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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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8 hours ago, Virgil said:
Barely won might be overdoing it. And if Preter makes the FG, it’s a no doubter.
But the fact that the Chiefs still had the opportunity to tie it was concerning
The Chiefs aren't the Fins or Jests or Raiders. They aren't going to ever wave the white flag until a team can get up by several TDs as the Eagles did in the SB. One of the announcers on the evening league highlights compared the Chiefs to cockroaches when reviewing the Bills-Chiefs highlights; they're hard to kill.
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4 hours ago, Sojourner said:
Had a solid game. No doubt. Hopefully this is the turning point.
We’ve been here before sadly lol
Bishop has shown some promise this season, but this is the first time that he has played an outstanding game, so no, we haven't "been here before".
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Penix is supposed to start for the Falcons. 👍
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OP, since you feel the need to instruct Bills fans in math, it's only fair that I instruct you in English grammar.
Apostrophes (') are used to show possession or to make a contraction. They are never used to make nouns plural.
- If you are talking about 2 or more people who cheer for the Bills team, you are talking about fans. A Water Buffalo hat that belongs to a Bills fan is a fan's hat. Two Water Buffalo hats that belong to 2 Bills fans are fans' hats.
- If you want to combine two words to make one word or a long word into a shorter one, you use an apostrophe: was not = wasn't or cannot = can't.
You have other grammatical errors, but I picked the lowest hanging fruit because you should have mastered apostrophes back in grammar school.
PS: I don't think most Bills fans are particularly concerned about the Bills despite their 5-2 record because of your model. I think that they're (they are) concerned about less esoteric things, like losing two games in a row before the bye to the Patriots and the Falcons.
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5 hours ago, T&C said:
How about THEY rebuild themselves better... they should take a cue from Bermuda, that island is much smaller but their building codes are top notch... enough to handle a Cat. 5.
No small island can "handle a Cat. 5", especially one of the top three strongest hurricanes to ever be observed in the Atlantic basin.
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On 10/25/2025 at 1:57 PM, boyst said:
Hypothetical
Would you swap Harbaugh and McDermott?
Could McDermott get that team on track? Could Harbaugh?
I see a win/win. Harbaugh has discipline but not like Mcdermott. McDermott could round out some of the bottom of that roster to trim the fat that is likely there and get a process starting. Harbaugh here could light a fire under our ass because he's a new breath. Granted, he comes from a trash family and his brother is trailer park and ran from cheating in a subpar college to hide in the NFL and is finding success because he's always a mediocre guy because he's probably cheating there too... But this Harbaugh from Baltimore would likely have a little more success than McDermott but McDermott would have more success there.
Whyever would I trade a HC whose teams tend to outplay their talent level for a HC who has demonstrated that his teams have had less success with much more talent, especially in the playoffs? People whine about McDermott "wasting" Josh Allen, but it was Harbaugh wasted the first five years or so of Lamar Jackson's career by keeping Greg Roman as his OC rather than insisting on developing Lamar as a better passer. I don't know why Harbaugh's teams fail so often in clutch situations like the playoffs, but they do. They seem to be teams that play well with leads but have no ability to overcome adversity.
Pass on both Harbaughs, but especially the one from Baltimore.
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12 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:
I don't follow the Steelers closely enough to know but it's not my sense that the Steelers shortcomings are due to Tomlin.
He's "only" the Head Coach. Kevin Colbert was GM and Omar Khan is now.
Tomlin isn't in charge of building the roster and I think talent-wise, he's gotten the most out of them. From what I see the players respect him and play hard for him. When did they underachieve their talent?
JMO.
I think that the Steelers as an organization may not value QBs as high as they should. I think they value defense more than they do offense even as the NFL has morphed into a passing league. Moreover, until this season, they seemed reluctant to trade assets to acquire better offensive talent. They were content to "let the draft come to them", which isn't the best way to acquire a franchise QB.
Their current situation is not unlike what they went through after Bradshaw was done. They went 20+ years between Bradshaw's last season and Ben Roethlisberger's rookie year in 2004. During that time they survived and made the playoffs with some regularity with QBs like Bubby Brister, Kordell Stewart, Neil O'Donnell and Tommy Maddox as their QB. It may take them another 20 years to find Roethlisberger's replacement, especially since there are more teams today.
2 hours ago, Andrew Son said:It's not simply hitting or missing. Cleveland had Baker and the Jets had Darnold. Even Geno put together a nice run prior to this year.
What is worse than missing on a franchise QB? It's gotta be kicking a first round QB to the curb and then seeing him go on to the kind of success that Mayfield and Darnold have had.
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I remember watching her in the Lassie when I was a really little kid and the series was in black and white. Lassie ran for 19 seasons, 1954 through 1973. It changed to colored film in 1965. Lockhart was the third and last female lead in the show, following Jan Clayton and Cloris Leachman. Lockhart played Ruth Martin from 1958 through 1964 before becoming Mrs Robinson in Lost In Space in 1965.
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I can't imagine what it must be like to be on Jamaica and waiting for this beast to strike. There's no place to go.
It reminds me of watching Katrina inevitably bear down on the Gulf Coast as a Cat 5 hurricane in 2005.
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56 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:
They definitely played well. I think AJE making his play was the lynchpin because suddenly Dalton needed to mount an impossible comeback. If it had stayed a one possession game at that point, Rico Dowdle would have impacted the game.
AJE has had a couple of pick sixes similar to the one he had today ... gets close to the QB in the "shadow of the end zone", blocks a pass, and grabs it for a walk in TD.
48 minutes ago, brianthomas said:Yeah Dowdle was gashing us. Had a 6.8 yard avg & was their best player on offense & they just sit him. Part of it was game script of course but it reminded me of how we've been under-utilizing Cook. But our run D didn't exactly stop him out there. Regardless with the games ahead, we'll have a pretty good idea of what we have when we're thru. Hoping for the best. And for the day Ed Oliver can finally stay healthy
Dowdle has gashed almost everybody this season. He had back-to-back 200+ yard games in the last 3 or 4 weeks.
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Josh Allen "Most Betrayed" QB in the NFL
in The Stadium Wall
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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.