TDO'Kearney
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McKelvin was good but I wish he would have intercepted that ball Brady threw behind Thompkins that hit Leodis in the left bicep. Also, Kilo was making some thumping hits in there. I hope he doesn't have concussion syndrome when he's done playing....
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Well, based on how I've seen Marrone talk to the media, I'm sure if Leslie Frazier had picked up the phone and called Marrone and said "How do you want to do this game?", Marrone might have simply said we're playing it like a game. There. 15 seconds and you know what you have. Now go prepare.
Being unprepared in a pro league like the NFL is unacceptable.
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I lived in Lockport in 1980 I remember how excited everybody was when the bills finally beat Miami but what cemented my fandom was the 1981 wildcard game against the Jets. Everything started right for the Bills on the opening kickoff to the Jets where they fumbled and Charles Rome's recovered and carried it in for a 7-0 lead. The Bills jumped out to a 24-0 leadin that game but barely hung on to win 31-27 when Bill Simpson intercepted Richard Todd in the end zone with seconds left amidst the garbage swirling at Shea Stadium. I remember my family laughing about the fact that in a post game interview Simpson was still clutching that muddy ball.
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Pro Bowl! Maaaaaaan that's nothing but a popularity contest. Ruben Brown made the Pro Bowl for the three consecutive years after he retired.
Peters has the talent to be possibly the greatest tackle ever if he worked hard. Seriously. That's why ppl hate him. I coukdnt get on my Division III college team and this guy could be great and doesn't seem to care.
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This is a great thread, actually. Makes me proud to be part of this community.
The only way it could be a locker room issue is if its a qb. Mix a gay QB with a homophobic center and you're going to cause all sorts of false starts.
Seriously time for society to move on...
Dammit, I was getting ready to make some kind of stupid crack about the QB-center exchange but you beat me to it.....
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Are you saying we never had a white slow learner?
Billy Joe Hobert. Well, he might have been a fast learner if he opened the play book....
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No one in the NFL in recent times has come as close as Clint Malarchuk.
Or Chris Pronger. He was hit in the chest with a slapshot and the trainer said when he got there that his heart wasn't beating....even though it restarted quickly.
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He couldn't have looked more like a prototypical stud qb when the trade went down. What a disappointment. I do remember him selling out against the Bucs one year, showing a complete disregard for his own well-being. First time he convinced me he had a pulse.
Like Todd Collins, he had a long career. Doesn't mean it was successful the way it matters.
He has a Super Bowl Ring and won every game he started for that team in 2002. He made millions of dollars. I'd would give my left nut for that much success. Just sayin'.....
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Maybe there was an incentive for getting exactly 25 tackles because the front office has a weird gambling addiction.
Maybe he got Buddy to go 2 to 1 on a teaser?
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Titans were covering Scott Chandler w/ a DT.... See the 2nd down play on the last drive
Not to mention....it's common. They call it a zone blitz and Dick LeBeau is one of the proponents of it, and no one thinks he sucks...
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So would I, but this owner didn't feel "comfortable" in hiring him back in 09 / 2010. Nix wanted to hire Martyball, Martyball desperately wanted the Bills HCing job. Ralph Wilson said no
I don't have a link b/c this was on Sirius NFL radio but I have heard Marty say a few times he doesn't want to coach, but rather, "enjoy the fruits of his labor". The guy is 70 years old, man. Everyone loves him because he came to play LB when the AFL Bills drafted him in 1965 but I think he is retired for good.
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This is a great question and very interesting choice of coaches.
I think both of them would manage Ryan Fitzpatrick very much the same way that Harbaugh has managed Alex Smith. They would put him in a "game manager" role where the run powers the offense and he is asked to make only high-percentage, low-risk throws and take the sack if he can't guarantee that. Smith is NOT expected to make things happen. When he was, it was bad, bad, bad -inaccurate, low completion percentage.
Parcells won a superbowl with Phil Simms (21 TD, 22 INTs) and Jeff Hostetler (a guy who sported a completion percentage of 54% the year he won the Superbowl).
During the 2004 superbowl season, the Pats were a different team - they ran almost as much as they passed, and pretty much ran to set up the deep ball. And Brady was a different QB. He was not rockin' that 65% completion percentage in those days - barely over 60% in 2004, a bit better but fewer passes in 2001.
I don't think either would give Ryan Fitzpatrick the hook in favor of Vince Young or Tarvaris Jackson. They would game plan to his strengths, and not put him in a position to throw 3-4 INTs a game.
And they would win with him.
Aside: one puzzle to me is that people dis on "garbage time" statistics, stats after the game is considered already hopelessly lost. But then they rag on INTs in the same time.
If it's garbage time for good stats, shouldn't it be garbage time for bad stats?
Well, the good stats came against reduced pressure and often second string competition. So when the bad stats come against the same, it is cause for concern.
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Does that include their prices? Would Bills fans buy the 2nd most expensive tickets in the NFL? Would they pay $60 to park? Would they put up with parking lot attendants herding you out of your spot if you are still parked 1 hour after the game ends?
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I never drove to a game up there but it's really 60 bucks for parking? Day-mn! I'd turn around and burn my tickets!
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You know what? The Pats have a 10 year body of work behind them and were Super Bowl runners up 8 months ago. 3 games isn't a large enough body of work to say that's changed. You can't say this year's Power Rankings have nothing to do with last year when they have 90 % of the same players and a first ballot HOF QB.
Leave the Bills at 19 for a few more weeks, lets see how they do these next 3 games before I'd consider raising the rank. I love the direction the Bills seem to be going in but they were 5-2 last year too.
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That's were I'm at with this call. Jennings may have made first contact with the ball but Tate had his hands on it coming down also. The play could have easily been called either way and the talking heads would have disagreed with the call but I think the refs got this one right.
