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Tate should likely be our return man this year.

Nope. If this new front office/coaching staff don't have everything fixedby now they never will and should be considered a failed regime, obviously.

Or Matt Cassel for that matter. It took Whaley dumping Cassel for EJ to get the #2 spot by default.

Do you only post about Tyrod? You do realize that there are 10 other players out on the field too, right?

All tied up. Nice kick Hauschka.

Offens estarting to get in sync now.

Nice pass TT. And anothe flag... Fuuu***

Haha. Are you serious?

Fire McDermott. Fire Beane. Fire everyone! cause we've obviously given fhem more than a fair amount of time to correct all the issue this 17 year playoff-less team has. If they don't have it solved by less than 1/4 of the way through the 2nd preseason game, they never will! lol Seriously people calm down. It is preseason game #2, with a vanilla game plan and totally new system on both sides of the ball. Patience is a virtue.

Man these penalties... McDermott's gonna blow a gasket.

Jerry!!

I like our run defense so far this season.

Tyrod hasn't looked very good so far tonight. But to be fair, our O line has looked even worse. I'm starting to worry that pass protection could be a major problem this season. It's only preseason though, and no Glenn. So I'm not going to overreact yet.

Good job to hold them to a FG. Terrible throw by Wentz.

Yeah they seem like they've been somewhat frequent so far this preseason.

Yup. The Bills players - Kelly, Thurman, Smith, Reed etc. - have all talked about that. How the "bickering Bills" actually kind of helped lead to change and really galvanize them as a team. Which they all site (that closeness and culture that developed) as a big reason why they went to 4 SB's in a row.

I really do believe that there is such a thing as losing cultures in sports, and that it takes more to ultimately win championships than just having some good/great players. Don't get me wrong, you need good/great players to win championships. But not every great players is able to win one, either. He has to have the right team and culture around him to do so. I have heard too many players and executives (in the NHL, NFL etc) talk about the importance of culture over the years to believe it's made up. From my own experience playing sports, the best teams I played for almost always had one thing in common - what I would call a "good team culture". It almost always started with very good coaching and the best player(s) on the team being bought in and helping push the coaches message. The first year I won a league championship with my team, we had a bunch of good players but we also had a great team culture. We all had a lot of belief in what the coaches were doing. There was a great attitude during games and practices. Even when we were down in games, we always believed that we could come back and win. There wasn't that pouting attitude or any giving up. Not every team that I've been on with good players had this. Having the right mix of personalities with the right attitudes is a significant thing IMO. I've also played on teams with some really talented players that ended up losing quite a bit and there was a noticeable difference in the coaching and/or player attitudes & belief system on those teams. When you have talented players who don't give a crap or start to pout when losing, or don't buy in to that team, it's usually not going to end well, IMO anyway. Like this one year we had a few really talented players (and what I considered to be a good team overall) but the best players were kind of jerks that formed their own little clique in the locker room and were always talking crap about the coach as well as some of their teammates and it really had a major impact on the entire team. We never won nearly as many games as we could/should have. As soon as we'd get down in the game the entire demeanor of the team changed.

Man she's a trip. I got a kick out of her after Grimes injury with that picture on her phone.

No problem man. It's something I was told when I first signed up here. Just passing it along.

He never said that he didn't discuss whether Sammy fit into their long term plans, or the possibility of trading him. He just said that he didn't tell him there was a potential trade pending right before his first ever game as a head coach. I can almost guarantee that they discussed Sammy's future with the team long before that trade ever happened. They had been getting trade calls since spring when McDermott decided not to pick up Sammy's 5th year option. Plus Beane, McDermott and Pegula discussed the trade for hours after the game and they all came to a decision together. It was not just Beane doing it on his own.

Holy ****. Are you guys serious? It was just a joke. It's ok to laugh you know. Not everything has to be taken so serious. It's football, you know - a game. Man oh man some people sure are super raw and sensitive on this Sammy Watkins subject, huh? Calling out my intelligence for posting a picture.... And I'm jealous, insecure and bitter too? lol. What are you Sigmund Freud? if you interpreted that much from a simple picture I posted on a message board, are you by any chance for hire? I need a good psychologist. Thanks though, guys. I needed a good laugh. Especially coming from you ScottLaw considering the stuff you've been posting since this trade happened. Id say that i've basically been nothing but rational about this trade, while you on the other hand... And I don't hate Sammy BTW. I like him a lot and expect a monster season from him now that he's healthy and I think it sucks that it won't happen with the Bills. But it's not life and death stuff and I'm not so hurt that I can't attempt (and obviously fail) to make a joke about it.

Just to give you a heads up Cherrybone, this place is not like BBMB. It is frowned upon to continue starting random new threads. There is already a Tyrod thread ongoing. This should have just been posted there. It's how this place works. For example, I have just over 700 posts now and I have started maybe 2 new threads total out of those 700 posts. Before you start a new thread, they want you to use the search function for the topic you are thinking about starting. In this case the topic would be "Tyrod Taylor". So you use that search function on the top of the page to search for Tyrod Taylor, then post this there instead of starting a new thread (or you can just look and see there is a Tyrod thread on the front page). Anyway, just letting you know since you're relatively new here.

That was a good read. Sounds like they acquired him to be a deep threat. I wonder if they'll use him on the shorter bubble screens (etc) and allow him to do what he excelled at in college and get YAC. We never really got to see much of that in Buffalo. Sammy's a great deep threat, don't get me wrong. But he has so much more to his game than that. It'd be a shame if LA didn't take advantage of that either.

Lol. In other news, Rams also working with medical staff on a new uniform/equipment for Sammy to wear during games -

Yeah, with their 3rd string QB playing hurt and missing other key players too (like Gronk for much of the game). Do you remember Brady at the beginning of his career? For years he was more of a check-down game manager type QB. He wasn't always the same Brady that we see today, who has had the chance to literally perfect playing in that system. Again, Brady is amazing and will go down as one of the best ever. But that Pats team is so much more than just Brady alone. Giving Brady all the credit neglects giving Belichick just as much credit for what he's done. The Patriots are a very good all around team almost every single year, on offense and defense.