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1 hour ago, Xwnyer said:
Even though Beane has done a terrible job assembling this roster we are still in the hunt for a playoff spot and have a remote chance of finishing first in the East. Meanwhile teams like Bengals, Ravens and Chiefs are almost eliminated from the playoffs yet people thought those rosters are in much better shape than ours. Could you imagine if Josh had the weapons Burrow has or we had a defense that can actually generate pressure on the QB? We are lucky we have Superman on our side but it would be nice if he had a supporting cast like the Superman has with the Justice League 😀
If we don’t win the east being the fifth seed won’t be a bad thing Pitt and Balt are terrible and as long as Cincy doesn’t end up winning that division I can see us winning a playoff game on the road.
Dude, you have no idea what a terrible roster really looks like.
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13 hours ago, Saint Doug said:
He’s a very good QB. But he’s never going to get them a Super Bowl win. And I think this matters the most.Not as long as Jerry Jones runs the show in Dallas, he won't, but if Dak were on the Vikings since 2022 (Cousins, Darnold, McCarthy), my guess is that we would have a very different view of how good he is.
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13 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:
"On Thursday night, something seemed off. Targeted nine times, Pickens had five catches for only 37 yards. It was his lowest yardage output since Week 1, when he caught three passes for 30 yards against the Eagles.
The other issue was his demeanor. He seemed to be, at times, a little disinterested. He seemed to be, at times, a little disengaged. On one play, when the pass was thrown his way, he seemed to run his route half-heartedly. And it appeared that quarterback Dak Prescott had something to say to him about it."
Sherman wasn't the only one who criticized Pickens for his play on Thursday night. The announcers during the game mentioned Pickens' play after Lamb went down. They noted that 2nd year WR, Ryan Flournoy, a 6th rounder, caught 9 of 13 targets for 115 yards was the one who stepped up, not Pickens.
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One of the Buffalo radio stations started playing all Christmas on Black Friday. That's a bit much for me, but playing more and more Christmas music is fine with me as we get closer to the holiday. I have a large collection of Christmas music on CDs as well several playlists on Amazon Music, from classical to country to bluegrass to novelties like the original Chipmunks "Christmas Don't Be Late" to "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas" to "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer".
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8 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
Imagine if Cleveland just kept Baker lol
I think the Browns would have made the Super Bowl, and maybe won a Lombardi, if they had kept Baker. Their defense has certainly been good enough to win a championship, especially with the talent they could have added with the draft capital that they wasted on Watson.
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9 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:
This was inevitable and predictable.
What's hilarious is that the Browns, possibly more than any franchise aside from the Jets, can't get the QB position right and now they have the two most divisive, controversial QBs in the NFL on the same roster.
You can't make this stuff up.
I don't think that Sanders is particularly divisive or controversial to his teammates. He's got some significant physical limitations as well as some terrible tendencies for a pro QB, but he seems to be improving and to be capable of motivating his teammates.
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44 minutes ago, ScottishBills said:
All the more mystifying they couldnt figure out the exact same plan would also have beaten the Texans 10 days ago and had the division in our hands 🤦♂️🤦♂️
The Texans defense is one of the best defenses in the NFL; the Texans poor start was primarily the fault of their offense (or lack of). The Steelers defense has lots of outstanding players but they've played like a bunch of JAGs almost the entire season.
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7 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
I don't have a crystal ball. It could be the Patriots. It could be the Broncos.
That's not the point though. The point is that the makeup of this team is not built to win 4 games in a row against the best teams in the NFL playing at their best.
As we've seen all season - relying solely on the run game and the run game alone is not sustainable. Regardless of what you think of other teams in the AFC, like the Patriots, there are multiple teams that are far less one dimensional. That can win through the air and on the ground.
How many NFL teams have actually been built to "win 4 games in a row against the best teams in the NFL playing at their best" in the salary cap era? Neither the Patriots and Broncos aren't. My guess is that very few, if any, have been. Maybe the 2018 Patriots were, but they couldn't actually do it because they ran into an inferior team with a horseshoe up its collective ass ... and one of their JAG WRs caught a pass off his helmet and scored the winning TD.
My point is that in the single elimination playoff format used by the NFL, any team that makes the playoffs can win the Super Bowl if things like injuries, officiating, and just plain luck go their way. That includes the Bills.
