Alphadawg7
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My wife’s friend and her husband are, she is Hailee’s makeup artist. Hoping to meet them at the Golf Tournament he’s playing in Lake Tahoe in July that we are going to.
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22 hours ago, MarlinTheMagician said:
Tell me I am stupid, a hater or just off base.
Do we have to just pick one? lol-
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1 hour ago, NoSaint said:
is there a reason we think diggs would be strict about party drugs other than suspension concerns?
He’s been pretty strict on what he puts in his body and he’s hyper focused on proving he’s not done after the injury. So I would just personally be a little surprised if he was a user rather than just a provider in this instance. Especially with camp here and the risks with drug testing as well.
It’s not uncommon for athletes to bring “party favors” when they aren’t using them themselves. But who knows, maybe he does…just saying I’d be a little surprised
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2 hours ago, Yard Monkey said:
Yes, pathetic. If you are referring to the Packers game, it was his last play as a Bill thankfully. Chan Gailey was furious on the sideline. All of the receivers ran vertical routes and he didn’t throw it.
“Trent Edwards' infamous 4th and 11 play happened during his final game as a Buffalo Bill on September 19, 2010, against the Green Bay Packers. Instead of attempting a pass, he ran out of bounds after gaining only 6 yards, sealing Buffalo's fate in a 34-7 loss.
It was a frustrating moment for Bills fans, and just eight days later, Edwards was released by the team.”
Yeah that was it...so bad, for some reason I thought he was on the team longer than that after it, but still should have been cut before he hit the showers lol
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2 hours ago, The Wiz said:
Random drug test incoming maybe???
He gave the items to the girls, so doubt he was using them. But certainly warrants a drug test, but I would be surprised if he failed from what we know about Diggs personally.
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10 minutes ago, SoTier said:
"Captain Checkdown" never learned to read defenses ... which is why he earned that nickname. He was the perfect QB for Dick Jauron (who believed in playing not to lose games by too much) because Edwards was good with throwing a 4 yard pass on third and 5 and then punting. Jauron disliked Losman because he (Losman) tried too hard to make plays and win -- IOW, he took risks, which Jauron hated.
The worst play I have ever personally witnessed was watching Trent run out of bounds on 4th down on our final drive of the game instead of trying to make a play happen. Most pathetic, gutless, unacceptable play I have ever seen live in a game. She should have been benched or cut before he hit the showers.
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Lol...the dumbest part of this by Diggs is he knows there is a camera recording lol.
That being said, not sure how anyone could discipline Diggs here. I haven't heard of Pink Coke before, but regardless of what it was or wasn't, not sure how anyone can prove it was if Diggs denies it and says it was something else.
So I think the only person Diggs may be in the most trouble with is his boo Cardi B lol...although rumor is she was also on the boat, so maybe not lol
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1 hour ago, Captain Hindsight said:
Trent was never good, even before that hit
Thank you!
The myth of Trent Edwards is wild to me. I remember that season when we started 4-0 and I started a thread stating if he doesn't play better we would miss the playoffs. I got flamed left and right because we were "4-0" - albeit we had just beat 4 of the worst teams in the NFL. Trent had 1 TD in each game...our Def/ST combined for more TD's over that 4 game span than Trent had himself. And we barely beat 2 of those really bad teams that year.
He wasn't good, all he did was just not make mistakes while we beat the bottom feeding teams and let our defense/ST help carry us to wins. Soon as our defense and ST stopped scoring TD's we couldn't win a game with the president of Dakota Fannings fan club at the helm.
He was never good. He showed some potential as a rookie, then created false hope when he wasn't doing a whole lot in a hot 4-0 start against bad teams where our D and ST were scoring an unsustainable amount of times, and then just went on to never improve from what he had been.
And the injury myth still persists to this day for some as the reason he stunk
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1 hour ago, Captain Hindsight said:
I don't miss the days of trying to convince ourselves that Justin Fields is going to help us compete
Oh wait, thats the Jets message board
Bahahaha...post of the week
Man, those were some dark days. When your teams most popular or clamored for football player is the back up QB no matter how bad they are, its a very dark era at QB. I mean we lived through times where people made cases for guys like Brohm, Cardale Jones, etc just because they had yet to get on the field in a real game and prove they were trash yet. Gross
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15 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I agree with all this except I still think Keon is best suited as a big slot rather than as a Z receiver. I maintain if he ever ends up putting up really big numbers in the NFL it will be playing at least half of his snaps inside.
