JESSEFEFFER
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7 hours ago, Mango said:
I was there. The filtering out with started with about 10 minutes left in the 4th. It was bonkers. Dare I say bordering on disrespectful.
It is 2 possessions and we have Josh Effing Allen.
The only way I can explain it is that1. The primetime game always seems to always draw a totally different crowd. Almost like people are there because of the nationally televised game, not the match up itself.
2. It is possible we have become soft in our successes. In 2010 we would have more people sticking around to boo this team off the field than we did to stick around to cheer for the comeback. I don't buy the "well it was late" narrative. I am a season ticket holder, and this exodus was something I haven't seen in quite some time and we have had primetime games. These people aren't leaving if the score was reversed (and held), the stadium would have roared the team off the field.
Anyways, for a fan base that gets so much national attention for being "die hards" this was a pretty embarrassing showing on National TV. If Miami or Jacksonville did this we would have a 96 page thread on what trash fans they are. Be better.I was a bad dad and took my 15 and 14 year olds to the game with school the next day. My wife wanted to leave early in the 4th and I said we'd give it one more drive. Then the Ravens scored using only two plays and I had no leg to stand on and I was pissed too. As it was, I got us home at 1:00 AM but if we had stayed we would have been stuck in a huge post game traffic jam which was 99% likely to be comprised of pissed off and drunken (some--100% likely) ) Bills fans. But, I am a generous sort of guy and I will gladly donate $68 to Oishei on behalf of the four of us just as homage to the Football Gods that we were gifted Josh Allen.
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It gives Gabe access to the Bills training staff and facilities.
Offers proof that when BB says he loves the player and not the price tag that he means it.
Adds a trusted and familiar face to the locker room.
Gives them a solid option to help them through the inevitable WR injuries encountered during a 17 game season.
Costs very little in actual dollars due to offsets.
Seems like an easy to like, practice squad move to me.
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Blowout Bills wins, high Takeaway numbers ( short fields) Injuries and the wide range ball distribution combine to limit the numbers for any pair of pass catchers. I think they go over if you count the post season games they will play. 😉
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14 minutes ago, zow2 said:
I feel like more was at play regarding the Bills. Like they didn’t want another UB guy as the story and pressure of another local kid. They already have Joe, Cam, Ingram from UB. I dunno, just seems like they knew he’d be decent if not very good and they punted on it, and said let him be another teams fun story.
The Rams were a smart choice with a legit path the 53. Maybe he felt he would be competing with Andersen for a job here and that didn’t sit right with him.
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14 hours ago, Beck Water said:
It was definitely on Bussin' with the Boys which is 2 ex-NFL players
Maybe he's done it on both but for Lewan to attempt to pull that joke on Josh after Josh had already done to them would be rather weak. Here is the one I saw, had to use AI to find it. Barstool sports.
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On 8/13/2025 at 12:42 AM, Beck Water said:
Should add, Josh got da boys last year with a mythical great Buffalo Wings joint called Room 40.
I think that was a different podcast duo. Not ex NFL guys.
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Joe Burrow's hidden flaw is sack avoidance. He is good to great at everything else so the inclination is to blame the OL but the same thing existed at LSU. I think he was better in 2024 but I can't find the numbers to back that up.
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On 8/2/2025 at 7:47 PM, PonyBoy said:
My family went to Canandaigua as a kid. Anyone here old enough to remember Roseland Amusement park there?
Kind of lame, but as a kid it was great!
My family went there on the return from a Cooperstown trip. I think there was a roller coaster that went out into the lake? Maybe I’m thinking of Crystal Beach? Anyways, I made an effort to take my kids to the water park there even though it’s not on the same actual ground.
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18 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
Moss isn't as bad as some make him out to be, but he also isn't anything special either. I think he has value to a team looking to add depth as a backup RB. The best thing going for him is that he played pretty well for Indy in 2023 and he can also catch, so I think someone will see value in bringing him in.
He was also good to great in pass protection. He got hurt his rookie year during and missed the Chiefs AFCC game. He might have helped since the pass protection was an issue that game. Maybe I am misremembering,
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On 7/24/2025 at 1:53 PM, I'm Spartacus said:
Was anyone watching today? Brownie and Glab were interviewing Josh Allen. I know a lot of posters here don't care for her. Near the end she asked Josh a question (I'm not sure the content of it). Josh sat silent for about 8 seconds and finally said, "I'm not sure how to answer that, because honestly I don't know what you are talking about". It was hilarious! She's pretty brutal.
Context matters. She was asking what was some under the radar aspect of the team that the media and fans don't talk about much. Josh was saying that he does not really know what the conversation is like among the fans and media so that was tough to answer. It's not that her question made no sense to him.
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Some creative thinking to put them together. Should be a fun group to watch.
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Steelers sign the ghost of Drew Bledsoe. What could go wrong?
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18 hours ago, boyst said:
Tavern is where to go the night before
Tailgating sucks in Charlotte.
The day I spent there I arrived early thinking parking would be a problem, so we opened the place up. Carolina had a home game then (Cam Newton had just been in the traffic accident) and their fans trickled in for their pregame meal and drinks. I think any downtown stadium has a tailgating situation that has severe limitations ="sucks."
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Tavern on the Tracks which is 7 or so blocks from BOA stadium has my endorsement. I spent the day there with my wife watching the game in which Bacarri Rambo intercepted Aaron Rodgers twice to beat the Packers, December 14, 2014. Had a great time and they were a very active group. I'd bet they would plan big things for when the Bills actually come to town. You might want to contact their Bills Backer group.