5 hours ago, Chautauqua Mafia said:No. They'll absolutely lose in New England and likely to Philadelphia
You haven't been watching the Eagles recently. A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread about Philly's offensive issues (Not All Brotherly Love ... ) which seems to have nailed the problem, which hasn't yet been fixed if it even can be fixed.
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4 hours ago, Chautauqua Mafia said:
Spent my first night as a resident here last night and I gotta tell you, despite the wind nearly melting my face off, I love it here. Just the vibe I've been looking for after decades in the mid Atlantic hellscape.
Welcome to God's Country. Where did you finally settle?
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4 hours ago, Big Turk said:
Excuse me? The only reason they went to the Super Bowl and beat the Chiefs is because of their defense. Burrow has been average to below average in most playoff games.
Did I say their defense was bad in 2021 and 2022? No. It certainly was bad last year, and it's worse this year. They also don't have a decent running game or OL, and that's because they've invested in 2 #1 WRs, Chase and Higgins. So they put up big stats in the passing game even without Burrow but don't win games.
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15 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:
Im as frustrated as anyone with the way Beane has handled the WR room after trading Diggs but it doesn't sound like they are taking into account Offensive Line. I'm sure Joe Burrow feels betrayed by Cincinnati in that regard 😂
No NFL QB has been more betrayed than Burrow in at least the last decade. Burrow is a pocket passer with a rocket arm and a gunslinger mentality, so the Bungles have sent him out there with 2 great WRs but no OL, no running game, and a phantom defense. The 2021 and 2022 Bengals showed what could have been with just a decently respectable team around Burrow, but the Bengals don't seem to be particularly interested in building a respectable team, just a FF juggernaut.
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5 hours ago, Big Turk said:
It's almost unfathomable how their offense can be as bad as it is so regularly with studs all across the skill positions and a great OLine.
That OC needs to be fired ASAP.
People talk about Brady having issues? Watching Philly play offense is like watching paint dry most games.
I think you didn't read the article cited by the OP. The author pointed specifically to Hurts failing to following game plans because he's reluctant to throw into tight windows. I don't know if I agree with the author's implication that Hurts is simply "doing his thing" and refuses to change because he knows Philly can't change anything because of his contract. My guess is that Hurts would change if he could do so relatively easily ... and overcoming your natural inclinations is never easy for anybody. Because of the continual coaching changes with the Eagles, it may have also become a defense mechanism to dealing with the systemic changes that come from bringing in a new OC.
1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said:It's because Jalen hurts is very overrated as a paser
He was able to consistently play good down the stretch last year and get the ball to his top guys.. but that's never been his game
If the league has caught up they really might be struggling offensively because hurts is not a top five or even top seven quarterback.. he's a great athlete not the best passer
I agree. Without the outstanding supporting cast Hurts has had on the Eagles, I think Hurts would be considered pretty ho-hum.
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5 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
I live in a house that has been in the family for over 58 years, and I have fed the birds when I have lived here. Finally after all this time of seeing many other woodpeckers and flickers, I saw a pileated. Had no interest in the suet and seeds I offer at the feeder. Paused high up in a maple, examined the bark for snacks, and flew off. Lord, they're large birds!
Pileated woodpeckers started coming back in the 1990s as more and more former farmland became forest lands. They are mostly forest birds and don't often come into urban/suburban areas unless there's a particularly choice supply of insects in a tree(s). There are several pairs nesting in the woods around Bergman Park and Hundred Acre Lot, two wooded parks on the outskirts of the Jamestown. Mostly you hear them rather than see them. There calls sound sort of like Woody Woodpecker, and their drumming is really loud as they literally rip chunks of trees apart getting to their quarry.
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4 hours ago, JustHewIt said:
You can do it! Start looking for the positives and bright spots (Max, Bishop, our O line, James Cook, our return game improving, Joe Brady changing it up, not sweating every field goal attempt this year...oh and some guy named Josh Allen) rather than dwelling on every little thing that isn't perfect and expecting doom. When you zoom out and look at the top teams, our problems don't look nearly as bad in comparison.
This isn't the NBA, there aren't runaway favorites in this league. And even that rare team that does come along and dominate all year might have the whole thing ruined by Eli Manning. Get in the tournament and we have just as good as shot as anyone else.
So many times, teams make and/or win the Super Bowl because they get lucky ... their playoff seed, injuries, bad/no calls by refs, and especially "fickle finger of fate" plays, the most notable one being David Tyree's "Helmet Catch" which enabled the WC Giants to beat the previously undefeated Patriots in the final 2 minutes of SB XLII.