I also think the fact he has the most upside of anyone on the current roster at X is a bit of an indictment on the Bills outside receiver options, but that has been done to death elsewhere.
On a positive note...I will say this...the notes coming out on Keon so far this offseason are very encouraging so far and raising the level of excitement and optimism around Keon IMHO. Earlier this offseason Josh was speaking publicly about how Keon has been in his ear all off season about how he can get better and be better for Josh. Then he shows up with 10 more pounds of muscle and reportedly looking faster than ever in his cuts and just faster overall.
It's way too early to put too much stock into anything, good or bad, especially before pads go on. But we are at least hearing the things we want to hear about him thus far. But the one thing I maintained heading into the offseason is that Keon wants it...he wants to be great. And that for me is what I want to see in the young guys, that drive, commitment, extra gear to really push themselves in the offseason to come back and be a better version of themselves. And he has a lot of guys on this team that know what thats like and put that work in during their own careers, including his MVP QB and fellow WR Shakir more recently.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
Whether he is our best X... possibly. I think Palmer is more of a natural Z. There probably isn't a ton between them. But the Bills are going to start Keon as their X receiver. No doubt about that for me. They are going to try and force it to work for at least one more season.
Keon has the most potential/upside on the current roster at the X, but based on where he is right now, he is probably best suited to play out of the Z. Watching him in LA, Palmer can play both, but the Z is what best suits his game. So Keon 100% is going to be given every opportunity to try and demonstrate that on the current roster he is the best option at the X this year. That being said, I also wouldn't be surprised to see them rotate Palmer and Keon some this year between the two either, especially if Keon isn't taking enough of a step forward at the X.
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8 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
It's hard to heal calf injuries.
You can go easy on a hamstring but it's hard to walk at all without aggrivating a calf injury.
They are so often the precursor to a torn achilles.
It's happened so often to so many big name players now that it's odd when people try to brush it off like you are doing.
The Bills have good depth a DE. That's the saving grace. Not the insignificance of the injury for a brittle old pass rusher.
Oh don't get me wrong, its smart to sit him as I know it can lead to other injuries. That is why in my post I said the injury on its own isn't serious and sitting him is precautionary. Just look at what happened to Durant on the Warriors in the postseason his last year there.
What I was brushing off is that its May...calf injuries themselves are not hard to get past or heal. When I pulled mine playing basketball it hurt so bad I thought something in my knee popped. I was back to playing full court without issue 4 weeks later just from sitting on my 48 year old butt at home playing with my kids and not doing too much to aggravate it.
And this is a 29 year old professional athlete with a full medical and training staff at his disposal. So a call pull its not very concerning at this point and him just sitting out some early parts of the season ins't a big deal and just precautionary.
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8 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
It was a joke. Anybody that isn't a little concerned that he's injured already given his history is lying to themselves. Anybody that thinks the sky is falling is overreacting to a May injury of a calf pull.
Fair enough...I didn't pick up on the joke, so my bad. I agree that a little concern is warranted given his history and agree that the sky is falling stuff is way over the top. So agree with all of this and sorry I missed the sarcasm initially, its hard to tell who is joking or over the top sometimes here because the over the top is comically absurd at times.
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36 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:
If we cut him now we save $520k this year and $5.4m next year.
Why would we cut him though? He is on a 1 year deal and has a calf pull, something I play full court basketball on at age 48 and without the benefit of a training staff.
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55 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
I subscribe to texts from Matt Parrino, he sends out updates throughout OTAs and training camp. It's worth the $5 per month. His first update today is that early defensive standouts in team drills were TJ Sanders and Landson Jackson. So that's a promising start. Sanders in particular I am really excited about. The more I watch of him the more I think his skill set will really translate to the NFL.
Im really high on both of them and never expected we could get Landon where we did, could be steal of the draft IMHO. So its even better when we start seeing some early buzz on them and hope that momentum just keeps building throughout camp and preseason
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I get this is TSW, so TSW is gonna full on TSW every chance it can add to the theatre of dramatics and negativity...
