DC Greg
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Great talk about what makes sports more exhausting! I've played a lot of sports, and I found boxing (both training and competing) to be by far the most physically grueling. After that is was probably wrestling, football, hockey, soccer, bball, then like, beer pong, then baseball.
You can say you run this much in this one, that much in that one... something about getting constantly hit while you do it makes it a hell of a lot more tiring. Also, equipment is heavy and ice skating is tiring in it of itself let alone trying to play hockey while doing it. Then again, I probably always took it easier in soccer than the other sports I played because I didn't care as much. Always just seemed more leisurely.
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However, the ?B position has been just that since JK hung up his cleats. That, and we've fielded some pretty stanky squads that didn't have half the talent that this year's seems to - at least on paper. There are no significant holes save one. And that will not be proven until this season draws to a close. I honestly think that 6-10 is what potty training is to a two year old. You can stick to that if you want, but most people advance to greater achievements quickly in their development.
From 1997 this is the stank:
6-10
10-6
11-5
8-8 - bye bye Wade
3-13
8-8
6-10 - bye bye Williams-the-hammer
9-7
5-11 - bye bye Kevin Costner
7-9 - hello Tampon 2
7-9
7-9
6-10 - Alas Perry we hardly knew ye
4-12
6-10
6-10 - Fire Chan
6-10 - Dumbo arrives (I can't believe I just said that, but obviously I did... obviously)
When you really look back on this list, it's incredible that we fired Wade Phillips. Playoffs two years in a row then one .500 season and he's out. Back before a decade of incompetence our franchise really did demand excellence. If a coach gets us to the playoffs two years in a row again he'll get bare minimum 3 years of missing the playoffs after that before he's canned.
Projections for this year? I mean it's safe to stick with all the "experts" and say this has the makings of another 7-9 Bills team. Slightly improved, but still trying to figure out how to win the close ones (of which there are so many). I'll err on the side of hopeless optimism and say 9-7 or 10-6 and we're back in the playoffs. Go Bills.
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I think if its close, Pegula will bid enough to put him over the top. Even if its close, I bet the trust has some lateral room to justify the local bid and the extra money would potentially be made up anyways from no delays, votes, courts, etc...
Its the silly money I worry about, like if Rogers comes over the top with like $.5 Billion+ more than the next highest
That is my concern, as well. One question I haven't seen much on is if an out of town bidder put in a higher bid, would the trust give other bidders the chance to beat that bid? I'm not really sure if there's a back and forth element or if you just submit one bid. Like people Have said, maybe Pegula bids 1.2 and Rogers 1.5... could he go 1.55 or something and beat them out? Maybe that's an unknown.
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He had one catch of more than 40 yards in 2013. I'm not sure if it was a screen, so, the maximum # is one, the minimum is zero.
My mistake. 7 catches for 20+ yards and 12 catches for 10-20 yards. My estimate of yardage was overstated, his impact in the screen game was not. It was fantastic. It was rare to watch an NFL team screen that well. Helped having Levitre out in front on a lot of those. Not saying that screens should be our bread and butter for passing the ball (this isn't high school), but I believe our coaches could take at least one or two things that Gailey actually did do well and incorporate them. CJ doesn't do as well in a box. Get him in a 2 yd x 2yd box of space anywhere on the field and he's a threat to score. With a player like that, draw up a few things that give him space. And actually practice them enough so they can be run crisply in a game. Just my opinion.
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Put me in the pro CJ Spiller camp. Is he the most complete back in the NFL? No. A few are better. Is he one of the top 10 most dynamic playmakers in the league? Yes. Coaches gotta find better ways to use that talent. You can count the number of screens they threw to him on on one hand. How many of those did he bust for 40+ yards the year before?
I understand that marrone and hackett have a very distinct system and philosophy but you have to taylor more special touches for a player like that.
