Punt75
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Maybe Reggie Ragland was a BUST also! He's played in 6 games for the Chiefs, zero sacks and 7 solo tackles. When he and Shaq were drafted I had great expectations.
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I agree 100% !!! And, I feel the line-up of BN sports reports have very repetitive articles day after day!
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I thought he was drafted as a pass rusher? Suddenly he's become an 'average' DL. I don't see the quick's needed to upset any offense. I'd rather have Alexander come in and take his spot with Milano at LB in passing situations. The lack of pressure from the front 4 is killing the defense.
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On 11/3/2017 at 10:08 AM, Bray Wyatt said:
we need a pass rusher and lb, not sure which first. A DT is up there too but I don't think we need to use a 1st on one this year
definitely a DE/LB pass rusher! Shaq is a bust!
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9 hours ago, frostbitmic said:
Kinda looking like ne ,Pitt, Jax and KC win their divisions while Buff and Tenn get the wild cards as of this week. Anything can happen with half a season to go though.
That's the way I see it too! A split with the Dolphins & PATS gets us in!!
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2 hours ago, TallskiWallski83 said:
I dont think they do
Fitz played today in his spot! Kind of goofy!!
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3 hours ago, billsfan11 said:
He is slumping for sure. But he throws such a pretty ball, I think he will get back to his 2016 season soon enough
Look at the idiots he's throwing to! Key drops and then celebrations for a routine catch.
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1 hour ago, Boatdrinks said:
It's not even 1987 in terms of talent. That '88 team was good enough to win the AFC Championship game if they had been at home. This team is a long way off from that level.
Agreed. More like 1986 also when Marv arrived. Lot's of improvements to be made all over the roster.
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8 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
How much of a STer was Gilly? That's a major consideration with this regime.
Neither he or Jonathan Williams were eager to play special teams. Not Chris Hogan type players!
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Why are we blaming Tyrod? The defense was abysmal and everyone was fumbling?
The play calling? Can we !@#$ing cut Tolbert or something?
Watch Shaq Lawson - he's oh so average yet keeps starting.
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what killed us was the rush defence and our defence as a whole..... and all the stupid penalties we did tonight....tonight was a classic rex ryan coached game through and through....plus the drops was another issue...hey at least Zay had a pretty decent game though....sheeshh.....
Doesn't everyone see that Shaq Lawson is a bust?? He hurts the defense!
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Don't have to know the whole playbook to run a route tree. Just gotta tell him what route to run when he's in there. He should play.
Agree. Just get him on the field!
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Taylor will be the starter in 2018, even if they draft a QB. No reason to rush anyone into the job. Besides, we'll be drafting pretty late.
I don't know why everyone thinks we need a QB that can throw for 350 yards per game and still lose?
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Everyone loves this combination right now - - we're winning!
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who the hell cares right now??????????? It's like worrying about the draft half-way through the current season. Relax and enjoy!!
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Man, I remember that game. There was electricity in the air when he stepped on the field. Elway never knew what was coming.
Bennett was double-teamed on his third snap from scrimmage as a pro as a result.
I was there also. He hadn't even practiced much with the team but came out on the field like a rocket.
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You must have hated your baby-sitter!! The coaching staff is doing it - - - -
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This is the Bill B scheme that's gone on for years. Every one thinks Jimmy G must be good - really good - because he's with the Patriots. Remember Mallet and Bledsoe?? It's a con - waiting for a desperate team.
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Jones ran a sub 4.4 at the combine after his senior year. He's never been able to crack a starting line-up at RB. Knowing our Coach & GM they know things we don't about him. I think he's their man if Shady goes down!
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Even if the Bills were interested in dealing Glenn and the Giants were willing to deal, I don't think it would get done before the deadline. With the trades Mr. Beane has pulled off so far, I think we would win either way. Glenn stays and starts or we gain additional draft capital and cap savings.
I agree. We seem to be the winners in our trades but losing a starting LT is tough for the team!
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I'd like to see Denver win but playing at KC makes that very tough. Go Bronco's!!
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Thank you for the great post. You and I are about the same age! I admire you're ability and desire to travel to the home games. "Lookie - Lookie - here comes Cookie"
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The Rockpile Review by Shaw66
A Day to Remember
Tyrod Taylor took the final knee, and the fans who hadn't left cheered. There weren't many left. It had rained lightly but steadily for the first half, and the temperature had never gotten out of the 40s. Fans were cold and wet, and the excitement was over, so most had begun leaving New Era Field by the middle of the fourth quarter.
I cant remember the last time I left a Bills game early. I want to see everything. I believe I owe it to the players to stand with them. So I stay.
The Bills had soundly beaten the Oakland Raiders, 34-14. The Bills gave up a touchdown on the first possession of the game, and it was if the defense said to themselves, and to the Raiders, okay, enough of that. Oaklands not scoring again. And, as is usual with this team, the defense delivered. Except for a more or less meaningless fourth quarter drive where the Bills played keep-everything-in-front-of-you defense, the Raiders, the vaunted Raiders of a year ago, didnt score again.
