Stranded in Boston
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2 hours ago, muppy said:
greatest of all time is a hard call there are so many gifted Bills receivers past and present. But its the offseason so I will post my personal favorite. It happened in my end zone it was ELECTRIC.
The play I reference begins at the 8 minute mark. The replay is at 9:53.
1974 09 16 MNF Oakland Raiders at Buffalo Bills - YouTube
Thanks for that, Muppy! I remember it well. On top of the slick move by Rashad, the ankles being broken on that play belonged to hall-of-famer Willie Brown -- no mean feat!
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9 hours ago, Rubes said:
Yep, I’m thinking they should have done a matched cohort study where they matched each player who suffered an ACL injury with players of the same age, years in the NFL, and position at the time of injury. Perhaps also include whether they were a starter or backup. Then you’d at least get a better sense of the impact of the injury on career metrics like starts, total plays, and so on as compared with similar players who didn’t suffer that kind of injury.Yeah, guys. I haven't looked at the article yet (maybe check out on PubMed later today), but without a control group, the results are impossible to interpret. Not to wonk out here (too much), but short of a matched cohort (which might be tough to assemble given small N) this is exactly where you'd need to apply some sort of nested multiple regression or proportional hazards model including ALL NFL players to first account for variance (in subsequent # years played) that is attributable to non-ACL factors like age, position played, previous injury history, previous # snaps (for non-overt related wear and tear), etc. -- and only then add the ACL/non-ACL factor to the model to see if it explains any residual variance. Pretty sloppy oversight if they didn't do that ... (They're lucky we at TBD didn't review their paper! 🤓 )
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LOL, c’mon Sal … and I’m mad at my wife, so I made an emotional decision to go out with Gigi Hadid.
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Thanks for that, Chan. I needed a distraction from the news today ... 😕
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Donald Wilson! Haven't thought of that name in a while ... Terrible in pas coverage -- but man could he hit! I recall he broke his face mask with a hit. Knocked himself woozy on that play too.
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2 hours ago, wnyguy said:
I can remember a catch he made diving stretched out parallel with the ground. Still one of the greatest catches I have ever seen by a RB.
I remember it well, wnyguy, Check out 2:20 mark. 😀
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2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
I haven't listened to any of the interviews. Do we know he was throwing to Beasley? I think it looked like he was throwing to Beas because he was closest to the ball when it was intercepted, but when I watched the replays, it looked to be like he was targeting Diggs in the back corner of the end zone. I think that because Beas was cutting to open space toward the center of the field and Diggs was coming across to the corner. It looks like Allen was throwing up the sideline and as the ball got deflected it went toward the spot where Beasley was.
In either case, except for the fact that Allen didn't see the guys who could make deflections, I didn't have a lot of trouble with any of the INTs. They just happened, and they all happened within minutes of each other.
I agree, Shaw. INTs off deflected balls are basically flukes -- especially with a 6-5 QB. It was just one of those extra fluky days when lightning struck twice ... Also, on the overthrow to Beasley, it sure looked like illegal contact by the Falcon's DB: he chucked Beas 10-15 yards up the field, throwing his route timing off. Atlanta was lucky not to get flagged on that play. Anyhow, QB ratings aside, I see no cause for alarm.
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On 11/6/2021 at 1:30 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
If it's a dive bar, you're probably stuck with Genny Screamers on tap. 😖
Lol, here in Boston, they think Genny is some kind of craft beer …
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Heading out now with the wife and dog for a walk around Boston in my Bills hat. I've lived here 36 years and this is my all-time favorite Monday ... 😎
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8 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:
Well, technically the median … 🤓
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32 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
60 for me plus parking. There's a reasonable lot about a ten minute walk away.
I just hop on the Green Line in Brookline; ~20 min to North Station. (Also useful if I catch a buzz during the game. I always seem to end up at a table with some WNY college kids who want to share pitchers with the old guy ... 😎 )
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40 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
The Bleacher Bar is the second Bills bar in Boston. The Bills Backers of Boston official bar in The Harp in Causeway by TD Garden.
A group called the Fenway Bills Backers split off and set up at the Bleacher Bar. I avoid Lansdowne St. when the Sox are playing. But I'll probably get to the Bleacher Bar once later this season. Already did The Harp for the Miami game.
Hey Promo, I haven't made it to The Harp yet this year. How was the crowd for the Miami game?
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10 minutes ago, Freddie's Dead said:
My favorite JJ Watt pic:
Fred Jackson, baby!! I like the pass-blocking by our young RBs, but nobody could crunch a blitzer like Fred! 😃
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In addition to his athleticism and size, Rousseau plays incredibly smart football. He displays fantastic vision, both on the edge and when he drops into short zone coverage. What a great draft pick. ... And for my fellow old-timers here, I was surprised that Joe Cribbs wasn't among the former Bills rookies who won a POW award. I can't recall a first-year Bills player with a bigger impact than Cribbs -- 12 TDs his rookie year.
