Wayne Cubed
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Carson Wentz doing Carson Wentz things.
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1 minute ago, Einstein said:
It was not unintentional. They blatantly held them on every single play of the final drive. It was a clear strategy.
The Titans did finally get into field goal range after one of their CB’s got turned around but that has nothing to do with the strategy; it was just bad CB play.
I think you aren't understanding the rule.
If the Titans were intentionally holding, they would only be able to do it to 1 player on the field, on 1 down. They wouldn't be able to hold every WR/TE/RB going out on a route, that would incure a 15 yard penalty. I didn't see anything on the live broadcast showing all the Giants defenders each holding a player on those final plays.
The reason you haven't seen it, I would assume, is because teams know you can't do that. Sure, you could hold one player and you would only get a 5 yard penalty. My question is, how would you know which player to hold? How do you know who the play would be designed to go to? So you hold Tyreek Hill and then what happens with Kelce?
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Crazy to think we are a year on and the TE room, thus far, will not have changed.
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22 minutes ago, Gugny said:
It's my understanding that Araiza/family offered a settlement before he was drafted and that the victim/her attorney declined.
Just for clarification, this is Dan Gilleon being a dirtbag. If you read the tweets and the messages he posted, they are dated end of July & early August. As you know, Matt had already been drafted by the Buffalo Bills. So this is Dan being clever with his words as Matt hadn't made the team yet as he was still trying to make the team.
As far as his claims of "we ignored the offerr", none of the messages he posted support that position. Matt's lawyer in the text says his parents are inquiring how much money the client wants. That's not making an offer.-
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11 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I am as disappointed as you. I liked the Howard pick up as a low risk, high reward offensive piece and I am really disappointed it has failed. In terms of passing targets for Josh it is really Sanders and Beasley out, Crowder (low ceiling vet), Shakir (5th round rookie) and Cook (2nd round rookie receiving back) in. Have they done enough? Only time will tell but it is a legit question to ask.
As I said upthread I was really looking forward to that 12 personnel mismatch. That 11th player on the field really should be your chess piece and thought Howard was going to do that. I still think they have some nice mismatch pieces. McKenzie for his speed out of the slot. I think Cook would be a good mismatch in 2 RB sets. It would just have been nice to have a mismatch with double TEs.
EDIT: Oh and I like the mismatch Davis gives if they bump him inside to the slot and put Shakir outside.
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2 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:
Not a fan of this. I don't see what Sweeney brings other than untimely drops and being liked in the roomYea I agree. I'm not a Sweeney fan. This could end up being a money thing or they just prefer to back the guy they spend a draft pick on? So far Tommy Sweeney has shown he can't do the things required of a backup or #2 TE.
I really liked the idea of the Bills utalizing 12 personnel but I guess that's fizzled out. I think the personnel advantages will have to come from McKenzie in slot, Davis in slot and maybe something like 21 personnel were Cook is the 2nd RB.
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1 minute ago, SCBills said:
The fact he was so condescending, almost like a “how dare you come at me like that” response to his legal rep, followed by a lie about money according to texts he released and saying an apology and donation could have saved him makes me believe Matt Araiza is more so guilty of wrong place, wrong time than what he’s accused.
I believe something terrible happened to her that night, but I’m really not sure Araiza was involved to the extent alleged.
He was let down by his lawyer, and this woman is being let down by hers.
Two young peoples lives destroyed, and two adults hired to protect them are standing over the rubble of their futures.
Yea, it casts doubt to what he actually submitted in the civil filling.Her lawyer is bordering on unethical behaviour or at the least admitting to extortion. If you would have made a donation, read: pay me out, then none of this would have come out? Really?
It really does seem like wrong place and wrong time for Araiza.
And it seems like the press isn’t really going after or questioning anything her attorney has said since.
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13 minutes ago, BeastMaster said:
I understand that the team did what it felt was necessary, and I do hope that the truth is found and that justice gets done.
But I still can't help but wonder what it must be like for Araiza...especially if his only mistake was getting sexually involved with a 17 YO that may have been telling him and others there that she was 18.
