Livinginthepast

Diggs was a great player in his time here. His skillset and competitiveness elevated the team and considering the punishment the guy took on the field series after series, he was durable. Yes hated the diva attitude at times but he was also sometimes right to get angry (like during the awful playoff loss to Cinci). He really saddens me that the Bills never won it in his time here. Now all that being said was Diggs on the decline? It looks that way. He wasnt as money last year as in previous years. The drop against KC in the playoff game was absolutely killer and if you watch that replay you know that even Diggs knew that when it happened. By his own high standards, that was unacceptable. In the end though pro sports is a cut throat business and I guess Beane figured that his Digg's cons outweighed the pros. Still seemed a bit premature to write him off though but we shall see.

So far on this thread I have heard the following excuses for getting Trubisky back: 1. He is cheap 2. He knows the offense and this strange one: 3. He wont make Josh feel any pressure of a QB controversy Maybe some others? But they are all LAME. If your backup QB cannot come in and at least run a competent easy offense. let alone win you some games then he is irrelevant. I'm not sure that Trubisky can do either of those things.

Bringing Trubisky back after his pathetic performance for the Steelers last year was one of the most bizarre decisions this regime has made. Why bother? Whatever skills he had are gone and his weaknesses of indecision and immobility have become ever present. Is he a big team guy? a mentor? a jokester in the locker room? A good Christian man? What do Beane and McD see in him? He literally should be cut after how bad he has been. As for the other backups, they dont look like they can play in this league (at least not right now). They dont have the physical or mental abilities to even be a backup. I think signing Tannehill is a no brainer.

This is a very interesting video and I am surprised that I have never seen it before. Marv's anger as he reads his notes is palpable. Actually you can see it in his eyes. Something I've never seen before in any clip of him. What I would like to know is what the actual trigger was at that point. Dickerson for all his faults was at least up front in his views, so he probably said something particularly provocative that drew Marv's ire. That being said I miss shows like the coach's on WGR. The station has now become what it beheld when it used to say "not the company line". At least Dickerson justifiably roasted the Gregg Williams coaching staff for their arrogance and legendary incompetence. Its too bad the current coaching staff is not held to the same account.

Watched bits and pieces of the game and just saw the hilites. NFL exhibition is probably the worst in any sport to get a real idea of anything. Though a couple of observations. I'm puzzled at the point of this solution to the Kickoffs. Seems pretty lame. From a personnel standpoint, I struggle to find a reason for Trubisky getting resigned. He still looks so bad. The 3rd stringer? Buechele doesn't look NFL calibre.

Throwing a spiral accurately stays with you. But its the speed of the throw that would be the problem. I think most people over the age of 25 would have 99% of their throws intercepted even if they were on target or long enough. Just not fast enough!

As an athlete he was amazing. As an actor he was actually decent. As a broadcaster he was ok as well. But as a human being he was an utter POS. He murdered the mother of his kids and deprived them of her for the rest of their lives. He murdered a young man in his prime whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was such an utter narcissist that he convinced himself that he didnt do it and that he deserved freedom and to get away with it, as if the world owed him something. He never showed any remorse and his legal team outrageously made the case about race in America, which it had nothing to do with and took away from the real victims of racial crimes. What I cannot understand is that his kids forgave him for what he obviously did. I know they were young at the time but come on! At any time in the last 30 years, he could have had a change of heart and manned up and admitted his heinous crimes but he never did. Good riddance!!!

The move was not really a big surprise but I had a huge empty feeling when I found out. Obviously Diggs was a pain in the butt sometimes in the locker room but his zero tolerance of losing and BS was pretty impressive. Also one the best receivers we have had in years here and one of the toughest players I've ever seen based on the hits he took (often late and dirty). He also made some huge catches in his time here and got some key TDs. It saddens me that one of the final memories of him will be that drop in his last game against KC and Allen overlooking him wide open at the end of the game. Just like with Trey, Poyer and Hyde, Diggs deserved to win a championship here. One of my favorite Diggs moments was him getting a TD vs NE where he berated the audience in Gillette with F bombs. Totally rude but awesome!

McD's defenders on this thread are unreal. They act as if a strategy of squib kick and holding or jamming Kelce/Hill at the line was 3D chess. 13 seconds was a masterpiece of coaching incompetence with repeated cascading errors that each piggy backed on the other. The people here talking that a squib kick would not have resulted in any time off are delusional. Even on a properly fielded squib kick, 2-3 seconds comes off the clock. If the player fielding the KO fumbles the squib kick and then has to pick it up, thats possibly 5-6 seconds off the clock. Everything changes after that. With only 8-10 seconds on the clock you keep everything tight and in front of you, no sideline outs and the game is over in two plays. No FG try is possible. Im not sure why so many think this simple strategy was beyond our coaches to figure out.

