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I am quitting a rather long hour, high stress job. I had no idea I could profit in terms of clicks, market share, and ad revenue by writing and producing material that appeals to the paranoid. Paranoia, I thought, was a narrow niche disease afflicting a tiny segment of society.
And so, I’m off. DM if you’re interested in anti - Big Foot weaponry or want to know the Super Bowl winner. I’ll be announcing it in a video after the Super Bowl’s played, not before, to “demonstrate” how the fix was in.
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You’d not ask if you ever heard, and saw, Haley Reinhart and Postmodern Jukebox’s version …
Oh, baby!
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8 hours ago, The Red King said:
This. Although I'm more inclined to believe the refs are biased toward KC. The PI that wasn't called on the pic when Lamar threw into triple coverage, and the horrifically blatent PI near the end that forced the Ravens to settle for a field goal stand out. The calls on Baltimore were legit, but the refs let KC get away with murder.
You’re right, but I had to consider the other play and its impact, also. There was that second and seven where Baltimore picked up four yards, setting up the third and three. Flowers had a hand full of jersey four yards deep on a corner, and the so the KC safety slid right, allowing for at least one yard of the four picked up. Had that not happened, KC is likely to have passed on third and five instead of handing the ball to Pacheco, who picked up the first by half a yard. That allowed the clock to keep moving and led to a touchdown 11 plays later, most of which had penalties of one sort or another either called or not called, some against each team.
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2 hours ago, Sharky7337 said:
Im sorry but no. The only guy who proved he can is burrow. Thats it. The delusion here is something.
Have you watched any Bills vs KC games? How do you define “not hang”? Do you know what delusion means?
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Imagine that … a field goal from THAT DISTANCE!
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Lamar can’t be MVP because of turnovers … or, so I hear.
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11 hours ago, Warcodered said:
He says as the couch he's sleeping on is currently in the shot.
“I fired the bonehead that did that mistake.”
Irony …
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9 hours ago, boyst said:
His teammates seem to love him.
I have thought about this. I’ve considered the same with Aaron Rodgers. Do they love him, or is it just easier to say you do if you’re one of them? I’m not in that locker room and don’t know. Your point is valid.
Irony … I’m lounging before church, sipping a coffee, interwebbing, and wearing a Diggs tee shirt given to me as a Christmas gift last year.,
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14 hours ago, chongli said:
This is a really good show where Eric covered a variety of topics in his interview of Brandon Beane in his Centered on Buffalo podcast. My commentary is below.
[From the description:
Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Bean discusses life after the season ends, the emotional toll of not winning a championship, his belief in Josh Allen as a franchise quarterback, building the roster to compete for a Super Bowl, the reality of salary cap constraints, favorite memories from the Kentucky Derby, favorite wing spot in Buffalo, opinion on the rule of fumbling the ball out of the end zone, how Eric Ciano keeps his job for so long, and predictions for the championship games.
00:00 Life of a GM after the season ends
03:24 The emotional toll of not winning a championship
05:14 Resiliency of the team
07:26 Brandon Bean's belief in Josh Allen as a franchise quarterback
10:49 Building the roster to compete for a Super Bowl
15:12 The reality of salary cap constraints
18:52 Favorite memories from the Kentucky Derby
21:00 Balancing work and downtime as a GM
22:39 Favorite wing spot in Buffalo
24:02 Opinion on the rule of fumbling the ball out of the end zone
27:11 How Eric Ciano keeps his job for so long
29:30 Predictions for the championship games.]
My commentary:
Josh [10:49]:
Josh may have turnovers and may even cost you some games (like the Jets Week 1: 3 INT's and 1 fumble), but he is a playmaker. He makes way more plays than turnovers. He is like an Elway or a Favre. Eric Wood said he played with a lot of QB's who rarely turned the ball over, but they never had 300 yards and did not win games like Josh. He leads the league all time in fewest playoff turnovers. So when it matters, Josh does not turn it over. Eric is tired of defensing Allen in regard to this issue, because it is not true. Josh was in the top 5 in completions two years in a row, which had ever been done.
