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2 hours ago, BuffaloHokie13 said:
Peterman is that guy who absolutely crushes it on the driving range, but has a 42 handicap.
I'd be more inclined to agree if you said he was the guy that crushed it on the putting practice but has a 42 handicap.
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5 hours ago, BuffaloRush said:
My point is....and I’ll put this in bold you can see it clearly. YOU CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
That's not bold, that's all caps. You can't have it both ways.
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Lot of extremes here.
As I recall "most" (as defined as the posters on message boards) felt:
-Goodwin was similar to Roscoe Parrish - a fun to watch but one-trick pony who couldn't be relied on to stay healthy. I.E. not losing any sleep over him leaving. Some definitely chastised him for his perceived attention to long jumping over the NFL after he initially claimed he was only interested in football.
-Woods was someone we wanted to keep as a reliable receiver; good hands, great blocking, and rarely hurt. However - he wasn't seen as worth the #1 money some felt he got from the Rams. I don't recall anyone who wanted him gone, or wouldn't rather have kept him, but rationally (or rationalized) the thinking was the money was needed more elsewhere.
-Hogan was probably between the two. More angst because he went to the Patriots, and for a few he was their semi-annual late round chosen one. For most he was another good, but replaceable, receiver.
I'd argue that 7-11 and Woods may have received a better contract offer from the current regime if they had still been here (Hogan) or the Watkins situation was better known at the time. Woods wanted to go back home though, so that was probably just not going to happen, especially after the limited use he got here.
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On 9/8/2018 at 9:05 AM, Ol Dirty B said:
The fact that you're comparing yourself to a football player shows me you are already in over your head. We all make less than what we bring to the table, otherwise every business would be losing money.
I mean you just rambled on there with a whole lot of non sense that I never said.
But in the end, the point is the same. How could I justify hating on, or why would I hate on a guy who has a limited window in terms of earning potential trying to maximize that? You throw out all this **** like you understand the !@#$ing point, but clearly you don't.
I almost feel insulted by your response. What a joke.
I can't agree with this at all, however, I do think you're right if that makes any sense. The Steelers are an example of why the league will never have a meaningful strike, guaranteed contracts or get rid of this franchise tag bull ****. They all turn on each other, and quickly.
Why would I compare myself to a professional football player? They get paid to entertain. I get paid to kill bad guys. I have a limited window, and am one of the best in the world at what I do, which is why I'm offered higher paying jobs. But I understand commitment, and honoring an agreement that I entered, as well as respect for the people I work with who depend on me.
"We all make less than what we bring to the table, otherwise every business would be losing money." But yet, you think everyone should hold out on doing their jobs to make more money. Perhaps rather than insulting someone about "rambling on" you could try reading and considering the point being made.
If you can't understand my point, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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14 hours ago, BuffaloRush said:
Obviously you didn't hear the interview. Jerry is passionate about being a writer and his dream job was being a columnist. He did it well for almost 3 decades and sold a lot of newspapers. It's understandable how getting this taken away from him was upsetting
I'm sure the news was very happy to get your $2.99 a month
The "he did it well" portion is subjective. You must accept that, or the discussion is moot.
No issues with his being upset that he lost his position, or even that he was passionate about it. He said so, and those are his feelings, so I have no choice but to concur.
However, I do not have to agree with him or you that he was an outstanding, or even better than average writer, In my opinion - MY OPINION - he should have recognized that the Bills were a critical portion of Buffalo's sense of self worth in a difficult time during those three decades, and taken the more difficult path of keeping the Bills' ownership accountable while not constantly crapping on fans' hopes.
I can tell my kids they're dumb as rocks or I can show them where they've done well and where they can improve. Neither is giving them a star for participation. But with one technique they don't feel like shite when I'm done and may actually get better. It's harder to do - but if I'm doing my job "well" as a parent for almost 2 decades, its expected.
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2 hours ago, TheTruthHurts said:
I don't understand the Darby trade. My only guess is he didn't fit in the culture. White and Darby would have locked down CB for the next five years. Our secondary would be set.
