faderphreak

Hence the old expression: "Justice delayed is justice denied". At the end of the day, if it has dragged on this long, the dude probably has enough money to file motions and extend the process.

It works for politicians, why not head coaches? Not that I agree with the take, I just couldn’t resist with the ball sitting on the T.

My conspiratorial self truly felt like that bullpuckey “inconsequential stoppage” was the officials trying to give the Dolphins D a rest in that moment.

I had the same thought. That was just karma coming around.

Good Times! I did that Saratoga run a time or two as well back in those days.

I suspect I am aging myself here but I don’t give a triple F, I miss the Arc in Watervliet. I don’t know if that place is even still around but at one point, before DirectTV, or even the internet, it was the only bar in the Capital region that had all the games, so it felt like anyone who rooted for a team that wasn’t the Giants or Jets that lived within 45 min. would watch the games there. I don’t miss the place itself so much as the experience, as they twice food poisoned my buddy who would often join me on the trek from MA. undercooked sausage and pepper subs will get ya!. It was a big time sports bar before that was even a thing. Irrelevant to this discussion but good memories.

I remember that game though I never saw more than the Berman highlights. I was at a show at some club in either Hadley or North Hampton, MA. Pretty sure it was Sacred Reich / Violence / Flotsam & Jetsam. Through the years, all the shows start to bleed together, but I digress... Vio-lence was definitely on the bill. I know this because they are a bay area band, and the guitar player Raiders jersey and a bunch of their crew were sporting their Raiders gear as well. Naturally, I was wearing a Bills hoodie and standing in the front row. They must have come on around halftime because when they saw my sweatshirt, the guitar player and the singer gave me crap about the Raiders leading and how the Bills would get blown out in the second half. After making a point of announcing the 3rd quarter Marcus Allen rushing TD, I was the recipient of more crap talking in between songs. Somewhere near the end of their set, one of the crew must have given another update because the score updates and crap-talking stopped. The club we were at didn't have any TVs with the game on, so before they left the stage after the set ended I asked for the score. Glares commenced from some of the crew, and a surly Phil Demmel informed me "the bad guys" made a comeback. Thanks for the flashback!

I haven't lived in the Rochester area for decades but the bit about Pittsford, Brighton, Gates, and Webster sounds about right. I laughed out loud when I read that.

As I've been reading this thread and the mild debate regarding the need for Josh to make better decisions and take what is given I keep thinking about Tom Brady. He took receiving rooms with way less talent on paper than what we have in Buffalo right now by simply dinking and dunking through the first 2-3 quarters, and then taking the kill shots late in the third or early in the fourth when defenses got sucked in to try and shut down those death by 1000 cuts type of passes. At the time it was so frustrating to watch Brady do that to the Bills and other teams. At the time I thought it was Belichick's modernization of Parcell's "3 yards and a cloud of dust." Instead, it was 3 yards and a thud all the way down the field.

Thanks for the song bomb! Now I have Machine Head's "Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies" looping in my head.

Mrs. Faderphreak, just confirmed that we have our tickets and that she took the liberty of upgrading to sideline tickets. Please keep all of the tips coming! Neither of us has ever been to London, so this is as much about experiencing a new place as it is about the game.

This was one of my first thoughts when the pick came in last night. Everyone else was going for the smaller slot guys that seem to make up the bulk of the top rated receivers this year. The Bills instead went for a 6'4, 240 lb. slot receiver. After that debacle against Cincy where the Bills were getting bullied at times, they needed to get bigger and stronger. So instead of getting banged around and shut down, as has often been the case with our own smallish slot receivers have when the refs decide to swallow their whistles, DK2 will hopefully be much harder to take out of the game and unlike Lil Dirty, be consistent with those catches. To NoSaint's point there is a long history of traditional TEs taking a hot minute to get up to speed in traditional TE roles. I agree that premise that Kincaid was basically brought in for his hands, his ability to run a full route tree, and basically be WR #3. I've read how he will need work as a blocker but I'm ok with that when I consider that just in size alone he will be harder for many of these LBs to get around than Mckenzie, Bease, etc.

They are in Oahu so I wouldn’t be surprised to find a place in Muai when you dock. We watched Bills v. Dolphins to see in Sept. We got there by 06:30 and there was a line behind us before the doors opened slightly before 07:00. Ironically, we were chatting with a Philly fan in line who runs one of the private schools and he was telling us that his school played against Tua's and Tua was either really good or really bad even then.