Josh and Patrick have re-written the book on how coaches look at side-arm, difficult-angle throws. Their athleticism is amazing and make defending them very hard.Josh is the type of player who puts the team on his back. He goes out and wins the game for you. You have to live with his occasional mistakes. You can't get mad at him when he makes so many outstanding plays.
Salary Cap Constraints [15:12]:
Start at the division and build a team to match up against all divisional foes. Then who are the other teams that are consistent contenders in the conference (Baltimore, KC, Cincy).
The salary cap is absolutely real. The question is are you paying cash now or putting it on credit debt.
They had a plan when they reset the cap in 2018. They added some players in 2019 a 2020, then COVID hit in 2020 and the cap went down from $198 million to $182 million, so that screwed them over and they haven't caught up. It should have gone to $210 or $211 million. They had a lot of big salaries (Josh, White, Dawkins, Milano, Stef) and they have had to put more money little by little each year into debt. They try to do it responsibly, but at the same time, the Pegulas told him they want to win. So it is a fine line.
Kentucky Derby [18:52]
Beane had a great time at Eric's place. Stayed up to 2 or 2:30 asking who's going to bed first. He was treated to a VIP experience at the Derby itself. Had fun at the Dustin Lynch private concert after.
Off-season plan [21:00]:
a. Coaches get off next week. They need some downtime.
b. Football staff goes to Senior Bowl next week then comes back and does free agent meetings.
c. Then college scouts come in and they lock themselves in the building for two straight weeks and go through every player on their board. They try to have their board in a good spot before going to Indy. They call the combine the "underwear Olympics" where players aren't in pads, so it is not the same.
d. Week before the Combine is a vacation week for all. Beane's wife is arranging that. It must have a golf course.
Brandon Beane's favorite wing spot in Buffalo [22.39]:
Bar-Bill, both Cajun and honey barbeque. His wife just picked up some last night in fact. He prefers neither blue cheese nor ranch. Dipping the wing would be insulting it. If he had to, he prefers ranch.
Sixty two years of waiting and my hopes and dreams are in the hands of a man who both prefers ranch and is willing to say it out loud!
My work is done, here, God … take me anytime.
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5 hours ago, ChrisWatson#21 said:
Because he is by FAR the best and most talented QB in the NFL and we all that have witnessed him play here for six years know that. Trust me Josh Allen is HIM when it comes to QB’s. It is why I will go to my grave saying he took a dive for the league. There is absolutely no way I will as a Josh Allen and football fan accept how he played that final drive specifically that 2nd and 9 play. No way no how. I know football been watching it for nearly 40 years and most specifically know Josh Allen and that was not him. No chance in hell.
I agree. Allen definitely took a dive. Imagine the choreography that went into scripting Jones and Dawkins to bump him milliseconds before the release. These guys are GOOD! I imagine the agents and marketing companies were involved, too. After all, simply throwing a pick in a critical situation would decrease Allen’s contract value at the next signing. You have to imagine the DBs were also briefed. You know, leave TWO men open. Of course their agents, and staffs. I have been watching football for FIFTY years, and your hypothesis still holds. I’m waiting for the All 22. There had to be a lone figure on the grassy knoll scoreboard, in case something went wrong. You know, a Jack Ruby of sorts in case something went wrong. A closer, or fail safe. We’ll know we’re correct if we see Allen driving an unexplainable nice car, or a new stereo or something. You watch, the losing quarterback in the AFC Championship is going to throw an incompletion, and we’ll have even more evidence.
I have to stop, now. One of my transmitter molars is coming loose and I don’t want to miss an assignment. I may be sent to discredit some of the “sharps” who had the wrong side of Vegas. They’ve been edgy since small market Green Bay beat big market Dallas a couple of weeks ago. Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel.
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17 hours ago, BillsfaninCT said:
math doesn't work.
The Bills went 16 plays ON THAT DRIVE
had the ball for more than 37 minutes in the game
78 plays to Kansas City's 47
--(yet KC was winning, giving the ball back with 1:50 to go is the best decision?? lets check the math)
Josh Allen completed 26 of 39 passes for 186 yards and a touchdown but Josh rushed for 72 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries, zero plays throwing over 20yds
--but now we gonna take 25yrd kill shots after diggs just dropped one in his hands instead of run josh or i dunno take diggs on a crosser wide open? like you, know, what worked??
