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9 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
So if you know that, and I know that, and everyone knows that, can you explain why our coaching staff goes for the deep ball to Shakir instead of methodically controlling the ball, taking four downs to pick up 10.1 yards and keeping your undermanned defense on the bench? It’s still a real head scratcher to me. The Bills worked the ENTIRE season to be right they were late in the fourth quarter, at home, in the playoffs, against the Chiefs…and then….you know the rest.
Personally, I think they started that drive thinking they’d need to score twice more to win. Eating 8+ minutes of clock is a lot to ask. I think the 60 yd bomb to Diggs was meant as a quick strike to allow them time after KC scored on them. When they got down to 2 minutes they were kind of in no man’s land. That’s why I think they went for the TD to Shakir when they did. Then a FG doesn’t beat you and MAYBE there’s time left after if (when) KC scores… and maybe, however unlikely, McDermott coaches his ass of on defense for 1 drive and they cook up something unexpected to get THE stop.
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41 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:
In the Houston game we got the ball on the 50 yard line with a little over a minute down 3. We kicked a 47 yard field goal to go to OT. We then failed to score on our first OT drive. In the most recent KC game we were down 3 and we attempted a 44 yard field goal and missed. In 13 seconds we had multiple drives that should have ended the game.
Are we front runners? Sure. We are built to defend the pass. It can be an avalanche when teams can no longer be balanced against us. We have no victories in the playoffs in which we were down more than a TD. Our defensive system + lack of diversity in it has performed very poorly against the better QB's in the playoffs.
I guess my question would be we are currently 0-3 in winning close games late so why should we believe we can do so if it occurs again in the playoffs? That is with the assumption the defense can even put us in such a position which hasn't always been the case. Various reasons why we are 0-3 but the fact remains that is the record and nearly every element of our team has had some level of influence in why that is.
Since 2020, the only 2 games they were down by more than a TD in were against KC in the AFCCG, where KC was head and shoulders the better team that season, and the Bengals game, which you could tell the week before when they played Miami that they were going to lose.
The constant in the other losses has been a defense that couldn’t close the deal. The Houston game they gave up 19 pts in a quarter and a half, including 2 successful 2 pt conversions. The KC games they were a seive. Even if they had scored in the most recent KC game, which the offense did their part to get them well within FG range, do you have any sense their defense would have held?My issue with the idea that they’re front runners is that it suggests they can’t respond to adversity in a game they could win. I think they can respond, and have responded in games in the past, but that their response is always one sided. They always seem to do enough offensively to keep the games from getting out of hand and putting themselves in a position to win.
Thinking about it as I type this… I could be persuaded that they have a front-running playoff defense… when things are good they’re very good… when things are bad, or when they turn bad, they’ve basically been a no show with no hope of getting THE stop they need to slam the door shut.
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1 hour ago, Patrick Fitzryan said:
The Chiefs have been down by double digits in all four of their Super Bowls and came back to win three of them. How do the Bills react when they're down in games? Do we keep our cool and stick to the plan, or do we panic a little bit?
We're essentially front-runners; this stat proves it. When things are going well, they go REALLY well. When we face a little adversity, ehhhh...
I disagree with this. Over that same timeframe, the Bills have, from memory, one regular season and one playoff game where they lost by more than 1 score. How many times have we watched Allen lead the team to what should have been the game winning score with less than 2 minutes left on the clock only to choke the lead away. We lose those games because the defense constantly comes up small in big situations.
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Was scrolling through. Seemed a bit suspect. Came to the Browns and it wasn’t Manziel… how can you take it seriously after that?
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11 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Nico Collins was 8th in the league in yardage last year and was Stroud's go to guy. They're growing together. I see no way that they'd not keep a 25 year old Top 10 WR who may be just scratching the surface with Stroud in favor of a guy that, as good as he is, will be 31 years old this year.
Even in a Down Year Stefon Diggs, he was 7th in the league in Receptions and just out of the Top 10 in Yards.
Beane himself said he needs to get weapons to take pressure off of him, which partly resulted in the Down Year.
Even if he thinks he might be on the decline, he's still a difference maker. If there's a question as to whether or not that's the case, Houston wouldn't give up what's being talked about to get him.
And Beane can't possibly be so sure he isn't a difference maker anymore that he's going to risk handing them a weapon that could come back to bite us. There's zero way he can be positive that would happen.
Again, if he were to be traded, which I just don't see - as we still have to replace half of our WR core as is - there's zero possibility it would be to an AFC contender like Houston. There's zero chance he'd risk even the possibility of having to answer why he handed Houston the piece that beat us in the Playoffs.
