't his play drop significantly on passing downs when Lewis comes in then?
Could it be just that something clicked for him and coincided when Poyer started playing, or maybe more that Rapp was the issue and brining in any replacement level player would have facilitated Bishop's ability to only have to think about his role and not covering for Rapp?
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He might have adhd
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Yeah, can you imagine the reads Bishop and Hairston would get from Coleman's film study!
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2 hours ago, Walking Tall said:
I’m pretty sure it was just for this weekend and next weekend especially. though the NFL celebrates “Salute to Service” the whole month of November, which I enjoy seeing.They don't celebrate anything... the military pays for all of it. It's not a genuine salute to anything other than making money and recruitment efforts...tax money something something
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I feel like beane has chased the draft picks he traded away and it impacted the draft a lot...also, it adds a ton of uncertainty to the draft prep process...they know they are likely going to trade down to get a third back, but I have to imagine that makes all the prep prior to the draft, all the mock drafts and scenarios completely hypothetical.
Yeah there's a ton of uncertainty in the draft as it is, but essentially going in not knowing where you're picking at all because your plan is to get more picks early...I think there is a plus side to this in terms of certainty if you do nothing and trade wise, and they don't have to do anything trade wise to chase picks
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3 minutes ago, Draconator said:
The crowd noise in the old stadium throws offenses off their game and hard to call audibles on offence.
The crowd noise next year in the new stadium will make the opposing offenses jobs even harder to run an effective offense.
Damn good thing my wife is out of town and I started drinking early!Some might need a decoder ring, not us...we just need Draconator and a six pack!
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47 minutes ago, T master said:
If they did they one would think given what he did in college he would be on the team but again maybe that's just me .
He ended up going to the Rams and iirc made the team...his path to making the team was likely better somewhere else.
The only way you could possibly know that the bills weren't interested is if he wasn't signed as an undrafted free agent on any team at all, which wasn't the case.
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25 minutes ago, T master said:
Shaun Dolac came out last year and the Bills didn't look his way which baffled me he should have been of the first ones in the building just like they should have done with Mack, it wouldn't surprise me if they let this guy walk too it seems that home grown talent isn't something that they want to invest in .
Maybe that's just me ...
How do you know they didn't?
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1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:
This doesnt explain him missing throws. He hasnt been good for a month now, and that isnt a result of being a game manager.
I think he got a concussion against the Pats
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1 minute ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
Wait til people learn the Patriots will be coming off their bye week when the play us in Foxboro
Yeah, I saw that...I watched the Falcons game at a bar at a networking event without volume (except for me thinking Palmer tore everything on the initial play and then when they stepped out at the half yard line to end the half)... I'm sure they mentioned it on the broadcast, but I didn't hear it obviously
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4 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:
After the lost to the Pats the Bills players thought they would get right with the Falcons.
I don't think the players gave enough credit to the opposition.
They have to stop that thinking this week.
Haha, I dont know what a bunch of people here are thinking, let alone the players
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36 minutes ago, billsbackto81 said:
Bye or no bye.
That is not an excuse for making Michael Penix look like Dan Marino.
Let that sink in, Michael Penix.
What in the world?! Penix had 233 yards and a yards per attempt of 6.9 which is below his career average...and they scored 24 points, including three in the second half...seven of which came on an 80 yard run on the first play of the drive...
Dan Marino...seriously?!
It really has gotten to the point where I'm almost rooting for wins more to keep people from going crazy than for the actual wins...almost
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Missed tackles could absolutely be a factor of a player getting to a spot a fraction faster because they are fresh...that's not an excuse
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Why isn't this being talked about more???
They looked like a team coming off their bye and the Bills defense especially started playing way better in the second half after they adjusted to what I'm sure some wrinkles they were able to add during the bye and two weeks to prepare for the Bills.
Feels like massively important context
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4 hours ago, boyst said:
One of the NFL radios guys was praising San Francisco year after year for having numerous injuries and still putting up a fight every week. It got me thinking how poorly the bills do when they start to get punched around a little bit or dinged up.
My wife said it last year watching a game with me, one of the few times she sat down to watch more than 5 minutes. If the bills start to lose or are down by a touchdown they never seem interested in trying to win or care. They don't have the fight in them
Maybe she's trying to mirror your energy or repeating things you've said in the past cause she wanted to connect with you?
Cause otherwise, I'm not sure I really am going to take the opinion of someone who barely watches the team more than five minutes at a time...that said, my own wife does have a pretty good understanding of football, she grew up having to watch it, but she doesn't anymore all that much, but I do value her opinion when she watches... so yeah, I'm flip flopping a bit, lol
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I feel like trading a 3rd during the season causes Beane to chase the pick in the draft somehow...like there is some sunk cost fallacy or something going on
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2 hours ago, Matt_In_NH said:
Understand what making things up is.
Lol, nicely done and go bills
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22 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:
Please tell me you are not serious
Do you understand what the term contributing factor means?
I'm not saying he did that because of CTE... I'm saying it could he something he was dealing with and as a coping mechanism he could have went down a path of self soothing with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately could have resulted in him doing that...
Like if someone hurts their back and then gets prescribed pain pills and then gets addicted even when using them as prescribed and then loses their job as a result and then gets foreclosed on and then has to live on the street and then gets arrested for robbing someone...and I say I wonder if them hurting their back was a contributing factor and then you saying "you can't be serious"...you know ridiculous and lacking humility or understanding your comment would have or lacking the understanding of how incredibly close any one of us is to that reality no matter how much you want to tell yourself you're different and somehow better than reality...well, same thing here in terms of how silly that comment is
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1 hour ago, finn said:
Wonder if it's CTE.
My first thought too...at least as a contributing factor
8th In "D" - 2nd in "O"!?!?!
in The Stadium Wall
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That's right, the Falcons were off their bye...pats will be too next week...there are a lot of random variables that absolutely could impact how the team is being so inconsistent week to week, which as long as you're not the 7 seed playing the 1 in the divisional assuming you win, are not there in the playoffs.