Perhaps too much heat would be better? Make those thin blooded south Florida bodies have to deal with an 60 -79 degree temperature swing at the start the second half.

I don’t remember him but he was the first athlete autograph I ever had. My mom was going to school at Western Maryland College for some teaching certification and he was kind enough to give her an autograph. Who knows where it went but she said he was very nice to her and went out of his way to do autographs for myself and both my brothers.

Hahaha. I am in a meeting and I was scrolling through waiting for someone to point out the use of what appears to be the stiff arm of Norman by Henry on the big board in the Titans Stadium rendering. Salty.

Thanks for taking the time to do the research and share your find. I’m going to give that a watch later on today!

Agreed, yet seeing that list just reminded me of an episode of Cheers back in the day where Woody attempts to place bets through Sam on teams that were ridiculous long shots at the time (Bills among those picks). Sam tries to save Woody from himself by not placing the bets and of course, they all came in. Honestly can’t recall how it was resolved but it was a funny episode. And yes, I realized I just aged myself. Haha. Happy bye week!

I had hopes for Todd Collins for the Bills from the time he was drafted until Jim Kelly’s charity softball game the summer of that same year. While everyone else was either engaging with fans or other NFL or NHL players, Collins was hanging out at the keg with the backwards baseball cap in full frat boy mode. I remember thinking “Damn, this kid could be picking Kelly or Marino’s brain, or at least hanging with his future o-line. He’s too immature to be the future” It was fun watching Corey Louchey and Rob Ray get into it though. It started off as horsing around then appeared to look more serious at which point Louchey picked up Ray and started throwing him around like a sack of flour. At least I think it was Louchey. Been a long time!

Apparently I had too much time on my hands this morning. Here is a playlist including every track suggested that I could find. I replaced NIN “Hurt” with the Johnny Cash version because even Trent Reznor said “that song isn’t mine anymore” https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/6447ac750e454515bdc477988b30071fsune?ref=dm_sh_s91imkEn5kYWZBVoWn26gov85

I can’t help myself. As long as Hatebreed is on the table I have one more…

A pretty badass playlist could be made out of this thread. There are a lot of great tracks already but I’I have a couple to add. While perhaps cheesy to those of us who cut our teeth on Slayer, Metallica, RATM, Panera, Obituary, etc. they fit the mood of the game to me and they have a bit of swag…

Yep. It was also brought up by Schrager in the GMFB clip SlimShady'sSpaceForce shared as well, so it was probably fresh in T. Brown's mind after getting his GMFB fix this morning.

Carlton Bailey’s interception return for touchdown in the 1991 AFC Championship game was the first to come to mind. Kelly and Elway on the field yet the hero of that day was what to the casual NFL observer would be a pretty obscure name.

While I try to avoid these types discussions in general, particularly in an election year where the media has everyone all tuned up into one big raw nerve, I have to say I really appreciate the open discourse in this thread. I don't doubt that someone may have said something along the lines of what was reported but if it wasn't caught on tape, or could not be corroborated then it should not be reported. Period. As a child I wanted to as a journalist. Guys like Woodward and Bernstein, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe, and Edward Murrow inspired me with their writing and investigative work. Even though I went a different direction, today I work with "journalists" within every major print and broadcast company, and it has been an eye opener. I would be a liar if I said I did not admit that dealing with many of these folks didn't leave me saying regularly "Murrow most be rolling over in is grave!" Most of the people in the media should not be called journalists, and even "reporter" is a stretch for a pretty fair number of them. It would be fair to call them nothing more than content providers, or to be generous, writers. Too many are Nothing more than shills or click generators working to generate revenue and make a name for themselves at any cost. At best, those in this category are uniformed and irresponsible. At worst, they are liars who make incendiary comments to meet their narrative with a slash and burn mentality with regard to the consequences. Of course saying all in the media today are hacks and shills based upon the actions of some of the worst in media would be akin to saying all <insert race, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, etc. here> should be equated to the worst of their demographic. Unfortunately, the bottom line is that true journalism in this country is nearly dead but there are still some working to do it right in a fight that seems as futile as our beloved Bills on their worst day taking on the Pats on their best day. That said, referring to click generators and pot stirrers like this tool Klemko as a journalist is an affront to the true journalists that are left, as well as all of the great men and women that truly practiced the art in the past.