RichRiderBills
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The Miami epic December collapse scenario is fully in play. Losing out or 1-3 very plausible.
That line is woof.
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9 minutes ago, Southern_Bills said:
I think AJ is our #1 priority to keep this off-season. No question.
But I wasn't comparing Von to him, was just saying Von actually played well against the Chiefs. He's already paid, so hopefully he gets back to above average to close out the year, the team needs it.
Nah, #1 seed don't play WC weekend. #2-4 seeds (division winners) host #5-7 respectively.
I don't think Von played well overall. Some solid plays down the stretch , but was a huge liability in swaths of this game. I thought he still was pretty poor.
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1 hour ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
You were watching a different offense then I was my friend. Diggs is running half speed most of the time, and isn't breaking any tackles. He also isn't getting any separation from the guys who are covering him. You can not tell me he has been dominant in the slightest the second half of the season. And to be honest, he doesn't have to even dominate. Just get open some and make 3 or 4 big catches per game. And show some fire!!
He's in a rut. The play he lowered his shoulder and got the first down was a tough, gritty play.
1 hour ago, Ga boy said:Good tape for the Dallas boyz. Hope they take him lightly. Wanna bet Diggs burns em bad?
You know Diggs will be jacked up for this one to rub in to bro.
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11 minutes ago, Process said:
Your general thoughts are correct, these are mostly bad teams that can lose to anyone.
But you need to look at their schedules lol. For example, the Colts last 4 games are all in domes.
I think the Bills run the table, so I agree they will get in. But 10-7 seems very iffy. We are comepetiting with a ton of teams and almost all of them have very easy schedules and the tie breaker.
That's a good catch w Indy. I did look at the schedules and it's also compounded by teams playing each other.
Another fact : we are huge Titans fans...go Titans ...
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2 hours ago, mannc said:
I'm calling it now. The Dolphins will lose at least one of the next two games, probably against the Jets. You folks are forgetting that the Dolphins have zero homefield advantage late in the season. Northern teams love to go down there to play in December and January.
The Bills have done decent down there, but the Pats somehow struggle.
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A few observations:
We are all big Jets fans going forward in 2023 J...E...T...Jets!
The majority of the 7-6 playoff teams are garbage or going to garbage.
IMO the cream to worry about:
Buffalo
Denver
Bengals
Browns
Apart from Buffalo, none of the teams are consistent and/ or world beaters. Any team like the Jets, Raiders, or Bears can beat these teams.
Texans- CJ hurt and other injuries mount. I don't expect them to do much more
Indy - dome team in December w backup QB I expect them to fold.
Of the Bills, I think we will safely defeat Chargers ( w back up QB) and Pats.
I think we have to win of the hard games v Phins and Boys.
Really, given the mediocrity of the playoff rivals I see the Bills pulling this off.
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Von had a few effective rushes at the end. Bad game overall.
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1 minute ago, Matt_In_NH said:
Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and Diggs threw to Shakir down the field to score a TD only to be taken away by Harty being lined up offside? The pitchforks would be all over McDermott, he would be totally crucified for not coaching up his team an how they were unprepared. Is that happening to Reed? Probably not because he has SB's and so he gets a huge benefit of the doubt. My point is only that this fan base is overly critical and expects perfection of results or you get fired on the spot. People in the GDT thought the two timeouts at the end of the first half were some kind of critical errors, the first was taken to give Allen his best chance to get something before the half. the second prevented a 10s runoff but people don't seem to understand things too much.
Good point. Maybe we both should just chill.
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Some good games today.
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1 minute ago, badandyman said:
Still not happy with are time management. 2:12 left in the game and you throw it 3 times taking 15 seconds off the clock. Run it 3 time. Avoid a sack and keep the clock running. I guess thats to easy for McDermott and his staff
Agreed
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Defense came through.
Bills played great on offense except for:
The pick.
A few lulls in play calling in the 2nd half.
That last drive the lack of runs and taking the sack.
Overall though this wasn't some Bum team, it was the World Champs in Arrowhead. Great win ....gritty and tough.
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Man Brady overthinking
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Why is Von in there! Run downs!
