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Man these threads have really gone downhill.... I wonder why
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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Road wins in the NFL are big. The Bills had a road win in their hands on Sunday, leading the Houston Texans by 3 with a couple of minutes left in the game.
The Bills let it get away. Good teams win games like that. The Bills aren’t good, not yet. They look like they could be good, but they aren’t.
Let’s state the obvious:
· Special teams killed the Bills on Sunday. Fumbled punt, blocked punt. Both led to points.
· Penalties killed the Bills on Sunday.
· Peterman killed the Bills on Sunday. He simply cannot – CANNOT - throw an interception at that place on the field with the score tied. The second interception wasn’t much better. He just doesn’t see the field well enough yet, and I don’t know when he’ll get enough playing time to learn to see it better. He looks like he needs to throw about 75 interceptions before he gets it. And since this is the last I’ll say about Peterman, his touchdown throw was spectacular.
· The Bills defense did enough to win the game. The pass rush was great.
On to the less obvious.
One pattern that’s emerged over the past year and a half is that the Bills are a second-half team. Especially with a limited offense, McDermott plays a conservative game for 30 minutes. His objective is to stay within striking distance, because he expects his team to win the second half.
They did that Sunday. He needed his defense to get the stop at the end of the first half against the Texans, and they got it. Then the defense turned the ball over to start the second half, and the Bills were in business.
Of course, that pattern looks suspiciously like the style of play we saw when Dick Jauron coached the Bills: solid defense, stay close, run the clock, find a way to win (or lose) in the end. That style is great to get you to .500; unfortunately, it’s also great to keep you at .500.
There were signs of life on the offense. Kelvin Benjamin ran some nice routes and made several nice catches, including going high for Allen’s off-balance throw deep down the left sideline that was called back. Zay Jones looked like a real NFL receiver. The Bills ran another wideout screen, and they found Clay over the middle nicely. No one was mistaking the Bills passing game for the Chiefs or the Rams, but they made plays. The Bills need more of it.
LeSean McCoy is a player. I say it every week, because the guy comes to play every week.
Tre White also is a player, and I haven’t been saying that. Nobody throws at him. Hopkins’ touchdown was what everyone has come to expect from Hopkins – an outstanding football play by an outstanding player. White was right there; Hopkins just won that time. That will happen.
I think the Bills win the game, if Allen hadn’t been injured. (Not that it mattered, but wasn’t that roughing the passer? They have those rules to protect the passer, and then they don’t call it.) Why do I think the Bills would have won? One, because Allen understands ball security and won’t throw the INT at the end of the game. Two, because he would have completed the pass on the play after his injury. Three, because he’s a good QB. Yes, he made a couple of poor throws again on Sunday, gimme throws that he needs to complete. But I can live with that. I love his pocket awareness, his escapability. His running ability was on display again this week. His running is an important weapon.
Compare Allen’s scramble to the right and completion over the middle to someone – McCoy or Clay – with Watson’s interception to Poyer. More or less the same play, from the QB’s point of view. The rule for young QBs is don’t throw late over the middle. Not because it doesn’t work, but because young QBs don’t see the field well enough and don’t see some defender lurking. Allen knew he had the throw and made it; Watson thought he had the throw, but almost from the moment he let it go you could see that Poyer could make a play. We’ve seen Allen make very few rookie mistakes like Watson's.
The Bills have their quarterback.
JJ Watt is extraordinary. He made some plays on Sunday that were better than any play most guys make in a season. Amazing quickness, strength and awareness. And still, the Bills offensive line held up nicely, giving Allen time and giving McCoy room to run. Offensive lines are having trouble all over the league. I’ll say again what I’ve been saying all season – the Bills talent on the oline isn’t great, but it isn’t horrible. Coaching makes the difference. What else explains keeping Allen and Peterman upright against Watt and Clowney and Mercilus?
Meanwhile, Bills fans are the BEST! Talk about travelling well! Bills’ blue was all over the stadium on Sunday, and Bills fans were making noise. The spontaneous chants were coming from Bills fans, not Texans fans.
Bills blue was all over my hotel near the stadium, too.
At lunch on Saturday a guy walked into the place wearing a Bills cap and got a few friendly boos. I went over to talk to him. Guy lives in Brooklyn, NY, has season tickets and goes to all the away games! Sixteen games a year.