Hear me out here… maybe Beane is such a wizard that he’s pumping up Diggs value so that he can trade him to an AFC rival and watch him light the league on fire at a record pace with Eric Moulds and Peerless Price for the first half of the season until he turns into Frankenstein’s pumpkin and plays the rest of the season like his feet have been cast into the concrete of the foundation of the stadium… wait, I think I have some of the details confused… 🤔
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Awesome. They should add a sticker of Yevgeny Prigozhin riding the football on the Jets helmet.
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4 hours ago, julian said:
100%, not to diminish Kincaid’s obviously ridiculous talents because he’s a stud, but the Bills have never had an elite TE.
I’m sure there’s other teams who also have had no such luck at TE in their history but it’s probably not many lol.
How soon we have forgotten about Lee Smith.
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8 minutes ago, Heels20X6 said:
I think this is what bothers me the most about any Mahomes discourse. The revisionist history that the Bills goofed by not taking him and trading the pick. Those of us around this board would all agree that maybe a handful of people liked Mahomes as the Bills pick in that spot. Majority of us didn't think at all that he was on the Bills radar.
Also, does it really matter since they drafted Allen anyways? We're not 2 time Super Bowl champions because Mahomes has been light years better than Allen, they have the rings because Reid is light years ahead of McDermott.
Pretty sure Whaley indicated if they used the pick on a QB, Watson was likely his choice... think about that for a second...
There was little consensus in that draft wrt QB talent. What I remember was Mahomes rising later in the process, but there was no one predicting that he'd be the player that he turned out to be... though if I recall, TPegs actually "loved" Mahomes.
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6 hours ago, NoSaint said:
carr wasn’t seeing the field, receivers were a mess and kamara got a thousand dump offs approachBy his reactions you would think it was everyone else’s fault. I never thought he was a great QB, but I didn’t realize he was such a huge douche. I don’t think I’ve seen such a barely mediocre player who loved to show up teammates and coaches to the extent that that asshat does.
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1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
I thought McD called a great game against Chiefs, managed clock perfect. Josh went for hone run with 1:30 left instead of the underneath first down. His usually strong arm failed him. Crazy. Then Bass' leg failed him.
Not making excuses... But that game isn't on McD. Maybe rolling the bones on fake punt, but that came out in the wash.
Honestly, again managed a great game.
Maybe it was the dead Indian bones? 😉
I was trying to find a screenshot of AJ Klein in coverage against Travis Kelce to dispute this, but he's not close enough to him in any of the still photos to be in-frame. 🤷♂️
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8 minutes ago, Lost said:
We'll be cycling back to cable being cheaper than streaming in a few years.
Or cable companies will forced to become the equivalent of internet service providers only and they'll get in bed with the streaming services...
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I prefer the next clip in the series of Brady topping his drive and having it travel almost a whole five yards.
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4 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:
It's odd that the blogger would say he knows for certain and then say it's only speculation. I feel like it got to be one or the other.
Maybe he knows for certain that it’s only speculation… 🤷♂️😂
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2 minutes ago, Einstein said:
Right. That's exactly what many of us are responding to. His tendency to never give a straightforward positive answer. People aren't perfect. Diggs isn't either. You don't have to dig (no pun intended) so hard to defend him (but I admit its funnier and makes for better conversation when you do).
Its much easier (and better) to give a short, positive answer than it is to give answers like "I dont know" and "I'll be ready wherever it goes" in response to someone asking if you will be with your team next year.98% of NFL players are able to do this just fine. Josh Allen gets asked absolutely ridiculous questions all season and he answers them like a pro. At one point a reporter straight up told him "this offense doesnt look like it’s good enough to win a Super Bowl". Allen took it in stride and just responded "okay".
So, I feel like what I’m saying is less about defending Diggs, and more about pointing out the absolute uselessness of trying to interpret his intentions by micro dissecting what he says.
In my opinion, it’s the way the dude is wired. It’s how he’s talked from the moment he got here. Expecting something different from him and highlighting every time it doesn’t happen is an exercise in futility. You, of anyone, should know, as the definition of insanity is often misappropriated to you, Einstein.
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28 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Actually, according to various interviews, they had known each other casually (families were friends) before his "star blew up", but only started dating when he was in college at Wyo. Unclear how serious it was before Allen's "Star blew up" and he was predicted to become a 1st round draft pick in the NFL in 2016 (then went back to school). She was a popular cheerleader sorority girl at Fresno, the school Allen wanted to attend, while Allen was a scrawny geek trying to grow into his height and sending out 1,000 letters looking for a DI scholarship. You can see it in the early relationship photos she posted on her Insta, she gives off "I'm the hot cheerleader" vibes while he gives off "how did I wind up with her?" vibes.
