uticaclub
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Keeping a guy a year too long instead of getting rid of him a year too early.
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2 minutes ago, bouds said:
I mean if he's gliding around on scooter, then I'm worried he's been told to not put any weight on it. Doesn't bode well for someone who's being pushed around by 330 lbs guards, sometimes two a time. Not good, but lets hope for the best.
Hes on a scooter
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18 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:
Yankees home crowds in the postseason are second to none in any sport.
Maybe in the old stadium; since they built the new one it's a lot tamer
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11 hours ago, Beck Water said:
Which you know because?
Because it wasn't disputed and no one said he was wrong. He was just called mean and that the article was uncalled for, never wrong.
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1 hour ago, FireChans said:
Do people still care what this guy types on Cheetos dust keyboard?
Remember his “epic” takedown of McD that resulted in a 6 game win streak and the 2 seed?
An unserious “journalist” whose claim to fame is being on speaking terms with jilted lovers Monos and Whaley
Nothing Dunne said was incorrect
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1 hour ago, Nihilarian said:
Rex Ryan took the best defensive front in the NFL and ruined it by changing over to "his" scheme. Buffalo, under DC Schwartz, had the best pass rush and sacks in the NFL. Ryan changed that to have the D linemen dropping into pass coverage so the crappy LBers could rush the passer. The man is a walking, talking wart!
Yes, Rex did all those things but that doesn't mean McDermott would have kept Schwartz. We have no way on knowing & McDermott wasn’t a coaching candidate in 2015
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1 minute ago, T master said:
We will have to disagree because Rex's ego totally out weighed the team he had been given . He had a defense that was basically lights out and a D coordinator that could have if left alone taught Rex a bit about defense but Rex's ego once again tried to take that historically good defenses & change it .
Did & screwed the pooch all the way around ! If he would have came in and been a HC and didn't;t think he and his schemes/experience was better than those around him he would have done better for the team because he took a 4/3 defense with those types of players and tried to change it to a 3/4 and we see how that worked .
I believe given the same scenario McD would have saw what he had and left it alone allowing Schwartz the freedom to do what he had been because McD's ego wouldn't have gotten in the way and could plainly see success for what it was & left things alone but Rex not so much .
And McD took the players that Rex had and in 1 season took them to the play offs when Rex had a 15-16 record in 2 seasons with basically the same players and never sniffed the play offs so the players were there but the coaching was totally different and if I remember the Bills fans were ecstatic that Ryan was hired .
You think McDermott wouldn’t have cleaned house and brought in his own guys? Schwartz defensive philosophies are the exact opposite of McDermott’s; but keep telling yourself that. When has a coach been hired and kept the last staffs coordinators around?
The Rex teams were close to the playoffs, just needed an extra bounce or call to go our way.
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31 minutes ago, Avisan said:
McD gets to be "coach for life" because the Bills are an extremely good team every single season and their units often perform above their talent level.
So you are admitting we have a lack of talent
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29 minutes ago, T master said:
Did McD take this team to their first play offs in 17 yrs with Tyrod Taylor at QB and a bunch of misfit players ? There was no JA 17 one the team that year ...
Yes there was a little luck involved which is what this team has had absolutely none of, then having to win games with the refs against you quite possibly the NFL so the Chiefs could make a 3rd SB , certain coordinators making bad calls in the 13 second game, and such .
It all starts with the a good leader that has changed the culture and 1 that is in lock step with the GM to bring in players and other coaches to help lead the team to stay winners every season & IMHO that's McD & will be until he decides to leave on his terms not a bunch of arm chair week end warriors that think they know more than a man that has lived every ounce of his life for football .
Let's just hire Rex back how bout it ??
Rex would have had the same results with Josh as McD did. If you look at many advanced statistics the 2017 teams wasn’t any better than the 2015 or 2016 teams; just more lucky bounces & Andy Dalton. That fumble in ATL would have been called an incomplete pass.Yea, he deserves credit for being the coach when the draught ended. But this teams goal is no longer to just make the playoffs its to make the Super Bowl. If McD & Beane are just “playoff caliber” instead of “championshio caliber”, then changes needed to be made.
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4 minutes ago, Nihilarian said:
P.S. In 2021, the Baltimore Ravens lost a ton of players due to injuries and went 8-9 that season. Crap happens! It's kind of foolish to blame that season on the HC or GM. Every season since then, they have also been vying for an SB berth. I can't even imagine what this board would plunge into if this year's Buffalo team had a losing season.
Would you want to keep McDermott and Beane if this team has a losing record? Harbaugh won a Super Bowl, so he has earned the leeway of having a losing season.
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1 hour ago, T master said:
Can't tell what group you come from I suggest you go root for the Browns for a while then come back and see exactly how good we have it . Yah it sucks that we haven't been to the SB as of yet but the HC can only do so much and the biggest share is on the players .
I suppose you are also a Knorwood hater blaming the SB against the giants on his miss instead of seeing the entire picture of how the D let the team down time and time again .
I would rather be a part of a winning team every year than what transpired before McD got here . Prior to his arrival as you have apparently forgotten every 3 + years there was a HC ing change, scheme changes, player changes and NO PLAY OFFS AT ALL because there was no stability .
I guess as they say you can't make every body happy and as I said you will probably still complain about something if and when they do make it to the big game .
Oh and how many teams recently that change coaching staffs go from the bottom to the top and sustain it ?
We have Josh Allen and play in the AFC East, making the playoffs nearly a guarantee. Any coordinator would have achieved similar results with a team led by Josh Allen. The year after Josh leaves, this will be a three-win team, with or without McDermott.
