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Hard to pick. On the list would be:
Having Cookie put me on his shoulder at autograph day, then catching a pass from Jack Kemp
Seeing Stratton hit Keith Lincoln and being at the Rockpile for the first AFL championship
Season opener in 1974 when we beat the Raiders. Still the best Monday night game I ever saw.
Helping carry the goalpost to Ralph's box after we finally beat the Fish opening day 1980.
51-3 and going to the first Super Bowl
The Comeback Game
If I had to pick one, it would be the Stratton hit and the first championship. I was a little kid and it was an awesome day.
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Maybe not on the field. But those were the kind of games I loved coming to years ago. Had to figure out how many layers you could wear and still walk, and how many flasks you could hide between the layers. Who will ever forget Brian Cox the one time the Fish walked out of the tunnel and the snow was blowing sideways? You knew they were done before they even walked onto the field.
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I think the last game was an aberration. You don't play the way the Bills played for the first 7 games, then because they stunk one game automatically think one game is the norm and 7 games are the exception. Of course, a lot of people are saying that because it's either a defense mechanism or they secretly want their team to lose for some bizarre reason.
Looking ahead, I think the following:
New Orleans: McD will have ten days to get his team back to playing the kind of solid fundamentals (good tackling, etc.) that characterized their first 7 games. They will defend the dirt and win somewhere around 27-24. Hauschka makes the difference.
After that I don't predict. Take one game at a time.
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I wouldn't change a thing if I were the Rams. But it will probably cost Sammy some money.
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12 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
Exactly. Goff looks underneath and usually goes there with the ball because it's open. He takes a few deep shots to Watkins but has missed on many of them. He missed one earlier in the Giants game but went back to it and hit the TD. Production is a two way street. Forcing the ball to Watkins because they traded for him would be a solution in search of a problem. The Rams are apparently fine with Watkins current role in the offense, and why wouldn't they be?
I would suspect a more even numbers distribution between Rams receivers if Sammy was as open as some think. It wouldn't be forcing him the ball if he was open that much.
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If guys are that good you don't need to tell the QB to target him or not.That said, the young Rams HC is doing a great job.
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Times I watched he was just another guy.
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19 minutes ago, SaviorPeterman said:
I've rarely been wrong during my time here and have had no problems admitting so when wrong.
But still not sure why some folks have an unhealthy obsession with the Dolphins other than they are hated division rival who swept us last year. Same reason we'll be lucky to split with them this year best case.
So assuming we can win 1 game against the Dolphins still need at least 3 more for the playoffs and outside of the Colts (who are still playing decent despite their record and Brissett has been LARGE) not sure where we are getting them from.
It's not that you're rarely wrong. It's that you're usually wrong. And a troll.
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I was one who did not want Sammy traded. I'd still like to see him on the team. But come on now. You look at his production in LA and it does not shout out: Hey! This guy is elite! He made one catch yesterday. One catch. And he was open by ten yards because the Giants either blew the coverage or have given up on the HC. That does not put him in the top echelon of NFL wide receivers no mater how you try to spin it, and I suspect he'll find that out come contract time post-season. His career thus far seems to involve him being a guy who runs deep patterns every time, and he get targeted occasionally. You can argue he needs to be sued differently (screens, etc), but two different teams now have not seen fit to use him that way. In contrast, the Rams seem to want to utilize a rookie WR as their focal point.
Woods has done OK there. His TD yesterday? A one yard pass, good blocking down field, and he wasn't touched as he ran 50 some yards. Again, nice for the Rams but not a real stretch for a WR. They want to spend 8 million or so on Woods, fine. I think Jones is every bit as good going forth. -
Watkins caught one pass yesterday. Yay. Superstar.
i watched a little of the Jags game. Dareus was just kind of there. Kind of like he played here.
Woods looked pretty good though.
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If we were 8-0 a select few would say we'd finish 8-8. It's bizarre.
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He tried. All his coaches have tried. At some point it's the player and not the coach. It's on Dareus.
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3 hours ago, Foreigner said:
Sure, Rex is a failed coach, and what he said was for entertainment value.
However, I said on another post that it was McDermott,s job to make it work with Dareus.
