jimmy10
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I was always under the impression that reliable kickers and punters are extremely hard to find. We all like to make fun of the kickers, but for the good ones to do what they do, on a regular basis, with all the variables that can go wrong, requires ice in the veins. The good ones also tend to stay around for a LONG time since they don't have the wear and tear regular players do, kind of like knuckleball pitchers.
I don't think teams like to dick around with rookie/inexperienced kickers unless they absolutely have to.
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i was looking at fitzys career stats and it said his first ever start as a rookie in st. luis he threw for over 300 yards and 3 tds earning nfc offensive player of the week and a win.
Nice, didn't know that.
By no means do I think Fitz is the QB of the future, but he's proven himself to be serviceable. Chan maybe thought he could squeeze some magic out of Trent that nobody else had. He learned pretty quickly he couldn't, so he's turning to the best option currently at his disposal. Fitz takes shots downfield and was at the healm for 5 wins last year. Right now, I'm happy he's in. He gives us our best (but yeah, still not great) chance to win.
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LOL, of course he is. Let's see if it makes any difference.
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Entirely my biggest miff, as well.
For a king, producing an heir to ensure continuity of rule --- was the utmost concern of his reign. They would announce the birth of a son proudly. It provided a sense of stability to the people.
Ignoring this and/or leaving fans in the dark has been one of the biggest shortcomings in the past ~10 years. One thing to wonder whether we'll have a good QB, quite another to be left wondering whether we'll still have a team in the not-distant future. I wish it were addressed without the relative vagueness that has existed.
I'll admit, this is what worries me about the whole situation as well.
While I'd like to believe the Bills will never leave WNY, the fact that fans' concerns about the team moving have been met only with cheerleading from Jimbo and NOTHING from Ralph is confounding. You're right, why NOT set a plan in place now and shout it from the rooftops that the Bills will be in Buffalo for at least the next century? It would set so many fans' minds at ease, and I imagine boost season ticket sales too.
This uncertainty about whether or not my favorite football team will even EXIST when my infant son grows up is an awful feeling. Much worse than our O-line/QB problems.
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First of all "pick up 10 yards" when you are pinned at your goal line is a bit more complex than picking up 10 or 15 or maybe even 20 at midfield.
An excellent point I think many are forgetting.
Chan did the only thing he could do that guaranteed it stayed a one score game. End of story.
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Think man, think
Yeah, no. Go for it on 4th and 10 from your own end zone, you put all your eggs in one basket. Convert or go home.
Give up the safety, you get a free kick, and there are still several scenarios that can play out, long as the odds may be. Neither is a good choice, but Chan made the least bad one.
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I fail to see how completing one pass for 10 yards is LESS likely to happen than taking a safety, free kicking, holding the opponent's offense on 3 running plays with a sieve-like run defense, forcing a punt, and taking possession of the ball in similar (but perhaps slightly better) field position with 30 seconds or less on the clock with zero timeouts needing a touchdown to win.
But this is the Buffalo Bills led by Trent Edwards, so really, hoping for an asteroid to strike the earth was probably a better bet than Edwards completing a 10 yard throw under pressure.
Pretty much screwed either way, I suppose.
And yet everything in bold happened. So if we miraculously score that touchdown, Chan's a genius and nobody bitches about it. We gave up the two points, saved clock and got the ball back with a little breathing room. We got our defense back on the field, and gave ourselves the best (if still remote) chance to win.
It was the right call. An imperfect solution for an imperfect situation.
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I'm not even that much of a football expert, but within a few moments of giving up that safety, I thought about it and knew it was the right call. 4th and 10 on your goal line is suicide. It's a "close" game, you can't punt, you give up the two points, get better field position and put it on your defense to get the ball back. Which they did. But our O is too crappy to take advantage.
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Jim Kelly is a direct connection to this franchise's best years (so far), and he chooses to make his home in WNY when he could afford to live anywhere in the world. Paid or not, official or not, he's earned the right to have a strong presence and I'm glad he does.
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Big time corporate sports radio is less about actual analysis and more about riling people up and getting them talking. Mike and Mike's advertisers and producers are much happier if you're pissed off and talking about them instead of quietly agreeing or saying "meh."
The game is won and lost on the field. The rest is BS. There's football this weekend, friends. Let's all crack open a cold one, eat something unhealthy and enjoy.
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Simmons, like Rick Reilly, is one of those guys whose writing USED to be amusing.