...but come one...its a pulled calf...hardly concerning. Its better to just be cautious and keep him out, its not a serious injury, on its own. Its just OTA's too
Its May...long time until January.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program of beating the dead horse on receivers...lol
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
And the answer was not Joe Brady. It is all on Keon.
Gotcha, but I just didn’t take his post as out right blaming Brady, he threw out lots of potential factors. All good-
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4 hours ago, Logic said:
Keon wasn't the same player after injury.
Not the same level of intensity nor effectiveness.
The coach and GM both publicly stated this.
And honestly, Keon has publicly acknowledged this too. As I stated in a post above, it was both a mature and immature moment for him...on the positive, he had the right unselfish mindset where all that matters is they were winning, so he didn't want to rock the boat and just expect his targets now that he was back. At the same time, the immature side and the issue the coaches and Beane had was having less involvement initially on his return affected his intensity and effectiveness.
And for me, its just a growing pain really where he needs to learn how to balance that correct unselfish mentality while maintaining the same focus and intensity until his number is called.
I don't know how successful or not his 2nd season will be, but I am not too worried about this aspect of it. I think we will see an improved version of the guy pre-injury more than we are likely to see more of the guy post injury IMHO. Doesn't mean he for sure erases everyones concerns, but I do expect we he should him more consistently involved this year and I think 900+ yards and 7+ TD's are probably realistic goals for him this season. Which would be a pretty good season in an offense where we spread the ball around a lot and run the ball a lot.
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5 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Why didn't Keon get open in college then if it's all Brady's fault?
Thats not what the poster was asking...he was asking why the dip in targets on his return from injury.
Keon weighed in on this, and he said the offense was humming and they were doing some other things and he didn't feel he could come back and just be like get me my targets back. They were winning and that was all that mattered. And this was both a mature and immature moment from him, and I think it was also the biggest gripe and area of growth Beane and McD had at end of the season. On one hand, you want that unselfish attitude, but on the other I think what was clear on film is that when he had the mindset where he wasn't gonna get the ball it affected his play compared to earlier in the season where he felt like he could get more opportunities or targets at any given moment. We saw this with how he ran some routes, how he had some mental mistakes and drops, etc. He wasn't as dialed in and that also affected his targets.
None of that has anything to do with other perceived strengths or weaknesses. None of that is to debate whether he can or wont get open. But the question the poster you replied to was looking for possible reasons for seeing less targets post injury when he had started to have some stronger games before getting hurt. I mean in week 11 he was on pace for 800-900 yard range and 7+ TD's, which is a solid season for a rookie on a spread the ball around team who still runs the ball a lot too. But after his return, there was a noticeable decline in his involvement and performance as well.
Doesn't mean other factors were not also at play, but Keon, Beane and McD have alluded to a lot of what I just said in speaking about it since then.
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47 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:
One of the online editors was active on twitter a few years ago. They are getting hard drives up until about 4 hours before air time and like 3 hours before they lock picture.
The Bills and any other team have never been involved in anything with the editing. I believe there are agreed upon terms before this starts and through the years has been mastered essentially. There is never any game plan discussion or reveals visually of plays etc. I believe all scouting and trade discussions, things of the sort are not used unless cleared ahead of time also.
as an editor myself, sitting here at the moment in front of Avid Media Composer it would be 110% impossible to work with such tight deadlines and have input from various people who work for a team. Its just not possible.
I am sure The various directors/EP's and Online Editors get plenty of feedback from the team and the league.
Last year's hard knocks was boring. There was literally nothing interesting.
These must be a lot fun to be on the editing crew, the montages look like fun. The amount of B Roll and clips in the bins by the time they get to the 3rd or 4th episode must be overwhelming.
I have a couple friends who have worked on this show a while, and you are pretty spot on with what you said here. And there is definitely no one from the team involved in editing or post.
47 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:and just to nitpick something you said in an earlier post, They absolutely have pre production meetings on storylines. While the episodes will be cut organically allowing the narrative to fall into place if you will, the key points / main story has been mapped as an outline in some regard.
They always follow the same formula.
