Terry Tate

I don't have as deep a knowledge of football as many posters, but since the 13 seconds game, I don't have very much faith in the coaching staff's ability to take this team to a SB win. This HC showed he can get a team running well, but gameday management, oof. Not everyone can get a team running well, so I accepted that they hoped this would improve with experience, as it sometimes does. With this in mind, taking on more responsibility as DC was the absolute wrong move to make. That effort should have been to focus on the HC tasking that you have not mastered. As they say, 'do your job'. Hard to improve (if it is possible) when you have two jobs. Sean may get there someday, but not in this configuration. It's making him a worse HC.

I attended this game, end zone seats. Seemed like every time any team crossed mid field it was in the other direction. 11 year old me didn't see very much of the actual game.

First coach I thought of while this was going on was Bill Parcells.

Watched YTTV RedZone channel since the Bills weren't on. I don't recall the host's name, but he's no Andrew Siciliano. The jumping back and forth between games seemed a little more jarring than DTVs RedZone, where the host spent a lot of time describing what was going on in other games while you were watching one, and switching back and forth had some context added to at least briefly inform where you were switching to. The YTTV method is the millisecond a play was over they jump to another game where a play is about to happen without any other information. It can be a bit difficult to stay with.

Good job! Many years ago I learned there is a common redneck engineering solution to wire a plug to backfeed from a portable generator via a dryer outlet to power the house. This step is very easy to accomplish, and requires little to no understanding of what you're dealing with. And as you might imagine, long-term outages here are often accompanied by news stories of electrocutions, fires, injured/dead linemen, or a whole house full of blown appliances due to it. Just hoping anyone interested does the same level of research and planning as you described. There's a lot more commercial solutions available these days, so maybe it's not as big an issue.

It sounds like you went through the trouble to set this up properly. Having a little experience with power outages in FL, I would just like to caution people about DIYing this type of setup. You can set this up pretty easily with a portable generator, but please consider: - line workers will be in danger if they assume a line is without power, but it is live due to power backfeed flowing from your house. You need to ensure your house is disconnected from the power lines. - Being able to throw a light switch or turn on a fan is awesome, but be careful with turning on major appliances (let alone AC/Heat). Your generator may not be able to provide as stable/consistent power as line power, and major appliances could be damaged. You have to make sure the generator output is able to handle what demands you place on it. There's a reason whole house generators are more expensive than the standard portables.

I guess this is about the best they can do if the game is canceled. The game did not resume this week, so the schedule change (week 19!) would affect all other teams in the league. However, the possible coin-flip for playoff home field between Ravens/Bengals just doesn't seem necessary or right.

100% dumping DTV, had it since 1994 for Bills NFL ST/Sabres NHL Center Ice. YouTubeTV will have sunday ticket, so that's it for the Bills. Maybe they get NHL at some point, but the NHL channel isn't part of their programming currently. I recently got the Hulu/ESPN/Disney bundle, and it has almost every Sabres game (MSG feed). TNT is part of YouTubeTV, so that just leaves any games that are exclusively on the NHL channel, which is pretty few. I believe I read that DTV was paying $1.5B for NFL ST, and YouTubeTV is going to pay in the $2B range, so I'm curious to see what they charge for it.

I've noticed a couple teams doing this in the past couple weeks, man in motion timed to be behind the QB at the snap to push the pile. Pretty successful so far, but if/when defenses plan for it, it provides a tell when the ball will be snapped. Will be interesting to see this wrinkle evolve on both sides.

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I did not hear what everyone else seems to have heard. I heard him 'I wish I was a better - quarterback ... maybe I'd be playing today'. While not entirely clear because he seems to half mumble 'he' or 'I', the second part of the statement would make absolutely no sense if he was referring to Josh Rosen. Who, by the way, is an NFL caliber athlete, but is still the wrong Josh.

(that's his sister.)

On the subject of charity, in case anyone was wondering. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2017/9/24/16355250/buffalo-bills-players-support-charities-lesean-mccoy-lorenzo-alexander-colin-kaepernick

Also in on Boyd. It's gone up a couple thousand in minutes. Again, most Buffalo story ever.

IN. This is Buffalo.

Ouch. Yes, absolutely. Raising one for them right now.

Believable. But I wouldn't post it, that I didn't cause trouble with a friend or player. Guy I work with is close friends with a current Bill. Just sayin'.

Fourth in the league is probably a little disappointing, to be honest with you, because that's not where my expectations are.

“A woman was arrested out here in Los Angeles for trading sex not for money but for spaghetti dinners. Would that make her a pastatute?” -Johnny Carson

According to Wiki, Brian Daboll started his coaching career as an assistant at William & Mary in 1997, the same time McDermott was a player there. Not that it means anything, just interesting. Another interesting note (to me anyway) - he ls a St Francis HS (Athol Springs) Alum. I don't advocate anyone, I just started looking through playoff team offense staffs for any connections to coach McD and saw this.

Wait, his real first name isn't Alex? It's like I don't even know who he is anymore. http://www.theonion.com/article/report-friend-has-been-going-middle-name-whole-fuc-54509

Thank you for restoring my faith in reading comprehension. I was beginning to think Jerry Sullivan had multiple aliases on this board. JHC people, get a grip. Maybe review some Schoolhouse Rock lessons.