GunnerBill
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I didn't see him give up a long pass play... but it was on 1am-4am here in the UK.... I can't promise I didn't miss the odd play with my eyes closed!
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I don't want just a Super Bowl win and fade away like almost all do now....
Reed your passion spills out in your posts and I think a lot understand your frustration. I've been a Bills fan since 2002 and we haven't even been to the play-offs in that time... I'm kinda sick of the hoping as well.... but honestly the bit of your post I've quoted...... I might sell members of my family for that..... I wouldn't care if we faded away for another 14 years afterwards.... the Bills WIN a Superbowl (by domination or by fluke I wouldn't mind)?? That would keep me going for about 20 years I think
Disclaimer: I wouldn't actually sell members of my family...... or I don't think I would....
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Chandler is a lock for the roster if fit...... anyone think there is a chance they only keep one more?
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Marrone has already said that Hopkins only makes the team as a kick off specialist. Carpenter is safe. In a team with your QBs who haven't yet proven their ability to cash in once in the redzone you need a reliable kicker and Carpenter was about as reliable as they come last year.... and he has a great beard.
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Lots of talk since the start of camp about how well Da'Norris Searcy had been showing in practice, however, last night I was impressed with what I saw from Duke Williams. He was one of the positives of the night for me... for a second year guy who didn't play a lot of snaps in his rookie year I thought he showed up really nicely last night. Could he win the starting job alongside Aaron Williams?
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Fantastic notes! Loved reading that with my lunchtime cup of tea. Almost felt like being stood at the side of the field they were that detailed. Top, top job.
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Do you think the Bills will stick to the usual HOF game 1 series and out for the starters? Or do you think they will treat it more like a normal 1st pre-season game and have a lot of the starters play the entire 1st Quarter? It is on late over here and I need to know how long it is worth staying up for..... do I need to book Monday morning off work??
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I do think EJ looks and feels comfortable throwing to Hogan. That's why I think Hogan makes this team. They are basically going to pick the top 4 (Watkins, Williams, Woods, Goodwin) the best special teamer (Easley) and then whichever one of the rest EJ seems to have the best chemistry with and from what I read and see on the highlights from all the way over here in the UK that seems at this stage to be Hogan.
Although I see both sides of the argument myself and flip from Hogan to TJ to keep both and ditch Easley by the hour.
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I think the other thing in Hogan's favour is he seems to be a guy EJ has some chemistry with. Even just on the highlights through OTAs etc I have seem them connect a fair few times. If it comes down to a tie don't bet against that being a deciding factor for the staff.
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I think it is intruiging. There are 4 locks and I think they will take two from Easley, Hogan and TJ. Elliott has size but I'm not convinced he has anything else just going on the bits I saw before he got hurt last pre-season. I don't think he is a very good route runner. I think it comes down to this.....
Hogan is the best receiver of the three and seems a solid "team" guy. He runs precise routes which is something I think they are looking for with EJ and is one of the reasons they let Stevie go. They want guys who run their routes inch perfect so that EJ has to make as little adjustment as possible. But does he have enough other elements? He is a good special teams player but not a stand out and he is never going to be an explosive playmaker. Easley is a special teams monster... and if he makes the team you are basically picking 5 receivers and a special teamer who can play WR in a crisis. TJ Graham seems to fit a lot of the fast paced, up tempo, luck follows speed type rhetoric that we have heard both from Marrone and Hackett, but has disappointed on the field. That said I do think he gets held a LOT on plays. One of the bigger things he could work on (and I mean this seriously) is selling PI calls to the officials. DeSean Jackson is a master of it... he makes sure that nobody can miss a hold on him.
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In most countries in Europe there is a 'tv tax' which each household pays based on the number of tvs they have (i think) and the government doles this money out to the various Free TV networks based on ratings.
Close but not quite. Most European countries have some form of national public service broadcaster based on our dear old BBC here in Britain. You pay your TV license (I think in the UK one license covers up to 4 TVs in the house) and that funds the BBC - it does not go to other free to air channels and again that is pretty much a uniform pan-European approach that the TV license covers the public service broadcaster only. The BBC has zero commercials on their channels (not just during sport but no commercials period).
The other main sports broadcasting free to air broadcaster in the UK (ITV) sell their ads during the World Cup for premium price and the World Cup is protected by law for free to air TV (so they don't have to bid huge amounts against Pay TV services for the broadcast rights). Therefore even after ITV have paid for the broadcast rights the World Cup commercials before games, after games and druing half time more than make up for the cost.