Fans were jubilant leaving the Stadium, and there was very little taunting of Raider fans. Thats because the Raider fans had begun leaving when the Bills put together a magnificent seven-minute 12-play drive that consumed the second half of the third quarter. The Raiders were down three touchdowns with 15 minutes to go, and the Raider fans had had enough. There werent a lot of Raider fans there to begin with, compared to Jets or Pats or Steeler games. The few who there made some noise when their team came out of the locker room and after the first score, but after that they were silenced.
My cousin and I walked to the car, and all I could think was how great this is. This a real team. No idea how far theyre going, but its a real team, a team that isnt easy to beat because they wont beat themselves.
The rain had begun again. We got in the car and I began the drive, first to Cheektowaga to drop him off, then to Hartford. I hoped the rain would stop before night set in.
We were listening to WGR radio's post-game show. I usually don't listen to those guys Schopp and the Bulldog, because they're overly critical and often arrogant. I wanted to hear if they had changed their tune, and to their credit, they had. They were somewhat at a loss for words because, as they admitted, there was practically nothing to criticize. They didn't know exactly how to rave about the performance, but they did a good job.
During the broadcast they read this list: Marcell Dareus, Aaron Williams, Stephon Gilmore, Cordy Glenn, EJ Manuel, Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins, Cyrus Kouandijo, Ron Darby, Shaq Lawson, Reggie Ragland. Thats the list of all the Bills first and second round draft picks from 2011 through 2016. They all were on the team last season. TWO are on the team today.
Their point, and its a good one, is that included on that list are most of the players we thought of as core talent for the Bills, at one time or another. They're all gone, and they have not been replaced with household names. And yet, the Bills look like they're better now than they have been any time since the Bills started acquiring that talent.
Its proof that Sean McDermott is the real deal. His TEAM wins, not his players. White and Wright are outperforming anything we saw from Gilmore and Darby. Matthews, pick one and Clay are getting as much done as Watkins, Woods and Clay. The Bills still stuff the run without Dareus.
I dropped my cousin and got on I-90 East. Big backup at the Exit 50 toll booth, and its backed up traffic for 15 miles, out past Transit Road. Still raining.
Schopp and the Bulldog kept coming back to their belief that the Bills cant expect to continue winning the takeover-giveaway stats, they cant expect their luck to continue. I thought about Sundays takeways. They werent luck; they were created. Leonard Johnson made the hit that forced the Milano pick six, Milano forced the fumbled punt, Brown tipped the pass that Hyde intercepted. And Raider desperation, caused by the Bills dominance, caused the last INT. Its been that way all season the Bills are forcing the play on defense and taking the ball away when they have a chance.
Ive picked on Brown for the quality of his drops in pass defense. On Sunday he had a nice pass break on a ball down the middle, followed immediately by his tipped ball that caused an interception. His drops were deeper on Sunday, and he was making plays. On Oaklands last, desperation, play of the first half, he lined up 30 yards behind the line scrimmage, flanked by the two safeties, in the classic Tampa two deep drop. Hes learning.
And the Bills are not turning it over because McDermott, apparently daily and maybe even hourly, is demanding that they not turn it over.
Thats not luck.
I made a quick pit stop. Still raining. The service area was overrun with Bills fans heading east. A lot of happiness in that building.
I thought about Taylors performance. It was one of his best. He made just about every play he was asked to make. He misfired on a couple of deeper balls, but he misfired on the safe side of the field no turnovers, baby. He delivered the ball beautifully time and again. The two throws to Holmes were gorgeous. He drilled the throw on Tates big reception. His throw to Matthews on the phantom offensive interference call was pretty.
He hung in the pocket and found the right receiver, or he bailed from the pocket just in time to avoid the sack. Once he scrambled to safety, he set up and found the open man. And the scrambles were things of beauty, repeatedly escaping to freedom from defenders trying desperately to contain him.
Did he check down a lot? You bet he did, just as he was supposed to do, about a half dozen times. A few throw aways. 20-27. Take it any day, or at least any day the running game is working.
The rain didnt stop. I was listening to the Seahawks and Texans. A slugfest, with big play after big play. The Bills rarely allow big plays. They give up yards, but they dont get beat.
TreDavious White was changing sides on Sunday, following Amari Cooper most everywhere he went. In single coverage. Oakland couldnt beat him.
Who lead the Bills in tackles on Sunday? Trae Elston. Whos Trae Elston? I know one thing: he wasnt drafted in the first two rounds. At least Matt Milano was drafted. Matt Who? Matt Milano, the guy with two takeaways and one fumble caused in the last two weeks.
The rain kept coming, but at least beyond Syracuse the traffic thinned out. Passing trucks was tough, with all that spray clouding my vision of the road.
