Kelly the Dog

I would play and feature Foster more. And I would activate Duke instead of a ST guy like Perry or another and just play him 6-10 plays a game like in the red zone.

No they didn't, we did that totally to ourselves. On the bad passes, Josh had plenty of time. On the drops, the receivers had plenty of room. On the strip-sack, Knox just decided not to block Judon. They were unforced errors.

You can't answer "which player" with a GM or owner or GM/owner.

He did score a game-winning TD in his first game.

Agreed. Although those types of things are non-linear. It doesn't of course mean that they will or will not drop or miss less passes next week, or get better pass blocking, etc.

If you’re not going to address my point why should I address yours. They struggled most of the game. Josh was sacked six times and fumbled twice from the bad blocking. We dropped numerous passes. He missed wide open receivers and was 43%. And we didn’t score enough to win. That is not an A or B imo.

Josh was a C. The line was a C. The receivers dropped 4-6 passes, which is a C. Singletary was good but dropped two balls, Gore and Josh did nothing for the run game so I thought it was a C. I added 4 Cs up, divided by C, and got C.

All it proves is that lobbyists and lawyers are bigger *****, threats and menaces to society than drunken loutish Bills stoners.

You clicked on a thread entitled Apostrophes! -found out it was about apostrophes, and that set you off?

Jarhead Landry, for numerous reasons.

https://buffalonews.com/2019/12/10/buffalo-bills-baltimore-ravens-fans-josh-allen-lamar-jackson/ Let's have a larger discussion about moral victories. I am a firm believer that there are no moral victories, and yet, of course, there are. An excerpt... "Sports clichés have been around since the first ball was kicked or picked up and run with. And two facts remain about virtually all of them; they are right and they are wrong. One of the most often stated in sports fandom is, “There are no moral victories.” This is wholly true in numerous ways, and patently false in others. Standing up to the league’s top team versus getting curb-stomped matters. A few plays in Sunday's Bills loss that propelled the game in a different direction that can be worked on or fixed are a world away from back-to-the-drawing board blowouts. Confidence is still sky high if you measure up and compete against the best of the best. But moral victories are soon forgotten. Wins are forever. And yet, the Baltimore game also simultaneously proved that the Bills can play with anyone and beat anyone in 2019, and will likely still be playing the first week of 2020. The defense made MVP favorite Lamar Jackson into the most visible or versatile but not MVP. The Bills brought their A game on defense, B game in special teams and coaching, and C game on offense, and still stacked up. That is a cold, hard truth; and yet H.L. Menken shrewdly observed, “In human history, a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.” But it is also a cool hard truth that the Bills fought toe-to-toe like “Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots" against the finest, most well-rounded, confident and hottest team coming in. The defense matched up physically with the brutish Ravens; what Micah Hyde agreed was, “big-boy football," and something unclear even in the drought-breaking playoff season in 2017. This season, and this team, is different.

Knox doesn't appear to have bad hands at all, he has great hands. In two of the last three drops (and I didn't see the third) he clearly just looked downfield before he caught the ball looking to make a play. That is a concentration issue. That can be taught for sure. His one handed catch, and several other leaping catches show excellent hands. The drops made me furious and I was screaming as loud as anyone and badmouthing him. But it is not a hands things. He just needs to make sure he catches it before he turns upfield.

That said, I used to love going to away Jet games and trashing the Jets in the corridors and bathrooms and parking lots because everyone thought you were one of them.

The Bengals better have made a copy of the tape before sending it to the league. I didn't read the whole thread or much about this, so apologize if this has been covered.

RGIII's body type didn't allow him to continue running like that. He had skinny legs and not a lot of power. Myself and and a lot of others thought it was unsustainable. He was fast but a stick. Lamar is a lot better built. Josh is a tank.

Alex Smith on his own team. He lasted about six years as the number one overall with very limited returns with lousy development, and then when Harbaugh and Greg Roman came in he almost immediately started to excel.

Anyone running with the football rarely gets hurt by a big hit, unless someone illegally puts a helmet into your head and you get a concussion. Injuries happen when you plant your foot in the turf, or someone falls on your leg from behind, or some weird situation. Even in the pocket big hits are not usually the injury hits. Last year it was a freak helmet to the arm. It's often your hand hitting a helmet.

He just wins.

How is this so different than at any point? This just in, all draft picks at all positions are crap shoots. This just in, a good amount of top QB picks are outplayed by later picks. This just in, tape doesn't measure immeasurables. I'm not sure why this is even a story. Russell Wilson proved the majority wrong. Mahomes proved the majority wrong. Marriota and Winston proved the majority wrong. Bortles did. Goff may have. The list is endless.

I read it a few times. It's very bizarre and disturbing, and there is not a huge amount of football in it, but it's about his fanaticism, and living vicariously through the glory and accolades of Gifford and the Giants when his life is a total failure. It's an incredible piece of tragic-comic literature. Not an easy read or for the faint of heart. Has tremendous critical reviews, although he wrote two sequels, neither of which were very good.

Ha. No, although the owner does own a couple other wildly different LA bars around town, including (unless he sold them) Ye Olde King's Head, an aunthetic English pub and the classic Sagebrush Cantina in Calabassas.

Here is the latest installment of Voice of the Fan, with a tribute to the best book ever written about fandom, "A Fan's Notes," by Frederick Exley in 1968, which is a gem of literature. Please click on, read, critique, rate, badmouth, ballwash, comment, become a picker of nits, etc. https://buffalonews.com/2019/12/04/buffalo-bills-fans-bills-mafia-dallas-cowboys-baltimore-ravens-frederick-exley/ An excerpt: "The defense has solidified on all three units, and the takeaway is, well, takeaways. Ed Oliver is transforming before our eyes into the guy we imagined from his highlight reel. The career year of Jordan Phillips is now in its 12th week and producers are extending its run. Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmunds are trading off big plays and performances. Now the Bills face the otherworldly Baltimore Ravens; hoping to knock them out of the sky. The buildup is tremendously exciting. What a month ago seemed like a likely loss, now looms as an unlikely chance to leapfrog to the top of the NFL. “A Fan’s Notes,” and its author, once described as “Exley’s self-loathing is really self-love,” might be the best description of Bills fans that I ever heard. This season has harkened back to the franchise’s glory years. Twenty-and-thirtysomething Bills fans might be experiencing the kind of prowess, standing, glory and hope, for the very first time in their lives. We follow Exley’s extraordinary boozy trail as he spends his Sundays at his local watering holes in upstate Watertown. He paces the length of the bar, imbibing, ranting, calling out plays and wildly rooting on his heroes as the patrons watch him and the game. As madcap Bills fans, we are all writing our own version of “A Fan’s Notes” each successive and (recently) successful week, as this memorable and perhaps unforgettable season progresses and promises. It’s a great story. Perhaps a classic for the ages. Here comes the next chapter."

Perfect. Bring it in, we'll get a good laugh. To the OP, by all means come down to Busbys. It's a great place and you'll have a blast. I do believe, however, that the game will be on local TV as it will be in a lot of the country.

The group from Bobby McGees is the same one that is at Busbys now. It morphed to there, led by TSW's own AKC.

It's rather big. You will be able to get in. It doesn't get crowded until game time and there are 5-6 different rooms that show the Bills.