At least you admit that you don't understand why Darby would absolutely not have locked down the CB position for us in the scheme we play.
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3 hours ago, cd1 said:
The Bills did make the playoffs BUT I don't think ANYONE thought of the Bills (neither then or now) as a legitimate playoff team.
I did.
Let's see...did the Bills make the playoffs? Yes.
Hmm. Seems pretty legit.
Reminder that the Bills have also been 9-7 twice before during the drought and didn't make the playoffs - because they weren't a legitimate playoff team that year,
Now - if you want to argue there were better teams than the Bills that didn't make the playoffs - I'l agree. Just as I'll argue when the Bills went 9-7 and lost to the Steelers to miss the the playoffs their defense was good enough to make them a "better" team head to head than some that did make the playoffs.
But they legitimately had a worse record.
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On 9/6/2018 at 6:56 AM, Ol Dirty B said:
People get fixated about 14.5 million, but if you're worth 45, why would you take that? The 12 he banked last year is even less incentive to take the 14.5 if you feel it is under market value. No one likes to be underpaid or embraces that feeling. In terms of what he does, yea 14.5 is way more than a football player is worth. However, in terms of capitalism it isn't.
He's not on the market. He can only be offered what the Steelers give him. The market has had no say on these negotiations.
Why do you persist in regurgitating this concept, that If you're "worth 2x or 3x would you take x?"
First - there IS a difference between taking $20/hr verse $60/hr and taking $14 MILLION vs $29 million, To act like they're both the same discussion is akin to the "if your friend jumped off a bridge would you?" or "That's what the Nazis said too" arguments. This is the real world we live in, where amounts do impact the relevance and outcome of a discussion.
I can tell you I'm worth a lot more to my employer than the $150K or so I earn. But guess what. I signed a CONTRACT. I can't even get out of mine without going to jail. And yeah - I've been offered about three times my current salary to work for other companies, but they're not guaranteed. The company could fail, or might not make their bid. So I chose the lesser, but safer salary. JUST LIKE HE COULD.
He's an entertainer. He can walk if he wants to, but to say the team/owner/whomever should pay up - that's BS.
On 9/6/2018 at 1:22 AM, SouthNYfan said:QuoteOn 9/5/2018 at 11:37 PM, timekills17 said:
Exactly. $14 million this year. For a running back. Granted, a running back that catches as well as most and better than some receivers but still.
Why do people think they have to defend players when even their own teammates don't think he should be holding out?
Not exactly.
Feel free to look at the details of the contract they offered him.
They could run him into the ground for 400+ carries, pay him $10 mil, then kick him to the curb.
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He could take $14.5 mil this year on franchise, and then see where that leads him.
I'd go with option B every day.
You're telling me I'm wrong about the $14 million, and then telling me I'm right.
I do "feel free" to look at the details as much as anyone in the public. What has been publicly released (whether accurate or not) is ~$14 Million from the tag this year,
That's guaranteed. That's how it works.
Feel free to look at the details of the NFL tag requirements.
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I'm just sitting here trying to figure out how the worst team in football is supposed to get to 6.5 wins.
If that's the WORST...talk about a season of mediocrity. Or as the NFL calls it, "parity".
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14 minutes ago, Idandria said:
Pay the man. At the end of the day it’s a business, so you better make as much money as you can.
4 minutes ago, KD in CA said:I was under the impression they've been trying to pay him $70 million dollars.
Exactly. $14 million this year. For a running back. Granted, a running back that catches as well as most and better than some receivers but still.
Why do people think they have to defend players when even their own teammates don't think he should be holding out?
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I don't know if we'll ever realize how lucky we got when this guy joined our team. Great player, and clearly has his head in a good place, especially for someone as young as he.
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13 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:
Yep. You didn't have a camera in my old apt. did you, because I can't figure out how else you would have known about the banana bread at 11:37. I'm glad I moved out of there. I hope for your sake some hot young lady moved in and made watching the old apt a lot more appealing than watching me bake banana bread.
Unfortunately it was ex-C.I.A. director John Brennan. He wasn't nearly as interesting to watch, surprisingly. Adds walnuts to his banana bread and chocolate chip cookies too. Yuck.