I thought about the crowd. I think theres a big difference between the upper deck crowd and the lower. I think theres noise down there that we dont hear in the cheap seats. There was plenty of noise on Sunday, not so much in the first half, but definitely in the second half. Sometimes it would take a while to get started, but on a lot of plays it got pretty loud before the snap.
Sometime early in the second half I noticed that more or less everyone in the lower bowl was standing. Not upstairs. I looked later in the half still standing. I think the people in the lower bowl stood for the entire second half. And they made noise. That was impressive.
For the second week in a row, McDermott mentioned the crowd in his press conference.
Im going to Met Life on Thursday night. I hope I see a lot of blue in the crowd. Lets rock the place like Atlanta. This team deserves it.
I got past Albany and was heading east toward the Berkshires. I was listening to the Lions and the Steelers. Go Lions! Then Caldwell went for it on fourth and goal from the one stuffed! Field goal would have given them the lead, but Caldwells manhood was at risk, because the Lions hadnt scored any touchdowns. Steelers get a touchdown, and now the Lions are down 8. They get to fourth and goal again, and this time Caldwell takes the field goals. Then, late in the game, fourth and goal once more, but because he didnt take the field goal earlier, he had to go for the TD. STUFFED. Game over.
I think its very simple: take what the game is giving you. If the game is giving you a field goal, take it, say thank you, and move on to the next play. Dont fail to take what the game gives you.
I think McDermott plays that way. The offensive mantra certainly is take what the defense gives you. The defense is bend, dont break the defense accepts the fact that its going to give up yards. In that sense, the game gives you a lot of yards Bills are 22nd in defensive yards per game. But by sticking to the plan, the Bills are second in points per game allowed, and thats what counts.
I might have kicked the field goal at fourth and goal from the one. That was the conservative thing to do. However, the Bills had a couple of things going for them: one was the energy of the crowd, the other was that theyd already achieved the primary goal: eat seven minutes off the clock. Even if the Bills didnt get the TD, the Raiders were going to have trouble scoring twice and stopping the Bills to win the game. We dont see McDermott gamble much. Going for it was a small gamble, and it more or less ended the game.
McDermotts other gamble was the first-half challenge of the spot on fourth down. It was a simple 50-50 bet: if the replay shows something, we get the ball. If its inclusive, we dont. Toss the coin and see how it comes out. Possession is worth a coin toss.
I made the last pit stop around 11 pm at the Blandford service area, in the hills in Massachusetts. The wind was blowing and the rain was pelting everything. The mens room was empty except for one kid wearing Raiders gear. I know how it feels to drive through five hours of crap after your team has gotten stomped. Ive done it for years. I didnt feel sorry for him.
The Dodgers and Astros were 7-7, then 8-8. Incredible game. Incredible heart in those players; no one quit.
Thats what I love about this version of the Bills. They dont quit. They hang together. They take whatever happens, like Jacksonvilles go-ahead touchdown last week, and then they go back to work. The Raiders spanked them early, no problem. Clamp down and wait for the opportunity. Put together a nice drive hit Jones, pop McCoy a couple of times, then scramble and drop the ball into Holmes for the score. Holmes, by the way, seems to live with his toes inside the sideline. Then the Johnson hit and the Bills get a free one.
The Bills heart was on display in the fourth quarter. They went ahead by three scores, but the Raiders came right back with a touchdown of their own. Eleven minutes left, Raiders down 13, theres still time for them to make some noise. They need a three and out, but the Bills wouldnt give it to them. The offensive line and McCoy took control. The Bills ran only nine plays, but that killed five minutes and the Raiders were toast. Shadys long touchdown on the next possession was meaningless, but Shady deserved it for another day being the Man in the offense.
I was home at midnight, in time to see the last hour of one of the best World Series games of all time.
Great day!
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were everyday people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full days hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
Of all people you forgot to mention that Cookie Gilchrist FINALLY was up on the Wall of Fame.
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I hope Humber takes Lorax's side when he comes back. Let Lorax come in for runs and rushing and keep him out of coverage.
Excellent idea! Milano has a gift for being in the right spot and making plays. Isn't it nice to be talking about Milano & Humber in Novemeber!!
I hope Humber takes Lorax's side when he comes back. Let Lorax come in for runs and rushing and keep him out of coverage.
I agree. Isn't it nice to be talking about Humber and Milano in November??
Give Peterman the start vs. the Chargers - and -
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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If our Offensive Line is that bad then we need a QB who has a quick release. Tyrod doesn't have that and constantly drifts too deep in the pocket. He throws a 15 yard completion but the catch is made at the line of scrimmage!! Peterman gets the ball out quickly. I think the O-Line and receivers appreciate that. Maybe he isn't the QB of the future but the team overall needs a different offensive look. IF Peterman falters vs. the Chargers bring Tyrod in and let him be a hero to win the game!