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  1. I'm not a McDermott fan, but if he lost the team (and he has) with his milquetoast brand of coaching, how do you think they'll respond to Harbaugh? Guy is way too hyper and intense; the goal should be to find a coach that can get Allen right again by calming his ass down.

  2. 6 hours ago, Wacka said:

    The reason for the red helmets was the uniform rules at the time. Players had to wear the same helmet all season unless it was damaged. They couldn't use white ones for just that game.  They had to put the big white standing Buffalo over their normal helmets.

    I don't think this was the rule then. Several teams that year wore different colored helmets. Denver switched from blue to orange in this particular game.

  3. 14 minutes ago, ToGoGo said:


    How about that Murray penalty that wiped out the Knox td? 
     

    It’s not about yards or number of penalties, it’s about the timing. 

    Exactly. Pretty borderline (I think you could even argue the NE defender initiated the contact), but those points were the difference in the game.

     

    Also the PI on Benford at the end. I saw nothing, and it stopped the clock and gave NE a 1st down, essentially assuring the win. Or the defensive holding on the Floyd sack on 3rd down that gave NE a 1st down at the 20 when we had them out of FG range.

     

    All of those calls are totally subjective, but can be seismic in the right spots.

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  4. I've always suspected that it's an infraction that only exists so that the league can manipulate games towards outcomes they see as favorable, whether that be keeping games interesting or even benefiting one team over another. It's only a five-yard penalty, so it never grabs too much attention, but it consistently pops up to bail teams out on what were failed 3rd/4th downs.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Mango said:

    This era of Bills football will go down as awesome no matter how it ends. Sort of like the 2005-2007 Sabres. Great team. Unfortunate injuries and getting flat in the playoffs. But ultimately Lindy and Darcy did great by the franchise in that era. McBeane will likely have a similar reputation in Buffalo sports history if they don't win it all.

    If they don't reach a Super Bowl, McDermott will go down as the coach who choked away a championship in 2021, and Beane will be remembered for lucking into Allen before blowing multiple high-round picks on defensive players rather than offensive weapons for his QB. And that's how they should be remembered.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Chuck Schick said:

    Remember the revolving door of players that need to come and go to fit into the D-coordinator's (who usually lasted about 2 years) system?  So painful.

    Pat Williams and Sam Adams were let go so that we could focus on smaller DTs who could supposedly get pressure more quickly. Enter McCargo and Larry Tripplett. Good Lord.  It would difficult to have a bigger downgrade at a position if you were actively trying to sabotage a team.

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  7. 7 hours ago, Chaos said:

    Notwithstanding the Patriots success in an a cold weather market (I have never heard anyone say their dynasty was in any way due to a weather advantage).

    There really is no evidence the Super Bowl winners disproportionately come from teams without domes and a weather advantage.  Chiefs (2), Rams, Bucs won the last four. 

    A dome team didn't win the Super Bowl until 2000, and only three have ever won - all had homefield advantage. There's a LOT of evidence that they struggle in the playoffs.

  8. 14 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

    We don't really have a "cold weather" advantage.

     

    The Fish for God's sake nearly beat us with their 3rd string QB, and the Bengals (who are used to more or less exactly the same weather) destroyed us on our turf....just this last season.

     

     

    One loss last year to another cold-weather team doesn't negate decades of games where the weather was an advantage for the Bills.

     

    The answer is to maybe figure out a way to stop being such a finesse team that gets pushed around by more physical squads.

  9. On 3/26/2023 at 8:34 PM, LABILLBACKER said:

    I agree. With each passing season, fans will finally realize this organization F'd up major by not building a damn dome.  Josh's game gets neutralized in bad weather. 

    He had arguably the greatest postseason performance ever in a game when it was 0 degrees outside.

     

    I'm never not amazed by the amount of Bills fans who think a domed stadium should be built, forever eliminating their weather advantage, so that a then-30-year old QB can benefit from it for a few years.

  10. They packed it in the minute Hamlin got taken off the field. The only reason they beat NE the following week is because they got two special teams TDs, and they only reason they beat Miami the week after that was because the Dolphins were totally decimated. They just quit on the year. Yeah, they went through a lot in one season, but so do plenty of people whose annual salary is 1/4 of an NFL player's weekly game check.

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  11. 4 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

    Oliver will be in his last year

    Defensive tackles in free agency this year are making a killing

    We will probably extend our other DT but he’s getting older

    What exactly would you suggest that we do?

    Not really worry about defense since it doesn't particularly matter anymore, as you saw in the SB when two great defenses were both shredded. 

     

    The most important thing in the draft, bar none, is getting Allen more protection on the offensive line. If he starts getting time, we start scoring 35+ points/game.

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  12. 3 hours ago, Gregg said:

    I don't understand why these players act this way. I get it that some of them grew up in tough conditions but once you have made it as a professional athlete then "grow up". They can lead a lifestyle that most of us can only dream about. Why throw it all away doing stupid s***.

    People with low IQs really aren't cognitively able to learn from the past or think about future consequences. They can only live in the present.

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