CheshireCT
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1 hour ago, Saint Doug said:
I think the majority of his draft picks are “solid” players. That said, I also think being on the Bills elevates their play and they’d probably be busts if not on the Bills.
Totally. And what we often don't see as fans is what constitutes "doing the job" on the field. We don't understand all the assignments and what the players are being asked to do. Of course we like to see the big plays, but oftentimes a player is executing his assignment in a non-sexy way. The coaches know that, the fans don't. We watched a lot of Patriots teams crush us during the drought that had a bunch of seemingly "solid" players + Tom Brady.
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7 hours ago, Big Turk said:
Not every player drafted is going to be a hit. No teams do that.
Exactly.
People seem to forget that we're talking about human beings. No matter how much due diligence you do, it's impossible to predict 100% how the career is going to go for ANY player. Oftentimes it's off the field where people have success or failure. That's why we have #1 overall picks that are busts and undrafted players who become hall of famers.
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6 hours ago, uninja said:
what 50 does is mind boggling to me. He’s effectively a good DE who can also disengage off his block and play spy on the QB and keep contain. He’s basically pulling double duty out there. Last night the Chiefs had to assign Bolton to the spy role, which robs you of an LB to play in coverage.
The fact that we can do that with Rousseau and still have him play is role on DE is nuts.
Talk about striking gold. We got lucky that he played so little in college....would have never dropped that low in the first round.
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My impression over the last few years is that Tennessee is just a bad match up for this Bills team. I'm curious to see how we do with the upgrades on defense.
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I agree with the others who say his limited snaps were likely game plan specific.
in terms of the Twitter crap and vaccine protest, I’m glad to see the team is showing they will not be distracted by it. If anyone is distracted by it, it’s Beasley himself, who I do think is limiting his own potential.
hope he stays off Twitter and refocuses on football. One thing is for damn sure, you can win the Super Bowl but you can’t win Twitter.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
To give the man his propers, he's rocking a catch percentage of 78.1% at present.
And he's got almost an additional reception per game over last season.
Y/R at a career low, though. Think that has to do with how he's being covered and the routes he's being asked to run.
Beasley is a helluva football player, no question.
He did manage to walk away from it for 2 whole years with the Bills.
Perhaps he's relapsed, but can re-enter "social media recovery".
alright I concede. Somehow I haven’t noticed him the same as Diggs, Sanders, and Knox on the receiving end/ -
Wait hold the phone. Beasley is tweeting again? I thought he promised he was done until the season was done?
maybe if he focused on football instead, he might catch some balls??? 🏈
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who else thinks Brady sets a world record and throws for 2000 yards and 50 touchdowns on Sunday night?
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Who else thinks Brady sets a world record with 2000 yards and 40 touchdowns in Sunday night's game?
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18 hours ago, LEBills said:
So about the OP.
Josh running is still part of the game plan and that is why he is averaging more runs per game now (7 per game) than he did last year.
However, I remember last year Josh saying during a press conference that his body hurts more than it probably should. So I don’t think he wants to take it out of his game but he wants to be smarter with it. Rather than running over Van Noy, he is running out of bounds, or sliding at the goal line.
But I think he is especially trying to sit behind the LOS and throw it more rather than scramble. The pass blocking has made it where their are instances he probably should have scrambled more but I think he is trying to figure out a balance.He is our franchise QB. Scrambling but being smart about the shots his body takes is his next step in his evolution. It may lead us to question what is going on early this season but I think it will pay off in the long run.
Cant wait to destroy WFT tmrw
Fans are generally impatient when it comes to player development. It's impossible for a player to indefinitely ascend while working on new things. Dips are part of the process. And in this case the "dip" is just that he looks less dynamic, he's not making huge mistakes. Watching Josh develop and improve so fast in his first seasons, I have absolutely no worries about the guy.
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7 minutes ago, billsfanmiamioh said:
That actually makes some sense so we definitely can’t do that around here.
and then further, people who had covid just take one shot to be "fully vaccinated"
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8 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:
Did they speak why negative test results wouldn't work? Wouldn't that be the safest environment?
