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On 2/19/2024 at 9:29 PM, stuvian said:
The "Decade of Fail" was actually 18 years from 1999 to 2017. I was a season ticket holder from 2006 to 2018 during which there were no home playoff games. We went out in round one on the road versus the Jags in 2017.
You have never known what it is like to have the cold weather part of your season ticket package descend into worthlessness because you have been effectively eliminated by week 10.
Now we have a regime and franchise QB who have had us in the playoffs seven of eight seasons with one advancement to the conference title game where we lost in OT. Everyone is suddenly screaming because it isn't happening fast enough so therefore we must fire everybody.
I saw what I needed to see when McDermott took us from 6-6 to 11-6 and did so through the most difficult opponents on our schedule. Losing by a FG to the eventual SB champs is not only a sign we are knocking on the door but also something established fan bases in many cities would die for.
The Pegulas made a legacy hire when they formed the Beane - McDermott tandem. I didn't always think so but I do now. I don't know what the locker room dynamics were before Dorsey and Frazier left but the organization seems more cohesive as a result. Canning everyone would set us back years.
I was a season ticket holder from 2001 until 2016 (i couldn't stomach it anymore and gave them up).......man, that was the most miserable 15 years to ever be a Bills fan. Every year we went into it thinking that there may be a slight chance that something will happen this year and......nothing ever happened. Well, nothing good ever happened anyways.
Let me say it like this.....when the punter (Moorman) is the face of your franchise, there is very little to look forward to each season.
I felt your pain, brother.....i was there. I lived it and anyone who doesn't remember those days should go back down memory lane and respect how awful it truly was. It will give them a newfound hope for the future of this franchise.
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I honestly think KC and the Bills are fairly evenly matched on the field, however, where the Bills are lacking is coaching.
It seems that KC gameplans each and every week for every opponent, whereas the Bills, kinda look like, "well, it worked for the past 3 weeks, so let's keep going with it" attitude/style.
You can see the coaching from both teams is miles apart. KC looks like they do their homework every week and Buffalo looks like they waited till the last minute to complete their school project, then just whipped together some twigs and glue, realized it would never work, then just went with the old "my dog ate my homework" excuse.
The excuses are getting stale, tiresome, boring....there is zero accountability from the top on down.
I don't want to hear excuses about injuries, when every team gets them over the course of the season and every team deals with it and it seems that no other franchise hangs their hat on the injury excuse quite like Buffalo Bills fans.
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13 hours ago, FireChans said:
Was the Diggs trade not smart?
The Jets and Dolphins crumbled because their QB’s ain’t it.
The Rams won the Super Bowl with the top heaviest roster in NFL history.
The Diggs trade was terrible.
I mean, sure we got a quality WR who's definitely one of the best at the position, however, when you consider that we traded our pick to Minnesota to get Diggs, we also gave up the chance to draft Justin Jefferson, who Minnie selected with OUR pick, i might add.
You give me the option of Diggs or Jefferson and i know who i'm picking alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll day long......and it ain't Diggs.
Sorry.......not sorry.
9 hours ago, mrags said:Think I’d offer a 3rd for him. Conditional to a 2nd if he has like 100rec, 1,000yrds, and 10TD. Something like that. If it’s before this draft I think a 3rd is as high as I’d go. Although maybe a 2nd and get something back. In this case, pick up McClaurin for a 2nd. Draft Sweat at DT in the first. A 3rd Rd WR or Safety is then a must. Oh, and I’m keeping Diggs.
Why thank you, sir.....i didn't even know i was in the running.
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I honestly think KC and the Bills are fairly evenly matched on the field, however, where the Bills are lacking is coaching.
It seems that KC gameplans each and every week for every opponent, whereas the Bills, kinda look like, "well, it worked for the past 3 weeks, so let's keep going with it" attitude/style.
You can see the coaching from both teams is miles apart. KC looks like they do their homework every week and Buffalo looks like they waited till the last minute to complete their school project, then just whipped together some twigs and glue, realized it would never work, then just went with the old "my dog ate my homework" excuse.
The excuses are getting stale, tiresome, boring....there is zero accountability from the top on down.
I don't want to hear excuses about injuries, when every team gets them over the course of the season and every team deals with it and it seems that no other franchise hangs their hat on the injury excuse quite like Buffalo Bills fans.