3 hours ago, mjt328 said:With seven games left, I think people are really getting over excited and jumping the gun.
Considering tie-breakers, they are basically 2.5 games behind the Chargers and 1.5 games behind the Jaguars.
There are plenty of games left for them to makeup that distance.
I think the Broncos offered Lucifer a better deal for their team soul, and the Chiefs have lost their remarkable luck. Karma is a you-know-what.
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23 hours ago, Gregg said:
Colts at Chiefs. What is the better outcome for the Bills. A Chiefs loss really puts their season in jeopardy, and it would be nice to go into the AFC playoffs and not have to deal with them. However, the Colts are 8-2 and if the Bills want a shot at the #1 seed, they need them to lose another game just like we need the Pats to drop another game.
I want the Chiefs out of playoff contention ASAP, and losing to the Colts is another nail in their playoff coffin. Better Jones than Mahomes every day and especially on Saturdays or Sundays in the post season.
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8 hours ago, US Egg said:
Pheasants have all but disappeared in the area. Use to see them routinely as a kid running through small fields.
Pheasants aren't native birds. They were introduced in the late 1800s and early 1900s to establish populations in about 40 states, but changes in agriculture -- especially clearing hedgerows around small fields to create much larger fields -- has decimated those breeding populations, and so most birds used for hunting today are stocked birds. Pheasants need the brushy areas between small grain fields (wheat, oats, corn) for protection and nesting.
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Not exactly in my "backyard" but while driving back to Jtown from our family camp in the Town of Persia in northern Cattaraugus County, I spotted a bald eagle in the Town of Conewango. He flew overhead and landed in a pasture. He was really impressive. While not exactly "common" like robins, cardinals or bluejays, bald eagles are numerous in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties. There are numerous nests in these counties including some right around Jamestown.
It wasn't always that way. Bald eagles in the lower 48 states were almost extinct (along with other top level raptors like ospreys and peregrine falcons) in the 1960s when the insecticide DDT was banned. In the 1990s, the first bald eagles were raised and fledged in NYS from eggs brought from Alaska, including a group that was raised and released in the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge between Rochester and Syracuse.
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On 11/11/2025 at 9:29 AM, May Day 10 said:
I just go with Stinky and add a roman numeral after it in sequence
My Dad's family always named their female dogs they named either Queenie or Ginger. Investigating the family history, I came across a photo and a couple of letters from my youngest aunt to my Dad when he was overseas in WW II that referenced a small white dog named Queenie who apparently replaced "old Ginger". Growing up, we had a string of Queenies and Gingers although we also had other dog names.
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10 hours ago, SF Bills Fan said:
What a strange episode. Something must be going on with Sanchez that caused him to boil over. Alcohol was a factor, but I am sure many of us on this board have a few from time to time and we don't feel the need to beat up people, let alone elderly folks.
Maybe he's a mean drunk.
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51 minutes ago, Pete said:
Or taking WR Justin Shorter, Puka Nakua was the next pick.
Hindsight is stupid. Bills passed on Tom Brady 6 times.
All of the teams in the NFL passed on Brady at least 5 times, including the Pats.
29 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:It was the right move at the time and the right move with the benefit of hindsight. Can you imagine if it was Jalen Reagor instead of Justin Jefferson?!?it very easily could have been that. Diggs gave the Bills the best receiving season in franchise history, the best 4 year window in franchise history and made them the most dangerous offense in the game. He took a really, really good team and made them elite. That offense wins a Super Bowl or 2 without the defensive failings.
People forget that Diggs as a veteran WR helped Allen become a significantly better QB, something that any rookie WR, no matter how great he might become, couldn't have done. Diggs now seems to be helping Maye develop into a good/great QB as he did with Josh.
24 minutes ago, transient said:The thing I always wonder is why Beane didn’t address the heir apparent to Diggs while he was still on the roster and Diggs output was declining… and continues to stubbornly ignore it now.
I think that it was only in his last year as a Bill that Diggs morphed into a team cancer making it rather hard to plan to replace him.
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As long as Woody Johnson and his family own the Jests, nothing is going change with that team, no matter how much draft capital they accumulate.
I think that Indy will likely regret giving up those two firsts in the long run for a DB. They are obviously all in to win this year before the clock strikes midnight for Daniel Jones.
9 hours ago, ngbills said:Jets also still have Wilson and Hall. Get them a qb and make good draft picks they could be solid pretty quickly.
This is the perpetual take on the Jests for most of the last quarter century. Even a blind squirrel can do better than the Jests.