The Premier League here is not available on free to air TV... it is shown exclusively by two subscription channels and they make their money on a mixture of advertising revenues and subscriptions (and that is true across most of Europe in respect of their domestice leagues). When a subscriptions broadcaster loses live soccer their subscriptions fall through the floor. You have to remember the NFL has 16 regular season games per team and then 4 weeks of play-offs. The Premier League is a 38 game season.... so lots more games to advertise before, after and during half time of.
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I have made the point previously about Marrone's input at New Orleans. Whilst I completely accept that Payton calls the plays on gameday (and let's be honest why wouldn't you? He is one of the best play callers in the business) it is illogical to suggest, as some have, that Marrone "only did protections". A lot of the weekly game planning that OCs do would still have been on Marrone, even if it was within Payton's parameters. The idea that Payton had the time to do all of that himself is, I would suggest, underestimating the time it takes.
Will Marrone be a successful coach of the Bills? A lot will of course depend on EJ Manuel, but also Marrone himself with a year under his belt needs to avoid repeating some of his mistakes of last year.
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Patriots 10-6
Jets 9-7
Bills 8-8
Dolphins 4-12
But I think the Biils / Jets will come down to the meetings between the two. Could be the other way around. I see the Patriots slipping slowly back to the pack and the Dolphins stinking.
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Whitner did have a better year for the 9ers last year, but he still whiffed on plays in the play-offs. I think the 9ers probably thought they could get someone cheaper to do the same kind of job.... likewise the Browns wanted an experienced vet who they could trust to play.
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Tim Howard, is widely considered to be one of the top 5 (at least) in the world.
I'm working my way through this thread slowly and generally I think you have made some very good points CodeMonkey... but Tim Howard top 5 in the World??? He isn't even top 5 in the Premier League (although I think you can make a reasonable argument for the Premier League having 4 of the top 5 in the worldat the present time) the 5th (or actually 1st) being Manuel Neur. Howard is a good keeper... but top 5 is a bit of an overstatement. Doesn't have enough command of his penalty area to be considered elite.
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It's simple, slow, and acting hurt is part of the game.
It really is not simple I can assure you. It might look simple... it really isn't. Slow? It can be depending on the game, but some NFL games can be slow to all sports have good games and bad ones. Play acting? Yep, you are correct it is one of the worst elements of the sport and you will struggle to find a soccer fan who disagrees with that.
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I don't think the Dolphins coach will see out the season myself. I reckon they open 1-6 and he is fired by week 7.
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I'm obviously biased on this topic - soccer is in my blood it's been part of my life for as longas I can remember. My dad played professionally and managed sem-professionally, I've played semi-pro, coached sem-pro, managed semi-pro.... it's part of my cultural upbringing.
But I find myself defending soccer to Americans in very much the same terms that I end up defending American football to some people here in Britain. Both are games of huge intricacy and unless you are willing to put in signifcant amounts of time to understand those intricacies I can see why you might find either game dull, boring, even in some cases relatively unskilled.
When you actually get deeply into the strategy of the two gmes I think you would be surprised at how many of the same fundamental concepts exist.
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The injury time aspect isn't completely black and white. The referee won't stop the game if a team is just about to shoot it into an empty net to tie the game. Its more of a judgement call when the required time has passed. The next goal kick, or throw-in, or even clear into midfield brings about the close to a game.
You say that..... the semi-pro team I manage played a game last year where right on half time my midfield player broke through the defence and had gone around the goalkeeper and was about to put the ball into the unguarded net when the referee blew for half time. I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. We were losing 1-0 at the time as well. Did my team talk for me though, the players were properly fired up after that and we smashed them 4-1 in the end.
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My boss here in London is also a Bears fan. I'm not looking forward to the Monday morning after if we lose the opener.
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I think Crossman has to get performance this year. Whilst I think the excuse trotted out was a bit weak... it was certainly true that a lot of ST players from the previous season were not on our roster last year. The number of teams players we have added in FA and the draft however gives him little room to hide this year. If he can't mould these guys into, at worst, top half of the league then he should go.
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Robert Woods for me too. He had a decent rookie year... but I think he is going to be huge in 2014 from the slot.
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This is a worry. I'm starting to think he may not turn himself around.
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I don't think the AFC East is a great division, but I do think it's going to be competitive this year. I don't think the Patriots will quite have it all their own way as they have for much of the past decade, although clearly they are still the favourites. It wouldn't surprise me if the 4 teams in the division are all between 7 and 9 wins at the end.
Just so that people understand....regarding batted passes
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But what a hell of a party......... I think I'd be drunk for a month.