Ramblin' Rob
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What's the problem exactly?
It's intelligence vs. extreme talent, not sure why you're having such a hard time with it...
The problem is that your point is incorrect. Someones Dialect has nothing to do with intelligence, it has to do with the language used in a persons community. Tre White has a thick accent and is widely reported to be very intelligent. No other accent or dialect is representative of a persons intelligence, why Sammy or Leodis?
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Article was good for the most part.
Got me thinking, Whaley's best move would have been to fire Marrone when he benched EJ, and put Swartz in at HC.
Other facts;
Whaley deserved more time
Overdorf probably does not
The Brandon hate is funny
The Nicknames are silly, fellas...I hope all you cheeseballs are young at least...
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I said the day FS1 started...ESPN's days were instantly numbered, because we've seen this story before == Fox News destroying CNN/CNBC/MSNBC. When Red Eye was good, at 3am, it beat Rachel Maddow's audience at 9pm. It's a fact that nobody wants to explain because: butthurt.
The response to my FS1 projection was crap. Mostly predicated on the fact that 1) this was around 2011, and ESPN's numbers were at a record high, and, 2) a whole bunch of bias. All FS1 was doing was capitalizing on a market that ESPN created, and they'd be lucky to be a minor player...
Now? Here we are. I ask you all: was Disney responsible for the 24/7 coverage of Colin Kaepernick? Was Disney responsible for firing Curt Schilling, when, 70-90% of self-described "sports fans" agreed with him? Do you really support a grown man, dressed like a girl, using using your daughter/niece/some random little girl you don't know's restroom at a baseball game? If you do, then I can't help you...and neither can ESPN: their future bankruptcy is directly tied to your current moral bankruptcy.
Why was it so easy for FS1 to poach the "talent" of Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless? Christ: those 2 guys WERE the ESPN model for at least the last 10 years. Why is Cowherd(who is hilarious every time he said/says he isn't a "company man", yet, promoted ESPN's NBA coverage, dissed hockey, then, kissed our asses just before WGR cancelled him, and, is now a hockey fan...because of the number of Fox MSG clones out there) now calling ESPN a terrible place to work?
In the end, ESPN is getting exactly what it deserves. It's no different than any firm that consistently undermines their customer's trust, by consistently replacing what the customer wants, with what their personal/company agenda says the customer needs.
Sure. you can get away with it for a while, sometimes even a decade. However: look where we are now. You can't get away with it forever.
I think you went off the rails after the second sentence, my friend.
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Exiles on U St (where Stetson's used to be) and Grand Central in Adams Morgan are both Bills bars.
I personally would avoid Bills bars b/c, quite frankly, there is no place darker on a Sunday in December than a Bills bar when they are out of the hunt.
Yes, but there is no place more exhilarating after an early season meaningless win over the Pats!
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So this is what we've been missing on bbmb. eh?
Hears the deal. I am sure there were lots of "Whaley sucks, no he doesn't" threads over there, as there have been here.
There is no need for one after every move. It's tiresome. Crusading is tiresome too, and will get you railed on.
It is a done deal, DW is the GM for 2017. If they are 0-4, start the talk(unless they are tanking) then start a thread. Otherwise, you will be railed against.
BBMB was Budwiser, TBD is a limited edition micro brew, just a little more sophisticated.
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It almost amazes me how many people have not answered the question.
Almost.
Matt Schaub had success going to Houston from Atlanta
Plenty of examples for this quiz but an obvious one if I understand it correctly.
Doug Flutie, Buffalo Bills
Perhaps the greatest example would be Kurt Warner, St. Louis Rams.
HOF WB Steve Young from Tampa Baybto SF Is the best one I can thinknof
Two I can think of right off the top of my head would be Brett Farve and Steve Young.
Brett Favre. Darryl Lamonica. Jim Plunkett. More to come
Aaron Rodgers was a back-up. Same team though
The guy who succeeded Joe Montana, Steve Young
Favre.
Were non of those answers, Gungy?
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Happy birthday to OC candidate Marc Trestman.
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Chloe Trestman@chloT94
Happy birthday to the best dad a daughter could ask for - I love you
"eeeessshhh good lord!" My exact quote seconds ago.
Also, I like Ken W.
