Hapless Bills Fan
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Im just sayin....its a great thing how this worked out for us
what if
McCown ended up being the QB we brought in
Does TT ever get his chance?
At the end of it we found our QB....and the browns are still searching.
I think with McCown TT still gets his chance but maybe EJ is the one who's cut
I think the Bills had a strategy A) see if EJ can take a step B) bring in a dark-horse 2nd tier FA - a guy with talent in college who's been sitting on the bench behind an entrenched starter C) bring in the best vet FA they could get their hands on.
Insider Rumor on this board had it that Rex really liked Taylor and was going to give him every chance to win the starting job. If that's true and they bring in McCown, but Tyrod has the preseason he had, I think he still starts, but McCown would have showed more arm than Cassel had left; guarantee or no guarantee EJ would have been traded or kicked to the curb; and it's possible we win one of the games where Taylor was out.
But I could be wrong and maybe conservatism (Roman? twas said he liked Cassel) would have won out and kept Taylor from a shot.
I just don't think RG3 is going to have an excellent NFL career. Hope he's improved some, because he was just awful at going through his progressive reads. His wheels are broken and that was a major part of his game and responsible for much of his early success. JMO.
It really depends upon what's in his head. I think his rookie success went there, and kept him from feeling an urgent need to develop his game. If his time on the bench caused him to re-assess and re-dedicate himself to developing as an NFL QB, he might have something.
Then again, he might not be able to develop as he needs to, just as it appears EJ is not able to take that step.
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Completely expected. They need to see if they can fix RG3 and reclaim his career. They might as well try. Their other options are McCown, who's an old vet, and a late 3rd round rookie in Kessler. It's a very similar situation to what the Bills faced last year when I said they might as well give Taylor a shot.
I agree completely expected, but does anyone else think it's funny to have a team announce that they're going to announce the starter?
I mean, why not just announce it? Are they afraid that if they don't provide pre-event indicators, no one from the press will show up?
Washington didnt handle the injury great, but RG3 deserves alot of blame too. You could maybe argue he wasnt healthy enough in year 2, but the next two years Griffin refused to put in the work and subsequently lost his job. He has no one to blame but himself
When you're right, you're right.
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There are very few players in the league whose injury would cause me to smile...this guy's one of them.
Now I'll go ahead and say that I hope it's nothing that will affect his life outside of football long-term.
If he's walking off the field and slamming his helmet down, it sounds as though the essential parts all work.
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I can't remember serious injuries when the Bills practice inside the field center. Does it have a/c?
Out in the heat mistakes happen . JMO
In seriousness, the stat I'd like to see is how teams that practice and play on grass compare to teams that practice and play on turf, for injuries to the ankle and knee. I've seen several players, especially OLmen, quoted as saying that turf is far harsher on the body than natural grass. Theoretically, I can see why that might be so. First there's the underlayer, concrete vs dirt, even hard-packed dirt is softer. Second, if you pivot on grass and your foot catches, a divot of grass will possibly tear before your ligaments do.
But perception is perception and reality is reality, so I'd like to see stats. It would have to be somehow limited to practice and home games, or else add to the turf statistics when a team is playing away on turf.
I "get" that it's tough to keep a grass field in good shape in a northern climate late into the season, but these days with greenhouse technology so improved I believe it could be done - if statistics bear it out.
Depends. Could be either but definitely Physically Unable to Chew.
I don't know, Nanker, that seems like a lot to swallow
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Me too, but I'm always wary of eating the first slice of pizza too quickly. You can really burn the roof of your mouth with hot-hot pizza.
Does that land you on reserve:non-football-injury or would that be PUP?
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Bad home environment is the leading cause of bad numbers. Sooner or later they stay hanging out with letters like X and Q. Then there's @. Your numbers start hanging out with @ there's no hope for them.
I always thought that @ was a bad seed. #shifty NUMB3RS
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So you can't go from a partial tear to a full tear from not treating it properly. You should make sure everyone knows this doc.
