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26 minutes ago, Warcodered said:
Yeah it'd be weird for him to be proven innocent and then found civilly liable.
Not really if you put numbers on it. Preponderance of the evidence you need 50.1% for verdict. Beyond reasonable doubt? No one puts a number on it but assume it’s around 90% - 95% sure person is guilty. So not guilty in criminal case but guilty in civil case, juries believed defendant was between 50.1% and 90% - 95% guilty. Kind of crazy but that’s the system.
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14 hours ago, ControllerOfPlanetX said:
Just need to perfect this:
Do you mean “you have to create a seal HERE and a seal HERE and run up the alley”?
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5 hours ago, akcash said:
Maybe he could be kind of like the TE version of what Cordarrelle Patterson?
I’d like to see if Joe can find more creative ways to get the ball in Knox’s hands so he can show some of that RAC ability and power.I think the way to do that is line him up in the backfield more. He’d be an effective weapon catching passes out of the backfield and this is just my opinion, but I would like to see what he could do with some traditional carries.
Not saying he wouldn’t still be a top 2 inline tight end for the most part as I think he’s one of the better blocking tight ends in the league.
To me it seems he just has a lot of wasted movement in his routes and I think it’s easy for DBs to cover. On the flip-side though he has so much playmaking ability with ball in his hands.
I’ve been thinking along the same lines. Line him up in traditional FB spot. Lead blocker on running plays, move to the line in 12 personnel, slot, whatever. Could lead to some interesting formations.
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I wish I could remember who posted it, but a poster insightfully pointed out that Diggs’ 2022 and 2023 seasons were pretty much the same - great first half, lousy second half. So what the heck is going on? I certainly don’t buy the age thing. Thirty year old receivers don’t fall off a cliff. So again, why the dramatic drop off in consecutive years?
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16 hours ago, Trust The Process said:
Huge safety free agency class and we get nothing.
Deep WR draft and we sign Hollins and Samuel.
We trade Bates but we release Morse
And we sign Morrow and depth guys instead of addressing starters.
Once again, Beane is doing the opposite of which makes sense. He did the same thing the year we traded for Diggs. The depth at WR was strong in that draft and what Beane chose to do is trade for Diggs instead of drafting Jefferson. We shouldn’t have had to waste additional draft picks and a ton of valuable cap space on Diggs.
You know what’s crazy? The Draft Fairy went to Beane the night before the Diggs trade and told him that Jefferson would be available when it was the Bills’ turn to pick and that SOB still went ahead with the trade!
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We passed on him, presumably because we had Dareus and Kyle Williams. Does that sound right? That’s incredibly bad luck. If only we had needed a DT that year (assuming we don’t trade up for a WR and give away next year’s #1).
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It’s interesting that Curtis Samuel is a poor man’s Deebo Samuel.
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1 hour ago, TheWeatherMan said:
Did you watch the last 8 games of the season?
Someone pointed out that Diggs’ 2023 was a rerun of his 2022. Fantastic first half and miserable second half. No idea what to make of this other than it’s going to be interesting watching him in 2024.
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Given my avatar, it’s no shock I’m partial to the 1965 AFL Topps series. It’s oversized cards. Each team has a different color background. Bills are pink of all things. Most valuable card in the series is the Joe Namath rookie card. I have it, but it’s a little beat up. My wife gave me the OJ rookie card a couple of months before the murders. At the time, we lived a couple of blocks away from Nicole Brown’s condo.
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Strictly as a hypothetical, could Bengals and Chiefs do a straight up swap of Higgins and Sneed or would franchise tag rules prohibit that?
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That’s not a real name is it? It’s more like Mike Hunt or Dick Hurts, right?
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Alec Anderson was very impressive last preseason. I believe that they will give him a shot at starting. I’m guessing McGovern is the backup plan. Plus they will certainly use a mid-round draft choice on an interior OL.
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Bills eventually recovered from Black Thursday (granted it took 20 years 🥲). Sabres still looking to recover from the day they lost Drury and Briere.
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14 hours ago, NeverOutNick said:
Best CB we’ve ever had when healthy. Loved his attitude and everything about him but I understand the move. Hope he rebounds and plays great for an NFC team.
Sorry, young’n. Best CB was Robert James. He’d be in the HOF if not for a devastating knee injury in a meaningless preseason game.
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2 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:
The thread is about Free Agent Signings that put teams over the top. I pointed out that Charles Haley Was not a free agent signing. Haley brought an element Dallas did not have for the most part in 90 and 91 when they turned it around. However their defensive line was pretty good, it was their secondary that needed the most work and that is why Detroit with that unique for the time Run n Shoot offense was a mismatch. Detroit also was impossible to beat at the silverdome that year.
Since you want to take this approach with me I will respond accordingly. I started watching the nfl as a kid in 83. I am well aware of that era of the nfl. Dallas had another excellent draft in 92 which added to the team Kevin Smith, Robert Jones and Darren Woodson. Smith was outstanding, Jones was the rookie of the year and Woodson had a hall of fame career. Woodson is still the modern day prototype safety, Big and strong to play the run but quick and agile enough to cover the slot. He should be in the hall of fame. During the season they traded for safety Thomas Everett. They completely remade their secondary in 92 and it was unique for the time with a guy like woodson playing in Dallas mostly Cover 4 scheme on the backend. Haley was brought in right before the summer and fit right in providing the edge rush they needed but Dallas defense improved tremendously that offseason Haley withstanding.
