SoTier
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I just love MB drama queens. So much angst about a regular season loss in OT to a non-conference opponent.
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13 hours ago, Flucod said:
Well how about Kurt Warner, Roger Staubauch, George Blanda, Bart Starr was a 10th round pick. I guess probably better odds then 1 in a million.
Staubach, Blanda and Starr were all drafted 50 or 60 years ago. Warner is a baby ... he came out of college less than 30 years ago. Even Brady was drafted more than 20 years ago.
12 hours ago, dave mcbride said:He had two td passes dropped on one first half series (one admittedly a lot harder catch than the other) and a te who couldn’t toe-tap before falling down on a good pass. The game is a lot different if people catch the ball, although i suppose you could say the same about gabe davis’s drop early on. Brisset played well.
Brisette generally plays well -- and puts up good numbers -- but just not good enough to win games because he can't seem to make clutch plays. His failed QB sneak on 4th down is an example.
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8 hours ago, Trock said:
Blatant missed block in back on the punt return. I’d be upset also.
I'd be upset that my team wasted a second overall pick on a QB who has shown so little promise of becoming even a competent NFL QB toward the end of his second NFL season.
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28 minutes ago, Jeffbigalls said:
Pats win
Punt return for a TD with under 30 sec left
Couldn't happen to a better team. I laughed 'til I almost cried. I dislike the Pats but I absolutely loathe the Jests. I think I hate them even more than I hate the Carp ... although it's probably a dead heat on the loathing scale.
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21 hours ago, iccrewman112 said:
The lack of general geographic knowledge of NYS continues, this time from CNN…
“Nearly 6 feet of snow has fallen across portions of western New York – numbers considered historic for the area, the National Weather Service said. The town of Natural Bridge, just east of Watertown, has recorded 70.9 inches Saturday morning, which is just shy of 6 feet. Watertown has seen 57.4 inches over the last two days.”
Never once have I known anyone to consider Watertown in Western NY. But most think Westchester County is Upstate.
This isn't something that just affects New York. The US is a large country ... too large for most people to know the geography of each state unless they have a reason to do so, like they've visited a place or they're from that place etc. I would say that, though, that if your job involves maps, that you ought to be able to read one well enough to accurately locate places on it.
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FTX Group filed for bankruptcy today. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has resigned. Crypto Melt Down
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On 10/31/2022 at 8:36 AM, GustheDog33 said:
Just because those teams, Dallas, Minnesota, and San Francisco, could make it to the Super Bowl out of the NFC doesn't mean the NFC is better at the top. All of those teams, plus the Eagles would be underdogs to the Bills or Chiefs. So, no, the NFC is not better than the AFC at the top, they just have more parity.
Agree. The Eagles might be on a par with the Bills and Chiefs but the Cowgirls, Vikes and Niners are on about the same level as the Ravens and Titans.
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4 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
No moves when our safeties are hurting is a bad look for Beane. I was high on Johnson in the preseason but whenever he plays big plays happen.
Beane needs to add a safety or face the consequences if safety is a problem later in the season. It’s his risk to take. It’s a dumb risk. Adding safety depth won’t cost much.
You are assuming that the guys already on the Bills aren't nearly as good as players on that other teams are looking to move. I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. "Adding safety depth" could cost an awful lot in the future if the depth player isn't better than the young safeties that the Bills already have on their roster or PS.
I don't pretend to any expertise, so I'm good with whatever roster moves Beane makes or doesn't make. He's proven he knows his stuff.
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4 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:
Previous two years I did not agree on Beane doing nothing at the deadline and we lost both years to KC. This season I again plead to either add a speed/power RB or perhaps depth at the safety position. This is not even about if I like Singletary, you need quality depth and Moss should not even be on this team. Cook is not ready and needs to get stronger before you can really count on him as a runner between the tackles. I third or 4th rounder gets it done. Same people saying were fine were saying the same thing two previous years and then cried after losing to KC.
You're assuming that a RB and/or safety better than we currently have are available at a reasonable price. There may not be.
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On 10/26/2022 at 12:01 PM, Captain Hindsight said:
He definitely needed some polishing, but he also made some guys look silly with his throws and runs. Dude was a gamer and if he could be more consistent, there was incredible potential
TBH, statistically, JA was trash in his first and second years. Some of that was on him, but a lot of it was on poor coaching in his rookie season (as in lack of an experienced QB coach) and a poor supporting cast. What didn't show up in his stats was his willingness to do anything to win as well as his continual improvement early on. His leadership was on display from the get-go, too. He played considerably better after sitting out his elbow injuring, which obviously had given him time to observe and figure out the pro game better. He was considerably better at the beginning of his second season than he'd been as a rookie, and he improved all through his sophomore season even though his stats didn't blow anybody away.
A lot of QBs have the physical skills but not the mental traits to be successful. Some have the mental traits but not the physical ability. Others have both physical and mental skills but not the leadership (ie, "it factor") and vice versa. Allen has it all!
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14 hours ago, That's No Moon said:
Coach's son was the OG scumbag on that team. He was busy scumbagging when Frank Clark was still in junior high. In 2007 Britt Reid was convicted on a felony gun charge for pulling a handgun on a motorist in an incident in PA where he also pled guilty to simple assault and possession of marijuana and cocaine. He's a heckuva guy I know I was shocked when he did something else stupid that ultimately hurt somebody. Heckuva family. Character starts at the top and Andy Reid STILL cannot babysit my children. I don't know how he can look grown men in the face and use words like discipline and accountability without getting laughed out of the room.
Obviously your perfect parents raised a perfect child who has never done anything illegal, stupid or dangerous.
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27 minutes ago, DollaBills said:
I know its not exactly a popular pick around here but its reasonable NE is a wildcard when all is said and done. Bellicheck kinda feasts on middling squads(and inexperienced/journeyman QBs) and the entire NFL other than like 4 teams are that
I agree. Belichick has a good defense, and Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe are pretty decent QBs for Belichick, and Belichick sets them up with his game plans. I think the Pats' offense is considerably better than the Jets and their defense is better than the Fish. That's a recipe to make the playoffs.
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4 hours ago, Wayne Arnold said:
I will bet anyone on this forum any amount of money that the Jets will not make the playoffs.
12-5? Good Lord.
There's only one threat in this division. I've said this all year. It's the team that Bill Belichick coaches. The rest are jokes.
Agreed. Belichick has a good defense, and he has two credible QBs that he knows how to put in situations that maximize the offense's chance of success. Contrary to what some think, NE's success over the last two decades wasn't solely because of Brady.
4 hours ago, Bills2022 said:Jets are going to make the playoffs. They are without question the 3rd, 4th or 5th best team in the AFC. There is a big drop off after the Bills and Chiefs, but there is a good argument the Jets are the 3rd best team in the AFC.
Do you know how many playoff berths have been decided on the last week of the season in the last five years? In fact, the Bills broke their playoff drought in 2017 when the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Baltimore Ravens on a last second TD throw from Andy Dalton to Tyler Boyd. It was on 4th and long I think.
Game six is way to early to be predicting playoff berths for most NFL teams.
4 hours ago, Wayne Arnold said:Based on what? They've won four games through smoke and mirrors.
We see starts like this from paper tigers literally every NFL season.
Any Bills fan old enough to remember the most of the Bills teams between 2001 and 2016 can cite numerous times the Bills looked the class of the AFC a few games into the season. In 2003, pundits were predicting the Bills to go to the Super Bowl three or four games into the season. In 2008, the Bills went 5-2 in the first 7 games and finished up 7-9. Another year, they went 6-2 or something in the first 8 games and then collapsed.
IMO, it's much more likely that the Jests finish below the Pats and Fish than above them in the standings.
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The Jets are NOT going to win 12 games this season. They are not going to lose only once to teams other than the Bills over the next 11 games.
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2 hours ago, Charles Romes said:
I was one of those who thought it was all-Allen. In fact, in my view Allen carried Daboll all four years. However, looking at the astonishing reclamation going on in New York, it’s difficult to ignore the possibility that the Bills lucked out by having an all-time quarterback whisperer on staff when Allen arrived. Allen would have become great no matter who coached him, but possibly not this level of great.
I disagree with your statement that "Allen would have become great no matter who coached him" because I remember how raw Allen was as a rookie. It took him about 2 1/2 years of hard work by Allen and strong mentoring by Daboll and Dorsey to get Allen to where he is today. Offensive coordinators have to tailor their offense to fit the QB they have rather than try to force their QB to fit into their "system". Pair Allen with another OC who would have tried to mold him into something he wasn't or wouldn't have hired a QB coach who had success with a raw but talented QB (ie,Cam Newton), and Allen could have become just another big-armed bust. The history of the NFL is littered with promising QBs who never made it big for one reason or another, at least some of whom never were in the right system to maximize their talents or were never given the mentoring that might have made them significantly better. I think that Daniel Jones may be the poster boy for that. He certainly doesn't look anything like the QB he was in previous seasons ... but then, the Giants don't look like the team that most pundits expected them to be, either.
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19 hours ago, SACTOBILLSFAN said:
Being this good on 3rd and long is not sustainable. We'll always be better than average because we have the best QB in football, but we will not be this much better than league average. Our first and second down play calling has been poor, being in 3rd and 6+ is not how you win long term, and the best way to minimize the regression is to not face 3rd downs as much as the rest of the league. For an example of this, just look at the final drive in Baltimore where the Bills face zero 3rd downs.
If the Bills play calling is so bad on first and second down, how did they manage to have 0 third downs on their final drive against the Ravens? It seems to me that poor play calling would manifest itself most notably in pressure-packed situations with the game on the line.
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46 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I am not sure it had anything to do with budgets. I am sure I remember that Rex's second year the Bills had one of highest pay bills for a coaching staff in the entire league. I don't think since the Pegulas bought the team that has ever been a problem. It was much more reputation IMHO.
How attractive is a first time Head Coach, in a cold city, small market, with a team on the longest post season drought in the league and a history of firing coaches? It meant that first staff generally had to be guys who knew Sean and had some personal loyalty to him / trusted him or guys who had no other options. Remember his first OC search? He wanted Mike McCoy as his first choice (bullet dodged he is awful). He chose to go back to Denver for a second stint instead. Then he wanted Brad Childress who was co-OC with Matt Nagy in Kansas City (and bearing in mind Andy is the playcaller that is a bag carriee role) and Childress declined to even take the interview. Then he wanted Greg Olson who took a QB Coach job with the Rams rather than come here. He was left with Dennison.
It was a staff of people he had connections with or people whose stock was low.
Rick Dennison OC (just been fired as OC in Denver and his buddy Kubiak was retiring).
Juan Castillo OL (worked with McD before)
David Culley QB (worked with McD before)
Kelly Skipper RB (just been fired in Jacksonville)
Phil McGeoghan WR (hired from East Carolina University so one can imagine had crossed paths with McDermott in some way while he was with the Panthers)
Rob Boras TE (probably the biggest "get" at the time a respected Tight Ends coach but had a disastrous year as OC in LA and had been fired)
Leslie Frazier (worked with McD before)
Mike Waufle (had just been fired in LA)
Bobby Babich DB (worked as a defensive quality control guy for McD in Carolina)
Bob Babich LB (Bobby's dad)
It was not an attractive place to come. Only 4 are still here. Frazier, Babich Jnr, Boras and Skipper. Chad Hall our current WR coach was on that staff in a junior post as an Offensive Assistant too.
The likes of Joe Brady and Aaron Kromer were not walking throught the door in 2017.
Fair enough. I think that the spending by Ryan was an outlier because the Bills almost always hired first time HCs (Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey) or retreads (Dick Jauron, Chan Gailey). McDermott seemed to signal a return to the same old-same old mindset. I think that Pegula turning over control of the team over to Beane after firing Brandon enabled McDermott to hire better assistants in 2019 because he could not only offer them more competitive salaries but also signaled to the rest of the league that the new Bills regime put a priority on winning not just making a profit.
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4 hours ago, Rock-A-Bye Beasley said:
ok, but who wouldn't be good with JA?
Obviously, you don't remember the Josh Allen as a rookie. The only thing he had going for him as a rookie was his wlilingness to do whatever it took to win games. He had a big arm, but he was inaccurate. He personified the undisciplined playing style called "hero ball" that backfires at least as often as it succeeds. Most pundits did figured he was going to be a bust.
While most of Allen's success are the result of his own efforts, you cannot discount the guidance he got from McDermott's assistants, most notably, Ken Dorsey and Brian Daboll in improving his mechanics and learning to read defenses but also in mastering his tendency to become overly excited during games. If you look back on Allen's career, you realize that it took him about 2 1/2 seasons to become the Josh Allen who can march his team down the field in the closing minutes of a game to set up the winning FG with double zeroes on the clock.
3 hours ago, Rock-A-Bye Beasley said:
david Culley was the QB coach. Nathan peterman was the starter. McDermott has no idea what he’s doing on offense. He’s lucky to have Josh Allen and that’s fine. Especially if he wanted him.
edit: Bills have played Baltimore many times since
IMO, McDermott's early hiring miscues resulted from his inability to hire top quality offensive assistants with the money allotted to the coaching budgets in 2017 and 2018 rather than offensive cluelessness.
When McDermott was hired in 2017, he came into a situation with a GM who was mainly a talent scout because team budgets, including for the coaching staff, were set by the FO bean counters under Russ Brandon, whose priority was maximizing profits not winning football games. McDermott was instrumental in the hiring of Brandon Beane after Doug Whaley was fired after the 2017 draft. Beane had somewhat more power than Whaley, but he didn't gain full GM powers, including the ability to control the budgets for coaching and scouting staffs, until after Russ Brandon was fired in mid-2018.
McDermott and Beane hired Brian Daboll in 2018 and then selected Allen in the 2018 draft. After the 2018 season, all of the offensive assistants except for Daboll were fired, and more and better (ie, more expensive) offensive assistants were hired, including Ken Dorsey as QB coach. It was in 2019 under Dorsey's tutelage that Allen began to develop into a competent NFL QB.
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7 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:
I wish. I'm not kidding when I say she'd be hotter with 30lbs on her. That face matched with some curvessss. (*ducks for cover*)
I think that she's lost weight since she left, so you probably will be even more disappointed. I saw her on a clothing (I think) commercial and I barely recognized her. Maybe it was makeup but her face looked even more angular than when she was on GMFB. She looked almost skeletal.
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27 minutes ago, klos63 said:
The lengths some will go to just to not give any credit to someone they love to trash, because can't back away from the narrative that Tua blows. So, if this reminds you of the Oiler's game, are you not giving Reich any credit for the comeback? You would be consistent to do that. It has nothing to do with our receivers or anything else, right?
What lengths? Miami didn't play well for most of the game, and Baltimore played terribly on both sides of the ball in the second half, especially in the fourth quarter, allowing Miami to come back to win the game. Tua was good enough to take advantage of poor DB play in the second half which gave him spectacular stats but he didn't play particularly well for the entire game. That doesn't prove he'll be a great QB. It does suggest that he's probably at least a decent or better QB. He needs a bigger sample size.
Frank Reich played a great half of football in the Comeback Game, but he never regularly put on that kind of performance even when he was a starter. I don't know that he ever had a similar performance in his entire career.
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12 hours ago, BillsFan130 said:
They had a massive comeback win against a super bowl contender on the road.
I know we all hate Miami and Tua including myself, but let's call a spade a spade here...
It was an extremely impressive victory for them.
Actually, the only thing that was impressive about Miami's victory was that they outscored Baltimore 28-3 in the fourth quarter. Scoring 28 points in a quarter is impressive for any team, and even more so for a team that played as poorly as the Fins did for the first three quarters of the game.
10 hours ago, Bronxbomber21 said:The Baltimore Defense looked like they went home at halftime. If you watch the highlights you can see the Ravens secondary give up on under thrown passes. Those would be ints with Buffalos secondary.
Exactly. After they got up 2 TDs in the second half, the Ravens obviously dismissed the Fins. The defense in the second half sucked but the offense sucked, too. In the first half, the Fins couldn't stop the Ravens, especially on the ground. In the second half, even Lamar got into the spirit of the collapse and threw an errant pass that was almost intercepted for a pick six. If the Ravens had been able to make even a modest sustained drive in the fourth quarter, Miami wouldn't have time to score 21 points much less 28. They couldn't do it.
I cannot see a McDermott coached team collapsing the way the Ravens did.
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33 minutes ago, Augie said:
It’s almost like Fitzy was the backup or something……
Fitzy was part of the broadcast team ....
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I saw that play and the first thing I thought was, "that's gotta be an "Angry Run" candidate"!
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Thank you for another awesome write up, Virgil. I understand exactly where you were coming from going into this game. There's been all this buzz in the media about how the Bills were the favorite to win the Super Bowl, not by a handful of "experts" but by a majority. That's scary for a long time Bills fan. People other than Bills fans calling Allen the best QB in the league? Ohhhhh, baby ....
All I can say about the game is that the Bills were scary good last night, dominating the defending World Champions. They didn't live up to expectations in this game, they exceeded them. There's still 16 games left plus the playoffs, but this looks like it could be a fairy tale season. This team is that good.
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Very disturbing to see how many fans have turned against Allen.
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If you come on a Bills fan site and have nothing positive to post, being "crucified" by other posters is the least you should expect. You could easily be suspended or banned by the moderators.
Words have consequences, whether they're spoken or written. Once said or posted, they can't be taken back. That's true if you're in politics or in the media or in business or in a relationship ... or you're a fan of a sports team. "Free speech" guarantees that you can say what you want about the government and the government can't come after you. It doesn't mean that private citizens or businesses or organizations have to accept some horse's ass spouting trash or stupidity without taking action against said horse's ass. If you lie, don't whine when you're called a liar. If you call people vile names, don't cry foul when you get called worse back. If you send disgusting emails to co-workers, don't pretend to be a martyr when you get fired.
If you don't want to be "crucified", then don't spout opinions to people you know won't like them.