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/689658202947501?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz
Hey aren't all coaches buddies w players?
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What a treat to see Jets beat HOU. Most everything lining up this week...now for us to take care of business.
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Ugh that's terrible, so young RIP
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31-21 Bills
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19 minutes ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:
So we want the Bengals and not the Colts?
Yes, but then will be rooting for Bengals to drop games down the line.
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5 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:
You can't learn everything by google. You seem like a swiss army knife guy. Usually that means tries to be good at everything but is only mediocre at each thing. In this case I think tries to know everything but only knows little bits about everything. I am not trying to be funny or say anything about you here. I'm just saying that in just about every topic imaginable you whip out a long post trying to sound expert at it. A lot of it is something someone would have to google because it wouldn't make sense for one person to seemingly know about all these various things. I actually like that you do that because then I don't have to google. What I don't like is you act like you are an expert at things and know better than everyone else. I dunno, you just seem a little uppity/snobbish sometimes. Googling things makes you no expert. A lot of times google information can be wrong if you don't know what you are doing too.
In any case. You have no idea of Dunne's motives only your own "slant" or opinion on him. Where did he say it was "rushed" by the way? I'd like to read it. What I read is... "A quick note on “timing.” We discussed Thursday night on the Happy Hour, too, but in a nutshell: The series was posted this week because the series was completed this week. It was not finished after the Cincinnati loss or the Denver loss. And, as written, the loss at Philadelphia appeared to encapsulate this era of football under Sean McDermott. At 6-6, the Bills are now at a crucial crossroads."
It actually does encapsulate the Sean McDermott era because the premise is that Sean pisses his pants in big moments. He does. Thats why his record is so bad in big moments. Thats why mistakes keep happening in big moments. Thats why timeouts keep happening in big moments. Thats why he tries to control everything instead of trusting his people in big moments. Thats why 13 seconds happened. Thats why he kneels the ball down with 20 seconds to go against the best team in the league with Josh Allen playing the best ball of his career... because the dude craps his pants in big moments. So yeah, it was the perfect time to release the article in this sense.
Sure, maybe he made sure he got it out this week. He has been working on it a long time though. Comments like "trying to inflict damage" Just lol. He is building a career. Thats it. He spent a long time writing an article and released it. It's his job. Thats what he does. Really nothing more needs to be said or said at all. Anybody saying anything is just looking for one thing... to completely discredit the work in any way possible.
Yup, he wrote a story. He has an opinion and uses facts, player, and staff comments to support that opinion. Thats the type of writer he is. It's a legitimate style of sports writing or any writing. So, what's bad about that? Anyone intelligent can separate his opinion from the sourced comments and make their own opinion. People give their opinion all day long here and treat it as fact. What many neglect and don't want to admit in this thread is that even after removing Dunne's opinion, the comments from players and staff are still there and they are real. Even yourself. Snippets, like google, is not enough. All the snippets in this thread is not even one page of a 3 page article. It's probably enough for those with dare I say an axe to grind with the reporter.
Yeah maybe with that many sources a big newspaper wouldn't publish that article. They can and do publish articles with anonymous sources all the time. All they ask is that they are verified. This is just another case of you trying to discredit the article. I don't give two craps if the sources remain anonymous. Thats typical. As long as I believe the comments are real and I do. There is nothing anywhere indicating that Dunne is a liar. There isn't really any media anywhere that discredits him. Everything I have seen shows that Dunne is a respected reporter. I don't think he is going to tank his career for 800, 8000, or even 80000 bucks like you alluded to before either. Nobody tanking their career for no Christmas vacation.
People that love McDermott and are afraid to see him go will rip Dunne and his article apart. Even if they haven't read it. People that hate McD and want to see him go will use it as justification. I think both are bogus. They both miss what an article like this is. It's real information from real players and staff that people normally don't get to see. If ya ever wanted to be a fly on the wall... this is the type of piece that will give you that. Not the generic PC's with no real information. Not Sal C or Chris Brown who toe the company line. If you want real information this is the type of report you want to read. Instead we got people trying to trash the writer because oh no he hurt my precious McD or people that hate McD using it as fuel.
