SoTier
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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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Just now, Chaos said:
you seem to contracdict yourself.
My points were independent of each other.
Flacco's success fades as teams figure him out. At this point in his career, he doesn't seem as capable of overcoming that as he did when he was younger.
Regardless of how Flacco plays, the Bengals problem remains their defense. It would have been their problem even with a healthy Burrow ... as today's game against the Jests showed. While Flacco threw an INT on the last play of the game, they had the Jests down 15 points in the fourth quarter and let them score 2 TDs, a 2 point conversion, and a PAT.
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36 minutes ago, Chaos said:
The Steelers were not concerned with the Bengals, why should we be?
The Steelers didn't have much, if any, film on Flacco on the Bengals. As teams figure out what the Bengals are doing on offense, Flacco's success is going to diminish. In his previous stints as a backup, Flacco has tended to look good early on and then his play drops off.
More importantly, as somebody upthread posted, quarterback is not the Bengals' problem.
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16 hours ago, Augie said:
These guys have already made tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions. Did they piss all that away already, or are they just so arrogant that they think they are above consequences? Either way, they have to be complete idiots. They deserve what they get, and I hope it’s a heavy price. I haven’t watched the NBA in more than a decade, and I don’t feel I’ve missed anything.
The NFL is not far behind the NBA in my book.
Why do we regularly see/read/hear of multimillionaires/billionaires who engage in insider trading, fraud, Ponzi schemes or even commit violent crimes in order to make more money? Some people are just never satisfied with what they have, no matter how much that might be, and have to accumulate more by whatever means necessary. They have always been around in human history, and we frequently label them "great" as in Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon. American bankers and industrialists like John D Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, etc are venerated figures.
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4 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
Ultimate professional? Well he's still taking paychecks, I'll give you that.
He has 15 starts in the last 8 years on 4 different teams and won 6 games. Longest stretch was 6 games in HOU: 2-4 5 TDs 5 INTs.
I would pay a stronger backup....
If a backup QB was a good starting QB, he wouldn't be a backup. The best backups can come in and maybe win a couple of games for good teams when their starters go down for a few games. A backup QB replacing a crappy starting QB on a bad team (like the Jests), is doomed.
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1 hour ago, boyst said:
Dalton is more concerning to me than Young.
1 hour ago, Boatdrinks said:Young is terrible, so obviously I would rather see him start for the Panthers. Still, as Bills fans we’re going to be worried about facing Andy Dalton ? If that’s the case we have no business thinking playoffs in 2025, much less the Super Bowl.
Bryce Young has played pretty well this season. Actually, he started playing significantly better about the middle of last season. I'd rather take my chances with Dalton.
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2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
Watch the Jets get the first pick, and owner Woody bollocks it up with some trade for an over the hill veteran at an exorbitant price. 🤨
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.
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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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McD strategy blunders
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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.