I've said this over and over again since this happened . Tackle both Kelsey and Tyreek at the line and get a whopping 5 yard penalty and a 1st down to kill the clock at least 5 seconds for the first down then do it again the next play. The game would have been over on the 3rd play. And even that wouldn't have mattered had they squib kicked it and wasted 5 seconds maybe more on the kickoff. The players were spent and they failed to execute during the 13 seconds but the McD was the ultimately to blame for all of it. He needed to make sure that squib kick happened not the ST coach, He needed to confer with Frazier and work out the defensive plan and the some strategy and he utterly failed!

Trubisky was 2-5 as a starter for the Steelers, Pickett was 14-11. I mean both are mediocre at best right now, but Trubisky has fallen off the cliff in quality.

Better than Trubisky?

After the 13 seconds game I thought he was going to be a superstar on this team. I still really dont know what happened? Was it Gabe or the change of OCs? or neither?

For me the shock of yesterday was minor, it was sad to see Tre and Poyer go but the 2000 purge, as others have mentioned was really hard to stomach. I felt like somebody died that day and the realization that the 90s Bills core were never going to win a Superbowl just seemed so excruciatingly unfair. Felt a bit like that when Kelly retired as well but we got so close again with that team in the 1999-2000 season, I thought they could get redemption!

Not suggesting that all. Just trying to understand why you bring in a backup who proved himself totally useless when called upon last year and costs more money than a rookie would? Heaven forbid if Josh got injured but I would want somebody who might be able to win a game. Even Rudolph was better than Trubisky last year.

Of all the moves yesterday, this one had me puzzled. Trubisky looked so bad last year with the Steelers. Why not sign a rookie instead of this retread. Is this just a move to make Josh feel comfortable? Like theres no competition whatsoever for the starting job? What's the logic here?

Todays cuts had me thinking about the last time we mass released some beloved veteran players. Although I can safely say that I support today's moves and didnt support the cuts in 2000. Todays moves seem professional and done respectfully but I didn't get that feeling about Bruce, Thurman and Andre's release. That smacked of disrespect and cheapness. How do you remember Black Thursday 2000? https://theathletic.com/2106913/2020/10/01/bills-bruce-smith-thurman-thomas-andre-reed/

Irks me to no end that we got Sammy Watkins instead of Mack and that he had a Buffalo connection already.

In the Titans playoff game, Johnson was 10 for 22 for 130 yards passing with SIX sacks. He fumbled twice in the game including once for a safety. Johnson did enough to win on the last drive and I give him credit for his perseverance but he was average to crap in that game. Even at half time the TV hosts like Steve Young were calling for him to be pulled. Yet we should have won that game because just like all of that 99 season, Wade had the defense playing well and they contained Mcnair and George. But just like 13 seconds the Bills found an improbable way to lose. For the record Johnson looked great against Indy the week before in a game where the Colts didnt show up but that was only his 2nd game of the season! No team and coach in their right minds would bench a starter (Flutie) of a team that was 11-5 in a regular season for a cold unused backup on the off chance that they would be better than the starter for a playoff game. Even had Johnson won that game it was still an incredibly bad choice to bench Flutie and there was a good chance that the decision threw the whole team off. There was also a good chance that Flutie would be back as the starter the next week due to Johnson's mediocrity. Absolutely unprofessional and bush league for Ralph to interfere and force that decision and gutless of Wade to allow it. But in the end very Billsy.

This is probably accurate. Dickerson was the number Flutie hater in Buffalo during those years and was responsible for the non stop campaign against him. He fully contributed along with some other of the "B" team radio people at WGR to divide the fan base sow discord in the team.

I was just reminding a buddy of mine of one these pranks where an effeminate voice kept calling the coach a "beautiful butterball" or something to that effect which elicited a furious reaction!

I found this documentary very difficult to watch when it came out. It brought back a lot of bitter traumatic memories of watching each one live in my early 20s. We definitely should have won the first SB and possibly the last. But the first one was ours and we completely blew it. Coming off that destruction of the Raiders, I have never felt more confident in a Bills game ever and never was I so let down. I've still never figured out what happened in that game vs the Giants. Was it the partying of the players and a massive hangover?, a lack of preparation for the Giants and some severe overconfidence? Did the Bills just choke under the national pressure? The Belichick factor? Or just supreme bad luck? We didnt even have the excuse of the 2 week break between games to lose our edge! The next two SBs were just blowouts that were pretty much over by half time. The last one though was on the players who just had a loser mentality and crumbled under the stress. Once things went south in that game, the players just went into their "here we go again mode" and let Dallas beat them. But had we won the first SB, everything is different for the rest!

No! Not the playbook! Wasnt that covered on an episode of the Brady Bunch?

Chiefs are like a Vampire, You have to stake them in the heart or they come back to life. The last 3 teams they beat (including us) didnt finish them when they had the chance and instead crumbled. Had we not had the injuries this season, I think we beat them in the playoffs. I guess its an accomplishment we came as close as we did with the scrubs we had filling in for the injuries. Mahomes, though is just on another level. He just gets it done when it matters. I think Josh is so close to taking the next step but he lacks the coaches and the team depth that KC has built up.