2mins of 37mins is 5% of the offensive time of possession.
at the 2 min warning with 5% of possession time left to control the game, it makes zero football sense even if you only consider that drive, let alone the game, let alone the previous 6 games. 418mins of 420... that's 99.52% thrown away on 2 kill shot plays, nonsense.
you're telling me that with 3.3% left to go in the game and 5% of their total T.O.P., running the clock out and scoring a touch down wins the game or running the clock out and kicking a field goal guarantees overtime, that ONLY at the 2min warning do they change their mind is both buffalo's decision and is the thing to do?
nobody can actually be serious about looking directly at diggs and throwing to Shakir as "the best option" with that math and pretext. it's total nonsense because it doesn't add up.
i can't accept that. the outcome is the outcome but I'd love to have the communications going on at the 2 min warning.
Grateful for the effort. Putting a bunch of numbers into paragraphs doesn’t meet the minimum requirement for “math” to take place, though. I do see a bunch of numbers, certainly!
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On 1/23/2024 at 7:12 AM, boyst said:
Why do so many people not care about Diggs? Disrespect him? Think so poorly of him?
Go to a game. He is on the field warming up with as much passion as anyone. He talks to the crowd, he makes the game special for many people - especially children. The dude wears his heart on his sleeve for each game and remains a higher end talent at WR.
It's weird - especially because he is the only WR we have going into next season.
Well, I can’t answer for everybody, but for me it’s because he’s a self impressed turd of a teammate who can no longer be cloaked by performance. He’s over priced, too, but that’s not his fault.
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Prayers and best wishes …
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On 1/25/2024 at 10:19 PM, QCity said:
What’s an expleeetive?
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On 1/24/2024 at 12:47 PM, Shaw66 said:
Not that anyone cares, but I’ve reached a new plateau in my fandom.
I’ve been a Bills fan since 1960. When I was a kid, there was nothing more important to me than whether the Bills (and the Browns) won. There was no greater weekend in my life (to that point) than when the Bills and the Browns won the AFL and NFL championship games on successive games. A friend of mine came over to my house that Sunday night, and we talked and talked about one game, then the other, then the first, over and over. It was great.
In the Super Bowl years, I absolutely ached for a Lombardi. It hurt each year when they lost, and it hurt doubly as I watched my kids suffer through the losses, too.
When I began writing the Rockpile Review, I allowed the anxiety associated with the games to grow, as I watched and studied and reviewed, analyzed data, read other columns. Every season was a disappointment.
Somehow, this season, a lot has changed. I’m still a fan, I look forward to every game, and I’m thrilled when the Bills win. What’s changed is that I’ve gotten more or less non-judgmental. I don’t think much about why some play didn’t work, and I don’t think much about who’s to blame. If the Bills win, great. If they lose, I feel bad for the players, but I tend to let it go. My attitude is sort of like watching my ten-year-old kid’s game – great if they win, sorry for my kid if he loses.
I don’t how this transition happened, but I definitely seem to have entered a new stage to my fandom. And it’s nice.
And so it was that I was sitting in Highmark Stadium, desperately wanting a win but knowing all along that if the Bills lost, I’d just drive home the next day and hardly give the game a second thought. When Bass missed the field goal, the irony of it being wide right didn’t even occur to me. I just knew the game was over, and the next day would be a nice day.
So, if you’re looking for in-depth analysis, it ain’t here. Someone else can fret over whether Allen should have thrown underneath to Diggs, why they tried the fake punt, who blew the coverage on Kelce, but I don’t worry about it. It happened.
Here are some thoughts about the game:
I love going to those games. Crowd was amazing. Plays were amazing. It's actually better to go to a game like that if you aren't a fan of either team, because then you can enjoy the plays that BOTH teams make.
Fundamentally, the Bills weren't good enough. KC's offense was fabulous - scored on every possession but one. The book on KC was to beat them you have to hold them under 20. That's when they lose. The Bills defense wasn't good enough. The real killer was the end of the game. Bills miss the field goal, they need the Chiefs to go three and out, everyone knows the Chiefs are going to run the ball, and the Bills gave them 8 yards on a run up the middle. Game ended right there. Just horrible.
