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5 minutes ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:
Whats weird is that I haven’t seen any media outlet raise this yet. Coach K gets a pass, huh?
Of course he does...
as I mentioned in the Cuse thread... he has always been apart of "the club"... he's above criticism
even when he makes coaching errors
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Just now, Another Fan said:
It might be more of an exercise thing. The average person only walks when going to the bathroom and flexes their muscles when texting or in my case posting on TBD
My fingers are jacked
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2 hours ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:
So coach K fouls Syracuse up by 3 with about 30’seconds left? But he lets Kansas get a clean shot at a 3 in the exact same situation and they hit and tie it to go to OT? Anyone criticizing him yet?
Coach K even makes mistakes...
that was critical
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3 minutes ago, LittleJoeCartwright said:
Yes, and they had to overemphasize Mayfield's lack of height by giving him a comparison of Flutie.
Yea that's a crock of ****
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1 hour ago, LittleJoeCartwright said:
NFL.com does a great job of providing rating grades and analysis of all of the draft prospects. The grades are on a scale of 10 and Darnold was given a grade of 7.0. To put that in perspective, their legend shows that a grade between 7.00 and 7.49 classifies a player as "Pro Bowl to All-Pro Ability". His NFL comparison is Andrew Luck.
The grades for the other top QBs and their comparisons are as follows:
Rosen- 6.1, comp- Trent Green
Mayfield- 6.0, Doug Flutie
J.Allen- 6.0, Locker
L.Jackson- 5.9, M.Vick
Grades between 6.0 and 6.49 are noted as "Chance to become good NFL starter".
Comparing Darnold's grade of 7.0 to other position players, only 4 players (Barkley, Nelson, Chubb and Edmunds) were given a higher grade with Barkley the highest at 7.4
So, the NFL.com analysis supports the position that Darnold is probably the only QB that should be taken in the first few picks, and to me, the only one worth the Bills trading a king's ransom to move up for.
The comparison part IS NOT based on play style and projection... it's based almost strictly on a physical, height/weight comparison
Look at who they compare Chad Kelly too... Andy Dalton... they are nothing alike style wise except that they are both 6'2 220
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5 minutes ago, Tyrod's friend said:
great. We'll see how this plays out. And yeah, I know you love the guy. Personally, I don't love the guy. I'd point out that the team with the first pick in the draft already HAS a QB that is shorter than 6'2" and they went out of their way to get him.
But he's off the board before the second pick is called.
Cheers.We will see..
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and TT was a 6th round pick... not first overall
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1 minute ago, Tyrod's friend said:
Is this the height issue? Because if it is, and you are trying to make a case for Rosen you have to know what I'm going to say about that.
Im not making a case for any QB.
Fact is only 1 QB shorter than 6'2 has been drafted top 3 in modern NFL history... Michael Vick
again can you not read when I say I LOVE BAKER MAYFIELD.... No GM has the balls to draft him first overall. I'd wager anything
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Just now, Tyrod's friend said:
I'll take that bet. Go ahead and give me odds. He's #1, and he's #1 going away. Best QB in this draft and it isn't even close.70 years of NFL football says he isn't going #1 ...
I love Baker and think he's a stud , he isn't going #1 overall
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2 minutes ago, Tyrod's friend said:
Taylor, traded to Arizona early in the season to replace the injured Bradford.
Baker Mayfield becomes the starting QB by October 1. Stanton continues to hold clipboard for the next two years.I love Baker but there is 0% chance he goes #1 overall
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1 minute ago, BuffaloRush said:
Trading up for John McCargo was simply unacceptable! Eric Flowers was another horrendous pick
Yea he sucked
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2 minutes ago, NoSaint said:
Beyond that — I think maybin was the most foreseeable bust probably. Dude barely qualified as a sack artist in college.
Im curious if he meant biggest bust or worst pick. Subtle changes in interpretation can make a big difference in the discussion.
Big mike was the big bust... but was he the worst pick?
For sure that makes a difference... Williams played a bit , badly, but played lol
He was just a very disappointing pick
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49 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
I still say Maybin. He was a sack “specialist” who never recorded a sack in his time in Buffalo.
