Buff the Cat
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I know our O-line is not performing the best lately, but damn this game really gives one some perspective. Both O-lines in this game are playing horrible. I mean, if you have less than 2 seconds to throw the ball, even really good QB's are going to struggle.
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That was great! Thanks for sharing.
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My vote would definitely be the original Bar-Bill (in East Aurora). Not only do they have great wings, but their beef on weck is excellent. I grew up right in that area and always loved to go there. We live outside the state now, but when we visit we make sure to hit that place everytime.
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I remember when Joe Cribbs was our running back and Joe Ferguson our QB. I admired all those pros when I was a kid but was heartbroken on how bad the team was at the time. Then came Jim Kelly and there was NO singular telltale sign that he would be a HOF QB, but what was noticeable for me was that there was something special about him (maybe he is the answer I thought at the time). Been hoping for that feeling again for a long time and Josh Allen might be doing something similar. You can see he is a baller and it seems his progression is moving in the right direction. It makes me excited to see where this team go with him as the QB.
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I agree that he has done a great job so far. FWIW, Ford shifted to RT not LT.
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3 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
Of course I want to get it right. I get it man. I was all in on Darnold and Rosen, and was upset when Allen's name was called. But what can I do? They didn't ask me before they picked him. If Allen fails, I doubt they will ask me before they pick the next QB.
So I'll just go along for the ride like I always do. But in the mean time...
I like having hope.
I am not just just going to assume that Allen is already a bust before he's even thrown a single pass in a Bills uniform, and be miserable for the next few years. That seems absolutely pointless to me. Instead, I am going to try my best to find reasons to be hopeful until proven otherwise.
But that's just me. I choose to be positive until given very good reason to be negative. And if/when that negative thing happens I'll get over it and try to find more reasons to be positive again.
It has nothing to do with blind faith and treating the Bills like a religion. It has to do with not wanting to be a constantly negative and misaeable person (not saying you are). And it has to do with wanting to be hopeful for my hometown team that I love. What's the point in even being a sports fan if you can't have hope?
We dont control any of this stuff. We are just fans.
Me personally, I'd rather try to find the good things about Allen and try to spread hope to my fellow Bills fans.
This is how I see my favorite team. I hope for the best and see what happens, and most importantly "stay positive". I agree with your post and hope we found the QB we need. I cheer for my beloved Bills, but I don't let it ruin my life if they underperform.
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I hear ya Kelly. It is worrisome until it happens and then it is either euphoria or disaster. The math says a 40 yard out to the same side of the field (left side or "near side") using the example above would be a 48 yard pass.
A pass to the opposite side of the field (weak side) would be a 50 yard pass.
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For all those enamoured with downfield arm strength, please keep in mind that a 20 yard out to the opposite side of the field, is close to the same distance as a 40 yard "bomb" with the difference being in that more "zip" is required on the ball on most out passes. For example;
40 yard bomb:
The team is set at the left hash mark and the receiver is 15 yards away from the QB. The receiver does a "go' route (meaning straight ahead) then the total distance thrown DOWNFIELD is equal to approximately 43 yards. DOWNFIELD is capitalized because it does not take into account the arch or the true trajectory of the throw, it is simply "how far" downfield. c2 = a2 + b2 So, a= 15 yards, b= 40 yards.
20 yard out to the opposite side of the field:
The team is set at the left hash mark and the receiver is 15 yards away to the right of the QB. The receiver does an "down and out", at the point of reception (near the sidelines) the receiver is now 29.75 yards away from the QB laterally and 20 yards away vertically. So, c2 = a2 + b2, a= 29.75 yards, b= 20 yards which equals 36 yards. This pass pattern usually requires more "zip" on the ball to hit the out pattern and is only 4 yards different than the "bomb" pass. Zip on the ball, and of course, accuracy is extremely important on many throws.
My point here is to show that an Out, In, or Seam, pattern can require as much "zip" and as much "arm strength" as those people demanding deep throw "bomb" strength.
Full Mathematical Disclosure = Field Length 120 yards including endzones, Field Width 53.3 yards (out of bounce-to-out of bounce), NFL space between Hash Marks 6.2 yards.
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Seems like the Bills got a solid pick with this guy AND also by trading down, getting set up to possibly pick a QB in next years draft, which by all accounts appears to have a MUCH higher QB class.
So, I am fine with the pick, let's see what this new staff has to offer us.
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The problem is the Bills fron office went all in to win in 2015. They used up their salary cap wiggle room to upgrade the offense, taking several chances, and most of them worked out. But Wrecks wasn't all in to win in 2015. He was in to install his 2010 or so Jets defense. The dominant defense Pettine and Schwartz built didn't fit, so Wrecks used 2015 as preseason to find players to fit his system. The offense did get better but the defense is now in free fall, and by the time Wrecks gets the players he wants, if he isn't fired first, Kyle Williams will join Mario Williams as ex-Bills (Kyle will retire), Gilmore will be gone due to someone else paying insane money for a good CB, and we'll be back to a couple of good players with a ton of mediocrity holding them back. In other words, just what we've gotten used to over the past decades, with rare flashes of excellence.
