Haplo848
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Honestly never had as much respect for Nate Burleson before this video:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/buffalo-bills/0ap3000000688744/Mindset-going-into-Preseason-Week-3I feel like we need this mindset. We need people to step up and compete. Go into every week as if it's their last. Don't let the excuses allow them to play less than their best. Hopefully we have a leader who can say this stuff on our team.
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I have trouble seeing Braxton Miller on the 53 man roster next year. I feel like he's practice squad material, that they hope after a year or two will become 53 man roster material, but isn't yet. He's a project. I have trouble believing that they'd waste a spot on someone who will not play, unless he's just perpetually a healthy scratch week in and week out. Maybe we'll just have to wait to see how he does in preseason...
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The Bills want to be a power run team. Which many people see as a mistake because the NFL is a passing league. I think as defenses shift more and more towards the nickle and emphasizing more on the cornerback position rather than the linebackers, there is a window for great running/defensive teams to take advantage and make a little noise.
If the Bills are going to be a run first team, I want them to be able to run the ball at will like the Chiefs teams under Vermeil. Willie Roaf, Will Shields, John Tait, etc. They were able to run the ball at will because their offensive line was so good. They made a star out of Larry Johnson.
While the Bills were able to run the ball very well last year, they were not able to run the ball at will and in all situations. Right now we have the left side of the line locked down and we have been trying to land Slauson, but I would rather just go get Joe Thomas and put him at RT.
If we were to get Thomas we would have a Pro-Bowl caliber player at 4 of 5 positions on the offensive line. Thomas is a future Hall of Famer and having him on the right side would make it a hell of a lot easier on Miller or whoever else might be at right guard. He would probably be the best RT in the NFL. You would have one of the best lines in the NFL and I think a team that could challenge for more than a playoff spot this year.
I know people will have reservations. How will we fit him under the cap? The first thing I would do is cut Jerome Felton. I think we got him as he started to decline. He missed a lot of big blocks last year. I don't see him beating out Little Gronk who I feel Roman will find more uses for. I would also let Graham go to make this happen. He is on the decline and although it would be nice to have him in the secondary, I think having a dominate offensive line and adding one of the best lineman in the league will be more beneficial for this team going forward.
Thomas has a cap hit of $9.5 million in 2016 and $10 million in 17'-18'. I know that is a lot but considering what tackles are getting now, it is a bargain for him. I also understand that is a lot to give a right tackle, but he is a special player and for what we are trying to do on offense, I think he could help us get to the next level.
Another benefit is when his contract ends you may be able to resign him. Even though he will be 34 he will probably be still good enough to move into LG for Incognito and play at a high level or even still be good enough to play at a high level at RT.
It would probably take a second round pick, maybe a little more. I know that is a high price but for a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 16 years I would be willing to do it. Go into the season with a dominant offensive line and the ability to impose your will in the run game and have a true offensive identity.
Absolutely, 100% will not happen. The Bills have to save up some cap space for Taylor, Gilmore, or both. They are not taking on any big new contracts, because then they would lose those two. Going into next year without a QB whatsoever...not a good idea. Losing your best CB...not very good either...
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I don't have arguments about the other four, but Marcus Peters should not have been included in this list. He's incredibly overrated. Sure, he had some splash plays, but he also gives up big plays fairly often. I can't think of a single game where he actually shut down a good WR. Watkins owned him 1v1, and only started having problems in the Chiefs game when they started rolling all their coverage towards him. I truly believe that there are two better corners than Peters on the Bills alone.
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1ST QTR
12:02 False start Cheats. GOOD CALL. Ref making the call was docked in his paycheck.
10:59 False start Cheats. GOOD CALL. Weird. The Cheats O-line just doesn’t false start.
10:28 Offsetting penalties, holding on Graham, and illegal formation. GOOD CALLS. The illegal formation was ticky-tack, but correct. A later replay before the second half shows Graham with a chunk of Gronk’s jersey, which caused Gronk to bobble it into the hands of Rambo
8:55 PI on Gilmore. GOOD CALL. He grabbed him when he didn’t need to. Stupid PI.