The poster I followed was responding to your contention that the Bills shouldn't have let Ragland walk off the field. Specifically you made the statement "1. Rather than use precaution they let Ragland walk of the field on his own with a partially torn ACL. Even though it was a non contact injury which almost always involves a tear of some sort."
Depends upon ancillary injuries, but people can walk around (with reasonable care) on even fully torn ligaments without causing further damage. That's a fact.
That fact does not imply or support the statement "you can't go from a partial tear to a full tear by not treating it properly". That is a non-sequitor and a straw man. You can, of course, but walking straight ahead has a low probability of this, especially once a careful evaluation has been performed IOW it is not generally considered to be "not treating it properly"
But pray, proceed - since you appear to be on a nice little crusade here.
PS while you're asserting your medical knowledge, would you care to source your statement that "non contact injuries almost always involve a tear of some sort"? Thanks!
Partial tear? It's a grade 2 sprain.
Tom, that's what makes it a grade 2 sprain, you know that right? Stretched and partially torn ligaments with some instability but a definite end point = grade 2?
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I say a good number of fans are idiots.
I want to know what's a good number, and do good numbers ever go bad?
How do you keep them good? Must they be refrigerated? Salted and smoked? Chaperoned?
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Walking off the field with an ACL iinjury has zero impact. What silliness.
This. Some people walk around with torn ACLs for years
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I didn't profess to be an expert or that he's right - jut pointed out that's one of his big beliefs. I guess you just need to try and reach out to those working with House and convince them. I don't know the difference between alkaline water and foods that promote alkaline forming but Brady has been doing it for a while.
House is about health and healthy throwing through mechanics. He's not an X's and O's coach - which is the reason athletes go to him. A lot of his stuff (maybe intentionally) goes over my head - but I've adopted a lot of his drills with my sons (baseball) to help alleviate throwing injuries.
Oh, Heck No. I'm not trying to convince anyone. Fool and his money, count the legs of the horse for oneself, etc etc. There's also the "Bull Durham" point that if an athlete thinks it helps them, then it helps them.
Not thinking you presented yourself as an expert either, just wanting to provide some information about why drinking alkaline water is unlikely to affect the pH of the blood.
Glad to hear his drills help your sons
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I wish we would just get an honest prognosis for Henderson. I know. I know. He has a right to confidentiality regard his medical issues. It is just so frustrating though. He showed flashes of very good play when healthy.
I don't think Mills is very good, and Cyrus is worse. Ay Caramba!!
Mills is OK in run blocking. It's in pass protection where he seems to struggle.
The problem with Henderson is that with Crohn's disease, there is no single timeline or prognosis. It's a very individual thing. Some people have surgery and never look back. Others have surgery and still struggle. And "never look back" for an ordinary human is different than the demands on the body a pro lineman faces. It's not just his recovery timeline and willpower to perform S&C, but the disease may impact his ability to eat enough and eat the right things to gain weight and stay at his playing weight.
There are football players who have had nice careers with Crohn's, so it can be done, it's just the disease is so individual and unpredictable.
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Please explain this "logic".
He can't, he's parodying the position that every injury represents bad decision making from a bad front office
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Here are the facts, which many posters here seem to have difficulty coming to grips with before they become blatant to a blind monkey:Rex is "very concerned." He wouldn't openly state that unless he felt it was serious. He's not mamma who cringes every time one of her babies let's out a cry of pain or anguish, he's a professional coach that's seen just about everything.
The team is already looking for an ILB to sign. They say for camp but with a roster of damn near 100 that's laughable.
RR is seeking a second opinion. If the first one were implying F5 then he wouldn't be seeking a second one.
It's like Watkins and his foot injury, the team hasn't come clean (surprise surprise) on exactly what kind of injury it is despite the notion that everything about it suggests, strongly it can be added, that it is in fact a Jones Fracture. We'll find out that it is later on once the season begins and he can't play either at all or to 100% and the excuses start flying in his defense again the way that they did with Spiller. But people here, using as fact what wasn't said, insist that it's not a Jones Fracture. That's the 'shrooms. Is that intelligent? Good analysis? You can decide that for yourself. Just sayin'.
