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On 1/13/2024 at 2:58 PM, chongli said:
I wanted to get this out there since the Peacock game tonight is starting later today, and it may not get noticed in the Wild Card schedule thread or the upcoming game thread (which will be posted too late).
The Peacock game will be shown to the Buffalo area, Rochester, Watertown, and the Champlain Valley, at least, for those who get CTV either OTA or via cable. Also parts of MI, MN, ND, MT, and WA.
It will also be in El Paso, TX and San Diego, CA OTA for those who get Canal 5.
But for Detroit, getting CTV OTA is now all but impossible ever since the analog CKCO translator on Channel 42 in Sarnia shut down.
Yuma, AZ and other Rio grande texas TV markets should be getting that station.
I’ve lived in Seattle area and through cable we only go CBC. I think only the border counties got CTV because of over the air viewership.
when WIVB had the broadcasting contract dispute and a game couldn’t air ..Niagara county, because of minimal CTV OTA rating viewership, CTV broadcast could not be blacked out.
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9 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:
Streaming is the future. This is just the beginning. They already started with the Thursday night games. In the coming years I would bet all prime time games will be on streaming. It sucks for the boomer generation but that's not who they are after.
This isn’t going to happen.Said this before with cable. Not everyone had cable.
Not everyone will have streaming access unless it is turned into a utility.
then you will have consolidation of streaming services which is just like how cable companies operste where they pay stations/ networks a fee per station to broadcast these on their server.
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On 1/13/2024 at 3:55 PM, Bills!Win! said:
Looks like we would be playing Sunday at 1pm due to San Fran playing Sunday at 4 because of the west coast
under rules…MNF game of eagles/ bucs would happen on Sunday.
as of my writing GB is killing the cowgirls so GB at SF is certain and likely at 8 pm Saturday.
if bills game moves to Tuesday….
Sat 8 pm GB at SF
Sun 3pm AFC
Sun 630. NFC game RAMS/DET vs PHL/TB
Mon Bills/Steelers winner game ( they could move it to late Sunday With 1-430-8 starts)
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1 hour ago, BillsFan619 said:
Whenever it’s played, Monday or Tuesday, there has to be six days in between because of this NFL rule.
Go Bills!
Credit to @chongli for posting it first in the game postponed thread.
Credit to @HappyDays for posting it first in the game postponed thread.
prior to the postponed statement I had though given all 3 AFC go first they were planning on doing both AFC on Saturday, both nfc on Sunday.
but now it’s bills/ Steelers game on Sunday as is the eagles/ bucs..
if bills win they host chiefs/ browns/ texans
if Steelers win at baltimore
in nfc
if 2&3 win winner at at SF
if one of 2&3 lose then at 2/3 team that wins DAL/DET
if both lose then they host #6 ( rams)
I think got planning 2/7 winner plays Sunday plays early Sunday slot, nfc plays latter Sunday slot.
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13 hours ago, Dick_Cheney said:
Thanks…
a few small issues I have in the article….
1. NFL scheduling factors into things other stadium events planned. Seattle, Baltimore, Kansas City, Dallas, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh all have neighboring football/ baseball stadiums. Nashville, indy, others have football stadium near nhl/ nba arena. These sites share parking. Houston and other stadiums have regular annual events like stste football chsmpionships or other events/ festivals.
2. Concerts don’t do tours dec-March other than some special planned events. Running stadium tours has staffing. Summer stadium tours will do northern locations may- sept then gradually work doen and do I-10 coordoor site in nov/ December. Some tours might do schedules to hit northern dome stadiums.
3. putting a dome on—- the cost vs what you can do. If you know you could just a SB, a few final 4, host a polival convention or other large events like national soccer matches and world cups.
4. as for the hotels— that analysis is garbage. You have to compare apples to apples. In the east markets are smaller because there are more tc markets. For example look at seattle ( I’ve lived there) . Seattle metr stretches from olympia-Tacoma -Seattle-Everett-Bellingham south to north. It’s narrow because of water bodies and mountains. An equivalence to buffalo would be to talk about the population from Hamilton thru metro Rochester following 90/Q. The population is 4M+with hotel rooms.
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3 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
The problem with the Atlanta job is how do you get a QB? You are picking 8th. Fair chance three are gone before then. You could swing a big trade up but you might not be the only team in the bidding for that. Or you could go for a vet who might spring free - Kirk Cousins possibly? But then you will both probably not be in contention to win a Superbowl and never be in position to try and draft your guy again.