2:41 Illegal formation on Seantrel. GOOD CALL. Seantrel was sloppy lining up, similar to the Cheats tackle getting flagged earlier.
2:04 Cheats run into Schmidt on punt, no call at all. TERRIBLE NON-CALL. This is textbook roughing the kicker, contacting the plant leg. He was not blocked into the kicker either, he was running straight at Schmidt all the way.
No idea why the refs didn’t call roughing the kicker there. Would have given the Bills the ball on the Cheats 35 yard line. Other than that, a good quarter for the refs.
2ND QTR
9:27 PI on Cheats for Hogan pass. BAD NON-CALL. Chung hits Hogan in the arms clearly before the ball arrives and does not look back for the ball. This is textbook PI.
3:52 Holding on Cheats declined for the sack. GOOD CALL.
2:00 Tyrod throws a strike to Hogan, but Cordy Glenn moves before the snap. BAD NON-CALL. We got away with one there.
Refs starting to show some cracks, but the fun is about to begin.
3RD QTR
14:56 Offsides on Manny. GOOD CALL. He came up to the line and was in the NZ.
13:54 Cheats get inadvertent whistle. HORRIBLE CALL. The whistle occurred while the ball was in the air, so it should have been replayed. The refs compounded their error by calling the interference penalty on Rex because the ref was off the white and in the green. Yet all the post-game coverage said that the Cheats got screwed out of a TD, because we all know that Amendola would have outrun Darby to the end zone (please).
8:48 No PI on deep pass to Sammy. BRUTAL NON-CALL. Butler clearly contacts Sammy well before the ball gets there. Sammy would have helped by slowing down to draw the PI. No hustle back to the line and the Bills burn a TO.
5:55 Illegal sub on Cheats TD? No. I looked at the replay to see if the Cheats subbed. They did not. Chandler runs on and off the field, but never reached the inside numbers. The rule is that the player must reach the inside numbers to be considered a sub. Cheating? Stretching the rules? You be the judge.
3:41 Cheats holding. GOOD CALL. Jerry got tackled.
0:00 Facemask on Cheats. Flag picked up of course. BAD NON-CALL. Stills posted on the internet showed that Ninkovich definitely had a chunk of LeShady’s face mask.
4TH QTR
12:35 Seantrel downfield. GOOD CALL. Stupid play yet again.
12:01 PI on the Cheats, finally. GOOD CALL.
9:20 Cheats holding on Blount run. GOOD CALL. Bryant got tackled.
0:46 Sammy ruled out of bounds on catch. BAD CALL. Automatic replay overturned it, but again the refs blew it.
0:22 Refs take their sweet time spotting the ball after the Tyrod fumble is recovered. Whistle blows at 0:32 and the ball isn’t spotted until 0:17. We don’t spike it, and burn another 10 seconds snapping it.
0:02 No stopping the clock as Sammy goes OB and they don’t even review it. At least Tirico calls it like it is. Pereira tweets the Bills should have had another play. Others on NFL network say Sammy went backwards, WHICH IS NOT ANYWHERE IN THE RULES. TERRIBLE CALL. We should have had a chance to run Big Ben.
This will be my final zebra report. I’ve done enough to know by now that the officiating in the NFL is abysmal. I just don’t have the time to spend 2-3 hours after every game going over the tape, only to see the same mistakes again and again. I’ll confine myself to discussing the calls in the game thread. Thanks for those few of you who supported this effort.
That is NOT considered a substitution. However, it IS considered a simulated substitution, and so the refs should have stood over the ball, allowing the Bills to substitute as in the case of a normal substitution. It's in the rule book. Even after f***ing that call up, the play should have been whistled dead at the snap. If there's someone 15 yards in the backfield like Hughes was, the play is immediately whistled dead so that the player doesn't come from behind the ball runner and absolutely destroy them from an unexpected direction. The play should have been called dead and the penalty enforced then and there. It should have never been allowed to be run, and that TD should never have been allowed to stand.