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That wish came true back In the 2008 opening game, as Brady took a hit from the Chiefs D, and suffered a knee injury knocked him out for the season. So he is not completely immune to a big hit. Its just that he has always had a better then average O line, receivers, coaching, and good teams around him.
That year after Brady went on IR after the first game, the Patriots went on to an 11-5 season with a QB who never started a single game in college, and his last previous start was in high school. Yeah, you read that right. Matt Cassel played four years at USC, and he never started in a single game.
Anyway, the Patriots beat the Bills 2x that year, and even with a game slated in the bills favor they still lost. In a game at RWS with high winds so the QB's couldn't pass well at all, and the Bills having the better RB's the Bills were still beaten 13-0. It was just sad, as they were out rushed by Sammy Morris, LaMont Jordan.
Bottom line is Tom Brady is a HoF QB, and has been playing at a high level for twelve years now. Still, if the Patriots didn't have Brady I think that Bill Belichick would have found another QB to win games for him. To me coaching is everything, and should the Bills have had Brady instead, they probably would have ruined him.
Anyway, as long as the Patriots have Belichick they will be contending for the division title. Rex Ryan will always have a top defense that will help him win games. The only question is if the Dolphins have a HC that can build a winner. However that Dolphin team did get better under Philbin. From 6-10 before him to 7-9, and then to 8-8 last year under his two year reign.
If the Bills really have finally found the right HC, then they could be contending for a playoff spot this year. That is a big "IF" tho.
No, that was a low hit at the knee. That's unfortunate, and no one (well, I hope) wants to see anybody get seriously injured like that on the football field. I'm talking about just seeing him try to stand in there, not see Mario beat the tackle on an inside move, and drive his shoulder through Brady's scrawny chest and into the ground like a battering ram. I don't want to see the guy injured... just hit so hard they are thrown off their game. (Example: Ryan Fitzpatrick hit by London Fletcher so hard in Toronto he changed the way he stepped into the pocket. I know, he may have broken ribs in that hit. IMO he also changed the way he stepped up after that. Never say him step forward and deliver the way he did v KC, Oakland, and NE after that hit. He always did a little side step to throw when a defender was coming, causing the ball to float even more)
C.Biscuit, totally agree it's a skill that good QBs have to avoid those hits. It makes us, as fans, call them soft when they hit the deck when they see that hit coming, but it's smart. That's why it makes me want to see Brady get crushed once in awhile even more
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Okay now.
Allan , Stephan , Corbin , Nigel , Ty , Keith , BRANDON , Kiko ( how could you forget ? the shame on your house. oh dear ) . Nickell ,Leodis , Ron ,Corey , Stephon , Ross , Aaron , Duke , D Searcy , Jonathan , Kenny , Mario
and jim shwaatz .
Sikes will have Thomas weeing his panties by the first half because jim will blitz him through an open gap and B S will go boogeddy boogeddy ! whilst showing his canines and meaning it.
Let the pitching coach have at it. Tom will retire in fear this year
Tom Brady is a great player, and for some reason it just seems like he always avoids the big hit. I want to see a massive crunch laid on him this season like the one Mario laid on Tannehill last year in the game in Miami. Not the sack he caused the fumble on... the one before that drive. Do y'all remember that? Just a huge, clean, perfect form tackle through the numbers. I want to see Tom walloped like that. Nothing dirty. Just something huge. This is my wish.
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Well I put $20 on the 100-1 odds to win it all so... they're gunna do great!
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Of note, in the linked article is the following:
“He wants to be competitive as long as he can,” House said of Brady. “He wants to play until he’s 43-45 years old. There’s no reason these guys can’t do it, if you can identify what they need to do to sustain and maintain what they had at the peak of their careers, and it’s doable. Guys like Tom and Drew [brees], they’re looking to stay as good as they can, as long as they can.”
I'll give you four reasons he can't. Their names are Mario, Marcel, Kyle, and Jerry.
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Are there Segway gangs yet? Sons of ... Clutter?
Not that I know of. But I've seen plenty of this.