But certainly in Pitts, Bijan and to an extent London (although I am not as high on him as some I think he is kind of a 1B, very high end #2 rather than an out and out #1 receiver) they have some pieces there and a pretty solid oline.
I think a QB will be where ATL drafts without reaching. They could also acquire Fields. Then there will be other vets out there Russell, Tannehill, Garapolo.
I see Vikings keeping Cousins. He was injured most of this year. They don’t have a young understudy yet. Thry are a team who could draft a QB where they are but have that QB sit for 1-2 years
Penix is one who could go in that 10-20 range.
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13 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
This would allow NFL films to be used in Disney parks.
ESPN Wide World of Sports with rides where historical defense stars try to tackle you!
Character of Roger Goodell giving embraces.
Except there has been talk of Disney trying to sell of things
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1 hour ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Asking for a friend, how hot is your cousin? 😎
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…..
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1 hour ago, mannc said:
Actually, not a silly question…
Minority hire……ding ding ding. The 3rd round pick was worth more than be
livhrk…….
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15 hours ago, Mark Vader said:
I've been wondering this too. Was there an injured player at the end of the play?
The defensive holding penalty stopped the c
Clock with under 5 min to go.
this is a rule change needed.
a team could strategize when trying to come back and preserve time outs by doing penalties like in this situation.
The team could choose, take the penalty and stop clock or let clock run. Since 1st was made without the penalty.
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Chester, you’re nothing but a cheater
Use your hands to squeeze your soft balls, oh yeah
i said cheater, nothing but a cheater
usr your staff to spy on teams, oh yeah
i said, “ bye bye, what a day,a year, a live it is”
You know, well you know, you had it coming to you
Now, celebrate is all I can do
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8 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A THREAD TO DEBATE THE MVP AND WHO IT SHOULD BE. It is about is there a better way to conduct voting than just one vote at the end of the year.
MVP voting is entirely too reliant on RECENCY BIAS and also heavily favors QB's. Games down the stretch too strongly sway votes. Not saying there isn't extra value in coming up big in say big games late in the season, because there is, but its too skewed to right now where voting is too impacted by the most recent games.
For example - Lamar is the clear front runner to win because him and the Ravens had their 2 best games down the stretch beating the Niners and Miami (1 seed NFC and then 2 seed AFC) decisively in back to back weeks. They got hot at the right time, especially to help Lamar's MVP case even though the rest of the season wasn't as good as he was in those 2 games.
On the flip side, Lamars big 2 weeks started against both Purdy and McCaffrey who had their own MVP cases but both are completely out of the race even though you can make a case that both Purdy and McCaffrey had better seasons than Lamar. Had this game took place say week 3, then Purdy and CMC might very well be in the thick of the race as would potentially other players considering Lamars overall season wasn't as good as his final 2 games played.
So here is what I think would be a better way to do this: Season long MVP voting or scoring system
Rather than have voters wait until the season ends to vote where the only thing fresh in their minds are the most recent showings, they should award points to candidates as the season progresses. I have 2 different ideas on how to do this...one pretty simple and straight forward, and one little more complex and interesting.
First and simplest one: Vote for MVP every week starting after week 4.
- Only the players receiving top 10 votes receiver points
- Each player receiving votes will recieve points based on that vote. First place votes are worth 10, amount, 2nd place 9, and so on.
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Recognizing that late season games often are more important, have more at stake, more pressure etc as teams jockey for playoffs and seeding, you can weight the scoring on those weeks a little higher.
- Starting week 15 votes carry increased value - say something from 125% to 150% scoring value.
- Alternate - Maybe only the last vote carries more value say double points (200%)
- All votes remain sealed until the end of the season, so no one knows where the votes are to avoid influencing late season voting.
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Player who accumulates the most points from the voting process by season end will be MVP.
- In the event of a tie then CO-MVP's or let the NFL players vote amongst the tied players and person with most votes wins.
- NOTE: If you still want some additional weight or value for late season votes where maybe the games are bigger and more important
Second one: Season long scoring system where you score the players every 3 weeks (6 times).
- Each voter lists their top 10 players of that 3 week period who were at an MVP level.