I also wonder why not.
Generally in Europe (which has much stronger regulations for Covid), there is the choice of 3 - vaccinated, recently infected with Covid, or a negative test.
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3 minutes ago, dorquemada said:
Always a risk when the league or individual cities/owners take punitive measures against fans. Perhaps they can do away with fans altogether and ascend to an entirely spiritual league
I wouldn't call it a punitive measure. NY State is over 60% vaccinated. For the sake of making it easy, let's say it's 50/50 in the stadium. The 50% vaccinated crowd would prefer to be in a safer environment.
No matter which way you go, there's going to be some people who don't like it. Might as well err on the side of public health and safety and piss off the people who refuse the vaccine, rather than the other way around. That's my two cents.
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1 hour ago, Process said:
This got lost in all the relocation BS, but anyone else find it ridiculous that an open air stadium in freakin Orchard Park would cost $1.1B? How is that possible?
Hienz field in downtown Pittsburgh cost $280M. Lucas oil stadium, a dome in downtown Indianapolis cost $770M. US Bank stadium, in downtown Minneapolis, with a dome, and probably one of the nicest stadiums in the league cost $1.05B.
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49 minutes ago, Augie said:
The bold is where you went wrong. MUCH of the cash? Sure.
Bigger markets bring bigger revenues. Broadcasting and advertising are just a couple streams of revenue. The owners care about EVERY stream of revenue including concessions, parking, merchandise sales, etc. Better stadiums also generate more money. They care about the ENTIRE package. They would be stupid not to care. I certainly would.
If you have a good job that pays well, would you be OK with your wife working for free? I doubt it. You would want that money too.
Sure, you're not wrong. Those are also revenue streams. My take on it is that different markets bring different things to the table. Everything together balances out, and the end result is an incredibly successful primary revenue stream that comes from broadcasting.
Perhaps on the money side, a team like the Cowboys might hit on all the marks (media attention, fancy stadium, high revenues, etc), but that's the rare example. On that point, I can understand why Jerry Jones might complain. He's thinking, well my organization does it all, why shouldn't yours? But where is the reality? Moves are not always successful and it's not realistic to force the smaller markets to squeeze more cash out of its fans either. Meanwhile, I do think fans care about the NFL's history and those special small market teams that bring so much character to the sport (Bills, Packers, Steelers....). I wouldn't want to see any of those franchises uprooted.
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What’s the sense of ragging on this guy so hard? I give him credit for hanging in there and trying to remake himself.
just because he didn’t play well in Buffalo, doesn’t automatically make him a bad person. Sheesh
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3 hours ago, SCBills said:
Meh… I thought it was kind of a dump. Maybe it was cool years ago…In terms of football, It’s Atlanta on steroids with transplants, complete with a college team that owns the city (UGA/UT)
I try to take off my homer glasses when discussing this stuff, but I truly think this point has merit. Bills Mafia is the most iconic fan base in the NFL right now.
I really don’t think we have homer glasses! Sports is entertainment, and the small markets bring a lot to the table when it comes to that. And if the broadcasting and advertising brings all the cash, why should the league really care about ticket revenues? Sounds like foolish greed to me.
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10 minutes ago, Chicken Boo said:
They won't move the team. I'm all but sure of that, but it makes a ton of sense financially, especially if said city is going to foot the entire bill for the stadium. The value of the Bills would undoubtedly increase in a larger market like Austin, for example.
I think something that’s being left out of the discussion is that it’s tough to discount the fan base in Buffalo. It’s good for the NFL and it’s good for business. No matter where you move a team, you can’t assume any kind of fan base, and even if the seats are full, will you get that Buffalo energy.? No. The fan base in Buffalo will literally never budge. Even if the ticket revenue is low, who cares. We see how the entertainment sector capitalizes off the lunatic, table busting fans, and that’s intangible. Now that fans will be back in stadiums, imagine the television coverage of a packed bills house for the playoffs. It’s gonna be nuts after the last 20 years we’ve had.-
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26 minutes ago, SCBills said:
I get your sentiment, but have you looked at what your tax dollars go to?A football stadium for a team people care about would probably rank in the top ten of positive things taxpayers help fund.