McCargo at least was a late first rounder...Maybin was top 10.
But yeah, McCargo outside of a few moments was pretty bad.
My list for worst 1st rounders would definitely be Maybin and Mike Williams
McCargo was drafted late first and I never expected much
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1 hour ago, Buftex said:
I will always say, John McCargo was th worst 1st round pick of the Bills, sine 1980... and we traded up to get him
He was a very late first... I never had much faith in him. He played with 2 other first round picks on the line at NC State
worse than Mike Williams who we took #2 and only got a few years out of?
Aaron maybin?
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16 hours ago, PetermanThrew5Picks said:
Well yeah that's implied. I genuininely believe he''s the best in the draft. Hope that epic Kansas trash talking slips him to 12
absolutely. GIMME
I really have no clue. Mocks are all over the place.
Mayfield won't fall because of trash talking at Kansas...
he will fall because 6'1 QBs do not get drafted top 10 unless your Michael Vick
I don't see any chance he goes top 5. Too risky for an NFL GM... 8-15 is my guess
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It was pretty entertaining when Kolb slipped on that rubber mat that one time...
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6 minutes ago, bbb said:
Nobody is saying the MVC should get 3-5 teams. But, Loyola should have been in the tourney if they had lost the conference tourney.
And they may have you never know... they coulda bumped out Syracuse
they are a special team
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7 hours ago, bbb said:
And, continue to get screwed by the committee. If Loyola didn't win it's tourney, they wouldn't have made the tourney. Only 3 of the at large bids went to mid majors.
I hear what your saying but realistically the Missouri Valley doesn't deserve 3-5 teams
Everybody cried about SU getting in but they proved the committee correct, they did deserve it
at the end of the day the ACC and Big 10 and Big 12 are the best and deserve the most teams ... though it should still be THE BEST that get in regardless of conference
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It's over a year ago... new people aren't even BBMBrs
they were for like the first month or two that's all lol
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20 minutes ago, BadLandsMeanie said:
Thanks 716. I like it that your house is that way. It felt like we were the only ones back in the day
Oh dear I hadn't thought if that angle Lfod.
Thanks Last Guy I appreciate it.,
Hahaha nope and I'm sure there are lots like us!
i don't think you can look in a direction in my house without seeing a crucifix, a rosary, the blessed Virgin Mary, or infant Jesus hahah
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I'm gonna troll the jets board now for ****s and giggles
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1 hour ago, BadLandsMeanie said:
*** Disclaimer***
There is no football in this at all. No stats, no useful information, no insight, and nothing about the draft. It is just coincidences that happened to me lately that seem weird to me. Feel free to skip it you won't miss any important or relevant football information.
And it is very long so please do skip it if you want I assure you that you will miss nothing.
***End Disclaimer***
Anybody with sense wouldn't go posting this stuff about themselves because it is on the weird side. But I never have had that kind of sense when it comes to my Bills posts before, and it is too late to start now.
In the last few days AJ McCarron became my favorite NFL quarterback. I think he will be good and I think that for mostly superstitious reasons that I don't believe. I know it is just weird, very unlikely coincidences and I don't believe that they mean anything. Except that I do.
It all started back in February I was trying to get rid of some extra stuff around the house and going through old storage boxes. And I come across some of my mother's old religious items that I didn't even know I still had. It is a few old, broken, items of junk actually and she passed away over 20 years ago.
I had no intention of saving this stuff.
Now my mother was very, very Catholic. Too Catholic if you ask me. Growing up I think we had more religious stuff around our house than many churches. Statues (Several Jesus's, a couple Marys, even a Joseph, and crosses, pictures, etc. Some of the statues even had super fancy little outfits.
And we even had a special Risen Jesus statue she put out for Easter. It was 2 feet tall at least. We had a Mary statue in the yard. And the collection kept growing after we kids left the house. We found I bet 100 or 200 rosaries that she made herself because what you do is, make them and send them to the missions overseas.
When I was a toddler we had a life size statue of St Jude with glass eyes in the attic. My grandfather had got it from a church somewhere and we were storing it. I don't know what they did with that thing after a while, but I was very glad when it was gone because I was absolutely terrified of it. Just knowing it was up there freaked me out.