I remember that Dallas draft so well because they drafted a player from Tennessee who went the rival high school of my high school....He was from Rome Free Academy (Rome, NY) and I was in 9th grade at the time at Proctor High School (Utica, NY) RFA and Proctor were rivals especially in baseball (my sport). Both had (Have) excellent baseball programs.
so again the thread is about free agent signings and you are mansplaining (somewhat incorrectly) Haley's importance to Dallas defense.
So one more time, Charles Haley was not a free agent signing that led to a championship because he was not a free agent signing.
that was 4 seasons later.
The packers underwent a ton of change in those 4 years before they won the superbowl. They got beat by Dallas in each of those 3 playoff losses in part because their big time free agent signing, Reggie White got manhandled by Dallas right tackle Eric Williams. Williams owned white.
Williams owned everybody. Maybe the best “unknown” lineman of all time. He physically destroyed a pretty good player in Phil Hansen in the Super Bowl rematch.
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We’re entering the most ridiculously over-hyped period of the entire NFL calendar (and no, it’s not because I’m bitter that the Bills have zero money to spend on free agents).
So, when has signing a FA worked to get a team a Super Bowl championship? Clearly, it’s happened. Reggie White in Green Bay. Brady in Tampa Bay. It took a couple of years but Brees in NO. Who am I missing?
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1 hour ago, Chaos said:
Its a cap move. too much cap hit for a backup.
True, but I also think that they do like Anderson.
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1 hour ago, babulator said:
Just think we could have drafted him and still had another 1st round pick. o\ F!@%ing Whaley. That trade/pick set us back years...
Not quite true. Tampa Bay picked him before our original pick was up. On the other hand, trading up for a HOF receiver would have been worth trading next year’s one. Truly a monumental FU by the front office. Make the trade and pick Mack or Evans. Stay put and pick Beckham or Donald. Rest of our draft that year was crap as well.
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I’m not a cap guru, so I’m trying to figure out how the Bills got to where they are. Allen, obviously. Miller, Diggs and to a lesser extent Knox? I find it hard to second guess Diggs deal. Miller has at least some bad luck attached to his deal, although counter is you just don’t give that kind of deal to a 33 year old. Can a couple of bad deals put you in cap hell? What am I missing?
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Forget for a second who KC selected with the pick. I’m not a draft guru but it seems like we didn’t get a whole lot for dropping from #10 to #27. What would it cost us to move to #10 this draft? It cost us next year’s #1 to move from #8 to #4 to draft Sammy Watkins. Note: bad teams should NEVER trade next year’s #1, right Carolina?
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Not trying to obsess about Kansas City but as a football fan, I’m genuinely curious as to whether Spagnuolo made adjustments at half time of various games and if so, what those adjustments were. Not going to go through the entire season, just the two Bills games and the Super Bowl. Also, not going to look at Miami, which was never going to be a threat against anyone in zero degree weather. Baltimore was an anomaly. Even though it only scored three points, its offense was markedly better in the second half. But in the two games against the Bills and the game against the 49ers, the stats are striking. Bills regular season - 14 first half points and 208 yards. Second half - 6 points and 119 yards. Playoff game - 17 first half points and 225 yards. Second half - 7 points and 143 yards. Super Bowl - 10 first half points and 204 yards. Second half - 9 and 112.
Has anyone come across any expert analysis as to what KC changed up, if anything, at the half of any of these games?
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1 hour ago, ren1701 said:
This is literally the smartest thing anyone has said yet - right on brother.
Everyone talking about "not a big deal" - this guy can flip the field but of course be content with 37 yarders in a playoff game.
The real truth is the Bills jumped the gun when the allegations came out, and he has no interest, especially when he can go to KC get a ring. If the Bills were so high and morality mighty, Von would have been gone the day after too, just like this kid, but the morality clause in his contract voided the $$ and his girl figured out real quick half of zero is zero... and recanted.
Need to start looking at the Bills without the homer glasses - they are built for "sustainability", Beane said so himself - sustainability is the word he has used over and over. A championship is not first priority, never was, or they would have sold the farm 2 years ago to do it – A winning record and filling seats, is just enough to keep interest and if a championship should happen then. all the better, but don’t believe for a second, it's about a championship.
The end of the day, we are out coached, out gunned and out rostered and the ONLY thing that keeps us in the W is 17 - without which, McD is a .500 coach at best.
Sorry - from an OG here and I don't post much but the more things chang, the more they stay the same - it literally is a rehash of the Kelly years
JFC, the Bills didn't "jump the gun". He was accused of gang raping a 17 year old. Bills had two choices. Cut him or keep him on the roster. Bills were Super Bowl favorites going into that season. Keeping him on the roster would have been an insane distraction. None of it was fair to Azaria. He was accused, not convicted. But to argue that the Bills has a choice here is disingenuous at best.
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Go back and look at the allegations. They were horrific. Azaria and two teammates allegedly gang raped a 17 year old. There was no way the Bills were keeping him on the roster after that. It stinks but it was as inevitable as it was unfair. I’m glad he has cleared his name and glad he’s getting a second chance. I wish the second chance was with the Bills.
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Mods, I’m begging you to shut this thread down because it’s making my brain hurt. Have no idea what it is supposed to be about to begin with but it’s devolved into a few Bills fans trying to rebut various asinine points coming from the KC Troll Brothers. The Bros insist on having the last word so instead of that, please put a stop to the madness. Thanks!
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