I don't think it's a disaster because we still don't know how good Ragland is. If he's only as good as the pedigree ILBS that have come out sans one out of about the last six or seven from 'Bama, then it's not a disaster.
He's really a 2-down ILB anyway, can't cover, so how big of a disaster is it?
To me the disaster happened back in the draft when we should have taken Treadwell given Watkins' nancy-boy injury status and Whitehair to solve the problems of our OL. If we had done that, apart from likely not having our first two draft picks out indefinitely, we'd have gotten a premier WR and solved our OL issues and we would have been discussing whether or not we could possibly have the best offense in the AFCE this year and quite possibly the AFC entirely.
Instead, under Whaley & Ringling Ryan Bros. we get this nonsense.
What is it like, to go around this message board avidly seeking opportunities for negativity and creating opportunities to criticize others?
I also think you may need to review your definition of fact.
It is a fact that Rex has said he's "very concerned" about Ragland's knee. It is an inference of yours that he "wouldn't openly state that unless it were serious". You then appear to contradict your own viewpoint that Rex is open and honest about what's actually going on, by analogy to Watkins where you say "the team hasn't come clean" about what kind of injury it is.
It is a fact that Watkins had off-season foot surgery in April, in what was widely reported to be a screw inserted to repair a Jones fracture. It's not only not a fact, it appears to be your personal creation that people here "insist it's not a Jones factor". And if it is a Jones fracture, with proper rehab it's usually an eight week recovery.
If we put the surgery at the end of April, that would mean it should pretty much be recovered right now and Watkins at the point of building up his conditioning, strength and agility from the 8 weeks of restrictions. What evidence do YOU have that there are complications or atypical factors that would cause him "once the season begins, and he can't play at all or isn't 100%, and excuses start flying"?
By the way, those aren't facts either, they simply fill your need to support your position that the Bills should have ignored D in the draft and drafted OL and WR by hypothesizing negative outcomes and piling on negative inferences from those negative outcomes.
Getting back to the matter at hand, it's extremely common that if an injury causes swelling, an MRI performed before the swelling goes down will be inconclusive and problematic to interpret. I would expect Ragland to have to wait until Monday or Tuesday (depending upon how careful he is with icing, staying off it, and elevation) to get a reasonable test. But swelling doesn't necessarily mean ligament damage - a guy I worked with tore a piece of cartilage, he doesn't know how (stepped wrong whilst treadmill running?) and his knee swelled up llike a balloon.
As for the Bills bringing in ILB, it doesn't matter if they have 100 men on their roster, it matters how many they have at a potentially injury-thinned position.
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He's a throwing coach and I've been listening to him personally for years - getting excellent pitching drills for my kids. Alkaline water is something he believes in strongly.
He's legit, IMO.
I hope he's a great throwing coach and he helps all those guys, but he should stick to what he knows.
Alkaline water is the biggest crock to part people from their money in years.
Let's think about the physiology of digestion a minute. Water is absorbed in your intestines. Food and water sit in your stomach getting churned around and mixed with digestive enzymes, then get emptied into your intestines over the course of a couple hours - maybe 20 minutes, maybe 3 hrs depending upon what you eat and your personal physiology.
What's not personal is that everyone's stomach is at pH 1.5 -3 - very acidic. The acidity itself helps with digestion and the stomach enzymes are evolved to work best at acid pH. While the food and water sit in your stomach, if it's not acid enough, your stomach happily secretes more hydrochloric acid to make the contents more acidic.
Meanwhile your blood has a sophisticated system aimed at regulating its own pH (acidity or alkalinity) to be very near neutral. People whose blood chemistry isn't near neutral are in deep kim-chee - they're in a serious, abnormal condition, cardiac arrest or diabetic shock and get IV injections of bicarbonate and potassium.
People who really push themselves to the limits - crazy endurance runners and cyclists, the guys who race the Leadville 100 Trail Ride and Iron Men and the like - gulp electrolyte tablets every couple of hours in addition to electrolyte solutions in their water, because they need serious quantities to replace all the potassium and sodium and other minerals they're sweating out hour after hour. Other high-performance athletes may indeed need serious mineral supplements to replenish the extraordinary demands on their bodies.