Saturday night was the best. We went to Christians Tailgate, the Houston Bills Backer bar, and we were blown away. The place was packed. The block was closed off, and the street was FULL of Bills fans. There must have been 2000 people there, maybe 3,000. Everyone was having a good time. Just the noise was amazing! (Being an old geezer, it was too loud for me, I’m usually done after one drink, anyway, so we found a place around the corner to have a beer and a burger and went home. Can’t miss that beauty rest, you know.)
What now? I like this team. I like their intensity, their discipline. I liked it with Jauron’s teams, too. The Bills need to amp up the offense, and we saw a few signs of that Sunday.
I’m worried about Allen. The Bills need him on the field. Right elbow injuries are problematic for throwers. Assuming the Bills can get him back, I’m still expecting the Bills to be a pretty good team during the second half of the season. If Allen can't go, I hope Anderson can.
The Colts are another winnable road game, so the Bills have a chance to redeem themselves. Time’s awastin.
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were everyday people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full day’s hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
Do you have a blog Shaw? Or do you just post here?
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24 minutes ago, Simon said:
If you wish to address me any further on this subject, I'd suggest you use the PM feature to prevent further despoiling this intelligent and erudite thread which we are all fortunate to have.
There’s nothing to discuss with you. You should have contacted me directly, as opposed to making jokes over subject matter that myself, and others in this thread found offensive. You defended another posters offensive comment. You also insulted me by unfairly calling me a “victim.”
Most of the people in this thread backed off, but you decided to pile on. This is not cool or appropriate and it’s not appreciated.
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4 minutes ago, Simon said:
I'm sorry for you that you think my teasing a fellow long-time poster about his spelling was trolling.
There are better ways to go through life than seeking victimhood status at every turn.
Nice to see that a moderator is more interested preventing duplicate threads than stopping intolerance. I’m sure @SDS is thrilled with you
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17 minutes ago, Simon said:
I'm going to report this post because there's not a second "e" in Pennsyltucky. ?
It’s great to see a moderator contribute to the trolling, rather than squashing it. @SDS
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7 minutes ago, The Wiz said:
Just curious, doesn't he go on the show (in studio)for this segment?
The audio is crystal clear when normally when they call in you get that typical crappy talking in a wind tunnel audio.
No but he has a direct ISDN line to the studio for the best audio. All of the coaches have since Marrone. He broadcasts from the studio in One Bills Drive
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18 minutes ago, Foreigner said:
Religious freedom my friend means you tolerate other people speech. This country does not put people
in jail, throw them out of the country, or worse because of their speech whether it is hateful or not.
But I do have a problem with whoever thought it was a good idea to keep Peterman and get rid of McCarron.
Maybe it was about the money. Peterman making minimum or close to it pay. I am also willing to
bet that Beane and McDermott are also low on the Management scale in the NFL. When someone says
it wasn't about the money, it's always about the money.
Thats no religious freedom. Making a baseless accusation of descrimination as though it was a fact with zero proof, is offensive, intolerant and just not cool. People don’t go to jail but websites, publications, and personalities do end up in court.
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7 minutes ago, Another Fan said:
Contrary to what everyone else here thinks, this is probably legit to some extent. I’m sure you’ve seen irl as well was here you have to be “culturally similar” to management in order to advance/ be accepted.
No proof at all and extremely offensive. Hate speech shouldn’t be tolerated anyway.
11 minutes ago, Foreigner said:Have you ever heard of religious freedom my friend. Go argue that topic in your Church. If someone
has different ideas about that than you, so be it.
Hate speech is not reigious freedom
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6 minutes ago, KOKBILLS said:
Agreed...And I'm pretty much a McBeane supporter...But in this case both hosts asked the questions they HAD to ask and did it in a respectful enough way...
Who know what is going on behind the scenes with McD today...He's in a spot with Peterman and he obviously knows it...But I don't think he handled it as well as he could have...?
I don’t think he did either. This is pro sports and crap like this comes with the territory. You have to expect the media is going to speculate, second guess you and ask dumb questions and you need to let it go.
I am no fan of Schopp but thought he was professional and asked tough questions. He was a bit arrogant and condescending but he always is. Definitely not likeable, but not out of bounds.
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1 minute ago, Foreigner said:
If you think this stuff is offensive and irresponsible, what do you think the internet is. Complain about
stuff that kids can see, and people making plastic guns that work, but stop complaining about people who
don't like the management of a bad football team.