Now when she died we are all sentimental about all this stuff you know because the emotions are so new but after not long we had to figure out what to do with the stuff. I myself had no need for a baby Jesus all decked out in a sequined outfit, or really any of that kinda stuff. My brother has some of the statues or whatever and the rest we gave to her friends as mementos or whatever way we could pawn it off on people.
So what I have here in the box is the broken or damaged stuff we couldn't get rid of. Now if you were raised like I was you know that you can't just put that stuff in the garbage. You have to burn it, bury it, or sink it in water. Things like that which are more respectable. And why I wound up with it still is because I couldn't do that at the time and I put it in a box with other stuff and it just got forgotten about.
And where is it now? I still couldn't get rid of it because the ground was frozen and covered with snow!
It's still here! And I don't even go to church. But I am not putting it I the garbage because I am my mother's son.
So until the ground thaws I have here: A plastic Baby Jesus statue with no head. A plaster Mary statue with no base on it. Two “scapulars”.
A scapular is a cloth thing that shows you are devoted to Mary. It started off in the Middle ages pretty much as a front and back apron that you tied with a sash. It had a use, but was also a symbol. Well over time that became these ones which are shrunk to the size of a postage stamp. So you have these little cloth postage stamp sized things , sort of like a front and back medal with a string between them, except they are made of cloth. You are supposed to wear it under your shirt.
Then two rosaries made of plastic and string. In case you don't know a rosary is a Catholic prayer bead made in a circle with a crucifix on there, and you pray your way around it. It amounts to 56 Hail Mary's and 9 Our Fathers or close to that.
Anyway this stuff took me back in my memory to all about who she was especially when it came to Catholicism and even more especially when it came to her being very devoted to Mary. She said the rosary every day. Went to church every day. There was a bumper sticker on her front door that said “Pray The Rosary” and so on. She was in a group of rosary ladies too.
So that stuff is on my mind and also I don't want to forget about that broken stuff again. I want to bury it when the ground thaws. But also I hadn't really thought about how she was in that way, for a long time. The physical objects bring it back.
So that was a few weeks ago. Next, I work in a residential setting. So there are a few TVs and one near the office and I hear whatever this or that person is watching in there regularly.
Somewhere around the beginning of the month some guy starts tuning in some channel that has people saying the rosary on it. If you haven't heard the rosary said it sounds kind of like chanting because they say the same prayers over and over again. I haven't heard that in ages. It really took me back because when we were kids my mom and dad made us come in at 7 PM weekday evenings, maybe not all the time but a whole lot of the time, and say the rosary. There was a radio program and we would say it along with the radio people.
So picture being nine years old and in the summer and outside having fun and it is, “Sorry guys gotta go and pray the rosary or I will get killed”. I remember waiting and waiting and looking forward to when we got back around to the cross on there which means it was over and I was free again. It takes about 20 -25 minutes.
I must have done that hundreds or even thousands of times. I was never the kind of person who would get any comfort or benefit from that. All I got was bored, and I certainly pretty much never did it after I got old enough to not have to.
So I remembered all that and how, almost militant my mom was about Mary and the rosary being included in the faith which apparently there is some disagreement over.
Anyway in 9 years working were I do I never, ever, once heard anyone play the rosary on a TV or radio. Starting around the beginning of May I been hearing it about 3 or 4 days a week which I have not done for about 45 years when I was a kid at home. But now see, I am at work. Can't get away from it. So I gotta listen. Just like when I was a kid. Life is funny sometimes.
Except now I can tune it out mentally, I don't have to say it, and I don't have to be bored. But I did think it was an odd coincidence that I find this old stuff of mom's and then right away here comes the rosary. I haven't seen the religious items in 10 or 20 years or so and haven't listened to the rosary in 45 years. Now in the span of two weeks or so I get both. So I thought, I should say hi to mom in the way people do when somebody is gone. I have done that a few times lately.
Mostly I have been focused on free agency and the draft like every other right thinking person in Western New York. We didn't get anybody of note in the QB competition we wound up with McCarron who I only remembered as part of the Cleveland Browns fiasco where they inexplicably forgot what time it was and didn't send the trade papers in on time. And that mistake also made it so the Browns still needed somebody and we were able to trade away Tyrod to the Browns.