Do you want to know what the worst sound is that I’ve every heard in that stadium? Bass’s kick went up, and whole stadium went silent, except for the sound of about 1000 people cheering under the scoreboard. That’s where the Chiefs fans were, and they could see the ball sailing wide. It sounded like people cheering in some imaginary stadium next door. Horrible sound.
I think the problem with the defense is that although it's very effective, it's very predictable. It's a bend-don't-break defense. They gave up a lot of yards during the season, but they were fourth in points allowed. That's a great defense for the regular season, but when you play against the best offenses, and the best offensive coordinators, it puts you at a disadvantage. The Bills need a playoff defense, and that’s something I’m sure McDermott will work on.
Andy Reid is a special offensive coach, with decades of experience. With Mahomes at QB and against a predictable defense, Reid gives the Chiefs a big advantage. Reid always had a play to run, he seemed always to be a step ahead of the Bills. The result was all of those explosive plays, and the Bills didn't have answers. The Bills needed some defensive stops, and they couldn't get them. The best stop they got was a prayer, the fumble out of bounds in the end zone.
On the other side of the ball, the Chiefs had one of the best defenses in the league this year, but there was nothing to complain about with the Bills offense. Well, James Cook dropped what should have been a touchdown in the red zone. Diggs should have caught the incredible bomb from Allen - I haven't seen the replay, but I think that was a 65-yard throw that hit Diggs on the run.
Joe Brady wasn’t great in the red zone. He needed better answers.
Allen was great. I think he's matured, and we're finally starting to see the complete package. Mahomes is the only guy who throws as well as Allen, Jackson is the only guy who runs better than Allen. He now is running the offense with discipline and intelligence. The mature Josh Allen began to emerge this season, and it was a sight to behold. He is an incredible gift to Bills fans.
How about the future? It’s bright.
Yeah, yeah, Bills have an old roster and cap issues, but it's all just talk. When you have an old roster, you have more experience. I'll take Josh Allen now over Josh Allen four years ago because, well, he's older. All that young roster stuff is baloney. Rosters turn over all the time. Rams only had two guys on the roster from the team that won the Super Bowl two years ago. Think about that!
So, yeah, some of the Bills will be gone. Hyde will be the biggest loss, but they have his replacement on the team. Poyer probably will be back. Von Miller is old, but he's still recovering from his ACL, and he can still play. Bills had one of the best offenses and one of the best defenses in the league, and they'll turn over parts of the lineup like they always do, and they'll be fine. They'll get two or three rookies who will play, and two or three free agents will play. Allen, Cook, Diggs, Knox, Kincaid, Shakir are all back, so they have their skill guys on offense, and the whole offensive line will be back. Milano and Bernard will be back at the linebacker spots, and the Bills should have both starting corners back, too.
I listened to McDermott’s and Beane’s season-ending pressers, and it encouraged me. They’re on the job. They’re working actively to make the team better. They don’t talk so much about it anymore, but there’s a process, and they’re sticking to it. When McDermott talked about Josh and Bernard and Shakir and Kincaid, I could hear the excitement in his voice – those are the kinds of guys he wants on his team and he can build around. He didn’t talk about White or Milano, because they weren’t with the team at the end, but they’re the guys he wants, too. And Taron Johnson and Dawkins and, well, keep naming them.
When Josh Allen finished his junior season in high school, do you think his coaches sat around bemoaning the loss of their seniors and wondering what they were going to do? No. All they thought was, “We have Josh Allen and the other teams don’t. All we have to do is work with the guys who show up at tryouts, and we’ll be fine.” That’s essentially what Beane and McDermott were saying. “We may not have Davis, but we’ll have someone. We may not have Jones at tackle, but we’ll have someone. We may not have Hyde at safety, but we’ll have someone. We have Josh Allen and the other teams don’t.”
It’s incredibly difficult to win the Super Bowl. By the divisional round in the playoffs, all the teams are good. Packers were good. Texans were good. Every game is a tough game. All you can do is work at getting better, every day, every week, every season. That’s what the Bills do.