And from what the victims attorney has tweeted since he was cut, it appears he was using the Bills and Araiza. The victim deserves better and better representation.It cast some doubt on how much involvement Araiza actually had or were he and the Bills just used for PR?
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37 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I think he has struggled in coverage but been better than I expected playing the run. At the moment he is our Klein replacement to me... you have to use him running vertically towards the line of scrimmage because he struggles going laterally covering ground.
A name on my most impressive list not yet mentioned - Jaquan Johnson.
Agreed on Johnson.Johnson sticks his head in everywhere.
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2 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
I don’t know if it is as I think back to my college days. Many parties were outside and I never went in the house.
Also, it’s San Diego. Nice weather. There’s not really a reason to hang out inside.-
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3 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
The team looked flat last night and McDermott was clearly very shaken up. If they cut him now it won't derail the season. I fear that if they keep him around while the investigation continues the malaise will seep onto the field.
The only way I can see us keeping him on the team at this point is if the Bills investigation turned up some kind of smoking gun that proves Araiza had nothing to do with the alleged gang rape. But the longer we go without them shoeing us that smoking gun, the less likely it is that it exists.
How do we know it just wasn’t the fact that there weren’t any starters playing and it was A LOT of 3rd teams players or players who won’t make the team.Bills organization has been a tough nut to crack with arrival of McBeane. You won’t hear anything unless they want you to.
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1 minute ago, WotAGuy said:
Did you see his press conference? Why take on this bull for a rookie punter?
Yes I did.As a coach, you have to handle difficult situations. What about 13 seconds? That was a complete cluster f. Is that a distraction? OR is it possible Coaches/Players/Teams are capable of drowning out the outside noise and focus?
Do you not remember all the members of the Pats** and Billy B having to sit in front of media and answer questions?
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3 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:
The head coach will be spending time on all this bull instead of getting his team ready. Players will be asked questions about it. Fans will be asking questions about it. This is an issue no one in the organization needs to spend time on, especially in arguably the most important season in the team’s history.
Araiza will need to work through his own process and, if the Bills cut him loose, he’ll be free to seek employment anywhere. Being a football player is not a right. He can get a job like the rest of us, using his valuable SDSU degree.
Again, I gave you two examples that lasted an entire season and hung over the Pats**. Those same things happened. It didn’t effect them one bit.And how would you actually know if it did. The Bills organisation is a tight ship, those things don’t leak out.
I seriously doubt McD is so distracted he can’t focus on the Rams right now.
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1 minute ago, SectionC3 said:
This is the out and the way that McDermott gets out of this mess. The Bills can say that the legal issues should run their courses. But the separate issue is that Araiza was dishonest with the team about this incident, and that error, which is inconsistent organization ethos, is the ground for termination.
It's telling to me that Araiza didn't wear the team logo at the stadium last night, and that McDermott didn't defend him (or at least suggest that brakes should be tapped in this situation) in the press conference.
Why would McDermott out and out defend him?? I don’t think that tells you anything at all.A young woman was raped, there is no doubt about that. A Buffalo Bills player has been accused of involvement in that. Gather evidence and respect the victim.
McD isn’t a lawyer and he’s not working for the police. He won’t have all the information they have. It would be a PR disaster to come out and defend a player like that.
That goes for any player who is accused or currently involved in an investigation.
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Serious question. Why do fans think this will derail the season?
Do fans think Josh is sat thinking about this and not focused on the Rams?
Is Von Miller going to be so distracted he won’t be able to rush the passer?
I get it, it’s a bad look and bad for the Bills organizationally but I don’t get how it effects the players. Can anyone point me in a direction where something bad has happened to a football team PR wise and it’s completely derailed a season? Spygate was embarrassing for the Pats**, they proceeded to win 18 straight games. They went 12-4 and went to the AFC championship after Deflategate. Both of those situations had more to do with football and the game itself more than what a single player has done off the footballs field.