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They then score each player based on their performances. This would probably include some fixed scoring and opinion based scoring
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Fixed scoring examples:
- Win = 1 point, 0 points for a loss, .5 points for big game in a losing effort
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Opinion scoring example:
- MVP Score per game - 0.0 to 3.0 based on how you feel they played each game. Huge game maybe its a 2.9 or 3.0. Slow first half but big second half maybe its 2.2. Maybe that second half included some critical game winning play and that gets bumped up to a 2.4 or 2.6 for example.
- You can make the scoring as simple as this or as complex as you want with lots of scoring categories. But at the end of the day, what really matters is that there is a season long tally that will help determine who had the best season and should be the MVP of the league.
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Fixed scoring examples:
- Again, these scores remain sealed until the end of the season so voters don't feel compelled to try and sway voting in any one period.
- At the end of the season, the players finish the MVP race based on total scoring.
- In the event of a tie, you the NFL players vote on the tied finalist with most votes being MVP or you could simply have Co-MVPs in a tie as well.
Personally, this would be better than just asking a bunch of voters to vote once the season is over where recency bias weighs to heavy. Plus, with a fair scoring system, this might actually give players OTHER than QB's a better chance to win MVP.
Weekly voting will create new biases.
early voting will be on reputation and not following early games too closely like with an upstart team going 3-$ or 4-2 than 1-5 and thrn this team ne comes this seasons new playoff team. Since thry voted early ignoring thst teams star pkayer, thr voting differential can’t make up the deficit over the rest of the season. A vote at the end of the year this players wins easily.
I think voters are one voter out of each teams press pool then the rest are national level reporters.
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14 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
I get it. I just think they have a rare opportunity to accumulate a ton of young talent. Only one QB taken #1 or #2 overall in the last decade has definitively proven to be worth it (although CJ Stroud is likely going to be the second). For my money the top 4 QBs this year - Allen, Mahomes, Jackson, Prescott - were drafted later than that. So do you throw away the opportunity to get an almost for sure game changing #1 WR plus a boatload of picks, for a QB that is statistically unlikely to be worth it? If you hit on the QB it's of course worth it in the end. But it's a gamble. And it's not like they're trotting EJ Manuel out there next year. Fields could be as good as Hurts IMO.
Goff and Mayfield are in the playoffs.the Bears started 0-4.
only 3 games were true loses. Early gb, at kc, at chargers.
they went 7-7 after first 3 games
In 3 of those loses loses ( in 7-7 stretch) they had 9+ pt 4th quarter leads
tied in 4th with another. Other 3 were one score down in the 4th
confidence is a dangerous thing in the nfl.
They held onto one of those 3 blown 4th quarter games then they are going into the packers game tied at 8-8 and likely a winner gets the WC spot game.
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Cicada hatches every 17 years
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And cicadas hatch every 17 years….
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1 minute ago, Limeaid said:
Rest of season is not very long and JEST is out of playoff picture.
It’s just a few weeks……
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Previously posted….
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7 hours ago, Another Fan said:
I always like to have an idea.
One of the main reasons why after the Chargers game I was still happy was because the Bills I know had a bad record versus them.
Ditto Dallas. I feel it’s a source of pride now for me that rivalry if you want to call it that isn’t one sided anymore. 6-6 in regular season match ups.
During the Josh Allen era it’s gotten better but for a while there it was bad against Pittsburgh. I think the Bills will win but yeah history sort of says it will be a tough game.
Or does stuff that happened years back to you have no bearing on the future?
bigger issue with streaks in division play playing twice a year. In modern nfl you tend to play teams in congpverrnce once every 3/5 years and 6/8 years on the road. Teams roster tend to change over significantly over 6/8 years. -
6 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
Holy smokes, amazed Vrabel fired
I am surprised…
you had QB issues. The team also had a 5-7 one score game record.
I also get they are a crossroads with Henry likely not returning and Tannehill probably not back.
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Because Superbowl is 4 weeks before free agency opens. That isn't enough time to interview, shortlist and hire a coach. Then hire a staff. Then assess the entire roster. Then try and extend our own FAs. Then try and assess the FA market and work out who you want to target. You would have to put FA back at LEAST two weeks. Then you probably need to move the draft back into mid-May. The one year we went to early May the feeling was it squeezed rookie mini-camps and ate into the one month of true break that coaches and personnel guys get mid-June to mid-July.