I'm surprised no one posted this so I will.
Rule 8 - Section 3 - Article 1 - Item 5: Simultaneous Catch. If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control.
I don't care who won this game either, it has no effect on the Bills, but Jennings goes up and catches the ball while Tate has his arm in Jennings chest. As they fall to the ground, Tate doesn't even have his other arm in there until they hit the ground. By definition, that's NOT a simultaneous catch. So the refs missed two calls on the same play, the offensive PI (which most people feel the regular refs would choose to overlook at the end of a game too) AND the non simultaneous catch. Not to mention when two refs show up on the play, the first signals for the clock to stop for a change of possession, the second guy runs in and signals touchdown. They didn't even confer.
The WORST part was while they were getting the Packers back onto the field for the PAT, they were interviewing Carroll and he mentioned the NE -Buf "just give it to him" game which helped get replay started in the first place....when the Bills didn't come back onto the field and they ran for two....
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Classy move by Chan and the coaching staff. I'll bet Belichick and company would have run it down any team's throat there...
Actually, in 2007 as bad as the 56-10 game was, the Pats let up. The 8th TD was a defensive score and when the Pats got the ball back with 11 min left they put out Cassel and the second stringers. When it became apparent that the Bills D was too demoralized to stop Heath Evans they started running (who?) Kyle Eckel to run out the clock.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711180buf.htm
Schiano has taken a lot of crap, but the fact is his team was down by one score or less both times they pulled that stunt. For the same reason nobody throws a pity-party when a team runs a fake-spike, there was nothing unsportsman like about trying to squirt one free when you have a legitimate shot of winning with the ball in your hands.
I was with you, until someone made the point that he didn't on-side kick the ball back to the Giants. If you're not going to do that, are you really trying to win the game or are you just acting like an a hole?
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Classy move by Chan and the coaching staff. I'll bet Belichick and company would have run it down any team's throat there...
Actually, in 2007 as bad as the 56-10 game was, the Pats let up. The 8th TD was a defensive score and when the Pats got the ball back with 11 min left they put out Cassel and the second stringers. When it became apparent that the Bills D was too demoralized to stop Heath Evans they started running (who?) Kyle Eckel to run out the clock.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711180buf.htm
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they would just pass on him for a db
You can't have too many DBs you know....
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You couldn't tell just by watching Vince play this preseason that he's playing bad? You needed a chart to figure all this out?
Moreover, how many times do we complain that ppl just spout stuff with no logic? Then we complain when we have to read a chart? Sheesh.
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I think hes a dummy that parlayed a really good game in college to a lot of money
Well, then, who's the dummy?
That joke mighta worked if he didn't spend it all.....
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He started Trent over Fitz(I know he looks great in practice), Spiller and Lynch over Jackson, allowed Kelsay and Johnson to play OLB, Moats was moved to ILB, played Levitre at center, kept Batten on an NFL roster, has now moved Carrington from DE to OLB to DT, and thought Merriman could play a 4-3 DE.
Looks like he was right about Evans, correctly moved Wood to center, and will likely be right about Maybin.
I like Gailey as a play caller but not sold on his HC responsibilites for managing the entire roster.
Your thoughts...
I think luck, or at least circumstances, played into a switch from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt. How many times did we complain here that the coach needs to fit the scheme to the players not the other way around?
Case in point...the Bills pick 3rd in the 2011 draft. They need D help. it becomes clear that we will either get Van Miller, an LB, or Dareus, a DT after the Panthers pick Newton. Once you have both these guys (Williams and Dareus), who do you sit in a 3-4? Dareus is quick but apparently he's really not a DE. If we had gotten the LB, would we still be working a 3-4?
Then you look at free agency. You have these two stud tackles and you know two stud DEs are available in FA. Also, Wannstedt happens to be looking for a job in 2011 and he's a 4-3 guy. So you go with what falls to you. Even in fantasy leagues you can't just get whomever you want.
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I'm starting to think it's going to belong to Arizona. Kolb looks horrid, and they just lost their LT for the season. Jacksonville and Cleveland should be in the mix too.
You made the mistake of posting BEFORE the Giants-Jests game. The only controversy the Jets have is which QB is worse. To those who say the Jets had all their receivers out, the Giants DL were in the backfield every play. I don't think it would have been that much better.
But it IS preseason.
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When is the last time the Bills were good in preseason? When did it start to matter if they were? They never play well in preseason. It's nothing more than to evaluate players. Christ, Baltimore gave up 260 yards in the first half at home tonight. Green Bay got whacked by Cleveland the other day. The year the Lions went 0-16 they were 4-0 in preseason. The Bills were 0-4 in the 1990 preseason. The outcome of the game in preseason is USELESS!!!!!
A lot of folks bring up the 90s Bills preseason record, but those were different. Kelly and the boys would come out and march down the field and make the score 7-0 and sit down while Marv would play the future plumbers and firemen he had that year to see who was any good while ultimately losing 28-17. That's not what these games look like.
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Spiller Time!!!! We will win this game, mark my words fellas.
OK, F it. Bills 45 Jets 9, Spiller gets 200 yards from scrimmage. I'm on the bandwagon until at least 1:15PM on Sunday!
Positives and Negatives from Week One vs. Pats
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You guys going on about the clock realize that it doesn't matter if you still go three and out, right? The Bills got the ball with 5:51 to go and gave the ball back with around 4:30 left and everyone blames the no-huddle? Even if the Bills ran three plays and took 40 seconds off each time, NE still gets the ball with a out 3:50 to play anyway. And I'm taking 40 seconds that wouldn't have run off with the incompletion to Stevie on 2nd down. NE was on the Buff 10 with a minute and all 3 timeouts left. It wouldn't have mattered.