The Frankish Reich
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Flores, that's why you really go for it instead of the idiotic "let's try to draw them Offside."
They netted about 30 yards on that punt.
Tie game.
(why do i find this game weirdly entertaining?)
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Just now, HappyDays said:
It is a rudimentary offense because that's what he is capable of running. Quick throws to the 1st read.
12th start.
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2 minutes ago, TBBills said:
Yea yea sure... He wasn't even made Captain by his team. They are the ones around him every day.
I don't see greatness there for sure. But maybe Ryan Tannehill style goodness? Definitely possible.
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1 minute ago, mannc said:
When will mediocre coaches stop going to the “hard count” when they should just line up and go for the first down? It’s about as effective as “icing the kicker” with a timeout.
Yeah, it's one of my pet peeves. The most boring, gutless play in football.
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Just now, HappyDays said:
What traits are you hoping he develops? His entire skill set can be summed up as "he makes decently accurate throws on his 1st read." He does nothing special. A QB like him needs to be elite with his ball placement and reading the defense. He is neither.
A very accurate passer. Stuck in a pretty rudimentary offense.
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Editing my earlier comment about the 2021 Jags being comparable to the 2018 Bills - the difference is Urban Meyer seems to be in over his head. So far.
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1 minute ago, HappyDays said:
Tua looks decent when he throws to his 1st read. It's everything that happens beyond that where he falls apart.
I know I'm in the minority, but I'm not giving up on him yet.
Guy is making his 12th NFL start today.
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2 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
Yep. The grey area is where NFL officiating lives. Ironic that their uniforms are black and white.
But what the hell is the Jags' D back doing standing over him and flexing WHEN THE GUY JUST BEAT HIM?
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Just now, BillsEnthusiast said:
Ah touche
You're welcome, Frank. 😃
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12 minutes ago, BillsEnthusiast said:
Class of 2014 IIRC. Probably my alma mater's most notable athlete of the last 50 years.
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That taunter really should have been the tauntee. Dude just took your hit and made the catch.
Idiot.
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5 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:
Watching these teams just reminds me of the inertia of being bad and how lucky we are as fans that we got McDermott and Allen to jump us out of it. We were in that spin cycle for so long.
I said it before and it wasn't well received: squint hard enough and you can see the 2018 Bills in these 2021 Jags.
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5 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Mandate free and in school masklees. Impossible
West Berlin:
But as soon as you go through that Brandenburg Gate to East Berlin, I hear it's a different story. It's kind of like the Twilight Zone, where you suddenly find yourself in 1989 being watched by snipers if you ever try to return.
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2 hours ago, B-Man said:
Quaint, yes.
Model for the rest of Canada, much less for the rest of the world? Umm, not exactly.
https://www.mtlblog.com/quebec-was-voted-worst-canadian-province-for-handling-the-pandemic
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1739152451667
And it's not just about handling of the pandemic. Quebec is the "leader" in lots and lots of things you don't want to lead in:
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11 hours ago, Bockeye said:
Here, let me help you on the passport idea:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-badge-during-the-nazi-era
Ahh, Godwin's Law. And it only took 165 pages.
Really, this is the most trite, lazy response imaginable.
And it's not limited to the right wing. We also have these oh-so-clever "just like 1942 Germany." Funny, when I've traveled abroad I pretty much always have my passport on me, even when I'm in somewhere like the UK. But I guess they must be closet fascists.
https://www.mira-mo.org/show-me-your-papers-law
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Bills will not get coverage.
Oh yes they will. If we make it to the Super Bowl, and especially if we win a Super Bowl. Ask yourself: did KC get a lot of media attention, a lot of prime time games when they were a really good team, losing playoff games with Alex Smith?
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46 minutes ago, dwight in philly said:
Sports reporting , IMHO,(because im old)
I'm sensing a pattern here.
You and me both ...
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When I was younger, back in the (gasp!) Bills Super Bowl runs, I didn't live in Buffalo. I rarely watched Bills games on TV. There was no internet. I watched ESPN highlights. Actually looked forward to Sports Center. And I read newspaper and magazine summaries about what happened in yesterday's (last weekend's game). Like, really paid attention to some reporter's description of how the Bills converted on that critical 4th and 3.
When I was younger still, there was no ESPN and Sports Center. There was only the newspaper and, later in the week, Sports Illustrated. Or if my folks took me to the part of town with the good drug store with the news stand, The Sporting News. I devoured those columns about what happened in last week's game. And there was an art to the writing: setting the scene, describing what actually happened on the field, not just writing some meta-story about how "what happened on the field" means something bigger, or shows some moral fiber or some moral failing.