Well they say Beane wasn't really looking for McCarron in particular, and McCarron was kind of limited in his options and so on the 14th we wound up with him because it fell that way.
I took a quick look on google and really I saw a guy with very extensive and maybe not so great art-wise giant tattoos all over his chest and shoulders. Beach, bikini girls, trophy wife. Ok, I get the picture. I was kind of surprised that Beane would pick him to mentor whoever we were drafting because he looked like a party kid to me. Then my QB guru friend told me we got the best of all the veteran quarterbacks going around, except for Garopolo. I said better than Cousins? He said yep.
So that was nice. But that was about it for me looking into this guy. Until the Jets moved up to pick #3 a week ago and all of a sudden it looks like we might get squeezed out of a top QB pick, possibly. So I am worried ya see. And I decided to look a bit deeper into McCarron because now he might be way more important to us.
I started to read and it says “AJ McCarron is a devout Catholic...”
I say whaaa? Party boy is a “devout” Catholic?
Then ...“McCarron was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. He attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School from kindergarten to fourth grade”
I won't even start with what “Our Lady of Lourdes” meant to my mom.
AJ McCarron who made friends with a gravely ill 3 year old little girl called Starla Chapman while he and his family were delivering Christmas presents to the pediatric hospital that had saved AJ's life years before. She gave him a bracelet that said “Just Trust”. He wore it on his throwing hand a week later in the Championship game on national television (they won). She is his God daughter now.
So what is he doing with all the gangsta tattoos all over his chest? (Sorry I am old(er). Tattoos like that make me think biker, party boy, gangsta). It didn't fit.
I'm blowing up the photos to look and there is a big Jesus face on there about the size of a dessert plate. It also says Ma, Pops, God In Control, all kinda stuff like that in the big tapestry of a tattoo he has.
And then I saw that there is a Giant Rosary that goes from his shoulders to halfway down his stomach.
That last part with the rosary freaked me out. If you look at that tat the cross on his stomach is the cross on the rosary. The beads are all woven into the design of the tat.
I'm older like I say, but is it normal for a youngster to have a giant rosary tattooed on his chest?
I know people use them as ornamental. But not like this. I personally never saw anyone do that before in my life.
Now if anyone is still reading, I obviously don't expect you to believe that any of this means anything.
I don't believe it myself really. But it is not easy being in my skin to ignore it because like I say, I find the rosaries and stuff of my mom's that I thought I got rid of 10 or 20 years ago. Then I am sitting listening to the rosary most every day which I have not heard in 45 years.
And then here comes AJ McCarron with a giant rosary tattooed on his chest right when I have actually, literally, been losing sleep over what will happen in the draft.
My mom didn't follow football closely. She only cared about football and the Bills because she knew that I did.
I think maybe Brandon Beane wasn't especially aiming for AJ McCarron to be a Buffalo Bill. But I think maybe my mom was.
And there is zero doubt that if my mom was going to have a favorite QB, it would AJ McCarron.
I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna do it I tell ya! But I gotta.
AJ McCarron is my favorite NFL quarterback now, because I am my mother's son.
GO BILLS!
My house is still decorated in Catholic decor lol
My grandmother is pushing 100 and goes to mass daily and my mother is devout as well
Praying the rosary can make miracles happen... it's a beautiful thing and if AJ is the answer I'd be thrilled
its just gravy on top that he's a Catholic lol
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1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:
AAC = All American Conference. Not ACC. No way UB is ever considered for the ACC, but the AAC would be a great fit with UConn, UCF, USF, Tulane, Houston, etc. Mostly major urban universities. A better match than the Northeastsouthwest Bumfudge State type schools in the MAC. Plus the AAC would love to have another school with an alumni base in NYC.
AAC is actually American Athletic Conference
but just bustin chops
UBs destiny is definitely in a bigger conference but they must become a MAC dynasty first... they are still in its infancy if you look at the big picture
returning to D1 football in just 1999.. not even 20 years
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One of my favorite of the last decade CJ Fair has signed a deal with the Chicago Bulls
best of luck CJ!