The quantities in alkaline water are likely not sufficient for this. And alkaline water for the reasons stated, to "neutralize acid in your bloodstream"? Hooey. That alkaline pH won't survive its first encounter with Mr Stomach, I guarantee it.
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MMQB talks about QB guru Tom House, whom Tyrod Taylor has worked with. Also some Whaley discussion in Four Downs #2.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/08/03/tom-house-quarterback-nfl-training-camp-notes
Thanks Barley! Interesting.
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whats the word?
Not likely to have word until Monday I'd guess
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THANKS ASTRO!!!!! The time you and other guys put into content like this and doing stuff like aggregating articles before games is why I still come here. I really appreciate it.
------Thanks for the message board version of:
Guy 1 to Guy 2- You looking at my girl?!
Guy 2 - Nope
Guy 1 - What, she's not good enough for you?!
To the first: Yes, Indeed - Ranks Rastro. Highlight of my preseason.
To the second: Truth.
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1. As always, thank you, Astro.
2. Sammy Watkins really is a dick.
Judgy much?
I think it's great when players are generous about interacting with fans, but I would never judge a guy for having his routine pre-workout pre-practice or pre-game.
From what I can tell, Tyrod doesn't sign either before practice, his routine is jog to his pylon, kneel down and pray.
Let the man be. If he stands up autograph seekers at a pre-arranged, publicized autographing event like Popular Player X did once then you can call him a dick
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Without reading one post in this thread, let me begin by asking the moderators to close this thread.
jw
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@rapsheet
Former #Patriots and #Bills LB Brandon Spikes had his first workout after a year out of football today with the #Dolphins, source said.
He could have the honor of re-connecting with kiko, Mario, marquise gray, urbik ... Am I missing anyone?!
"If they're too bad for you...they're just right for us?"
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@gregauman
Former Bucs linebacker Danny Lansanah is expected to sign with Dolphins today, pending physical exam in Miami.
If we want him and the "phins got him, bummer!
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Dead wrong.
Ones 43-61 with no playoff wins
Ones 105-89 with 8 playoff wins and 2 titles.
Your comp machine needs calibration. Don't do Eli that dirty.
I kinda think you may have slipped and fell into Webster Guy's Sar Chasm there?
The Bureau of TBD Accuracy does compel me to point out that W-L are, and will remain, team stats.
Receiving yards are not team stats. He's the second best receiver the Bills have ever had.
*blink* how you figuring that? I mean, I liked SJ13 a lot, and it has to be considered who he had throwing to him, but...c'mon, man!
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Thoughts?
As the Bills used to say BackindaDay when they were ruling the division every year: "Until proven otherwise, we're the team to beat here"
Even more true of the Pats these days because they've been at it longer
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Ask Fitz. l'd be willing to bet the Jets would have jumped at this deal months ago. Why wouldn't they?
Why the Jets didn't offer this deal months ago:
1) they didn't have the cap space to handle even a voidable 2 yr deal until recently, after they signed Wilkerson
2) they wanted to have the rights to Fitz for 3 years so they could keep him as a mentor/backup if one of their other QB looks like Truth
3) they thought he'd fold when other offers didn't materialize
Media coverage is that the Jets only increased their offer to what Fitz wanted on the last day before he signed - they went up from $9 to $12M hours from the deadline and Fitz walked in and signed at their deadline. And yes, he gets $12M this year and I doubt he cares how it's structured with the NFL (or cared months ago)
I'm interested in the way the "2 year deal" is actually structured that makes the 2nd year automatically void or player voidable. I'm wondering if the NFL will approve it, since it looks like a fairly blatant way around the salary cap.
Karlos Williams suspended 4 games for substance abuse
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"Your progress can only be measured by yourself" - has he heard of a scale? I hear tape measures and calipers also have their place, as do those fancy-pants bioelectrical impedance machines. I'm intrigued by the "Bod Pod" things but for accuracy, one would think a pro organization might like DEXA.