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I'm not sure I really buy what Jordan Palmer was saying. He was naming off other players he never saw put this pressure on, and all of them weren't QBs. Ocho Cinco? Brandon Marshall? Matt Forte? C'mon no city is putting pressure on those players to elevate the franchise. Every franchise who doens't have a franchise QB puts pressure on the next great hope.
Also, Buffalo had the drought.
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16 hours ago, Gunvald's Husse said:
That is why Leeds > Arsenal ... I got to watch the Bills on Saturday and the Mighty Whites today (and what a game it was against the Chelsea scum) MOT
Hard to disagree with any of that. I would add that it was a good game for Taiwan Jones - in his absence the STs looked a bit vulnerable to run backs. I don't think his place on the roster was in much doubt anyway but, for me, that showed the value of a "proper" ST player.
ALAW!!!
What a match, Elland Road was madness.
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46 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
I had that question after the Whaley "I was not privy to that" interview, and someone here (might have been @john wawrow, pointed out that the "lead a horse to water" truism applies - you can make PR people available, but if the owners and the team's star QB don't want to avail themselves of advice and prior preparation, there will be "piss poor performance" in front of the cameras.
They could have just deferred to the NFL statement and not put Watson in front of the media. I’m not sure why they keep doing it but Browns going to Brown. -
This Browns PR team can’t actually be this bad can they?
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Well that was an awful user esperience to get tickets. Used to get them all the time pre covid. I'm traveling back to Rochester for 2 weeks during training camp and wanted to get to camp but waited in the line and it ended up selling out.
If any one has a couple spares, would like to take my daughter, PM me please.
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I have been stream only since late 2015. I would never go back to a cable or dish service, I just don't see the beneift at all. A few thoughts/comments on going full streaming:
- Live sports are on a delay. It ranges anywhere from 15-30 seconds If you follow on social channels like Twitter as well, you can tell. So live isn't really live.
- You have to put your money into a good Internet Service Provider and ideally you need Fibre. I get speeds of up to 2gb but then if your house is fully connected that speed is split between all your devices.
- A lot of these streaming services, besides maybe Netflix, are still learning how to make a good app that provides video content. Lots of the controls can be clunky.
1 minute ago, eball said:Why? NHL games are on ESPN+ streaming...other professional leagues are on streaming services...
As I posted above, if you like to follow along on twitter, while you are watching these games... you can tell there's a delay/lag. If you can stay off social media, it's not really an issue.
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11 hours ago, BarleyNY said:
That definitely tracks to Watson skating. I can’t imagine how the league could justify an unprecedented penalty for a violation that did not include charges being brought against the player, much less a conviction.
Previously I laid out the case that the neutral arbiter finding in favor of Watson was the best case scenario for the NFL. TL:DR on that is: the league gets to continue to feign outrage but has their hands tied. The Watson saga is over (save the lawsuit against the Texans). Incidentally, it would also be better for McNair and the Texans since a suspension by the NFL could be used against them in court.
Not for nothing but Florio is a mouth for the NFLPA and this screams of a leak to piss on the NFL case, which is nothing new for Florio.
The AP has a much different account of what's happened and is still contends the NFL will seek an indefinate suspension of at least a year.
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5 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:
With the Broncos playing at the Rams on Christmas it leads me to believe that the Bills - Rams will be the opener. They just don’t have many (or any) viable alternatives. Wilson with a new team was interesting (at least to a degree).
I don't know... Cowboys vs. Rams is still on table.
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I like the player. Bills had trouble beating 2-high safety last year. They just couldn’t run out if it, they’ll beat it with checkdowns. You want to treat him as a RB, and cover with a LB, good luck.
Also, going to be a real problem when Bills run 12 personnel. Diggs, Davis, Knox, Howard and now Cook. All pass catchers. Good luck to the opposing teams LBs.
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Other than some injuries, is there anything NOT to like about last night?!?
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If I'm being super critical, still think it wasn't the cleanest game from the Bills. Could clean up the penalties and thought there was some situational football that could have been better.
Saying all that, to make mistakes and still demolish a team tells you how good of a team this is. I think they'll need to clean those issues up with the upcoming games.