Thrivefourfive
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I don’t wanna hear it. All it takes is one weak link, and I’m not in favor of this happening right now with where this team is at as far as Super Bowl of Bust.
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10 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
I'm still holding out to see if they win a Super Bowl first before I give them my full allegiance
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Guess it’s okay if the conversations meander a t(h)ad 😐
Are the Bills your first NFL love?
Whats your first Bills memory either way?
- Yes. One and only
- My first memory is hearing around the house that Jim Kelly is destroying with the Gamblers and acting cautiously exuberant that he’s coming to save the Bills. The very first word-for-word quote I can recall is, (on the 1987 season) “Grandpa thinks the Bills aren’t too bad.”
One more random thought.. can anyone can shed light on the Legend of Brian McClure? He’s 61 now so nothing life threatening. But drafted by Bills in 86, starts one game in 87, and the stream runs dry? Injuried beyond repair in his only game? Did he get recruited by The Farm? Cold War Double Agent?
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McClBr20.htm
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Young fans are more likely to follow players, not teams. Shame really. But if Josh makes them fans, I love it. More the merrier.
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Say it loud! The universe needs more sounds wave of “Bills” “Super Bowl” “Champs”
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He’s twice the size of our TE!
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As two more top prospects go early in the draft to add to the number of better tight ends drafted in the league post DK86. But we shall see. If the Bills can’t find a use for him this season can’t imagine they’d do anything to retain his services
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12 hours ago, Ya Digg? said:
Oh cool, another one of these "the guy didn't play well his rookie year so he's never going to be good" threads. Can we, for the love of God, ever actually give these guys a chance before we go all doom and gloom on them?
Why? Hairston can’t tackle 🍿-
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21 minutes ago, Magox said:
He's not a 1 technique, and it's not about the size. It all boils down to whether or not he will be a good player or not.
Agree. I think everyone here wanted a nose tackle though. Sanders is a QB pressure guy. The Bills need to pressure the QB. time’s gonna tell.-
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I think I hate seeing Collins at like 335lbs. I think our guy Sanders needs to be 320lbs to make me comfortable. Here’s to hoping Beane knows what he’s doing. Because this draft pick is HUGE
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5 minutes ago, davefan66 said:
Could it be? Of course.Just the structure of the billion dollar sports machine that is the NFL makes it far less common to happen. Player ability and marketability and the money that it produces ultimately is what drives the NFL.
Weird part about all this? It will probably drive more conversation and “hot takes” for the talking heads than if he was drafted first round.
It does. It’s circular. No one on TV wants to admit that they pushed Sanders for clicks. That they and their bosses in the offices are in bed with clicks. There’s a smaller group of “experts” that took themselves seriously as experts. They look like fools now, and are scraping for their jobs.Daniel Jeremiah is supposed to give us accurate info about the inter workings of teams. He’s supposed to be a real expert with real info. Not a talking head. NFL network cannot keep him. I’ll laugh at everything he says now in his expert voice. The networks aren’t shy about ditching these guys anymore. It’ll be fox sports, then cbssports, then podcast guest spots, and he’ll be paying for his own insurance soon. He’s touted as an expert, and he’s proven he’s clueless in such a big way, about the brightest spot in the draft, about the biggest position in sports. That’s so embarrassing. He knows.
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Man, same with the Chiefs. Except not really.. the Chiefs give Mahomes enough. The Bills are saying Allen, you go figure it out with scrubs as skill players on offense. You can do it, kid! While they hope all these defenders can make up the difference.
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5 minutes ago, davefan66 said:
The NFL is one place I don’t think race plays into decisions. Ever? Who knows, but if that is an issue, it’s rare.In a QB hungry league race isn’t the issue. At some point his abilities should get him drafted as a backup or project
All the stuff that comes with him? Teams are not willing to use a high draft pick on that.
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10 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
Man do I feel bad for this victim, Sanders 🤣 -
1 minute ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
Given how many posts you have saying the same thing, seems like this is a win for you!
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Just now, C.Biscuit97 said:
Your post is literally the first time I have heard this about race (also the people who complain about everything being so race driven love bringing up race).
As someone who felt Sanders could develop into a nfl starter, race has never once entered my mind. It’s about his attitude and his family. I will never believe purely football wise, Gabriel and the 40 year old the Saints drafted are better prospects than Sanders. I also completely not wanting to deal with Sanders and him really needing to mature into be a leader.
I think this could be the best thing for him. He gets humbled and can learn without the pressure of being a franchise guy. But that Colorado team besides him and Hunter pretty much sucked. And those two guys almost single handedly made them into a respectable program. He also did the same at SCSU.
Sorry you live in a cave. It’s being talked about in comments online (not trolls) and on TV. What do you think they mean when they beat around the bush about why he isn’t drafted? When they bring up the good ol’ boys club of NFL owners ??? You, don’t talk about race if it makes you uncomfortable, it’s okay.
He didn’t get drafted because of his skill. Then, he’s a joke as a person + family. Sorry that that there’s thousands upon thousands of people in the country discussing that race has something to do with it. This thread is dissecting reasons he wasn’t drafted yet, and part of that is the expectations set forth by talking heads in media. Who are blatantly Turing tail and blaming everyone under the sun, including race, for why he hasn’t been picked.. because they don’t want to admit that they didn’t see how bad of a pro prospect he is.
Dont call me a race baiter. Thanks.
