[Week 18 - Around the NFL thread (all but Titans Jags game)]

The 49ers may get to yawn their way into the SB.

[Week 18 - Around the NFL thread (all but Titans Jags game)]

8 minutes ago, Success said:

Tyrod Taylor might be one of my favorite NFL players.

 

He's had some bad breaks, but never seems to complain, and when he gets his chances, he's all in.  Just shows up & plays hard.

 

He’s probably the only QB to ever lose a starting gig because a trainer accidentally stabbed him.

[Do you tell the team the outcome of Jags/Titans?]

Yes, I believe positive loose vibes yield better results than the crucible of pressure.  Imagine the tension release of making the playoffs after losses like Denver and Philly happened this season.  

[Playoffs Clinched!!]

5 minutes ago, TheWei44 said:

Free rolling tonight (to use a poker analogy)!!  Go Bills!!

It’s more like we’re in a three way all in and locked up the side pot and have to fade a combo draw to win the main pot too.

[NFL Week 18 - Jags at Titans game thread]

Best friendship with Bengals 2017-2024 RIP

 

Best friendship with Titans 2024-???

 

 

[Remove Divisions in NFL]

I love it when someone starts an argument here and the very first sentence is just factually inaccurate.  

[Steelers @ Ravens 4:30pm Game Thread]

Just now, Hawaii50 said:

Watt ACL, ugh!

Not every knee injury is an ACL.

[Bills at Dolphins 2017]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:

Sounds like a hell of a night lol

And the next day obviously giving it up to Andy Dalton’s charity.  What an awesome time.  If only Tyrol could have put up more than 3 points the next week…

2 minutes ago, Beast said:

Let’s hope you didn’t marry her. LOL

 

Unless it was her first ever first date. 

Only saw her a couple more times but I know that she runs a puppet theatre in New Mexico now.

[Bills at Dolphins 2017]

I have great memories from that day.  I figured we were screwed but I shed a single manly tear when KW scored the TD.

 

Later that day I didn’t want to torture myself by actually watching the Ravens/Bengals game and I had a first date at a nice restaurant.  Around 7:30 when I knew that game would be ending I surreptitiously checked the score and saw the Bengals won.  Used the energy to parlay into getting laid and watched the highlights at 3am when I got home.  Let’s go Buffalo.

[IF (Caps IF), we clinch a playoff spot before the Dolphins game, would you rest Josh?]

If it was JUST about home/road I'd consider it depending on how badly sore he is.  But this is about quality of opponents too.  We need to be able to avoid Baltimore in the second round.

[Bills-Dolphins Week 18 for the Division! SUNDAY NIGHT GAME]

37 minutes ago, eball said:

Josh is awesome.  Just read his quotes from yesterday’s media appearance and he’s giving the Fish nothing…textbook stuff for making sure there is no bulletin board material.  He even said “their crowd will be rocking, it’s a hostile environment we’re going into” — yeah, for them.  😂

Weird comparison at first glance but Josh reminds me a bit of Derek Jeter in the way he handles being off the field.  Charms the media without really giving them anything, doesn’t insult the opposition, makes it about his teammates.  Dating a starlet and yet we know hardly anything about it.

[Congrats to Pro Bowlers James Cook and Dion Dawkins!]

Just our luck.  In a year when the offense actually stays healthy, two crucial players just decide to become professional bowlers right before the playoffs?  

[Do you wonder if the league is fixed?]

9 hours ago, wagon127 said:

I think penalties are too costly. They often severly impact the outcome of the game. No other sport does that. Its rather annoying. Once the bills win the superbowl, i will be taking a step back from football for sure. 

Defensive holding and illegal contact being automatic first downs is so bad.

[Elite QBs Win Super Bowls?]

"Volume cures variance" is a maxim from the poker world.  Basically, the more iterations of something you run, the less aberrant the results.  16-17 game regular seasons followed by single elimination playoffs in a sport where each side gets to possess the ball like a dozen times is EXTREMELY high variance and you can't get to the end of the season and simply conclude that the best team/best coach/best QB won.  Write all the narratives you want, a lot of it is luck.

 

Compare this to basketball.  82 game season to determine seeding.  7 game series.  About 100 possessions of the ball per side.  Upsets are comparatively rare and you can generally trust that the best team won.  So when that's the case it's only natural that dominant players like Jordan, Lebron and Shaq end up with handfuls of championship rings.  It would be more surprising if they didn't.  

 

 

[Do you wonder if the league is fixed?]

1 minute ago, Freak-O said:

Do you really think a league with 32 teams and like 100 players per team and people like Kapaernick, Marshawn Lynch and Antonio Brown is fixed without someone leaking it to the press? Even if it was just the refs someone would eventually say something. Too many people to keep it a secret. 

 

This is pretty much what I think of every conspiracy type thing.  If it requires like a few select people to keep a secret it could have happened.  Hundreds or even thousands?  Absolutely not.  Even if everyone was properly motivated to keep the secret, somebody would get drunk and spill it.  It's pretty much the one thing I trust about the world, that people will eventually blab about stuff.

[Bills-Dolphins Week 18 for the Division! SUNDAY NIGHT GAME]

Just now, CaptnCoke11 said:

won’t even be close 

 
My point is you don’t actually know.

[Bills-Dolphins Week 18 for the Division! SUNDAY NIGHT GAME]

11 minutes ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

No they absolutely won’t beat Pittsburgh with their reserves.  Bills need to win

You remember Fast Willie Parker?

[So, You are McDaniel and Dophins Management]

We’ll get their best effort, from any of their players who can go.  You don’t surrender the division on the eve of the playoffs and then confidently face your team as a leader the next day.

[Jordan Poyer Mic'd Up: Bills vs. Patriots]

Poyer will be a ring of honor player.  

[Do you wonder if the league is fixed?]

I find it funny that talk of rigging always starts up when there’s an egregious and publicly mocked ref mistake at the end of a game.  As if that’s how they’d go about it.

[Browns versus Lions in the SB]

4 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

Bills v Lions.  We win on a Bass 50+ yard FG.

Bills beat Lions 42-41 as Dalton Kincaid barely out jumps Sam LaPorta to knock away a Hail Mary.  The 62 Bills fans who survive their heart attacks begin to plan the parade.

[Why Nathan Peterman?]

Peterman also completely fooled the Raiders so it stands to reason that he was showing enough.  That said, having a QB room of Josh, Peterman and AJ McCarron was malpractice.

[Allen shoulder injury]

2 minutes ago, wppete said:

Never heard of this guy. Sounds like someone wants some attention. 

 

He's the Bills' quarterback.

[Seriously? No one has started the Miami Week Haiku thread yet? Ok, here we go.]

3 minutes ago, Heavy Kevi said:

 

Lol no

 

I was part of bbmb as far back as 2003 and they did it every phin game then too.

 

I don't understand why it's a tradition. Has nothing to do with anything as far as I know.

 

Perhaps some things just

Defy explanation and

Are because they are

[What's Wrong With The Passing O?]

The most frustrating thing is the red zone passing game.  I get jealous watching KC because they always scheme something up where if Mahomes gets more than 2.5 seconds someone is open by 2-3 yards in the end zone.