There's this little thing called a "prenup" which takes care of that problem..........
Marriage is not required to have such an agreement, it's also called a "personal contract" or "personal agreement". The typical terms involve nondisclosure during and after the agreement, in exchange for something of value (in Williams case, probably an allowance during the relationship and a hefty severance package if they break up). A famous example of a celebrity with this sort of thing in place would be Oprah Winfrey.
Pretty sure Josh and Brittany had something like this already in place when she moved to Buffalo. Josh seems to have had a solid financial advisor/agent/social media/legal team in place starting from before the NFL draft, and that's the sort of thing such a team would strongly recommend.I will (not so) gracefully bow out. You clearly know much more of their backstory than I do… 😂 I was mostly trying to reinforce that I also thought it unfortunately had the feeling of “scenario #2”.
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50 minutes ago, Einstein said:
Yes and no. The full interview has many questions, spanning several topics. So obviously his answers vary depending on the topic.
All of the answers you mentioned are not in response to the question of whether he thinks he will be back in Buffalo, so you are misrepresenting the interview a bit. Some questions are about the plays he wants back (as you mentioned the dropped passes), and another question is about his relationship with Josh (which he responds by not actually answering but instead talking about money and contracts which is odd because you should probably give a positive answer considering he is your friend and QB), and another question elicits the response about how he gets the same questions over and over (as you mention). But no - it’s not like all these answers were in response to the question of whether he thinks he will be in Buffalo next year. His initial response to that was “I don’t know”.
You’re combining an entire interview of responses into one answer when it was actually several topics, and his opinion changed depending on the topic (which makes sense).
Personally I think it’s interesting seeing the distribution of responses - on one side there is the media that definitely makes too much of it. Then on the other side there are fans like you that want to completely dismiss it all as absolutely nothing. I attempt to find the middle ground (sometimes failing but the middle is often where the truth lay). In my life experience it seems that so many find that middle ground impossible to look at.
Honestly it’s not that hard to give a positive answer that leaves the media with nothing to grasp onto. 98% of NFL players figure it out. Diggs is smart. He could do it to if he wanted to. As others said, maybe it’s just a game to him and he likes messing with the media but it’s not really a game that benefits him (or the team) so I wish he just wouldn’t.
Fans like you… Classic… 🤦♂️
You’re a self proclaimed Diggs fan; when has he EVER said something that was straightforward? Even when he’s giving the answers that people want to hear they’re wandering, meandering, hard to follow responses. At this point, I just assume it’s how he communicates.
In this instance, in this 19s clip, what I hear is him saying, in response to a stupid, random question about whether he expects to be here next season, that he doesn’t know about the money and all that… presumably means cap related issues… says nothing is ever certain, which is true in the NFL… and then ends the interview saying as far as his side is concerned, he’s got no surprises for you (the reporter) and he’ll be himself next season, which I take to mean unless the FO does something out of his control he’ll be on the field in Buffalo and play his game.
Same meandering, hard to follow responses he always gives with lots left to interpretation, most of the time leading to pointless hand wringing about what he’s really saying… or not saying.
I think what this “fan like me” is really saying is this is the same old people hanging on every last meaningless word, trying to prognosticate what it all means so they can be the first to say “see, I told you so” in the event something does happen… and in doing so the same tired old💩gets blown out of proportion. I find it cringeworthy… kinda like when my wife watches an episode of any one of those godawful “Housewives of” nonsense shows when I’m in earshot.
Gonna be a long offseason.
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22 minutes ago, NoSaint said:
yea, but diggs is not you. And he is not only doing it in the fly. He’s no showing events, he’s posting on social media. It’s a persona he’s intentionally curated.And it hasn’t changed… and it’s very unlikely to change. Personally, I’d be saying WTF is up with Diggs if he was suddenly cheerful and forthcoming and NOT cryptic.
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10 hours ago, Beck Water said:
My impression was Brittany was in the latter sort by the end of the relationship
They had been together for a long time before his star blew up… people change… I’m probably biased and media persona is obviously carefully crafted to avoid showing the warts, but if I had to guess Allen is probably pretty close personality-wise to how he’s always been the way people gush about him… she, on the other hand, probably wasn’t your “typical social influencer” when they first met, which was certainly vibe she was rockin’ at the end.