Or, umm, that's what I heard.
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22 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:
It was a Red Baron frozen pizza that I microwaved.
Oh yeah? Next you're going to tell me it was pepperoni because the sausage ones were on sale, but they were sold out. That was after you bought a bunch of bananas that you noticed were just on the cusp of ripeness, but figured if you didn't get to them all in the next couple of days it was okay, because on 2 DEC 1998 at 11:37 you were baking banana bread.
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With false examples of Josh's QB play though..
He didn’t even know what he was talking about.. And Josh Allen lit up the senior bowl with big time college players all over the place..
The point was it seems like every article regarding Ramsey lately is about him being the "king of trash talk", and then he goes out and gets worked by Tom Savage.. Just play and worry about Jalen..
Posted by JagzOnFire on Aug 15, 2018 | 11:02 AMfrom SBNation's "Big Cat Country" site
As always, some fans are more realistic than others.
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6 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
I guess you missed him complimenting Brady, Rodgers, Mariota, and Cousins. Seems like you’re trying to make this into something it’s not to fit your agenda.
and plenty of non Bills fans think Tyrod is better than he got credit for here.
"doesn't suck" = compliment I suppose.
Especially when talking about first ballot future HoF'ers.
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On 8/13/2018 at 10:56 PM, Albany,n.y. said:
I remember every minute of that day. I woke up at 10:17 AM that morning, ate a bagel with orange juice for breakfast, then went into the bathroom & showered, then got dressed & put on a Bills sweatshirt. For lunch I ate a personal pizza with a 20 oz. bottle of Coke. I turned on the TV and watched the Jets dominate Carolina and at 4 I switched to the Bills game at NE. I remember every play & every commercial. I especially liked a local commercial for a car dealer where the owner dressed up like a chicken and I yelled at the screen "You look just like Pete Carroll" as I mocked the then-Patriots head coach. Then came the hail mary and I was cursing at the TV. I then ate dinner & watched TV before going to sleep at 11:37 PM.
Bull$h1t.
Pizza Hut stopped selling personal pizzas for two years between 1997-1999. Busted..
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Josh "MegaMan" Allen.
To make it even better, his name translates to RocketMan in Japanese.
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"Hey! My eyes are down here!"
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1 hour ago, simpleman said:
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Any VPN service with a server based in the UK would allow you to view it. Some services are free, and some cost 30 to 40 a year. I have Nord VPN, which is among the best, but it is not cheap. VPN services allow you to get past any location based streaming restrictions, as you appear to be in the location of the VPN server you are attached to. Most good VPN services have servers worldwide and across the US and Canada.
Three years for $99 is pretty good for a VPN that has never limited my speed, has hundreds of exit points in countries all over the world, and doesn't log anything.
https://nordvpn.com/special/deal/
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22 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
We will have to agree to disagree. Thats a homerism view of the play IMO. And thats fine, but IMO one play does not define a person. If you play football, crap happens in the heat of battle. I agree it was an illegal hit, even a dirty hit...but I whole heartedly disagree it defines his character or was intentionally done to be illegal or hurt AW.
Now if he has a history of plays like this, I would see your point...but he doesn't. And quite frankly, there are bigger and more dirty hits every single season, and again, I have seen our own players make plays like this. Landry is no Suh...he put a big shoulder block on a safety. It was ruled defenseless and got a penalty...that penalty occurs tons of times every NFL season. You could tell Landry felt bad about the situation after the fact, clearly wasn't out to intentionally lay an illegal and injury causing play.
I would bet any amount of money that had either this play occurred against a different team or this play not resulted in AW not playing again that no one on this board would feel Landry is a dirty player. But because it was against the Bills, and injury riddle AW sustained another neck injury that eventually led to him retiring, this play is blown out of proportion into a character defining play. I get it, we always stick up for our players...I just trying to stay unbiased in the assessment of this play.
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Hmm. Same type of hit, took out Patrick Chung after a forearm to the back of Chung's head. Not just one play. I found others as well, including others against the Pats.