I have my own opinions and conclusions. I wanted McD gone before the article. There are many reasons for it. There were also reasons that I wanted to keep him this long and it took me to this season to get there. The article has nothing to do with it. It does make some things line up and make sense. Those things were from player/staff comments in the article and not from the writers opinion though. Next I would like to be a fly on the wall for the rift between Daboll and McD.
One of the most incoherent, rambling posts I've ever read on these illustrious boards...good show man!
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Man, when we got Miller last year he had a pop off the line like I've never seen.
To be honest, it reminded me of Michael Jordan in the way a guy moving at super human speed moves.
Floyd's badass but that pre injury Von was unreal. He was pumped to play in Bflo.
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1 minute ago, Buffalo619 said:
What happened to Jimbo?
Throat cancer bro. He's still rocking though. Gtg...
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This thread is taking a concerning trend. We see this on the legal threads and the film watcher threads etc. You don't have to be a reporter to interpret Dune's piece.
Everything has a sniff test of authenticity and Dune is putting this out to everyone, not just reporters. Therefore, you better expect it to connect or add up or face the consequences.
I don't need to be a comedian or movie maker to tell you "Freddy Got Fingered" ( IMO the worst movie of all time) is a horrible movie. The sniff test.
Dunne's piece does not pass the sniff test.
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37 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Dunne? Ty Dunne? Is that you? 😄 Just kidding.
I write reports. I write for publication. Last paper I wrote had 32 referenced sources and was so dry and technical you could place it in the desert and have it blend right in.
Journalism isn't my thing. However, I feel I have some idea how journalists operate because I chat with them on occasion.
Here's the thing: Ty Dunne is technically an independent contractor now. He isn't writing for AP or for TBN which have standards for sourcing and verification in what they publish (Source: discussion with TBN sports editor Josh Barnett and AP reporter John Wawrow). Upthread, I quoted an article by reporter and former Dunne mentor Chuck Pollock who points out that if Dunne were writing for a newspaper, there is no way he could have published a piece like that based on so many anonymous sources.
So, writing independently gives Dunne great power he wouldn't have if he were writing for a publication. "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" as Spiderman's Uncle Ben said repeatedly.What Dunne wrote is, in journalistic terms, an opinion piece or opinion column. He has sources, but he's not simply a conduit; he's not limiting himself to the "testimony of others". He's mixing in his own slant and interpretation and using the sources to illustrate and support it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just a style of journalistic writing. Several people upthread have gone point by point through fair-use excerpts and shown this pretty conclusively. But, that you don't recognize this and refer to Dunne as "a conduit" and say "the testimony belongs to others", casts some doubt about your own understanding.
I wouldn't argue that it was 'released to inflict damage'. I don't know or pretend to know Dunne's motivations. Dunne himself said in public interviews that he rushed completing the article after the Eagles game because he felt that close OT loss illustrated many of his points. I think releasing it at a nexus point in the season, has the potential to maximize the interest it generates, and thus the traffic to Dunne's site/subscribers. It's pretty clearly in Dunne's financial interest to release it now, but I don't know for sure whether financial interest motivated him, either. Releasing it now also has a high potential to cause damage to the Bills season, but I can't tell you if that was a motivation or collateral damage.
This is really well written and I really appreciate this perspective.
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Can Buffalo catch the Dolphins?
in The Stadium Wall
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Yes, absolutely.
They looked mistake prone and sloppy last night. It was only even closer because the Titans made a bunch of dumb turnovers too.
Hill health in doubt. While I think he'll be back, he may not be effective next week.
That oline is terrible. Now C is out. They'll be challenged by the Jets, Bills, and Cowboys.
Tua has never made it this many games in a season. His high was 13 games.
The schedule is brutal. Resurgent Jets, cowboys, Ravens, Bills...rough. Some brutal DLs in there.
We win our they only need to lose 1 more to catch them.
We can catch the Phins even if we drop Cowboys game, then win our & beat them but they lose 2 ( let's say Ravens and Cowboys) very possible.
The way that team looked last night....man I can't see them beating Boys or Ravens and fully expect them to lose at least a couple down the stretch.