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21 hours ago, DrBob806 said:
1984-1996, 13 AFC losses in a row. But it wasn't because the AFC was bad...
Cleveland was really good, couldn't get past Elway.
Houston's Run & shoot struggled in the red zone.
Denver, well their defense really sucked in their SBs.
Cincy was pretty solid, the Raiders as well.
Matchup wise most years the wrong team played the NFC team and I think you saw that a lot. CLE was designed to take on a WSH or NYG personnel wise. HOU against SF would've been really fun given their skill guys. The NFC also won quite a few at the buzzer during that time. I doubt you ever see a Conference run that long without a loss again in the SB.
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Reid is the top active coach and has a real argument for #1. He has had two runs of long term success in two different markets which only Shula can match to that level. BB with Brady has the best run in one time, but the arguments that Brady propped him up a bit feel more valid given the last few years, his record without Brady being sub .500, and his overall pool of coaches not being very stellar. The best credit BB has outside of NE is actually SB25 with what he did and his time with Parcells in NY both times.
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18 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
Same experience for me. Was so cruel to start growing up during the Super Bowl runs and then live through the drought once it was time to start coming of age and be able to appreciate it more. Sometimes it would feel like the Super Bowl years were just something I dreamed of as a kid.
Agreed. I remember the end of Kelly and crew like 95-96 timeframe and a touch of the final SB, mostly my dad sitting in a chair not saying anything. The Flutie days were fun and it was such a big deal at the time between him and RJ that seemed to encompass everything. I watched all the Bills VHS tapes my grandfather had religiously kinda the same dreaming of what it would be like to be good.
It is funny because through the Bledsoe time the Bills were still a pretty respected org and bringing Tom Donahoe in at the time was a well received move (just went poorly wrong). Once the 04' season though went curtains that was when it started to truly feel like "ok this isn't going well anymore and they really are a mess" just didn't realize it would end up taking that long. I am not sure a single loss has had such a dynamic domino effect as the one to PIT did for Buffalo the subsequent moves that came in following years.
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8 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:
I will miss him. The Old guard of the NFL is completely gone. The game has changed and the people who cover it have changed.
Now we have backwards hat youtube guy who watches film and are all draft experts and scheme experts.
The Peter King, Rick Gosselin, Will McDonough's etc etc...were writers who along with nfl films told stories and made the NFL more than it ever was. The players and coaches used to be characters in these stories and there was something magic about all of it.
Now we have backwards hat youtube film watching draft experts arguing with players whose whole life revolves around dating instagram influencers and all that comes with that. It's all kind of boring to me and everyone in the nfl just seems really uncool....maybe that's not the best way to say it but they just seem like spoiled rich kids or something.
anyway. I will miss reading peter king. I will also miss reading the funny stories about peter king. He once was invited to spend draft weekend in Dallas in the war room to write a piece. He kept falling asleep during the meetings and only was awake and talkative when the food arrived. Then he wrote this big piece on Dallas draft! Pretty funny. I remember watching him make appearances on the MSG network way back when he was a beat writer for the Giants. He was the last of his generation essentially.
There certainly is some talent as he brought up a few I intentionally read, but he was part of the mystique of the original NFL that wasn't so corporate or perfect and the stories he had were incredible. The Sabol family with NFL films also was like that to me with how they built up the NFL in mystical legend type way with their films and everything. He was the type of voice that his opinion spoke true volumes when he used it whereas today it is about how loud and big you can be rather then if your opinion is accurate.
I hope that todays media and coverage can still find ways to bring the history of the game in without having to have hot take or being the loudest voice (COLLINSWORTH/ROMO).
3 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:Lol..Berman has been a caricature of himself for almost a decade now.
I love Berman but his time has passed and I wish he would step down.
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11 hours ago, QCity said:
He had access like no other reporter. He would write about intricacies that other reporters wouldn't even think of, and make them interesting.
Yep. He was trusted in a way which it gave readers a look at so many things that you just won't normally learn about. I love how they make the schedule and it was fascinating to see how deep it goes with how much is consider.
I also loved that he got to go in draft rooms and see what teams really thought. The Cowboys with Paxton Lynch and then they ended up drafting Dak was a great highlight.
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End of an era. He was the last of a generation of writers that truly put out superb content that was detailed and always looking for interesting things readers wouldn't normally find. Even if I didn't agree with his article or take, I at least knew there was some true meat behind it.
