pocoboy
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9 minutes ago, Negan said:
Bills couldn't get that big call against the Bucs last year, Chiefs get those calls all day
Here's the reality for us - the NFL now views the Chiefs as their new Patriots. It's not going to change until Mahomes retires. They will use every resource in their power to enable them. Period.
I am wondering if we're going to be Rivers and the Chargers at this point. It's not looking good.
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So here - I'm willing to concede a defensive holding can be a justified ending. This wasn't. If Mahomes gets someone to come offside and it's a first down, fine. You just have to make the punishment fit the crime, and the official who threw that flag would either have to be a) one of the lower IQ individuals in the profession to not understand the gravity of that moment, b) told that he should throw it by a higher-up in his ear, or c) be deceitful in his own right.
I don't want to be dramatic about all of this. Yes, the nature of the post is that way. It's just tougher and tougher to accept the outcomes of these games.
1 minute ago, Draconator said:What would you do if the person who the penalty was called on says it was a penalty?
My assumption would be that the coming-off-a-one-year-deal aging defensive back was told by someone in the league to admit to it if he wants his next contract.
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5 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
Brick by brick? Give me a break. Either you love football and any shortcomings in the game, or you are done with it, and this is your last football related post ever.
Stop the drama posting.
Gonna put this one in the damned memory bank. Glad you're willing to hold yourself to that standard.
Labatt...Blue...that's an easy one to remember, no more complaints from you EVER thanks.
2 minutes ago, Stroke 17 said:First let me say I LOVE FOOTBALL! ,Specifically BILLS FOOTBALL but I am right there with you. They are losing my enthusiasm one brick at a time. I consider myself an old schooler( I guess I am 66) been season ticket holder since 1979 and have seen many changes and not all for the good. I go for the football, don't care about taking a selfie, don't care about the score board in the stadium dedicated to fantasy stats, did not get mad when they got rid of the cheerleaders. Just BILLS FOOTBALL for me.
Nope, sorry, according to Labatt Blue, you need to grab a ladle of the Flav-o-raid and drink up. Every flag is golden, every result untarnished. Ever.
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Just now, NoSaint said:
Pass interference - which is the ball in the air and a spot foul. Mahomes doesn’t even have to throw the ball for holding.
Clearly this type of call (illegal contact or defensive holding) has enormous power, and you can absolutely be assured that the NFL and their officials know that. Does Mahomes even throw that pass unless he knows he's getting a call? On 3rd down, with 90 seconds remaining? Seems implausible.
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4 minutes ago, Rigotz said:
"The NFL is losing me as a fan" I type on the message board of my favorite team's website, as I hit the refresh button and wait for responses.
Poor credibility-deficient Rigotz, the Bills don't own this site.
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Just now, nucci said:
Neither do I which is why I didn't start watching till 630pm
I didn't either. And they still managed to ruin it for me.
I hate complaining about officiating, but they make it way too obvious.
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I hate to say it, but I don't feel that they want guys like me as consumers anymore. I don't tune in for theatrics, politics, or the type of pop music that litters this "spectacle."
And then, we finally get to the true reason that those who are their loyal, week-in and week-out customers tune in, and then they have systems in place which allow for 1 of 7 underpaid, part-time officials to ruin our primary focus. They take the game and turn it into a mockery.
All of this thrown together, and it gives me the feeling I have better ways to waste my Sunday afternoons. Goodell & the NFL are ruining something I've loved since childhood.
And I even wanted (ever so slightly) for the Chiefs to win.
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Primarily developed a raw QB talent using film and deceit.
They got caught, but Brady had taken it upon himself to actually understand why they were telling him X when they knew the defense was doing Y, and then eventually learned how to diagnose Y on his own.
Also, Belichick embraced the "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" mentality. That's a foreign concept to our coaches, some would call it dignified, others might wish a ring or two had been earned through some guile. Belichick is a wily defensive coach, but many times his best defense was having that QB who could close out the game with the necessary points to win.
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1 hour ago, Limeaid said:
My Enthusiasm will only die if mods do not fail to merge them into largest thread ever.
The day after the parade, that should be the first action, a "Look at all our frustration, good times, good times" thread.
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Just now, Donuts and Doritos said:
Dude! That was my Uncle's sister's cousin & he said he was just kidding with him.
It's tough to believe anyone was at a Wizards game.
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14 hours ago, Dr. Who said:
This one is intended as a parody, but folks are ignoring the intent. Moi, aussi. I do agree it's getting old.
I'm not completely against the Chicken Little aspect of the franchise's potential plight right now.
The correct answer would be, however that "The only way this scenario happens is if each and every member of TBD all of the sudden started some kind of mood-improving drug, synthetically delivering an eternally-present high, and thus everyone's enthusiasm could never die in that situation."
Appreciate your patience.
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Straw Polls are fun.
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I have a feeling that this reveals a lot about what happened with those final weeks of the season. To have the owner who likely has the more personal connection to the players have this happen...and then to see a teammate appear to have the same thing happen before their eyes?
Prayers for Kim, her family, and the team. They've gone through so much.
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Herbstreit's biases in CFB are even worse than his typical regurgitations of Dan Fouts-isms. So many bright bulbs to choose from to give thoughtful commentary, and they pay this near ChatGPT-level lunkhead to bloviate incessantly. Do better DisneyABCESPN*Insert next purchased entity*.
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Has to be a related event to the quake that's hit the Middle East...