The schedule doesn't work unless the league is willing to lose something totally. If it agreed to totally lose pre-season you could fit it all in and move camp back to start of August. But they are not going to do that.
Yep you run into schedule problems with…
Combine— push it later you get into March madness and nfl loses tv ratings on event. Indy is a regular host of something.
UFA open date— this would need to move because of time to e v a l. If you moved drsft to before free sgrncy would totally change drsft strategy. Now free agency affects who you turn focus on drafting.
NFL draft needs to move to later— then you run into college graduation ceremony conflicts.
if they altered the playoffs where say 1-7 got in playoffs and 8-9 had a play in/WC round they could structure controlled interviewing where 28 teams are open for interviewing. The two games on Thursday and Friday. Weekend is open for interviewing those 4 teams. Playoff planning starts on Tuesday. For most teams it’s a week off before playoffs start. The 2 more games on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night and Monday night moves their too.
if it happened this season
sunday night last regular season game
mon-Friday coach interviews for 28 teams
Thursday and Friday JAX vs CIN, SEA vs NO.
friday-sun coach interview continue for thurs snd fri game staffs.
Monday decisions are due.
Wednesday-Sunday quarterfinal round games
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2 hours ago, Heavy Kevi said:
Sitting here watching gmfb.... And they are talking about Commanders, Chargers, and Panthers having requested permission to interview Detroit OC Ben Johnson as well as their DC.
This happens every year. Playoff teams are in the middle of trying to win a championship, and other eliminated teams are distracting their coordinators with interviews, sometimes even flying them in. It's disgusting and it's a problem.
Obviously this happened with Daboll too in the midst of what probably should have been our SB run. Idk if Dabolls interviews had any correlation to us being knocked out, but it stands to reason that it may have, and SURELY there have been coordinators who didn't do as well of a job because they were distracted interviewing with other teams.
The argument for allowing this is clear. It would be unfair to coordinators in the playoffs if they were locked out of the interview process in favor of coaching candidates that were at home (or from college).
So here's my solution:
Make a head coach hiring window, similar to how FA works. After the trade deadline, teams may fire their coaches and promote from within, but NO TEAM is allowed to interview or hire a HC until after the Super Bowl.
DONE! Problem solved. Would the NFL ever adopt this or do they just not care?
I agree with the premise of holding coach hiring till after conference championship game with thst off week for interviews and hiring.
the issue is setting up a staff in time for the combine and free agency.
they could move UFA opening date to April 1 and draft to weekend before Memorial Day ( but this would interfere with college graduation ceremonies) and draft combine move to third weekrnd in March , same weekend as March madness begins). NFL ratings would loose to this.
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1 hour ago, H2o said:
I actually think that Eberflus could get the ax in Chicago still. Then they would push everything to the forefront in going after Harbaugh, with Harbaugh being a former Bears QB. I could see them throwing a ton of cash and power his way. Chicago also has the #1 and #9 picks in the upcoming draft. Very enticing for anyone looking to build a franchise. I'm sure Harbaugh could get the most out of Fields as well if they chose to keep him. Look what he got out of Kaepernick, and Fields is definitely more talented than him. It will be an interesting next couple of weeks.
I agree…this would be a very unique situation with Chicago having #1 pick and Harbaugh on the market.Eberflus does not deserve to be fired.
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12 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
And with a few exceptions (Rich Eisen, Jim Rome) there definitely seems to be an anti-Bills/anti-Josh Allen sentiment...and that's a good thing.
The average take today goes this way: Dolphins were injured, Josh was bad, Miami should have won but they blew it. On several shows the Bills/Dolphins game and Buffalo's miracle climb to the 2nd seed wasn't even the lead story. But I'm fine with this. I hope the Bills are lucky and Josh is "bad" all the way to las Vegas. Last year the Bills were the media darlings and we fell short. This year our "window is closed" blah blah. But I always felt like Buffalo succeeds more when they are disrespected. So I say keep it coming.
In other news….the world is round…….
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Many of the Bills fans you see are not travelers but locals to that area of the country who are connected to buffalo.
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Fake Slide should be 15 yard penalty
in The Stadium Wall
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This tweet makes no fff sense. No defender near him and he takes on defenders. He’s at the point of taking on secondary, not DL like if this was still at the line.