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The toughest games are at home. After the Ravens game, the Bills have a realistic chance to stack wins and put the division away early again. Cleveland and Pittsburgh are easily reached away games on the back half when their fans are likely to have lost all hope of a meaningful season. Away at Charlotte is a big deal given all the connections to the area. The night games are something of a pain but that is the expectation now. The Eagles coming in so late is weird and the only minus I see to the schedule. Maybe they would like to promote it as a Super Bowl preview but it might not mean anything to one or both teams by then.
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1 hour ago, Bigvinny said:
When they play in Charlotte. Game will be like 80% Bills fans.
Away games at Pitt and Cle could be similar.
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42 minutes ago, JESSEFEFFER said:
To be fair, there is a third component to the mix and that would be opportunity which can be limited by injury or the strength of a roster. I'll throw 2 names to the mix to start with. Wes Welker and Frank Lewis. I will so some more thinking over lunch.
More Bills related names. Haven Moses and Ahmad Rashad. Add Charlie Joyner. Damn, I am getting old.
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17 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
I want to agree with this because it makes sense, but I'm having a hard time finding an example of a passcatcher making a big leap in production due to improved QB play. They seem to be who they are.
To be fair, there is a third component to the mix and that would be opportunity which can be limited by injury or the strength of a roster. I'll throw 2 names to the mix to start with. Wes Welker and Frank Lewis. I will so some more thinking over lunch.
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I think I agree with the fantasy football remark that Brandon Beane made on WGR. If your WR group doesn't drop many passes or fumble the ball, blocks well for the run game, does really well with RAC, has some solid contributors to STs, has enough depth to overcome injuries and adds to the productivity of a team's historically good offense, that's a good WR room.
Fantasy football doesn't care about any of those things. It cares about volume stats for individual players. Those stats often come from spending much of a season playing from behind and not from a team that is great at the RZ run game. So, they may be bottom 5 in fantasy football desirability but they can be a much bigger asset than that in terms of their contribution to winning. We had the same debate starting last summer going through to end of the preseason in the mega, 170 page "I'm really starting to love this WR room. We quietly got better" thread. And yes, the 2025 group has a chance to be better than the 2024 group.
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There has always been a debate about the nature vs. nurture as to what a person ever becomes. As applied to the NFL, is it more on the culture and coaching of the franchise you play for or is it on the what the player brings to the table that defines their career. If the Bills like him in 2021, there may be something more to gain from his talent here vs. for the Jets and Browns.
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20 hours ago, boyst said:
The bills last game at home against the Dolphins is just what history demands.
I was thinking that it might be the Jets that history could demand but there should be some home playoff games I would hope.
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1 minute ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:
The irony of the situation is that they have Elijah visiting today 🤣
Beane did a great job addressing the defense in the draft and in the off-season.
I think it’s a personally very reasonable for fans to expect that they should’ve drafted a receiver to develop within the first three rounds but sounds like they didn’t really like many of them.
We all want Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase but when you’re 13 and four every year it’s almost impossible to get your hands on those guys. I’ll take being good over having shiny toys.Elijah Moore is a great example of the kind of value talent that can pay off big. He's been with the Jets and Browns and his career has suffered the consequences. He could be ripe for a short term opportunity here on the cheap. All the WR talk now and pretty much since last August has gotten many salty takes. Beane has taken a money ball approach to the WR room and it worked last year. WRs that block, don't drop the ball and don't complain about their role can get you a long way with Josh Allen as the QB.
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46 minutes ago, section122 said:
I just listened and this is entirely overblown. He defended not getting a WR but at no time did he start yelling. I expected this to be way hotter and louder. When they switched the conversation to defense it was a very cordial conversation.
Have you ever heard Beane yell about anything, ever? I know I haven't. That's not his style. But he was definitely combative and probably got annoyed while listening to the feed while waiting on hold and is probably very much aware of that general criticism about his drafting. In general, fans and media love the draft and some love it too much to the point of being blind to the other roster building tools. Beane is concerned with the entire roster including the practice squad and knows that this job is never done and the draft is maybe half of the process at best.
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10 minutes ago, BillMafia716ix said:
I’m glad he went off. WGR is trash. I don’t expect him back on anytime soon lol
Next time Brandon is on, I predict that he offers some sort of apology as he is normally very patient with critics in the local media. It was almost like his version of Polian's "if your don't like it you can get out of town!" moment, but, in a much more well-mannered, southern gentlemanly, passive aggressive way.
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Well, another worthless stat..total QBR
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The biggest flaws of the traditional passer rating are the total whiff it makes on "sack avoidance" and the impact of QB runs. Since it totally ignores any play where the ball did not leave the QBs hand with a forward motion, sacks (and strip sacks) scrambles and designed runs and ball security do not matter one bit. Avoid a sack and throw the ball away to save the yardage and it hurts passer rating because the completion % goes down. This is how Rob Johnson's passer rating stayed relatively high. Take the sack, lose the yardage, kill the drive, piss the OL off but passer rating is not affected. Also, passer rating does not take into account the game situation where these passing only stats are accumulated.
Total QBR tries to account for every QB play, the game situation and the impact it had. That alone makes it a better metric but it has its mystery meat components. Up until those last two passes of the first half, Josh wasn't really impacting the game much.
The fascinating part of this is the Bills continue to try to balance how much Josh Allen to insert into the offense. and when. The Ken Dorsey approach (too much Josh, all the time, which leads to more mistakes and exposes the defense) or the Joe Brady approach where there are more plays called that do not ask him to be special and tries to protect the defense but you end up with back to back 3 and outs which puts your team behind.