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16 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
weird how high he’s ranked for in game win probability for being so “pathetic” at it…Do me a favor - if this team does make the playoffs next year, request a meeting with him and show him this chart. He obviously forgot he ranked up there in the two games he where got outcoached recently.
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1 minute ago, Bandito said:
I agree. I can't imagine this staff being fired anytime soon. Maybe lower tiered coach, but definitely not someone at the top
Definitely. Just look at the Titans. From AFC Title game to losers in a two year span.
That's something McDermott should have plastered on the wall on cleanout day. But he looks about as maudlin and chumped out as everyone else.
Hopefully McDermott invests in some counseling. As he went, so the team went. When they showed him on the sidelines vs Miami he looked like he knew he was overmatched on the sidelines. They didn't show him much vs Cincy from what I remember, it was all a blur.
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13 minutes ago, Bandito said:
I am with you, but do you really think the Pegulas fire either of them? I highly doubt it as long as we are competitive
They are on the backside of a mountain nobody wants to ride. McDermott's stature crested when Allen hit Davis to go ahead with 13 seconds to go. Since that game, up until the playoff demise this year, it has been a barely noticeable descent. But that game certainly took a chunk out of it. Maybe Pegula is willing to chalk that game up to all the excuses that many players and coaches vomited post-game. Not sure I would be quite so generous if it were me. Hamlin had made such great strides, to have the team be anything but hyper-motivated on demolishing Cincinnati is just insane. 2023 has started off utterly sh*tty for the Bills.
I love the players and the coaching staff, but that is the kind of embarrassment that should never happen, whether snow, near-death, whatever. When you have fans enduring much of the same stressors as you, all the while ponying up big dollars to fund you sleepwalking through what could be the last time you get a sniff of the playoffs? Melodramatic? Yes. Unlikely? Yes. But you never know. I feel for Diggs.
Maybe the character/moxie/culture of this team isn't quite as optimal as everyone gives McDermott credit for...
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3 minutes ago, st pete gogolak said:
Pacheo >>>>>Cook. I don't follow college ball but how in the world did this guy last until the 7th round? If we had drafted him, there wouldn't be any issue regarding running back going into next season. He's fast, powerful and breaks tackles. Wake me up when Cook breaks a tackle.
For how long has the prevailing logic been to draft RB late or never? And yet Beane has been all over tossing away picks on that position.
McDermott & Beane were extremely fortunate they had a QB that has bailed them out these last 3 years, but that's over now. You can bet if they don't shape up soon, they'll be looking at their 2nd go around somewhere else. It's gonna get a lot tougher now that they're paying JA17.
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2 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:
Purdy is one of the most arrogant young QB's I've ever seen............it's an interesting underdog story but I think he has a lot of Mack Jones in him so I'm not too broken up about his setback. If it were career threatening or something I'd feel different but kinda' don't care that he will find himself back in a QB competition at some point next season or the following.
They have a lot of mouths to feed contractwise. Let's see if they can keep that OL together, and now that you've had a couple of weeks of real defensive footage on him, it may not be so pretty (or Purdy, if you prefer).
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7 minutes ago, ngbills said:
This is a sad reality check of why KC is still better than us.
By the bye, we were better than them. But a bye week of Allen MVP talk seemed to get to him. That led to the 2nd half of Green Bay, and then a big letdown in the Meadowlands punctuated by Allen's elbow injury that seemed to derail his season completely. Throw in Miller's injury, plus a number of other secondary injuries, and it's just the way it goes when you build your team to rely on so many aging veterans.
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4 hours ago, Billsflyer12 said:
Chiefs 20 of last 22 picks have contributed.
The real question is whether those 20 picks were truly that good, or if their coaches got it out of them. I suspect it's more the latter, probably a bit out of necessity.
In the end, if McDermott is still coaching come Sept '24, his staff is going to need to learn to trust more of those draft picks. They can't just go out and keep signing/trading for big money guys.And they'd better hope those youngsters are up to the task. You really don't want to end up on the New Orleans elevator back down because you just can't kick the salary cap can down the road any farther.
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9 hours ago, Bills Fan in MD said:
Josh definitely caught a huge break.
Shame on the personnel room for leaving the OL in a place where this injury happened. They were awful this year. This can't be the same issue come December 2023. They just can't afford to keep putting Allen in the crosshairs 10-15 times a game.
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It's tough to disagree with the title assertion. In the Miami playoff game, he looked like he was ready to somewhere between cry and blow chunks on the sideline.
I think he did an outstanding job making some hard decisions early on to harvest draft capital for key players, invest in quality mid-level veteran leaders, and together with Beane set up the team to be able to acquire a ton of quality in those early seasons.
There have been points where the in-game decision making has improved. I find that correlating strongly to offensive proficiency, especially on 4th down. Recency bias, in effect. But since Daboll left, it seems like McDermott (and maybe the offense in general) has lost confidence in either the playcalling, the scheme, or both.
But McDermott is loyal, and I think a lot of his decisions are based on that. His philosophy, humble & hungry, is also "we win as family" from what I can tell. So if a player acts like it was a catch, he's gonna challenge unless he's absolutely sure it's not. I don't think he wants to fire his close confidants. And most of all, I think he wants to send messages to his defense that he believes in them.
Brick-By-Brick, the NFL Losing Me As A Fan
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Yeah I get tired of the Beane hatred, and others get tired of the complaining about the refs & the seemingly impossible task of improving it all. It's understandable. Sometimes one might post something to get talked down off the ledge, or to be reinforced. Oh well, another day goes by and we still haven't gotten a Lombardi.
Dammit.