The Sporting News - made up of all homerific Bills fans, apparently - on 23 OCT 2016 "Jarvis Landry on Aaron Williams: Dirtiest Hit of the Year?"
Sports Illustrated (also known to be written entirely by biased Bills fans) on 27 OCT 2016 "Blanket Coverage: The Jarvis Landry hit was a gigantic whiff for the NFL"
QuoteGregg Bedard: "It was one of the most vicious and unnecessary hits I’ve seen in recent years...There’s no place for it. Landry didn’t need to hit Williams in the head. There was plenty of time and opportunity for Landry to obliterate Williams by running through the block and hitting Williams in the shoulder/torso area...If the NFL was serious about player safety, Landry would have been ejected from the game and suspended for the next one...What else do you need to determine intent when a stationary player—a rarity on the football field in itself—is blasted by an opponent who leaves his feet and delivers a hit above the shoulder? What other reason could Landry have for launching himself?"
USA Today (dang - I never noticed how many national publications are made up of Bills fans and their ilk) on 23 OCT 2016 "There's no room in football for this cheap shot by Jarvis Landry"
QuoteChris Korman: "This is one of the dirtiest hits you’ll see...He very clearly targets Williams’ head."
So, yeah - we and the national media will have to agree to disagree with you on both that it was just one time, and that only Bills fans think it was dirty.
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On 7/26/2018 at 5:49 AM, Teddy KGB said:
The parents are baked. The mj industry is blowing up.
Smoke > Drink all day long.
Some have things to do the next day
This is a very localized and/or self-absorbed opinion. Not on this board, but I'd be interested to see where you draw your conclusions from. The marijuana industry is not "blowing up"; even in states where it has been legalized it is having financial problems. And voting in those states and border states has been fairly high in discussion about the legalization. Not that it's likely to be overturned, but to say "no one cares" is an overstatement.
I personally couldn't care less if a person who depends on being at peak physical capacity in a sport that includes the top .00000002% of the world's population (to be fair, the top .00004% of the US) wants to take a depressant. But the NFL can't afford to do as you are and assume that your perspective is every one else's view, including advertisers. Why do you think the kneeling for the anthem is such a big deal to the NFL? Same concerns.
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On 8/1/2018 at 2:53 AM, Kelly the Dog said:
I didn't read it but there was only one thing I sort of agreed with, and he pulled that one thing out of his ass, and when he talked about x he assumed y was a fact when it was an opinion and that 4th or 5th thing was just flat wrong.
On 8/1/2018 at 4:18 AM, Kelly the Dog said:Don't really know what to elucidate on, I didn't read the article and stated that I didn't read the article.
"I didn't read it"...
Then you go on to comment on what you agreed with and facts vs assumptions list the "4th or 5th thing" was wrong.
Either this is top level trolling/humor, or our definitions of reading and then commenting are different.
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9 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:
The Bills drafted him and traded him..
Making the point that the situation is very Billsy..
Kind of like releasing Gillislee rather than paying for him like the fans wanted?
Or the certainty that Chris Hogan would become a star in NE when he actually caught less passes for less yards than his average in Buffalo?
Or trading away our star MLB (Kiko) for an over-the-hill RB? [Nothing Shady: Eagles own Bills in LeSean McCoy-Kiko Alonso trade: "In reality, they just owned Buffalo in this proposed deal"- the Sporting News.com]
Or another highly drafted LB from LSU (Sheppard) to the Colts for a criminally underperforming DE/LB hybrid from TCU?!? (quote: "one of former general manager Bill Polian's worst picks in Indianapolis...")
I love the recency bias - or more correctly because it isn't even true recently - malaise bias that Bills fans have that we make worse trades than other teams.
Confirmed: Bills to start rookie QB Josh Allen vs. Chargers
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Why do you think they don't see it?
Have you not noticed the overall quality of offensive linemen across the NFL is bad? Why do you think two of the o-line that DIDN'T make the Bills roster were immediately snatched from waivers?
There just aren't good o-line players that aren't signed. There are a lot of mediocre to poor players, which we have enough of.