We had our chance, last year, and the arrogance of Wrecks pissed it away.
That's is a whole bunch of assumptions rolled into one post. I can make some as well, here goes; Rex taught the defense his scheme during training camp and saw there was some "push-back" or reluctance of some players to 'get into" the new scheme. Rex knowing that the defense was stout the last 2 years under Pettine and Schwartz decides to do a mix between his own scheme and that of the Pettine/Schwartz scheme to mollify players. Rex understands that even though his scheme has proven successful, so has Pettine and Schwartz's recent schemes as well. The season starts and our defense for the beginning part of the year is "ok". Rex tries to install a little more of his scheme to the mixed scheme they are running to improve the defense, but it makes it worse. He backs off a bit and uses a little more of the prior regime's scheme and it doesn't seem to help as well. As the season progresses and the clearer the picture becomes to who can and/or will do the Rex scheme becomes apparent, as well as our playoff hopes are finalized. Rex finally goes "all in" on his own scheme the last 2 games and our defense plays some great ball. Thinking about the season in retrospect, Rex realizes that he should have stuck with his full out scheme from the first game and endeavors to not only bring the current players up to full speed on the scheme but also bring in new players, as well as drop existing players, to solidify that scheme for the upcoming season.
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How about the over !@#$ing under on how many !@#$ing times I say !@#$ you to the NFL for not !@#$ing letting me watch the !@#$ing game on NFL !@#$ing Sunday !@#$ing ticket which I pay !@#$ing over three !@#$ing hundred dollars for and instead I'm !@#$ing forced to watch it on my !@#$ing 5" cell phone rather than my !@#$ing 65" !@#$ing TV.
It does suck big time that the Sunday Ticket doesn't offer the game. Did you try screen mirroring the phone at least?
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WTF, did Sammy say? I need a translation, I kind of get the jist of it, but WTF?
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Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Doesn't mean 54% of viewers had a negative experience.
Folks who weren't having a problem are much less likely to share with the world their positive experience than those having a negative
Agreed. Also, on another note how much of the negative viewing experience is due to poor ISP's, overloaded nodes, and/or viewer over-expectations due to a lack of tech-know how etc., etc.
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Right, talking down to me about the difference between a bit and a byte is a solution. It's a solution on par with "The buffalo bills would be a better team if they had a good quarterback"
That anybody who paid for the Sunday ticket, but could not view this game via the Sunday ticket for *any* reason makes it a bad overall experience. But hey, the NFL got paid, so I guess yaaah?
Easy now, I apologize if I offended you. But I was responding to your comment that you had a 30+mb down, which nowadays IMO, is not much especially for streaming HD content from the internet. Many people that I have spoke to, (not you), think they are actually getting 30mbytes of download data etc.
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I had the game simultaneously on my Samsung TV using the free Yahoo app, my water-cooled desktop (27" HD monitor), and my phone. It worked great, HD on all devices with maybe 2 freezes for maybe a 1 or 2 seconds on my TV only. Of course I get 187 mbps download and 11 mbps upload. :-)
My speedtest is fine - regularly 30+mb down and 10ish up. The problem was/is that the built in browser on the smart TVs that I own (a couple of fringe TV companies - Samsung and Sony), AND the browsers on the PS3 and PS4 simply couldnt connect to the stream. One of the TVs and PS3 are hardwired into a 100/1000 switch and right into the cable modem, the other devices via wireless (802.11n, full signal strength) then into the cable modem.
Never use the built in browser if you can access the same content thru an app on the TV, the browser or "middle man" as I call it, delays everything. Also hard-wiring 100/1000 switch doesn't do diddly if your download is only 30 mbps, you actually need to surpass 100 mbps to utilize the extent of the 100/1000 switch.
Keep in mind that download speed is measured as Mega Bits Per Second, not Bytes. There are 8 bits per byte.
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Let's say you own a radio station and your program director sits in a staff meeting with the sales department and finds out you just landed a big advertiser who he doesn't like. So the next day, right before the campaign starts, he tells the Djs to trash the advertiser on the air.
Now, he's a very good program director and he doesn't care about what the sales department does.
But, don't tell me that days won't be wasted by you trying to make amends and making sure that if he decides to pull crap like that in the future, you would like a little heads up.
Good gawd, this has to be the worst example example ever....
Let me try to help:
1) Deal (contract) between FJ and M&T is just that - it is a deal between those two parties, the Bills organization has practically no say in the terms of the contract.
2) Deal (contract) between the Bills and M&T - FJ has no say in the terms of this contract
3) Deal (contract) between the Bills and FJ - is a deal between just those two parties, M&T has NO say in the terms of that contract.