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Facts-It is nauseating as a Bills fan to hear a Bills legend ball wash the Pats
It is his job
Over the past 16 seasons, his ball washing has been appropriate. Maybe the best team ever.
Over the past 16 seasons, his ripping the Bills and giving them little chance against the Pats has also been accurate.
Tasker works for national media, Smerlas works for regional media, hence the difference in bias
All this said, I lived in NH from'03-'06 and remember watching NESN before the '03 game and hearing Smerlas laugh at the Bills chances. Literally laughing. I was crushed. The Bills famously won the game 31-0, their last victory against the Pats who went on an 8 season win streak against the Bills, starting with a 31-0 victory to perfectly bookend the Bills season.
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Unless Romans game day performance was that bad, there is nothing to suggest anything but a thorough pounding this weekend. Former doormats 37-current doormats 13
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He's a perennial Rooney candidate. Nothing wrong with admitting that.
Who are the 3 others (besides Roman and Lyn) who are "experienced signal callers on the staff"?
Pulling the ROONEY card I see.
My judgements have been made.
After this I hope I have the strength to never respond to you again, as you are not worth the calories I have burned thus far responding to you.
Chris Palmer
AAron Kromer
I said two to three, and as I have stated, you don't deserve my time to see if there is a third. Pound sand you thinly veiled...
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Nope. C'mon, man. Days like today make me happy the rest of the league is too busy to check out our message boards to see how short sighted our fans can be. "Throw money at Polian" "Make Kelly the head coach" "Tank and draft Chad Kelly" and on and on. I too want the Bills to win, but look to the future, not the distant past. Where we should be looking is places like the Arizona front office, and the Seahawks coaching staff. You know, teams and departments with recent success.
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More garbage leaks and information (or misinformation) coming from this "organization" (to use that term liberally)
It was bad before... but the day wilson stepped aside and handed the reins to brandon (jan 1, 2013), this thing has been a dysfunctional mess.
Listen, this is not good, but this organization has taken clear steps forward since RCW passed. The results may seem similar, but we had not had back to back non losing seasons in close to 20 years. The roster is better, and the coaching staff is bigger and more experienced.
so I guess Ryan wanted to can Roman after game 1 (interesting because if so why wasn't he canned in the off season). Ryan takes this too management and ownership. For some reason Roman stays for game 2. Then the Pegulas have a players meeting to get the pulse of what their thinking is regarding canning Roman. Ryan gets the results of this meeting and ownership green lighted letting Roman go.
IMO the takeaways are.
It actually was Ryans idea to can Roman
The Pegulas are not thrilled with Rex. To the point they ask the players for their opinion of Romans coaching. it would seem they do not trust Rex's opinion and possibly Whaley. Who both report independently too ownership. that in itself is kind of unusual I think.
Rex is indeed on the hotseat. And IMO this meeting is in no way, shape or form meddeling on the sense like Jerrah or say Synder. I think they are trying to get the teams pulse. What is weird is that the GM is strangely silent as far as I am aware of this whole thing.
I think the owners had too much influence in the hiring of the current coaching staff. I believe this is why Whaley is silent now, and why I believe he will have one more opportunity to truly pick HIS coach.
Why is that weird, given the reporting structure set up by the Pegulas where Whaley has no authority over the coaching staff and Rex, like Whaley and Brandon, report in parallel directly to the Pegulas?
Yes, but is is a mistake to have a chain of command like this?
He is the GM. this was a pretty big in season move. Is the Lynn promotion permanent or simply a 14 game audition? Whaley put this roster together. I just assume he would have some kind of comment on this. I understand Rex does not need Whaley's permission too talk too ownership about letting the highest paid,OC in the league. But if a team is unifed I would assume both of them talked to Pegula about the change or in the very least Whaley agreed with it. Again it just seems weird the GM is not in the conversation dealing with the change.
I think the owners had too much influence in the hiring of the current coaching staff. I believe this is why Whaley is silent now, and why I believe he will have one more opportunity to truly pick HIS coach.
This is what I don't like about this structure, for all you know Whaley had zero to do with this or he knows his ass is on the line for trading for a WR we never throw to, signing an expensive TE who we throw 3 yard passes too, Shady's contract....