I have spoken.
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On 2/17/2024 at 10:14 AM, Cubanmist 1 said:
Actually, the Bills defense has got to be better and shut down KCs options at TE and WR.
Good point.
KC doesn't have a whole of O weapons, however, what they do have are "ballers".....you shut down the main core of Kelce and Pacheco (i'm not even going to mention their WR's cause without Hill, i don't see them as much of a threat) and that team is a one man show with Mahomo. You take away the RPO, you take away the run game and you take away Kelce.....there's not much left after that.
The problem is, the fans see it, the players see it, the HC and FO see it and yet, we can never stop it. We can never seem to game plan around it.
#confusedashell
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Just now, somnus00 said:
I like Rousseau. Elite run defender as a DE. Okay as a pass rusher. The tricky part is the money. The 5th year option means a sizeable bump in pay, which then creates an expectation for the next contract. If my understanding is correct, the 5th year option for Groot would put him at the average of the 3 - 25 highest paid DEs in the league. Is he worth that much?
And, that's the dilemma we're having on the boards these days.....what do you pay him if you want to extend him?....what's he worth?
I think ole Beane is gonna spin his wheel-o-loot and see what he comes up with. To me, that's how i envision how he crunches the numbers.....i might be wrong.
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18 minutes ago, SaulGoodman said:
You might want to read what I was responding to and then it will make sense.
Nothing you've said for 12 pages makes any sense.
Move along now.......nothing to see here.
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52 minutes ago, SaulGoodman said:
I did see some posters voicing concern about the injury to Bernard and such in various threads, but if you pull up the pregame predictions thread, you'll see that almost everyone predicted the Bills to win. Most by multiple scores.
So, you're judging what was said about the pregame predictions from what you read on a "Buffalo Bills Message Board"?!?........do you honestly think Bills fans are going to slight the team, put them in a bad light or degrade their team on their OWN message board leading up to the biggest game of the year for the franchise?
Wow kid.....just wow.
Move along now......nothing to see here.
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10 minutes ago, FireChans said:
I think that Beane has been guilty of flip-flopping team building philosophies trying to meet in the middle, sometimes even in the same draft.
Our top picks, too often, have been where need meets BPA. Which is fine sometimes, but sometimes you pass on better talent to fill more pressing roster holes. Like Boogie Basham, whose ceiling was a JAG level player.
In the later rounds, Beane has done extraordinarily well at just targeting guys that can play, which is why we have a solid hit rate on players who are NFL caliber, if not superstars.
For me, the Kincaid pick wasn’t that safe. To draft ANOTHER TE when you just gave your developed 3rd round TE a big contract is actually risky. It’s targeting the best player left on your board and expecting the coaches to make it work (shout out Ken Dorsey on that regard).
The Torrence pick to me was clear as their annual “BPA meets need” pick and it worked out so far so all’s well that ends well. But once Saffold predictably played awful in 2022, you knew IOL was coming high.
In the NFL draft, you can be right for the wrong reasons and wrong for the right reasons, and the ultimate barometer is not said and done until about 3-4 years after.
Even the Chiefs took CEH in the first, a colossal blunder. They won two Superbowls after so who cares? But the process was clearly wrong there imo.
Beane’s FA philosophy early in his career was bargain bin shop a handful of guys, and whoever panned out was the starter, and he would cut or trade away the rest, particularly on OL. That gave him a lot of draft flexibility. Now we are dealing with a much tighter cap, and he can’t do that.
I understand your point, however, it's not really that risky when you consider that we were in desperate need of a guy who can play over the middle. We had a huge void when we let Beasley go, so instead of drafting a WR or looking in FA, we draft the BPA in the draft at that position. Also, Kincaid opens up alot more plays in the playbook for middle work, slots, stretching the D and don't forget blocking. The guy is as versatile as they come.
It was a beautiful pick by our FO in recognizing the need for a positive yardage middle man who can fit into so much more packages and schemes than a plain old WR.