I just can’t work up the moral outrage over this. I’d rather the devil I know (PGSE) get rich off my tax dollars than the devil I don’t…. Or should I say “along with the devil I don’t”.
You absolutely bring up a good point in that there is money being wasted all over the place. Nonetheless, when I see such a fiasco in broad daylight, it irritates me. LOL-
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40 minutes ago, Mango said:
I am not against public spending on sports. I just look at it the same as stuff like the Albright Knox or the Philharmonic. They provided value but cost money. But if the Albright Knox was clearing $70M per year after expenses. (That is what GB cleared circa 2019) and told the city, county, and state, that unless they gave them an additional $1.5B (pandemic or not), they would pack up and go. We’d line the streets and wave them good bye and laughing as they jumped on the 90.
You can’t put a multi-gajillion sports industry in the same category as not-for-profit arts and culture which exist purely to enrich the community. Furthermore, these cultural institutions receive VERY LITTLE public money in America and survive primarily on private donations.a sports stadium should get $0 in public funding. That said, I completely understand why the Pegulas are asking for it. It happens all over the place, and if governments have given out such money before, why wouldn’t they ask for it? On principal however, it’s totally absurd to see tax payers financially supporting people making millions and billions individually.
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7 hours ago, cba fan said:
he is not a "free RB option." When designated for the program, he can not be activated to the 53 or play in any regular season games.
thanks for that clarification
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17 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:
There are two really loud Christian Wade factions…
1) The group that believes Christian Wade is a NFL running back right now and needs to make the roster and the Bills are doing him a disservice by keeping him on the practice squad.
2) The group that believes Christian Wade is not good at all and will never be good and is wasting a spot for someone else and they’re tired of hearing about him (thanks group #1).
Both sides are out of touch and don’t understand the purpose of keeping Christian Wade around.
Exactly, no one could possibly have any clue what level of skill or talent this guy possesses. Only the team knows that.
There are just two things that are clear to me:
1. He doesn't take up a roster spot, so he's sort of like a free RB option.
2. Time and energy are the most valuable assets, so he must be showing the team SOMETHING that makes them want to invest in him. He's most assuredly not just "a guy."
And this is speculation on my part, but I would believe that since he doesn't take up a roster spot, that demotivates the Bills to move him out of his current designation, as long as he qualifies for the program. Personally, I believe he would have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he's better than Singletary and Moss to make the roster right now.
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5 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Er....he did need to learn the game of football. I hear that sometimes takes a bit of time.
And of course, no one on an NFL practice squad ever developed, made the regular roster, and became a starter.
Exactly, they're keeping him around for a reason. And furthermore the NFL is a business. Wade currently represents a very cheap extra running back. I think in order for him to make the roster, he would actually have to be better than all the backs on the team. In that respect, he's at a disadvantage.
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37 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
He's painted himself into a corner. What a waste of a great situation with the Bills. It wasn't too long ago that he was unhappy with his situation in Dallas.
I actually don’t know anything about what happened in Dallas? What was that about? I mean if it’s for competitive reasons I understand if a player is unhappy, but then again when he came to the Bills, there was no sure fire indication they would be this good.
Looks Like the Rest of the NFL Have our Number !!
in The Stadium Wall
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It’s literally this simple. The last three weeks, we’ve watched teams
progressively exploit our weakness.
The line was much better last year. Meanwhile, this offense isn’t designed to dink and dunk, though if the line is gonna suck this hard, they’re going to have to adapt the offense somehow to make up for it. That’s my stupid fan opinion….
meanwhile I’m still optimistic. Our D is still solid and the offensive players still have all the potential to put up points again…