Gents, this is a whats that word...oh yeah...clusterfu&k
Sure has that appearance
If they went to Rex and told him "we want you to make a statement change", Rex would have understood what they meant.
Look, after THAT game, in only week 2, to fire the OC makes little sense except as a knee jerk reaction. I never thought much of Roman, but now wha t do they do? The guy who is replacing him is a complete zero and will have NO help from anyone on that staff.
Yes, complete zero that has garnered head coaching interviews, and will get no help from the 2 or three experienced play callers on the staff. Dude, it sucks enough being a Bills fan, hyperbolic blowhards make it soo much worse.
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FWIW, I think that I figured out why I dislike local sports talk in any market. The callers don't understand what they are watching and I am not sure that the hosts really know how to communicate. If I want to talk Bills, Sabres, Ohio State, Yankees or Pelicans I go to the message boards. The level of discussion here is so much deeper than on WGR (or any radio call in channel). I used to listen for the interviews but now you can just catch those on demand.
I do however like some of the national shows (Mike & Mike and Rusillo & Kanell). They are different types of shows. They focus more on the story than trying to analyze play. There is obviously some of that too but not nearly as much.
Agreed. I have lived in several major markets and what I have found to be the defining difference between good and bad hosts is this;
A good host will take a lousy callers point, and make chicken salad out of chicken poo.
A lazy or blowhard host will ask, "is this why you called and waited on hold for an hour?"
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So, since he hung up on a caller on Tuesday, that anecdotally proves what? I listen to about 90 min every day on my way home. It happens maybe once a month, possibly even less. Dickerson berated 2-3 callers per hour, every hour of every day.
Callers do not have a God given right to ruin another person's radio show.
Posters get booted from here when their participation ruins the conversation for other people. I would expect the same to occur on any other platform or medium.
Saying all of this with all due respect;
No, I was using that Tuesday Baltimore caller to disprove your original point, which by the way was, he has not hung up on a caller in over a year. Yet in this post you say 2-3 a month. From 0 times a year to potentially 36?
Some callers from sports talk shows can be painful to listen to, that being said, creating an unwelcoming environment will surly keep better callers away.
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He rarely hangs up on anyone. Hasn't in at least a year.
Gotta call you on this one. He hung up on the dude from Baltimore two days ago after belittling him and not allowing the dude to respond. The "brutal listen" guy that takes over at 7 had Baltimore guy on later and they had a good back and forth. And every thing else in Freddy's Dead's post was spot on. Schoop was a revelation at NSA, and is just a dick now. I feel like he has gotten better Since Pegula took over the Bills, but we could do better.
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<------- Historically, Uncle Ray. (I don't hold Driftwood against his playing career) Played middle linebacker on our best teams.
Robert Woods, I never understood the hate.
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every time I see or hear Rex on TV, or radio, or in print, I think to myself . . . Dont you have some film to go watch? Dont you have some players to coach-up? Dont you have something else better to do, that will actually improve your chances to win games on the field?
-Correct. Presidents and football coaches should not ever golf, go on vacation, or talk to the media. And they should have a colostomy bag to ensure maximum efficiency.
I live in LA (born and raised in Buffalo, first 24 years of my life). And I hear or see Rex all the time. I almost never see or hear Tomlin, or Arians, or Hoodie, or other good coaches. I assume its because (1) they are actually somewhere working, and (2) they avoid the media because it cuts into valuable work time.
-It is not unimaginable that during the slow times in the off season that Rex would provide more content than the hoodie. Speaking of which, have you seen his wife? I am sure he spends a lot of time with her in the off season.
Rex = clown.
-This is true.
How about spending more time working, and less time blustering and buffooning? We want to WIN. We dont care about being relevant in the media. Win the superbowl this year. Stop talking about it. Work for it.
-Again, never stop.
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I agree with this take, MD10. Murph aces his radio show. But He's still a terrible Play by Play guy, despite many years at it and as Van's sidekick.
His voice works for radio talk show, fails at PbP. I don't wish him ill will, but I hope he's replaced way before he gets to Van's age -when he retired.
Murph will not live to see Van's retirement age, he is not a picture of health and will be lucky to see 70.
