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mjd1001

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  1. Rivalry my A**.  The Bills beat them ONE time in an early regular season game that ended up meaning nothing. They have lost every other time it matters.  Its a cheesy saying, but this is truly a rivarly between a hammer and a nail, with the Bills being the nail.  

    Going forward it doesn't mean anything in the regular season till they get by them in the playoffs.  MAYBE in 12 months from now.

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  2. Ok normally I would not like when people are complaining about the Bills going conservative, but I totally agree this time.

     

    When they open it up, the chiefs can't stop them.  When they go conservative they are getting stopped. And they NEED to keep up with KC.

     

    The Bills could very well lose this game and have their season ended WITHOUT having put their best gameplan on the field. It will truly be a case of the Bills giving away the game.

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  3. 33 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

    Is there any QB who has done less with his immense talent in the playoffs than Rodgers has? In all his years only 1 Super Bowl appearance? Repeated failures in the playoffs and NFC Championship games...


    Rodgers is a tough one for me to figure out.  His stats in the regular season are great.  His stats in the playoffs are really really good (if not great).  But when I watch him play in the playoffs, something is missing.

     

    It just isn't the end result either, its almost when there is a tight game, he isn't the one making the critical mistake causing his team to lose. Instead it just seem like he has a hard time taming that one play to put the other team away, he doesn't land the knockout blow.  To further the boxing analogy, he is that boxer who looks great against lesser opponents...and even against the better opponents he looks good and can 'score points' with the judges, but never can seem to land that knockout blow  as often as he should when things count.

  4. 44 minutes ago, FLFan said:

    I get your point.  You are just wrong.  Move to LA.

    So when you have facts against you and you have nothing left to say, just say something dumb like that.  Gotcha. lol

    On 1/20/2022 at 3:33 PM, Buffalo716 said:

    Pure football is not in a dome end of discussion

     

    I've played coached and scouted for 30 plus years and I've never heard anybody around the game say that pure football has to be played in a dome

     

    And Josh allen threw the ball pretty damn well Saturday night .. and I've seen a lot of quarterbacks throw well in not great conditions 

     

    And I included catching in pure football so throwing is obviously included.. it's part of execution  in bad weather.. that's what makes it grand .. it's a beautiful sport

     

    We just saw a perfect performance in -5°.. the weather didn't effect Josh

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    You people don't understand what 'pure football' is, do you?  you just don't get it.

    Pure football is having every aspect of the athletes ability available. Pure football is watcing every aspect of football played without outside factors limiting it.

     

    Just because for some reason you WANT other variables to take that away, doesn't mean its better football your way. You are just wrong, neanderthal thinking.

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  5. 16 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

    That has nothing to do with what is pure or not in the game of football

     

    What's pure in football is tackling running coaching catching and execution 

     

    And nothing is more pure than seeing that happen to perfection like on Saturday outside in winter 

     

    It's Pure magic which makes football the best sport in the world

    Wrong.

    Pure football is seeing every single thing that players and coaches are capable of doing on the field.

    You say tackling, running, coaching and execution are what is pure football? Well Duh, welcome to my original point, although I think you missed a big one in their called 'passing' that in todays modern game teams kinda like to do.

    In bad weather games, those things become very limited, VERY limited.  Coaches run a much different/more limited game plan, Running on a snow covered field can be 25% slower (if not more) and you can't see the players make cuts or moves as well. Passing, it can be VERY limited on a windy day.

    Pure football? To me that is seeing everything that each and every player have to offer at 100% of their ability to exeucute.  I'm not sure exactly what you consider as pure football, because it appears that doesn't involve passing the ball.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

    Absolutely not going to question your fan Hood based on whether you want a dome or outdoor stadium

     

    But I have reels of games from the 40s some from 30s.. obviously tons

     from the 60s and 70s 

     

    Pure football is and always has been played in the elements

    But it just isn't.  It doesn't matter how thing were 'done in the past', but the game played with all options open...with the players top level skill not being diminished, with the coaches having 100% of their playbook open and able to be used...simply is not in bad weather.  Everytime a game is played in bad weather, more athleticism and coaching options are taken away than are added by the conditions.