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18 minutes ago, SaulGoodman said:
Again, I'm not triggered by anything here and I'm obviously not expecting to see lavish praise for KC or Mahomes. I just think there are some silly narratives floating around. Before the game in Buffalo, the prevailing opinion seemed to be that the Bills had the advantage at most positions and would win comfortably, and then go on to win the SB. People were saying the Bills had rounded into form and were playing at an elite level. After the game, the narrative immediately changed to "Mahomes has way more talent around him and Andy Reid, so of course he should have won."
You see, kid.....you're just making stuff up to feed your own narrative.
Not one single person ever said this.....not the fans, not the media, no one. Everyone knew it would be a slugfest with the game going either way.
How are we supposed to take anything you say seriously when you're talking nonsense.
Move along now.....nothing to see here.
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1 minute ago, SaulGoodman said:
Which parts are delusional?
I said move along now......nothing to see here.
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If Baker hits FA, i could see him going with the Raiders or the Pats......just my opinion.
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I tried watching it, i really did, but wow, is it bad.....like, i mean really bad football.
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10 hours ago, SaulGoodman said:
First of all, mediocre is relative. And I added "stretches"...not necessarily entire seasons of mediocre play. Sometimes they would stumble out of the gate for a month or so. In 2014, NE started 2-2 with two double digit losses, including a 41-14 loss in Arrowhead in which Alex Smith's Chiefs made them look like the worst team in the league. They went on to win the SB. In 2018, they lost to several mediocre teams, including three blowouts. Went on to win the SB.
What? Mahomes' defense allowed 36 points in that game. I'll agree that there was nothing special about the throws at the end of regulation, except for the fact that there was a hell of a lot of pressure not to screw up with 13 seconds left in your season. And the fact that Mahomes is a perfect 7 of 7 in those situations in the playoffs. I'd say that's kinda special.
Let's talk about some of Allen's throws. Was there anything special about throwing to a WIDE open Gabe Davis multiple times as DBs were falling down or blowing coverages? There's a pretty blatant double standard here. When Allen throws to a guy with no DB within a mile, he's Superman. When Mahomes does it, it's nothing.
Mahomes had to be almost perfect in that game to get the win. Completed 75% of his passes, 447 total yds, 4 TDs, averaged 10 yards per run, punted once against the #1 rated defense. The Bills punted 4 times vs a mediocre defense, and people act like Allen had to be perfect while Mahomes had a huge margin for error.
You guys say that Mahomes' defense always steps up in the playoffs while Allen's does the opposite, and yet....36 points to the Bills, 35 points to the Eagles, 37 to NE, 31 to Tampa, 31 to Houston, 27 to Cincy, and others in the mid 20s. If Mahomes' defense actually did consistently step up in the postseason, he may have never lost a postseason game. And imagine KC's regular season records if the defenses didn't stink it up so often throughout the year.
Typical KC fan.....delusional and out of touch with reality.
Kinda just making stuff up to coincide with your own narrative to proclaim the god-like aspects of Mahomo and the Chiefs.
Move along......nothing to see here.
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Well, it wasn't injuries on the O when we were making a run into the playoffs. It wasn't injuries on the O playing against KC in the post season this year. It wasn't injuries that caused Diggs to drop passes.
The injury excuse is not credible to me......championship teams find a way to win.
Now, injuries on the D is a different matter, however, on the last series against KC, it was our O on the field, not the D.....so what else you got?
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I could honestly see him going to the Jets, the Pats or KC.....you heard it here first, folks.
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The shameful part is that he's going to go to another franchise and be a major contributor. I think Gabe has alot of potential and we never really tapped into all of it here. He had flashes of brilliance here and there, but wayyyyyyyyy too sporadic to ever pay him top dollar. I'm sure a different team will groom him into a solid #2.
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15 hours ago, mrags said:
I agree with this. I don’t see anything special with McConkey. I mean I’d take him in the 3rd or after but he’s not a first or second round pick imo.
I agree with this analysis.
I've followed him all throughout college and his play style and physique are spectacular for college ball, but in the NFL he is considered slow and undersized....when he hits the draft, he should go no earlier than the 3rd round.
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On 2/18/2024 at 9:14 AM, Ya Digg? said:
On 3rd down yes he could’ve done more, on 2nd down it’s an emphatic NO, he didn’t need to do more. Sure we all see Diggs was open but A) no one knows if he was the first, second, third read and B) if Dawkins holds his block just a half second longer it’s a touchdown
A TD with almost 2 minutes on the clock and full timeouts to hand back to Mahomo to work his magic and we think we were in any position to win that game, when our D could do nothing all game long?