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I am dead serious, the Bills are the worst team in the NFL against the run for the past 8 years, and there has only been 1 player here the entire 8 years, and he is a DT and supposed to stuff the run. He is not a good NFL player.
I don't know how you could say Kyle Williams is the only "elite" player on the team when you have Mario Williams on that line also, but Kyle is a hell of a football player. Great pass rush, and it's not because he has incredible speed or agility. He has incredible tenacity, a high motor, and great football instinct. He has solid footwork, and always maintains his gap in a gap control defense.
I find it comical when fans with little to no knowledge of defensive schemes and philosophy attempt to point to overall stats against the run for the entire Bills defense and say, "Derrrrr, see look, he's right in the middle so it must be his fault". You know nothing, John Snow. Every player on the defense is responsible for exactly one gap. Kyle almost always controls his, does not get pushed off the ball, has a great pop and excellent leverage at all times, usually takes on 2 blockers if he doesn't make the play, which for a defensive grade is equivalent to making the tackle (because it frees another defender to make the play). Really excited to see a hoss like Brandon Spikes back there who should be very comfortable making the stops in the middle with a guy like Kyle eating up those blockers who are trying to climb to the next level. Haven't had true beefcake runstopping linebackers since Fletch and T. Spikes were back there, and that's been the real problem with our run D.
Please refer to what are known in world of football (actual football, players/coaches, not fans) as grades. You will see that Kyle Williams is not just the highest graded player on the entire Bills team most games, but one of the highest graded d linemen in the entire league. Players are graded every single play for whether they controlled their gap and completed their responsibility in the 11 man defensive scheme. Do your job, and you get neither a + or a -. Do something that contributes to making the play directly and you get a +, screw up and you get a -. That's a simplified version, but basically that's how it works, and Kyle is one of the most technically sound players we have and also is a playmaker. A rare thing indeed to be both. And he wears my number from college, so obviously I'm a bit of a fan!
I couldn't script it better. I swear I am not actually Security dual posting in order to win my own argument. It's just exactly what I said. This has been put to bed. Go Kyle, Go Bills, have a wonderful weekend.
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That's a weird frickin' photo - all the segways + hot chick silhouette. I mean, I'm not hating it, but I have never seen that many segways in one place in my life.
Visit DC sometime. That's just a baby group. Not uncommon to see 30-40 pink segways rolling deep down the mall.
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I'D SAY VEGAS IS A LITTLE MORE IMPARTIAL:
Denver Broncos 6/1
Seattle Seahawks 13/2
San Francisco 49ers 17/2
New England Patriots 10/1
Green Bay Packers 14/1
New Orleans Saints 18/1
Chicago Bears 25/1
Indianapolis Colts 25/1
Philadelphia Eagles 30/1
Pittsburgh Steelers 32/1
Cincinnati Bengals 32/1
Detroit Lions 40/1
Baltimore Ravens 40/1
Carolina Panthers 40/1
New York Giants 45/1
Dallas Cowboys 48/1
Arizona Cardinals 50/1
San Diego Chargers 50/1
Kansas City Chiefs 50/1
St Louis Rams 50/1
Atlanta Falcons 52/1
Washington Redskins 55/1
Houston Texans 60/1
Miami Dolphins 65/1
New York Jets 70/1
Cleveland Browns 70/1
Buffalo Bills 75/1
Tampa Bay Buccanneers 75/1
Tennessee Titans 90/1
Minnesota Vikings 120/1
Oakland Raiders 150/1
Jacksonville Jaguars 250/1
Yes! I got my bet in for the Bills while they were still 100/1 at the Venetian. $2,000 here I come.
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I'll take Kiko Alonso for fitty cent and a bag of ground round....that's all I need.
Case closed. The legend continues.