So that's another TWO penalties added onto all the others that were blatantly missed or enforced incorrectly.
If these refs ever ref a game again, the NFL has does something VERY wrong.
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Here you go.... Think of him as a good blocker
He's straight up blown a couple people up out there.So we're not using phrasing any more?
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I'm told in rugby that there is a ref that reviews the other refs calls in game and can overturn them. I think the NFL should instantiate something like that, so that when you have a blatantly bad call, you can actually do something about it.
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Is that better of worse than their current headline pun "Vick-torious"? Or are you talking more about the fact that Vick is an ex-con?
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Fully 4/5 of the U.S. get to see this game. I still haven't been able to watch one live on tv in my own home this year...stupid Iggles and Steelers...
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Nobody truly singles Beckham. Becuase he has better footwork I'd go Darby with safety help. Let Gilmore go one on one with Cruz or randle, which is playing better.
I mostly agree with that, but have a slightly different take. I'm pretty sure Cruz primarily works out of the slot. Have Roby take him, since he's so good covering slot receivers, and let Gilmore take on their big, physical receiver Randle on the outside. Have the ultra-athletic Darby cover their deep threat Beckham. Give Darby safety help over the top (though I don't think he'd need it all the time), let the other two play on islands, and get after Manning and stop the run. Gilmore should be able to shut Randle down, Darby plus the occasional safety would leave Beckham having trouble to find space, and occasionally giving Robey some help on Cruz to potentially reduce Cruz's impact, and they'd be stuck with the run game and checkdowns. Other than Gronk, we've been good against TEs recently, so as long as we can have someone match up against their TE, and we continue to stop the run, I think we should be fairly well off on D this coming week.
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Blast! I've always been a much bigger fan of the blue jerseys. The pants I have no real preference for, except not blue on blue.
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I think there is already a thread to discuss there here.
(Sorry. It was just sitting there...calling to me...)
Haha, I really can't disagree. Definitely just got looks at work for laughing out loud.
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I don't know how many other people on here play Madden, but is anyone else upset about the way they handled the Bills? I think the player ratings are rather ridiculous, especially the speed ratings. Watkins has a 93 speed, and Shady, Percy Harvin and Leodis McKelvin all have speed in the 80s! Everyone's talking about how the Bills can field one of the fastest offenses in the league, yet Madden makes them incredibly slow. They also have Marqueis Grey listed as a FB, and a bad one at that. If you put him over at TE, he gets worse. Andre Davis, one of the stars of training camp, isn't even on the team. Jerry Hughes is listed as 81 overall, Mario Williams is only in the high 80s. And of course, they don't give you any 4-3 packages so that you can play four man fronts with Hughes, Williams, Williams, and Dareus, so Kyle Williams becomes a rotational player, and Hughes is a 3-4 RE. You'd have to go in and mess with the depth chart, playing people "out of position" in order to get your best guys on the field.
I just think Madden just really screwed over the Bills. Hopefully we get some updates for them to fix this BS soon.
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I'd watch that movie.
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Apparently, things are looking promising on the offensive side in Jags land.
Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Line coach is one Doug Marrone.
QB coach for Jags is one Nate Hackett.
Its still very early of course, but prevailing wisdom on this board was that the combined offensive genius of Doug and Nate would ruin the Jags.
I actually went through all those throws. The Jags have been one of the few AFC teams I'd root for, after the Bills, since they came into the league. I was hoping to see something, but those first two passes were both hospital passes, then almost all the other passes were underneath throws or check downs. I don't know if that's all he was being given, but it seemed very simplistic and easily contained in the regular season. Not as impressed as the writer of that article apparently was.
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With all going on in this federal court case, I think as a Bills fan we all fear having to play Tom Brady. I will say this, they guy is fantastic and great. He knows how to win with minimal weapons at his disposal. He made superstars out of crap and a lot of those receivers were crap when they played for other teams.... The coaching staff is great also and make perfect decisions to win games. They get the most out of every players talents to win.
