The Frankish Reich
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28 minutes ago, chongli said:
Why does McD insist on playing guys out of position like Oliver above, and Edmunds, whom most agree should be moved to the outside?? Ugh.
McD is a fine coach. But he’s still a young coach, and he’s still in the mode
of “the defense we built in Carolina is the model for a successful NFL defense.”
Luke Kuechly was a dominant playmaking MLB there, so he’s focused on taking the raw talent of Edmunds and shaping him into the same type of player.
Star was the middle of the line wall, so bring him in here.
That allowed Kawann Short to be a playmaker next to Star (11 sacks in their SB season), so make Ed Oliver the new Kawann Short.
I think he’ll start to show a bit more flexibility as the problems with the sustainability of that Carolina model (without the Carolina players in their primes) is becoming apparent. The distinction with the offense is obvious,since Daboll has adapted to his personnel rather than making his personnel adapt to his scheme. Maybe a little more of a hands-off approach on defense is in order, letting Frazier (or whomever it may be) do what he thinks is optimal?
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2 hours ago, DCOrange said:
Honestly, this seems kinda disrespectful to Tampa.
You think?
They beat GB twice. They dominated not just the Super Bowl vs KC, but also the second half of that regular season game. They crushed the team that had just crushed the Bills. They ended the season as clearly the best team in football, and it wasn’t even close. Everyone important seems to be coming back. And they are 4th, behind KC, us, and GB?
Was this written before the Super Bowl?
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26 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Story referenced:
https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-expected-to-have-toe-surgery-following-season
The Chiefs seem to be saying back for training camp, which makes sense for a 6 month injury (back by beginning of August)
The good news for him: Dr David Chao is not actually his doctor.
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Marty’s last year as a coach was 2006
in San Diego. After a career of coaching limited (Bernie Kosar) or well past their prime (every former 49er
from Steve DeBerg to Steve Bono to an old Joe Montana himself) QBs, Marty finally got Drew Brees and then Philip Rivers. In 2006 he and Rivers went 14-2. Prime LaDanian Tomlinson was on that team. They lost in the playoffs to the Pats, but looked poised to make a run. And Marty got canned for the worst idea in football: “let’s bring in Norv Turner.”
I wanted the Bills to hire him. Not sure if he just wasn’t interested in yet another coaching gig or if teams just thought he was too old and out of chances. He had a hell of a record: 200-126 (.613 winning percentage, basically averaging a 10-6 season for his career). RIP Marty.
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1 hour ago, Bferra13 said:
Man tough loss. RIP. Seemed like a great guy. On another note, in a quick Google search, found this classy headline from the WaPo
Obituaries
Marty Schottenheimer, NFL coach whose teams wilted in the postseason, dies at 77
Wtf is up with that jeez.
Ouch. I wonder what they’ll have ready to go when Marv Levy’s time comes.
It is important to remember that the writer of the story almost never writes the headline. This jarring headline ison some other staffer.
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Fortunately this fan vid captures the whole field like the All 22, so I've been scouting some of the defenders away from the ball.
The one White Shirt guy takes a good angle at the end. Looks like he's out of the play and our streaker will easily make it into the end zone, but White Shirt #1 never gives up on the play. We need a big guy with a motor like that.
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3 minutes ago, NewEra said:
And the guys in back of them are Devin White and Lavonte David.
david could be a hofer now and white looks well on his way to be the league next dominant mlb, if he’s not already:
True. "Let's do what Tampa did with its front 7" is easier said than done.
Steve Young just pointed that out - high-powered offenses can be shut down when 4 guys are sufficient to bring pressure. But the examples of that happening were the Giants in 2012, Ravens in 2013, Broncos in 2015. And no team in the rest of the past decade.
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8 minutes ago, NewEra said:
That DL is a wrecking crew backed by the best 1-2 LB unit in the league. The secondary is aggressive and physical. I don’t think it’s possible for us to build that kind of front 7. Suh, barret and jpp are all premier pass rushing demons and Vea is a force of nature
Yeah, this is kind of a "let's put together a super group for one last concert tour" thing. Suh was the most dominant interior defensive lineman in his prime. JPP one of the best pass rushers. Shaq Barrett is a current Pro Bowler who just keeps getting better. All veterans, all still with enough physical talent to turn it on again for one epic playoff run. I'm not sure that's something anyone else can copy.
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5 minutes ago, MJS said:
You liked the Jeep one? I thought it was pretty lame.
Like, if you want to preach to us don't try to sell us Jeeps at the same time.
It wasn't so much that the Jeep commercial was preachy (it was). It was kind of a downer.
I think they were going for the same thing as the Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial in 2012 - the one coming after the great recession and Chrysler/GM rescue packages. But that one just seemed to sound a more optimistic tone, a kind of "our best days are in front of us" thing. This one? Not so much.
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12 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Why did it take a 2 time winning super bowl coach that long to make it in? I know nothing about Flores but that seems really strange.
Mostly because he was following the huge personality that was John Madden. with the Raiders. He was a damn good coach, but George Seifert following Bill Walsh is in a similar position.
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17 minutes ago, Success said:
Only 2 weeks after we were exposed as the same.
It was like watching a mirror of that game tonight. Weird deja vu. Mahomes even had 20-30 yard sprinting backwards dropbacks.
That's right.
Remember the Moneyball line from Billy Beane? "My [crap] doesn't work in the playoffs."
With a couple notable exceptions (the Kurt Warner Greatest Show on Turf Rams and last year's Chiefs) the track meet style of offense seems to be subject to the Beane rule. Even the Peyton Manning record breaking offenses flopped; it was only the defense-dominant Broncos of 2015 that were able to win when Manning was just a shell of himself.