The way i see it, we were losing that game no matter what we did.
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1 hour ago, Logic said:
Why would I be worried?
He's a good player.
Very good against the run, provides a legitimate pass rush in spurts. Has positional versatility.
He's likely never going to be an elite, 15+ sack per year guy. But players that can consistently defend the run, provide some pass rush productivity, and have positional flexibility like he has usually carve out a nice, long career in the league. Think Calais Campbell. Similar size and profile to Rousseau. 16 years in the league, six Pro Bowls, and a 1st team All-Pro season. Campbell averaged "just" 6.5 sacks per season, which is about the pace Rousseau is on right now.
Rousseau is also only 23 years old, and it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility that he can continue to improve. Campbell didn't make the Pro Bowl until his 7th season, and didn't record double digit sacks in a season until he was 31.
Nothing to be worried about.All good points, sir...however, do you pay the man at contract time or let him walk?
Are you going to pay him for what he has done, for what he is or what he might do? Each of these possibilities provide a different number at contract time and are we willing to pay for what he might become, when we have already seen what he is.....any of this making sense to you?....lol.
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Now, i'm not saying the league is "fixed" or "rigged", but go back and watch any KC footage and tell me you don't see blatant holding on every play that doesn't get called....it's a friggin disgrace and it's sooooooo obvious.
It's actually turned me off of the NFL right now. I'll still watch the Bills every week, but i don't watch near as much football as i used to.
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Anybody still think Beane is a number wizard?!?
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Just now, FireChans said:
James Cook had 5.6 yards per touch. Derrick Henry had 4.5.
James Cook had 200 more yards from scrimmage on 27 less touches.
James Cook had a better catch percentage than Derrick Henry, 81% to 77%.
James Cook had 1 less first down than Henry, 69 to 70 (again with 27 less touches).
James Cook had 10.1 yards per catch, Henry had 7.6.
James Cook had more 20+ gains rushed than Henry, 6 to 5.They run differently, and I think the world of Derrick Henry (despite thinking RB is relatively useless) but there are a lot of stats that demonstrate that Cook was a more productive back last season.
I would still take Henry I think and we would have the best RB room in football.
I'm not saying anything negative about Cook....i've followed him since college (followed him, as in his college career, not stalking....lol). He has the tools, the speed and the elusiveness to be something special in this league, however, with the King on the roster, it instantly gains respect from opposing D's. You stack the box to cover the King and JA throws....how D's would honestly game plan from week to week, is beyond me and automatically makes our O a threat on every play.
Cook needs time to develop further and hopefully our HC and FO puts the time in and the effort to create an honest run game every week....not just from time to time, which we've seen them do. They need to emphasize the run game and give Cook his touches.
Now, with both on the roster, it becomes a "thunder and lightning" combo.....
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2 hours ago, MR8 said:
How do you figure he's a "much better impact"? The guy has seen serious decline year over year over year in his yards per carry totals. Here in Buffalo he would not be a bell cow, he'd be a change of pace back but for more money than is warranted for that...
Additionally Cook is just coming into his own, do you really want to take him off the field? He's more dynamic, more explosive, has better hands, and at this point in his career is just the better running back. Sure between the tacklers he's not the best of the two, but overall I would rather him be on the field as many snaps as possible. Which means if you're spending our limited free agent money on a guy who's going to want to be on the field at least 50% of the time, it's a bad expenditure.
What?!?
So, he's more dynamic when he's doing his juking and shaking behind the line and falls at defenders feet cause he don't wanna get hit?
He's more explosive when he decides to actually do something and not fall at defenders feet.
He has better hands, does he?!?......seems to drop everything coming his way.
And you figure at this point of his career, that Cook is the better RB?!?......my god, man....at this point in his career, Cook and the King shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence until Cook has even come marginally close to what the King can do on the field.
Wow....give me the King all day, any day, every day.
I feel a little dumber for having read anything you've written.......thank you.
An interesting format to evaluate the Bills foundation
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I can't believe some of you guys are getting upset over this chart.
Does it really matter the opinions of others of the caliber of players on the team?......we know what we got.