He was a problem on and off the field. If you remember Lawrence Taylor, he was a pain in the neck
and drove his Coach crazy, and there were different rules for him, but the Giants Coach made it
work because of Taylor's talent. Dareus was needed this year, and he was given away, given away,
for a future 6th rounder. That was insane. Beane and McDermott got rid of a headache to make
their job easier, saving a few million on the cap , and for a future 6th rounder. How does that
make sense, losing talent, if it costs the playoffs this year.
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I've yet to see a QB Belicheat took to replace Brady ever do a lot when he went elsewhere.
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Regarding the OP: anyone posting that the team should be moved should be permanently banned. Such people have no business in a Buffalo Bills chat site
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If I saw a guy I thought was a can't miss guy I'd make the trade. I'd give a couple firsts and seconds. But I don't see anyone that remotely resembles that kind of a sure thing in this draft.
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Both lines. Win up frnt you win the game.
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The team and HC understand what they're about and how bad last night was. I anticipate a much better performance at home.
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Saints aren't the Raiders, Bucs, Broncos or Jets and superior to us on both sides of the ball.
And we obviously aren't going 8-0 at home so all the ingredients are in place for the annual November/December meltdown to continue with this team.
Bills will need to bounce back strong and play best game of the season just for a chance to win this game next week.
The consensus among many here is that you're not worth responding to but just to pass time before my students arrive:
You know for a fact they won't go 8-0? You can predict the future now? Why aren't you on your own private island after having mastered the stock market?
As I recall you gave them no chance against Oakland or Atlanta. In fact have you ever favored them in any game?
You come up with such ridiculous stuff, including the supposed contacts you have that do not exist.
Play the games. See what happens. My guess is they get back to normal against the Saints.
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Sometimes you just get your butt kicked. Yesterday was one of those times.
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If the 93 is shot at Augusta, you know you're not ready for the big events just yet. You froze, got nervous.
If it's at some tinpot tour event, maybe doubts creep in your mind about talent. Consistency.
Interesting take.
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Let's say you're a pro golfer and those are the last 8 scores you shoot. We can see there's a couple that were a little higher (77,76) and most that average out around 70. Then you have this 93, a really bad round.
Which of these rounds do you think predict the normal performance of this golfer, and which do not? It's the first seven rounds and not the one outlier. If you're a golfer you shrug it off and know you won't repeat that anytime soon.
Last night's game was the Bills' 93 round. They just stunk. For a lot of reasons, but they stunk. But like the pro golferit seems reasonable to conclude that they won't stink up the joint like that again. Maybe have trouble against a more elite team like the Chiefs, but I doubt they shoot a 93 again. Maybe slide into the higher 70 round like they did against Cinci. They'll get back home, lick their wounds, get back to work, and I am sure that McD will stress again the fundamentals (like tackling, which was missing last night.
So the odds would favor the Bills getting back to shooting around 70. But so many this morning now just assume they'll continue to shoot 93. Why I have no idea. Comparisons are made to past teams with past coaches and past rosters as if thathas any bearing on the current coaches and current team and current roster. All of a sudden everyone of the team stinks, because of one game vs. seven. I don't know if it's trolls hijacking a Bills website, some kind of psychological defense mechanism, or what. We'll see how things go from here out. But my guess is a week from Sunday they'll shot around a 68 on their home course.
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Jets aren't running for almost 200 yards if Dareus is still here was my point.
I'm interested to see if that gets fixed going forward or teams run on our scrub front 7 the rest of the year in which case McBeane deserve to be heavily criticized for the trade.
Depends. If he showed up and actually wanted to put forth effort and play maybe not. If he showed up and didn't give effort they might go for 300.
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He was good in every game. People don't understand, if you have to double Marcell it makes the other defensive linemen more effective. If you can man black our defensive line you can get an offensive linemen into the second level.
If you think he was good every game you're simply using wishful retrograde thinking. He wasn't.
Report: Huge Problem Brewing between Irsay and Luck
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Living in Indy I've had the opportunity to watch Luck fairly often. The guy is the real deal. He's had no choice but to be aggressive and take chances because he's been the only guy on the offense that was worth anything most of his career (well, maybe TY Hilton). If he's healthy (and that's a big if), you would have to seriously go after him. GUys like him don't come often.
As for Irsay, well let's just say word on the street is he's very eccentric...