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The Wiz

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  1. I'm confused. NE is the worst they've been in a long time. They lost nearly all their receiving threats in the offseason for one reason or another and keeping them to 23 points is good?

     

    Anyway, I'm hoping for a hard fought, injury free game where the best team wins. Hopefully we see very little fo the Zebras and some good, hard football.

    Considering they scored 14 of those points off of turnovers and we held them to only field goals on all of their original possessions, yes, I think 23 is good.

  2. Well this is my first game day thread so hopefully I start with a good record.

     

    I'm hoping to see more of the same from our defense. I know they weren't the greatest but they held NE to 23 points which is pretty good in my book. I'm really expecting the offense to get some more deep balls with the weaker secondary that carolina has.

     

    Keys to the game IMO is going to be how effective our offense/offensive line can handle their front 7, limit penalties and sustain drives.

     

    Everyone going to the game, be safe and get the 12th man out on the Panthers.

     

    And as always LET'S GO BUFFALO!

  3. We want to be the Patriots.

     

    I know it's fun to make fun of "Tommy" etc but I've grown out of it. I don't like to see them get any edge when they already possess many, but they are just a well-run operation. We should be so lucky.

    If you mean first in the AFC east and start a "dynasty", yes of course we do. If you mean pull an Eddie Guerrero philosophy and get rules made to favor us out of the blue, then no.

  4. You'd think at this point the NFL would have an office that just monitors all their athletes to see if they have open cases. They have a public image problem and you'd think they would want to be proactive about it. If they had an office that knew about the athletes issues as they happened and then made sure that if the athlete didn't show for the court appearance at least they'd have an attorney there. How hard is it to remember you got a ticket and have an attorney go for you? I

    Pretty sure the person that committed the crime needs to be present for the hearing.

  5. I guess I'm naive. I was surprised that it is unusual for coaches and captains to discuss how things are going. Why wouldn't this be a common practice for every team?

    Like I said, I don't know if this is normal for most teams and we are late to the game but giving the players a say is a change in the coaching scheme for us for sure.

  6. Opening day was a sellout, but the reported attendance was only ~65K. Were there really ~7,000 no-shows?

    They said somewhere it was a typo I guess. Was reported as 65,519 but was really 69,519 or something like that.

     

    There is an easy way to get blacked out Bills games in real time if you have direct tv. I live in Rochester and get every blacked out Bills game. And I don't mean red zone, I mean the actual game.

    Turn your dish 5.6 degrees?

  7. Just got done reading the article and I don't know how often other teams might do this but I think this is something that is really going to help the players and coaches.

     

    http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-2/Captains-Marrone-to-meet-weekly/1a38c5cc-e39b-443b-8835-c07f7c4cacc9

     

    “That was the first thing he said,” Jackson said. “I want to have this meeting so you can tell me what’s going on in the locker room and what the fellas are feeling like and what they want to do. He’s made it very clear that it’s going to be a two-way street.

    “I think the first thing he’s going to ask us in every meeting is what is on everybody’s mind and if there is something we need to do differently. He wants us to bring any issue that we have as players to him and that’s a good opportunity to get it out.”

  8. Section 7 Actions to Conserve Time

    ILLEGAL ACTS

    Article 1 A team is not permitted to conserve time inside of one minute of either half by committing any of the following acts:

    (a) a foul by either team that prevents the snap (i.e., false start, encroachment, etc.)

    (b) intentional grounding;

    © an illegal forward pass thrown from beyond the line of scrimmage;

    (d) throwing a backward pass out of bounds;

    (e) spiking or throwing the ball in the field of play after a down has ended, except after a touchdown; or

    (f) any other intentional foul that causes the clock to stop.

    Penalty: For Illegally Conserving Time: Loss of five yards unless a larger distance penalty is applicable.

    When actions referred to above are committed by the offensive team while time is in, officials will run 10 seconds off the game

    clock before permitting the ball to be put in play on the ready-for-play signal. The game clock will start on the ready-forplay signal. If the offensive team has timeouts remaining, it will have the option of using a timeout in lieu of a 10-second

    runoff, in which case the game clock will start on the snap after the timeout. The defense always has the option to decline

    the 10-second run

    So maybe I'm reading that wrong but isn't spiking the ball a penalty??? Therefore a 10 second runoff should occur when an offense does it? Because I'm pretty sure I've never seen them runoff time when the ball was spiked.

  9. Honest question: do you think the offense would have converted additional 3rd downs by playing slow? Because I don't. The problem, to me, was just bad offense, not fast offense. I did vote for 3rd-down conversions up top, but in fairness, a lot of those were 3rd and long after 2 terrible plays. That's not so much "Inability to convert 3rd downs" as it is "Bad offense". Now, if slowing things down would have improved the offense, then I'm all for it, but I don't buy it at face value that huddling up will gain us extra yards.

    No I don't think they would have gained more yards by huddling up. As I said before that comment, you give Brady the ball with a minute left and he will find a way to win if they are within a TD. I agree with you it was more bad offense than their 3rd down % and poorly timed penalties. Though I do believe there was a correlation with the the 3rd downs and penalties. I can think of 3 that stopped them from converting(not at the end, just throughout the game).

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