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7 minutes ago, NoSaint said:
ready:he has control in the contract he signed
his contract keeps him here
“I’m ready to go get a championship for the bills this year.”
No offense, but I find the “this is what I wanted a person to say in the moment” comments, when someone didn’t say anything technically wrong or inflammatory, disingenuous.
By virtue of my profession, I’ve had to give numerous interviews to media and have engaged in numerous public speaking engagements with cameras filming live. I’ve had to do it upwards of 20 times, so it’s not new to me, but it’s not core piece of my chosen profession. I don’t enjoy it. I’m uncomfortable and counting down the minutes. And I can say unequivocally, not once has something come out exactly as I would have liked it to in the moment. Hell, half the time I don’t even remember saying what I said when it see it broadcast afterwards…and I have never been in a situation where it has been hostile or critical of me.
Diggs has a habit of saying things this way… he’s done it his whole career in front of the camera… there’s probably a reason why he avoids interviews… people need to get over Diggs being Diggs.
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7 hours ago, Einstein said:
“Yes I do think i’ll be back. We have unfinished business.”
It’s really not that hard.
Even if he ended up being wrong and the team traded/cut him, who would ever hold it against him for saying he’ll be back to win a championship? Literally nobody. Ever.
I love Diggs but this is one area that he could get better with.
Or maybe he does it on purpose just to get the media riled up 🤷🏻♂️. Who knows.
Did you watch the whole interview, or are you basing it on that 19s? There’s a lot more to what he said.
I find Diggs will take his time and answer a question genuinely if it’s an engaging question, kind of like Shady used to do, but will ramble in circles meaninglessly at the tired, inane stuff. Personally, I think he enjoys the chaos that essentially saying nothing in those moments creates. Cuz at the end of the day what did he really say that created this… essentially, that he has no control in it, which given his contract, is the absolute truth.
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10 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:
Dashing out of town faster than a Saturn V rocket 🚀 past the post game interviews where he could’ve said the right things but chose not to, got us rolling in this direction…breathless twitterverse speculation was inevitable. 🤷🏼♂️
So, it’s been reported many times that Diggs was one of the last out of the locker room after the KC game, but that he just didn’t talk to reporters, which has become his norm.
Also, this 19s clip completely misses the context of his initial response, which was paraphrasing “you’ve all (the media) already asked me these questions and my responses have always been the same”, and that the people in the locker room know how he feels and know his intentions. He takes accountability for his dropped passes, saying there are many plays he’d like back, and also “if I touched, I dropped it,” indicating he holds himself to a standard he didn’t feel he was meeting.
Instead the focus of the tweet is a response to a question that is quite stupid in light of his contract situation and, to the best of my knowledge, nothing other than fan chatter about him possibly not being a Bill. Certainly nothing he, himself, has indicated to date.
I’ve been as critical of Diggs’s play as anyone, and I question whether he still has elite WR1 ability, but the constant character assassination on the guy is as tired as the “same ol’ same ol’” questions he gets asked that continue to fuel this narrative.
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4 hours ago, Beck Water said:
I must have missed it, what was Dawkins backhanded compliment?
I couldn’t find the actual interview, but this article has excerpts. To me it kinda seems like he was hinting his ex was a bit of a distraction last season, and his current relationship is helping to ground him.
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I hope WR is a top priority and if MHJ for some reason drops a few spots, Beane inquires what the cost of moving up would be. Barring that, I hope he has tiers of targets, and as the last is left on the board, he inquires what the cost of moving up would be. Regardless of the holes on DL and elsewhere right now, you know he’ll have bodies in place come draft day. I don’t think they can ignore the WR room for another first round, if for no other reason than it’s a premium position that the 5th year option makes a world of difference for.
How did we not win a superbowl?
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My problem with this example is, unlike against the Steelers where AJ could be expected to be, and was, an asset against their running game, in his prime he was not a player who could have been expected to cover Kelce. You would expect a HC/DC to have a better plan than to take the guy everybody knew, probably including McD, physically could not do the job and asking him to do it anyway. If that’s the plan then COME UP WITH A BETTER PLAN. It was beyond infuriating in its predictable failure. He should have asked Williams to do it from the start and lived with the mistakes. At least he has the athletic ability to succeed.
I’m not surprised at the loss, and I’m not one to carry sports disappointment with me anymore, as I did in my youth. I am exasperated with McDermott, though. In my opinion, this was a prime example of necessity being the mother of invention and he did not even attempt to step up to meet the moment. If you’re likely gonna fail anyway, at least do something to try and better your odds. Get outside your comfort zone. Pull out all the stops. Go down swinging, ffs.