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1 minute ago, Chandler#81 said:
Outstanding drive so far. Let’s get another SHUTOUT!
shhhhhhhhh!! 😎
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2 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said:
I made many a post frustrated with the throwaway nature many fans here had for him.
Part of the reason (to some) that he is a “surprise” is obviously because he didn’t play last year. There seems to be some difficultly for some in correlating the mediocre nature of our run defense for a good chunk of last year with…oh yeah, that guy not being here that made our defense better that many around here wanted to get rid of.
That and the 3/4s of TSW that thought Milano wasn’t worth keeping for the money (I was so on board with the 8 figures per year for him long before they re-signed him), or the “always hurt” or the utterly ridiculous nature of the “he’s just not that good” we’re simply consternating given the optics of how good he was and how much better we were with him on the field.
Makes me, unfortunately, think that a good number of TSW members are the remnants of the Sabres’ “let’s run Donald Audette and Ray Shepherd out of town!” crew.
Aw, did you have to bring up Ray Sheppard? It only took me 30 years to forget that one ... 😫
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8 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:
He’s smarter ‘n Hell, faster ‘n Hell and plays Hellbent.
That's some fine old-time sportswriting there, Chan! 😃
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As a kid I used to watch (or listen to) Bills games with my brothers, but since I left Buffalo 35+ years ago, I generally watch alone. I'm just an insufferable a-hole during the game -- scaring my poor kids when they were little, etc. One exception was Super Bowl XXV in 1990, when I stupidly decided to host a Super Bowl party in my crappy apartment in Boston. After wide-right, everyone kept talking and laughing at commercials and sh**, so I basically threw them all out (including this girl I was dating at the time; maybe not the smartest move). Now I will only watch games with fellow WNYers, catching a few games a year at the Bills fan club at The Harp in Boston, and years ago every Sunday at Sam Sansone's Bills Backers bar when I lived in Houston. You just have to be with your own species on game day ...
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Nice write-up, Mi -- er, I mean Rubes. (However, you forgot to acknowledge your Bills' fandom in the COI disclosures. 😜 )
But we Bills fans-scientists all do what we have to do, eh? For example, I have tortured my Boston-area medical school classes for 25 years before Bills-Pats game (last year was more gleeful than usual in that regard). In addition, I know from an [ahem] EXTREMELY well-placed source that an engineer and fellow Bills fan at the Jet Propulsion Lab slipped a "Go Bills" message onto the Perseverance rover, currently cruising around on the surface of Mars. But don't tell anybody ...
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1 hour ago, Aaronthebaron said:
Hollister has some wheels, Trubisky was excellent. Some excellent D lineman are gonna get cut. Anyone else catch Zimmer chase down the receiver on the bubble screen?
Another average showing by Brieda, other than the almost touchdown.Heck yes, Aaron -- that was a fantastic play by Zimmer. The kid can really run.
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J. Zimmer continues to impress; man, that meatball can cover some ground! B. Basham also looked very stout at point of attack; he shed blockers extremely well on run plays, and really sticks his tackles. He looks a lot more like a very mobile, strong DT than DE to me.
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1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:
I’m fairly certain 5’8, 185 were Sam Huff & Nick Bononconti’s measurables.. HOF LB’s..
Good point Chan, plus I recall our own Shane Nelson wasn't much bigger than that -- and he could hit like a hammer!
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#15 Todd Collins, 1990s royal blue. After the Bills waived Collins in '98, a buddy of mine found it at a rest stop outside Erie, PA, on sale for ten bucks, LOL. I never much liked it, for some vague reason. Then one day I realized it reminded me of Jeff Hostetler's Super Bowl jersey ... 🤬
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On 7/8/2021 at 3:48 PM, ticketssince61 said:
Had we not made trades based on $, we would have had possibly the best starting front line in NBA history with 3 HOF'ers: Dantley / McAdoo / Malone
45 years on, it still baffles me that the Braves let Malone slip through their fingers -- 2 freakin' games?? I've often wondered if the Braves would have survived in Buffalo if they'd kept him ... Indeed, that front line would have been unstoppable!
The 1st ever AFC Champs, the Baltimore Colts? 😳
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Thanks for that, Chan! I forgot that Butch Byrd briefly overlapped with (my man) Robert James in the same defensive backfield 😃 ... Also, while Norm Bulaich had a solid but unspectacular NFL career, it seemed like he always killed the Bills!