If the Bills want to get out of the shadow and stand alone then we need to beat Tom Brady when he is playing. I want him out there in game 2. Bills fans are very hell bent on his suspension and wanting a 2nd stringer in there. TO HELL WITH THAT! If its going to be a new Bills era then BEAT THE PATS AND END THEIR ERA!
Its just my view guys... The Bills need to beat Tom Brady and the Pats to be something this year. I dont care who we sign, we need to beat them and Rex knows it!
Screw that. Injuries happen, suspensions happen, etc. You play whoever you play. Brady is a @$$ and deserves his punishment. In fact, he, Bellicheat, and the entire organization deserve to be punished more than they already are. If Brady's not in the line-up week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. If he is there week 2, we'll beat the Patriots*. Doesn't matter one way or the other.
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I went to undergrad down in FL, made it to a Bills game in Jacksonville (thankfully before they changed to their horrendous new jerseys). I'd always sorta liked the Jaguars since they came into the league (who didn't think big cats were cool growing up?). Their fans were pretty cool, though. I got a bunch of "Go back to Canada!" yells in my direction, but it was all in fun. Of course, it was too hot to get really rowdy, but they seemed like a fairly classy group.
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Half way between Pittsburgh and Philly, I came in disliking the Steelers and feeling "meh" towards the Eagles. 7 years later, still pretty much the same thing.
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I thought this thread was going to be about some of the old farts on the board.
Perhaps I should have named it "Vintage NFL Posters" to avoid that
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Why can't the NFL have posters like these any more?
The Jim Kelly ones are pretty awesome:
Also, if they started making new ones what might you put on them?
My preference: A.P. in a baseball uniform with the name "The Switch Hitter"
2nd choice: Tom Brady in Horatio Caine's sunglasses with the name "P.S.I. New England"
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What I'm kinda wondering about is how big of a hammer the NFL is going to bring down on the Jags after that video came out. Unless I'm mistaken, minicamps and rookie camps and whatnot are supposed to be non-contact, but if you look at that film, the entire O and D lines were going at it, blocking and pass rushing. I'm guessing they get penalties levied against them like the Seahawks did.
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When's the last time we had a prime time game at home?
The second New England game is the only one we have against an opponent coming off a bye week this year.
http://fftoolbox.scout.com/football/byeweeks.cfm
Bye weeks:
Week 4 Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, St. Louis
Week 6 Kansas City, New Orleans
Week 7 Philadelphia, Tampa Bay
Week 8 New York Giants, San Francisco
Week 9 Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee
Week 10 Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New England, San Diego, Washington
Week 11 Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, New York Jets
Week 12 Carolina, Pittsburgh
That's not correct. New England's bye week is week 4
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Wait, Bills fans dislike the Packers? Since when? Apparently I've been rooting for the wrong team in the Packers vs Seahawks games all along!
Also, I'm not really sure "My team is going to see your team in the Super Bowl, and our players will play well" can really be considered "smack" or "a hard time." Considering our post season drought right now, I think that may actually constitute well wishes.
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I think we can get 4 wins out of the division, and the non-divisional games aren't nearly as bad as they were last year. The AFC South is by no means the AFC West, and the NFC North was better than the NFC East will be, especially after the Chip Kelly implosion. Our defense is going to be as good as it was at worst, while the offense got upgrades both at skill positions and coaches. The play calling literally can't get any worse than the Hackett version of the offense. If we don't get to double digits, it will be a disappointing season.
11-5
"Who's going to man up? Who's going to take control?"
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I'm not saying go out and game plan against opponents, throw all your best plays and whatnot. I'm saying we need to have someone step up, be a leader. You play how you practice, so if you go out there and not give your all, what are you going to do during the season? Who cares if people see that you are willing to put in the work, go out and give your all?
Basically, I want someone to demand excellence each and every time the team steps onto the field, whether it's preseason, regular season, post season, whenever. I want them to hold people accountable. We've seemed to have a distinct lack of that kind of a leader in the past. I want someone to not allow people to give up and use any of the various excuses they could use with all the problems that we've had this offseason, and instead make them strive for greatness. It's been far too long since we've truly had greatness here in Buffalo.