And after having lived in several other markets, Murph seemed better to me. Washington, New England, Carolina, and Seattle, maybe one, Seattle, is markedly better, and Washington was was not listenable. Probably too biased to Judge NE and Carolina is probably on par.
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Uncle Spliffy aka Clifford "Big Dog" Robinson
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Those who call Martin a "willing participant", and therefore conclude there was no way he was bullied, do not understand the dynamic at play here. One of the things a bullied kid will do is try to befriend the bully. The bully will often use that "friendship" to pile on even more degradation. All Martin did here was answer a question. No whining involved.
You are being kind. It is an embarrassing topic, and an especially embarrassing thread title. I am proud of Richie and his progress, and think he would agree with my sentiments.
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IMHO, martin is just a wuss. if anybody has played sports, or been remotely connected to it , it is not a PC environment. it appears his persona is not conducive to being in a lockeroom. i think richie looks better all the time as time moves on.
Hopefully Ritchie doesn't tweet, talk, or comment on this at all. Martin may be baiting him to comment.
^^^The meathead comments that make being a football fan, and a Buffalo Bills fan embarrassing at times. J.Martin was suffering from depression, and could not handle the abuse Richie doled out. Richie, the same guy who is a pro-bowler, but regularly released (mid season, once) or not retained for a second contract until now, a. ll because he was an a$$#*(%.
Let's take it to the next level of thinking...the male brain does not reach full emotional maturity until the mid twenties. Richie was supposed to me a mentor, not a tormentor. Richie seems to have turned the corner, and hopefully he does not backslide. Same with J. Martin.
Now, carry on with your drunk dizzy bat races, piledriving each other through tables, and falling from the 300 level on to fans below.
He was interviewed after doing a presentation on social isolation of kids. Of course the question regarding Richie is going to come up, if the reporter is any good. Richie is fine and Martin did nothing wrong in answering the question. Richie was a real ass with Martin and Martin didn't handle it the way some would. Richie should have seen this and backed off. But, nope he kept on with Martin til Martin said "enough". I wasn't gonna reply til I saw your " fragile jackass " comment. Really!?!? No baiting involved, he answered the question as asked of him. It's pretty easy to be a keyboard tough guy, isn't it?
A match made in heaven...
* Martin was mentally weaker/more sensitive than the typical football player.
* Incognito was a loudmouth with little sense of boundaries (this is what KW said about him).
While most players seem to like Richie, in this case Martin was the victim and Richie was wrong. Richie should have been wise & compassionate enough to see he was hurting another human being and backed off.
Good post.
If you go read the original article, I don't think that's the case at all. It's really not about Incognito at all until the reporter asks.
Keep in mind that Martin has opportunities that Incognito does not including a Stanford degree and the means/opportunity to attend law school if he chooses. He also had the opportunity to play for two contending football teams (49ers and Panthers) - why would that be if the "perception of him is of being a soft whistle blower who couldn't take what goes on in a normal NFL locker room"?
Fair enough. Thing is, when you're charged with working very closely with someone, building a close relationship and taking feedback from them, "I don't care about you and what you say" is not very practical. You have to deal with it one way or another.
Thank you to these three reasoned fans! ^^^
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So this is my chance to say that I was totally wrong about Tyrod. I judged him harshly from his VT days, and clearly, Frank Beamer has proven to be the real issue there. I thought Tyrod to be closer to Tuel than a starter. Wrong. I thought he came up small in big situations. Hope I'm wrong. Beyond that, he appears to be a leader.
I want to temper my excitement because of 2008 and 2011, but this feels different. Trent dinked and dunked, Tyrod is chucking it down field. Fitzy and his teammates were gritty overachievers that fell to earth. This team is just getting it's boosters warmed up. And I think we have the best back-up QB in the league.
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Wow what an intelligent comeback. Don't address one single point, for lack of IQ. Just look up the word "pathetic " in a dictionary and throw it your "post. For lack of an actual intelligent response.
Dude, when people address your point, like "go to a different gate" or "get there earlier"you dismiss it. Therefore, MarkAF43 is correct, you are pathetic.
Question for you, smart guy; How do you propose the Bills handle it? How do you handle 50% of the fans being too lazy to walk to another gate? How do you handle the one dude that finds this to B word about? I guarantee they will handle you better than we did.
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