Not what I am talking about. I’m talking about the rules HERE. No where else. You are extremely if you don’t see the offensiveness in the baseless religious insinuation
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3 minutes ago, Foreigner said:
Hey guys. Calm down, because some of you guys are taking yourselves a little too seriously.
We love football, and we love the Bills, but things have become so bad at OBD, so bad on Offense, and so bad
with our QB position, if we can't have fun with this, we will all go nuts with the situation.
We are dead last in scoring, dead last in passing, and some people across the country are wondering why
Peterman is even in the league. If we can't laugh at the situation, then we have a bigger problem than anythingthat is said on this board. Calling people offensive and discriminatory. Give me a break.
This is football, it is not life and death. If we want to have more fun with bringing in a has been who never was
last week as a QB (my opinion) that really isn't going to help matters much (again my opinion) then we will.
If you can't stand all the negative stuff that Peterman and the coaching staff have created, turn your computer off,
instead of knocking people who have a different opinion. Get out of this thread and get out of The Stadium Wall
and get lost.
Wrong I have no problem with saying Peterman should not be on an NFL roster. I do have a problem with several members claiming that McDermott’s and Pegula’s decision were based on religion.
The religious insinuation was no joke or opinion - it was presented as a claim.
This insinuates that the Bills were prejudiced and discriminatory with this decision, yet there is no proof. Tasteless jokes and baseless allegations like this one are totally out of bounds.
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1 minute ago, Fadingpain said:
Just listened.
McD did not "hang up" on them, per se.
The interview was over and Mike Schopp said "All right Sean, thanks!"
And then McD just hung up the phone without saying "you're welcome" or anything else.
They then went to break.
I listen to these guys all the time and this segment every week. There was an uneasy tension running throughout this entire conversation and McD was not his usual self. He was a little short at times.
Mike Schopp is VERY HARD on McD and the team in general; I suspect word has finally gotten back to McD about this and McD knows much more about what Mike Schopp says about him than Sean would ever let on publicly.
The interview got off to a bad start with Mike Schopp's very first question. He basically asked something like "what do you see in Nate Peterman and like that the rest of us don't."
I thought that was pretty edgy, much more so than Mike Schopp normally is in these things...and I think it just set McD off for the entire thing.
Pretty entertaining overall. The question now is how does this impact the rest of their segments for the season and will this be addressed at all, next week.
We can only hope! I'll have my popcorn ready.
I agree....You need to listen to the Bills postgame show. Schopp basically said “What has McDermott done that’s actually good?” He called him out and made it sound like he (Schopp) knew more than he did. IMO he came off like a real ass. Much much worse than today.
I can bet that McDermott who was in bad mood, got word of these comments.
To make matters worse, Mike was off the show for the final segment. Something went down either on the station or with the Bills for them not to wait until after the show.
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1 hour ago, I am the egg man said:
It be a pay cut from what I make now.
Really how much does Sal make?
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Funny thing was that Schopp was off the show for the final 20 minutes. Something went down - either his boss was pissed, or Derek Boyko was on the other line.
To his credit, I didn’t think Mike was any more snarky than he usually is. He didn’t really go too far or hammer McDermott.
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4 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
Just to get you angry enough to leave. Evidently there is an over supply of bandwagon fans and the goal like was for coaching staff, scouts and players is to clear it out and get higher quality ones.
It is easier to just use "ignore user" feature except when posters quote him. Thanks for allowing me to see what I was trying to ignore.
Yeah I get that. I’m totally fine with people blasting McDermott but to accuse McDermott of being prejudice is out of bounds.
No journalist or podcaster would put out statements like that. Nor would any website, channel or publication carry that statement. It’s offensive and irresponsible, but it’s cool here I guess
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2 minutes ago, JoPar_v2 said:
Ok i got you - yeah I didn’t read that as seriously as you did. Seemed completely satirical, not presented as fact. But if you read it differently, all good.
Edit: and if in some universe that were true about McDermott, this team is in more trouble than I thought.
Read the comment again and some of the ones that follow.... they are not satirical. They are extremely offensive and discriminatory. Thread get closed because of fans arguing, going off topic, or making repetitive threads, yet its cool to allege descrimination without any proof?
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16 minutes ago, JoPar_v2 said:
Post sounded satirical to me. Even if it wasn’t, calling 2 guys religious doesn’t sound offensive or damaging to their reputations. I.e., not libelous.
