The Frankish Reich
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21 minutes ago, benderbender said:
That win last year that cost them Trevor Lawrence was a boon. A boon! I have never used that word before. That's how great it turned out for us.
Yeah, I’m retrospect that was probably the worst single mistake the Jets have made, pointlessly winning a game that iced the #1 overall for Jax.
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So you’re saying it wasn’t all Adam Gase’s fault after all?
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1 hour ago, HappyDays said:
The debate is over, Breida needs to be active every week. He scored 2 TDs from within the red zone tonight, and red zone offense has been our weak link all year long. Neither of those TDs would have been scored by Singletary or Moss. They wouldn't have gotten open in time on the TD pass. They wouldn't have accelerated to the end zone that quickly on the TD run. Take those 2 TDs off the board and consider how much we've struggled in the red zone this year, who knows how those drives finish? Breida creates explosive plays in the red zone. Zero reason he should ever be inactive again.
From the I formation .... with a fullback leading the way (although Gilliam didn't really need to block anyone; more like the old term "running interference"). What are these new inventions like "I formations"? Old school can be new school too.
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1 minute ago, Doc said:
He didn’t even make a move towards the defender. He just went into his pass pattern. That’s why I don’t think that his job was to even chip the defender.
Well, that's true ... weird that they had no plan to pick up a blitzer from the right side, but I can't definitively put that on Breida.
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16 minutes ago, Eastport bills said:
Pats are playing as well as any team in football. Unfortunately for them, they're in our division. They can't defend us as well as we can shut them down. They may make the playoffs though.
Yep. I hate to say it, but it's looking like one down year is all the Pats will have. That doesn't mean they should beat us - we have the talent edge for sure - but it does mean my Bills/Pats role reversal dreams will probably not come true.
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8 minutes ago, Eastport bills said:
Finally, it took the Jags debauchery to get Sean ÷Co. to get this guy on the field. What a shock,we've added another dimension to this offense.
de·bauch·er·y
/dəˈbôCHərē/
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noun
excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
Hey, whatever it takes. I just hope there's no video of Urban Meyer's latest sensual indulgences.
[I think it was meant to be "debacle"]
3 minutes ago, Doc said:
I’d be more inclined to put that on Josh. Breida was concentrating on getting into his pass pattern.Nope, I'm pretty sure he was supposed to pick up the blitzer before going into his route.
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Bills coaching staff reads TSW! Or maybe they watch the film and see the same things we do.
- get Breida involved! As in 2 TDs involved!! (We'll excuse the garbage time fumble)
- use a FB/heavy set every now and then! (that was my particular piece of advice). I saw Gilliam out there more than in any prior game, even in an old-fashioned I formation that actually worked.
- get Diggs the damn ball! As in "get the ball near him and he will make good things happen" as we saw today.
- mix it up, play Allen under center and pass from that formation every now and then! And the play action helped the line against the pass rush, particularly as the game went on.
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2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
My conclusion is that far from being too "gimmicky" and RPO-centric on rush attempts, we have a gigantic "tell". Shotgun: play the pass and contain Josh Allen. Under center: Key on the run.
That would definitely seem to follow from your analysis - way too predictable.
By the way, a lot of what you just did is exactly what the much disparaged analytics guy-in-the-khaki-pants types do. I certainly hope they've recognized these trends too. If not, I hope they read TSW. And that the coaches listen.
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On 11/11/2021 at 2:18 PM, GunnerBill said:
One area where Sanders has been bad (actually worse than bad) is blocking on the outside. The only wide receiver we have among our starters who can block is Diggs.
I think this is probably right, but to really confirm it we'd have to have a RB who can actually get outside.
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36 minutes ago, Special K said:
Robert Woods is f&$@‘n crazy!!!!
Still the best post title ever.
I'm no Rams fan (they are acting like the Yankees of old, acquiring every name player available, which is the surest way to incur my hatred), but I gotta feel bad for Woods. He's still the one former Bill of recent memory that I really regret letting get away. Not the biggest, not the fastest, but he just has a will to succeed that overcomes everything. I hope this knee injury is another example of that.
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18 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
Good for Chucky
Goodell has done nothing good for the NFL. He can’t leave the commissioner’s office soon enough for me!
Well, there's always this:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/193457/total-league-revenue-of-the-nfl-since-2005/
It's a business, not a public service. I have to assume the owners love the bottom line results or they wouldn't keep re-upping him.
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20 minutes ago, Irv said:
Leader of the free sheeple? Please do not allow this ^ vaccinated lamb's photo to ruin our little Borax Bath Party.
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On 11/10/2021 at 1:19 PM, SoCal Deek said:
I pop back in here once in awhile only to find the same nonsensical arguments going back and forth.....for months now. The primary argument is NOT against vaccines. It is against the government's right/ability to mandate them!
Carry on.
Exactly. I started the damn thread and even I'm sick of it.
Vaccine mandates? I'm for them (hey, that's the title of the thread!) but I will gladly concede that there is room for debate. Mandate for whom? When? What types of exemptions? All of that is ... debatable.
Watching this morph into "vaccines are garbage" or "vaccines are part of a vast big pharma conspiracy" or, as we have it in the latest version, actually RUIN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM is just depressing.
If one wants to lose all faith in the intelligence of ordinary Americans, well, this may be the place to start.
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1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Do you mean LT here?
Sorry, I meant Brown was abused at RT, and that doesn't bode well for him moving to LT.
In general, I'm an optimist re: O line issues. NFL coaching staffs generally figure out a way to patch them together during the course of the season. We probably all remember the disastrous Pats O line in, what was it, 2016 or 17? They got it fixed. Even our historically bad O line at the start of 2018 was poor but ... better by the end of that season. Sometimes a good reshuffling is the start.