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I moved from Buffalo after I graduated college, lived in Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Hilton Head, no matter where, I fly back to Buffalo for at least 1 home every year now for 19 years. I am pretty sure I am a bigger Bills fan than most, I am willing to spend close to a $1000 to go to one game after it is all said and done. I go to other Bills games too, and have Sunday Ticket.
The highest the Bills have been against the run with Kyle Williams is 22nd. THis is not made up.
You looked at something wrong, in 2009, the Bills were 3rd...........3rd last in the NFL against the run. The Bills have never been remotely close to dominant with Kyle Williams, they have been well below average to borderline pathetic, and mostly just pathetic at stopping the run.
No one is saying the team has been strong against the run. I'm saying you are misallocating blame on one player simply because he's been on the team during that time. Linebackers have been the biggest problem in our run equation. Please rattle off the list of our linebackers since Fletcher and Spikes left and tell me how many of them were even mediocre NFL football players. Complete garbage for the most part. Even last year with some improvement, Kiko was not a run stuffing MLB. He's a Will by nature, and that's where he will excel. Spikes and Rivers back there now with Kiko? I'm not going to start counting chickens, but we may have something here.
The blame on Kyle is misplaced and not borne of fact. I understand how it looks to the casual fan, but from someone who played the game at a higher level recently, and someone who is in agreement with the majority of football people who grade player performance, we are in agreement that Kyle Williams is an excellent defensive tackle.
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I had the Bills as the 6 seed in the AFC on my list about 9-7ish. Unlike you though, I like Washington this year. You are obviously closer to it than I but I think RG will bounce back and has some nice weapons in Garçon, D Jax, Jordan Reed and Alfred Morris. They look like a high scoring team in a bad division to me. What is that you don't like about them Greg?
Mostly it rests on what I think of RGIII. Loved what he did in their offense in his first year. I believe his game rests on his ability to run with it. If he is a legitimate threat to take off, defenses have to account for that. Opens up the rest of his game and the rest of the offense. In his second season, that threat was gone. He was rarely going to run, and when he did it was not with everything he had to get to the goal line like the year before. You have to earn that threat by really taking off with it. You can't just trick defenses into coming out of coverage because you 'used' to be a running quarterback. The threat better be real, or they won't respect it. He could break out as a pocket passer I suppose. I just haven't seen it yet. He has an arm for sure, but I'm not convinced. You can say he was still nursing the injury, which is true, but it looked to me that because of the injury, he has made a mental decision to no longer run. Or he was coached not to run. Either way.
Aside from him, new coach and a whole new system. Always going to be adjustment pains. Their defense was pretty trash last year. I think the stats hide how bad they really were. Fletcher was getting old but that is some serious leadership lost and a solid presence in the middle. With that division though... who knows. Maybe they have a shot.
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D-ton
Thank you. That was exactly what I was thinking. I've listened to so many posts how we get no respect, no one sees our good players b/c it's the Bills, etc. then when we actually have a few players on the list ( I may have missed, but saw Kiko, Dareus, no one else yet) and we complain he is overrated. KW has been fantastic for this team for years surrounded until lately with less talent.
I'm sure Super Mario will make it, but Byrd should be there. I also believe Glenn deserves a nod, but he won't get it as it is a popularity contest amongst the players.
He allowed 1.5 sacks in 16 games and did not miss a game. Did Peters do that.
Well said. Haters just gunna hate. KW is a big boss hog. He doesn't make every play, but he's a fine player and a great addition to our defense/team. Go Bills.
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Interesting take. Not to be negative, but I tend to look at us as more of the wildcard category I guess. We could be a team to watch, but we could easily be 6-10 again. Redskins should be in the crap. I think they will be garbage this year. As bad or worse than last year.
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Actually, I am in am different camp. I think that the only thing which is pretty much a truth in the NFL is that almost any issue is not about the morality its about the money. This has been true of items like concussions, steroids, recreational, the CBA, etc.
My guess of what Snyder is doing here is that he knows full well that this is the continuing beginning of the end for the De4adskins use of the name. Its simply a matter of time until the local owner despite being a billiomaire gets forced to give up the name by multiple billionaires who are his partners.
