SoTier
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33 minutes ago, fergie's ire said:
Yes, I heard a lot of "Look out for the Jets. Things are going to change because the Jets got a guy from a well run organization who is going to bring about a culture change." At the time, I thought "Isn't that EXACTLY what they said when Salah was hired?"
I think it's pretty clear that the real problem with the Jests is the ownership. Until that changes, the Jests are going to rinse-and-repeat ad infinitum, just like the Bills and the Lions did for decades until new ownership changed the mindset at the top. The last decent NFL QB the Jests drafted was Chad Pennington in 2000. The last successful HC the Jests had was Rex Ryan who left after 2014.
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16 hours ago, Casey D said:
Maybe we can get McDaniel to replace McDermott. Great offensive mind and we can get a new defensive scheme. All this culture stuff is overrated anyway. Imagine what he could do with Allen.
15 hours ago, Casey D said:The fact that it is hard to tell says something about some of the discourse here. 😎
@Casey D When I post sarcasm, I almost always include " //sarcasm off" at the end.
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11 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
The Panthers game is looking a lot tougher than it did in the beginning of the year. Bryce Young looks legit
The Panthers are significantly better than they've been, but they were playing the Cowboys, the team gave up 30+ points in 4 of their 6 games, including 37 to the Russell Wilson-led Giants and 40 to Green Bay.
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49 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
We used to hike the old trolly trail from Barcelona on Lake Erie to Mayville on Lake Chautauqua...
...Upstate NY is a serious of escarpments... Niagara, Onondaga, then Portage... Geology is glacial tilted upwards...
...When you say "Chautauqua Ridge", do you mean the "Portage Escarpment?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_Escarpment
This is what basically impounds the eastern basin of Lake Erie:
Also called the "Allegheny Escarpment."
Onondaga is between Portage & Niagara... This creates the upper rapids @ mouth of L.Erie & Niagara River... You see the cut along the 33/Kensington Expressway/Main Street Rte.5 in say Williamsville and beyond:
Then of course the big one, Niagara Escarpment, goes all the way to Door County, Green Bay, Wisconsin... Creates Niagara Falls:
Yes, it's the Portage Escarpment. In fact, Rte 394 out of Westfield climbs the escarpment and is called South Portage Road.
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1 minute ago, Sojourner said:
True they might but Starks has been one of their best players. Don’t think it was a luxury at all, But Washington was an average player and he’s ended up on the PUP list. So Starks immediately became a need.
Bounce off that, he did address the line somewhat by what @HappyDays mentioned. Greene only fell due to off the field issues but definitely isn’t replicating what was projected but he is playing and contributing.
Their drafting is actually pretty solid. They draft well for the most part and evenly split their tops picks to each side of the ball.
Piggybacking off Happy again, injuries are the only reason that team is where they are. Not that they drafted a “luxury” pick or didn’t address what fans felt was needed.
The Ravens were 1-2 and their defense had given up 96 points in 3 games before the plague of injuries began.
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26 minutes ago, loedward22 said:
I can’t find it at my book. I was however seeing the Bills as bigger favorites to win the superbowl than I’ve ever seen them this season (+450). Which is very surprising to me with how pessimistic it feels right now.Have you watched any of today's games, especially that travesty from London this morning? Any of other teams' games all season? The NFL is filled with amazing plays -- both good and bad. There's a group of fans on TSW who see only the problems the Bills have. They want the Bills to not only be perfect but to be perfect in the way that they think the Bills should be. The loss to NE last week has put them into a frenzy of self-pity, each Chicken Little feeding off the pessimism of the other like-minded Chicken Littles.
22 minutes ago, Low Positive said:It only feels that way because you read this board, where the BBFS flows like a mudslide and McDermott is the worst coach since
Rich KotiteHank Bullough.Fixed it for you.
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2 minutes ago, Process said:
Sportsbooks still have the Ravens as a very slight favorite to make the playoffs. I wouldn't call them making it "very unlikely."
Didn't the sportsbooks originally have the Ravens as the favorites to win the Super Bowl before the season actually started? All the sports talking heads claimed that the Ravens had "the best roster in the NFL". When they started to play actual games, though, the reality turned out to be that the Ravens weren't anywhere near as good as everybody thought -- and that was before all the injuries.
Sure the Ravens aren't mathematically eliminated, but they sure haven't looked like a team that could go 9-2 since the fourth quarter of the opening game.
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8 minutes ago, ***** said:
With the Cheats* winning, we now need to win or we’d be second place in the AFCE
Well, in that case, the season is over and we might as well throw in the towel. Fire the entire FO and coaching staffs, trade everybody, and start at square one with a bunch of draft picks.
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The Ravens now need to go 9-2 just to get to 10-7. They still have to play Minnesota, Pittsburgh twice, New England, and Green Bay.
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1 minute ago, UKBillFan said:
Panthers beat the Cowboys.
Bryce Young is becoming a pretty decent QB.
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Was that PI on Elam????
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Well, there are a bunch of entertaining, back-and-forth games!
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Just now, Dick_Cheney said:
A very sick and unwell part of me kind of wants Miami to win this game.
Why do you consider that "sick and unwell"??? I've been rooting for the Fins because I want those AFCW teams to all be bunched together.
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1 hour ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
Gonna be up there next weekend to do some measurements, I don't know a whole lot about the geography. I'm gonna be about five miles outside Fredonia past the traffic circle, and it is up a hill . So possible I'm on this ridge.
I have no view of the lake.
The Ridge starts east of Rte 20. The villages of Westfield, Brocton, and Silver Creek are below the Ridge, although there are some hilly areas. Ask the realtor where the Ridge begins in the areas you're looking.
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45 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
But then who you start, Tyrod?