Not talking about the OP... that was a joke though a pretty dumb one. This is in reference to the claim that McDermott’s decision is based on religion when he has absolutely no proof. It was presented as a fact, when the person who wrote it has no real person, nor did they phrase it as speculation. That would be like one of us saying a coach favored a QB because because was the same ethniticity, sexual orientation etc.
You don’t think that painting out a coach to be prejudice isn’t damaging, with zero information? I’d disagree.
Seems like it’s just hate speech to me, but I guess it’s cool here and not offensive because it involves Nate Peterman.... Give me a break
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WTF - What happened?
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31 minutes ago, JoPar_v2 said:
So sensitive.
Not really. Seems like threads are locked for far less. Just saying, trying to make an offensive correlation as fact that has never been proven and/or reported is basically libel.
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4 minutes ago, hmsmystic said:
I'll post on here now and then while I am on a conference call, and do peruse the site regularly. I can never understand:
1) How someone has the time to call a radio show in the middle of the day, and what they hope to get out of it
2) Why anyone thinks their opinion on the team is valuable to have others listen to
Its entertainment. Same way you will vent, sound off, or brag about NFL with friend or co-workers. People also want to get their voice out there to be heard.
1 minute ago, Beerstm said:I love his show! I can't wait to listen to the Podcast
Same here....this one is a good one!
9 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:Feed Shady and eat clock. It's not that complicated.
They weren’t really dominating in the run game. What happens when it’s 3rd-and-7? Do you just take a knee?
Sorry but playing for OT with 2:00 and timeouts in a weak move
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5 minutes ago, QCity said:
I'll answer this one for Sal. In overtime you slate a run-heavy attack that doesn't require you to put the entire game on Peterman's ability to run a 2-minute offense with no timeouts. Taking a knee 3 times and punting is a better option than asking Peterman to throw the ball with 1:34 left.
I disagree.... I think a lot of this is hindsight based on what happened. how many of us would be livid if a team ran down the clock for OT? It would be pathetic. I think you need to have enough confidence to throw with your QB, even if he is a backup.
Also Peterman led one very good drive that resulted in the only TD of the game. There really wasn’t a reason for not calling passing plays as he looked decent before the INT.
Now, you can fault McDermott for his poor evaluation of Peterman or for being comfortable with Peterman as QB2. But I don’t think you fault him for calling passing plays there
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1 minute ago, reddogblitz said:
The 31 other teams argument is so dumb.
31 other teams didn't want Kurt Warner either. 32 teams passed on Tommy 5 times.
Are we trying to win, or avoid controversy? I vote for winning. Let the chips fall where they may.
Right, but his point is that it’s not just the Bills that passed him up to avoid controversy. It’s essentially the entire league.
2 minutes ago, RussellDopeland said:Call-in sports radio is a haven for fools and ignoramuses. I used to snicker listening to Art Wander spitting all over his microphone as he responded to some of the buffoons that would call. Chuck Dickerson revelled in it as he spewed his convoluted drivel. Some here are highly critical of Mike Schoop for the way he talks down to the callers- but let's be honest, most of those callers are morons.
Very true, but the crazy reactions are pretty funny too. Sal doesn’t talk down to callers like a Schopp does, but he comes close.
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3 hours ago, Bill Murray said:
So suggesting Eli gets dealt to Jacksonville (edit: citing Matt Hassleback suggesting he gets traded). I know everyone is going to throw up on this, but should we consider him for a year? Our defense is a contender, and he can at least keep opposing defenses off the line of scrimmage. He could open up room for Shady & Ivory to run. All we need is to score 14 to 17pts a game / week to win...why not go for it. I suspect JA could learn a thing or two from him in the meantime.
PLUS, he would get to play against Brady twice! Could be interesting...
https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/eli-manning-trade-could-save-him-and-the-giants-espn-qb/
Terrible.... Gettlemen should get fired for passing on drafting QB in favor of Eli, who he is now trying to trade
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16 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
So it’s basically this forum but on the radio?
Yea pretty much. But it’s funny to hear the inflection in the callers voices. It’s funny because you know Sal is annoyed but he can’t sound like a jerk. Still he will shoot back at them.
22 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:The survey guy was also a doctor and started talking about how peterman has a pinched nerve in his neck, I was hoping Sal was gonna press on that issue a bit more
Yes forgot about that but it was hilarious
On the positive side at least we aren’t the Raiders
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The deal and power they gave Gruden is insane. He gets paid for 10 years whether he coaches or not!
The situation with him and Reggie McKenzie is bizarre. Gruden calls the shots while Reg the GM is second in command