The morality or the issue is important but way secondary to what are the fiscal impact. In the end the money comes from the TV nets and maintaining a name some find racist (a finding of not only some native Americans, but 50 Senators, and now the US patent office).
What my GUESS is what Snyder is doing is knowing he likely is gonna be forced to give up the name he is raising the price the NFL will have to pay him to give up the name. Perhaps this price will be a Super Bowl in DC. Perhaps the price will be league concessions and support for profiting to be found in renaming the team. Perhaps it just a flat out cash payment for him.
The name is a goner. It may take years, but at best its a distraction from articles being about the game of football to instead articles being about the soap opera with the name.
This thread is a goldmine. First of all to your point, yes it's all about the money. I don't think Snyder ever really cared about the name. He's just a billionaire that bought the team. The city hates him, true skins fans hate him, and he knows it. I am of the opinion that he has been adamant about no name change because he wants to appear to be on the side of the die hards skins fans. Now that you threaten his money, however, watch his tune change real quick. He'll make it seem like his hand was forced, of course, and it was... by the threat of lost revenue.
Secondly, Real Buffalo Joe, your post if hilarious.
Last... well on second thought t's probably best if I just go ahead and stay out of the politics
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I bet some NFL players can't read. They vote on what they hear, and they hear Kyle Williams plays hard, and coaches like him. The true education level of NFL players has a mean average that is in high school. Lots of dumb dumbs.
You know Belichek likes Kyle Williams? Because he is very easy to beat. Hard to play against, but easy to beat, they love having Kyle Williams on the field, a completely undersized DT.
Belichek is smart, he likes a lot of guys like Kyle Williams, he wants teams to keep those massively overrated players, they easy to beat.
To say the players vote him means very little to me.
Be logical. Why is Kyle Williams good? Without him would the Bills be 0-16 every year? THey suck whether he plays or not, and he has no impact at all.
There are 22 players on the field my friend. His role accounts for 4.5% of this football team, not counting special teams. Just because the team hasn't won doesn't mean he's not a great player and a great contributor.
You've registered your rebuttal on the player vote. That has some merit, though I inherently disagree. I'd really like you to read my earlier post about "Grading" and hear your thoughts on that. No tongue in cheek, do you know what that is and how it works? Many fans do not. Do you think that the people who do that are lying? Wrong? Just curious.
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Excellent stat -- the team that scores fewer points almost always loses as well. Coincidence?
Posts like these are why I read TBD. Hilarious.
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Is this directed at me?
No sir! Your post was just the most recent point of reference building off the post prior. Pardon my newb message board awareness if that's a faux pas
Northern team that needs to stop the run to win, and they never have been since he has been here, he is too small and he has held the Bills back. Best they ever finished with him is 22nd, and they are between 28-32 in the other years, they would do about the same with any other NFL player on the field.
Well who can argue with that. #AnalyticsDepartment
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You really have to learn how to stop holding back and express your opinions with no trepidation.
I was wondering when the KW haters were going to come out! I love their "arguments". He sucks. Run D aint good. Bills no stop run. I remember this one time I saw something that looked like a thing. Mungo want Duffs...
please reference my earlier argument about independent grading that rates him as one of the most technically sound and elite d linemen in the league. Please reference the source of this thread, the top 100 players in the NFL, as voted by the players. The guys who, you know, actually know what it's like to play against him. Not you.
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Agreed. Do you think Antonio Bryant studies offensive linemen?
LOL Antonio Bryant? Study? I think he would either be too high to vote period or would be too conceded to vote because it would give props to someone other than himself. I was more thinking like wideouts being like "Yeah, that tackle is the tallest, has huge biceps, and lots of tattoos. He's clearly the best"
What if American football used soccer-style rules?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Well I guess I changed the point then, didn't I? Yeah, except if you try to be leisurely in football you die.