After awhile, though, you realize that they basically continually recycle the same half-dozen column ideas. Like how comic strips are funny for the first few years and stale thereafter. Or how most bands live off their first few albums for the next 30 years.
Exactly. Whether he digs on my teams or not, I enjoyed Simmons' columns for many years. Eventually I started to notice the same recurring themes in his writing and realized he's got no new ideas. Good for him, though, I'd love to be in his position - build a solid career based on what was once "fresh," get paid and then just coast for the rest of your life. I'd trade places with him in an instant.
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Not exactly a "slam." Just the ugly truth.
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I would do my absolute best to be there. F the cost, that's what credit cards are for.
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I love how this is going to be all about the Redskins
hey guys, there is another team playing in this game
I was thinking that, too, but I guess this is the Redskins' team broadcast. So it's understandable. I wish we could switch to the Bills broadcast team instead.
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What if they relocated to Two Bills Drive?
Across the street? I guess that depends on if it's cheaper to build a new stadium across the street, or just re-route the current street.
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They just did a little preview of tonights PS game. They showed 3 incomplete passes from TC from Edwards, and Shawn Springs said the only bright spots on our defense are Byrd and Maybin.
Really? I'm not bashing people because I'm a Bill's fan that can't accept reality -- it just seems that there is little or no effort by the media to even look into teams that aren't headliners....Aaron Shatz would fit in perfectly there...
Of course they're not making any effort to look at us. Media are the reflector, not the director of what we, as a nation, think. Based on past performance, most of the country doesn't think much of us, and thus sports media don't either. But screw 'em. The game is played on the field and we'll either show them all, or we won't. But media "wizards" are just jockeying for advertising dollars.
It's a new season, friends, and there's Bills football on tonight. So let's all crack open a cold one, sit back, and enjoy some football, no matter the outcome or what some jerks in NYC/LA think of us.
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DVOA? AGL? WTFBBQ?
Sounds like some nerd trying to bring baseball-type statistical analysis to football, which just doesn't work (and I'm a baseball fan). Over a 162-game season, you get a much more reliable data set than a 16 game season. The game's played on grass, any given Sunday, yadda, yadda. This guy is just looking for reasons to just blast the Bills, but he's clearly obsessive enough to put more effort into it than I'm willing to put into refuting him.
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Good thoughts. I've said before, we're not the Lions for god's sake. We have some serious talent, and are just a pleasant surprise or two away from making a run at the post-season. Media wizards may predict we'll be in the toilet, but that's based more on past performance. The game is played on the field, not on paper.
Every year there are teams that seemingly come out of nowhere to make the playoffs. There's no reason to believe we won't be one of those teams very soon.
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I'd love to see Wood at center, with Hangartner a backup, and move maybe Ramsey or Howard move to RG...
This stood out to me... Wood played center in college, right? Has there been any real talk of him eventually moving over there? He certainly seems to have the right personality for center, intelligent, quick on his feet, leader-like.
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The kid seems to have a good head on his shoulders. Maybe that influenced Chan and Buddy's picking him.
Also, I like how the video interview with him took place right on the canal in Pittsford, very close to where I grew up.
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THAT'S IT, STICK A FORK, WE'RE THREW! FIRE CHAN!
/sarcasm
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That's one of the best, most honest assessments of this team I've read. I like how he acknowledged that the Bills are not completely lacking in talent and have a decent defense to build off of. Everything else in the national press seems to be "BuffaLOL... At least they'll get a good draft pick LOLOLOL!!1!"
For god's sake, we're not the Lions. There's some talent on this team. We just need to figure a few things out, and we're not far from putting it all together.
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Me, my father-in-law, and a buddy are coming up from Richmond. We have an extra orange parking pass if any BILLS fans are interested in parking next to us in the lot and tailgating, just looking to recover the costs of the parking pass.
Go Bills!
I would love to drive up from NC, but with a newborn baby, I'm not going to any games this year. I'm lucky the wife let me keep Sunday Ticket.
I'm also glad the Bills' year in the NFC South was last year, so it let me go to the Panthers and Falcons games, likely the only ones I'll get to for a while.Good luck, though. I'm sure you'll have no problem offloading the pass.
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TOP 20 smartest athletes in all of sports
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I thought there was some pitcher in the majors who went to MIT and is, literally, a rocket scientist. Maybe he's only in the minors... Can't remember his name.