Who on earth would read a description of what happened today? I'll watch the clips. Or if I really care about a team, I for damn sure will watch the game as it happens. So the art of descriptive reporting has fallen into decay. Nobody wants to read it, nobody learns to write it.
Roger Angell, the New Yorker baseball writer, was the last of the breed. He'd do World Series summaries a full two weeks or more after the fact. They were beautifully written. He's 101 years old. I last remember reading one of these about 10 years ago. I think he gave it up at about 93 ...
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This is turning into a fantastic draft year for Beane. Rousseau is already a major contributor. Spencer Brown - a 5th round small program guy - cracked the starting lineup in the first month. Basham is older, obviously more limited than Rousseau, but was ready to fill a rotational role. It's rare to find 3 immediate contributors in the draft for a team that was already in the conference championship game, hence one without many glaring weaknesses.
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16 hours ago, John from Riverside said:
I told everyone here that Manny Sands was DIggs light and a better WR then Smoke
He is
I loved Smoke. But ... he was always the classic speedburner receiver, and that speed seemed to be in decline last year. He did a great job transforming himself into a possession receive in the first half of last season. But I'm not sure he ever broke free long all season. So Beane did his homework - Sanders is 3 years older, but he's got more left in the tank than Brown. And he was an overall better receiver throughout his career. Bottom line: Brown is still looking for a job.
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2 hours ago, OrangeBills said:
It's mostly all of them...since Leftists don't really comprehend basic rules of Economics.
But to answer your question, there are specifically THREE policies that have inarguably led to my likely conservative cost increase:
1) All of the policies surrounding energy that have led to significantly higher natural gas and gasoline prices. All of that is not free, it gets passed on...I know Leftists want to increase the price of Energy so that new Green-Energy sources make more sense (unfortunate that Greens/Leftists don't like Nuclear these days), but predictably they will hurt countless lives on their quest to get there...
2) All of the policies that convince people that they don't have to work, and that the State will care for their livelihoods. Yes, when the gov't shut down the economy to "stop the virus" (hilarious concept, BTW) they rightfully issued checks to those people whose lives they'd ruined...BUT, when the virus was a YEAR OLD, this idiotic "Administration" launched its "HISTORIC PANDEMIC RELIEF BILL of $1.9T" that was not necessary and really trapped citizens in a world of "I don't need to work because they're just sending me money". Now they want to borrow more money just to hand it to citizens, absurd
Leftists won't understand this but excessive borrowing just means that IRs will remain low/zero forever, creating asset-price inflation that ultimately means your increased Transfer Payments aren't enough to actually buy a home, for instance, or afford the type of life you want to live. This is most clearly demonstrated in the national housing market which is obviously pricing out those in the lower-income area (and no, more transfer payments won't help this)
3) The arbitrary Minimum Wage hikes very clearly only add to inflationary pressures; the market could/would/should force wages to rise in accordance with commensurate economic balance, but Leftist's don't understand this, and it will only hurt those they're trying to "help" as has occurred throughout all time.
Well, I'm not about to defend all of the Dems' policies, both enacted and proposed. But ...
1. Consider for a moment Trump's tariffs. And yes, Biden has pretty much kept them in place.
2. Consider for another moment Trump's (and, in turn, Hillary's and then Biden's) opposition to free trade deals.
3. Consider for yet another moment the fact that we no longer have a party that is even officially (if not in practice) committed to reducing the deficit and reforming entitlement spending.
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How quickly we forget. Jim Schwartz's D Line rotation in 2014 made us think guys like Stefan Charles and Manny Lawson and Jarius Wynn were starter quality. He actually played the D line rotation like hockey lines. It was super effective.
My analogy: one of the great insights of the baseball stats geeks is that even an ace starting pitcher becomes no better than a mediocre pitcher the third time through the batting order. Hence starters getting pulled in the 5th inning in the playoffs. (Whether this has made MLB a better or worse experience for the spectator is another question.) Same thing on the D Line. Even a dominant D lineman like Marcel Dareus (at the time!) was a worse option when tired than a fresh mediocrity like Stefan Charles. O Lines are more of a unit and aren't easy to sub in and out. Fresh D lineman over the course of a game win the war of attrition.
Beane got the depth. Frazier is using it beautifully.
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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:
Does anyone have an "Emmanuel Sanders is washed up" apology form though? Because I think I need to submit one of those.
He's the one that's owed an apology. Knox dropped some big catches. Sanders? Allen overthrew him in Game 1 and everyone was saying that means Sanders is done.
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Where will I go to post my "We don't get no respect" comments? I am deeply disturbed by this development.
Around the League week 6
in The Stadium Wall
Posted
what the hell was that? That's the play they'd been saving up as the Play that Saves the Season?
Pathetic.