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Weird how it took so long for KC to be exposed as a one dimensional track meet offense, basically the Rams of 2018.
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10 minutes ago, Tcali said:
Gb better than the bills
Well they got blown out twice by Tampa.
Of course Tampa didn't have a chance to blow us out.
TB was an example of the thing that never works actually working this time - take a decent core and supplement it with over-the-hill great players. Not just Brady (who apparently has found the fountain of youth again) but also Gronk, Antonio Brown, Suh, Fournette, etc. for one big run.
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Just now, RiotAct said:
do we know for sure that he DIDN'T get fully naked?
See ... we'll have to look for low quality youtube fan vids now to get the full story. CBS, I got no use for you.
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7 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:
Kansas City being humbled. And finally being called for all the damn holding on defense.
Also New England looking a bit foolish for thinking they didn’t need Brady to win.
thanks for reminding me ... that's actually a good one. Makes me feel a little better.
I said "a little" ...
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3 minutes ago, dma0034 said:
So the streaker got to the endzone more than the Chiefs did
🤣
But technically speaking, I think you gotta be fully naked to count as a streaker. So he lost some style points.
Could CBS please show him? It's the only thing remotely interesting about this game since the first quarter.
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1 minute ago, Chicken Boo said:
No way, if I'm Tom, that I'm not riding into the sunset on this victory, but that's not him.
He'll be back for #8 next season. Guys like him, Jordan, Mayweather, Ricky Carmichael, Federer/Nadal are just a different breed.
I respect it because it's truly a rare breed to have that killer instinct and to aspire to be the greatest.
My wife, who doesn't really care at all about football, nailed it - Brady on the bench looking serious if not pissed off. Why doesn't he look like he's having fun?
Because he isn't. There's that insane drive to win, to be the no-doubt-about-it GOAT. It's probably why he doesn't get a ton of commercials like lesser gods (Peyton Manning). We want our sports heroes to act like they absolutely love what they're doing and take great joy in it. That's not Tom Brady.
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1 minute ago, prissythecat said:
Love all the whining going on in the Chiefs fan forum . Blaming the refs lol
The refs do get a share of the blame. Called it really tight on the KC DBs but not on the TB DBs.
But really ... this one wasn't close enough that it made a difference.
Best teams in the NFL, c. 2020-21:
1. Tampa Bay
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[huge gap]
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2. KC
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[big gap]
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3. Bills.
Some seasons are like that. It all becomes obvious by the end of the Super Bowl.
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List of things I can be happy about with this Tampa Bay win:
1. Bruce Arians gets a Super Bowl trophy at age 68. Seems like a nice guy who waited his turn. For a long time.
2. ... umm, I got nuthin'
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1 minute ago, Bferra13 said:
They can't slander him. He hasn't been convicted yet.
I feel like you could've worked it in as an excuse for that horrid offensive line play.
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What is this thing where Tom Brady stands right up next to the Center's butt, takes the ball, and hands it to someone behind him? There is no throwing of the football at all. They are calling it a "running game." Maybe we should investigate implementing this innovation in Buffalo next year.
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20 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:
By the time a QB was 35 or 36 he was shot in the old days.
Rule changes have added 5 years to guys' careers, and that's good for the game.
The difference between rings and stats is that no matter what, nobody can ever take your rings. All these passing records will be gone, especially if the league goes to 17 games. They used to play fewer than 16, which always gets mentioned when talking about guys like Jim Brown and his stats.
Not to bring up a difficult issue, but ... that's why OJ's 2003 yards sticks in my memory like Babe Ruth's 60 HRs did.
I think Barry Bonds hit 73* one year, but I'm not positive. I have no idea what the record is now for rushing yards in a season**
*performance aided
**16 games
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49 minutes ago, Buffalo ill said:
Brady is the goat of the modern era. Obviously if he played in the pre "do not touch the qbs and wrs" era his career would have been much shorter.
The more physical game and more primitive medical treatment made everyone break down sooner.
Exactly. No way any QB was going to drop back to throw 10,598 times (Brady's career regular season attempts, not counting sacks) and play till he's 43.
Comparison: Joe Montana threw 5,391 passes. Marino 8,358. This is why QBs are playing at a high level into their late 30s, and in Brady's case, into their mid-40s. And he won't be the last of them to have a 20+ year career as a starting QB.
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3 minutes ago, Dukestreetking said:
This.
In a frighteningly kinetic sport, he is playing highest level football (the game itself), at the most important position, with a very good (not excellent) season
...at his freaking age.
Continual, consistent championship-level/winning play. What else defines hyper-excellence?
(And I hate this m'fer)
Just on the objective stats at age 43:
- QB Rating: 9th in the NFL
- ANY/A (adjusted net yards per attempt): 8th
- Total passing yards: 3rd
- Sack rate: 3rd
I hate that this is happening (Brady on the cusp of winning another SB ring) ... but it is.
We may be entering a new age of increased longevity for QBs with Brady/Rodgers/Rivers all having excellent seasons in their late 30s/early 40s (Brees/Ben on the other hand showing steep declines), so maybe someone catches him some day. But I'm not holding my breath.
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RIP Marty Schottenheimer
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted
That’s a great story. Even if it isn’t true, it ought to be true.
But wait:
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196809290buf.htm
In the Bills only win of the 1968 season, Joe Namath threw 5 picks INCLUDING 3 PICK SIXES - one for 100 yards - and Dan Darragh’s 78 passing yards were enough for the Bills to win. Marty, I think you saved us from the first winless season in NFL/AFL history. 🍻 Cheers to you and Joe Willie. And Brunners.