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56 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
The TV people are just pissed that they are not going to get that easy narrative to push all summer. It would have been a constant story, carrying the sports talk universe through the doldrums of June and July. Now they have to come up with actual content. They don't like that.
He’ll be around on some team. They’ll have their stories. This is a win for media. PLENTY to talk about with this. They’re delusional. It’s a negative in a big fat way -
50 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said:
So it sounds like that problem isn't unique to Shedeur then no? Nfl offices can deal with the outside noise, the problem is how the player himself dealt with the process
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13 minutes ago, davefan66 said:
One could think that this would inject a little humility in this young kid. The wait and what’s being said could help lend a little introspection for him.
I’d be on board with that. If this kid turned out good and this was the fuel.
Problem is, Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The overbearing daddy behind you. Just don’t believe humility will be any part of his future.
I don’t wish him I’ll will. Just was very tired of deions act when he was a player, and especially his run as his sons coach.
I believe the problem is people are saying it’s RACE, COLLUSION, etc. He wont ever get it. He’ll never see that he’s not good enough. He’ll never be a good starter. And he’ll jive with the group that demands HE GIT SCREWED by the league, by teams, by GMs, by coaches.
4 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:Very similar to the 1978 NFL draft. People have bought into Warren Moon's story for decades that nobody in the NFL would play him at QB because of his race, somehow forgetting the facts that Moon signed with the CFL BEFORE the NFL draft (the real reason he went undrafted) & that Doug Williams, the 1st QB selected in the 1978 draft, was a 1st round pick the same year.
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Just now, SCBills said:
Field Yates and Daniel Jeremiah have both done segments on his strengths and the fact that (in a clean pocket) he’s on time, in rhythm and sees the field very well in reading coverage and throwing to the open zone.Shadeur’s issue is that he crumbles under any pressure from the opposing defense and is a complete spaz off platform leading to turnovers and 15 yard sacks.
Combine that with lack of size, mobility and arm strength and he’s a very average prospect.
But he can operate at a decently high level in rhythm/clean pocket and there’s a ton of tape of him throwing darts down the field by dissecting the coverage scheme under those conditions.
Had to explain to wife that I COULD COMPLETE A PASS TO TRAVIS HUNTER.If I could gather my nerves to take a shotgun snap in front of thousands at the Buffalo Stadium place to grip the ball and throw it in Travis Hunter’s direction, no matter the coverage, Hunter could steal the ball from the defender(s).
Throwing from a clean pocket?! A high school starter can do that. Can’t put that in a ‘pro’ column for drafting an NFL QB. Just cannot. No team takes that take seriously. Obviously.3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:Since I live in Colorado, I saw a lot of Buffs football in the Coach Prime era (a whole 2 years). This is the point. He has athletic talent, at least a pretty good arm, and can succeed in the right offense. But inability to read defenses led directly to the inordinate number of sacks he took. It’s hard to imagine that a guy with his athleticism would take so many sacks, but that’s where it is.
The social aspect of this is that once NFL GMs decided that he wasn’t a Game 1 starter, they had to address whether he could fit as a backup. And he obviously failed that test for, well, obvious reasons.
No. Not pretty good. Average. Thank you.
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3 minutes ago, Simon said:
This is not even remotely true; he's constantly late because he doesn't read defenses.
If it were even close to true, he'd have been drafted by now.
Ya mean you don’t like the ‘pro’ column marker: “but his oline sucked”?! 🤣🤣That’s actually what I’m hearing from real people- That a reason he should have been a top ten pick is because his oline sucked!
Delusion
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Sanders Jr. is “Legendary” 🤣🤣
All the talking heads have to save their jobs today. They’ll blame everyone for everything, and never admit that they can’t evaluate for *****. Sanders wasnt drafted because he has nothing that pops on film, nor measurables. They blame collusion 🤣 race 🤣 RACE! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know it’s just sports. But it’s how half the country thinks about other things too. It’s a bigger problem in this country. All I’m gonna say.
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2 minutes ago, SCBills said:
Deion literally talked about dictating who his son would play for.
Why would Beane, or any GM, want that?
Being a HC/GM and needing to take calls from a helicopter parent every day about his son who isn’t even that good..
I think we agree. But can’t say that teams are sticking it to Deion. I think teams know he’s a terrible top draft prospect. Has nothing to do with dad or the circus, upfront. All that just piles onto the No Thanks column.3 minutes ago, ControllerOfPlanetX said:
Collusion delusion…if he was a slam dunk, he would have been drafted by now.The Browns traded for Mr. Baggage, that is how desperate teams are for a QB.
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13 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:
I think the Steelers take him. They need another QB. Good value here. And the Steelers org could handle the Deon circus. Plus, they never fire coaches (kind of a problem sometimes), so it’s not like Deon puts Tomlin on a hot seat.
Only contra to that is the thought that PIT wants to take a top QB next year when draft is in Pgh
They don’t draft QB circuses as a backup flyer. They’re the Steelers. I’d bet he’s off their board.
Anticipated changes in philosophy/scheme in 2025?
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Let’s be honest. On defense we re-signed, and signed a handful of one year question marks. If it doesn’t work I won’t be surprised. Oh the draft. It’s got the reputation as a crap shoot for thousands of reasons, so let’s not pretend we won the damn draft on defensive just yet.
Attitude? I think the whole roster balls out for the MVP Allen. I mean what’s not to LOVE about him as a teammate. If McDermott keeps blowing playoff games, the players should smarten up and suppose Josh no matter what. Know what I’m sayin.