If the Bills decide to cut/trade, etc FJ at ANY time - there is nothing M&T they can legally do as well as say, that would put the Bills in any position of doing something "wrong" or "untoward" or "negative" in M&T's eyes. If M&T should feel that way towards the Bills irregardless of the obvious truths of marketing and the flow and flux of the NFL, then it is on M&T to "grow up", so to say (or in other words their marketing department needs some real experience)....
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I bet that you're not far off.
I wondered the fact of the heated air applied while inflating the footballs. Especially when Belicheat referenced following the rules to the letter...I bet there is no standard of the temperature of the air applied? Who would think to manipulate this? The Patriots, that's who...smh! I can hear him know, His interpretation yada yada yada...Cheat!
If his assertion was true, why didn't the Colts footballs deflate at the same rate? Their football were weighed also and were in accordance with the rule.
Very good point, that is the only way that the ball could lose 2psi in that amount of time other than a needle. Technically it would not be cheating, but if the intent was to have a deflated ball, it certainly goes against the spirit of the rule. Hard to prove the heated air and even harder to prove intent with heated air. Anyone here could do a simple experiment by inflating a balloon inside their "warm" house then put the balloon in their cold garage or refrigerator and watch how it decreases in size. etc etc.
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Entering into the 2014 draft, it appeared to me that the intention of the organization was that we had our QB (EJM - irregardless if it was a Nix/Brandon choice) of the future. From that viewpoint it seems to me that Whaley wanted to boost the weapons available to said QB to help increase the offensive production. In that effort, he did what he thought was best in acquiring (in what many experts regarded as the best WR out of many excellent WR's) Watkins in the draft. Stemming from that same viewpoint, we now have our QB of the future, 2 excellent WR's in Woods and Watkins, 2 great RB's plus Bryce Brown, and returning vets in the OL plus new OL draft picks with potential upside. On paper things seemed to be rather rosey. Obviously we know now how the season went, but it makes one wonder how much of this offensive potential may have been wasted due to either the HC and/or OC or QB or otherwise.
Whaley has made some great FA acquisitions during the season and I wonder how much he believes in EJM and what precautions he may take to secure a potential replacement should he have fears that EJM failing come to fruition. At this point, for me, it is hard to determine how much EJM's performance is a result of coaching and how much of it is a result of talent or lack thereof. I have some hope for EJM, I want him to do well, but then again, what was and/or is the real issue...
Buff the Cat
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Didn't Marv Levy have a tenure somewhere else before he came to Buffalo? Did not his second chance here pan out? just sayin'....
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Which is more likely to have changed the culture of the Bills, Marrone and his attitude and his conservative style, or guys like Hughes and Graham and Dixon and Kiko and Spikes that Whaley brought in, along with Pettine/and Schwartz the defensive coaches?
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Hopefully, Brandon and Whaley are sent packing too. This could be the start of a new era for the Bills if Pegula hires wisely. Fingers crossed Pegula sees what a failure Whaley has been. Trading up a few spots to pick a WR while sacrificing a 1st round pick is atrocious and is grounds for termination by itself!
On to a brighter future!
Seriously? Come out of the rock you're under....
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youtube.com/watch?v=qvi_jcy9A1I
Just watching his introduction at the beginning of the clip is awesome. I remember watching and thinking....finally! Thankfully his career lived up to my 'internal' hype.
I couldn't agree more. I had that feeling that he was going to be someone special and that things were finally going in the right direction for the Bills. Hard to believe that was 25 years ago, damn..
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I agree with all of that. The point I'm making is if a player the DB is laying in the endzone, two yards in bounds, with the ball secure in his arms. one leg is on the ground and the other is laying across the WR beneath him, they will blow the whistle and signal INT. They're not going to wait until he moves his leg off the WRs and touches it to the ground.
This is true, unfortunately in the Bills game the ref did not blow the whistle. Thus the play continued and he was forced out of bounds.
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You just made my point. The refs are going to blow the whistle and end the play because the DB has full possession and his entire body in the endzone.
I think you missed the point above, the ref is going to blow the whistle for a few reasons and none of them have to do with possession or his physical body. As both are laying there for 2 full seconds without moving or making progress, the ref will blow the whistle to stop play for these reasons. 1) The player with said ball has given up futher progress 2) the saftey of the player, not good to have a guy hit while prone on another player after they have been laying there for a bit not trying to making forward progress, in this scenario forward progress would be establishing another foot or body part down. As a result of the whistle the officials would THEN determine whether the defender had the ball inbounds. Which in this unlikely scenario would be "yes" because it would be ruled a tackle by the receiver and play was whistled dead with both players in bound.
Q for guys who have played: Defensive players thudding each other, why?
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It gets you pumped up, but also knocks the pre-game jitters out of you. I used to get sickly from the anticipation of playing and then after the first hit I took or made in the game, I was "ready to go" and felt great and could play at my best.