Attach a narrative to an undrafted free agent.
Attach a narrative to the team as a whole and their place in the league, this is where all the stadium, chicken wings, niagara falls, Pegula family story will be.
Attach a narrative to Josh Allen....all encompassing.
Dive into Key free agent signings and players who were drafted.
Then they always have the kooky guy, Dion dawkins is perfect for this....the all business guy, Milano is perfect for this.
Traditionally they will go the route of having a Veteran who is trying to hang on juxtaposed to a younger player taking his job or pushing him....perfect spot for a tre,Benford, Hairston story or Cam lewis fighting off hancock. etc.
And of course they always have the my mom pushed me in a wheelbarrow up hill 10 miles every morning to every practice story for the sentimental stuff and the bills have the most intriguing sentimental story on the roster maybe ever in Damar Hamlin.
So all that to say, the camera crews will be directed to go get lots of stuff. Then the editors and producers will work it into an organic story in the edit as they all are.
You nailed the formula of the show 100%, and its wild to me what some of these people in here think the show is going to go hard after their perceived issues at WR like it was a TSW thread lol. Hard Knocks is a narrative and story based show, its not an analytical show there to do in depth analysis on the team or its roster. Its there to let the fans at home inside what its like to be inside a real NFL camp, and its been that way since day 1.
47 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:There is a ton of story in the buffalo bills. They have 100 year old marv levy, Cancer survivor Jim Kelly, A celebrity newlywed, an incredible fan base, a nice setting in rochester (pittsford) etc. Then of course guys get hurt, guys get cut etc. If they have to do this hopefully it is better than the bears last year, that was terrible.
In my personal opinion, I think this season will end up being one of the best ones from an entertainment value overall. Lots of great stories, characters, and a unique vibe in the locker room. Great mix of charismatic vets (Josh, Tre, Dion, etc) and youngsters (Keon, Hairston, etc) with a lot of just good likable people too like Shakir, Josh again, Beane, Davis, etc. Lot of good heart string stories here, the fans, the new stadium, the MVP, and on and on.-
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31 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
I think that’s a fair comment and kind of inline with my last post. We decide when we want to use data or believe a particular media outlet. We like them when they fit our agenda or narrative. That’s frustrating.
Agreed
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2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
I’ll stay out of this one because I’ve said my piece on this many times. Are we now questioning the validity of PFF? While we might not always agree with them, we can’t act like they don’t have credibility because we don’t like the data. All 32 NFL teams use their data. We can argue that receivers not getting open didn’t play a role in Josh’s inaccuracy down the field. We can’t argue that the people producing the data aren’t credible.
The issue with PFF is people’s opinion changes on it on every piece of data it puts out based on their own confirmation bias. When the data matches their views, then the data is great…when it doesn’t match their views, then PFF is a joke and sucks.
I don’t say that about anything to do with this thread, just commenting on the convenient times PFF is good or bad depending on whether the data confirms or conflicts with one’s bias.
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It’s wild watching some of the hysteria going on in this thread. People either really don’t understand the show, have crazy conspiracy theories/concerns, or just believe in too many jinxes.
Bills winning or not winning the SB this year will literally have zero to do with Hard Knocks being there during training camp.
Some of you seem to forget that cameras and interviews are part of their everyday lives, practices, games, etc. A little bit xtra coverage in training camp isn’t going to decide the fate of our season lol.
Just sit back and be a fan and enjoy the show, it isn’t gonna bite lol
GoBills!
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24 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:
I repeat, you are claiming the questions about the Bills WR corps "will likely not be covered" on Hard Knocks.
Mmmkay.
I suspect you will be backpedaling on that the same way you did when you started that thread last spring to tell us how nobody but you understood how great Khalil Shakir was going to be in 2024 and then walked it back in the fine print so that 900 yards would meet the criteria. 😂
Never back pedaled on anything I have ever said about Shakir since the day he was drafted.
But it still makes my nipples dance having so much free rent your head and watching you obsess over me...never change boo 😘
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Who was invited to Josh and Hailee's wedding?
in The Stadium Wall
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Absolutely.
My wife asked me “How will
you hide your b*ner if we meet Josh?”
And I said “Who said anything about hiding it?”