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20 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
I would put Brown at LT; Dawkins looks like he never really got over his Covid infection.
Yikes. After a promising first couple games, Brown was pretty much abused at RT. I don't want to see him protecting Allen's blindside anytime soon.
I do agree about Dawkins. There's been a cascade effect stemming from his subpar health/play. But I don't think there's any real alternative there. He has to play through it and we have to hope that by January he's closer to the 2020 version of Dion Dawkins; otherwise, we'll be in rough shape approaching the playoffs.
1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:In hindsight, maybe he looked like a solid starter for us in 2019 because he was an improvement on John Miller, or because any G would look improved playing next to Mitch Morse vs Russ Bodine.
Agreed. Between a healthy Dawkins and Morse, a healthy Feliciano was certainly able to hold his own. But that's just not been the case this year. I'm all for experimenting when you're talking about swapping out one journeyman type for another journeyman type - sometimes (Justin Zimmer for about one calendar year?) you get lucky.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
With 11 starts and a handful of other games where he took >50% of the snaps over 7 seasons, I think Douglas has already shown he can play in the NFL.
The question is "how well?" since neither of the teams he started for considered him more than a capable fill-in.
He is the very definition of "journeyman"
How many destinations must one have to be labeled a "journeyman?" Because but for his mere two NFL stops, that's kind of how I see Feliciano. I imagine he may graduate from apprentice to journeyman next season.
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On 11/9/2021 at 12:02 PM, GoBills808 said:
Won’t watch anything Paul-related again
bad for boxing imo and I’m a fan of the sport
File under: Embarrassing Admissions.
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4 hours ago, JerseyBills said:
This is what is meant by "regression." No, Josh Allen did not get "worse" than he was last year. No, Josh Allen did not unlearn the important things he learned in 2019 and 2020. Unless we're talking about a veteran mediocrity who suddenly has a great season in his mid-30s (Rich Gannon?), we never know when a guy is having a career season until after the fact. You could say the same thing about Patrick Mahomes' sophomore NFL season, his first as a starter.
We still have a very, very good QB, and he'll still do great things. He may have seasons that equal or even exceed his 2020 season. But absolutely everything fell into place just right last year, and no one should realistically expect that to happen year after year after year.
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33 minutes ago, FlaFitz1 said:
Retired from the NFL and working for USC (Gamecocks not Trojans) as an analyst
Thanks for the update! And no, I didn't seriously mean DiMarco himself, but maybe a younger DiMarco type ....
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2 hours ago, Bakin said:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410
negative efficacy at 7-9 months.
it’s destroying your immune system.I thought you were citing a sketchy paper. You weren't. It's a real study by reputable scientists in Sweden.
But ... IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT YOU CLAIM.
Read the abstract. It confirms waning effectiveness of the non-mRNA vaccine, possibly going to zero after 121 days, whereas the mRNA remains effective, although at a reduced level.
Therefore, it concludes that there is a strong case for boosters.
Really, some of you anti-vaxxers will twist facts any which way to prove a stupid, made-up point about highly effective vaccines somehow "ruining" your immune system.
Here's the conclusion of the Swedish study. Show me where it says "COVID-19 vaccines actually ruin your immune system over time" You should be embarrassed to have posted something so completely untethered to reality.
Interpretation: Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic Covid-19 infection wanes progressively over time across all subgroups, but at different rate according to type of vaccine, and faster for men and older frail individuals. The effectiveness against severe illness seems to remain high through 9 months, although not for men, older frail individuals, and individuals with comorbidities. This strengthens the evidence-based rationale for administration of a third booster dose.
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2 minutes ago, Bob in STL said:
If not, then maybe we see Ryan Bates or Jamal Douglas. They can’t be worse.
Usually whenever someone says this, I am right there to respond "oh, yes they can - that's why the current guys won the job." But in this case I feel like it's the early 2018 line that almost got Allen (and McCarron before him) killed. I don't think it can be worse.
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I don't know about you guys, but personally I'd like to see a fullback on the roster. Lord knows we need someone to help with pass protection, and the ability to changeup to a heavy set wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to keep defenses off balance.
Speaking of forcibly retired players ... Hey, where's Patrick DiMarco these days?
EDIT: a real fullback, not a jack of all trades TE/FB/Special Teams Guy (Gilliam type)
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I just maxed out our savings bond purchases for 2021, and I'll be right back for more in 2022. I Bonds - boring-ass old people's savings vehicle - are now paying an annualized rate of 7.12 percent. I have some old bond I bought in the early 2000s that are currently paying over 10 percent. No, I don't believe what politicians or the Fed tell me about inflation. This is the Treasury's own formula for the prevailing inflation rate, incorporated into the I bond rate. So at least 7 percent on an annualized basis.
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2 minutes ago, mannc said:
A lot of people.
(Re: Allen being top of the 2018 QB class)
Has anyone gone back to look at what the "experts" said? I'd tend to agree with this. Wasn't it something like an even split between Mayfield/Allen/Darnold/Rosen with a smaller Lamar contingent?
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Attention traders - you too can buy stock in the Packers
in The Stadium Wall
Posted · Edited by The Frankish Reich
I'm pretty sure the NFL owners banned the concept of public ownership of a team. Heaven forbid a community could have a real stake in "its" team.
As for this "stock" offering (the quotes are necessary), this is from the offering website itself:
Common stock does not constitute an investment in “stock” in the common sense of the term.
Purchasers should not purchase common stock with the purpose of making a profit.
I don't know how they are even allowed to use the word "stock" since it in no way resembles stock as we know it.
And the "stock" is not transferable (except to your heirs, etc.), and I couldn't figure out what voting rights, if any, it carries with it. It is simply symbolic.
Maybe you'd be better off buying a piece of turf from an old/re-sodded field if you want a symbol of Packerlove.