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17 minutes ago, Gunner said:
Gruden took Dungy's Bucs to a SB win but his attitude destroyed the team shortly afterwards. Dungy's Bucs were a tight knit group, much like McD's Bills.
Was Dungy the GM that build that team? Who gives a ***** if it fell apart after they won the Super Bowl? Did Gruden’s attitude destroy the team or is it impossible to keep an entire defensive unit together?
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6 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:
This is highly encouraging, but hopefully for the right reasons. As I've been saying for years, the regular season is an extension of the pre-season for us. I really don't care about the individual outcome of a given game during the regular season anymore. As long as you get 10+ wins, which I expect they will based on Josh alone, I'm all good.
What matters to me is that I see them building on something throughout the season, evolving in terms of playbook, technique and execution. The elite teams aren't showing you the same gameplan in the playoffs that they had in September. They look like a baseball team in game 7 of the world series, pulling out all kinds of tricks and playing their best ball. Make Bosa inactive for the first 10 games - seriously. I know they won't, but they should. I don't need him stacking stats in September. I need him for 5-10 critical snaps in January.
Use this season as a way to accelerate the growth of our young players, because if we have any hope of taking a next step this year, it's because 2-3 young players have blossomed into all-pro level players.We still need to force passing down for Bosa to see the field. Miller didn’t see the field in the AFCCG because it was always 3rd & short. No amount of pass rush will fix a terrible secondary
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15 minutes ago, T master said:
What the yah hoo hater fans that want instant gratification that would complain about something even when this team wins a SB will never understand is a 7 year HCing career you are still learning things each and every year but all of that be damned if you are the HC of the Buffalo Bills !!
No matter if you've taken the team from the dregs of the league to have a winning team every year makes no difference to the haters . Like the guy that was the second one here to post after your initial post it's apparent he is one of those that I speak of and I cannot wait to say to all the haters here when he leads this team to a SB victory that they can go P**S up a rope !!
But like I said no matter the out come win or lose those folks won't give him any credit because that's just the way those folks are no matter what good comes from any situation they will follow their own personal narrative of doom and gloom no matter the leader of the team .
But as long as he continues to do what he has been doing I'm sticking by him he's a Bills DNA guy through and through !! GO BILLS !!!
People have given McDermott a lot of credit over the years, but its ***** or get off the pot time.
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Let’s Go!!!!!!
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34 minutes ago, MJS said:
Because you haven't seen them play yet and because the Bills have been a top 3 to 5 team for years now and any improvements are going to be marginal because they are already really good every year.
I've noticed that every person who claims to be a realist is, in fact, a pessimist.
If we were a top 3 team over 5 years you think we would have made one Super Bowl.
1 hour ago, RochesterLifer said:Not so much about Utica. It was, admittedly, a cheap shot. I just get fed up with the haters trashing the team.
Trashing the team vs pointing out the obvious flaws are completely different.
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36 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:
We hear a lot of people say the Bills need to part ways. But I would guess McD decides to part ways sooner than we decide to do it. He's basically coaching every season with Super Bowl or bust expectations. Mounting pressure as he and Allen break into statistical categories that haven't occurred in the sport for achievements without going to the big game. That can't be fun and it can't be sustainable. He either does it and pulls a Dungy and walks away or he doesn't do it and he takes a break from coaching.
Colts went to Super Bowl with Caldwell right after Dungy left….
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13 minutes ago, RochesterLifer said:
Maybe because you don't understand history or math?
2024 Bills 13 wins, 4 losses
2023 Bills 11 wins, 6 losses
2022 Bills 13 wins, 3 losses
2021 Bills 11 wins, 6 losses
2020 Bills 13 wins, 3 losses
Short of the Super Bowl (which most of us are hoping for), it is mathematically impossible to get "much better." Step out of Utica and into reality.
I haven't lived in NY for over 15 years.
I was replying to a post discussing last year's team being constrained by the salary cap, while this year we were expected to have more available cap space. Yes, i’ll take an 11 win team that looks like it can win a championship vs a 13 team that can’t force a punt.
I’ll take a take my Riggies in Shootica, you can have your Garbage Plates & Murder Rates.
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5 minutes ago, NoSaint said:
the bills did come due. Last year.
Then why does this team feel like it’s not much better than last years?
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2 hours ago, NoName said:
How bad is Tre's injury? That's the first thought I had when I saw news about the restructure.
The stadium will explode if he picks off Lamar
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11 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
Guess you forgot about the Colts game where he made multiple long toe tap catches on the sidelines in critical situations?
We really have short memories here I guess.
If a player only has one good game every 40, it’s understandable that people are not excited and might roll their eyes. If the league thought highly of him, he would have signed a one-year "prove-it" deal and spent the entire offseason rehabilitating at a team’s facility. His performance in Jacksonville was really poor, truly terrible.
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2 hours ago, Big Turk said:
I don't care who was hurt. Nobody put up 200+ yards and 4 TDs against the Bills when they were missing half the starting defense.
No, that production is usually distributed among multiple receivers we leave open; KC just refused to cover Gabe or fell down when they did. It was an all-time great game, but that’s it; it’s a one-hit wonder.
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Bills 30
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7 hours ago, Big Turk said:
Except in the playoffs where he goes off?
People forget how many injuries KC & how poor that defense was. People love to bring up Benford getting hurt in a game but never Honey Badger.
Guelli says Bills “would absolutely consider” playing games in Canada again
in The Stadium Wall
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Disagree, international games are fun. I’d rather travel to Madrid and have a great new experience than go to Toronto for a weekend.