He always seemed to have a soft spot for Buffalo despite being from Patriot land and was a good voice for the team. I will really miss his schedule insight as he usually was ahead of the curve on tidbits coming down the pipe. His best work to me though was his camp wide tour every August as it was a such a great and fun primer for every season.-
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2 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Freaking McD meddling.
trying to create an airtight secondary he instead took out the phone network
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I would have made wholesale changes after the loss to CIN. After this year and the fact the team did respond to him and more importantly the offense went back to being a dynamic powerful unit we liked he has through next year.
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17 hours ago, Another Fan said:
Losing to the Chiefs sucks and it felt even worse for me last year than 13 seconds..... that being said I always try to remind myself of those days in 2012 and not take this current team for granted.
13 seconds to me is worse as coaching was so directly involved in that outcome and the final 2 mins.
This year Buffalo had to play a certain gameplan given the limitations the defense had starting two guys who were not even playing a month earlier and the overall attrition that side of the ball had. They needed an A+ day across the board as there was zero room for error and it was a B+ maybe A- effort. Good and valiant but not enough given where KC was at. I can live with that a lot easier as you will be healthier some years then others and I couldn't really pin point a specific mistake the way against CIN (playing 40 yds off the line) or 13 seconds I could.
And yea it sucks they haven't broken through, but trust me these are farrr better days then what we had and it isnt to be taken for granted.
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He is a very good player who will probably make a pro bowl or two at some point.
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12 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
You don't think the rest of the NFL isn't raising prices too?
Fans here have zero idea how cheap we are compared to the rest of the league
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1 hour ago, Another Fan said:
I appreciate Fitz's personality, his Bills fandom, and him trying to make it work when he was a Bill.
But I mean it's hard for me to look the other way he really wasn't that good once he got his big contract. His stats looked respectable because his TD's came mostly in garbage time. He was nicknamed Picks Patrick for a reason.
I will go a step further and it is complete crap how he is borderline Saint level to a lot of Bills fans and his teams never were close the playoffs. Meanwhile Tyrod actually had some good seasons at QB and the team made it one year and was far closer the other two and the dude doesn't get near the same level of respect.
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QBs are def playing longer with less hit and the game geared for offense. But 40 still is far different and Brady really was unique as he was a temple to his body to keep it so healthy and other then his knee in 08 never had another major injury. It is rare to have that injury luck, lack of wearing down on the body, and discipline health wise so I would say 40 will forever be rare for QBs. I do expect though far more high caliber QBs to hold their production much longer into their late 30s where high QB play for guys 35-36-37-38 is way more common. It use to be QBs came into the league, made their mark, got paid, and then by 32-33 the wheels came off. That I do think is far different and good QBs now have four phases 1. rookie QB contract build around guy to max // paid top time pt1 // paid top time pt2 // true regression and fading. I truly good QB I think will have 3-4 core group of guys in their lifetime as the team reloads.
Josh has played with one core group which is fading. The second group is here now as guys like Cook, Kincaid, Torrence, Bernard, Benford, Oliver all are here for the next 5-6 years. If we are lucky Josh probably goes into a third group while still be really good for a few years. That to me is where the QB position has changed as if you got your QB to two core groups of guys it was really good. Going three strong which is 15-18 year life span is not unreasonable now.
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58 minutes ago, Gregg said:
It is their time to shine. They are the defending offseason champions. Last year it was Rodgers and now it's the uniforms. I just hope Woody Johnson remains their owner for a very long time.
My uncle always said the Jets go for the headlines and the Giants titles. Hess actually was a good owner, but his passing eliminated the growing consistency and continuity they had.
NY is always rushing the moment they get any glimpse of success or hope for max success it seems. 2019 when they added Bell and never added a center I just sat there like "aren't you going to protect this guy and give Darnold maybe some better pass catches". Until they decide to truly go through a process style rebuild that you've seen the best teams do and not care about the glitzy names it just feels like a group that will keep spinning their tires.
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9 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
Reminds me of an experience I had when I was 16. Two absolutely hammered guys were shoving each other back and forth. One of them got shoved into a woman who had a baby strapped to her chest in a carrier, right in front of me. She barely kept her balance and the baby started crying.
I was mortified and said "hey, watch it dude, you almost took out that woman and her baby" before I even realized it. The guy, rather than apologizing to the woman walked up to me, grabbed me by the front of my shirt, pulled me in, and said "do you want me to put you in the f-cking ground right here and now you little sh-t?!". Again, I was 16. This dude was like 40. The lady threatened to bring a cop over and one of his more sober friends came and took him out of there before he did anything more.
I'll never forget it. Haven't been back to a lot of games since and that was 25 years ago.