The Bills will keep getting better.
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 every-day people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full day’s hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
Sometimes you find your words when another man writes them …. grateful.
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5 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:
lol, no it wasn't. Josh scores a TD there and we lose. Mahomes beat us with 13 seconds and a far stronger defense. He would have had a 1:45 and a pile of timeouts. There would just be a different person to blame. The right play there was to wind the clock down as far as possible and get the TD with under 30 seconds or tie it with a FG as time expires
I agree … if you get the opening kickoff, the best series is a thirty minute drive scoring a TD on the last play of the half. Then, no matter what happens on the opponent’s first drive of the second half, you take the kickoff and bleed the entire second half down to one play. If the opponent scored a TD on their opening drive, you either score a TD or a FG to win. If the opponent failed to score on their drive, you take a knee and win.
You should always pass on scoring TDs and instead bleed the clock to the end because nothing ever happens to end a drive.
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It was me. The lead was changing possession to possession. Bills by four, Chiefs by three, and so on. At 8:59 PM, late Q3 or early Q4, I sent the following text to my friend. Cut and paste.
Three, seven three seven … it comes down to Tyler Bass missing a field goal … i’ll say 44 yarder.
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3 hours ago, RousseauRage said:
Yay...another loss where we can pretend he's the greatest 🙄
Absurd …..
I’ve been Bills fan for fifty years. Traveled to SuperBowls and had season tickets. He’s the best quarterback, arguably player, we’ve ever had. He’s a first ballot hall of famer. His team struggles against the Chiefs who are poised to become an all time great team in the same conversation with the Packers, Steelers, Cowboys and 49ers. They, and only they, have Allen’s team’s number. If you mean he’s not the greatest of all time, I’ll congratulate you for an astute grasp of the obvious but ask you who is. If you mean he’s not good enough to win on any Sunday, at the top of his class, great in any meaningful definition of the word, I’ll not congratulate you, but I’ll forgive you for a profound lack of history, context, proportion and vocabulary.
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I’ll think about this. In the meantime, I have Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” on loop …
Hello Darkness, my old friend …
I’ve come to talk to you, again …
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8 hours ago, Westside said:
Hahaha……..he’s making the pegulas and the nfl too much money to fire. He’s doing exactly what the nfl wants him to do.
What money is he making for the Pagulas and the NFL, and what does the NFL want him to do, that is different from a hypothetical replacement?
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If you have two open receivers and two throws you can make, you choose the throw to the end zone. Everytime. Every situation. Allen was bumped as he threw. The pass was incomplete. Calling this boneheaded or hero ball puts you in the category of the national talking heads who picked up phrases three years ago and haven’t paid attention since.
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4 hours ago, PepeSilvia said:
This game is a cataclysm of the last 6 years into one game.
the highs, the lows, the still not being able to cover Travis Kelce, the still letting mahommes pirouette around and get a big first down or finding someone open downfield.
Tyler bass didn’t lose this game. From the first snap mistakes were made from Diggs fumbling. To the last drive with Diggs dropping a huge pass, Josh fumbling with 5 mins left and then missing Shakir in the back of the end zone.
this is another game of missed opportunities. Blame who you want. There’s plenty to go around
I am awarding “cataclysm” the Malaprop of the Year for 2024 despite the fact that it’s only January.
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I’m done with Diggs
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Do you wonder if the league is fixed?
in The Stadium Wall
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Careful, you’re thinking clearly …. “they” are going to silence you. I’m sure they can create some after the fact “facts” video to challenge what you wrote.
Ads are sold, and revenue generated, long before the pairing is known. WAIT, could that mean the 100s of thousands of employees at the advertisers are in on it, too?
If I read this thread correctly, the only people not in on the fix are a small portion of the fans.
As I type, it occurs to me that this THREAD is rigged! ISPs and POP UP ADS. Cuz, you know, they’re businesses, and in it to make a profit. This is entertainment, after all. Is Netflix rigged?
‘Alas, Queeg …
“Ahh, but the strawberries! That's - that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with - geometric logic - that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist! And I'd have PRODUCED that key if they hadn't've pulled the Caine out of action! I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers -“