Richard Noggin
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10 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:
My wife said this yesterday to me. Listen, its true, but I dont like it lol
I cant grasp the words for what this team means to me. It was planted in my soul quite literally at birth. Some of my first memories, I was 3yrs old, were from those Super Bowls.
I dont remember the games, but I remember the electricity around them. I was 3yrs-7yrs for that SB run.
Ive seen how juiced up this town and fanbase gets for an AFCCG, and its a drug. Then I remember I was born in an environment even more intoxicating than what ive seen as an adult. Seriously, some of my first blips of memories are my dad and his friends crying at the end of, what I believe is the first 2 SBs.
My family gave me this disease. I want a Chip for me, my family that brought me into this, the community, and now Josh. I put that man on a pedestal, ill never have a new favorite football (or sports) player in my life.
Winning a ring in the future without Josh would hurt me to my core! I want to see him win one here. Or at the least, see him win one somewhere else, but only if hes like 40, and some scenario he cant help sends him to a contender lol
So yes, its just billionaire toys but damn its a big piece of all of us
Mucho parallels here for me (and so many others in WNY), but my first two searing Bills memories were the goal posts coming down in '88 (obviously amazing scene with Van Miller soundtrack), followed by the Ronny Harmon playoff drop in the endzone to essentially end the '89 campaign. I was 11 for that one, and my mother and her cousin were just losing their damned minds with a rage I couldn't yet fathom. How many of you can then relate to your first REAL human heartbreak being that Norwood kick sailing wide right in slow motion...I was 12...
And yeah, it's been getting more difficult to ignore the billionaire bread and circuses distraction that is the modern NFL and sports in general. That week one win this year was pretty damned invigorating, though, especially for those of us who stuck it out at the stadium. Nothing cynical about that feeling.
9 hours ago, Pete said:Through 8 games- half a season
Khalil Shakir 383 yards
Keon Coleman 292 yards
Josh Palmer 234 yards
Elijah Moore 110 yards
Tyrell Shavers 48 yards
Curtis Samuel 41 yards
Now add Dalton Kincaid's production despite his limited snaps and only 33 targets...
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40 minutes ago, Success said:
Eh, I'd say it's better to be a little banged up now than 2 months from now.
We've only lost Hoecht & Happ for the full remainder of the season & playoffs.
And Strong (who was playing significant snaps) and possibly Oliver (tbd). And Rapp. Not sure who Happ is but hope he wasn't impactful 🙃
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44 minutes ago, JBI$111 said:
Another problem is he's had a ton of bad pics over the years that has exaggerated the situation where he's had to go back to the same areas over and over again because he's gotten it wrong so many times, which has been mostly along the defensive line.
Do you have any of these compromising photos/pics of him? How is this the first I'm hearing of this!
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Just now, Buffalo716 said:
No I don't mean they're Achilles didn't pop lol
I agree with you that peds put stress on your ligaments and tendons that they didn't see back in the day
I'm saying I know people who went to the NFL that used peds but they never popped positive on a drug test because they knew how to get around it
Oh right, yeah for sure I knew that lol
That was part of my original point though, in that players and their trainers are pretty good at running cost-benefit analyses on training schedules and league testing protocols and determining how much risk they're willing to assume. But so many players are definitely seeking to maximize recovery and resilience with the assistance of all kinds of regimens, and that then allows those interested in mass and raw strength to push harder and gain more.
*so important to always reiterate that anabolic steroids in particular actively DAMAGE connective tissues in ways that accentuate the strength/stability imbalance of getting overly developed, especially when you consider the physics involved in giant NFL specimens accelerating and changing direction and sprinting like MUCH smaller humans.
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Just now, Buffalo716 said:
Well that's my point I know steroid users who have made it to the NFL
But some of them never popped
Well sure, achilles tears are just one of many connective tissue injuries NFL players can endure.
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Just now, Buffalo716 said:
Considering most MMA fighters and boxers and athletes who pop say they all were given tainted supplements I'd say I do hear a lot about that regarding drug use
Very few come clean and just admit to being steroid users
The majority of known MLB juicers have denied or deflected to this day. That doesn't make them innocent. If you know professional athletes, especially in more violent sports, then you know many of them have or will utilize banned substances at some point in their careers.
I especially don't love combat athletes as evidence for how other leagues and athletes operate. Notoriously corruptible young meatheads and governing authorities.
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2 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
That's an issue that is true but the NFL prides itself on its strict drug testing whether you want to believe them or not
I know our dude is coming back from popping positive but he even said it was not from long-term steroid abuse that he actively was doing
But that he stopped checking up with all the supplements his trainer was giving him to make sure they were NFL legal and obviously some was tainted
But he doesn't seem like a perennial ped popper like Brian Cushing
But yes those types of drugs that increases muscle mass doesn't increase your tendons or ligament strength and that's major reason why they are blowing out nowadays
Most of this reads exactly like propaganda for the league AND the players, especially the textbook plausible deniability defense of blaming a trainer's negligence. Like these insane, very wealthy gym rats are just taking whatever they're "given" by well paid trainers without understanding potential risk/exposure. There would be litigation galore, wouldn't there? Prior to an initial positive result, players can push the envelope with respect to offseason regimens and testing schedules, no? Sometimes they push it too far and run into bad luck with respect to testing dates. But I don't think many of them unknowingly take "supplements" tainted enough to result in 6-game suspensions. Or if they did, then we'd hear more about that.
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All turnovers are reviewed, yes?
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Walter Nolen showing up a bunch.
Gotta love the way Arizona came to play. Good for them.
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Just now, BillsFanForever19 said:
It specifically states what body part as an example. He has a Neck Injury. That's all they have to list on the Report. They don't have to put the specific diagnosis.
HIPAA protects players on some level, although one might wonder if the league's limited antitrust exemptions open the door to whatever degree of transparency we DO see. Compare the NFL injury reporting to the NHL, for example. Fans, and bettors alike, would go insane seeing designations like "lower body."
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4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:
They are millionaire athletes
I really hope they're stretching a lot.. like they should be stretching for an hour before the game
I don't think conventional stretching is as simply/directly correlated with injury prevention as many believe. These guys stretch. But one of the biggest issues is that they consistently overdevelop many muscle groups (often with the help of PEDs which can be actively deleterious to ligaments and tendons) without commensurately emphasizing stability and connective tissue strength.
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Cue all the online athletic trainers. This is your time to shine!
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2 hours ago, transient said:
Would they continue to after a near miss is the question.
They don't have a choice. Majority of Americans don't intentionally predetermine what they will end up doing for work/sustenance. So we often follow the opportunities wherever they present themselves. Even just several weeks of NFL game checks would dramatically improve MOST of our lives long term.
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Just now, TBBills Fan said:
With the cardinals, this game isn't offer
Bow that said, it is Dallas, so it's like watching 2teams that don't want to win
Say what now?
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Is Harrison far more engaged working with Brissett? (He'll never be a hyper extrovert, but...) he seemed so disillusioned and disconnected with Murray, by contrast.
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He's young and confident and enthusiastic. He'll learn to keep it closer to the vest.
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21 hours ago, ExWNYer said:
Can't wait. I'll be at the game. It'll be my first time seeing the Bills in Miami. Headed to West Palm on Friday to stay at the home of a buddy who lives there. He, his wife, his parents, (maybe his brother). & I will all be rocking the red, white, & blue. That whole group (minus the wife) are all former North Tonawanda natives. GO BILLS!!!
(Don't tell anyone, but same)
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28 minutes ago, NeverOutNick said:
Would love Waddle or BTJ but doubt either gets traded. I’d give up a 7th rounder for Jermaine Burton. Seems like he’s fallen out of favor with the bengals coaching staff but dude is a blazer and worth the gamble imo.
Burton seems like a guy with genuine off-field issues PLUS a lack of football character. Definitely not a McBeane guy imo. Plus, hasn't he just not played AT ALL this season?
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Just now, Bills!Win! said:
To keep me mentally sane, I just pretend that we never signed him.
Can you also convince the salary cap?
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34 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
You ignored my question. I can't tell if you're missing my point or ignoring it.
If the Bills have a high YPA but a lower than typical yardage total, it simply means they haven't had as many attempts as other teams. You want a higher total? Throw the ball more. The bills haven't needed to throw the ball more than they have, so the total is lower. That's a good thing. Our running game has been bearing the load, but our passing game is as efficient as the best passing offenses in the league, they just don't pass as much.
If they happen to have a need to pass more, expect the yardage total to increase.Sure, math says that generally more passing attempts will equal more passing yards. And that mostly holds true for this season for the Bills. But in the two losses where they needed to pass more and/or chose to pass more, were they effective in doing so? The answer in those games was NO. The answer in week one was YES.
Where the passing game goes from here remains a compelling question. Hopefully, Cook goes CRAZY on Sunday, and we don't need a definitive answer on the passing game this week. But that seems unrealistic. IMO we need to tap into more dynamic balance, earlier in games. Don't keep running repeatedly until the defense stops it, and instead take advantage through the air when the defense is forced to cheat more heavily to stop the run. Stay a step ahead, dammit. Keep em guessing. Run a FULL offense.
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7 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Even more reason I hope it’s Kincaid
Impose your will. Do what you do best, if you can. No doubt. That would be sweet.
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11 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
The Chiefs are playing a tougher schedule though. The worst team they've lost to is the 4-3 Jaguars. Their other losses are to the 6-2 Eagles and the 5-3 Chargers in the 1st 2 Weeks. And they defeated the Lions. The only team we've played with a winning record is the Patriots.
Totally get the disparity in quality of wins and losses. Can be indicative of future performances. Even the Bills wins, minus Panthers and Jets, were competitive, frustrating affairs for much of those games. The Bills have not played terribly well overall to date. (Which is all technically in the past, of course.)
But also, statistically, winning early (first quarter of season, for example) and often also has an outsized negative influence on those early opponents' records. And, of course, the Bills could reasonably improve and go on to win games against playoff-bound teams despite those early scraps. This is why the cliche "Week 1 is a liar" exists, because the sample size is small enough to be simply binary: 1 or 0. Can't really tell a meaningful story with that one data point. So this week will add a LOT more to our developing understandings of the 2025 season. And still it's early.
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2 minutes ago, PonyBoy said:
Prater period.
These games are usually very close.
Prater will be the clutch player to decide it.
Even if there isn't a high leverage, late-game field goal try, Prater will still be essential in maximizing points through PATs and FGs throughout. Maybe the big kick is at the end of the 1st half, for example. Or really, any missed scoring kicks or even flubbed kickoffs (out of bounds or outside landing zone) could sway things heavily in retrospect, given the typically narrow margins between these teams. Gotta convert those opportunities. CANNOT SQUANDER opportunities for points.
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57 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:
Wow... I did some research and read about the issues. I had no idea.
Plus it looks like they aren't a nut you want to eat many of anyway. There's usually like 5 total in the bag, but still...
I learned some new things tonight
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Trade Deadline has come and gone
in The Stadium Wall
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Didn't we see at least tiny glimpses of Davis and Johnson providing some juice? Davis on returns mostly, and Johnson out of the backfield. At least a little uptick. And now with Cook's sore ankle, they're definitely getting more reps in practice this week. So let's see if they can actually help to spread out the workload on gameday against the Phins in the heat.
It's a style/vision issue to my eye, whereby Cook is the ideal cut-back slasher who thrives in this zone-heavy, Shanahan-y rushing attack, and whereas the other two might be better suited to hitting pre-determined gaps in a power run scheme.