Absolutely.
17 minutes ago, Steptide said:Jets are unwatchable
I'm off to do some yard work since Fields is still in the game.
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12 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
It's not the roster. It's ownership. That's the one constant that won't change.
As long as Woody Johnson owns the team, the Jets are gonna be Jests. The Johnson son who was in charge of the team when his papa was doing his ambassador thing looks like "a chip off the old block", so the Jests fans are doomed to an eternity of ineptitude.
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9 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
Milwaukee vs Seattle would be a good WS.
Absolutely!!!! I would have to root for both of them ... and feel so happy for the Series winner at the time feeling so sad for the team that lost.
The Brewers have never won the Series, and have only made the Series once, in 1982. The Mariners have never even made the Series. They have only made the ALCS three times, the last time in 2001.
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18 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
This is great information!
Don't buy a house up on the hills east of Lake Erie ... or buy a really big snowblower. If you're a few miles from the lake, and you can look west out of a window or off a deck/porch and can see the lake, you are probably on the Ridge.
The Chautauqua Ridge is the shore of the much larger old glacial lake that once covered much of WNY. It's like the Niagara Escarpment in Niagara County. Take a drive on Rte 394 from Barcelona towards Mayville or Rte 39 from Dunkirk/Silver Creek towards Gowanda, and you will recognize when you leave the lake plain and go up the Ridge.
There's a great spot to see how sharply the ridge rises above the lake plain at Luenesman (sp) Overlook Park outside of Dewittville, which is just northeast of Mayville on Rte 430. It's a great view in the fall.
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Brewers win the winner take all game, 3-1, against the Chicago Cubs. The Brewers scored their 3 runs on 3 solo HRs, each with 2 outs.
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Cubs at Brewers are on TBS. The series is tied at 2-2, so it's loser goes home, winner gets to play the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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On 10/10/2025 at 3:07 PM, RichStadiumGuy said:
Stock up on snow removal equipment soon!
Dunkirk/Fredonia isn't as bad as the Southtowns.
Chautauqua County gets lake effect mostly from the north/northwest winds, so the Chautauqua Ridge -- areas like Arkwright, Cassadaga, and Sherman -- tend to get the really heavy lake effect because of the rise in elevation forces the clouds to drop their snow load on the west side of the Ridge. The lake shore communities and the towns east of the Ridge (like Jamestown) get lots of snow but not nearly as much as the towns on the west side of the Ridge.
The Southtowns sit at the northeastern end of Lake Erie, which means that southwestern gales come up the longest fetch of the lake sucking up moisture from the warmer lake like vacuum cleaners all the way from western Ohio before dumping their massive snow loads when they hit the shore from Angola north to Blasdell. This is why Hamburg, West Seneca, Blasdell, and even South Buffalo can pick up multiple feet of snow in a day or less.
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4 minutes ago, Dillenger4 said:
I hope so man! It wasn't one bad game though... IMO it has been a pattern this season, brewing up to the loss.
Falcons are good and pose a threat to our porous D. Hopefully we play disciplined football and get the W!
GO BILLS!
The Bills weren't going to go undefeated in 2025. Only the 1972 Dolphins and the 2007 Patriots have managed that, and the Pats lost the Super Bowl to Eli Manning and the Helmet Catch.
I'm not convinced that Atlanta is all that good. They got blanked 30-0 by the Panthers, and then had to hang on to get a one score win against the Commanders without Jayden Daniels.
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1 hour ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
I am just revisiting this topic now that we have a larger sample size to sort through. The season has kind of gone the way I thought it would. I knew Miami & NY wouldn’t compete. I never would’ve guessed they (Pats) went into Orchard Park and won.
I have been on the Pats as a possible WC team since they hired Vrabel and then signed Diggs. Maye played pretty well despite poor coaching and minimal talent around him as a rookie. I picked the Pats to finish second in the AFCE when numerous others were worried about the Fins and even the Jests. Right now, I think they can get 10 or 11 wins, especially with the Bengals circling the drain and the Ravens watching them and hoping to avoid the same fate.
The Bills should win 13 or 14 games.
1 hour ago, thronethinker said:Patriots have a much easier schedule going forward. We may be pulling for the Ravens against them.
Unless Allen misses games, the Pats aren't threatening the Bills for the AFCE.
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7 hours ago, Just in Atlanta said:
I wonder how many true separation receivers Tom Brady and Bill Belichick had during their 18 year run. Other than Randy Moss my memory is going to say they had mostly average receivers. I could be wrong though.
I think that your take is pretty accurate. They had Gronk as a big downfield threat for a while after Moss, but he missed a lot of time in several seasons because of injuries. For a significant number of seasons they had Welker and then Edelmann who were sure-handed, clutch WRs playing in the slot more than being downfield threats. Later in the Belichick/Brady era, the Pats also had ex-Bill Chris Hogan at WR. Most of their boundary WRs were decent but they weren't among the best WRs of their time.
3 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:He was a good receiver. His last year in New England he had 998 yards. The year before that he was the Super Bowl MVP. He was then traded for a 1st & signed a big deal in Seattle. Let’s not pretend he was some scrub. 🤣🤣
Let's not pretend that Deion Branch was Justin Jefferson or DK Metcalf or any of the big name WRs that some Bills fans fantasize about. He was traded to Seattle after his big 998 yard season, and then was traded back to NE a couple of years later. In 2010, Branch caught passes for 930 yards between the Seahawks and Patriots. Other than his 2 big seasons, Branch's yards per season were modest, mostly between 400 and 800 yards. He was a decent WR, but hardly a really good one.
The Miami Dolphins are falling apart
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I see Woody picking a QB who fails again while some other team or maybe even two hit it big in the QB lottery. It's what Woody does.