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  7. 12 minutes ago, Rampage said:

    I can’t  wait for the new open air stadium so we can weed out all of the babies in this fanbase 🍼 . Disgraceful. 

    Yeah, so you 'paper tough guys' can go to a game in person and watch something less than pure football....so when it is snowing, or has strong winds....you get 75% of the playbook or more that can't be used and we see a bastardized version of football.  Smart, really smart...but hey, if you think it makes you tough and other people babies...then you just keep thinking that. 🤣

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Sharky7337 said:

    Boston is melting down this morning calling for belichecks head. Listening to Greg Hill show is sweet sweet music.

     

     

    Belicheck was never as good as the 'god' they proclaimed him to be when the Pats were on top....and he isn't as bad as those who want him gone now.

     

    He is a very good coach, a great D-coordinator, Who was elevated to 'best ever' status because of a QB  he had (and a bit of cheating, which SOME say is good coaching if you get a way with it).    Now, he is getting a bit older, but I don't think the game as passed him by...just now he as a less talented roster with a rookie QB.  Maybe a new coach would be a good idea, but I don't think if they had a different coach with this current team they would have done much/any better.

     

    Calling for a coaches head/job is par for the course with sports fans, and in some cases media.  We have a couple people on this forum and a couple threads that pop up that say "McDermott must go!" after the Bills lose a game. That is just how some people are.

  9. Not the Boston media, but more about their fanbase and how they are 'entitled' and still don't get that it is over for them for a while...

     

    I don't troll pats forums for the fun of it, but I am a member and used to contribute there, as I lived in Boston 2 times for 4-5 years in the past.  So I always have checked in on those forums on a regular basis, even when not playing the Bills.  There is an active discussion there about what the pats need to do to be competitve for a title again...the thing that struck me is...not even half way down the first page and there are posts saying stuff like...

     

    "We need a good draft this year so we can be back in the Superbowl in a couple years".

     

    Another post on the very first page was..."Not worried about AFC competition. We just need to tweak some things, add more youth/talent, have good injury luck, and continue to improve. We will be fine. We were literally 2 wins away from being the #1 seed in the conference."

     

    Another thing about the Boston media....a lot of them have their "5 thoughts" or "15 thoughts" about the game articles and most of them I have read, from the MEDIA, complains about the officiating and how it hurt the Pats.  Boston.com had an article up yesterday where it was the 2nd or 3rd thing mentioned.  Mark Morse had an article where he listed missed calls by the officials that hurt the Pats, but not one call was mentioned the other way.

     

    Its not a surprise, but they REALLY do think everything about that franchise is just so much better than anywhere else that it will be a quick fix and they will be on their way to Superbowls again.  It'll be a tough few years listening to those fans, but they will come back to earth, eventually.

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  10. The Pats might have a few years of struggling to even make a wildcard, let a long contend for a division title.

     

    Miami is going through some changes, but the Pats just don't match up well against them. And unless the Bills take some serious steps back, there are 4 games for the Pats they will be lucky to go 2-2, with 1-3 more likely.

     

    Is Mac Jones the answer? Can get get a lot better? The physical talent isn't great, but he could become more accurate and even better at making reads...so I won't rule out he will be a very good QB...but odds are what we saw might be his ceiling for the next few years.  he could get better but many QB's have that 2nd year where Defenses adjust to them.  It normally is more difficult for QBs with less physical talent.

     

    The Defense.  They are going to rely on it for a while, but again, we may have seen their best year this year for a while.  J.C. Jackson is their 'superstar' and they are likely to pay him like one...but from all I have seen of him, he is a good DB that can be beaten by good wrs.  McCourty, Collins, and Hightower have been the playmakers here in the past, but they are all on the wrong side of 30 years old and all of them are showing major signs of slowing down. They have a lot of young guys on that D-unit, but none of them are showing consistent signs of being difference makers.

     

    They aren't picking until 21st in the draft (I think), and they only have 4 picks in the first 5 rounds. (normally I'm not sweating not having a 5th rounder, but they need as many young/fast top 100 college talent guys as possible)

     

    If everything goes right for the Pats, the Bills and Phins have major injury issues next year...and the Jets fail to improve at all, then maybe the Pats can contend for a division title.  I just see them being a 'middling' team for the next few years myself though.

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