I will say this the crowd was really bad across the board until 2013-14ish. Somewhere along that time (prob as the team started improving also) it became noticeable the stupidity had chilled out substantially. I know the stadium has a far better ability now to police the stands then it use to especially with video technology. You will still have your bad apples and with social media the idiots have their platform, but I have to say attending games over the last 8-9 years has been a far better experience then the many years before and I have sat everywhere from the 300s down to the 100s.
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The Jets have a color scheme that offers far more then they have ever maximized uniform wise. I think the late 80s early 90s was their best look, I can understand those who liked the 60/70s/2000-2019 look, but truthfully I feel like something truly great exists just not sure it'll ever come to light.
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2 hours ago, ROCBillsBeliever said:
-Taylor Swift is NOT the MVP.
What street corner are we meeting to rumble about this lol
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Bills fans would be as annoying and hated as Chief fans currently or Patriot fans if we had the run those teams are.
Also Bills Mafias true halcyon days were through 2019. Currently it is a massive bandwagon culturally as its a "thing" and when the pendulum swings back (hopefully in 20 years+ lol) but it will feel a lot like the drought days. Sizable fanbase and hearty group, but not what exists now.
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3 hours ago, boyst said:
niners @ bills to open the season Sunday Night football.
That would be a sneaky good opener
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4 minutes ago, eball said:
Jacksonville didn't specifically engineer updates to their stadium to create a 20-30 degree difference on the opposing sideline.
I still say what Miami did does not fall under the auspices of "gamesmanship" and creates an unfair (and potentially dangerous) advantage. I'm amazed the league isn't doing something about it -- it would be so easy to schedule only 4pm or later games during September and October.
It is a slippery slope when you start getting to perfectly equal in terms of stadium, design, conditions etc... There are many people who think Buffalo playing outdoors in the weather we do is unfair and all northern teams should be in a dome. Seattle and KC were engineered in a way to amplify the noise in their standings to make it impossible to hear for the opponent. The league could halt or pause a game if the heat is legitimately unsafe, they have not needed to at this point.
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2 hours ago, Tuco said:
Lions always play at 12:30 on Thanksgiving. Cowboys at 4:00.
Always.
I meant 4pm primetime on Sunday AFC v NFC for Bills Lions my bad
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14 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Bills at Lions on Thanksgiving? Makes sense.
NFL usually avoids repeats and given NFC v AFC I can see it being prioritized for a primetime 4pm spot
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So my total record is 25-15 good enough for 625% win percentage. Here are my fun notes since I start going regularly from 2010 on:
-my wife and I had a streak from 2011 through 2015 week 2 NE where we went to 10 straight wins. Kind of nuts for drought period but two years were just the home opener, but somehow 2013 we went 4-0.
-Since 2017 I have went W/L/W if I attend 3 games or W/L if two. (f*cking broncos game this year and minnesota in 2022.
-We had season in 2016 and I was 4-3 at home as I sold the Xmas game but went to Miami for that game... which they blew the lead win 10 mins to go
Loudest Game: Packers 2014. Place was absolutely wild start to finish
Most Memorable: Snowbowl in 2017 we were front row. The Benjamin TD we saw he was in the moment it was thrown because we were dead line with the sideline and you could see his feet get down
Best Game: Steelers 2022. I have forever hated Pittsburgh as I find them an entitled spoiled bunch of fans who have zero idea of what bad years are. To beat them so bad at home and Josh was just ripping throws is something I will appreciate forever.
Worst Game: Patriots 2016. I was at the 07 SNF blowout loss and while bad at least from a historical perspective that Pats team was something else. 2016 was a downpour, NE kicked our butt badly, Hogan scored on, and it felt so hopeless as Rex clearly lacked the skills with a roster that went from feeling good in 2014 to uh oh in 2016.
Wildest Moment: The dude who fell from the 300s to the 100s at the 2013 NYJ game was literally the section over from us. We all looked and saw chaos as people started looking for him and then security came. No one had an idea for a few minutes then the video came out.
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17 hours ago, DrBob806 said:
That's when I realized Kelly was over rated, hate to say it.
I would say the offenses lack of evolution caught them in the big game as the years went on then just Kelly. SB25 they were still ahead of the league with the no huddle and BB's plan was just good enough to slow them. After that it needed more and while the talent could beat most teams, once they faced WSH/DAL you needed a better gameplan and attack then just do what has made you successful because they are going to key against that.
Chuck Dickerson dead at 86
in The Stadium Wall
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Athletes will use anything and I mean anything for motivation. Going into a game as big as the SB you don't say a word even if you mean it in the context he did. The damn Chiefs apparently for two years now keep saying no one believed in them... and they won the SB both times. Takes one sentence to start a fire with these guys.
In fairness the drafts actually were a pretty hilarious listen