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43 minutes ago, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:
Andy Reid has no fear of Sean McDermott at all, he went for it on a 4th and 17 and made the first down, how does that even happen? We've been stuffed on 4 and 2/ 4th and 3 and they made a 4th and 17. As poor as Mahomes played this game due to the pressure they were only a TD away from tying it up at the end. How many on here thought once Prater missed that FG, "oh no 22 seconds" ? I sure as heck did and there's a reason for that. For me though this game really didn't mean much, none of these regular season games do, seeding in the playoffs doesn't mean much either imo, we've lost at home and on the road in the playoffs so just get me to the playoffs and hopefully McDermott doesn't hold us back again this season that's all you can ask for.
Mahomes played poorly because of the Bills defense harassing him relentlessly all game. McDermott decided to try to win the game outright because he was confident in that defense ... and unlike in the playoff games against KC in the past, the defense came through with flying colors. On the final play, the Bills defenders chased Mahomes out of the pocket and forced him yards back from the LOS to the point that when Mahomes finally got the pass off, it didn't make the end zone. The Bills DBs broke up the play, but even if it had been completed, it wouldn't have mattered since time had expired.
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2 hours ago, Billsatlastin2018 said:
This is a continuing source of great stress for all of us AND OBD. While Cook is outstanding and finally, finally took a designed hitch PASS for a critical first down and the TEs can get both open and catch- MORE via trade is clearly needed!
Speak for yourself. I'm not stressing because the Bills don't have a big name #1 WR. I'm not sure that OBD is either, especially if they believe that Palmer can come back soon. If the Bills make a trade for a WR, it will be for a modest WR about like Palmer.
2 hours ago, Billsatlastin2018 said:How do these terrible things keep happening to the Bills. Barely on the field, Hoecht is the latest Miller… total bust!
Look around the league. Injuries to key personnel happen all the time, not to just the Bills. Last year, the Lions great team in September was derailed early, starting with losing Aiden Hutchinson. Last year, Jayden Daniels took the Commanders to the NFC Championship game as a rookie. This year, in his first game back from a hamstring injury, Daniels dislocated his elbow.
2 hours ago, Billsatlastin2018 said:THAT was vintage brain dead McClapper! It is a failure to understand time left and distance, exactly as you have described it. He needs a guy beside him with a cattle prod to give him a shot whenever he’s about to make an idiotic move- like that.
The decision to kick the FG was the right one. The execution wasn't there, but that's on the players not the HC.
2 hours ago, Billsatlastin2018 said:Finally… 4th & 17s should never be a coin toss (50-50) achievement with the opposing team. Seems like there are waaaaaay too many of these long 3rd and/ 4th and easy completions! All on McD and the D.
Execution again. Several times during the game, McDermott called TOs to help get the defense settled because of all the new defenders in the secondary, and the Chiefs had fewer opportunities for mismatches. Specifically for the 4th and 17, Spagnola seems to have faked out Bosa just enough to make him hesitate for an extra second so Mahomes could throw.
2 hours ago, y2zipper said:Exactly this. McDermott coached that last drive to both win the game and managed the clock perfectly. If I were in charge of the Bills, I'd cut him and look for another kicker for missing that.
I wouldn't cut Prater until/unless I had somebody better ready to sign or Bass was ready to come back. I believe that Prater had a minor calf problem prior to the game.
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9 hours ago, ScotSHO said:
I want to see the all 22 on the 4th and 17 conversion - I'm fairly sure KC intentionally left Bosa unblocked and he reacted to it like any DE would. He backed off for a second and was looking for the screen, which is silly on 4th & 17 but it worked for KC. His instincts kicked in and it slowed his pass rush down - I don't blame him but it was crafty by ol' Andy.
I think that exact scenario was mentioned by someone on the broadcast when it happened. It makes sense, too. It would also work best on good/great veteran pass rushers like Bosa.
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This roster is a disaster however…..
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Give ANY HC an "average to slightly above average QB" and it's likely that HC would be ".500ish at best".
The reality is that you can't always get what you want. Ask the millions of people who play Mega Millions and other lotteries.
Who do you consider "a great gm" in the 2000s?
I'm with @Chaos about the Ravens: coaching is the problem with that team. I don't think there's been a HC who's had less success in relation to the talent on his teams over the last decade than Harbaugh. His teams have consistently imploded in big games or in the playoffs despite frequently facing teams with noticeably less talent on the field.